enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: ancient hawaii timeline history museum chicago il tickets

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ancient Hawaii - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Hawaii

    Ancient Hawaiʻi is the period of Hawaiian history preceding the establishment in 1795 of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha the Great. Traditionally, researchers estimated the first settlement of the Hawaiian islands as having occurred sporadically between 400 and 1100 CE by Polynesian long-distance navigators from the Samoan , Marquesas ...

  3. Timeline of Chicago history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Chicago_history

    Home Insurance Building Field Museum in Chicago 1885: Home Insurance Building building was the first skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to 1931. Originally ten stories and 138 ft (42.1 m) tall, it was designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1884 [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Two floors were added in 1891, bringing its now finished height to 180 feet (54 ...

  4. History of Hawaii - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hawaii

    The history of Hawaii began with the discovery and settlement of the Hawaiian Islands by Polynesian people between 940 and 1200 AD. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first recorded and sustained contact with Europeans occurred by chance when British explorer James Cook sighted the islands in January 1778 during his third voyage of exploration .

  5. Field Museum of Natural History - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Field_Museum_of_Natural_History

    It is now home to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. [10] In 1905, the museum's name was changed to Field Museum of Natural History to honor its first major benefactor and to reflect its focus on the natural sciences. [26] Stanley Field, Field Museum President, 1906. Stanley Field was the president in 1906. [27]

  6. List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_and...

    Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;

  7. Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puʻuhonua_o_Hōnaunau...

    Hale o Keawe was an ancient Hawaiian heiau originally built in approximately 1650 AD [6] as the burial site for the ruling monarch of the Island of Hawaii named Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku. [7] [8] It was built by his son, a Kona chief named Kanuha. The complex may have been established as early as 1475 under the aliʻi nui ʻEhu-kai-malino.

  8. Vintage Chicago Tribune: King Tut exhibit draws more than 1 ...

    www.aol.com/news/vintage-chicago-tribune-king...

    The United Kingdom’s new monarch, King Charles III, brings to mind the last time our city went king crazy, Chicago. The Field Museum was one of six institutions in the United States chosen to ...

  9. Chicago History Museum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_History_Museum

    Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times.

  1. Ads

    related to: ancient hawaii timeline history museum chicago il tickets