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TIL of Walter M. Gibson, a 19th century adventurer who was a gunrunner in the Caribbean and imprisoned in the East Indies for fomenting rebellion, but while awaiting execution, had a vision of creating an island empire and escaped -- then tried to create that empire as Prime Minister of Hawaii.

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