January 30, 2009
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 World Law Day
Day 30 of 2009
335 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Momona: Sweet
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Stik suga: Sugar cane
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Nothing can sweeten it.
HAOLE QUOTE OF THE DAY — “Nothing can sweeten it.
January 30th, 1875: The “sugar rush” – Hawaii’s answer to California’s Gold Rush – is officially launched with a reciprocity treaty between the Kingdom of Hawaii and the United States. The treaty allows for duty-free sugar to be imported into the US, giving Hawaii a huge advantage over sugar imports from other countries, all of which is heavily taxed.
Henry Spreckels and the team of Alexander and Baldwin begin their epic battles here on Maui, buying land and raising cane as fast as possible. Over the next 30years, the companies import thousands of workers from Korea, the Phillipines and other South Pacific islands, to meet the demand for labor. A&B finally wins, of course, and what remains of the Spreckel’s sugar industry is sold to A&B during the first part of the 20th century.
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January 27, 2009
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Vietnam Peace Day
Day 27 of 2009
338 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kokoleka: Chocolate
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Pono: Goodness, uprightness
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “One meets misfortune, all meet misfortune.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” - Lewis Carroll
YESTERDAY: Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle delivers a somber State of State Address. Read more >
January 27, 1942: The military governor of the territory of Hawaii issues a strong warning to merchants on Oahu, Maui and the Big Island — stop price gouging. Just seven weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the shipping lanes were struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy while dealing with new rules and regulations surrounding the importation of goods, as well as the commandeering of ships for war purposes. As a result, the flow of goods to Maui and the rest of Hawaii slowed, forcing pressure on prices to rise.
The governor was having none of it, and issued a price list for potatoes, onions, rice, bananas, fish and cheese, thus making Hawaii the first part of the United States to impose a rationing and pricing system during World War II.
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January 26, 2009
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Nat’l Seed Swap Day
Day 26 of 2009
339 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lolo uila: Computer
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Komputa: Computer
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “They come together in the gray smoke.”
HAOLE SAYIG OF THE DAY — “You only grow when you are alone.”- Paul Newman
YEAR OF THE OX: According to legend, in ancient times, Buddha asked all the animals to meet him on Chinese New Year. Twelve came, and Buddha named a year after each one. He announced that the people born in each animal’s year would have some of that animal’s personality traits. Those born in Ox years tend to be stable, fearless, obstinate, hard-working and friendly. Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, Walt Disney, Anthony Hopkins, George Clooney and Barack Obama were all born in the Year of the Ox.
Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month (the new moon), in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th day, called Lantern Festival.
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January 25, 2009
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Honey-bound and infatuated lotharios would do well to consider a few things.
First of all, marriages and relationships are ordeals, not picnics or holidays. Secondly, the initiative, boldness and daring, which you have shown in order to capture the imagination of a woman, must be relinquished or transformed, if a relationship is to stabilize and grow properly.
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January 25, 2009
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Opposite Day
Day 25 of 2009
340 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ku‘e: Contrary
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Arasait: Opposite
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Seek life outside.”
HAOLE WORD OF THE DAY — “Dare to be honest and fear no labor.” – Robert Burns
January 25th, 1919: By emergency proclamation of the territorial government of Hawaii, all public enclosed places, including theaters, schools and even churches, are closed due to the flu epidemic sweeping the world. 
Known as the “Spanish Flu,” the virus that swept the globe eventually killed between 20 and 40 million people. That’s more people than died in all of World War I. It’s more people than died in the great bubonic plague outbreak in the late 1300s. And much like the bubonic plague which spawned the nursery rhyme, “Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down,” the flu pandemic spawned many children’s songs, including a jump rope ditty like this: “I had a little bird, it’s name was Enza, I opened the window, and in-flu-enza.”
There are no records indicating how many people in Hawaii, or on Maui, died from this disease. Coming as it did at the end of World War I, the flu racked the country, already tired and devastated from the European fighting. So widespread and infectious was it that the life expectancy of an American dropped by 10 years during this period. Most victims either drown in their own mucus and blood or suffocated from infected lungs that were unable to process oxygen.
It is speculated that the flu began in China as a variation on a common strain, and rapidly made its way overland to the theater of war in Europe, where tired populations and soldiers were very susceptible. The first known American case of the flu was in Boston in late 1918, where troop ships flooded the harbor after the war.
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January 31st, 1943: More than 100 men from Maui join the group of 1,500 men from all of Hawaii who are forming a combat team traveling to Mississippi to be trained before serving in the European theater – a surprising term for the World War II front fighting Hitler. What makes this team so special? It’s made entire of Japanese Americans.
January 28th, 1974: 