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On this day, January 20, 1887, the United States Senate ratified the Hawaii-United States Convention, which granted "to the Government of the US the exclusive right to enter the harbor of Pearl River, in the Island of Oahu, and to establish and maintain there a coaling and repair station for the use of vessels of the US and to that end the US may improve the entrance to said harbor and do all things useful to the purpose aforesaid." the US Navy took possession of the harbor on November 9.
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Yes, that is a Tardis on my shirt. And all three cats make it into the background.
The robed harbinger of human demise was once seen much differently, as was death itself. The history of how we personify death is a record of what we face in life.
