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An ama pearl diver in Japan. Pearl hunting, also known as pearl fishing or pearling, is the activity of recovering or attempting to recover pearls from wild molluscs, usually oysters or mussels, in the sea or freshwater. Pearl hunting was prevalent in the Persian Gulf region and Japan for thousands of years.
This list of museums in Hawaii contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
Levi Chamberlain (1845) This house was built under the direction of Levi Chamberlain during the four years from 1828 to 1832. It was called the Depository because here were received and stored all goods belonging to the mission, and from this as a center they were distributed to the various mission stations, until about 1840 when a separate Depository building was erected seaward of this house.
The title of the state constitution is The Constitution of the State of Hawaii. Article XV, Section 1 of the Constitution uses The State of Hawaii. [27] Diacritics were not used because the document, drafted in 1949, [28] predates the use of the ʻokina ʻ and the kahakō in modern Hawaiian orthography.
The Sustainable Tourism Association of Hawaii (formerly the Hawaii Ecotourism Association) was founded in 1995 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to nurture the development of sustainable tourism in Hawaii. It offers a certification program to educate and recognize conservation-minded tour operators in Hawaii, the only such certification program of its ...
Officials chose not to sound outdoor alarms in Lahaina believing they would not have helped wildfire evacuations
Snorkel boats inside Molokini crater. Molokini is a destination for scuba diving, snuba, and snorkeling.Its crescent shape protects divers inside it from waves and the channel's powerful currents, though diving also takes place off the 300-foot (91.5-meter) sheer outer wall.
She was in a Maryland thrift store in 2019 and found a vase on the clearance rack for just $3.99. “I saw this vase, and I assumed it was like a tourist reproduction,” Dozier told The Independent .