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Most celebration of Matariki begins in the last quarter phase of the moon after the constellation's first appearance, during 3–4 nights known as "the nights of Tangaroa" (ngā po o Tangaroa), and finishes on the night before the new moon. [10] The new moon, or whiro, is considered inauspicious in the Māori calendar, so would spoil any ...
Rangiānehu Mātāmua ONZM is a New Zealand indigenous studies and Māori cultural astronomy academic and is Professor of Mātauranga Māori at Massey University.He is the first Māori person to win a Prime Minister's Science Prize, is a fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, and is the chief advisor to the New Zealand Government on the public holiday Matariki.
Roosevelt delivering the speech to the Congress. The first paragraph of the speech was worded to reinforce Roosevelt's portrayal of the United States as a victim of unprovoked Japanese aggression. The initial draft read, "a date which will live in world history". Roosevelt rephrased it as "a date which will live in infamy."
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On Thursday, August 30, 2012, American actor and director Clint Eastwood gave a speech at the Republican National Convention.Eastwood had endorsed Mitt Romney for the 2012 United States presidential election earlier that month, and spent much of his speech's running time on a largely improvised routine in which he addressed an empty chair that represented President Barack Obama.
The Allen Media Group CEO spoke to the importance of representation in his speech at the annual awards ceremony earlier this year. Last month, “Byron Allen presents theGrio Awards” returned to ...
Nearly twenty thousand MAGA die-hards flooded Madison Square Garden for a sold out rally for former President Donald Trump in New York City.. Tens of thousands of people were turned away as the ...
Hope. Obama began drafting his speech while staying in a hotel in Springfield, Illinois, several days after learning he would deliver the address. [9] According to his account of that day in The Audacity of Hope, Obama states that he began by considering his own campaign themes and those specific issues he wished to address, and while pondering the various people he had met and stories he had ...