Monolithic Pop Culture References #70

Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:

Character coaches what the A-League needs
The Age, Australia - Oct 24, 2007
In fact, his emotionless pitchside stare has invited comparisons with an Easter Island statue although it also made him a cult figure within the game. ...

Runoff Report--Hunting community gives thumbs up to pit method
Lake County News Chronicle, MN - Oct 25, 2007
Studying ancient blueprints from projects such as the Easter Island Moai statues, Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of Giza, we knew we wouldn’t have an ...

The Never Ending Voyage: ExWeb's interview with Henk de Velde
Mounteverest, NY - Oct 26, 2007
His son was born on Easter Island and the small family roamed the oceans without all the fancy stuff. Henk still brings all the water he needs with him, ...

The Surveying Inspired Art of Perri Lynch
Amerisurv (press release), MD - Oct 27, 2007
... stones would end up in places like Vancouver, British Columbia, the edge of the Arctic Ocean, the tip of Mongolia, even Easter Island. ...

UN postal program honors Rapa Nui among South America's wonders

In Honor Of South America's Natural Wonders
Hartford Courant, United States - Oct 30, 2007
The New York stamps show views of the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), and Easter Island, also known by its indigenous name Rapa Nui, which is claimed by Chile. ...

Moai painted on wooden chest

Once a cancer fighter, always a fighter
London Free Press, Canada - Oct 29, 2007
On the chest, made of oak and cedar, Bradley painted the Parthenon, the Roman Colosseum, Easter Island Statues and Kukulkan's Pyramid. ...

Polynesian Triangle

Ancient mariners enjoyed Hawaiian holidays
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Oct 30, 2007
... first reached the islands of the east Pacific, including Hawaii and Easter Island, by chance, drifting there on currents or carried by storms. ...

Rapa Nui's "Last Tree"

THE CULTURE ARTIST: The Last Tree
HNN Huntingtonnews.net, USA - Oct 29, 2007
By Chuck Hall
When Polynesian settlers arrived at Easter Island, they found a tropical paradise waiting for them. Archaeological evidence shows that when ...

Rare tiki on Rapa Nui

Three weeks on the Aranui from Tahiti to the Marquesas
Cape Cod Today, MA - Oct 28, 2007
The only other place these tiki exist is on Easter Island. Our next island, Ua Huka, has 2000 wild horses. The locals round up one only when they need it. ...

2009 total solar eclipse/Rapa Nui

Tours are aligning to the east for 2009's total solar eclipse
USA Today - Oct 25, 2007
The next big eclipse occurs in 2010 over Easter Island, but don't get too excited unless you've already made plans. Limited air access and lodging on the ...

New Rapa Nui/moai book

UW Professor, Former Students Work on Easter Island Book
University of Wyoming News, WY - Oct 25, 2007
The book’s introduction will feature Gill’s own description of his research on the ancestors of Easter Island, particularly face and head forms, stature, ...

Chilean wine and a trip to Rapa Nui

Chilean Challenge
The Times, South Africa - Oct 25, 2007
... huge copper mines and giant valleys full of vines plus Easter Island with its inscrutable statues bearing mute testimony to the ancients who chopped ...

One year to live? Visit Rapa Nui

What would you do with one year to live?
Kansas City Star, MO - Oct 24, 2007
“I’d go back to Paris, then I’d go to Easter Island to see the giant stone guys, Australia to see the Great Barrier Reef, and I’d try to swim in all seven ...

First mobile WiMax network in Latin America, coverage includes Rapa Nui

Telmex launches WiMax e in Latam
Business News Americas, Chile - Oct 24, 2007
... plans to complete coverage of 98% of the country's population, equivalent to 92% of municipalities including Easter Island, within the next few weeks. ...

Magician David Copperfield finds fountain of youth using moai as reference

Magician Copperfield's Warehouse Raided
Actress Archives, NY - Oct 19, 2007
There is Stonehenge in England, I drew a line from Stonehenge to the statues in Easter Island in Chile and another line between the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt ...

COP-A-FEEL
New York Post, NY - Oct 20, 2007
... he had discovered "the fountain of youth" in his private paradise after drawing lines between Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Easter Island statues. ...

Ecosystems and Economics forum/Rapa Nui

Veteran ABC News Science Correspondent Ned Potter moderates panel ...
E-Wire (press release), TX - Oct 24, 2007
The lessons from history are daunting: From Babylonia to Easter Island, thriving civilizations fell as they destroyed the natural environments that ...

Captain Cook's voyages

The Complete Guide To: The travels of Captain Cook
Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - Oct 24, 2007
On his return voyage, in 1774 he landed at the Friendly Islands (Tonga), Easter Island, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia and Vanuatu. ...

Book relates Katherine Routledge's Rapa Nui expedition

At the York Public Library
Portsmouth Herald News, NH - Oct 24, 2007
... schizophrenic Katherine Routledge's controversial expedition to Easter Island, and Teddy Roosevelt's journey through the Amazon after his presidency. ...

Chilean folk dancers perform Rapanui dances/San Jose

3 THINGS TO DO TOMORROW
San Jose Mercury News, USA - Oct 24, 2007
... CollegeChilean folk dance troupe Araucaria will perform dances representative of the various regions of Chile and Easter Island, 7:30 pm Thursday. ...

Wonderland Online/Moai

Wonderland Online - Official Site and Forum Released
MPOGD.com, IL - Oct 23, 2007
The mysterious Mayan culture, the huge stone statues of Easter Island, and other supernatural events are all waiting for you to explore in the game. ...

Wonderland Online's official website and forums released
MMORPG blog - Oct 24, 2007
The game basically lets you travel to different places within the normal world, allowing gamers to visit MMO renditions of Easter Island, the Mayan ruins, ...

Lord of the Rings Online Lore: Gwindethrond and the Gauradain
MMORPG blog - Oct 25, 2007
The game basically lets you travel to different places within the normal world, allowing gamers to visit MMO renditions of Easter Island, the Mayan ruins, ...

Auran Games announce Fury Europe launch, new patch on October 26
MMORPG blog - Oct 25, 2007
The game basically lets you travel to different places within the normal world, allowing gamers to visit MMO renditions of Easter Island, the Mayan ruins, ...

Jagex features Runescape Halloween event based on player wishes
MMORPG blog - Oct 25, 2007
The game basically lets you travel to different places within the normal world, allowing gamers to visit MMO renditions of Easter Island, the Mayan ruins, ...

Lead Designer Kevin Maginn on PoTBS' economy design
MMORPG blog - Oct 25, 2007
The game basically lets you travel to different places within the normal world, allowing gamers to visit MMO renditions of Easter Island, the Mayan ruins, ...

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes Limited In-Game, Tech, Account Support
MMORPG blog - Oct 25, 2007
The game basically lets you travel to different places within the normal world, allowing gamers to visit MMO renditions of Easter Island, the Mayan ruins, ...

Auran Games announce Fury Europe launch, new patch on October 26
MMORPG blog - Oct 25, 2007
The game basically lets you travel to different places within the normal world, allowing gamers to visit MMO renditions of Easter Island, the Mayan ruins, ...

Rapa Nui a Chilean extreme to enjoy

Enjoy Two Extremes of Chile
About - News & Issues, NY - Oct 22, 2007
Easter Island also known as Rapa Nui and the "Navel of the World" is the most isolated inhabited island in the world, being about 2000 mi (3200 km) from ...

Rapa Nui a "top hot spot" in Chile

Chile's top hot spots, from Andes to Easter Island
New York Daily News, NY - Oct 21, 2007
BY ELEANOR BERMAN
Massive statues on Easter Island, including these at Ahu Tongarika, have been a mystery for centuries. The only problem with visiting ...

"A bit of Easter Island" in California's Central Valley

Seven oddities of Stockton
Stockton Record, CA - Oct 21, 2007
Developer Alex Spanos got his construction career off to a wiki start with the Bali Hai Apartments. The complex boasts a South Seas motif with palm trees, lava "luau pit" and, solemnly guarding the entrance, a two-ton stone tiki god. A bit of Easter Island in the Central Valley.

Sam and Max and Rapa Nui

E For All: Checking Up On Sam and Max
Wired Blogs - Oct 20, 2007
The second episode will take them to Easter Island to deal with talking stone heads. They're not going into the specific details of the plots insofar as ...

Sam and Max have a second season
Inquirer, UK - Oct 23, 2007
The second episode takes place on Easter Island, and is not formally named yet. Sam and Max are fulfilling an ancient prophecy, and in their words, " Uh-Oh, ...

World traveler to visit "world's most remote inhabited island"

The International Traveler
Vanguard Online (subscription), MA - Oct 19, 2007
I will also explore the Pacific in January with a trip to the world's most remote inhabited island, Easter Island, and another three countries in South ...

Monolithic Pop Culture References #69

Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:

Fresh Face Fred Thompson
Press-Register - al.com, AL - Oct 12, 2007
You miss your buddies back at Easter Island? Welcome back, ! Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style) Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User ...

All the world’sa stage for Shaun
Hexham Courant, United Kingdom - Oct 12, 2007
They visited Peru, Chile, Easter Island, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, Bali, Hong Kong, China and India. His favourite memory of India is sitting on a ...

Special to Page 2
ESPN - Oct 16, 2007
The Polynesians who crossed more than a thousand miles of open ocean to reach Easter Island some 1700 years ago, or who undertook similarly perilous ...

Jamboroo, Week 7: Where We Explore The Idea Of The NFL As Hangover ...
Deadspin, NY - Oct 19, 2007
... doing business is, "Enter $0, then find out we charged $500 to your credit card for a flight from that makes seven stops, one of which is Easter Island. ...

Harry Pearson
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Oct 19, 2007
Something from Easter Island, probably. While a contestant was explaining that her line-caught wintergreen and organic cuckoo clock crème brûlée, ...

Cruise to Rapa Nui and more

Cruise to lands of ice and steamy jungles
Times Online, UK - Oct 19, 2007
Its vessel, Discovery, includes on one trip a two-day visit to Easter Island with its mysterious Moai culture and towering statues. ...

Two moai-style heads/Pink Floyd album cover

Art's on their sleeve
Courier Mail, Australia - Oct 19, 2007
By Noel Mengel TWO giant Easter Island-type heads stand eerily facing each other in the fens of East Anglia, a distant cathedral framed in their mouths. ...

"Good luck tikis" mark Trader Vic's opening in Las Vegas

Good Luck Tikis Appear on the Las Vegas Strip to Mark Opening of ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Oct 16, 2007
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The famed four-mile stretch of the glittering Las Vegas Strip was reminiscent of Easter Island today, as dozens of tiki ...

Surfer's "best tow trip" on Rapa Nui

Dropping in with Brazil's Romeu Bruno at Towsurfer.com
Global Surf News - Oct 13, 2007
I have been going to Chile for the past four years, and we’ve also taken skis to Easter Island. That was the best tow trip I’ve ever done, but it’s very ...

Wonderland/online

Wonderland Online Announced
Myth Games - Oct 13, 2007
... the huge stone statues of Easter Island and much more combine to form unique quests filled with fascinating elements that our players will experience ...

Love conquers all in a savage universe
Irish Independent, Ireland - Oct 13, 2007
After Cook's landing at Easter Island in 1774, gopher Billie -- now male -- is marooned when the ship hastily sails after a bloody battle with the natives. ...

Winterson's Stone Gods

Blue is not the only colour
Scotsman, United Kingdom - Oct 12, 2007
The second story begins in the late 18th century, with young seaman Billy left stranded on Easter Island after Captain Cook's ship sails off without him. ...

Quiet Axis/Rapa Nui

Carnegie Museum Presents 40-Year Visionary Paintings
HULIQ, NC - Oct 11, 2007
... aspect of Quiet Axis, which in 1978 was released into the bottom of the Pacific Ocean near Easter Island, exactly opposite the globe from Afghanistan. ...

Spanish students to visit Rapa Nui

Spanish students take a world tour
Township Journal - Oct 10, 2007
Some of these explorations are to learning about currencies and the mysterious artifacts and remains of Machu Picchu in Peru and Easter Island off the coast ...

Monolithic Pop Culture References #68

Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:

The Jester's Quart: For Coach and Columnist, a Double Fault
SportsFan Magazine, MD - September 28, 2007
Or would you be so overwhelmed by the unpredictable fury of the moment that you look resemble an Easter Island statue holding a tape recorder? ...

Use royalty revenues wisely
ChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - Sep 30, 2007
We become victims of our need for immediate gratification and we flirt with the fate of the peoples who cut down the last tree on Easter Island and sealed ...

Corporal from Oak Bay gladly returns to Kandahar
Canada.com, Canada - Oct 1, 2007On his left is an intricate design of wraparound shapes he said was inspired by a tribe of people on Easter Island. On his right, among numerous other ...

Never too old for new things
Emporia Gazette (subscription), KS - Oct 5, 2007
The 13-foot Dangos were still in the kiln in which they were fired, as were the giant Easter Island-like heads. Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times ...

Lose your head
Boston Herald, United States - Oct 8, 2007
I finally asked if being rude was common on Easter Island. He slowly nodded yes, so I tipped him over. I lost 250 bucks last week. ...

Migration to Rapa Nui

Environmental Setting Of Human Migrations In The Circum-Pacific Region
Science Daily (press release) - October 10, 2007
... that of the migration to Oceania, which began about 3500 years BP and culminated in the settlement of Hawaii and Easter Island by 2000-1000 years BP. ...

Rapa Nui among world's sacred sites

The world's most sacred sites
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - October 10, 2007
The hundred of carved heads that adorn Rapa Nui (Easter Island) were in use as early as 500 BC. They are said to represent an ideology of male, ...

Computer game based in part on Rapa Nui culture

Wonderland Online Announced and Screens
Gamers Hell, UK - October 10, 2007
... based on several ancient South American and Pacific Island cultures: the mysterious Mayans, the huge stone statues of Easter Island and much more. ...

First-hand account of archaeological summer on Rapa Nui

Anthropology Club plans slew of events for upcoming months ...
Michigan Journal (subscription), MI - Oct 9, 2007
... Swindler and Vice President Lowell Steiner bring first-hand experience in archaeological field techniques after spending a summer on Easter Island. ...

Travel editor's experience living on Rapa Nui

Where the Roads Diverged
World Hum, CA - Oct 8, 2007
After searching all her life, Catherine Watson felt she’d found home on Easter Island. Then she heard a whisper in her ear: Be careful what you wish for. ...

Rapanui educators to visit Cleveland

Cleveland Children to Get a Glimpse of Rapa Nui Culture
All American Patriots (press release), Sweden - Oct 8, 2007
Visiting the Cleveland area October 1-13 are Ana Maria Arrendondo, a headmaster of the municipal school of Easter Island as well as an artist and a ...

Roy Dupuis and Rapa Nui

Dupuis portrays Romeo Dallaire
London Free Press, Canada - Oct 7, 2007
"We'll sail to the Panama Canal, the Galapagos, to Easter Island," he continues. Dupuis expects to be gone five years, minimum. ...

Photographer who visited Rapa Nui

Capturing the calm
The Union of Grass Valley, CA - Oct 7, 2007
But his travels also will take him to Bhutan, Easter Island, Jordan and Israel to shoot whatever moves him. He carries one bag with a tripod, ...

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Times Online, UK - Oct 6, 2007
With this in mind, the story jump-cuts to several other locations, each with its own Billie and each with its own ecological problems: Easter Island in the ...

Rapa Nui tourism boom

Politics/ Pitcairns: GETTING READY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEALINGS
Island Business, Fiji - Oct 3, 2007
Tourism is anticipated to be propelled by the 40 odd cruise ships that travel between Easter Island and French Polynesia. Also, Pitcairn Island is ...

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Make Your Reservations Now for Easter Island
About - News & Issues, NY - Oct 4, 2007
Easter Island expects summer tourism spike (MercoPress): "Tourism is booming on Isla de Pascua (Easter Island). With the height of the summer tourist season ...

Review of The Stone Gods

An oddly familiar time-travelling romance
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Oct 3, 2007
... including an excerpt from the journal of Billy, a young crewman on Captain Cook's ship Resolution who becomes marooned on Easter Island. ...

Surfing Tournament to be held on Rapa Nui?

Ramón Navarro is setting South American big wave bar
Global Surf News - Oct 3, 2007
... top ten with the possibility of participating in the Master’s Tournament, which will close the Chilean season in December, possibly in Easter Island. ...

Connection between deteriorating resource base and population decline on ancient Rapanui

THE NATURE OF THE NEW WORLD
The Baltimore Chronicle, MD - Oct 2, 2007
For example, as the environmental resource base of Easter Island in the South Pacific deteriorated, its population declined from a peak of 20000 several ...

Anonymous moai-like stone carvings in Yorkshire

Who is leaving these bizarre stone heads on our doorsteps?
Times Online, UK - Oct 1, 2007
Residents of Yorkshire could be forgiven for wondering if Easter Island has come to the North of England after at least 19 carved stone heads were left on ...








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Stone head mystery puzzles northern England
Reuters UK, UK - Oct 2, 2007
As many as 20 artfully carved faces, miniature versions of the Easter Island sculptures, have been deposited in sleepy villages across northern England in ...

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Enigmatic artist may be behind the riddle of the invading stone headsThis is London, UK - Oct 2, 2007... of looking like a miniature version of Easter Island, a clamour is growing for the conundrum of the surreptitious sculpture-spreader to be cracked. ...

















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WEIRD NEWS
Commonwealth Times (subscription), VA - Oct 4, 2007
As many as 20 miniature versions of the Easter Island head sculptures have been mysteriously left on doorsteps and outside post offices in villages across ...

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Intriguing news reports fresh off the Internet
Tri-Valley Herald, CA - Oct 5, 2007
The heads are 18-inch-high miniatures of the giant heads on Easter Island, and according to stonemasons the sculptures exhibit quality workmanship. ...

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Who's Been Leaving Heads Behind?
ShortNews.com, Germany - Oct 6, 2007
Small versions of the famous Easter Island Heads have been appearing on doorsteps of some homes and businesses in Northern London and the recipients are at ...

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Intriguing news reports fresh off the Internet
Tri-Valley Herald, CA - Oct 5, 2007
The heads are 18-inch-high miniatures of the giant heads on Easter Island, and according to stonemasons the sculptures exhibit quality workmanship. ...

Learning from Rapa Nui's past

Learning from the past
Cleantech, CA - Sep 30, 2007
During the later centuries of the Mayan civilization, a new society was evolving on faraway Easter Island, some 166 square kilometers of land in the South ...

Moai in Chilean wine area

Wine grapes thrive in sheltered Chilean valley
Contra Costa Times, CA - Sep 30, 2007
... up a steep hillside to an elaborate village with reproductions of houses from Chile's Mapuche and Aymara peoples as well as an Easter Island figure. ...

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

Review: The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Sep 29, 2007
... and an interlude from the fictional diaries of a shipwrecked member of Captain Cook's Easter Island crew, there are a few pages of what feels like ...

Narrative travel book mentions Rapa Nui

The Resourceful Traveler
Chicago Tribune, United States - Sep 29, 2007
another time, Easter Island ("It was as if the island had been waiting for me…") She treats each destination with respect; thus, she takes personally any ...