Moku’ula Excavation Finally Begins
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pama: Palm Tree; Poho: Palm of hand PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Insait long han: Palm of hand HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “He has the hands of a gale.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.” – Anon
TODAY: Moku’ula, once a one-acre island in Lahaina with series of taro patches, fish ponds, royal homes, mausoleums and canals, was a sacred sanctuary to the Piilani chiefs between the 14th and 19th centuries. The island was buried in the past century of Maui’s development. On Saturday, excavation finally began on the archeological site. More >
March 13, 1989: Tim Berners-Lee, working at Cern in Geneva, came up with the concept that became the worldwide web. On that day, Berners-Lee presented his visionary paper on a simple mechanism for allowing the particle physics research community to share documents, based on a simplified form of Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML). View Tim Berners-Lee TED video >…
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