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History
The Maori of New Zealand
Somehow, sometime and from somewhere, the Maori (who didn’t have their name yet), came to New Zealand. And stayed. If they came from the Cook Islands or the Society Islands, it was a voyage of over 2,000 miles by outrigger canoe and sails in all kinds of weather.
We Don’t Know How Lucky We All Are
Sometimes, down here in the Southern Pacific, there are times when we collectively get on a bit of a downer. At times like these, it can be helpful to look to some of the great Kiwi’s who have gone before us for wisdom and advice. So please enjoy some
Take a Tour: The British Museum
As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world-famous museum or art gallery? Maybe you have already visited this place or maybe it was on your bucket list? Today’s tour is of the British
Why We Buy Weird Things in Times of Crisis
Stephen E. Nash Stephen E. Nash is a historian of science and an archaeologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He studies a wide range of subjects, including dendrochronology (tree-ring dating), the history of museums, the archaeology of west-central New Mexico, and Russian gem-carving sculptures by Vasily Konovalenko.
We Have just one True History: Part Three
Bruce Moon * We Have Just One True History: Part One * We Have Just one True History: Part Two So there it is, pretty much the whole story, now unrecognizable in the false accounts of women and children being burned alive in the church, too readily believed by our part-Maori revisionists
Chapter Three Part Two: People Come to NZ
Theory Two is much shorter than Theory One. It says that the Archaic Maori arrived in the year 1,200 A.D., and then just evolved over the next 300 years to become the Classical Maori by the year 1,500 A.D. (sort of like a teenager liking pop
An Act of War?
In 1346 the Mongolian army brought the Black Plague to Europe. Laying siege to the Crimean port of Caffa, Jani Beg the leader of ‘the Golden Horde’ decided to catapult the infected corpses of his comrades over the city walls. Those citizens who escaped took the bacterium Yersinia Pestis back
Chapter Three Part One: People Come to NZ
Do you remember the days of serialised radio shows and novels? A serial book is a work of fiction or non-fiction that is published in sequential pieces called instalments. These instalments can be published at nearly any interval for nearly any period of time, though weekly and monthly instalments are
BEST of the Week Mountainsidefm 88.3: The Unreliable History of New Zealand
https://thebfd.co.nz/2020/03/we-have-just-one-true-history-part-two/
Why St Patrick’s Day Matters to Us Here in NZ
Terry Dunleavy Terry Dunleavy MBE, a writer from Takapuna, is a fourth-generation New Zealander. Yesterday provided a footnote to recent discussions of how we Kiwis should celebrate our nationhood. Most of us are split personalities, one part of us linked to this land in which we were born, the other
We Have Just One True History: Part Two
Bruce Moon We Have Just one True History: Part One And so we come to the Rangiaowhia affray (10) about which probably more flagrant lies have been touted than any other event in our history.[…] “Cameron, with commendable humanitarianism (our emphasis), wanted to avoid a set piece military confrontation because
Chapter Two Part two: NZ is Formed
Do you remember the days of serialised radio shows and novels? A serial book is a work of fiction or non-fiction that is published in sequential pieces called instalments. These instalments can be published at nearly any interval for nearly any period of time, though weekly and monthly instalments are
BFD Weekender: Did they see it coming? How Fortune-telling took hold in Australia – with Women as Clients and Criminals
Alana Piper University of Technology Sydney In the first decade of the 20th century, Australians were focused on the future. It was the dawn of a new century, and of a newly formed nation. Perhaps this forward outlook was part of why fortune-telling was being heralded as the latest “craze”