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Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere CBE (25 July 1937 – 13 December 2020) was a New Zealand educationalist, spiritual leader, Māori language advocate, academic and conservationist. Of Māori descent, she affiliated with the iwi Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Ruapani and Ngāti Kahungunu. Her influences spread throughout New Zealand in education ...
Hetet was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1973 Queen's Birthday Honours, [13] promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1984 Queen's Birthday Honours, [14] and finally, in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to traditional Māori arts and crafts. [15]
Hetet first rose to recognition in New Zealand as one of the carvers of the meeting house at Waiwhetū in the 1950s, [1] during which time he met Erenora Puketapu-Hetet, who become his wife. [2] His grandmother, Rangimārie Hetet was a renowned weaver from Te Kūiti , who passed her skills on to Erenora Puketapu-Hetet.
In 1976, plans were drawn up for a playing field and speedway in Rangiotu, near the Hikatoto burial ground and Te Rangimarie Marae. A sound barrier was proposed as a way of reducing noise. [8] In 1996, the Government closed down the Rangiotu School, with a roll of 24 pupils and four classrooms, as part of nationwide closures.
Rose-Noëlle was a trimaran that capsized at 6 AM on June 4, 1989, in the southern Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Four men (John Glennie, James Nalepka, Rick Hellriegel and Phil Hoffman) survived adrift on the wreckage of the ship for 119 days.
Daniel Ceccaldi (25 July 1927 – 27 March 2003) was a French actor.. He was born in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France.The mild-mannered Daniel Ceccaldi is famous as Claude Jade's father Lucien Darbon in François Truffaut's movies Stolen Kisses and Bed and Board.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʒozɛf ʁədute], 10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from the Austrian Netherlands, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published as large coloured stipple engravings. [1]
Joseph O'Kelly (29 January 1828 – 9 January 1885), composer, pianist and choral conductor, was the most prominent member of a family of Irish musicians in 19th- and early 20th-century France.