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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Awa: Harbor
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Pasis: Harbor
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A heron that watches the harbor.” (a spy)
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” - Voltaire

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Democracy Now!
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Barack Obama is Irish
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Left Wing Conspiracy
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Media Matters

HAWAII NEWS ARCHIVES – November 21, 1794
Honolulu Harbor (aka Kulolia) is entered by the first foreigner, Captain William Brown, of the English ship Butterworth. While he names the harbor Fair Haven, and other foreign captains refer to it as Brown’s Harbor, it soon becomes known as Honolulu.

MAUI NEWS ARCHIVES – November 21, 2004
Under the heading of “A Project That No One Needs” (how portentous!), the Maui News runs a story about pier 2C, a controversial expansion of pier 2C at Kahului Harbor which, the paper reports, no one wants – not Matson, not Goodfellows, not the canoe clubs, not the cruise ships, not even the proposed Superferry (of course, they changed their mind). “If nobody wants 2C,” said then-Mayor Alan Arakawa, “then how did we get to this point?” More >

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