Sweden, Norway part III: Closed for Easter
Juneau Empire (subscription), AK - September 28, 2007
Moai relic: Postcard showing the excavation of ancient stone statue on Easter Island. Oslo has many fine museums. I wanted to see the Henrik Ibsen Museum. ...
Time to walk away
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - September 28, 2007
His eeriest case study is Easter Island, a once-thriving society that is now treeless and desolate, its huge stone statues a testament to the fact that it ...
Kaua‘i represented at sustainability summit
Lihue Garden Island, HI - September 28, 2007
Drawing from his personal work with the Hopi Indians and Rapanui people of Easter Island, Tamminen explained it is up to the state culture to either work ...
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. ...
The Why Files -- whyfiles.org
Why Files - September 28, 2007
Were they blown out to sea by a storm and then lucky enough to wash up on remote flyspeck islands like Tahiti, Easter Island or Hawaii? ...
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Science Magazine (subscription) - September 28, 2007
... of the eastern margins of the Pacific Ocean, delimited by Hawai'i, New Zealand, and Easter Island, the last region on Earth to be settled by humans. ...
The Stone Gods
Metro, UK - Sep 27, 2007
The second section deals with the destruction of the ecosystem on Easter Island; the final part depicts a horrific, marginal world inhabited by the toxic ...
Book review provokes thought among Rotarians
Sulphur Southwest Daily News, LA - Sep 26, 2007
Finchum said Collapse covers several famous failed civilizations including Easter Island and Greenland and Iceland. Overall, Collapse shows the correlation ...
A busy season promises to keep troupes on their toes
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Sep 22, 2007
One of the biggest projects for Bill Wade's modern company is a collaboration with a Rapa Nui choreographer from Easter Island in October as part of an ...
Head cases
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Sep 21, 2007
I felt this particularly in the Easter Island section, the central part and hinge-point of the book. The history of that island and its people, ...
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson (Hamish Hamilton, £16.99)
Daily Mail, UK - Sep 24, 2007
... islander on Easter Island (hence the novel's title); the second involving a company operative and a prototype robot in post-apocalyptic London. ...
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Science Magazine (subscription) - September 21, 2007
Easter Island is famous for many reasons: its remoteness, its total deforestation, its hundreds of giant stone statues, their destruction by the carvers' own descendants, the violent transformation of its Polynesian society, and as a metaphor for our ...
South America Cruises: Vibrant Cultures, Natural Splendors And ...
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - September 21, 2007
Then, departing from Santiago on February 6, QE2 offers the rare opportunity to visit a more distant part of South America, Chile's mysterious Easter Island, as the ship sails across the Pacific Ocean. A bounty of choices is offered on five ships and ...
Huntsville Nature Club’s new season starts next Monday
Huntsville Forester, Canada - September 20, 2007
The first Huntsville Nature Club speaker for the year is Trisha Healy, a club member who spent seven weeks last winter exploring, through hiking and sailing, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tahiti and the famous Easter Island.
Steppes Travel launches new Travel Ideas section on Website.
Free press releases (press release), UK - Sep 18, 2007
Current travel ideas include news of a new Phillippe Starck designed hotel in Rio, Brazil; a new lodge opening on Easter Island; the opening of Mahoora Safari Camp in Sri Lanka situated in one of the best places in the world to spot leopards; ...
Learning language at UofL more than conjugating verbs
U Of L News, KY - Sep 17, 2007
This engraving of French explorers on the island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) was published in 1797. It is one of several by Duché de Vancy, official artist for the Jean-Francois de Lapérouse expedition, that Greene will use in class.
BASHED, BRUISED AND BEAUTIFUL: A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHILE’S EASTER ...
Santiago Times (subscription), Chile - Sep 16, 200717, 2007)
(Ed. Note: Traveling to Easter Island? Our friend Paul Davies just did, and his essay below should help orient any would-be traveler to one of the world’s most remote islands.
POR AGENCIAS: Agencia IBNW
InfoBolsa, Spain - Sep 14, 2007
The award reflects Yoo by Philippe Starck s creativity and innovation in designing a development that includes a spectacular two-story entrance with columns inspired by the Moai Statues of Easter Island; French or Blue St. Tropez limestone or Black ...
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:
Classic physique photography
Bay Area Reporter, CA - Aug 30, 2007
His dark eyes are as enigmatic as those of the carved stone idols on Easter Island. He's a flesh-and-blood monolith staring off into the distance.
Host with the most
Vancouver North Shore Outlook, Canada - Aug 30, 2007
From New Zealand to Sudan to Easter Island, it seems music lovers across the globe have become enamoured with Canadian independent music.
Time for heroes
The Japan Times, Japan - Aug 30, 2007
By MARK SCHILLING The ways of Japanese TV drama producers must be as mysterious to their Hollywood counterparts as the statues of Easter Island. Takako Matsu, Nene Otsuka, Norito Yashima AND Hiroshi Abe in "Hero." (c)2007 FUJI TELEVISION. TOHO.
Cert PG, 104mins HH
Mirror.co.uk, UK - Aug 30, 2007
Radiating the charisma of an insurance salesman, and with a face as unreadable and expressionless as an Easter Island statue, this is the stuff of Razzies.
Battle for Bonner
Courier Mail, Australia - Aug 31, 2007
Crumbed bream to the left, Easter Island heads and women's fibreglass breasts to the right. It's a world away from my permanent digs in the city's inner west.
Venezuela's Chavez arrives to Colombia to broker hostage for rebel ...
International Herald Tribune, France - Aug 31, 2007
An "agreement to create a demilitarized zone involving a tiny slice of land the same size as Easter Island and representing just 0.015 percent of Colombia's territory as a location for a secure prisoner swap, is now standing between the FARC hostages ...
Ancient Watering Hole Gives Up Treasure Trove of Mammoth Fossils
Voice of America - Aug 31, 2007
Last year, she visited an archeological site on Easter Island, but she says looking for 26000 year-old mammoth bones is different.
Venezuela's Chavez Meets With Colombian
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Aug 31, 2007
An ``agreement to create a demilitarized zone involving a tiny slice of land the same size as Easter Island and representing just 0.015 percent of Colombia's territory as a location for a secure prisoner swap, is now standing between the FARC hostages ...
General Sir Mike Jackson speaks out
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Aug 31, 2007
... of the recently retired Army man but he might just as well be in disguise because all I can see is the maroon Parachute Regiment beret, the pressed fatigues and the gaunt features of an Easter Island monolith that dominated his military campaigns.
Death and the documentarian
Globe and Mail, Canada - Sep 5, 2007
Shortly after the film was finished and Raymont was taking a vacation on Easter Island, he heard that General Augusto Pinochet had died.
Lost City of ‘Mu’ found
Zee News, India - Sep 9, 2007
Mr Kamura believes the city had a castle, a shrine, a triumphal arch, Moai-like statues found on Easter Island and even a coliseum once upon a time, when the city was above water.
[College Basketball] Topic: Tennessee 11 Temple 6
Covers, Canada - Sep 11, 2007
Two of Temple's best ball-handlers, Rick Trudeaux and John Kneib, stood like Easter Island statues in Chuck Taylors, passing the ball back and forth for minutes at a time.
‘He was a real character. He was fiercely loyal and a wonderful ...
York Press, UK - Sep 12, 2007
They did a round-the-world tour for their honeymoon including USA, Easter Island, New Zealand and Australia. At the time of his death, Danny, was working for BT near Ipswich, and still kept up his weightlifting and his passion for motorbikes.
I'm So Tired of Athletic Fatties
SportsFan Magazine, MD - Sep 12, 2007
And he won't be getting a lot of infield hits unless the opposing infielders have the defensive skills of the Easter Island statues. Dmitri Young could be the Comeback Player of the Year in the NL; he might also acquire The Gilbert Brown Award.
Queens of darkness, and a princess of light
Ottawa Citizen, Canada - Sep 13, 2007
It sits there, as mysterious and implacable as an Easter Island statue. Through one of the open windows on the bus comes the scent of KFC and exhaust.
It's not over till the little guy sings
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 22 hours ago
A chorus of senior Liberals mills around a large stone Easter Island face, which looks just like Malcolm Fraser. They all wear dark suits and sing the rousing drinking song Oh who will be Treasur-ah-ha-ha?
