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Banner created in canva   It is so interesting how we get interested about a certain topic of a coin and some others we just avoid it. I love Intaglio Mint and I will probably show some new acquisitions,

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 Zealand 3 Pence. It contains 50% silver, weighs only 1.4 grams,

Source Amongst the historical dramas it is hard to find a movie which describe properly colonialism, religion and identity organically or say naturally without exaggerating or going to the extreme. This

Defending Paradise Humans--we are a restless species. Restless, and aggressive. Is this an expression of natural selection? Do we colonize the planet, and even space now, in order to insure the survival

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 remembered my idea to write a post about an old Maori story of how the town

Помираючий Бог - жертва , що повʼязана з відродженням природи та космосу. Ісіда та Осіріс, Іштар та Таммуз, Кібелла та Аттіс. Їх чоловіки - помираючі боги природи, Бог починає втрачати силу/помирає

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 lot for this experience, but I didn't know I was really in for 'an

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 a five minute walk from my parents' house I came across this

An attempt to approach war, violence and aggression and how they relate to factors beyond biology. Its a more socio-economic approach

I believe that the Haka is not just a dance, but a beautiful tradition that the Maori has successfully passed from one generation to the next.

The Haka This is a video of my workmates performing the Haka to celebrate the season-ending for the apple harvest. The Haka is a Maori ceremonial dance. ▶️ 3Speak

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, preserved in resin mixed with a special phosphor additive, then

A short story with a long history and a significant name = mystery to me

Maori Carving and tattoos from New Zealand

"Koru Tahi", "Koru Rua" and "Koru Toru" are the names of these works. The language is Te Reo Maori from New Zealand.

An ambitious new design concept aims to reimagine the Linwood Islamic Centre, one of two mosques targeted by a gunman a year ago on March 15, in a building that would fuse Islam with New Zealand's indigenous

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One evening, Māui and his brothers were making a hāngi for their evening meal. They had just finished heating the stones when the sun went down and it quickly became too dark to see. Māui was annoyed with

British regulars had shown little aptitude for this type of warfare and consequently were at a disadvantage. While working as a war correspondent for the Daily Southern Cross, Tempsky accompanied a company

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 solitary house on the edge of the bush, between Papakura and Wairoa.