(a live hedgehog) with the bird's head. 

   In my Alice in Wonderland trivia ebook The Royal Rule of Jam, I have a trivia unit devoted to the flamingo titled "The Crowd-Loving Water Bird of Wonderland." I have added to the photograph a drawing of Alice holding an upright flamingo, drawn by John Tenniel (1820–1914), the original English illustrator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Image credits: Raw Pixel (flamingo) and the New York Public Library Digital Collections (Tenniel's drawing). 

Marshall Islands, where I was assigned as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. 

   During the ship's departure from Jaluit Atoll, I stood beside the railing on the ship's stern deck and watched the atoll's receding, oceanside shoreline. Suddenly, the sperm whale surfaced between the ship and the atoll. Its not-so-large left eyeball, about the size of a baseball, eyed the ship (and me) and then the whale quickly submerged, disappearing from view beneath the atoll's deep, oceanside waters. Sadly, we never met eyeball-to-eyeball again.

   Years later, in the late 1980s, I visited Jaluit Atoll on a magazine-travel writing assignment and wrote about my visit in my Amazon ebook My Canoe Has No News. I titled the Marshall Islands section "Atolls of Sunrise, Atoll of Sunset," meaning Rālik, the western (sunset) atolls, and Ratak, the eastern (sunrise) atolls. Traveling in an airplane, not a ship, I did not see a sperm whale. 

   Illustration: I made this illustration from an assortment of public-domain images: a U.S. map of Jaluit Atoll, the flag of the Marshall Islands, a green sea turtle, a sperm whale submerging at sunset, and a red-haired mermaid riding a yellowfin tuna. (Yes, I like red-haired mermaids and I eat canned skipjack tuna, not canned yellowfin tuna.) Image credits: Pixabay, Wikimedia Commons, and PublicDomainVectors.

U.S. of the Hawaiian Islands and later U.S. statehood. 

   Ka'iulani's home in Waikīkī was named 'Āinahau, meaning "land of the hau tree" — an indigenous Polynesian tree. The apartment building that I live in is built on the site of her long-ago Waikīkī home and is also named 'Āinahau.

   In my illustrated Amazon ebook Royal Hawk and Spouting Water, I have a unit devoted to Ka'iulani titled "The Island Princess."

   Illustration: A photograph of Ka'iulani taken in England, probably around 1892, where she had been sent to further her education — her father was Scottish and her Hawaiian mother was a member of Hawai'i's royal family in the late 19th century. She is wearing a Victorian-style dress with high collar and so-called "mutton-chop" sleeves. The photograph is from a late 19th-century book about Hawai'i. Using a Nikon camera attached to a copy stand, I photographed this book-published photograph years ago from a copy in a Honolulu library's rare book collection. Called hau in Hawaiian, the yellow blossom (inserted by me) is a species of yellow-blossomed hibiscus (Hibiscus tiliaceus) that may have been carried to the Hawaiian Islands centuries ago by the Polynesian voyagers who settled in this mid-Pacific archipelago, or hau seeds may have reached the Hawaiian Islands without human assistance by floating across the ocean. Because the blossoms last only one day, hau is often symbolic of the transitory nature of human life, certainly true given the short life of Ka'iulani. This hau print is from the 19th-century Hawai'i artist Isabella Sinclair's Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands published in London in 1885. It is the first book published with colored illustrations of Hawai'i's flowers.

   Name trivia: Ka'iulani in Hawaiian means "the royal sacred height."