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- ... that Hawaiian missionary David Belden Lyman's son Rufus Anderson Lyman had 15 children; two became Generals in World War II?
- ... that Rev. Elias Bond (1813–1896) used proceeds from a Hawaiian sugar plantation to fund his church and a girls' seminary?
- ... that despite losing his right arm and having no formal civil engineering education, Henry Perrine Baldwin (pictured) oversaw a pioneering sugarcane irrigation system on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 1876?
- ... that the last two buildings used by the Makawao Union Church were built atop the foundation of a 19th-century sugarcane mill in Maui, Hawaii?
- ... that the Kukaniloko Birth Site was speculated to be a Hawaiian Stonehenge?
- ... that while Timothy Haʻalilio and William Richards were in Europe negotiating for diplomatic recognition of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1843, they found out it was already under a British occupation?
- ... that during the 1824–1842 term of Richard Charlton as the first British consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii, he was involved in a controversial land claim?