The other night on TV, there was a short feature about a young Polynesian New Zealander who had recently won the role of George Washington in the musical “Hamilton”, scheduled to begin its Sydney run early next year. Well done, him, were my first thoughts, but then I recalled some
You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. 1905 – A Maori named Ruakenana from Ruatahuna, Urewera, has a vision and goes to see King Edward VII who was supposed to be visiting
Simon Black Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile sovereignman.com On September 18 of the year 96 AD, a fairly obscure and elderly politician named Marcus Cocceius Nerva was proclaimed Emperor of Rome by the Senate. Rome was in chaos at the time; the empire had suffered from years of turmoil, economic
Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan Deakin University Yoko Ono once noted: “people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them”. Witches were maligned for centuries because of their perceived dark power and influence — but could this fear have stemmed from their commercial success? Witches have been savvy business
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Mark Sutherland mercatornet.com Mark Sutherland is the curator of hallidaysutherland.com, a website that celebrates the life and work of Dr Halliday Sutherland. Mark is an experienced executive coach and facilitator and an accomplished public speaker. He lives in Sydney. March 17, 2021, will mark the centenary of the
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I have often argued that scientists and philosophers of the mind who turn to the great apes to compare with human minds are making a fundamental error. While the apes are genetically related to us, our evolutionary paths have diverged for millions of years. Millions of years in which apes
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Thornton Blackmore Those who are familiar with history will well be aware that Karl Marx and other pioneers of socialism and communism have reserved no place for religion in their designs for the world. As Marx famously wrote in his Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Religion is the
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John Snow was an English physician, born in 1813, who is considered the father of epidemiology. He traced a cholera outbreak in London in 1854 to a specific water source and convinced the local council to remove the water pump’s handle. The people who passed for scientists in John
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You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. Maori Religions Also mixed up in this period of unarmed warfare over land and dogs, is religion. The Maori never stop inventing new religions.
