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Heritage Festival and Heritage Hotel go hand in hand
A key feature of Auckland’s Heritage Festival this year was the chance to tour the Grand Tearoom in the old Farmers building, now operating as the Heritage Hotel.
Other Auckland landmarks celebrated during the festival were the Auckland Museum and Rangitoto.
The old Farmer’s building was built in 1914. At six storeys high with a rooftop playground it [...]
How will future generations view President Bush?
As the curtains are drawn on George W. Bush’s presidency he appears to have cemented a position as the worst president in United States history. But is this fair?
On his watch, New York and Washington were attacked on September 11, 2001, America started two wars, and the current economic woes have many staring down the [...]
Speed’s illegal life exposed
Pure methamphetamine hysteria is recent, and speed references have been littered throughout popular culture since the 1950s, but Nicolas Rasmussen’s On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine shows its use is nothing new – it is even possible grandad may have popped a form of the drug to help his studies back in the day.
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