Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary!

The church guys wanted Hawaii and they took it. The rich guys wanted Hawaii and they took it.

The military guys wanted Hawaii and they took it.

The end. Let's talk about Queen Lillio Colony.

But first let's drop her into history. In 1891 Carnegie Hall opened in New York and the Riggly Company was founded in Chicago.

US Congress created the Court of Appeals. John Smith patented the cork board and American Express issued the first travel-ish checks.

London and Paris were first connected by telephone. Queen Victoria was ruling in the United Kingdom and John Abbott became the third Prime Minister of Canada.

Zoriniel Hurston and Fanny Bryce were both born. Fanny's T-Bartum and Herman Melville both died.

And on January 29th 1891 Queen Lillio Colony ascended the throne and became Hawaii's last monarch.

Hello and welcome to the show! A quick word on pronunciation!

We are going to do our best and we have received counsel in pronunciations of Hawaiian names.

But the errors are our own and we as usual will try to pronounce the names accurately while not venturing into Saturday Night Live.

Tornado burrito territory. If you know what I mean.

Yes I do.

Lillie Ula Loco, Wallania, Kamaka Eja was born on September 2nd 1838 to High Chief Caesar, Kapa Akea and High Chief S, Keo Hokalohe.

And her name has meaning as traditionally children were named after a significant event or a flower that was blooming at the time of their birth.

She was actually named as another tradition by the half-sister of the current King who was King Kamehameha the Third.

At that particular moment that half-sister named Elizabeth was suffering from an eye infection and she decided to use that as the timestamp for Lillie U's birth.

So literally her name means smarting, tearful, burning pain sore eyes.

Not good!

No! It sounds so pretty and her name is Lillie U, L-I-L-I-U. It's so pretty!

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