December 24, 2009
Raphael O'Suna
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By Raphael O’Suna
Living in the forest seemed to concentrate and focus my energies. I seemed to be wiser and more aware. To others, I may have seemed odd, strange, eccentric.
I felt as if I were better able to find and discern truth as a long-term forest dweller. But for the sceptics among you, there is a tradition–a history of reports–concerning what I am about to tell you.
Over the centuries people have noticed that animals would come out of the forest and congregate around homes and farmhouses on Christmas Eve.
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December 24, 2009
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Nupepa: Newspaper
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Niuspepa: Newspaper
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “To be continued, according to the newspaper.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.” - Arthur Miller
December 24th, 1927: The Hawaiian language newspaper “Kuokoa” dies. First published in 1861, it had for nearly three decades the greatest circulation of any newspaper in Hawaii. The Kuokoa was purchased by the Honolulu Advertiser in 1898. The first two decades of the new century saw drastically declining readership with the advent of English, and the paper was deemed financially unsound in 1927.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY
- 1814: The Treaty of Ghent is signed in Belgium, ending the War of 1812
- 1865: Several Confederate veterans form a private social club called the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski Tennessee
- 1871: Giusseppi Verdi’s “Aida” premieres in Cairo Egypt to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal
- 1914: The first air raid on Britain is made during World War I when a German airplane drops a bomb on the grounds of a rectory in Dover
- 1943: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appoints General Dwight David Eisenhower to be the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces
- 1948: A family takes up residence in the first U.S. house that is completely solar heated (Dover Massachusetts)
- 1964: Shooting begins on “The Cage” (the pilot for “Star Trek”)
- 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union
- 1992: With less than one month left in office, President George Bush pardons former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal
- 2002: Laci Peterson was reported missing from her Modesto, Calif., home, by her husband, Scott, who was later convicted of murdering her and their unborn son.
- 2004: The international Cassini spacecraft launched a probe on a three-week free-fall toward Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan.
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