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Wiggles & Giggles. "Sound the sirens!" yelled Governor Quinn to his listener. "Close the schools and get going!" Delegate Burns hollered the same news into his phone, and instantly the palace in Honolulu was rocking with cheers. The throng swelled with a lusty singing of the Hawaiian anthem, Hawaii Ponoi, and the Star-Spangled Banner, and then fell silent in prayer. ("I'm a grown man," blubbered Quinn's administrative assistant, Bob Ellis, happily. "Why am I crying...
...attractions (175,000 visitors a year; $65 million), coffee, oranges, beef, coconuts, 900 species of flowering plants and trees. U.S. military forces (60,000) deployed in complex of airfields, Navy and Army bases (Hickam Air Force Base, Pearl Harbor, Schofield Barracks). Pop. 600,000: Japanese (38%), Caucasian (20%), part-Hawaiian (15%), Filipino (13%), Chinese (7%), pure Hawaiian (3%), Puerto Rican and Korean...
Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away, another young Hawaiian was the accidental agent who evoked new tradition and new standards. He was Opukahaia, taken to New Haven, Conn, by a sea captain in 1809. One day Opukahaia was found weeping on the steps of Yale College, lamenting his ignorance. Sympathetic college students tutored him, and soon he became an ardent Christian; he died of typhus before he could return to the islands. The story of Opukahaia inspired the organization of the Sandwich Islands Mission, and in October 1819 seven New England families, singing When Shall We All Meet Again, set sail...
Shirts & Sugar. They arrived six months later, and, with the King's reluctant permission, set up Protestant missions, devised a Hawaiian alphabet, soon printed a speller, began teaching eager natives, turned out countless yards of cambric Mother Hubbards, shirts and suits (the King ordered a dozen fancy shirts and a broadcloth jacket), promoted monogamy, introduced the spare, hardy architecture of New England whaling ports. A few years later Kamehameha III signed the "Hawaiian Magna Charta," thus paved the way for parliamentary government...
...such as the Annexation Club, and finally, in 1893, a Committee of Safety took possession of the government office building, formed a republic, applied to the U.S. for annexation. Five years later, to the sound of a 21-gun salute from shore batteries and from the U.S.S. Philadelphia, the Hawaiian Islands became part of the American republic...