To quote Private Frazer in Dad’s Army, ‘We’re doomed, doomed!’ That seems to be the message of Paul Cooper’s eminently readable series of essays about how and why 14 civilisations rose to greatness and then collapsed. He begins with the Sumerians in the fourth millennium BC, at the northern tip of the Persian Gulf, and
There is nothing unusual about Polynesians playing rugby in South Auckland - unless it is during a zombie apocalypse, of course. The Last Samoan Zombie is a.
that s a massive amount of structures for a town like that. will: let s give you little context and history, this is near and dear to my heart i been reading and living this place for most of my heart. lahaina that is the town that is destroyed on the island of maui on the west side it was one time the capital of the kingdom of hawaii 1820 - 1845. it was settled by polynesians and maui, the westside is the first place humans came, they came from polynesia in canoes, guided navigation through the stars and they came in the canoes through the pass and this is the first settlement in this part of the world. rick: the settlement was able to happen because of whaling. will: eventually what happened, the whaling industry before we had oil we pulled it out of the ground to heat our homes we used whale blubber, the whaling industry was centered in
A Japanese man plans to sail a 60-foot boat made out of tule reeds from San Francisco to Hawaii next year, to show how indigenous people could have traveled.
it was always built on inclusivity, aloha. aloha is giving without expecting anything in return. you got this hawaiian culture that was a product of the polynesians that populated the islands, then you got this local culture that s a product of the plantation lifestyle. so, the japanese, the chinese, the koreans, the filipinos, the portuguese. if indeed all history can be explained by what s on your plate, this is a prime example. behold [bleep] the plate lunch. the most identifiable and essential feature of the plate lunch is this, a big scoop or two of white rice and potato mac salad. there is nothing more hawaiian. served alongside a protein like chicken katsu, or this hamburger steak, a burger-like patty drowned in dark, sinister, sticky, shiny gravy. or, furikake ahi, seared ahi with nori and sesame seed.