01-20-2015, 05:06 PM
As we are consumed with lava flowing, breakouts, fires, "what if's", etc., here is a brief change of thought process for those who care about our history:
Today 20 January—in Hawaiian History [1891]: Môî (King) Kalâkaua dies in San Francisco, California.
King David La'amea Kalâkaua passed away at 2:30 pm in his room at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco—he was fifty-four years of age. The flags on all public building in the California city were placed at half mast.
The Palace Hotel, rebuilt after the 1906 fire, stands today on the same site as its ancestor on the southwest corner of Market and New Montgomery streets.
A Hawaiian-language biography of the king was prepared quickly after his death by native author Joseph Mokuohai Poepoe and offered for sale at his funeral in Hawai'i on 15 February.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hawaiian-...6228481847
http://www.hawaiianhistory.org/
ETA: Fixed annoying added characters due to Hawaiian language okina, etc.
Today 20 January—in Hawaiian History [1891]: Môî (King) Kalâkaua dies in San Francisco, California.
King David La'amea Kalâkaua passed away at 2:30 pm in his room at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco—he was fifty-four years of age. The flags on all public building in the California city were placed at half mast.
The Palace Hotel, rebuilt after the 1906 fire, stands today on the same site as its ancestor on the southwest corner of Market and New Montgomery streets.
A Hawaiian-language biography of the king was prepared quickly after his death by native author Joseph Mokuohai Poepoe and offered for sale at his funeral in Hawai'i on 15 February.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hawaiian-...6228481847
http://www.hawaiianhistory.org/
ETA: Fixed annoying added characters due to Hawaiian language okina, etc.