There are 50 states in the United States. Of these, only two states do not have a border with the mainland.

One is Alaska in the north, near 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", which actually happened in 1959. In chronological order, they are precisely the last two of the 50 federal states.

1959?

Many people may be surprised, 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 wasn't for the fact that the U.S. military used Hawaii as a fortress on the Pacific battlefield, how could it have attracted Japanese raids and the well-known "Pearl Harbor Air Raid"?

In fact, as early as 1893, Americans had already stretched their tentacles into Hawaii. At that time, it was a Christian missionary from the United States who led all the church members and overthrew the rule of the Hawaiian Kingdom over the local area.

A year later, in 1894, the interim government of the Republic of Hawaii was established. The first and last queen of Hawaii was forced to abdicate, and Duheng became the first president of the interim government of the Republic of Hawaii... Although there are not many documents left, but from From the results, it is not difficult to come to a conclusion that the establishment of this interim government must be inseparable from the United States. Nine times out of ten, it is the result of the support of the United States behind the scenes.

Subsequent developments can also prove this. After the establishment of the provisional government, only four years later, in 1898, the United States officially issued a statement to merge Hawaii.

Since then, Hawaii's official name has become the 'U.S. Hawaiian Islands'.

Like the British Virgin Islands and French Polynesia, Hawaii at that time was just an overseas territory of the United States. To insist that it belongs to that nature is actually more inclined to the colony. During World War II, why was the U.S. military able to station troops on the Hawaiian Islands, which have not yet established a state? The reason is here.

It is worth mentioning that, on the bright side, or in the perception of most people in the world, the Hawaiian Islands have all been merged by the United States and become the 50th state of the United States, but in fact, the United States has not completely Control the entire Hawaiian Islands - In the Hawaiian Islands consisting of more than 130 small islands, there is actually an 'iron head baby', which is completely irrelevant to the US government.

This island is Nihau Island.

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

In 1836, Lady Sinclair, the widow of a Scottish nobleman, purchased the island from King Meyer IV for $10,000. Perhaps tired of the pompous and hypocritical life of the upper class, the Sinclair woman bid farewell to England with a dozen relatives and servants and settled on the island.

Not only because he bought the ownership from Meiya IV, but also because he came from a more developed civilized society, and is stronger than the indigenous people on the island in all aspects. Therefore, after coming to this small island, Lady Sinclair replaced him. The original Meyer 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, the lady died suddenly. I don't know what she thought, but she stipulated in her will that the inheritance of this small island will be passed on to daughters and not sons, and will always be ruled by the women of the Sinclair family.

Following 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, Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States, and the residents of Nihau still refused to join the United States.

The toad is lying on the feet, it doesn't hurt people, but it's annoying.

As long as Nihau Island is still insisting on "swearing to the death", then the state of Hawaii cannot be regarded as a state in a complete sense. This situation really makes the U.S. government uncomfortable.

So, in order to take the sovereignty of the island and make the state of Hawaii complete, in the 1980s, John Bence, then the governor of Hawaii, proposed to buy the state capital for $300,000 in the name of the state capital. Island.

The result is...

The island owner at that time still chose to follow the tradition and did not agree to this proposal. However, intimidated by the power of the United States, the island owner did not dare to refuse too bluntly... In short, he wrote a letter to the state government while rejecting it.

The letter stated that neither he nor his family intend to sell Nihau Island at any price. At the same time, the island owner gave the state government a supervision power, that is, if some family members have the idea of ​​selling the island, the state government has the right to preempt any transaction.

Half of it was because the $300,000 was not a small sum of money at the time. It was a bit painful to allocate this money from the state government's budget. The other half was because of the promise of the island owner's family, and I felt that Nihao Island was impossible. It will be bought by outsiders and become a landmine buried beside him. Therefore, the state legislature did not accept Bence's proposal in the end, and the island purchase was abandoned.

Until now, Nihau Island has maintained its "independence" and has not joined the United States.

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

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe where Shi Xiaolei is now, there have been some changes in the historical evolution of Nihao Island.

Also at the end of the nineteenth century, a lady from Europe bought the island with money. But the difference is that this lady is not called Sinclair, nor is she Scottish... In fact, it is a female vampire who looks like a human, but has betrayed the human race~www. lightnovelpub.net~ Just like the vampires who left Europe to live on the North American continent, this female vampire came to Hawaii with the same purpose. The reason she spent money to buy Nihao Island was not because she was tired of the pompous hypocrisy of the upper class and wanted to live a quiet life, but simply because Nihao Island satisfies both the 'large enough area' and ' There are human settlements, but there are not many people. These two conditions are a good place for vampires to hide.

With the arrival of this female vampire, the natives on Nihau Island were reduced to vampire food like captive livestock.

But it was still the 19th century, and the indigenous people on the island were uncivilized 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, to It offers loyalty.

Then, under the step-by-step guidance of the vampires, the ideology of the natives became more and more distorted. In the end, they completely ignored the fact that they had been reduced to food, and instead, like cultists, dedicated their blood to vampires. ' regarded it as a sacred ceremony and felt that it was a great honor.

Not only that, in order to conceal the existence of vampires, they also took the initiative to cut off communication 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-off state of Nihao Island is exactly the same as on Earth.)

Over time, for dozens or hundreds of years, this small island has become a vampire's lair.