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There are a total of 50 states in the United States. Among them, only two states have no border with the mainland.

One is Alaska in the north, close to the Arctic Circle, and the other is Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Perhaps many people don’t know that Alaska and Hawaii were designated as ‘states’ in 1959. From a chronological perspective, they are exactly the last two of the 50 states in the United States.

1959?

Many people may find this surprising, and take a famous battle in World War II as an example to question - if Hawaii is not a state of the United States, then why does the US military station so many troops in Hawaii? If it weren't for the fact that the US military regarded Hawaii as a fortress on the Pacific battlefield, how could it have attracted a surprise attack by the Japanese army and carried out the "Pearl Harbor air attack" that everyone knows about?

In fact, as early as 1893, Americans had already extended their tentacles into Hawaii. At that time, it was Christian missionaries from the United States who led all church members to overthrow the local rule of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

One year later, in 1894, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Hawaii was established. The first and last queen of Hawaii was forced to abdicate, and Duheng was appointed as the first president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Hawaii... Although there are not many documents left, from Judging from the results, it is not difficult to come to the conclusion that the establishment of this provisional government must be related to the United States. In all likelihood, it is the result of the support of the United States behind the scenes.

Subsequent development can also prove this point. After the provisional government was established, only four years later, in 1898, the United States officially issued a statement annexing Hawaii.

Since then, Hawaii's official name has become the 'United States Hawaiian Islands'.

Like the British Virgin Islands and French Polynesia, Hawaii at that time was just an overseas territory of the United States. If you insist on saying that it is of that nature, it is actually more colonial. During World War II, why could the U.S. military station troops on the unstated Hawaiian Islands? Here's why.

It is worth mentioning that on the surface, or in the perception of most people in the world, the Hawaiian Islands have all been merged with the United States and become the 50th state of the United States. However, in fact, the United States has not completely Controlling the entire Hawaiian Islands - Among the Hawaiian Islands, which consists of more than 130 small islands, there is an 'iron-headed boy' who is completely unlike the US government.

This island is Niihau.

The island was originally ruled by King Mea IV of Hawaii.

In 1836, Mrs. Sinclair, the widow of a Scottish nobleman, purchased the island from King Meir IV for $10,000. Perhaps tired of the flashy and hypocritical life of the upper class, this Sinclair woman left the UK with a dozen relatives and slaves and came to settle on the island.

Not only because she purchased the ownership from King Meiya IV, but also because she came from a more developed civilized society and was stronger than the natives on the island in all aspects, so after arriving on this small island, Mrs. Sinclair replaced The original Meiya IV became the new queen of the island, and the more than 200 indigenous people who originally settled on the island also became her subjects.

Thirty years later, this noble lady passed away suddenly. I don’t know what she was thinking, but she stipulated in her will that the inheritance of this island should be passed down from daughter to son, and it would always be ruled by the women of the Sinclair family.

In compliance with the will left by Mrs. Sinclair, when Hawaii was annexed by the United States in 1898, five years after her death, this small female kingdom did not obey the orders of the United States. In 1959, when Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States, the residents of Niihau still voted to refuse to join the United States.

The toad lies on the feet and does not hurt people, but it makes people feel sick.

As long as Niihau persists in refusing to obey, then the state of Hawaii cannot be regarded as a state in the full sense. This situation really makes the US government uncomfortable.

Therefore, in order to gain sovereignty over this island and make the state of Hawaii complete, in the 1980s, John Burns, the then governor of Hawaii, proposed to buy the island for US$300,000 in the name of the state capital. island.

The result...

The island owner at the time still chose to follow tradition and did not agree to the proposal. However, frightened by the power of the United States, the island owner did not dare to refuse too bluntly... To put it simply, while refusing, he wrote a letter to the state government.

The letter stated that neither he nor his family had any intention to sell Niihau Island at any price. At the same time, the island owner gave the state government a supervisory power, that is, if some family members have the idea of ​​selling the island, the state government has the power to intervene and overturn any transaction.

Half of it was because $300,000 was not a small amount of money at the time, and it was a bit painful to allocate this money from the state government's budget. The other half was because of the promise from the island owner's family, who felt that Niihau Island was impossible. It would be bought by outsiders and turned into landmines buried around oneself. Therefore, the state assembly did not adopt Bensi's proposal in the end, and the purchase of the island was abandoned.

Until now, Niihau Island has maintained its 'independence' and has not joined the United States Commonwealth.

The above is all about Niihau Island in the real world.

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe where Shi Xiaolei currently lives, there have been some changes in the historical evolution of Nihau Island.

Also at the end of the 19th century, a noble lady from Europe spent money to buy this island. But the difference is that this lady is not named Sinclair, nor is she Scottish... In fact, she is a female vampire who looks like a human, but has betrayed the human race.

Just like the vampires who left Europe to live on the North American continent, this female vampire also came to Hawaii with the same purpose. The reason why she spent money to buy Niihau Island was not because she was tired of the glitz and hypocrisy of the upper class and wanted to live a quiet life, but simply because Niihau Island satisfied both the requirements of "large enough area" and " There are human settlements, but the number of people is not very large. These two conditions make it a good place for vampires to hide.

With the arrival of this female vampire, the natives on Niihau Island were like livestock in captivity, reduced to food for the vampire.

It just so happened that it was still the 19th century, and the natives on the island were not civilized and were still in a very ignorant period... Seeing some of the abilities displayed by the female vampires, they did not hesitate to regard each other as gods and worshiped her. It offers loyalty.

Then, under the step-by-step guidance of vampires, the ideologies of the indigenous people became more and more distorted. In the end, they completely ignored the fact that they had been reduced to food. Instead, like cultists, they dedicated their blood to vampires. 'I regard it as a sacred ceremony and feel that it is a great honor.

Not only that, in order to conceal the existence of vampires, they also actively cut off contact with the outside world and subtly set a rule that 'among outsiders, only vampires and their followers can land on the island'. (Speaking of which, although the reasons are completely different, the closed state of Niihau Island is exactly the same as that on Earth.)

Over time, dozens or hundreds of years, this small island has turned into a nest of vampires.