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The Last Queen of Hawaiʻi Takes on Deep-Sea Mining
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. In 1895, Queen Liliʻuokalani spent nearly eight months imprisoned in an upstairs bedroom in Iolani Palace in Honolulu. She had been put there by American businessmen …