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Taupo-nui-a-Tia College

Recent productions in the school include High School Musical, Footloose and Little Shop of Horrors.


101 East

Easter Island presented by: Nick Lazaredes: Like many indigenous peoples in the Polynesian Triangle, from Aotearoa to Hawai'i, the Rapa Nui islanders are a minority on their islands and are fighting for their culture to be anything more than a synthetic dance-act for a tourist-hotel.

1916 Cochinchina uprising

The centre of the planning appeared to be the Nui Cam Pagoda in Châu Đốc, while many participants also appeared to have been sympathisers and affiliates of Prince Cường Để, who was living in exile.

1ZW

The station then became part of the Community Radio Network in 1998 with all content outside the breakfast show being fed from Taupo and in 2001 part of the Classic Hits FM network with the station name becoming Classic Hits Radio Waitomo.

2011 Toyota Racing Series

McNee, in his second season in the championship, took his first race victories, winning at Timaru and Hampton Downs as well as a second place at Taupo to finish 47 points clear of Pye.

2012 Christmas Cup

Rangers are a new combination team from the other teams Ha'apai United, FC Niutao and Nui.

2013 Toyota Racing Series

At Taupo, Lynn locked out pole position in both qualifying sessions; he set the fastest time by half a tenth ahead of Cassidy in the first session, whereas in the second session – to set the grid for the Denny Hulme Memorial Trophy – Lynn's pole-setting margin was a far more comfortable three tenths of a second, ahead of championship leader Auer.

Atiamuri Power Station

The station connects to the single-circuit Wairakei to Whakamaru A line (WRK-WKM-A) at the substation to the south of the powerhouse, with electricity being distributed to Taupo and the southern Waikato, and further north to Hamilton and Auckland.

Bionicle Chronicles

:Sources: Mask of Light movie and its novelization, Bionicle comic #13-15, Mata Nui Online Game 2, "The Legend Continues" interactive story

Bionicle: The Legend Reborn

Mata Nui picks up the stinger as a vehicle carrying a villager named Metus (David Leisure) speeds towards him.

CF San Pedro de Atacama

The team played two unofficial games against a team from the San Pedro de Atacama in 2010 and 2011.Before playing its first official match on he first round of the Copa Chile 2010; CF Rapa Nui lost in 2 matches against Universidad Católica.

Community Radio Network

Established in June 1998, each radio station in the network retained its local name and broadcast a live breakfast show from the centre in which it was based and then during the day and overnight would pick up the network feed broadcast from Taupo.

Education in the Republic of Ireland

Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge is the Irish language Department of the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) and it has different off-campus centres throughout the Gaeltacht regions.

Eru Potaka-Dewes

During the 1990s and early 2000s (decade) he also was working as an actor, appearing in Jane Campion's film The Piano and Rapa-Nui, produced by Kevin Costner.

Free Education for Everyone

A visit by Bertie Ahern to NUI Galway on 2 February 2009 was disrupted by FEE activists, forcing the former Taoiseach to cancel a scheduled lecture on the campus.

Politicians such as the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, and Ministers Batt O'Keeffe, Éamon Ó Cuív, Brian Lenihan and his brother Conor Lenihan have all been targeted, with NUI Galway and UCD having the most widely reported rate of activism against visiting Ministers.

Hung Sin-nui

Hung died on 8 December 2013 of a heart attack at the Guangdong General Hospital in Guangzhou, where she had retired to in her last years.

Kahekili II

His mother was Kekuaipoiwa-nui Kalani-kauhihiwakama Wanakapu (Kekuiapoiwa I, half-sister of Kekaulike).

Keeaumoku

Keeaumoku Nui or Kalani Kama Keʻeaumoku-nui (18th-century), grandfather of King Kamehameha I

Kuhina Nui

Yet the Americans William Richards, John Ricord, and William Little Lee all believed it was appropriate to reinforce the power and authority of the Kuhina Nui as an equivalent to the King despite the fact it had become a "traditional" female office.

During this time before the Kuhina Nui Kalanimoku, a trusted chief of Kamehameha, was the Kālaimoku until Kamehameha established the office of the Kuhina Nui.

Lake Taupo

Much of the watershed of Lake Taupo is a beech and podocarp forest with associate understory ferns being Blechnum filiforme, Asplenium flaccidum, Doodia media, Hymenophyllum demissum, Microsorum pustulatum and Microsorum scandens, and some prominent associate shrubs being Olearia ranii nd Alseuosmia quercifolia.

Luscombe Airfield

The airfield was built by 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers for the 1st Australian Task Force at Nui Dat.

Māori mythology

"Certain tribes appear to have emphasised their canoe migration tradition and descent from crew members more than the others. In particular, the Hauraki, Waikato, and King Country tribes (Tainui canoe) and the Rotorua and Taupo tribes (Te Arawa canoe) appear to have placed special emphasis on their descent from a particular canoe migration" (Biggs 1966:451).

Middelburg

Roggeveen discovered Easter Island/Rapa Nui in the South Pacific on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1722.

Mighty River Power

The company owns and operates the hydroelectric generating stations on the Waikato River as well as geothermal plants in the Taupo area, the gas fired (combined cycle) Southdown plant in south Auckland and the largely unused plant (Marsden A and Marsden B) at Marsden Point near Whangarei.

Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu

The medal was presented to his parents by the governor general, Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall|Sir Cyril

The 2nd Division, of which the Māori battalion was part, was tasked with the capture of the Tebaga Gap, which disrupted otherwise mountainous terrain.

Mount Tauhara

Mount Tauhara is a dormant stratovolcano, reaching 3,569 feet (1,088 m) above sea level, situated within the Taupō caldera towards the centre of the Taupō Volcanic Zone, which stretches from White Island in the north, to Mount Ruapehu in the south, to Mount Taranaki in the west.

National University of Ireland, Galway

Martin Sheen, Hollywood actor, who had not previously attended University, enrolled at NUI Galway in 2006 for one semester to study philosophy, English literature and oceanography.

Ngāti Porou

Well-known current or former members or affiliates of the tribe include Sir Āpirana Ngata,Herewaka Te-Rangi-Pai Potae, George Nepia, Quentin Bruce (Goldsmith) Koromete, Te Moana Nui a Kiwa Ngarimu VC, Witi Ihimaera, Parekura Horomia, John Tamihere (politician), Moana Jackson, Sofia Minson (artist), Wiremu Paraone Turei (the Anglican Bishop of Aotearoa) & Georgina Beyer

Ogu and Mampato in Rapa Nui

Excited by the stories he knows about Easter Island, Mampato, a young boy with a belt device that allows time-travel, goes with his caveman friend Ogú to the ancient land of pre-columbian Rapa Nui.

Orakei Korako

The earliest known route from Rotorua to Taupo for early European travellers passed right through Orakei Korako, and it was the existing Māori who provided a dug out canoe for the river crossings.

Owana

Owana Salazar, (born 1953), current co-ruler of the House of Keoua Nui

Pro-vice-chancellor

In the National University of Ireland, each president of the constituent universities (being University College Dublin, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Galway and National University of Ireland, Maynooth), holds the title of Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the NUI, though they generally only use this title at conferring ceremonies.

Rapa Nui Point

The feature is named descriptively from its resemblance to the moai figures of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile.

Rhacophorus helenae

Helen's tree frog (Rhacophorus helenae) is a flying frog found in low-lying forests of southern Vietnam, from Nui Ong Nature Reserve, Bình Thuận Province to jungle in Tân Phú District, Đồng Nai.

Ricardo C. Binns

On the evening of 13 June 1966, Binns's platoon of 18, under the leadership of then-Staff Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard were dropped behind enemy lines atop Hill 488, known to locals as Nui Vu, near Chu Lai and Tam Kỳ, with a mission to observe enemy troop movements in the Hiệp Đức Valley, and call in artillery and airstrikes.

Seymour Mills Spencer

He was to take over the newly formed Taupo branch but due to scandal over Spencer's purported advances toward a Māori girl, the couple moved to Lake Tarawera.

St Paul's Collegiate School

The school also owns and operates Tihoi Venture School, located on the edge of the Pureora Forest Park around 50 km west of Taupo.

Stephenson Percy Smith

While still in his teens, he began a series of expeditions in his spare time, joining a party to scale Mount Taranaki in 1857, for example, and undertaking a journey in 1858 up the Mōkau River to Taupo, Lakes Rotomahana and Tarawera, the Tongariro-Ruapehu area, returning via Rangitikei and Wanganui.

Stonehenge II

In addition to the replica and real stones comprising the monument, there are also two fabricated Moai, or Easter Island (Rapa Nui/Isla de Pascua) statues located at the Hill Country Arts Foundation.

Tà Cú Pagoda

Mount Tà Cú Pagoda (Chùa núi Tà Cú) is a temple on Tà Cú mountain, Hàm Thuận Nam District district, Bình Thuận Province, Vietnam.

Taupo District Council

The areas of Taupo and Kaingaroa are administered by the Taupo District Council.

Taupo Motorsport Park

On 21 January 2007 Taupo Motorsport Park hosted the sixth race in the 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix season and on 20 January 2008 it hosted the fifth race in the 2007–08 A1 Grand Prix season.

Te Aute College

Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu - Soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross


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