Love Made Visible - S/Sgt. Lewis G. Watkins, U.S. Marine Corps, Korean Conflict, Medal of Honor (1925-1952) »
12:57 pm | BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Lewis George Watkins was born on June 6, 1925 in Seneca, South Carolina. He graduated from Greenville High School, South Carolina in 1949. He was a member of the Greenville Police Department when he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on September 12, 1950. After training at Parris Island,…
May 13 2012 / No Comment / Read More »City Releases Renderings for Chinatown Rail Station »
11:23 am | The city's rail authority - HART - has released renderings for its planned Chinatown station. Talk about urban sprawl: This drawing is from the HART website and is their engineering drawing of the Chinatown station (page 44/85). Using the right hand lane height from ground level to the underside of the rail structure of 18' 1" (as…
May 10 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »UH Mānoa medical students exceed national average in U.S. licensing exam for 7th year in a row »
04:38 pm | BY TINA SHELTON - Second year medical students at UH Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) have out-scored their peers across the nation in the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 1 for the seventh year in a row, most recently with 100% of the class passing the exam, and the class’ scores exceeding…
May 9 2012 / No Comment / Read More »Tel Aviv: History in the Making »
05:06 pm | Traveling With History : Tel Aviv: Facing the Future With a Different Take on the Past © pictures and text, Allan Seiden, 2012 It was on a sunny day in 1909, with Palestine a province of the Ottoman Empire, that a group of Jewish residents of the ancient port city of Jaffa, feeling…
May 15 2012 / No Comment / Read More »Lottery Vendors Reveal Details Of Illegal Gambling Network Operating in Chinatown, Throughout Oahu »
02:53 pm | BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN AND JIM DOOLEY - Two vendors involved in an illegal gambling operation that extends from Palolo Public Housing to stores and restaurants in Chinatown and throughout Oahu have confessed to Hawaii Reporter that they sold lottery numbers in a black market operation, but said their motivation was love of gambling, not making money.…
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