Sunday, August 31, 2008

Christchurch – Past & Present #3 High & Colombo Streets

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The intersection of High, Colombo , and Hereford Streets, just south of Cathedral Square , has been a busy place since the earliest days of ...
Saturday, August 30, 2008

New Zealand Universities Place on World 500 List

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Five of New Zealand ’s eight universities - Auckland , Otago, Canterbury , Massey and Victoria - have placed on Shanghai Jiao Tong Unive...

Meat on the Table - Maori Cannibalism Revisited

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Anne Salmond's three books - Two Worlds , Between Worlds , and The Trial of the Cannibal Dog - are sophisticated, nuanced accounts of f...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

What’s In A Name? The Godwit or Kuaka

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The bar-tailed Godwit or Kuaka The bar-tailed godwit or kuaka, its Maori name, is a migratory bird that spends the southern summers in New...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Just Eat The Vegetables… Cannibalism in early New Zealand

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Emile Rouargue’s fanciful illustration of Maori cannibalism, an illustration in a volume on French explorer Dumont D’Urville’s expedition ...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Last Voyage of the Loch Lomond – 1908 – Part 2

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The Loch Lomond on the left, Geelong harbour, Victoria , Australia . The waters around New Zealand have claimed over 2000 ships in the pas...

Final New Zealand Olympic Count: $10 million a medal

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Final Medal Count: Gold: 3 Silver: 1 Bronze: 5 Each medal cost the Kiwi taxpayer NZ$10 million (US$7.1 m or so) to place New Zealand 26th on...