Thomas Paine’s Birthday
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Free Thinkers Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pua’i Wai: Fountain PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Yia: Year HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The lava is heaped at the house of Kaupo.” HAOLE QUOTE OF THE DAY — “It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.” -Thomas Paine
January 29th, 1960: Visitors and residents on the Hana side of Maui report that at night they can see an orange glow from the southern tip of the Big Island. No surprise there: in perhaps the largest eruption recorded in modern Hawaiian times, Kilauea now has seven fountains of lava gushing up to five hundred feet high. The molten rock falls to earth and forms two wide and fast moving rivers that quickly make their way to the ocean.
