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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

"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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Quebec actor Roy Dupuis to sail to Rapa Nui

Sailing right along
Edmonton Sun, Canada - September 28, 2007
"We'll sail to the Panama Canal, the Galapagos, to Easter Island," he continues. Dupuis expects to be gone five years, minimum. ...

Lowbrow moai in Vancouver

12 tikis to Midnite
24 Hours Vancouver, Canada - Sep 12, 2007
The local lowbrow artist and owner of Lucky Red Gallery (Union Street at Main) thought of everything, including red Plexiglas lit from behind to look like lava flow, a nine-foot styrofoam Easter Island head and a reconstructed fridge that looks like a ...

Moai replica in Kerrville, Texas

Tee Pee Motel restoration brings back a bygone American era
USA Today - Sep 11, 2007
Texas has its share of attractions that were once considered tacky, like the replicas of Stonehenge and Easter Island in Kerrville, and the Eiffel Tower topped by a cowboy hat in Paris (Paris, Texas, that is).

Tucson, Arizona artist painted miniature golf moai

Local artist aims brush at lesser Tucson landmarks
Inside Tucson Business, AZ - Aug 20, 2007
... Shari’s Drive In on North First Avenue, a Lucky Wishbone restaurant and the Easter Island sculpture at Magic Carpet Miniature Golf on East Speedway. ...

Costner's Rapa Nui was "homo-erotic fallacy"

The Front Page: Career Killers - Dead Directors and the Movies ...
PopMatters, IL - Aug 20, 2007
Pre-dating Apocalypto by more than a decade, this tale of civil war among the indigenous people of Easter Island wanted to be a New Age naturalist adventure ...

Poet likens moai to loneliness

Poets put culture back into multiculturalism
ChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - Aug 12, 2007
Her persona likens the Easter Island "Stone heads" to her own loneliness: "Emptiness / reigns // imperishable // even over something / this solid. ...

Theme park in Shenzhen has "Easter Island" replica

Switzerland comes to Shenzhen
Catherine Jiang
Asia Sentinel
06 August 2007

Shenzhen, itself, with virtually no authentic cultural or historic attractions of its own, hardly lacks for theme parks. Window of the World was the city’s first stab at giving tourists a global experience on a reduced scale, with smaller versions of the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the White House, Lincoln Memorial, Easter Island, the Matterhorn, Notre Dame, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Stonehenge, Mount Fuji and more, including bikini-clad women prancing to “Sex Bomb” in the “Cultural Palace.”

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American songwriter's song about Birdman Cult of Rapa Nui

sound check
By BOB HAM
Oregonlive.com
Friday, July 13, 2007

One particular tale she points to is the song, "Oh Bring Back the Egg Unbroken," concerning the cults of Easter Island. "The tribes there gradually cut down all the trees on this lush island to transport those giant stone heads," Craeger says, "and what they expected to happen didn't work out and they died out. I saw it as a kind of a microcosm of the problems we're having with our planet, and it got me wondering how long we would last if we cut down the last tree."

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Arizona restaurant/lounge features moai

Drift Polynesian Restaurant & Lounge
Carey Sweet
azcentral.com
Jul. 6, 2007 12:00 AM

While she's agreeing that she, too, really likes chef Patrick Karvis' cooking, she's also acknowledging that she understands my point. Because without any disrespect to the 3-year-old Drift, this is hardly a fine dining setting. This is an island style bar, done up in retro-hip grotto with rock walls, tiki poles, blowfish lamps and Easter Island statues under a low bamboo ceiling.

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