Early History
The history of Hawaii describes the era of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands. The islands were first settled by Polynesians sometime between 124 and 1120 AD. Hawaiian civilization was isolated from the rest of the world for at least 500 years.
An expedition led by British explorer James Cook is usually considered to be the first group of Europeans to arrive in the Hawaiian Islands, which they did in 1778. Within five years after Cook's arrival, European military technology helped Kamehameha I conquer and unify the islands for the first time, establishing the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1795. The kingdom was prosperous and important for its agriculture and strategic location in the Pacific.
American immigration began almost immediately after Cook's arrival, led by Protestant missionaries. Americans set up plantations to grow sugar. Their methods of plantation farming required substantial labor. Waves of permanent immigrants came from Japan, China, and the Philippines to work in the fields. The government of Japan organized and gave special protection to its people, who comprised about 25 percent of the Hawaiian population by 1896.
A large portion of the native population succumbed to disease brought by the Europeans (particularly smallpox), declining from 300,000 in the late 1770s to over 60,000 in the 1850s to 24,000 in 1920
Americans within the kingdom government rewrote the constitution, severely curtailing the power of King "David" Kalākaua, and disenfranchising the rights of most Native Hawaiians and Asian citizens to vote, through excessively high property and income requirements. This gave a sizeable advantage to plantation owners.
Overthrow of the Kingdom
On the Hawaiian Islands, a group of American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, and establish a new provincial government with Dole as president. The coup occurred with the foreknowledge of John L. Stevens, the U.S. minister to Hawaii, and 300 U.S. Marines from the U.S. cruiser Boston were called to Hawaii, allegedly to protect American lives.
In the early 18th century the first American traders came to Hawaii to exploit the islands’ sandalwood, which was much valued in China at the time. In the 1830s, the sugar industry was introduced to Hawaii and by the mid-19th century had become well established.
During the next four decades, Hawaii entered into a number of political and economic treaties with the United States, and in 1887 a U.S. naval base was established at Pearl Harbor as part of a new Hawaiian constitution written by the US settlers. Sugar exports to the United States expanded greatly during the next four years, and U.S. investors and American sugar planters on the islands broadened their domination over Hawaiian affairs. However, in 1891 Liliuokalani, the sister of the late King Kalakaua, ascended to the throne, refusing to recognize the constitution of 1887 and replacing it with a constitution increasing her personal authority.
In January 1893, a “Committee of Safety,” organized by Sanford B. Dole, staged a coup against Queen Liliuokalani with the tacit support of the United States. On February 1, Minister John Stevens recognized Dole’s new government on his own authority and proclaimed Hawaii a U.S. protectorate. Dole submitted a treaty of annexation to the U.S. Senate, but most Democrats opposed it, especially after it was revealed that most Hawaiians did not want annexation.
President Grover Cleveland sent a new U.S. minister to Hawaii to restore Queen Liliuokalani to the throne under the 1887 constitution, but Dole refused to step aside and instead proclaimed the independent Republic of Hawaii. Cleveland was unwilling to overthrow the government by force, and his successor, President William McKinley, negotiated a treaty with the Republic of Hawaii in 1897. In 1898, the Spanish-American War broke out, and the strategic use of the naval base at Pearl Harbor during the war convinced Congress to approve formal annexation. Two years later, Hawaii was organized into a formal U.S. territory and in 1959 entered the United States as the 50th state.
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around four hundred protesters who had occupied Tokyo University's Yasuda Hall in protest of US-Japan relations battled with police, throwing rocks and gas‐filled bottles at officers on the street. The battle lasted until January 19th, and was broadcast on television, causing a national sensation.
The protest was part of a growing leftist sentiment against the US and the conservative Japanese government that led to more than 10,000 young people being arrested by the end of the year. One year after this event, more than 22 colleges were either closed or only partially open due to student unrest.
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I motion to add @Tervell to the power posters list. If I didn't know any better I would mistake their posts as my posts because we have the same posting style and interests to the point it's starting to scare me :data-laughing:
Its been so long since I've seen a friend or my bf in person :sadness-abysmal:
Messaging or calling people helps but I'm touch starved and as of right now the only people I could hug are family and id rather die tbh
Why is it that the most attractive people are only on public transport and you only ever see them once in your life
Thinking about rescheduling my birthday. I just don't like its proximity to holidays and besides, having my real birthdate be public is a big security risk. I can't let just anyone know my astrological sign
Neighbor works at a daycare, she has covid and they still want her to come in lmao. :joker-troll:
Never want to hear Americans invoke the “but think of the children!” Shit again
My two biggest tips for not being cold after your shower are
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Dry yourself off in the shower, with the door/curtain closed. Bring your towel in there. The colder, dryer air outside of the shower speeds up the evaporation on your skin and makes you chilly.
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Use two towels. You've never felt true after-shower dryness until you've tossed that damp towel and grabbed a second completely dry towel to get the rest of the wet off of you. It's a game changer.
Ideally, you use one towel in the shower to get the majority of the water off of you, and then step out of the shower and use a second towel to really get dry. Minimal evaporation, minimal chilliness.
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Imagine you suspect you could stop showing up to work and no one would notice
Imagine you stop showing up and prove yourself correct
Now imagine you work for the US government
No one is at the wheel :joker-troll:
ICU nurses striking
the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association [NSWNMA] said the COVID-19 outbreak had put pressure on fatigued nurses to work excessive overtime.
NSWNMA Acting General Secretary Shaye Candish said staff and patient safety was being compromised and called on the state government for immediate support.
"The NSW government needs be up-front with the community and concede the health system is not coping," she said.
"The government needs to take action to urgently support nurses and midwives in the biggest health crisis we've ever faced."
The walkout is expected to begin at 10am.
:sicko-no: doing any work that can be considered productive
:sicko-yes: hyper focusing on emails you sent for jobs, imagining what the people reading your emails might be thinking, then dissociating from the self-induced stress