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Gracing the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the resort district is home to Tiny Bubbles singer Don Ho, the setting for the passionate "beach scene" in From Here to Eternity and even lent its name to a canonical Bugs Bunny episode--decades before the lepine wiseguy belonged to Time Warner.
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An Adirondack hunter would not thank the best English rifle-maker for one of his guns any more warmly than a sea-captain in want of a chronometer would thank his owners for a Swiss lepine watch.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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