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… Māori believed the appearance of Matariki in the morning sky in mid-winter marked Te Mātahi o te Tau, the beginning of the Māori New Year. Tohunga kōkōrangi, astronomy experts, … would watch for the rise of Matariki just before dawn, and carefully study the appearance of each star. Whakataukī …
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Part of story: Matariki – Te Tau Hou Māori
… The cycle of the sun The rising of the sun, the journey it makes across the sky, and its setting in the west is a cosmic mystery. Because … sun came to be the primary model for all existence – all of life should in some way give expression to this pattern. The …
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Part of story: Te Ao Mārama – the natural world
… Hine-nui-te-pō – the goddess of death The mythological origins of death are associated with the ancestress Hine-tītama and her husband the forest god Tāne. Hine-tītama fled to … to destroy Hine-nui-te-pō. He tried to reverse the cycle of life by entering her vagina and appearing from her mouth, …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs
… The source and destination of life Hawaiki is a rich, many-sided place … is deeply associated with the cycle of birth, life and death. Hawaiki in Kepa Ehau’s speeches Orator Kepa Ehau of … The significance of Hawaiki …
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Part of story: Hawaiki
… Jellyfish are cnidarian medusae. Jellyfish are members of the class Scyphozoa, which, although widespread in the … They can clog the pipes of leisure boats, ships, and power plants. They consume massive amounts of the larvae … class Cubozoa, they differ from true jellyfish, having a life cycle that involves total metamorphosis of the polyp …
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Part of story: Corals, anemones and jellyfish
… was born in Potsdam, Germany, on 15 February 1913, the son of Hermann Carl Heinrich Rehbein, a government clerk, and his wife, Martha Lucie Hedwig Haupt. In 1919 the family … Rex close to death, but gave him a new understanding of life, movingly described in a letter to Bultmann. Briefly …
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… John McKenzie left school at the age of 13 to deliver newspapers. When he died, he was reputed to be one of New Zealand's wealthiest men. He contributed in excess of £1 million to New Zealand charities in his lifetime; a further £160,000 was bequeathed on his death. …
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… James Basil Wilkie Roberton was born in Auckland on 30 January 1896, the second of four children of Eliza Ann Wilkie and her husband, Ernest … was made a Paul Harris fellow in 1988 and the club’s first life member in 1993. He enjoyed the Anzac Day parades and …
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… in Bromley, Kent, England, on 7 February 1902, the daughter of Georgiana Baker and her husband, Charles Valentine … later divorced, she remained there for the rest of her life. Sheppard was nearly 47 when she came to New Zealand, … songs. She achieved notable success as a composer. Her song cycles Vain questioning (1957) and The living theme (1965) …
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… Plants and decomposers play an important role in freshwater … matter through photosynthesis, and so provide the base of the food chain. Algae are classified into several groups, … plants also live in fresh water for at least part of their life cycle. These plants, known as macrophytes, include …
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Part of story: Life in fresh water
… 25 October 1878 at Kaiwharawhara, Wellington, the seventh of ten children of currier Edward Smyth and his wife, Isabella Cansick. The family attended the … spanner the previous August. Hannan had lived an itinerant life in various parts of the lower North Island between …
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… Auckland artist Pauline Thompson produced a distinctive and challenging body of work over a career spanning five decades. Her paintings … the competing commitments of family and a full creative life. Childhood and education Pauline Adele Thompson was …
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… born at Templeton, Canterbury, on 27 March 1881, the son of Catherine Sutherland, a Scotswoman, and her husband, George Phillip Kissel, a … the tragedy of his first wife's early death, Kissel's life was full and varied. His family played an important …
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… Ozone Ozone (O 3 ) is a form of oxygen generated by reactions between sunlight and oxygen … is carried by natural air motions and destroyed by chemical cycles. As a result, its concentration is highly variable in … of the ozone layer in the stratosphere, terrestrial life as we know it could not survive. The amount of ozone in …
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Part of story: Atmosphere
… Ellen Margaret Scanlan, New Zealand's most widely read popular novelist of the 1930s and 1940s, was born in Picton on 15 January … and journalism may well have been prompted during her early life by the family's close friendship with the poet Thomas …
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… Causes of abuse Explanations of the causes of child abuse have … programmes emphasise working with families to end cycles of violence and abuse. Neglect The neglect of … than child abuse but can be just as damaging to a child’s life and future. A study in 2010 found that neglect is often …
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Part of story: Child abuse
… Maurice Noel Duggan ranks with Katherine Mansfield and Frank Sargeson as one of New Zealand’s greatest short-story writers and literary … New Zealand. These Auckland writers were to become Duggan’s lifelong friends. It was at a literary gathering at Greville …
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… Recent spiritual movements New Zealanders have never had an established or state religion, and have often been open to new religious developments and movements. … spirits, gemstones, meditation, reincarnation and past-life techniques, indigenous wisdom, dance, trance and …
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Part of story: Diverse religions
… Haszard was born at Thames on 21 January 1901, the daughter of Alice Elizabeth Vaughan Wily and her husband, Henry Douglas Morpeth Haszard , a surveyor … The subjects were chiefly landscapes with a number of still-life studies and portraits. Works based on Egypt that are …
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… Creation traditions In tradition, the link between Māori and the soil stretches back to the time of creation. One of the primal parents, Papatūānuku, was the … Hineahuone (earth-formed woman), from soil before breathing life into her. In another, it is a man, Tiki-āhua, who is …
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Part of story: Oneone – soils