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Hawaii Admission Act
Hawaii Admission Act, Public Law 86-3 (March 18, 1959), the federal law admitting the Territory of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state, ratifying the 1950 constitution, followed by the June 27 plebiscite and Proclamation 3309 of August 21, 1959.
Hawaii County
Hawaii County (County of Hawaiʻi, Big Island) is one of five Hawaii counties, covering the 4,028-square-mile island of Hawaii; created 1905, population 210,043 (2025), tourism-led economy.
Hawaii Department of Transportation
The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) is the Hawaii state agency that plans and operates the state's highways, airports, and harbors, created by an act of 1959 after statehood.
Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010-2020) is the CBS reboot of the 1968-80 police drama, created by Peter Lenkov, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, starring Alex O'Loughlin as Steve McGarrett; #1 new series of 2010-11, later marked by a 2017 equal-pay controversy.
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural set in Hawaii, starring Jack Lord as Detective Steve McGarrett, which ran on CBS for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980.
Hawaii hotspot
Hawaii hotspot: the volcanic center, also called the Hawaiian plume, that built the 5,800 km Hawaiian-Emperor chain over ~76 million years as the Pacific plate moved over a mantle plume, now under Mauna Loa, Kīlauea, and Lōʻihi.
Hawaii Ocean Time-series
The Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) is a quasi-monthly oceanographic program that has measured hydrography, chemistry, and biology at Station ALOHA, 100 km north of Oahu, since October 1988.
Hawaii Pacific University
Hawai'i Pacific University (HPU), private nonprofit university in Honolulu founded 1965 as Hawai'i Pacific College; ~7,500 students, WSCUC-accredited, Oceanic Institute marine research, military campus programs, DII athletics.
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa FBS team, also the 'Fighting Deans' and 'Rainbows', founded 1909, Mountain West member, 2007 undefeated season, coach Timmy Chang.
Hawaii State Department of Education
The Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) is the single statewide district running Hawaii's public schools, governed by a nine-member Board of Education and a superintendent in Honolulu.
Hawaii's 2nd congressional district
Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, one of two U.S. House districts in Hawaii, covers all islands except urban Honolulu plus rural Oahu areas; represented by Democrat Jill Tokuda since 2023.
Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines, also known as Hawaiian Air, is a Hawaii-based airline founded in 1929 as Inter-Island Airways and acquired by Alaska Air Group in 2024 for $1 billion.
Hawaiian alphabet
The Hawaiian alphabet, called the Pīʻāpā, is the Latin orthography for the Hawaiian language, with 13 letters including the ʻokina, a consonant marking the glottal stop.
Hawaiian Bible translation
The Hawaiian Bible translation, Ka Baibala Hemolele, is the Bible rendered into Hawaiian by ABCFM missionaries and Hawaiian advisors, first published in full in 1839.
Hawaiian crow
Hawaiian crow (ʻAlalā, Corvus hawaiiensis), a crow endemic to Hawaiʻi, extinct in the wild since 2002 and the only survivor of five Hawaiian corvid species; over 110 birds exist in San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance breeding facilities, with releases on Maui since 2024.
Hawaiian Electric Industries
Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI) is a Hawaii holding company, dating to 1891, whose main utility subsidiary supplies electricity to about 95 percent of Hawaii's residents.
Hawaiian gold coral
Hawaiian gold coral (Kulamanamana haumeaae, formerly Gerardia sp.) is a deep-water zoanthid of the Hawaiian Archipelago at 343–575 m that secretes a golden protein skeleton, parasitizes bamboo corals, can live about 2,740 years, and was harvested for jewelry until 2001.
Hawaiian haku mele
Hawaiian haku mele is the Hawaiian term for composing Hawaiian poetry and for the composer of that poetry, covering chant and song from pre-contact times to today.
Hawaiian hawk
The Hawaiian hawk, known in Hawaiian as ʻio (Buteo solitarius), is a hawk found only on the island of Hawaiʻi, listed as endangered in 1967 and delisted in 2020.
Hawaiian hibiscus
Hawaiian hibiscus (aloalo) are the roughly six native Hibiscus species of Hawaii, including fragrant white kokiʻo keʻokeʻo (Hibiscus arnottianus, H. waimeae) and the endangered yellow state flower maʻo hau hele (Hibiscus brackenridgei).
Hawaiian Island Surf And Sport
Hawaiian Island Surf & Sport, also called Hawaiian Island Surf and Sport, was a Kahului, Maui ocean-sports shop founded in 1983 by Len Cappe, known for Hawaii's largest rental fleet and a try-to-buy program, closed January 2016.
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Islands: volcanic archipelago in the North Pacific, also called the Sandwich Islands, formed as the Pacific Plate moves over the Hawaiian hot spot; eight main islands, 6,100 km Hawaiian–Emperor chain, age-progressive volcanoes.
Hawaiian Kingdom
The Hawaiian Kingdom (Aupuni o Hawaiʻi) was the independent Polynesian monarchy unified by Kamehameha I in 1810, a constitutional monarchy from 1840, recognized by the US, Britain, and France, overthrown in 1893 and annexed by the United States in 1898.
Hawaiian language
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian) is the indigenous Eastern Polynesian language of Hawaiʻi, an official state language, suppressed by an 1896 school law and revived through immersion education and Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani college.
Hawaiian League
The Hawaiian League was a secret political society formed in Honolulu in 1887 by white businessmen and lawyers, which forced King Kalākaua to accept the Bayonet Constitution.
Hawaiian monk seal
Hawaiian monk seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi, ʻīlioholoikauaua): endangered tropical earless seal endemic to the Hawaiian archipelago and Johnston Atoll; about 1,580 remain, growing since 2013; only pinniped solely within U.S. jurisdiction.
Hawaiian Pidgin
Hawaiian Pidgin, or Hawaii Creole English, is an English-based creole spoken in Hawaii. Developed on sugarcane plantations, it was the majority language by the 1920s.
Hawaiian pizza
Hawaiian pizza, or pineapple pizza, is a ham-and-pineapple pizza created in 1962 by Sam Panopoulos at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, and named for the canned pineapple brand he used, not Hawaii.
Hawaiian quilt
Hawaiian quilt (kapa kuiki): an appliqué bedcover tradition begun after New England missionaries introduced quilting, using symmetrical single-cloth plant designs and echo quilting; flag quilts after 1893 served as royalist protest, and guilds like Poakalani & Co. and the Hawaii Quilt Guild keep the art alive.
Hawaiian religion
Hawaiian religion, also known as Native Hawaiian religion, is the indigenous Polynesian religious tradition of Hawaii, built on mana and kapu and continuing today in revived forms.