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We know the American state of Hawaii as a tropical paradise with beautiful beaches and the original home of surfing. Less known is that Hawaii was, for nearly 100 years, an independent kingdom. United in 1795 by its first monarch, King Kamehameha I, known as “The Great”. There were eight monarchs until the Kingdom’s overthrow in 1893 – the last monarch being its only reigning queen – Liliuokalani.
She was born Lydia Liliu Loloku Walania Kamakaeha on 2 September 1838 in Honolulu. Her mother, Analea Keohokalole and her father, Caesar Kapaakea were members of the Hawaiian nobility and were collateral relations of the Royal House of Kamehameha. King Kamehameha III recognised Liliuokalani and her siblings as heirs to the Hawaiian throne, and at the age of four, she was sent to study with other recognised royal heirs at the Chief’s Children’s School.
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and in december, we ve broken our average rain and chanai, even though there s a brief lull, there s persistent rain, especially for sunday with more thunderstorms expected from monday into tuesday and wednesday we would experience an additionalal 50 to 100 millimeters on top of what already has fallen. i m going to leave you with this. an incredible site out of europe s most active and largest volcano, creating what is called volcanic lightning. this takes place when volcanic ash is spewed into the atmosphere, creating a separation of charges and this is mother nature s way of
continental airlines is about to tell passengers go ahead, board yourself. the airline testing out new technology to let you swipe your own boarding pass at the gate. but is this convenience worth all the potential safety risks? joining us now for a fair and balanced debate, michael hoffman, former homeland security analyst on airport security systems and kate hanai is an executive director of flyers rights.org. good morning to both of you. as we were reminded on christmas day, we are a target for international terrorists so any mention of less security makes flyers more nervous. why should they not worry about self-boarding? well, we ve seen this proven to be very functional in the international airports, frankfort has been doing this, munich has been doing this for several years. it works. you don t remove the safety precautions of the tsa, the actual getting through on the normal safety procedures and i would argue that the ramp check-in isn t about safety, it s about efficiency,