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Honouliuli National Historic Site is near Waipahu on the island of Oahu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. This is the site of the Honouliuli Internment Camp which was Hawaiʻi's largest and longest-operating internment camp, opened in 1943 and closed in 1946. It was designated a National monument on February 24, 2015, by President Barack Obama. [4]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The first plantation in Hawaii was created by William Northey Hooper, in 1836, on Koloa, Kaua’i which changed the course of Hawaiian history. [3] Plantations exploded in Hawaii as their profits were unmatched at the time in the area thanks to the tropical climate which promoted growth of coffee, pineapple, and other crops. [1]
The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people [a] are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region. [22] Inhabiting many countries, they live mainly in West Africa and northern parts of Central Africa, South Sudan, Darfur, and regions near the Red Sea coast in Sudan. The approximate number of Fula people is unknown ...
Africatown, also known as AfricaTown USA and Plateau, is an historic community located three miles (5 km) north of downtown Mobile, Alabama.It was formed by a group of 32 West Africans, who in 1860 were bought and transported against their will in the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the United States.
The 420 acre (1.7 km 2) site was originally established in 1955 as City of Refuge National Historical Park and was renamed on November 10, 1978. In 2000 the name was changed by the Hawaiian National Park Language Correction Act of 2000 observing the Hawaiian spelling. [5]
Honolulu, Hawaii: 1841 Commercial Site of first materials printed in the Hawaiian language [5] Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace: Honolulu, Hawaii: 1843 Church Oldest Roman Catholic church in Hawaii [6] Punahou School's Old School Hall Honolulu, Hawaii: 1851 School Melchers Building: Honolulu, Hawaii: 1851 Commercial
The term Hausa-Fulani is also used mostly as a joint term to refer to both the monoethnic Hausa and Fulani ethnic populations in Northern Nigeria. [2] While some Fulani claim Semitic origins, Hausas are indigenous to West Africa. [3] This suggests that the processes of "Hausaization" in the western Sudan region was probably both cultural and ...