Lazy Day Sunday Day 223 of 2008 143 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lapule: Sunday
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Santu: Suddenly
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —  “The tropic bird remains in the hole.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Words without actions are the assasins of idealism.” (Herbert Hoover)

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — War Profiteers

WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Obama Comes Home to Hawaii
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — TruthDig.com Podcast
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — End Slavery

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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — August 10th
1519: Magellan’s five-ship flotilla sets sail to circumnavigate the Earth
1675: The cornerstone of the Royal Observatory is laid at Greenwich in south London
1792: Mobs in Paris attack the Palace of the Tuileries and take Louis XVI prisoner, ending the French monarchy
1821: Missouri becomes the 24th state (as per the Missouri Compromise)
1831: Former slave Nat Turner leads a violent insurrection against slavery
1893: Chinese immigrants are deported from San Francisco under the Exclusion Act
1949: The National Military Establishment is renamed to the Department of Defense
1988: President Reagan signs the Congress-approved measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans interned by the U.S. government during World War II
1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is sworn in to become the second woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
1995: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are charged on 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing

2006: British authorities announced they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the United States.

BORN ON THIS DAY — August 10th
1874: Herbert Hoover, 31st US president
1913: Noah Beery, Jr.actor
1928: Jimmy Dean, actor/singer/entrepeneur
1938: Diana Muldaur, actress
1940: Bobby Hatfield, rocker
1942: Betsy Johnson, fashion designer
1959: Rosanna Arquette, actress
1960: Antonio Banderas, actor
1962: Dan Donovan, rocker
1972: Angie Harmon, actress