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Kīkīaola Facing Stones
Facing stones in the Kīkīaola irrigation ditch, which is also known as the Menehune Ditch in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii. Construction of the ditch is attributed to the Menehune - a mythical race of dimunitive Hawaiians.
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Kīkīaola
Kīkīaola - also known as the Menehune Ditch - is an irrigation channel ('auwai) on Kauai, Hawaii, said to have been built by the Menehune.
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Abraham Fornander
Swedish-born Hawaiian ethnologist and judge, Abraham Fornander (1812-1887). Photograph taken in c. 1878.
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Thomas Thrum
Thomas George Thrum (1842-1932), Australian author of the Thrum's Hawaiian Annual.
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Cavalier & de Villars
Meeting of Jean Cavalier, Camisard leader, and Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France, in Nîmes on 16 May 1704, painting by Jules Salles, c. 1865.
Musée des Beaux-arts de Nîmes.
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François de Langlade, Abbot of Chaila
François de Langlade, abbot of Chaila (1647-1702), painting by an unknown artist, 17th century.
Musée Ignon-Fabre, Mende.
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Jean Cavalier
Jean Cavalier, Camisard leader, painting by Pierre-Antoine Labouchère, 1864.
Musée du Désert, France.
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Château de Saumur
The château of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. Built in the 14th century for the Dukes of Anjou, it is the only Gothic castle in the Loire Valley.
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo
A modern bust of the Spanish conquistador and chronicler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 - c. 1580). Díaz wrote a famous account, The Conquest of New Spain. The bust is in the town of Medina del Campo in Spain, the birthplace...
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British Red Coat, 1767
An 1894 illustration showing the uniform of a Grenadier, 40th Foot regiment, 1767. The soldier is wearing his famous "red coat" made with cochineal dye. From R. H. Raymond Smythies (1894). Historical Records of the 40th...
