What's the history of Hawaii?
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The Ancient Times:\n-The first settlers were migrating Polynesians, who navigated the Pacific in voyaging canoes, believed to have first arrived from the Marquesas Islands with subsequent migrations from Tahiti, and perhaps other Pacific islands.  \n-nearly all of the habitable islands in the Pacific Ocean were settled hundreds of years before European sailors dared venture beyond the site of land \n-By the time of Cook's arrival in 1778, the population of Hawai`i had grown to something between 400,000 and 800,000 people, perhaps more.  It was a stone age society since there are no metals found in the islands, however this term might give a false impression that the society was primitive.  Hardly!  Some have estimated that the population of the islands, based on the methods of food production and the living conditions, could have exceeded one million and even approach current day population of 1.2 million\n\nThe Monarchy Years:\n- begins with the unification of the islands by Kamehameha the Great in 1810, shortly after the arrival of Captain Cook, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian government in 1893. During this relatively short period of time, the people of Hawai'i would transition from a feudal society into an independent constitutional monarchy, recognized by other nations around the world.  \n-Two years after the Declaration of Independence, and while the American colonies were still fighting to be independent, Captain James Cook arrived in Hawaii. At the time, Hawaii was in the process of moving from regional monarchs, usually one per island, to a consolidated monarchy that spanned all the islands.\n-Kamehameha I (the Great) of the Island of Hawaii first consolidated his power there. He then conquered Maui and Oahu.Kamehameha then attempted to invade Kauai, but his fleet was turned back by a storm. Following several years, the ruler of Kauai decided to pledge his allegiance to Kamehameha, and the unification of the Hawaiian islands was complete.\n-Hawaii in 1778 in many ways resembled feudal Europe. The major difference, other than religion, was the absence of writing and metal. Hawaii was isolated and had no continuous contact with other civilizations. \n-What took hundreds of years to evolve in Europe, happened virtually overnight in Hawaii. American missionaries arriving in 1820 brought with them not only their religion, but their political and social views. \n-The missionaries taught reading and writing, and the Hawaiians overwhelmingly responded - many say they achieved a higher rate of literacy than that in the United States at the time. By 1840, a mere 62 years after the first European contact, Kamehameha III promulgated the first Hawaiian Constitution. Just as the Magna Charta subjected King John of England to the rule of law, the 1840 Constitution subjected Kamehameha and his heirs to the law. The 1840 Constitution established a House of Nobles and an elected House of Representatives whose assent to new laws and changes to the Constitution was required. In less than a generation Hawaii went from a hereditary despotic government based on divine right to a Constitutional monarchy with an elected legislature.\n-Subsequent Constitutions were adopted in 1852, 1864 and 1887 (the bayonet Constitution). Hawaiian Constitutional history can be viewed as decreasing the powers of the Crown, and increasing those of the people through their elected representatives.\n-The precipitating event for the overthrow of the Monarchy and Queen Lili'uokalani was her proposed new Constitution. Among other things, Queen Lili'uokalani's Constitution would have restored to her the power to appoint the House of Nobles, and to veto Constitutional amendments. \n\nTerritorial Years: 1898 - 1959\n  \n-The Territory of Hawaii was created on July 7, 1898, when Congress passed the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawai'i to the United States. The formal ceremony took place in Honolulu on August 12, 1898. The Newlands Resolution
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The dirt that covers Hawaii is much older than Hawaii it blew in from China. The same forces covered your artifacts.
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That is supposed to be how life got to Hawaii, at least until humans showed up.  Hawaii was a barren rock when it came out of the ocean, a few thousand miles from the nearest continent - isolated, to say the least.  The only way life could have gotten there is by the wind blowing an insect or a seed from the mainland across those thousands of miles, landing on Hawaii, and then somehow growing and multiplying.  The odds were obviously miniscule, but once in a great awhile a life form beat those odds.
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The Hawaiian Islands are volcanic in origin. Each island is made up of at least one primary volcano, although many islands are composites of more than one. The Big Island, for instance, is constructed of 5 major volcanoes: Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, Hualalai and Kohala. Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano on Earth. Kilauea is presently one of the most productive volcanoes on Earth (in terms of how much lava it erupts each year). The primary volcanoes on each of the islands are known as a shield volcanoes, which are gently sloping mountains produced from a large number of generally very fluid lava flows. \n    Hawaiian volcanoes primarily erupt a type of rock known as basalt. When molten, basalt produces liquids of relatively high fluidity, compared to volcanoes that erupt more silica rich magma types such as andesite, dacite or rhyolite. The fluidity of molten basalt favors the formation of lava flows, which is why the Hawaiian volcanoes generally have gentle sloping sides. By contrast, lavas with higher silica content are more viscous and commonly produce either thicker, shorter lava flows, thick blocky deposits and/or thick beds of ash that fall from the sky following explosive eruptions. These other types of volcanoes (common outside of Hawaii) are typically steeper sided. \n    The Hawaiian volcanoes were produced by the Hawaiian hot spot, which is presently under the Big Island of Hawaii. The image below shows the islands of the Hawaiian chain and the intervening shallows, banks and reefs along a line from southeast to northwest. Note that the islands of Lanai and Kahoolawe are not shown because they would "overlap" with Molokai and Maui, respectively (see the map of the Islands on the Hawaiian Volcanoes page) In general, when you move along the island chain from southeast (Hawaii) to northwest, (Kure), the volcanoes become older and older.\n\nMore (with diagras) is available at the source
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National Weather Service's \nHuricane Center has an overwhelming amount of huricane history in it archives \n\nhere is there there website \nhttp://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml
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Over 11,000 years ago there existed an island nation located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean populated by a noble and powerful race. The people of this land possessed great wealth thanks to the natural resources found throughout their island. The island was a center for trade and commerce. The rulers of this land held sway over the people and land of their own island and well into Europe and Africa.\n\nThis was the island of Atlantis.\n\nAtlantis was the domain of Poseidon, god of the sea. When Poseidon fell in love with a mortal woman, Cleito, he created a dwelling at the top of a hill near the middle of the island and surrounded the dwelling with rings of water and land to protect her.\n\nCleito gave birth to five sets of twin boys who became the first rulers of Atlantis. The island was divided among the brothers with the eldest, Atlas, first King of Atlantis, being given control over the central hill and surrounding areas.\n\nAt the top of the central hill, a temple was built to honor Poseidon which housed a giant gold statue of Poseidon riding a chariot pulled by winged horses. It was here that the rulers of Atlantis would come to discuss laws, pass judgments, and pay tribute to Poseidon..\n\nTo facilitate travel and trade, a water canal was cut through of the rings of land and water running south for 5.5 miles (~9 km) to the sea.\n\nThe city of Atlantis sat just outside the outer ring of water and spread across the plain covering a circle of 11 miles (1.7 km). This was a densely populated area where the majority of the population lived.\n\nBeyond the city lay a fertile plain 330 miles (530 km) long and 110 miles (190 km) wide surrounded by another canal used to collect water from the rivers and streams of the mountains. The climate was such that two harvests were possible each year. One in the winter fed by the rains and one in the summer fed by irrigation from the canal.\n\nSurrounding the plain to the north were mountains which soared to the skies. Villages, lakes, rivers, and meadows dotted the mountains.\n\nBesides the harvests, the island provided all kinds of herbs, fruits, and nuts. An abundance of animals, including elephants, roamed the island.\n\nFor generations the Atlanteans lived simple, virtuous lives. But slowly they began to change. Greed and power began to corrupt them. When Zeus saw the immorality of the Atlanteans he gathered the other gods to determine a suitable punishment.\n\nSoon, in one violent surge it was gone. The island of Atlantis, its people, and its memory were swallowed by the sea.\n\n\nim greek what can i say lol
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U.S. if you consider ancient Hawaii being part of the U.S.
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China timeline:  \n\nhttp://www.scaruffi.com/politics/chinese.html\n\nhttp://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/time_line.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Chinese_history\nhttp://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/china/timeline.html\n\nTaiwan:\n\nhttp://timelines.ws/countries/TAIWAN.HTML\n\nhttp://www.taiwandc.org/history.htm\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taiwan\n\nhttp://www.timelineindex.com/content/select/233/45,153,233
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1) Most Hawaiians welcomed being part of America.\n2) Few still wanted independence, couldn't fight.\n3) More opportunities for growth and life improvement.\n4) Only a liberal Democrat would appologize unless directly recently involved.  Hawaii has universal forced  on employer healthcare IF one works full time...SO most people work 32 hours unless they own the place...unintended DRASTIC consequences...BUT sure looked GOOD on paper!
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How about...the history of small countries in Southeast Asia?  Or the pleasures of bicycling?  The Punic Wars?  Canadians' ideas about the US?  Life in Japan?  Unique wildlife of Australia?  Modern-day piracy in the Straits of Malacca?\nThat's all I can think of in 1 1/2 minutes.
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Wrong beach. America's involvement started in Hawaii.
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here are whole bunch of important info\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilauea\n\na vedio of lava flowing\nhttp://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/volcanoes/assets/multimedia/kilauea.mov?mii=1
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The first person gave a good answer. Interestingly, since you asked and he/she answered, Hawaii was hit by a little tsunami.\nWed. Nov 15, 2006.\n"The waves hit Hawaii about six hours after a magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck north of Japan. Tsunami warnings were issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which reported that its system of sending alerts functioned properly.\n...The waves, some measuring a few feet high, struck Hawaii shores Wednesday, slightly injuring one swimmer and temporarily flooding a harbor.,,,,,A woman swimming at Waikiki suffered cuts when she was sucked through an opening in a seawall as the water receded just before the swells arrived. She was otherwise fine.....On Kauai, a 2 1/2-foot swell flooded a parking lot at Nawiliwili Harbor. No serious damage was reported....Some  boats hit the bottom with their keels when the water receded...."  Excerpts from AP report.
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The Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain is composed of the Hawaiian Ridge, consisting of the islands of the Hawaiian chain northwest to Kure Atoll, and the Emperor Seamounts, a vast underwater mountain region of islands and intervening seamounts, atolls, shallows, banks and reefs along a line trending southeast to northwest beneath the northern Pacific Ocean. The seamount chain, containing over 80 identified undersea volcanoes, stretches over 3,600 miles from the Aleutian Trench in the far northwest Pacific to Lo‘ihi seamount, the youngest volcano in the chain, which lies about 35 km southeast of the Island of Hawai‘i. It is considered the largest mountain chain in the world. The Hawaiian Islands are that portion of the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain that projects above sea level.\n\nIn 1963, geologist John Tuzo Wilson hypothesized the origins of the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain explaining that they were created by a hotspot of volcanic activity that was essentially stationary as the Pacific tectonic plate drifted in a northwesterly direction, leaving a trail of increasingly eroded volcanic islands and seamounts in its wake. An otherwise inexplicable kink in the chain would mark a shift in the movement of the Pacific plate some 47 million years ago, from a northward to a more northwesterly direction, and the kink has been presented in geology texts as an example of how a tectonic plate can shift direction comparatively suddenly. More recent studies, mentioned below, provide evidence that the change in direction may have occurred over a period of about 8 million years.\n\nHowever, more recent analysis of the magnetization orientation of cooling magnetite in ancient lava flows taken at four seamounts shows a more complex relationship than the textbook stationary hotspot offered. If the hot spot had remained above a fixed mantle plume during the past 80 million years, the latitude as determined by the orientation of the magnetite should be constant for each sample and should also signify original cooling at the same latitude as the current Big Island of Hawaii.\n\nA recent interpretation of the magnetization, that the hotspot itself also actually drifted southward between 81 and 47 million years ago, is causing geologists to rethink their model of the interior workings of the Earth (Roach 2003).\n\nYet more recently published argon-argon ages of rocks from volcanoes of the southern and central Emperor chain better establish the age at which the bend formed. Sharp and Clague (2006) determined that the bend initiated at about 50 million years ago, and the bending continued until about 42 million years ago. They also concluded that the bend formed because of the "traditional" reason -- a change in the direction of motion of the Pacific plate.\n\nReferences:\nNational Geographic News: John Roach, "Hot Spot That Spawned Hawaii Was on the Move, Study Finds": August 14, 2003 \nWarren D. Sharp and David A. Clague, 50-Ma initiation of Hawaiian-Emperor bend records major change in Pacific Plate motion. Science, v. 313, p. 1281-1284 (2006).
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I will take up the whole webpage if I try to explain, so here:\n\nhttp://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/history/main.html\nhttp://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/hawaiian_hotspot2.html\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/C0114964/islands.htm\nhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/hotspots.html\nhttp://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/czm/wec/html/mountain/geology/features.htm\n\nA lot of these sites are really for people in elementary, middle and high school, but school is for learning, so I guess that works too, right?
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Last I heard, Easter Island has nothing to do with early man at all. More recent studies are dating the constructions well within the second millenium. Wish I could remember where I read that, but I am sure it has something to do with environmental destruction. i.e. the more recent population lived an unsustainable lifestyle and wiped themselves out. Really wish I could remember that article's details. Sorry.
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All of your questions can be answered here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sri_Lanka