Picture of the Day: The Darrans, New Zealand

October 10, 2012
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New Zealand’s Mt. Tongariro Erupts For First Time In Over 100 Years

August 8, 2012
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Mt. Tongariro which is part of a chain of volcanoes that makes up Tongariro National Park in New Zealand has recently erupted and spewed large amounts of ash across the North Island area of the country: You can see more …

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Archive of Hikes In New Zealand

July 20, 2011
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My time living in Australia gave me the opportunity to travel over to New Zealand and do a bit hiking over there as well.  New Zealand is without a doubt one of the most beautiful countries in the world and …

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Christchurch’s Famous Steeple Destroyed By Earthquake

February 22, 2011
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My thoughts today are with the good people of Christchurch who are trying to recover from yet another earthquake in the past 5 months.  This earthquake registered a 6.3 but occurred during a busy period of the day compared to …

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Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings Fame Is Knighted In New Zealand

April 28, 2010
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Just last year New Zealand once again started accepting knighthoods from the Queen after their long time left leaning government was removed from office after the national elections.  Having spent time living in Australia and spenting a lot of time …

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Over 40% of New Zealanders Open To Australia Merge

March 13, 2010
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This number of Kiwis open to merging with Australia I found surprising: MORE than 40 per cent of New Zealanders think it’s time the South Pacific nation considered becoming Australia’s seventh state, according to a survey of more than 1000 …

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Rise In New Zealand Temperatures Proven to Be Man Made, By Scientists Manipulating Data

December 8, 2009
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In the wake of the ClimateGate scandal that exposed how climate data was being manipulated, comes news that the climate data from New Zealand has been manipulated as well.  Here is the graph the New Zealand National Institute of Water …

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Man Infects Wife with HIV In Order to Have Sex with Her

December 7, 2009
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I don’t think giving your wife HIV is the best way to convince your wife to have sex with you: AN HIV-positive man has confessed to injecting his blood into his sleeping wife and infecting her with the virus that can cause …

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New Zealand Teacher May Lose Job for Nude Penthouse Pictures

October 27, 2009
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First there was naked Air New Zealand crews, then there was the naked mom hoax, and now here is yet another odd story about a nude woman coming out of New Zealand: A SERIES of steamy naked photographs in Australian …

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Naked New Zealand Mom Story Proven to Be A Hoax

July 22, 2009
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The story about the New Zealand kid selling nude pictures of his mom on the Internet has turned out to be a hoax: A man who claimed to be a teenager selling naked photos of his mother on TradeMe says …

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