| Who Are the Maori? |
 | The indigenous people of New Zealand are the Maori, belonging to the Polynesian group. Between 800 and 1,350 AD, a wave of Polynesians coming from Tonga and Samoa on their canoes settled in New Zealand. The Maori tradition says that a Polynesian chief of the island of Hawaiki, called Ngahua, knowing the abundance of jade in New Zealand, a shiny tough green stone used for making carvings, collars and adornments, headed an expedition made o ... [read more >>] |
| 23 February 2008, 07:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Silence, Please! New Version Of Google To Be Rolled Out! |
 | A couple and some volunteers are now working on a new flavor of the famous Google search that might be officially included in the search technology very soon. Potaua Biasiny-Tule, 32 year old and his wife, Nikolasa, 35 year old, formed a team of volunteers and started translating several search pages in order to develop a special Google Maori webpage. According to The New Zealand Herald, the official from the Mountain View giant ... [read more >>] |
| 23 July 2007, 09:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |