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> > > Ka·me·ha·me·ha I, (Known as "Kamehameha the Great.") 1758?--1819.
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> > > King of the Hawaiian Islands (1795--1819) who conquered and united all the islands under his rule.
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> > King of the *Sandwich* Islands. Until conquest by the Americans, Hawaii was simply the name of one of the islands.
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> > winter"corrector of things"mute
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> So THAT's where the Sandwich Islands were! Color me stupid. I always wondered that (OK, not always, but for quite some time now).
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> Penny *learner of things* stamp

King Kam, as he is affectionately know to the tourists, probably never called them the Sandwich Islands. That name came from an Englishman who was more famous for eating meat held between to hunks of bread. Was it Captain Cook who honored the Earl of Sandwich by naming the Hawaiian Islands for him? The Hawaiian didn't really like Cook. Maybe they killed him for renaming their islands. Did you know that the Hawaiian royal palace in Honolulu is the only royal palace in the United States? If you think the United States wasn't nice to the native peoples of North America, look up the story of how we took over the nation of Hawaii. It makes you wonder why the people there are so friendly.
Howard