Hard-to-Spell Hawaiian Icons: Today is Kamehameha Day in Hawaii. It honors the Napoleon of the Pacific, Kamehameha the Great, who established the unified Kingdom of Hawaii in the 1790s, mostly by conquering the other islands with a little British help. (That's why the Union Jack is on the Hawaiian flag.) The day is celebrated with hula contests, a floral parade that starts at Iolani Palace, and the draping of Kamehameha's statue with lei.

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