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173 years ago, representatives of the England Crown and many Maori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi and established a founding document for the new country of Aotearoa, or New Zealand. That promise of two peoples to take the best possible care of one another led to the formation of "Godzone" and ultimately brought us such things as:
The All Blacks
Sam Neill
Flight of the Conchords
Ernst Rutherford (splitting the Atom)
Ed Hillary (Everest, anyone?)
Temuera Morrison ("Boba - cook me some eggs"), Daniel Logan
Phil Keoghan
Peter Jackson, Andrew Adamson, Jane Campion, Andrew Nicol, Roger Donaldson, Taika Waititi...
...and the Save11 group.
If you have a Kiwi near you, hug them.
Mauri ora, mauri mate!
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Merry Waitangi...and a Happy Valentine's Day?
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