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  New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Zealand was initially administered as a part of the colony of New South Wales, and it became a separate colony in November 1840.
New Zealand was involved in a Constitutional Convention in March 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, along with the Australian colonies.
New Zealand director Peter Jackson shot the epic The Lord of the Rings film trilogy in various locations around the country, taking advantage of the spectacular and relatively unspoiled landscapes, and Mount Taranaki was used as a stand-in for Mount Fuji in The Last Samurai.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1893   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
New Zealand becomes first country in the world to grant women the vote.
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 The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Optimists : Kate Sheppard : www.nzedge.com
By the end of the 1870’s the women’s suffrage movement was well-established in New Zealand, drawing attention from overseas suffragists, notably the liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill, a strong supporter of the British suffrage movement.
New Zealand’s victory would predate that of her larger allies by decades: British women were not granted suffrage until 1918 and American women were not granted it across the whole country until 1920.
Therefore all Maori men over the age of 21 actually got the vote in New Zealand some ten years before the franchise was extended to all 'white' men over that age, with the qualification that Maori were able to vote only for their own members of parliament.
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 Virginia Institute for Public Policy - Board of Scholars
He served as general counsel to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights from 1977 to 1982 and as an adjunct associate professor of law at Marquette University from 1978 to1982.
Levin served as chief of staff to the attorney general of the United States, deputy assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the U.S. Department of Education, and deputy solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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Some news reports said only seven were injured.
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 September 19 Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
1893 - Women's suffrage: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote, beginning with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
1981 - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York City's Central Park.
1995 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
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 Fang's Media History Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
1673: Mail is delivered on a route between New York and Boston.
1893: Dickson builds a motion picture studio in New Jersey.
1905: In New Zealand, the postage meter is introduced.
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 HMS Conway
A second officer of the Indrabarah (Tyser Line) he performed two rescues when the vessel went aground on the Rangitikei coast (NZ) in 1913, and as a result was decorated by King George V at Buckingham Palace, and also received rewards from the Royal Humane Society and the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society.
Early medals were generally awarded for military valour, but after the establishment of the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1865, the award was extended to all manner of persons recognised as worthy.
He was a New Chum in 1906 and left in 1908.
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 Edinburgh University Library: Previously Answered Reference Questions
Conservative Party General Election Manifestos 1900-1997 Ref. JN 1129.C69 Con.
Then there is the Keele University site Elections and electoral systems around the world offering data by country from several different sources, and the University of California (San Diego) Lijphart Elections Archive.
The term had originally been applied as the name of an Indian tribe and has gone on to be used in naming a river and its area and is also used to denote the particular configuration of main river and tributary.
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