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"Hawaiʻi Aloha," also called "Kuʻu One Hanau," is a revered anthem of the native Hawaiian people and Hawaiʻi residents alike. Written by the Reverend Lorenzo Lyons, (1807-1886), also known as Makua Laiana, a Christian minister who died in 1886, to an old hymn, "I Left It All With Jesus," composed by James McGranahan (1840-1907), "Hawai‘i Aloha" was considered by the Hawaiʻi State ...
On November 28, 1843, at the Court of London, the British and French governments formally recognized the independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii in the Anglo-Franco Proclamation, a joint declaration by France and Britain, signed by Lord Aberdeen and the Comte de Saint-Aulaire, representatives of Queen Victoria and King Louis-Philippe, respectively.
The origins of the word predate the 1778 arrival of Captain James Cook, as recorded in several chants stemming from that time. [4] [5] The term was generally given to people of European descent; however, as more distinct terms began to be applied to individual European cultures and other non-European nations, the word haole began to refer mostly to Americans, including American Blacks (who ...
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Hauʻula is located at (21.613850, -157.913543 The town is located north of Punaluʻu and south of Lāʻie along Kamehameha Highway (State Rte. 83).. According to the United States Census Bureau, Hauʻula has a total area of 1.9 square miles (5.0 km 2).
A large banyan tree in the heart of Old Lahaina that was badly scorched by the fires that ransacked Maui appears to have emerged from the flames still standing.
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.
La'aloa Bay, also known as Magic Sands Beach, on Christmas night, 2015 La'aloa Bay on a very calm day After a storm the sand all washes out, exposing lava rocks Ruins of an old temple, with scuba diving cove in the background. Laʻaloa Bay is a popular recreation area in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.