It's hard to overstate the extraordinary merging of events in Europe that led to the Industrial Revolution exploding in the mid-1800's. There was of course at least 200 years of prior scene setting, across the sciences, philosophy and political arena's. In say the year 1600…
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I am spending some time down in Taranaki and thought I would check out some of the local historical sites. Top of my list was Parihaka. I was generally aware of its history but after reading some more about it I cannot believe how badly…
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*Warning: the following contains material that might upset some retailers Luckily, for retailers, Christmas shopping has been strong. NZ even set a new record for transactions at 204 transactions per second, which is almost as good as the number of visits per second to The…
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I realise that this would normally be our silly season, but it seems a bit macabre with such an awful and predicable death toll running overseas in the northern winter. But nothing really excuses Chris Bishop for being a complete dickhead in barking for immediate…
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