Marshall Islands Edition
World Safe Crossing Day leads today's complete edition for Marshall Islands.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for roads, crosswalks, signals, ferry landings, station platforms, and the care people owe one another in motion.
On November 20, 1948, the remaining Bikini people were resettled on Kili Island, a tiny 200-acre island in the southern Marshalls with no protected lagoon and no reef pass for canoes. The move was a disaster: Kili was too small for subsistence agriculture, the surrounding ocean was too rough for safe canoe fishing, and the residents depended on U.S. food shipments that arrived irregularly. The Bikinians called Kili a "prison" : they were seafaring people trapped on a rock without a lagoon. The annual commemoration honors the resilience of the Kili community, which has maintained Bikinian culture and identity despite seven decades of exile. Kili remains home to about 600 Bikini descendants, many of whom have never seen their ancestral atoll. The day is marked by church services, storytelling about Bikini, and the preparation of traditional foods that the community has preserved even in displacement.
A day for herbs, flowers, seedlings, balcony pots, and every bit of green people manage to keep alive.
A day for the quick meal, the regular customer, the busy cook, and the food people rely on between obligations.
You discover Armenian highlands inhabited by mouflon sheep, bezoar goats, and the endangered Armenian leopard. You observe that Armenians typically keep dogs, cats, and occasionally canaries in their homes. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
You discover Cruzan Rum, distilled right on St. Croix since 1760, and Barritt's Ginger Beer, the Caribbean's most recognized mixer brand. You understand these products as symbols of Virgin Islands heritage and tropical hospitality, essential to every island celebration and visitor's souvenir.