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... that Kamilo Beach on the island of Hawaii, along with 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of adjacent shoreline, is considered one of the dirtiest beaches in the world because of accumulated marine debris from the Great Pacific garbage patch?

... that in the course of its 150-year history, Haili Church (pictured) has survived earthquakes, tsunamis, lava flows, fires, and heavy tropical rains?
... that one of a series of hotels called the Volcano House, built at the edge of Kīlauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?
... that George Lycurgus, who developed two historic hotels in Hawaii, was arrested and imprisoned for treason after the failed 1895 counter-revolution?
... that the first newspaper in Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820?

... that William Herbert Shipman owned a historic house in Hilo, Hawaii, a refuge from World War II near a volcano, and a remote beach estate where endangered nēnē were raised?
... that Hawaiian Chiefess Kapiʻolani's walk into an active volcano in 1824 was the subject of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

... that a missionary brought the first trees of Kona coffee to Kealakekua Church in 1828?