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Kamehameha the Great

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Kamehameha the Great unified Hawaii and became its first state leader, then monarch. His date of birth is uncertain, but is somewhere between 1748 and 1761. Kamehameha was a great warrior, but is equally known for his peaceful rule. He abolished the practice of human sacrifice before his death and, perhaps most famously, instituted the Law of the Splintered Paddle, which protected non-combatants in time of ...

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James Cook

  • by  • Published: early 2007

James Cook was an English navigator who lived in the 18th century. He was the first European to find the islands that comprise Hawaii. Born in 1728 in Yorkshire, England, Cook was initiated into the mariner’s life at an early age. His first commissioned voyage was to Tahiti. The cosmological observations Cook was instructed to make there would aid scientists in the calculation of the distance between the ...

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Hawaiian Religion · by  • Published: early 2007