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… materials; and the classics of English literature, with Robert Burns apparently Shaw's favourite poet. Books on …
Type: Biography
… US to instigate a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic games. Robert Muldoon’s National government exerted strong pressure …
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Part of story: Cold War
… also visible from distant areas. In July 1870 Colonel J. M. Roberts, at a constabulary post on the Napier–Taupō road, …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… (as the Queen of Sheba), as well as national figures Sir Robert Stout, Sir Frederic Truby King, Sir Michael Myers and …
Type: Biography
… supported women’s suffrage, including John Hall, Robert Stout, Julius Vogel and John Ballance. Others such as …
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Part of story: Voting rights
… stores. In the 1975 election campaign National Party leader Robert Muldoon mocked this, claiming that cats were the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pets
… men: James Williamson, Thomas Russell, and the brothers Robert and Every Maclean. By November 1887 the company was …
Type: Biography
… London, England, probably in 1870 or 1871, the son of Sarah Roberts and her husband, Philip Andrew Williamson, a …
Type: Biography
… the lake to Queenstown in an open boat. Their second son, Robert, was born at Nokomai in 1865 but baptised at …
Type: Biography
… were to lessen devotion to the first, and appointment of Robert Muldoon as minister of finance in 1967 ended the … Keith actively campaigned for his party and its leader, now Robert Muldoon, in the 1975 election. After the election he …
Type: Biography
… 1842 at Oxford, England, to Sarah Lyne and her husband, Robert Warner, a shoemaker. Ann became a teacher at the …
Type: Biography
… ascents in the central Alps had already been made. In 1883, Robert and Anna von Lendenfeld climbed Hochstetter Dome, the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Mountaineering
… was extensive, and included Allen Curnow, James K. Baxter, Robert Chapman, Janet Frame, Bruce Mason and James Courage. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… the operation of some of the equipment used by Professor Robert Jack in his experimental radio broadcasts of 1921 and …
Type: Biography
… secrets came from a genial magician known as Adair (Allan Roberts), who befriended and encouraged him. In 1918 Beynon …
Type: Biography
… England, the daughter of Annie Pile and her husband, Thomas Robert Blackett, a fitter. Her education, at public and …
Type: Biography
… in 1914, standing as a Liberal against the Reform Party MP Robert Scott. Bodkin then turned his attention back to …
Type: Biography
… trained as a civil engineer in Bristol under G. W. Buck and Robert Stephenson, and spent seven years employed as a …
Type: Biography