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TRINITY  DAY Day 198 of 2008 168 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Poka pahu: Bomb
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Sit bilong paia: Ashes
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —  “He knows the big currents in the little currents.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.” (J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after the Trinity test of the first atomic bomb)

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — World Clock
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Will the iPhone Blend?
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Apple Phone Show
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Give Rice to the Hungry

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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 16th
1439: Kissing is banned in England
1548: La Paz Bolivia is founded
1769: Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, the first mission in California
1775: John Adams graduates Harvard College
1790: The U.S. Congress establishes the District of Columbia as the seat of U.S. government
1951: The novel “Catcher in the Rye,” by J.D. Salinger, is first published
1973: During the Watergate hearings, former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield reveals the existence of taped conversations in the Oval Office
1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the single-engine plane Kennedy is piloting plunges into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2004: Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge in New York for lying about a stock sale

BORN ON THIS DAY — July 16th
1821: Mary Baker Eddy, founded Christian Science
1872: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, discoverer of South Pole
1887: “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, baseball player
1907: Barbara Stanwyck, actress
1907: Orville Redenbacher, popcorn king
1911: Ginger Rogers, dancer/actress
1948: Ruben Blades, salsa singer/actor
1967: Will Ferrell, comedian/actor