World Hello Day Day 326 of 2008 40 days left in this year

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 >

EVENTS ON THIS DAY – November 21
1787: Andrew Jackson is admitted to the bar
1942: The Alaska Highway across Canada offically opens
1953: The “Piltdown Man,” a purported prehistoric creature discovered in 1912, is proven to be a hoax
1973: President Nixon’s 18½-minute tape gap revealed
1977: The first scheduled flight of the Concorde airliner (London to New York)
1990: Michael Milken, a Wall Street investment banker who innovated the high-risk debt instruments called “junk bonds”, pleads guilty to charges of insider trading and is sentenced to 10 years
2004: Donald Trump’s casino empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2007: Officials announced the recall of more than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children’s jewelry contaminated with lead.

BORN ON THIS DAY – November 21
1694: Voltaire, France, philosopher
1898: Rene Magritte, painter
1904: Coleman Hawkins, jazz saxophonist
1907: Jim Bishop, author
1937: Marlo Thomas, actress
1940: Dr. John, musician
1945: Goldie Hawn, actress
1950: Livingston Taylor, musician
1953: Tina Brown, journalist/publisher
1963: Nicollette Sheridan, actress
1965: Bjork, pop singer
1966: Troy Aikman, NFL QB/sportscaster
1969: Ken Griffey Jr, major league baseball player

DIED ON THIS DAY – November 21
1555: Georgius Agricola mineralogist, dies in Germany at 61
1624: Jakob Bohme German philosophical mystic, dies
1941: Juanita Spellini first woman executed in California
1958 Mel Ott NY Giant baseball star (1926-1947), dies at 49
1959: Max Baer US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49