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  • Kamehameha is remembered for the Kanawei Mamalohoe – the “Law of the Splintered Paddle”, which protects human rights of non-combatants in times of battle.

    Five People Born on May Day | myFiveBest 2010

  • Whatever one thinks of the particular legal issue in Kamehameha, the facts in that case are a far cry from Jim Crow or from the private race-segregation that followed in its wake in cases such as Runyon.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Whatever one thinks of the particular legal issue in Kamehameha, the facts in that case are a far cry from Jim Crow or from the private race-segregation that followed in its wake in cases such as Runyon.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Whatever one thinks of the particular legal issue in Kamehameha, the facts in that case are a far cry from Jim Crow or from the private race-segregation that followed in its wake in cases such as Runyon.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Although the valley was then home to thousands of Native Hawaiians, it's thought that his time here earned the young royal the name Kamehameha, "the lonely one."

    SFGate: Top News Stories Jeanne Cooper 2010

  • Kamehameha is the proverbial Big One that Got Away.

    Balkinization 2007

  • "Kamehameha" and last year's "Ice Cream Spiritual," have both garnered outstanding reviews from the New York Times and NPR.

    Bladewire - Washington Blade 2009

  • From Kamehameha Schools – 11 Nov 2009 12: 58: 13 GMT – **

    Daily Literacy Jobs – 56th Edition « Jobs « Literacy News 2009

  • Isaac Ford was an heroic figure, fit, so Percival Ford thought privately, to stand beside the statue of Kamehameha I. in front of the Judiciary Building.

    The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii:The House of Pride 2010

  • Our Princess, Bernice Pauahi Bishop, had the foresight to leave land & money to educate the children of Hawaiian ancestry, & we have the richest school in the United States (Kamehameha Schools), even richer than Harvard, Yale or any other Ivy-League School.

    Twilight Lexicon » Kristen Stewart and Anna Kendrick Featured in Controversial Vanity Fair Issue 2010

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