The dark-coloured or melanic form of the peppered moth (var. carbonaria) was not known prior to 1811. After field collection in 1848 from Manchester, an industrial city in England, the frequency of the variety was found to have increased drastically.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Haiku is an unincorporated community in Maui County on the island of Maui in the state of Hawaii. For United States Census purposes, it is part of the Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii census-designated place, which also includes Pauwela. It was named for the ancient Hawaiian land section of Ha Ê» ikÅ«, which means talk abruptly or sharp break in the Hawaiian language.
NiÊ»ihau or Niihau (/ËniËhaÊ/ ; Hawaiian : [ËniÊiËhau]) is the westernmost and seventh largest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands in the U.S. state of HawaiÊ»i, lying 17.5 miles (15.2 nmi; 28.2 km) southwest of KauaÊ»i across the Kaulakahi Channel and having an area of 69.5 square miles (180 km 2).i Ê» ihau is located about 18 miles (29 km) west of KauaÊ»i, and the tiny, uninhabited island of Lehua lies 0.7 miles (0.61 nmi; 1.1 km) north of Ni Ê» ihau. Ni Ê» ihau's dimensions are 6.2 miles by 18.6 miles (10 km x 30 km).