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Today I am sharing another coin awaiting a mylar holder and placement into my world coins album. This, as the title states, is a 1939 New...

Source Amongst the historical dramas it is hard to find a movie which describe properly colonialism, religion and identity organically or...

Defending Paradise Humans--we are a restless species. Restless, and aggressive. Is this an expression of natural selection? Do we colo...

A few days ago I came across some photos that I took about a year ago, the last time I visited my parents in New Zealand. Then I remember...

VOTED TOP 10 EXPERIENCE IN THE WORLD I saw this behind one of the buses for the event. I didn't know this was such a big deal. I paid a ...

For this week's CCC's Street Art Contest I would like to share a mural that's not from Mexico for once. I'm down in New Zealand, and only...

Source Is war a human physical condition? At this stage, there are many wars, hostilities and violence around the world! Between differen...

Have you been fortunate to experience a holiday from a religion or culture different than your own? If so, tell us about it! If not, whi...

▶️ Watch on 3Speak The Haka This is a video of my workmates performing the Haka to celebrate the season-ending for the apple harvest. Th...

Things are starting to get exciting! Been slowly chipping away at this piece. 3D printed in wax, cast in copper, aged over the past year,...

Hello everyone out the designing your days for the Architecture and design community. I hope that you're well and being the architect of ...

A photo of a painting of a famous Maori chief with a full Moko or facial tattoo denoting his rank and status-completed with bone and nat...

Hello everyone. Here are a series of three works I released today. They are called "Koru Tahi", "Koru Rua" and "...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/building-unity-zealand-year-christchurch-attacks-200315010354410.html An ambitious new design con...

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British regulars had shown little aptitude for this type of warfare and consequently were at a disadvantage. While working as a war corre...

On his news-hunting rides from Drury to the military posts in the district in the winter of 1863, Von Tempsky frequently called at a soli...

Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky was born at Königsberg (Kaliningrad), East Prussia, on 15 February 1828. Image Source He was the younger ...

Kimble [Kimball] Bent Image Source From Hukatere the pakeha-Maori and his girl wife went to Taiporohenui, Bent's old home in the war day...

A story related by Bent is illustrative of the Maori belief, up to quite modern days, in malignant beings which made their homes in lonel...

More than one outlaw from the white country outside took refuge in the Taranaki bush even in those post-bellum days. One of these was Hir...

Kimble Bent lived in this securely hidden place of refuge, and at Paihau village, nearby, from the end of 1869 until about 1876. He was n...

The Hauhau war-chief's mana-tapu [Glory] was gone, and there was nothing for it but to fly to the depths of the wilderness. He and his me...

The Wanganui Kupapas were fully as savage as any wild rebel. No quarter was given to any Hauhau warrior, and no Hauhau thought of asking ...

Now came an illustration of that many-sided law, the tapu. Titokowaru took the two eels which Bent had carried home on his back and hung ...

“After we deserted Tauranga-ika,” said the old pakeha-Maori, “we led a miserably rough life in the bush. We were as near starvation somet...

It was fortunate that this Hauhau ambuscade had been unmasked. The camp was already astir, and the troops were having their early morning...

An incident of Hauhau life at this period, illustrative of the pitilessly savage character of the olden Maori, was told thus by Kimble Be...

The most dreaded hour in Maori warfare was the dark, dank hour just before the dawn, and then it was well to be on the qui vive, for Kepa...

Some of the Maoris proposed that the bodies of the slain whites, the “Fish of Whiro,” should all be burned or buried. But up leapt Timoti...