The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi, shedding new light on New Zealand’s founding document’s implications, contributing fresh thinking to what remains a very live conversation for those that call Aotearoa New Zealand home. The treaty was made between the British Crown and about 540 Māo...
Having lived through the death of her fiancée, killed in combat in France, she decides (to steal a title from Marjorie Hillis), to live alone and like it: “She had to be footloose, spiritually as well as actually,” even if that comes at the price of loneliness. I went to see Gre...
John Blair, to pull a rip cord that would release most of the air from the blimp. As Blair reached from the cabin for the cord the blimp shifted, and Blair fell to his death.Columbiathen knocked two men off a warehouse roof (injuring them), then struck a factory and...
…23 years after her death her rendition ofGod Bless Americawould be discontinued pretty much everywhere when it was revealed that in the early 1930s she recorded such songs asThat’s Why Darkies Were BornandPickaninny Heaven(which was featured inHello, Everybody!). CANCELLED STAR…Since the ...