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… was based on a study of Muncie, Indiana, by US sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd, who described the work in their book …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Social sciences
… featuring marquetry colonial scenes and flora, for Lord Robert Baden-Powell in 1900. Yorkshireman and cabinetmaker …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Furniture
… Film Studios which, under the leadership of Australian Robert Steele, produced some lively and innovative work …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Documentary film
… In 1841, a New Zealand Company party from Petone led by Robert Stokes sought an inland route to the Wairarapa. After …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… as a docile subordinate and fearful that Vogel and Premier Robert Stout would introduce a land tax, Grigg decided he …
Type: Biography
… On occasion Howard achieved heights of irreverence. Of Robert Falcon Scott's fatal Antarctic expedition he wrote …
Type: Biography
… any daily newspaper. The police harassed the delivery boys. Robert Stout, who had cancelled his subscription in a rage, …
Type: Biography
… promote a new numbers game: Lotto. However, Prime Minister Robert Muldoon was vigorously opposed to it on the grounds …
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Part of story: Gambling
… islands, Scotland. He was one of eleven children of Robert Campbell Maclaurin, a minister of the Church of …
Type: Biography
… assistant at Ruatāhuna. While teaching at Te Araroa she met Robert (Bob) Manuel, a labourer from Rangitukia. He was the …
Type: Biography
… of a Māori studies research centre, and Te Kotahi (Robert) Mahuta was appointed director of the centre in 1972. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… nicknames. Some of the names remembered many years later by Robert Win of Hope Junction (later called Kawatiri) were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Nelson region
… Gallery opened in the city centre in 2003, replacing the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in the Botanic Gardens. Gallery … in 2006. In 2009 American philanthropists Julian and Josie Robertson announced their plan to gift significant modernist …
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Part of story: Art galleries and collections
… claim settlements), Think Big (former prime minister Robert Muldoon’s heavy-industry programme) and Working for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: English language in New Zealand
… Pukewa he found the deserted diggings of John McCombie and Robert Lee. He attacked the hill with vigour and struck …
Type: Biography
… players of the White Sox national women’s softball team. Robert ‘Chubb’ Tangaroa was a pitcher in the Black Sox …
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Part of story: Māori and sport – hākinakina
… New South Wales, Australia, the eldest daughter of Robert Nowland, a butcher, and his wife, Julia Leary. The …
Type: Biography