Nat’l Dessert Day Day 288 of 2008 78 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lele: Fly (as a bird) – Ponalo: Fly (the insect)
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Plai: Fly
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Where the odor is bad, there the flies hum.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Beware the military/industrial complex.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Anchorage Daily News
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Keating Economics – McCain’s Complicity in Financial Crises
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — McCain’s Voicemail to Obama
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK —  World Rainforest Network

October 14, 1922: Flying was about 19 years old, and even newer to the Hawaiian Islands, when then Hawaii Governor W. R. Farrington takes a sea plane from Maui to Honolulu. Near the end of the estimated 60-minute flight, the plane catches fire and is forced to ditch in the sea, well off the coast of Pearl Harbor. Luckily, radio had already been invented, and another sea plane swooped down to the rescue. The governor swam from one plane to another. No one was hurt. The plane sank.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — October 14th
1066: Battle of Hastings: Normans under William the Conqueror defeat the English to win England
1884: George Eastman is granted a patent for paper-strip photographic film
1912: Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee, is shot in the chest by William Schrenk (despite the flesh wound, he still delivers his scheduled speech)
1926: The children’s book “Winnie-the-Pooh,” by A.A. Milne, is first published
1947: Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager becomes the first person to break the sound barrier at Mach 1.015
1960: The idea of a Peace Corps is first suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy
1964: Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1980: Bob Marley’s last concert
1986: Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
1991: Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize: