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Mount Maunganui, or Mauao, known to locals as The Mount, [3] is a 232 metre (760 foot) volcanic dome at the end of a peninsula in the Tauranga suburb of Mount Maunganui in New Zealand, beside the eastern entrance to the city's harbour. Local Māori consider Mauao to be tapu (sacred), and it plays an important role in their mythology.
Mount Maunganui is located atop a sand bar that connects Mauao to the mainland, a geographical formation known as a tombolo.Because of this formation, the residents of Mount Maunganui have both a harbour beach (Pilot Bay) and an ocean beach with great surf, within a short distance.
Robley was born at Funchal, Madeira, on 28 June 1840, the son of John Horatio Robley, a captain (retired) of the Madras Native Infantry, East India Company, [4] [5] and Augusta Jane Penfold (1809–1868), second daughter of William and Sarah Penfold of Madiera. [6]
According to a legend, J. C. Brown was a British prospector who discovered a lost underground city beneath Mount Shasta in 1904. [12] Brown had been hired by the Lord Cowdray Mining Company of England to prospect for gold and discovered a cave which sloped downward for 11 miles (18 km).
Eagles DT recommended book to Brown, who embraced it On the flight home from the Sept. 22 Eagles-New Orleans Saints game, Eagles defensive tackle Moro Ojomo opened a book he’d been meaning to ...
In a story recounted from Hone Te Paina of Oraka, Foveaux Strait; [4] on the Tākitimu Mountains there haunts a woman patupaiarehe named Kaiheraki, who appears as a spectrelike giantess striding along the mountaintops on misty days. [15] Kaiheraki's story begins with a mortal man named Hautapu who was a skilled hunter and tohunga.
The book recounts Brown's experiences growing up as close friends with Klebold, his time as a student at Columbine, and his experiences with media, police, and school authorities following the shooting. No Easy Answers tells Brown's personal story of growing up with Klebold, befriending and falling out with Harris, and surviving the massacre ...
A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff (born 1930) is an American writer and academic, known for her work collecting and analyzing literature of Native American writers. She was instrumental in establishing the academic discipline of Native American literature. [ 1 ]