The literacy campaign under Kamehameha III is mind boggling. From writing being totally unknown to mass literacy in a single generation. Hawaiian leaders instantly grasped how powerful of a tool literacy was and basically conducted a whole-of-government moonshot to acquire the technology.

Seriously, get a load of this autistic king. The transcript of his interrogation is so fucking funny. It's so much like a Soviet joke come to life that I wouldn't believe it was real if the KGB hadn't written it down.

I love this one in Seattle.

I disagree! Clearly the other way around. Disraeli was a tightly wound clothes horse who would have loved amphetamines. Gladstone was a huge bipolar mess and hung out with prostitutes.

Shōtengai would work perfectly in Seattle. It's actually bizarre how few covered pedestrian areas we have, given our climate.