Marshall Islands Edition
World Safe Crossing Day leads today's complete edition for Marshall Islands.
Daily Edition
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 encounter Barbary sheep, desert foxes, and fennecs in Libya's Saharan landscape. You keep dogs, cats, and occasionally camels as pets in Libyan communities. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
