Kaunaoa Bay hotel reopened in early 2009. Kaunaoa Bay Kaunaoa Bay has one of the few white sand beaches of the Kohala Coast, the western side of the island of Hawaii. A historic hotel, the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, is located on beautiful Kauna'oa. The word 'kauna'oa' may refer to a few different things, any of which may have been why native Hawaiians named this beach so: the first definition refers to a thin, orange vine with yellow flowers, (Cuscuta sandwichiana), which is found throughout most Hawai'i (this is the official lei vine of Lanai). However, the second definition refers to a
John of Garland Among his other works are his "Dictionarius", a Latin vocabulary, the title of which is the origin of the word "dictionary" in English and several other languages; "Compendium totius grammatices" printed at Deventer in 1489; and two metrical treatises, entitled "Synonyma" and "Equivoca", frequently printed at the close of the 15th century. A treatise on alchemy, "Compendium alchimiae", often printed under his name, was by a 14th-century writer named Ortolanus (Martin Ortolan, or Lortholain). The 11th century writings on computus by Garlandus have occasionally been attributed to Johannes de Garlandia. John of Garland Johannes de Garlandia or John of Garland