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  New Zealand - Search View - MSN Encarta
New Zealand is located within the Ring of Fire, a region encircling the Pacific Ocean where the movement of tectonic plates (huge segments of Earth’s crust) leads to volcanic and seismic activity.
New Zealand is a founding member of the United Nations (UN) and a full member of the Commonwealth of Nations, a voluntary association of countries and dependencies with ties to the United Kingdom.
New Zealand politics from the 1850s to the 1880s were dominated by a small elite of men who, having prospered in business and sheep farming, formed a landed gentry.
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 4. New Zealand. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
New Zealand's political ties to Britain remained strong, reflected in the large numbers of New Zealand troops participating in World War I. New Zealand continued to practice petty imperialism in the South Pacific through the period, violently suppressing the independence movement in Samoa in the 1920s.
New Zealand troops attempted to suppress the nationalistic Mau movement in Samoa, killing a number of its leaders.
New Zealand suffered severely from the depression, being essentially a producer of primary materials.
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 New Zealand general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2005 New Zealand general election took place on 17 September 2005 and determined the composition of the 48th New Zealand Parliament.
The election saw a strong recovery by National: it won 21 more seats than at the 2002 election, when it had suffered its worst result since it first fought a general election in 1938.
On 17 October, Clark announced a new coalition agreement that saw the return of her minority government coalition with the Progressive Party, with confidence-and-supply support from New Zealand First and from United Future.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_general_election_2005   (1580 words)

  
 Elliott School - Transcripts of Lectures and Speeches
Well I'm a fourth generation New Zealander, I'm a Pacific Islander, and a native of the Pacific and so perhaps from my vantage point of history and geography, I see the world a little differently than others.
What is new is the accelerated speed of change, and the fact that people are now able to observe and judge changes as they take place.
It is ironic that some of the most strident critics of globalization come from the same churches who send missionaries into the field to globalize their faith and to harvest recruits, are joined now by old time Marxists, whose children sing The Internationale and march against globalization.
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 Freyberg VC GCMG KCB KBE DSO & 3 Bars K St J, MiD
General Freyberg was considered by Churchill to be a 'man's soldier', he was awarded the VC in the First World War.
In particular, when the key airfield at Maleme was lost because of the poor judgement and lethargy of some senior officers within the New Zealand Division, Freyberg failed to respond vigorously enough, with the result that the loss of the island became inevitable.
In the climactic battle of El Alamein in October–November 1942, the New Zealand Division played a vital part in the Allies’ final breakthrough; for his leadership of it Freyberg was immediately made a KCB.
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The general election victory in Epping in 1945 also laid the basis for a strong Labour presence in the constituency on which I was able to build to win the 1964 election, as Leah Manning’s only successor –the only other Labour MP for Epping that there has ever been.
The New Model Unions, which became the trend from the 1850s tended to exclude women from membership and they required long apprenticeships to be admitted to the trade.
Employment was generated by the docks and related industries and it was in this area that the labour movement sunk roots at an early stage.
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 The National Guard - Today in Guard History
Wellington, New Zealand — To safeguard this Allied nation against a possible Japanese attack, the Guard’s 43rd Infantry Division (CT, ME, RI, VT) arrives to act as a garrison and to begin its jungle training before later deployments to combat in the Northern Solomon Islands, New Guinea and the Philippines.
Keeping with the regional composition of the regiment, the 1st Battalion was composed of men from New England, the 2nd from New Jersey and New York, the 3rd from Pennsylvania and Delaware and the 4th from Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
Issued new F-86A Sabre jets the 116th was stationed at the Royal Air Force base at Manston, England as part of the reinforcement of NATO forces put in place to discourage a Soviet attack in Europe.
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 Timeline of New Zealand history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jurisdiction of New South Wales courts is extended to British citizens in New Zealand.
New Zealand Association formed in London, becoming the New Zealand Colonisation Society in 1838 and the New Zealand Company in 1839, under the inspiration of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
Labour enacts its election promise to remove interest on loans to students living in New Zealand, causing a public outcry, especially from those who accrued large amounts of interest in the years prior to 2006.
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 USNews.com: Opinion: Michael Barone: Barone Blog
Passage would probably not have resulted in new districts for 2006—there's not much time before filing deadlines—and districts for 2008 and 2010 would have to be based on the 2000 census, as current districts are, since census estimates don't provide the level of detail for district-drawing.
Hays was generally counted a hawk and was a gruff insider who exerted dictatorial power over House employees as chairman of the House Administration Committee; Burton was a liberal and a dove who was also an aggressive and effective pol.
General Motors' layoffs of 30,000 workers and the bankruptcy last month of the GM spinoff Delphi are widely taken as proof that the days of high-wage, high-benefit manufacturing jobs in the United States are over.
www.usnews.com /usnews/opinion/baroneblog/baroneblog051110_051123.htm   (11309 words)

  
 Are the Greens Ready for Success?
In the mid-90s, the New Mexico Greens were calling for election reforms that would allow fusion in New Mexico (but not without controversy in the Green movement which had generally dismissed fusion as a fatal compromise of independent political action).
The prize in the 1998 election for New York Greens was the 50,000 votes needed for a ballot line for the next four years.
In New York, the only state where fusion is common practice and candidates normally try to get as many of the eight ballot lines as they can, sentiment is strong that the New York Greens must not become just another ballot line trading favors for endorsements of corporate politicians.
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 New World Celts
Australia and New Zealand, countries referred to in Britain as "down under" profited enormously from the arrival of Scottish immigrants.
The Scots highly deserve their place of honor in the roll of those who did so much to develop Australia and New Zealand into prosperous, modern states whose sobering influence has added so much to the world in general.
He was responsible for exploring vast areas of south-eastern Australia and opening up new grazing lands in the southern parts of Victoria.
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 NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Search old newspapers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 The Political Graveyard: New Zealand
U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to New Zealand
U.S. Politicians who were born in New Zealand
The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
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