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'Iolani Palace
A historic house museum where royalty feasted and plots and counterplots simmered.'Iolani was the residence of King Kalakaua and Queen Kapi'olani from 1882 to 1891, and of Queen Lili'uokalani for two years after that. At this time, much of the Hawaiian monarchy observed the diplomatic protocols of the Victorian world. The king traveled abroad meeting with leaders around the globe and received many foreign emissaries in 'Iolani Palace.
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Ali'iolani Hale
The first major government building constructed by the Hawaiian monarchy in 1874, Ali'iolani Hale now houses the Hawaii Supreme Court and the state legislature. It was originally designed by Australian architect Thomas Rowe to be a royal palace, although it was never used as such. It was on the steps of Ali'iolani Hale, in January 1893, that Sanford Dole proclaimed the provisional government and the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy.
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National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Today it's the site of a 114-acre National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific where the remains of over 25,000 US soldiers are interred, more than half of whom were killed in the Pacific during WWII. The remains of Ernie Pyle, the distinguished war correspondent who covered both world wars and was hit by machine gun fire on Ie Shima during the final days of WWII, lie in section D, grave 109.
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Queen Emma Summer Palace
Queen Emma was a consort of Kamehameha IV and her summer palace is now open to the public as an historic house museum. Emma was three-quarters royal Hawaiian and a quarter English. She was a granddaughter of the captured British sailor John Young, who became a friend and adviser to Kamehameha I. The house is also known as Hanaiakamalama, the name of John Young's home in Kawaihae on the Big Island, where he served as governor.
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Royal Mausoleum
Housing the remains of Kings Kamehameha II, III, IV and V, as well as King David Kalakaua and Queen Lili'uokalani (Hawaii's last reigning monarchs), is the Royal Mausoleum. Conspicuously absent are the remains of Kamehameha the Great, the last king to be buried in secret in accordance with Hawaii's old religion.
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Shangri La
In 2002 the Honolulu Academy of Arts began conducting small group tours of Shangri La, the 1930s-era home of wealthy heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke, who transformed five acres of property overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Diamond Head into a serene palace of graciousness and beauty.
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University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Born too late to take advantage of the tweedy academic architecture of the mainland, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, the central campus of the statewide university system, is a modern complex filled with shade trees and well-bronzed students. UH has strong programs in astronomy, second-language studies, geophysics, marine sciences, and Hawaiian and Pacific studies. The campus attracts students from islands throughout the Pacific.
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