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Free associations
- Cook Islands [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Niue [r]: South Pacific island country (capital Alofi) in 'free association' with New Zealand (provides citizenship, defence, etc., with Niuean consent); built on coral atoll, area 162 miles²/260km² (population about 1,300; estimated 20,000 in New Zealand). [e]
Territories
- Ross Dependency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tokelau [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Australia [r]: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [e]
- Underarm bowling incident of 1981 [r]:
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- A-League [r]: Premier domestic Australian football (soccer) competition. [e]
- Agricultural show [r]: A public event showcasing the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with the occupations of agriculture and animal husbandry. [e]
- Amber House [r]: One of the older two storey villas in New Zealand's third founded city of Nelson. [e]
- Anglo-Irish Treaty [r]: Treaty between the Irish rebel government and the United Kingdom which established the Irish Free State, and played the greatest role in igniting the Irish Civil War. [e]
- Apple (tree) [r]: Pomaceous fruit of an apple tree, species Malus domestica, family Rosaceae. [e]
- Archipelago [r]: A chain of islands. [e]
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations [r]: Association of South-East Asian Nations; treaty group formed in 1967, originally comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; Brunei was admitted as a member in 1984, Vietnam in 1995, Burma and Laos in 1997, Cambodia in 1999; Australia is a "dialogue partner". [e]
- Atheism [r]: Absence of belief in any god or other supernatural beings; distinct from antitheism, or opposition to religion, and agnosticism, the position that one cannot know whether such beings exist. [e]
- Australian Antarctic Territory [r]: Part of Antarctica claimed by Australia, covering 42% of it's land mass. [e]
- Australia [r]: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [e]
- BBC [r]: British state-owned radio and TV broadcasting organization founded in 1922 under Lord John Reith. [e]
- Banknotes of the Chatham Islands [r]: Currency issued by the private organization Chatham Islands Note Corporation in 2000 and 2001. [e]
- Baronet [r]: Hereditary honour, higher than a Knight, but lower than a Baron. [e]
- Beekeeping [r]: The management and maintenance of colonies of honeybees. [e]
- Beetle [r]: Beetles are insects that have elytra, which are modified fore wings that are hard and shell-like and protect the hind wings. [e]
- Biodiversity hotspot [r]: A species-rich ecosystem in danger of destruction by human activities. [e]
- British Empire [r]: The worldwide domain controlled by Britain from its origins about 1600 [e]
- CIA activities in Asia-Pacific [r]: This is a regional-level subpage dealing with CIA intelligence and operations pertaining to the Asia-Pacific area. Large topics may be in subordinate pages. [e]
- Cargo cult [r]: A group of social movements that began in Melanesia in the late nineteenth century which believe that manufactured goods, including canned goods, airplanes, and automobiles, were created by spirits or ancestors of Melanesian people. [e]
- Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. [e]
- Cipher [r]: A means of combining plaintext (of letters or numbers, or bits), using an algorithm that mathematically manipulates the individual elements of plaintext, into ciphertext, a form unintelligible to any recipient that does not know both the algorithm and a randomizing factor called a cryptographic key [e]
- Civil engineering [r]: A broad field of engineering dealing with the design, construction, and maintenance of fixed structures, including roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, and water supply and sewage systems. [e]
- Committee for State Security [r]: Usually known as the KGB, one of Organs of State Security of the Soviet Union, with extensive responsibilities in intelligence (information gathering), border security, counterintelligence and suppression of dissent; split up in the Russian Federation with counterintelligence in the FSB and foreign intelligence in the SVR [e]
- Commonwealth English [r]: A blanket term for the English that developed during the British Empire separately from the United States of America. [e]
- Communications Security Establishment [r]: The Canadian government organization responsible for communications security and signals intelligence [e]
- Country [r]: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]
- Coxiella burnetii [r]: The rickettsia that causes Q fever. [e]
- Cryptology [r]: The theory and practice of protecting the content of communications, and of defeating the protective measures [e]
- Culture area [r]: A region, in anthropology, in which the environment and cultures are very similar. [e]
- Dacrydium cupressinum [r]: A large evergreen coniferous tree endemic to the forests of New Zealand. [e]
- DePaul University [r]: A private university in Chicago, Illinois, USA, founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1898. [e]
- Doctor Who [r]: British science-fiction television series depicting the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as 'the Doctor'; original series ran from 1963 to 1989 on the BBC, followed by a 1996 television movie; relaunched in 2005. [e]
- Domestication [r]: The process of habituating wild animals or plants to live in association with humans, thereby providing us with food, livestock and pets. [e]
- Dominion [r]: Term applied to the first members of the British Commonwealth to become independent. [e]
- Elizabeth II [r]: The present monarch and head of state of the United Kingdom since 1952 (born 1926). [e]
- English language [r]: A West Germanic language widely spoken in the United Kingdom, its territories and dependencies, Commonwealth countries and former colonial outposts of the British Empire; has developed the status of a global language. [e]
- Ernest Rutherford [r]: (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937)The first person to split an atom. [e]
- First-class cricket [r]: Class of cricket matches of three or more days scheduled duration, between two sides of eleven players and officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. [e]
- Focus on the Family [r]: American Christian Right non-profit organization founded in 1977 by James Dobson; Gary Bauer resigned to run for the American Presidency; Partner ministry of Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview [e]
- Gallirallus australis (Weka) [r]: Flightless bird species of the rail family, endemic to New Zealand. [e]
- Gasoline [r]: A fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines derived from petroleum crude oil. [e]
- Georges Cuvier [r]: (1769 - 1832) vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist who established the extinction of past lifeforms as an accepted scientific fact. [e]
- Government Communications Headquarters [r]: The British government agency responsible for signals intelligence and information assurance [e]
- Government Communications Security Bureau [r]: The organization, in the government of New Zealand, which has responsibility for information security and signals intelligence [e]
- Gu Cheng [r]: (顾城; 1956-1993) Chinese modernist poet active in the "Misty Poets" movement; killed himself in an apparent murder-suicide in New Zealand. [e]
- Hawaiian bible [r]: Translation of the original Hebrew Old Testament, and Greek New Testament texts into the Hawaiian Language [e]
- History of television technology [r]: Chronology of the development and history of television. [e]
- Horse [r]: Strong, intelligent equine in domestication for thousands of years and also found in the wild in feral populations. [e]
- Irish Free State [r]: Dominion of the British Empire between 1922-1948. Formed following the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, ended with the declaration of the Republic of Ireland in 1948. [e]
- Island [r]: Land mass, especially one smaller than a continent, entirely surrounded by water. [e]
- James Cook [r]: (1728-1779) a British explorer and navigator. [e]
- Korean War [r]: A modern conflict (1950-1953) fought on the Korean peninsula between the US-led UN forces, and the Communist coalition of North Korea and China. [e]
- Kroger Babb [r]: (30 December 1906 – 28 January 1980) American film and television producer and showman, whose marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, from the medicine-show tradition. [e]
- Lacrosse [r]: Outdoor team sport for ten players (men) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the crosse) in order to pass and catch a hard rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals by propelling the ball into the opposition goal. [e]
- Latitude [r]: Location north or south of the equator, measured in degrees from the equator, which is 0. [e]
- Longitude [r]: Angular distance on the earth's surface, measured east or west from the prime meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or hours), minutes, and seconds. [e]
- Mammal [r]: A warm-blooded animal with a backbone which also has hair, and produces milk to feed its young. [e]
- Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Moving panorama [r]: Form of visual entertainment in the nineteenth century, utilising contiguous views of passing scenery, as if seen from a boat or a train window. [e]
- Multiple sclerosis [r]: A chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). [e]
- Nation [r]: A large group of people with a singular, shared, and commonly-accepted historical identity, identified by a universally recognised name. [e]
- Nativism (politics) [r]: Interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. [e]
- Nelson, New Zealand [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [r]: Award conferred once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institute, for physiology or medicine, since 1901. [e]
- Norfolk Island [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nose [r]: The sensory organ with which vertebrates perceive odours, i.e. volatile chemicals in the air. [e]
- Oceania [r]: A major geographical region of the planet Earth, mostly in the southern hemisphere, consisting of Australasia (the Australian continent and New Zealand), Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. [e]
- Orange Order [r]: The largest Unionist organisation in Northern Ireland, with at least 75,000 members. [e]
- Pacific Ocean [r]: the largest single mass of water in the world, lying between Asia and Australia on its west, and North America and South America on its east. [e]
- Pound sterling [r]: The currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown dependencies (the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands) and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory, subdivided into 100 pence, with the symbol £. [e]
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh [r]: The husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. [e]
- Professional Engineer [r]: The term for registered or licensed engineer in some countries, including the United States and Canada who are permitted to offer their professional services directly to the public. [e]
- Prumnopitys taxifolia [r]: A coniferous tree endemic to New Zealand. [e]
- Quiverfull [r]: A Protestant, Evangelical movement that advocates large families and no birth control. [e]
- Salt and health [r]: Article describing health effects of salt (sodium chloride) in the diet, giving governments' recommendations for consumption. [e]
- Sir Michael Hardie Boys [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Snow Patrol [r]: A British indie rock band formed by students in 1994 in Dundee. [e]
- South Pacific [r]: A 1949 musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan, inspired by James A. Michener's 1948 Tales of the South Pacific, a collection of stories. [e]
- Stairway to Heaven [r]: 1971 song written and recorded by Led Zeppelin, which became their signature tune and a centrepiece for the group's live performances. [e]
- Sympathetic magic [r]: The cultural concept that a symbol, or small aspect, of a more powerful entity can, as desired by the user, invoke or compel that entity [e]
- Systematics [r]: The study of the diversity of organism characteristics, and how they relate via evolution. [e]
- Time zone [r]: Any of the 24 longitudinal divisions of the earth's surface in which a standard time is kept, the primary division being that bisected by the Greenwich meridian. [e]
- Tuatara [r]: An amniote of the family Sphenodontidae, native to and found only in New Zealand. [e]
- U.S. intelligence and global health [r]: Analysis by the United States intelligence community, in conjunction with more general health organizations, relating to issues of human survival from health-related issues [e]
- U2 [r]: One of the world's most popular rock groups, formed in Dublin in 1976. [e]
- USS Alcyone (AKA-7) [r]: WWII U.S. Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Arneb (AKA-56) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship of the Second World War and beyond; the AKA longest in service [e]
- USS Betelgeuse (AKA-11) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Cepheus (AKA-18) [r]: A WWII attack cargo ship of the Andromeda-class, crewed by the United States Coast Guard [e]
- USS Fomalhaut (AKA-5) [r]: attack cargo ship of the Second World War [e]
- USS Libra (AKA-12) [r]: Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8) [r]: Mount McKinley class amphibious force command ship. [e]
- USS Thuban (AKA-19) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship of the Second World War [e]
- USS Titania (AKA-13) [r]: Arcturus class attack cargo ship named after one of the moons of Uranus [e]
- USS Virgo (AKA-20) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship of the Second World War, later converted to an ammunition ship [e]
- USS Yancey (AKA-93) [r]: Serving in WWII, an attack cargo ship [e]
- United States Pacific Command [r]: The U.S. Unified Combatant Command, headquartered in Hawaii, and responsible for the Pacific and East Asia [e]
- University of Canterbury [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vietnam War [r]: A post-colonial independence/Cold War conflict between communist North Vietnam against South Vietnam, assisted by the United States (1955-1975), to unify Vietnam; won by North Vietnam in 1975. [e]
- Western Sahara [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World War I, Australia [r]: Wartime preparations of Australian forces, and participation of Australian units under British high command [e]
- World of Warcraft [r]: An online video game, released by Blizzard Entertainment in 2004. [e]
- Yankee [r]: An American of New England origin or heritage; a Northerner in the American Civil War [e]
