Showing posts with label Punahou. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Punahou. Show all posts
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Bingham Tablet

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The land at Punahou was given to the Binghams (it was considered to be a gift from Kaʻahumanu, Kuhina Nui or Queen Regent at that time,) ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Richard Armstrong

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By the time the Pioneer Company of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) Protestant missionaries arrived in 1820, ...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Charles Lambert

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Kalākaua had a great interest in science and he saw it as a way to foster Hawai‘i’s prestige, internationally. The opportunity to demo...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Certificate of Hawaiian Birth

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Sun Yat-sen, the Founding Father of modern China, the Republic of China (Nationalist China) and the forerunner of democratic revolution i...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

The Stitching

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Since I started these summary posts, I have received a variety of questions and comments (from many) asking about this or that. One suc...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Aliʻiolani College

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The school seemed to change names, and locations; but, for the most part, it was run by the same person, Leopold Gilbert Blackman. Born...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

“O Ulumāheihei wale no, ia ia oloko, ia ia owaho”

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"Ulumāheihei knows everything inside and outside" was the saying, alluding to matters that came up at the court of the chiefs ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Sun Yat-sen

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Sun Yat-sen is the Founding Father of modern China, the Republic of China (Nationalist China) and the forerunner of democratic revolution...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Punahou – It Had More Than One Campus

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Kapunahou, the site of the present Punahou School campus, was given to Kameʻeiamoku by Kamehameha, after the Battle of Nuʻuanu.  The land...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Boki (Poki)

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Boki (born before 1785 - died after December 1829) was the son of Kekuamanoha, a chief of Maui (but it was rumored that he was the son ...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Try And Leave This World A Little Better Than You Found It

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The Boy Scout movement was founded in England by Sir Robert Baden-Powell in 1908. As a military officer, he had noticed that soldiers in ...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

ʻIli Lele

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Ahupuaʻa were land divisions that served as a means of managing people and taking care of the people who support them, as well as an easy...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Daniel Dole

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Daniel Dole was born in Bloomfield (now Skowhegan,) Maine, September 9, 1808. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1836 and Bangor Theolo...
Friday, July 5, 2013

William G Irwin

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William G Irwin was born in England in 1843; he was the son of James and Mary Irwin.  His father, a paymaster in the ordnance department ...