Mat Lauer/Rapa Nui

Users Follow This Guy Around the World
NBC Universal's "The Today Show" engages fans in an online game of hide-and-seek, letting users explore the exotic locals visited by the show's globe-trotting host, Matt Lauer.
iMedia Connection
May 08, 2007

Yet, Matt's Video Passport did capture my interest. I found the videos well-produced, entertaining, of a good length and informative (I had no idea an American 'rediscovered' Machu Picchu in 1911. I thought Easter Island was currently uninhabited.) The video resolution was also good, although if you watch enough YouTube, anything looks good by comparison.

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Newly released DVD features talking moai

The week's best releases from the pop culture universe
Minneapolis City Pages, MN - Apr 17, 2007
... in this box-office hit about a nightwatchman and some very mobile artifacts — including a playful T. rex skeleton and a talking Easter Island statue. ...

Here are the week's best releases from the pop-culture universe:
Cleveland Scene Weekly, OH - Apr 19, 2007
... in this box-office hit about a night watchman and some very mobile artifacts -- including a playful T. rex skeleton and a talking Easter Island statue. ...

North Pole visitor also visited Rapa Nui

North Pole could receive oldest visitor this weekend
BY BRENT HOPKINS, Staff Writer
LA Daily News
Article Last Updated: 04/16/2007 09:10:53 PM PDT

And, along the way, he raised a family of adventurers to follow his lead. They've arranged trips to Easter Island and the Galapagos.

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Rapa Nui mentioned in article about kite history

Come fly a kite
by David Khorram - MDSpecial to the Saipan Tribune
Saipan Tribune
Friday, April 13, 2007

After its appearance in China, the kite migrated to Korea, Japan, Myanmar (Burma), India, Arabia, and North Africa, then farther south into the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, and the islands of Oceania as far east as Easter Island. Since kites made of leaves have been flown in Malaya and the South Seas from time immemorial, the kite could also have been invented independently in that region.

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Matt Lauer/Rapa Nui

Where on the Web Is Matt Lauer?
New York Times, NY - Apr 10, 2007
SINCE 1998, NBC has been sending a “Today” host to far-flung locales like Angkor Wat, Easter Island and Machu Picchu, all for a feature on the show called ...

Where on the Web Is Matt Lauer?
Tuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - Apr 11, 2007
SINCE 1998, NBC has been sending a “Today” host to far-flung locales like Angkor Wat, Easter Island and Machu Picchu, all for a feature on the show called ...

More mention of Matt Lauer on Rapa Nui

IT'S A SMALL 'WHERE IN THE WORLD' AFTER ALL
by Jaclyn Levin
AllDay
Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:55 AM

“Where in the World is Matt Lauer?” It’s one of my favorite things to work on, as I have seen so many amazing things throughout the years: Easter Island, Shanghai, Machu Picchu, Marrakech, Botswana, the Taj Mahal, the Panama Canal, Moscow, Reykjavik – the list is almost endless.

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Moai-shaped birdbath stolen

The Whig-Standard
Kingston Whig-Standard
Saturday, April 07, 2007 Updated @ 10:44:27 PM

A unique bird bath, shaped like a miniature Easter Island head statue, was stolen sometime between the end of March and April 3 from the front lawn of a home on Fergus Street.

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Easter Island Easter spoofs

"Jesus Choked On Easter Egg" - Claim
The Spoof (satire), UK - Apr 5, 2007
Christians gathering for their annual feverish shindig at the isolated outpost of Christendom, Easter Island, are up-in-arms over the radical views on ...

Yoda, Jedi Master, found in Easter Island tomb
The Spoof (satire), UK - Apr 9, 2007
Archaeologist have discovered a hidden tomb beneath a statue on Easter Island that appears to contain the remains of Yoda, the Jedi Master and his wrecked ...

Rapa Nui and ham radio

Surfin': Hamming at CE0Y
This week, Easter Island is our destination, and a ham radio Web site is our port-of-call.
By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU - Contributing Editor
ARRLWeb
April 5, 2007












A Web site that claims to be the “first Web site associated with an Amateur Radio expedition” extensively documents the September 1995 XR0Y DXpedition to Easter Island and Sala y Gómez (XR0Z), a tiny island East of Easter Island. It is a very interesting read about a fascinating DXpedition.

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Copy of Alameda Sun photographed at Rapa Nui

The Sun Shines Everywhere
Written by Alameda Sun
Alameda Sun
Published: Friday, 30 March 2007











Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, was one of Tina Magill's stops during a month-long excursion in South America. Officially part of Chile, Easter Island is about 2,000 miles from the mainland and is best known for the impressive moai sculptures, each weighing nearly 13 tons.

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Moai comes to life in Night at the Museum

Night at the Museum comes to DVD and we are giving away 5 copies
By Patrick Luce
Monsters and Critics
Mar 28, 2007, 23:47 GMT

When it closes at night, Larry soon learns that things are not what they seem when a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton wants to play fetch, an Easter Island monolith talks to him and Attila the Hun attacks.

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Inlet Dance Theatre performance inspired by trip to Rapa Nui

Reaching out in a shrinking world
Donald Rosenberg - Plain Dealer Dance Critic
Plain Dealer
Thursday, March 22, 2007

During his four days on Easter Island, Wade watched local dancers and heard haunting drum rhythms. He also saw a half-clad Polynesian seated on a horse talking on a cell phone, many other Polynesians carrying laptops and others wearing Eminem T-shirts and Rastafarian caps.

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Mysterious moai in Maryland draws attention

Artist’s Easter Island replica serves as gas station guardian
Idol icon no longer taken for granite
by Kristina Gawrgy - Staff Writer
Photography by Laurie DeWitt⁄The Gazette
Business Gazette
Wednesday, March 21, 2007










The mystery behind the statue at the corner of the Glenmont Tire and Auto Service on Randolph Road in Wheaton has been revealed — it’s the work of a Good Counsel High School faculty member.

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More Easter Island spoofs

Zion Oil prospectors want Passover Island name change
The Spoof (satire), UK - Mar 11, 2007
Easter Island is a Chilean protectorate and the deal bartered a percentage of future oil revenues against a one thousand year lease made out to Brown. ...

"I'ma Pothead," An Easter Head Admits
The Spoof (satire), UK - Mar 11, 2007
BREAKING NEWS: The Spoof reporter may have some leads as to the buyers of the pot grown on Easter Island. The day after he interviewed the pothead, ...

Here come the Easter puns

Easter island: Incest eggs orgy shame
The Spoof (satire), UK - Mar 11, 2007
Easter island- This small isolated outcrop of rock stranded in the vast blue desert of the pacific ocean is known the world over for its mysterious giant ...

Easter Island Statues Actually Petrified Peeps
The Spoof (satire), UK - Mar 11, 2007
Archaeologists on Easter Island have made an incredible discovery in relation to the large statues. They have learned through research and chemical analysis ...

Flintstone fans up in arms as James Cameron shakes their bedrock
The Spoof (satire), UK - Mar 11, 2007

Easter Island has been discovered to be the actual location of the town of Bedrock, long thought to be fictional, according to new archaeological evidence ...

Easter Island Chocolate Candy Recalled
The Spoof (satire), UK - Mar 11, 2007
LUNDON, ENGLUND (IPU)--Cadbury, the British candy manufacturer, has announced a recall of some 30 million tons of Easter Island Statue candy not properly ...

Santa Claus Has North Pole, Bunny Has His Easter Island
The Spoof (satire), UK - Mar 11, 2007
Such eminent scientists as Margaret Mead and Thor Heyerdahl have theorized that the giant stone statues of Easter Island are actually Gods of the people or ...

Name-calling moai highlight of museum movie

In Sight/ Movies: A silly, fun ride into 'living history'
BY RONDA CORNELIUS, STAFF WRITER
asahi.com
03/09/2007

In "Night at the Museum," Rex the dinosaur wants to play fetch; the tiny diorama people wage war; the mummy has a conniption in his sarcophagus; and everyone from the name-calling Easter Island head to the cavalry-riding Teddy Roosevelt jumps into the melee of a secret after-hours wonderworld.

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Pope John Paul II greeting Rapanui in Valparaiso, Chile

He did not only strengthen us
Anna Cichoblazinska talks to Prof. Jan Ryn, psychiatrist, specialist in mountain medicine, former Polish Ambassador to Chile and Bolivia.
ANNA CICHOBLAZINSKA
Sunday - Catholic Magazine
8 March 2007

He was the only Pope who greeted the inhabitants of Easter Island during the meeting with the youth in Valparaiso.

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"Hip meat market" in Arizona features moai

A new chef and menu set for Drift
Carey Sweet
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 22, 2007 12:00 AM

It's a hip meat market in Old Town Scottsdale, where guests ogle one another in a 1960s-style grotto of rock walls, tiki poles, blowfish lamps and Easter Island statues under a low bamboo ceiling.

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"Peaster Island" moai built from 700 cans of peas

Can sculpture benefit offers participants lessons in teamwork
by Charlotte Ferrell Smith - Daily Mail staff
Charleston Daily Mail
Thursday February 22, 2007

Peaster Island by Moment Engineers, Inc., includes 700 cans of peas for the statues that mimic the prehistoric monuments of Easter Island in the South Pacific. Bags of rice serve as sand.

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More about Night at the Museum DVD release

Night at the Museum Comes Home
Source: Fox Home Entertainment
ComingSoon.net
February 20, 2007

When it closes at night, Larry soon learns that things are not what they seem when a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton wants to play fetch, an Easter Island monolith talks to him and Attila The Hun attacks.

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