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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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”
Bruce Moon In the “Listener” for 25th February 2017, Vincent O’Malley wrote a contorted opinion piece on a significant event in New Zealand’s history – the tribal rebellion in the Waikato. “Middle New Zealand” readers of the “Listener” should not allow themselves to be misled by this story. It
Joseph Stalin, the architect and instigator of the 42-year Cold War, has died five years into the conflict. Across the Atlantic, a new Republican President, who had worked closely with Uncle Joe during World War II, is a mere two months in office. As the knives come out for the
