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 | Afghanistan: A Chronology of Events
Posted on Jul 4, '08 12:39 AM for everyone
" Reading Latifa’s book My Forbidden Face, and following the comments from my last post, and today, a post from my friend Abdul, Sharbat Gula - the Afghan Girl made me realise how ..."
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 | Attitudes Around Women's Bodies
Posted on Jun 30, '08 12:14 AM for everyone
" ... or I could retitle this - From the Sublime to The Ridiculous - or vice versa.Its been a wild wet windy weekend in New Zealand. I was reading a book by a young Afghani..."
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 | Matariki
Posted on Jun 1, '08 9:46 PM for everyone
" I had to research this one myself last year after a friend reminded me that it was nearly Matariki and I realised that I didn't know a lot about it beyond the bare fact that it ex..."
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 | What Price Winning...
Posted on May 29, '08 11:50 PM for everyone
" When I went to look for an image for this post Google found for me the most horrific images of children and people with birth defects from Agent Orange. I can’t bring myself to po..."
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 | Public Apology to NZ Vietnam War Veterans
Posted on May 27, '08 10:53 PM for everyone
"Taken From The New Zealand Herald Wed 28 May 2008 The New Zealand Government will publicly apologise to Vietnam War veterans and their families, recognising the servicemen were no..."
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 | Te Upoku O Te Ika - In Conclusion
Posted on May 24, '08 7:19 PM for everyone
" pictured: Te Whare Runanga, Maori meeting house (wharenui) at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds.This part of the series is an update to the original Y!360 posting. The Waitangi Tribunal..."
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 | Te Upoku O Te Ika - Part Two
Posted on May 23, '08 6:57 PM for everyone
"Wellington Land Claims Court 1842 The whole deal had been so badly done that the New Zealand Company land claims were brought before Commissioner Spain, in the Wellington Land Clai..."
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 | Te Upoku O Te Ika - Part One
Posted on May 22, '08 8:39 PM for everyone
" This image to the left shows the list of items and their cost which were used by the New Zealand Company in 1839 to purchase a large piece of the area known to Maori as Te Upoko ..."
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 | The Story Of Hannah and James Wright: The Conclusion
Posted on May 15, '08 9:09 PM for everyone
" The prizewinning whaleboat crew referred to in James' letter, below.Back row: George Henry Wright (1843-1912) cox, James Wright (1850-1912), William Wright (1845-1924),Front ro..."
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 | The Story Of Hannah and James Wright: Part Six
Posted on May 14, '08 10:04 PM for everyone
" The Island Bay Whaling StationThe Island Bay Whaling Station which had originally been established by the tree men, William Green, Charles Brown, and Matthew Hall in 1852, had the..."
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 | The Story Of Hannah and James Wright: Part Five
Posted on May 13, '08 12:24 AM for everyone
" Right: Grass seeders threshing seed from cocksfoot grass on Banks PeninsulaThe Two Volcanoes of Banks PeninsulaBanks Peninsula was formed through volcanic activity. It is compri..."
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 | The Story Of Hannah and James Wright: Part Four
Posted on May 12, '08 4:59 AM for everyone
" Left: map of Banks Peninsula showing the whaling stations and settlements.A (hopefully) reasonably concise history of Banks Peninsula.Banks Peninsula, (Horomako), was important fo..."
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 | The Story Of Hannah and James Wright: Part Three
Posted on May 11, '08 1:43 AM for everyone
" The First DayThe colonists who had arrived on the previous four immigrant ships had already been flooded out from their original infant settlement location at Petone and had no..."
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 | The Story Of Hannah and James Wright: Part Two
Posted on May 10, '08 6:54 AM for everyone
" Ports were essential to early settlements, and their promoters liked to talk up the advantages of their anchorages. Wellington Harbour which was an excellent deep-water harbou..."
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 | The Story Of Hannah and James Wright: Part One
Posted on May 9, '08 6:46 AM for everyone
" The Parish Church Of St Dunstans, Cranbrook, Kent, England where James and Hannah were married in 1837. The church is still there. This story about Hannah and James is also..."
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 | Yellow Butterfly Day
Posted on Apr 27, '08 7:48 PM for everyone
" One of my friends has asked for a day of remembrance (today, Monday 28th April) for Jewish people who were tortured and killed during the Holocaust/Shoah. Peter wrote,"We have ..."
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 | Much Ado About Not A Lot But Still...
Posted on Apr 24, '08 7:12 PM for everyone
" Earlier this week Hillary Clinton said something rather foolish that really rankled and has been tugging at my mind. Her gaffe came in a chummy interview with American magazine N..."
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 | The Price Of Milk
Posted on Apr 10, '08 8:52 PM for everyone
" or why wholesale capitalism will not save the world... At a time when all of the world should be aware of, and trying to mimimise and reduce our global greenhouse gas emiss..."
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 | Blackball
Posted on Apr 4, '08 10:24 PM for everyone
" Its like this...you can take the girl out of Blackball but you can never take Blackball out of the girl it is my soul... When I last returned we crossed the mountains/ the spin..."
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 | The Polynesian Navigators and Adventurers: Part Three
Posted on Mar 19, '08 8:36 PM for everyone
" Polynesian double-hulled Waka The addition of sails to Polynesian vessels gave more power and allowed them to travel faster and further than with paddles. Two hulls gave stab..."
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