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Pele, Hawaiian goddess
(Encyclopedia)Pele pāˈlā [key], Hawaiian goddess of the volcano. Her traditional home is Halemaumau, the fiery pit crater within the Kilauea caldera on the island of Hawaii. ...hula
(Encyclopedia)hula, traditional Hawaiian dance usually performed standing with symbolically descriptive arm and hand movements and gracefully sensual undulations of the hips; it is also done in a sitting position. ...Nascimento, Edson Arantes do
(Encyclopedia)Nascimento, Edson Arantes do: see Pelé. ...Pelé, Brazilian soccer player
(Encyclopedia)Pelé pālāˈ [key], 1940–2022, Brazilian soccer (football) player. His real name is Edson...Hawaiian
(Encyclopedia)Hawaiian, member of the Polynesian group of the Austronesian family of languages. Of the fewer than 10,000 people who speak Hawaiian, only a few hundred are native speakers, but the language is taught...Bingham, Hiram, 1789–1869, American Congregationalist missionary
(Encyclopedia)Bingham, Hiram, 1789–1869, American Congregationalist missionary, b. Bennington, Vt. In 1819 the American Board of Missions sent him, with others, to found the first Protestant mission in the Hawaii...Andrews, Lorrin
(Encyclopedia)Andrews, Lorrin, 1795–1868, American missionary to the Hawaiian Islands, b. present-day Vernon, Conn., grad. Princeton Theological Seminary, 1825. He founded (1831) on Maui a training school for tea...Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
(Encyclopedia)Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, 582,578 sq mi (1,508,870 sq km), in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the NW Hawaiian Islands, c.270 mi (435 km) NW of Oahu; est. 2006 as Northwestern Hawaiia...Judd, Gerrit Parmele
(Encyclopedia)Judd, Gerrit Parmele, 1803–73, missionary and statesman, b. Paris, N.Y. He arrived in Hawaii as a medical missionary. He ended his mission service in 1842 and became a Hawaiian government official u...Matuta
(Encyclopedia)Matuta or Mater Matuta māˈtər məto͞oˈtə [key], Roman goddess. Sometimes called the goddess of dawn, she was more properly the goddess of childbirth. Her festival, the Matralia (June 11), was at...Browse by Subject
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