A Magazine piece made using a variety of sources about the making of the film “The Worlds Fastest Indian” featuring Anthony Hopkins as Burt Munro, The Famous New Zealander who broke a land speed record.
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Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1981: Marc Hunter’s promo-video for the hit single ‘Big City Talk’ taken from the 1981 album ‘Big City Talk’. Note: This was during Marc’s solo venture after his departure from Dragon. en.wikipedia.org Marc_Hunter en.wikipedia.org Dragon_%28band%29 ——————————————- NZOZ NZOZ1981 1981 Australia Early Eighties 1980’s 1980s . . . → Read More: Marc Hunter – Big City Talk (1981) New Plymouth is one of the biggest cities in the Taranaki region of the North Island. The coastal city was named after a place called Plymouth in England from where the first settlers came. It was declared a city in the year 1949. Â The population of New Plymouth City is 45,000 and it . . . → Read More: New Plymouth – Heaven for FDI in New Zealand Don’t Dream It’s Over is a song written by New Zealander Neil Finn and performed by Australian/New Zealand band Crowded House for their debut album Crowded House. Lyrics: There is freedom within, there is freedom without Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup There’s a battle ahead, many battles are lost . . . → Read More: Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over (HQ) The strains of Dave Dobbyn’s hit song Welcome Home will ring out in an Auckland Air New Zealand hangar today as the bodies of four New Zealanders killed in an air crash in France are returned home. The four men died when an Air New Zealand Airbus A320 crashed into the sea near . . . → Read More: Air NZ A320 Welcome Home (Coffins returned to New Zealand) Margaret Moth – Fearless – CNN Camerawoman – Amazing Person! – Part 3 of 4 – CNN Short Documentary (25min): Sept 22, 2009 – Born Margaret Wilson: New Zealander – Wounded: July 23, 1992, Sarajevo – Diagnosed Cancer 2009, Hospice Rochester Minnesota – Passed: March 21, 2010 . . . → Read More: Margaret Moth – Fearless – CNN Camerawoman – Amazing Person! – Part 3 of 4 More at: www.avweb.com New Zealander (he’s half Australian) Rudy Heeman has, over 11 years, transformed his hovercraft into a wing in ground effect vehicle, and now it’s for sale. Heeman says he’s found the ideal flight altitude under the vehicle’s 7-meter wingspan to be about 1.5 meters, over flat water or land, where . . . → Read More: Rudy Heeman’s “Flying” Hovercraft Te Araroa translates to Long Pathway in English and when complete will be one of the longest pathways in the world. Te Araroa is currently being built in New Zealand by the Te Araora Trust and 8 regional trusts and is due to be completed in February 2011. The trail will stretch 3000 Kms . . . → Read More: Te Araroa Trek across New Zealand Margaret Moth – Fearless – CNN Camerawoman – Amazing Person! – Part 2 of 4 – CNN Short Documentary (25min): Sept 22, 2009 – Born Margaret Wilson: New Zealander – Wounded: July 23, 1992, Sarajevo – Diagnosed Cancer 2009, Hospice Rochester Minnesota – Passed: March 21, 2010 . . . → Read More: Margaret Moth – Fearless – CNN Camerawoman – Amazing Person! – Part 2 of 4 Every developed nation prides itself on having some form of structured sports program that it conducts through the year, and attempts to project itself as a sporting nation. The reason is not simply to be successful on the world stage. There is a not so hidden agenda and that is to promote good health . . . → Read More: The Top Annual Sporting Events in New Zealand |
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