Hauʻoli Lā Hoʻomake iā Kapena Kuke!
Happy Death of Captain Cook Day!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRXjnrgSPA/?img_index=1
#Hawaii #Indigenous #CaptainCook #DeathOfCaptainCookDay
Today in Labor History January 26, 1808: Soldiers took over New South Wales, Australia, during the Rum Rebellion. It was Australia’s only military coup. At the time, NSW was a British penal colony. William Bligh was governor of the territory. This was the same William Bligh who was an officer under Captain Cook when he attempted to kidnap the King of Hawai’i. He was also the same William Bligh who was overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty, in 1789. It is questionable why the British thought he’d do better in charge of a bunch of prisoners and unruly soldiers, than he did with a bunch of sailors. Perhaps they were just desperate. One of Bligh’s commissions was to reign in the Rum Corps, which held a monopoly on the illegal rum trade in Australia. They also controlled the sale of other commodities. Bligh started to enforce penalties for the illegal sale and importation of liquor. He also tried to provide relief to farmers, suffering from recent flooding and price-gouging by the Rum Corps, by providing provisions from the colony’s stores. The monopolists didn’t like his looting of the stores, from which they were profiting handsomely, nor his enforcement of the liquor laws. So, they arrested him and deported him to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land. The military remained in control of NSW until 1810.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #captaincook #williambligh #mutiny #bounty #australia #prison #colonialism #rum #rebellion #novel #film #tasmania #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon
Learn more about #ChiefMaquinna.
This is a collection of words, photos and video clips for Hyas Tyee #Nuuchahnulth - Chief Maquinna. A greatly respected & important Chief of the Nuuchahnulth #Haida People, of the Haida Gwaii Islands, in #BritishColumbia #Canada.
Chief Maquinna (also transliterated: Muquinna, Macuina, Maquilla) was the Chief of the Nuuchahnulth People of #NootkaSound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s, on the #PacificNorthwest Coast.
British explorer #CaptainCook went looking (like so many #Europeans before and after him)or the Northwest Passage. He ran headlong into a thriving trade and business culture on the west coast, overseen by young Nuu-chah-nulth, Chief Maquinna.
The two men's encounter would forever change trans-Pacific trade and teach the European empire a lesson in diplomacy, they've managed to forget, many times over.
M2.48 #earthquake (#sismo) 14 km WSW of #CaptainCook, #Hawaii 3 minutes ago! More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/hv74428402
“These would have been extraordinarily sought after in 18th-century Britain, during the golden age of shell collecting when single specimens could sell for thousands of pounds.”
Shells From Captain Cook’s Final Voyage Were Rescued From a Dumpster.
Long presumed lost, the collection of rare shells is now on display in England
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-now-extinct-sea-specimens-from-an-18th-century-collectors-lost-trove-have-been-rediscovered-180983947/ #shells #CaptainCook #18thCentury #history
@SmithsonianMag
Funny thing last week with #accents — for context, my visual acuity and #ventral stream are stronger than average, but I've got some #AuditoryProcessingDisorder or auditory #agnosia so that listening to thick accents is like watching with subtitles that autocorrect.
An audio-only Welsh accent said "Cally Cook" but I heard the word "Kirk". Then it hit me that #CaptainKirk and #CaptainCook are both famous captains … COULD THEY BE the same name on purpose?
Guess what: James Cook, James Kirk.
Phantom islands on a Sunday morning, oh my:
Three-decade campaign by the #Gweagal community of #LaPerouse sees repatriation of four spears to #Kamay. #Australia
Spears taken by #CaptainCook at #BotanyBay returned to traditional owners after more than 250 years | Indigenous Australians
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/24/captain-cook-spears-botany-bay-returned-gweagal-community-kamay
Valentine's Day marks death of James Cook, a significant day for Native Hawaiians https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2023-02-13/valentines-day-marks-death-of-james-cook-a-significant-day-for-native-hawaiians #history #hawaii #CaptainCook #valentinesday #valentines
Today in Labor History February 14, 1779: Indigenous Hawaiians killed Captain James Cook near Kealakekua, on the Big Island of Hawaii after Cook attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii.. The site is near the modern town of Captain Cook.
Just a thought - perhaps the statutes of #CaptainCook that were toppled for #InvasionDay could be replaced with a statue of #LowitjaODonoghue
Today in Labor History January 26, 1808: Soldiers took over New South Wales, Australia, during the Rum Rebellion. It was Australia’s only military coup. At the time, NSW was a British penal colony. William Bligh was governor of the territory. This was the same William Bligh who was an officer under Captain Cook when he attempted to kidnap the King of Hawai’i. He was also the same William Bligh who was overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty, in 1789. It is questionable why the British thought he’d do better in charge of a bunch of prisoners and unruly soldiers, than he did with a bunch of sailors. Perhaps they were just desperate. One of Bligh’s commissions was to reign in the Rum Corps, which held a monopoly on the illegal rum trade in Australia. They also controlled the sale of other commodities. Bligh started to enforce penalties for the illegal sale and importation of liquor. He also tried to provide relief to farmers, suffering from recent flooding and price-gouging by the Rum Corps, by providing provisions from the colony’s stores. The monopolists didn’t like his looting of the stores, from which they were profiting handsomely, nor his enforcement of the liquor laws. So, they arrested him and deported him to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land. The military remained in control of NSW until 1810.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #captaincook #williambligh #mutiny #bounty #australia #prison #colonialism #rum #rebellion #novel #film #tasmania #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon
#books shipping to new homes this morning
#Bookselling #bookstodon #ArtBooks #ExhibitionCatalog #AnselmKiefer #LangstonHughes #AfricanAmerican #Tonga @Queen #Royalty #botany #plants #CaptainCook
New evidence emerges identifying the shipwreck Endeavour/Lord Sandwich
In 2022, we shared the news of our discovery of the shipwreck Endeavour/Lord Sandwich at the RI 2394 site in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island. Now there is even more compelling evidence.
http://sea.museum/explore/maritime-archaeology/deep-dive/evidence. #Endeavour #CaptainCook #Shipwreck
@seamuseum_
Two of NASA's Space Shuttles were named after James Cook's ships, the Endeavour and the Discovery. Discovery carried a medallion in honour of Cook on its final voyage in 2011.
10 things you might not know about Captain James Cook:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/10/27-october-captain-james-cook.html