Obama in Afghanistan
July 19, 2008 > MAUI TODAY, National Election No Comments |
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mo‘o: Lizard PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Palai: Lizard HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Do not bother lizards or you’ll fall off a cliff.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “We do not like those who unmask our illusions.” (Emerson) WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Ben Cohen Oreo Cartoon 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 HungryTODAY – Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama started a campaign-season tour of combat zones and foreign capitals, visiting with U.S. forces in Kuwait and then Afghanistan — the scene of a war he says deserves more attention and more troops. Read more …
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 19th
-2781: The calculated beginning of the Egyptian calendar
1877: The first Wimbledon tennis championships are held
1880: The San Francisco Library allows patrons to start borrowing books
1918: The Bolsheviks “exterminate” the family of the Czars (The Romanovs)
1957: The first rocket with a nuclear warhead is test-fired (Yucca Flat Nevada)
1961: The first in-flight movie is shown on a commercial passenger airplane (on TWA)
1969: Apollo 11, and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin ”Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, enters lunar orbit
1984: U.S. Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York becomes the first woman to be selected to run for the vice presidency by a major political party (at the Democratic convention in San Francisco)
1985: Christa McAuliffe is chosen to be the first school teacher to fly aboard the Space Shuttle
1990: The Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda California
1993: President Clinton announces a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity – “Don’t ask don’t tell”
2006: President George W. Bush issued his first presidential veto, rejecting a bill that would have multiplied federal money for embryonic stem cell research.
-2781: The calculated beginning of the Egyptian calendar
1877: The first Wimbledon tennis championships are held
1880: The San Francisco Library allows patrons to start borrowing books
1918: The Bolsheviks “exterminate” the family of the Czars (The Romanovs)
1957: The first rocket with a nuclear warhead is test-fired (Yucca Flat Nevada)
1961: The first in-flight movie is shown on a commercial passenger airplane (on TWA)
1969: Apollo 11, and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin ”Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, enters lunar orbit
1984: U.S. Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York becomes the first woman to be selected to run for the vice presidency by a major political party (at the Democratic convention in San Francisco)
1985: Christa McAuliffe is chosen to be the first school teacher to fly aboard the Space Shuttle
1990: The Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda California
1993: President Clinton announces a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity – “Don’t ask don’t tell”
2006: President George W. Bush issued his first presidential veto, rejecting a bill that would have multiplied federal money for embryonic stem cell research.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 19th
1814: Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver
1834: Edgar Degas, impressionist painter
1846: Charles Edward Pickering, pioneer American spectroscopist
1898: Herbert Marcuse, communist philosopher
1922: George McGovern, Senator(D-SD)/presidential candidate
1937: George Hamilton IV, actor
1954: Kathleen Turner, actress
1962: Anthony Edwards, actor
