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A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion.

This is the page where new DYK facts should be added; carefully!

Timless

  • ...that Nāʻālehu, Hawaiʻi, located on the Big Island, is the southernmost town in the United States?
  • ...that ʻIolani Palace is the only royal palace in the United States?
  • ...that the name of the state fish is humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa?
  • ...that Kīlauea is the world's most active volcano?
  • ...that the Big Island is Hawaiʻi's largest at 4,038 square miles? It is twice the size of all other Hawaiian Islands combined.
  • ...that Hawaiʻi is the only state that grows coffee?

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  • ... that in the course of its 150-year history, Haili Church (pictured) has survived earthquakes, tsunamis, lava flows, fires, and heavy tropical rains?
  • ... that one of a series of hotels called the Volcano House, built at the edge of Kīlauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?
  • ... that George Lycurgus, who developed two historic hotels in Hawaii, was arrested and imprisoned for treason after the failed 1895 counter-revolution?
  • ... that the first newspaper in Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820?

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Satellite map showing the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain
Satellite map showing the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain

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