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Nat’l Coming Out Day Day 285 of 2008 81 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Moku: Ship. boat

PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Bot: Boat
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Cross the sea as a bird.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “It isn’t enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it; one must work at it” - Eleanor Roosevelt

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TODAY: Father Damien is now Saint Damien. In a mass that began at 10am Sunday in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kalaupapa’s Father Damien along with four others. More >

October 11, 1864: During the Civil War, the CSS Shenendoah changes course and decides not to head for Hawaii, for fear of being overtaken by Union ships waiting in port at Pearl Harbor and Lahaina. The Confederate ship was on a heading south from the Aleutian Islands toward Hawaii, when its captain, James Waddell, thought better of it and changed course toward islands off the coast of Mexico and Central America, with the intent of destroying any Union ships sailing from the West Coast of the US to Hawaii. More >