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Replying to a message of Adam Flinton to Alan Cairns: AF> Ah what joy people of the commonwealth will have making that point to AF> the US...after all the years of the traffic coming the other AF> way....US out of....Puerto Rico....Hawaii....Cuba (last bit AF> thereof..) Hawaii isn't the spoils-of-war type possession taken from somebody else (primarily Spain). This country invaded and conquered the recognized kingdom there (Queen Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch; deposed in the 1898 invasion, IIRC she died in 1921 - she is the author of the song 'Aloha Oe'). Seems the queen wanted to raise the rent on the plantations owned/run by the Dole Pineapple Company and the company objected to the president, who sent in the Marines. ---* Origin: Bob's Soapbox, Plattsmouth, Nebraska, USA (1:379/103.104) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 @PATH: 379/103 1 633/267 |
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