how kilauea got its name?
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The Goddess of fiery explosions before Hawaiin legend was \n   named Lisai, and the word meant the most confused.  The \n   legend is long and odd, goes like this.  Lisai was the last of\n   a skilled people that lived in mauai, paddled to lanakai and\n   lost their ships, so they could not return.  They found that \n   a previous inhabitant something like the Easter Island giants\n   had destroyed much of the livestock domestics like aliens \n   or uncivilized might do.  So they built new ships and then an\n   angel appeared to Lisai's friend and told her to build a great\n   fire to signal that Peace came to the island.  For she told her\n   your coming here with such great numbers reassures this is\n   a blessed heavenly place and the giants are gone and their\n   spoils are ruined, they will not return and not desecrate again.\n   The fire was a tradition something like for 2000 years on a \n   very high ledge as if signalling for even more to come from \n   other islands.  Then to honor their effort the volcano was \n    named for them, because it appeared with another angel vision\n    and replaced them on their duties.
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Some suggest that the word California may signify that a place is "hot as an oven" (cali > hot, fornia > oven). It may be derived from caliente fornalia, Spanish for hot furnace, or it may come from calida fornax, Latin for hot climate.\n\nAnother possible source may be kali forno, an indigenous phrase meaning "high mountains". There is no agreement among scholars.\n\nThe name California comes from a mythical Spanish island ruled by a queen called Califia that was featured in a Spanish romance ("Las Sergas de Esplandian") written by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo in 1510. The Spanish explorers originally thought that California was an island.
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Ancient people gave their own names. For instance the Greec names differ from the Egyptian ones. The Inca names were also completely different.\nThe international astronomical sociaty choose scientific names.
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It has eight main islands, which are the tops of a chain of submerged volcanic mountains; active volcanoes: Mauna Loa, Kilauea.
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Centuries ago (when people spoke Latin) people called the Sun, 'sol'. Around the 12th century, the Latin word 'sol' got transformed into the Old English word 'sunna'. Then from there 'sunna' became 'sunne' in Middle English. Modern English shortened 'sunne' to sun. So that's why we call the sun "the sun". There is no hidden or other meaning to the name. It is just the name of that big bright light that is in the sky during the day.
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Could it be Kilikiano, or Kiritiano?  Both mean Christian.\n\nAloha!
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Hawaii the Pacific Rim
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Remember that big Volcano :-)\n\nJust Kidding I know Hawaiians respect the land.
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Five named:  \n\nKilauea\nMauna Loa\nHualalai\nHaleakala\nLo`ihi\n\nThe first link is to the Hawaii Volcano Observatory.
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It's "minkey" after the whaler who first named it.\nhttp://www.geocities.com/~kcdreher/minke.html
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The original name is from Greece : Aikaterine\n( Katharos ) and it means "Pure"
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There are many found in Hawaiian music. Three of my favorites:\n\nBeauty of Mauna Kea - Keola Beamer\nFires of Pele - Ernie Cruz Jr.\nKalapana Sands*- Ernie Cruz Jr.\n\n*Kalapana was a town with black sand beach near Kilauea that was swallowed up by lava flows in 1990. The song is actually about the place before the lava flows, but it has taken on a special poignancy since then. \n\nKîlauea - Alice Nâmakelua\nFirelady- "Sistah" Robi Kahakalau\nKaimana Hila* - Charles E. King \nMauna Loa - Helen Lindsey Parker\n \n* This is a transliteration of "Diamond Head", the famous tuff ring at the end of  Waikiki. The original Hawaiian name of the extinct volcano was Leahi or "forehead of the yellowfin tuna".
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Shortly after its discovery, Neptune was referred to simply as "the planet exterior to Uranus" or as "Le Verrier's planet." The first suggestion for a name came from Galle. He proposed the name Janus. In England, Challis put forth the name Oceanus, particularly appropriate for a seafaring people. In France, Arago suggested that the new planet be called Leverrier, a suggestion which was met with stiff resistance outside France. French almanacs promptly reintroduced the name Herschel for Uranus and Leverrier for the new planet.\n\nMeanwhile, on separate and independent occasions, Adams suggested altering the name Georgian to Uranus, while Leverrier (through the Board of Longitude) suggested Neptune for the new planet. Struve came out in favor of that name on December 29, 1846, to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.4 Soon Neptune became the internationally accepted nomenclature. In Roman mythology Neptune was the god of the sea, identified with the Greek Poseidon. The demand for a mythological name seemed to be in keeping with the nomenclature of the other planets all of which, except for Uranus, were named in antiquity.
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missions took their name from the Ancient Greek God Apollo, the god of Solar Light and Sun.In addition, all astronomy terms are Greek.
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Its not called a Hawaiian.\n\nWhile a totally shaved vagina is commonly known as a Brazilian, most forms of Brazilian waxing leave a small line of pubic hair above the vulva. Waxes that completely remove the pubic hair are either termed 'Hollywood' (maybe this is the `H` place u were thinking of?) or 'Sphynx' depending on the salon visited. Sometimes the term Full Bikini Wax or FBW is used.\n\nWhile mainly associated with females, the practice is engaged in by males as well.\n\nIt is named for Brazil, the country in which it originated.\n\nThe wax originated in Brazil for women wanting to wear the then-new thong bikinis. It gained popularity through the 90's with celebrites, such as Paula Yates and Gwyneth Paltrow, extolling its virtues. In 1999 it shot to international prominence with the airing of a Sex and The City episode
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The official name for the planet Earth, as set by the International Astronomical Union, is Terra, after the Roman goddess Terra Mater.
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Cornell University: Ask an Astronomer \nhttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=451 \n\n"The true origin of the word Earth is shrouded in history and so any individual responsible for it cannot be found.\n\nThere are actually two schools of thought as to the origin of the word Earth. One was the already mentioned varitaion of the Germanic 'ertho'. The other is that it originated from the Indo-European "er", the verb form of which is 'ar', meaning 'to plough'.\n\nThe later, however, is not generally considered as likely due to the Germanic version contains more of the same letters and so indicates a natural progression. However, it would still be likely that the Germanic word would itself be derived from the Indo-European."\n\nIn a strictly technical sense, our planet is called "Earth" because the International Astronomical Union says so:\n\n"The official names of planets and their moons are governed by an organization called the International Astronomical Union (IAU)... The IAU is the internationally recognized authority for assigning names to celestial bodies and any surface features on them.\n\nThe IAU recognizes that astronomy is an old science and many of its names come from long-standing traditions and/or are founded in history. For many of the names of the objects in the solar system, this is especially so. Most of the objects in our solar system received names long ago based on Greek or Roman mythology. The IAU has therefore adopted this tradition in its rules for naming certain types\nof objects in the solar system... Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic. There are, of course, many other names for our planet in other languages."\n\nhttp://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question48.html\n\nThe word for 'Earth' is not the same in all of Earth's languages. Here are a few examples:\n\n"Afrikaans: aarde\n Danish: verden\n Finnish: maa\n French: mondiale\n German: Erde\n Indonesian: dunia\n Japanese: tsuchi, yochi, chi, a-su, daichi, koudo\n Russian: çåìë\n Swahili: kiwanja\n Swedish: mull"\n\nThe Straight Dope Archives: Do other languages call Earth "Earth"?\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mearth.html\n\n"Some other names for 'Earth' are; \n\n Aztec: Coatlicue \n Chinese: Hou ji \n Danish: Jorden \n Dutch: Aarde \n Egyptian: Geb \n Estonian: Maa \n French: Terre \n German: Erde \n Greek: Gaea \n Hebrew: HaOlam \n Incan: Pachamama \n Italian: Terra \n Japanese: Chikyuu \n Latin: Terra \n Maltese: Dinja \n Maori: Papa \n Mayan: Bacabs \n Norse: Midgard \n Norwegian: Jorden \n Polish: Ziemia \n Portuguese: Terra \n Russian: Zemlya \n Serbo-Croatian: Zemlja \n Slovene: Zemlja \n Spanish: Tierra \n Sumerian: Enlil \n Icelandic: Jör<eth>in \n\nThe Earth has often been personified as a deity, often a goddess; Gaea and Mother Earth. In Norse mythology, Earth was the son of Nott and Annar."\n\nInternet Encyclopedia: Earth\nhttp://www.internet-encyclopedia.info/wiki.phtml?title=Earth\n\n"earth - O.E. eorðe 'ground, soil, dry land,' also used (along with middangeard) for 'the (material) world' (as opposed to the heavens or the underworld), from P.Gmc. *ertho (cf. O.N. jörð, M.Du. eerde, O.H.G. erda, Goth. airþa), from PIE base *er-. The earth considered as\na planet was so called from c.1400. Earthy in the fig. sense of 'coarse, unrefined' is from 1594. Earthworm first attested 1591.\nEarthwork is from 1633. Earthlight apparently coined 1833 by British astronomer John Herschel."\n\nOnline Etymology Dictionary\nhttp://www.etymonline.com/e1etym.htm\n\n"The name of our planet is the Earth. The name of our moon is the Moon. The name of our solar system is the Solar System.\n\nNotice that I capitalize them, because when used as names, they are