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Robert Edward Lee (13 May 1920 – 5 July 2010) was a Ghanaian dentist. [1] [2] Born in South Carolina to an African-American family, he studied dentistry in Tennessee and then in 1956 emigrated to Ghana with his wife Sara, also a dentist. [3] They were classmates at Meharry Medical College. They were the first black dentists in the country. [4]
Hawaiian scholar Nana Veary in her book Change We Must: My Spiritual Journey [12] wrote that hoʻoponopono was a practice in Ancient Hawaii [13]: 61–62, 67 and this is supported by oral histories from contemporary Hawaiian elders. [14] Pukui (born 1895) first recorded her experiences and observations from her childhood in her 1958 book.
'29 Alex Earl McKenzie (USC)—lieutenant colonel, commanded 442nd Regimental Combat Team (United States) Nisei, the Purple Heart Battalion [226] [227] '31 John Alexander Johnson (UH)—major, commanded company of U.S. 100th Infantry Battalion Nisei, killed in action at Cassino, John A. Johnson Hall (University of Hawaii) [227] [228]
Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), [1] also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, [2] psychologist, and writer.
Hawaiian scholar Mary Kawena Pukui, who was raised in Kaʻū, Hawaii, maintained that the early Hawaiian gods were benign. [25] One Molokai tradition follows this line of thought. Author and researcher Pali Jae Lee writes: "During these ancient times, the only 'religion' was one of family and oneness with all things.
The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones on Friday, nearly ...
The tradition of Kapaemahu, like all pre-contact Hawaiian knowledge, was orally transmitted. [11] The first written account of the story is attributed to James Harbottle Boyd, and was published by Thomas G. Thrum under the title “Tradition of the Wizard Stones Ka-Pae-Mahu” in the Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1907, [1] and reprinted in 1923 under the title “The Wizard Stones of Ka-Pae ...
Mar. 9—Kinoshita pleaded guilty to the drug charges Oct. 27 in U.S. District Court. A Hilo man who "lived a life of crime for 41 years " was sentenced to nearly 13 years in federal prison ...