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Day 192 of 2008
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Upena: Fish net
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Supsup: Fish Spear
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A small fish cannot swallow a big one.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Who hears the fishes when they cry?” (Thoreau)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Nude Recreation Week
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — War Crimes on You Tube
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Apple Phone Show
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

Hawaiian fishingJuly 10, 1945: For the first  time since Pearl Harbor in 1941, local Maui fisherman could fish off the shores of our island. The federal government decided to lift the ban on coastal fishing. The Japanese no longer threatened our shores
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 10th
1890: Wyoming becomes the 44th state
1919: President Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate
1923: Two-pound hailstones kill 23 people & many cattle (Rostov, Russia)
1940: The Battle of Britain begins: Nazi forces attack southern England by air
1962: Telstar, the first geosynchronous communications satellite, is launched
1972: A herd of stampeding elephants kills 24 people (Chandka Forest, India)
1985: French agents sink Greenpeace’s ship, Rainbow Warrior, in New Zealand
1991: Boris N. Yeltsin takes the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic
1997: Scientists in London report that DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supports a theory that all humanity descended from an “African Eve” 100,000 to 200,000 years ago
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 10th
1509: John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian
1830: Camille Pissarro, French Impressionist painter
1856: Nikola Tesla, physicist/developed alternating current
1871: Marcel Proust, novelist
1915: Saul Bellow, novelist
1933: Jerry Herman, Broadway composer
1939: Mavis Staples, R&B, gospel singer
1947: Arlo Guthrie, folk singer/songwriter
1951: Cheryl Wheeler, singer/songwriter
1976: Adrian Grenier, actor
1980: Jessica Simpson, pop singer