New Zealand: Breathtaking Kiwi landscapes can allievate winter blues - PennLive.com (blog)


PennLive.com (blog)
New Zealand: Breathtaking Kiwi landscapes can allievate winter blues
PennLive.com (blog)
New Zealand produces some of the world's finest wines as well as luscious lamb and seafood. It's the setting for dazzling films. And its beauty encompasses fjords and craggy Alps in the south, volcanoes in the north and pastoral river valleys where ...

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"A Useless Winter" (4th warmest January on record, but why?) - Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)


Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
"A Useless Winter" (4th warmest January on record, but why?)
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Driest winter on record for much of the Red River Valley. Source: inforum.com. 1 million square miles of snow cover in January. "According to data from the Rutgers Global Snow Lab, the average snow cover in January was 1 million square miles, ...

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Political round-up: February 7 - New Zealand Herald

Political round-up: February 7
New Zealand Herald
Photo / NZ Herald Having talked up the possibility of conflict at Waitangi for a week, commentators can't seem to agree whether the outcome was violent and abusive or the usual ritualised dissent. Although Waitangi Day itself was very peaceful and ...

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Floods ravage two Australian states - Stuff.co.nz

Floods ravage two Australian states
Stuff.co.nz
The town of St George is expected to be completely cut off by about 9pm (11pm, New Zealand time) on Sunday ahead of an expected 15-metre flood peak - 1.5 metres higher than previous records - on Tuesday. A mandatory evacuation order was declared after ...

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All Blacks, Crusaders miss out at Laureus Awards - TVNZ

All Blacks, Crusaders miss out at Laureus Awards
TVNZ
... France put an end to 24 years of bitter disappointment for New Zealand rugby fans and helped to ease the minds of a nation still grieving and recovering from national tragedies with the Christchurch earthquakes and the Pike River mining disaster.

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NZ POLITICS DAILY: Maori Party rebellion: cock-up, conspiracy, crisis or beat-up? - National Business Review

NZ POLITICS DAILY: Maori Party rebellion: cock-up, conspiracy, crisis or beat-up?
National Business Review
Given that the new parliamentary term hasn't even really begun yet, the threat to leave the coalition came as a surprise to most, not least to National itself. There is good evidence for the cock-up theory, especially on National's part, ...

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The rise and fall of Jinja's Bujagali falls - New Vision


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The rise and fall of Jinja's Bujagali falls
New Vision
From 2006, having had a welcome delay with the river left open, dam construction under new managers Bujagali Energy Limited (BEL), restarted with a completion date of 2011. Other adventure oriented activities such as; horseback safaris, jet-boating and ...

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