Monday, March 31, 2008

Hawaiian History...Early Modern Times

This is King Kamahameha I, unifier of the Hawaiian Islands. You can read more about him here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow I didnt know that there were three statues of the King K...

And were from Paris. Here's a history question: Was it France who gave the US the statue of Liberty as well? I cant remember now...

G'ma R.

Nancy said...

Yes! It was gift from the French to the Americans in 1886. The same dude who engineered the Eifel tower also enginered the inards of the Statue of Liberty.