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	Museum of Anthropology at UBC
		MOA's $52 million renovation and expansion project is well underway.
		Lectures, music, drama, dance - MOA's public programs are designed to educate and inspire.
		MOA's long term and temporary exhibits highlight collections from around the world.
	www.moa.ubc.ca (119 words)

	MOA: History & Organization
		MOA's collections remained in the library until 1976, when they were moved to their current location.
		Inter-disciplinary courses are offered at MOA in museum studies, anthropology, archaeology, fine arts, and conservation, all of which prepare students to enter and effectively contribute to the work of museums around the world.
		MOA currently has a staff of 26 permanent employees, as well as a number of student interns appointed to temporary training positions.
	www.moa.ubc.ca /history/history.php (804 words)

	MOA, Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics
		MOA (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics) is a Japan/NZ collaboration that makes observations on dark matter, extra-solar planets and stellar atmospheres using the gravitational microlensing technique at the Mt John Observatory in New Zealand pictured above.
		The MOA group notes with deep sadness the death on April 19 of the leading pioneer of gravitational microlensing in the observational era, Professor Bohdan Paczynski of Princeton University.
		On December 1st the 1.8-m MOA telescope was officially opened at a function hosted by the University of Canterbury, attended by the Presidents (or Vice-Chancellors), Deputy Vice-Chancellors, Pro-Vice-Chancellors and Chief Operating Officers of the Universities of Nagoya and Canterbury.
	www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz /moa (436 words)

	TerraNature \| New Zealand Ecology - Moa
		The moas were the most significant mammal replacements on New Zealand, taking the role of the largest dominant herbivores, the same role as large animals such as deer and elephants in other lands.
		Revised radiocarbon dating of charcoal in campsites, place the earliest arrival of moa hunters, Polynesians who were the ancestors of Maori, in the 13th century instead of the 11th century as previously thought. Archeological research of dismembered moa bones in campsites show that they were not killed after the 14th century.
		Moa extinction was more rapid than the rate of extermination of large prehistoric mammals such as mammoths, camels, ground sloths, mastodons and giant beavers that some scientists think was caused by hunters in a North American blitzkreig 13,000 years ago.
	www.terranature.org /moa.htm (1332 words)

	Moa - LoveToKnow 1911
		In conformity with these reductions the breastbone of the moas is devoid of any coracoidal facets; there is no trace of a keel, and the number of sternal ribs is reduced to three or even two pairs.
		Another important point, in which the moas agree with the other Ratitae and differ from the kiwis, are the branched, instead of simple, porous canals in the eggshell.
		The moas ranged in size from that of a turkey to truly colossal dimensions, the giant being Dinornis maximus, which, with a tibial length of 39 in., stood with its small head about 12 ft. above the ground.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Moa (667 words)

	Moa Martinson
		Moa Martinson was the first woman writer among the worker-novelists, who rose from the miserable existence of day-laborers on the great central Swedish estates.
		Helga Maria Swartz (Moa Martinson) was born in Vårdnäs in Östergötland, the daughter of an unmarried factory girl.
		Moa Martinson served as a role model for woman writers in the Nordic countries as late as in the 1970s, and feminist criticism has refreshed her reputation.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /moamar.htm (1009 words)

	Moa, Dinornithiformes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Moa were a typical example of a K-adapted species which exhibit a variety of traits, including small numbers of young, long gestation and lack of defensive or escape capability.
		Moa may have been hunted to extinction within a century of human arrival to New Zealand.
		Moa made such easy prey that by AD 1200 the hunting of Moa alone provided food surpluses sufficient to provide for the settling of large villages up to 3 hectares.
	www.nzbirds.com /birds/moa.html (980 words)

	Digimorph - Dinornithiformes (moa)
		Moa (Dinornithiformes) are extinct palaeognath birds (other ratites include the extinct elephant bird and the extant ostrich, emu, kiwi, tinamou, and rhea).
		The specimen was scanned by Richard Ketcham on 11 January 2002 along the coronal axis for a total of 533 slices, each slice 0.5 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.4 mm (for a slice overlap of 0.1 mm).
		Anderson, A. The extinction of moa in southern New Zealand, pp.
	www.digimorph.org /specimens/Dinornithiformes (326 words)

	Extinct Birds of NZ The Moa
		The giant moa was one of the biggest birds ever known in the world.
		There were moa living in New Zealand when the Maori people arrived but it is believed that the moa was totally extinct in 1769 when Captain Cook landed in New Zealand.
		The moa was an obvious source of food in a land without land mammals (except for the bat).
	www.kcc.org.nz /birds/extinct/moa.asp (577 words)

	The Moa Page - for all your Moa needs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Moa feathers have been collected and they were covered in red-brown feathers with a bright white and purple crest or tail feathers.
		No hunting tools have been found and it is assumed that moa were slow moving and not aggressive, so were easy to club or spear to death.
		The extinction of moas led to starvation, war and cannabilism among Maori.
	www.geocities.com /moa_man/index.html (284 words)

	Moa - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Moas are large, flightless birds that are native to New Zealand.
		The Moa is why the indigenous population was held back technologically, because they continuously show up whenever someone is doing something useful in order to tell "Moa jokes".
		A moa's stomach has never been dissected because all the scientists that try to catch a moa end up with a moa beak through their skull, which is knowledge popularised by the saying "That's about as fun as getting beaked through the head".
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Moa (531 words)

	Muslims of the Americas: In Their Own Words
		MOA claims to have offices in six U.S. cities and Toronto and maintains secluded residential communities in New York, Virginia and California.
		MOA was founded and is led by the radical Pakistani cleric El Sheikh Sayyid Mubarik Ali Jilani (commonly known as Sheikh Jilani or Sheikh Gilani).
		Though relatively few members of MOA have been arrested for criminal activity, two residents of the MOA community in Virginia were recently arrested for firearms violations, and a resident of the MOA community in California was recently arrested for the murder of a Sheriff's Deputy.
	www.adl.org /extremism/moa/default.asp (1037 words)

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