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  • New Zealand soprano born into a Maori background and adopted by a couple in Gisborne, who gave her a first name which is the Maori word for Bell.

    The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference 2008

  • On looking at this tag I found it was labelled "Gisborne" - which is about a thousand miles from Canterbury.

    Empire Relations—Personal and Impersonal 1926

  • It isn't what I'd call required tele, but is highly entertaining stuff, and features the handsome Richard Armitage who always reminds me rather of pictures of my late father as a young man as a snarlingly villainous Guy of Gisborne, which is reason enough in itself to watch a bit of harmless-fun tv.

    Happy Easter! Imogen 2009

  • It isn't what I'd call required tele, but is highly entertaining stuff, and features the handsome Richard Armitage who always reminds me rather of pictures of my late father as a young man as a snarlingly villainous Guy of Gisborne, which is reason enough in itself to watch a bit of harmless-fun tv.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Imogen 2009

  • After his passing, the period from 1922 to 1947 became known as the "Gisborne Era" in fire science.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Gisborne, which is both a city and a district in New Zealand, is one of the first cities to see the sun each day since it's within spitting distance of the International Date Line.

    Boardgame News 2009

  • I am glad you recommended "Gisborne," for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read it.

    Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

  • First to catch my eye was this article in New Zealand's Gisborne Herald in which last Sunday's Poverty Bay Hunt was led by a female Master of the Hunt for the first time in its 117-year history.

    Female Firsts, Fox Hunting, and Murder By Gyrocopter 2009

  • The most hazardous region for earthquakes is directly atop the plate boundary, in a region stretching from the little-populated Fiordland region in the country's far south and through the North Island cities of Wellington, Palmerston North, Napier-Hastings, and Gisborne.

    Latest Quake Tests Geological Views David Fickling 2011

  • First to catch my eye was this article in New Zealand's Gisborne Herald in which last Sunday's Poverty Bay Hunt was led by a female Master of the Hunt for the first time in its 117-year history.

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

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