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Momilani Elementary School teacher Minerva Pang, celebrating her 80th birthday in the same year that the Royal Hawaiian Hotel makes 80, saw the timing as an opportunity to teach her fifth-grade Hawaiiana class about the hotel and its place in history. CLICK FOR LARGE

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Pang, above, led a chant in the lobby as the group looked out onto the hotel's Coconut Grove area. CLICK FOR LARGE

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The children walked down one of the hotel's ornate corridors. CLICK FOR LARGE

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These Momilani Elementary students got an unusual perspective of the hotel as they waited for tour to start. From left, Tori Teramae, 10, Sara Endo, 10, Tori's twin sister Keri Teramae, 10, and Brooke Oshiro, 11. CLICK FOR LARGE