ellauri095.html on line 115: His father founded a marine insurance firm and at one time served as Hawaiian consul-general in London. He was also for a time churchwarden at St John-at-Hampstead. His grandfather was the physician John Simm Smith, a university colleague of John Keats, and close friend of the eccentric philanthropist Ann Thwaytes. One of his uncles was Charles Gordon Hopkins, a politician of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
ellauri140.html on line 228: The lyrics were written, in part, in honor of U.S. Army Specialist 5 James Gabriel, Jr., a Special Forces operator and the first native Hawaiian to die in Vietnam, who was killed by Viet Cong gunfire while on a training mission with the South Vietnamese Army on April 8, 1962. One verse mentioned Gabriel by name, but it was not used in the recorded version.
ellauri156.html on line 131: Gideon syntyi Venäjällä, ja hänen perheensä muutti Suomeen vuonna 1921. Hänet tunnetaan erityisesti steel- eli havaijinkitaran soittajana. Hänen muita soittimiaan olivat kontrabasso ja viulu. Hänen ensimmäinen havaijimusiikkia soittanut yhtyeensä oli vuonna 1941 perustettu Oahu Trio. Myöhemmin yhtye levytti ja esiintyi nimellä Aloha Hawaiji. Onni Gideonin alkuvuonna 1957 julkaistu ”Hawaiian rock” lienee ensimmäinen täysin suomalainen rock-levytys (äänitetty 1956). Hänen tunnetuin kappaleensa on ”Tiikerihai” (alun perin Peter Hodkinsonin ”Tiger Shark”).
ellauri188.html on line 96: Protestants went to Hiva Oa, but even there they had little success. There were few converts, tribal warfare and human sacrifice continued. Protestant missionaries gradually left Hiva Oa and returned to Hawaii, only James Kekkilä remained. In 1899 he also returned to Hawaii and died in Honolulu on November 29, 1904. Hawaiian-born missionary James Bicknell translated the Gospel of John into the Marquesan language in 1857.
xxx/ellauri076.html on line 205: Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 Golden Globe-nominated American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaiian fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. "Return to Sender", which reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the film. The film opened at #1 on the Variety box office chart and finished the year at #19 on the year-end list of the top-grossing films of 1962. The film earned $2.6 million at the box office.
xxx/ellauri124.html on line 637: mukaan lukien Seuran Aurinkotyttö 1995-, Miss Hawaiian Tropic 1996-, Miss Viini
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