Marshall Islands Edition
Children's Day leads today's complete edition for Marshall Islands.
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A socialist holiday, observed with school events and the reminder that 30% of Lao children are stunted due to malnutrition. The day is both celebration and call to action, and the government uses it to promote child health and education.
A day celebrating the Marshallese stick chart navigation tradition, one of the most unique and sophisticated non-instrumental navigation systems ever developed. The rebbelib is a stick chart made from palm ribs tied together with coconut fiber, with small shells marking island positions. But the rebbelib does not show distances or compass directions : it shows the patterns of ocean swells as they refract, reflect, and bend around islands. A trained navigator could feel these swell patterns through the hull of a canoe and determine their position relative to islands that were beyond the horizon. There were three types of stick charts: the rebbelib (showing swell patterns around a whole island group), the meddo (showing swell patterns around a smaller area), and the kai-sa-kai (a teaching chart for students). Each chart was personal to the navigator who made it and was often destroyed or buried with its creator. The tradition was nearly lost during the colonial period, when Western navigation supplanted indigenous knowledge, but surviving examples in the Alele Museum and the revival of canoe culture have brought new attention to this extraordinary achievement of Marshallese science.
You spot the spotted hyena, African forest elephant, and western chimpanzee roaming Guinea's savannas and rainforests. You see that Guinean households most often keep goats, chickens, and dogs for both practical and companionship purposes. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.