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Welcome to New Zealand Historic Places Trust Pouhere Taonga List of Nobel laureates Nobel laureates receive a gold medal together with a diploma and (as of 2012) 8 million SEK (roughly US$1.2 million, €0.93 million). The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: Nobelpriset, Norwegian: Nobelprisen) are prizes awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.[1] They were established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which dictates that the awards should be administered by the Nobel Foundation. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, for contributions to the field of economics. Each recipient, or "laureate", receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money, which is decided by the Nobel Foundation, yearly.[2] Prize Laureates List of laureates Notes See also References

Tracing New Zealanders’ Genetic History The Genographic Team has been in New Zealand this week, working with people of Pacific as well as European and other heritages to trace their genetic history. Each person does this by just rubbing a cotton swab inside his or her cheek. We will then take the tiny resulting DNA sample and compare it with the Genographic database, revealing the person’s place on the human family tree. An earlier post talked about meeting the Ngāi Tāmanuhiri community near Gisborne, New Zealand. Collaborating with the Allan Wilson Centre, we invited one hundred Wellington area residents to participate in the Genographic Project by swabbing with the latest version of our kit, “Geno 2.0,” to add their DNA to the project’s worldwide effort to better understand human history and migration. A Wellington, New Zealand resident swabs with Genographic ProjectPrincipal Investigator, Lisa Matisoo-Smith, to participate in theGenographic Project. Faces of some Genographic participants from Wellington.

If the poor must work to earn every dollar, shouldn’t the rich? Correction: This piece incorrectly suggested that data drawn from Christopher Faricy’s book “Welfare for the Wealthy” were from 2016. The figures, on federal Medicaid spending, employer-based health insurance, and Pell grants and college-related tax deductions, were from 2012. The GOP hopes to channel momentum from their victory of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into a push to overhaul the nation's welfare programs. The argument over which poor people deserve aid has begun anew thanks to incipient Republican efforts to harshen work requirements attached to welfare programs. It’s a badly mistaken point of view.

Famous New Zealanders Scroll down for our collection of famous New Zealanders notebooking pages and mini printable booklets for home and school projects. Just print and write! Henry Williams (1792 –- 1867) was one of the first missionaries who went to New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century. Hone Heke (? Use our printable notebooking pages and booklets to record what you know about James Busby (1801 – 1871), who helped to draft the Declaration of Independence in New Zealand as well as the Treaty of Tāmati Wāka Nene (c. 1785 - 1871) was a Māori rangatira (chief) who fought as an ally of the British in the Flagstaff War. Captain William Hobson (1792 – 1842) was the first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Does America have a caste system? In the United States, inequality tends to be framed as an issue of either class, race or both. Consider, for example, criticism that Republicans’ new tax plan is a weapon of “class warfare,” or accusations that the recent U.S. government shutdown was racist. As an India-born novelist and scholar who teaches in the United States, I have come to see America’s stratified society through a different lens: caste. Many Americans would be appalled to think that anything like caste could exist in a country allegedly founded on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But is the U.S. really so different? What is caste? I first realized that caste could shed a new light on American inequality in 2016, when I was scholar-in-residence at the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown. There, I found that my public presentations on caste resonated deeply with students, who were largely working-class, black and Latino. First, caste cannot be transcended.

Coat of arms of New Zealand Facts for Kids The coat of arms of New Zealand is a national symbol of New Zealand. The initial coat of arms was granted by royal warrant of King George V on 26 August 1911, and the current version was granted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. History and design The coat of arms is displayed in public buildings such as the Wellington District Court. Until 1911, New Zealand used the same royal coat of arms as the United Kingdom. Since being granted its own arms in 1911, New Zealand's arms have remained similar to the current design, with minor changes in 1956. Before 1956, the shield was identical, but the surrounding features were different. The original supporters were also slightly different. Blazon Arms: Quarterly, Azure and Gules on a Pale Argent three Lymphads Sable, between in the first quarter four Mullets in cross Gules, fimbriated Argent, in the second a Fleece; in the third a Garb, and in the last two Mining Hammers in Saltire, all Or. What it means The shield is first described. Supporters. Use

The backwards history of attitudes toward public breastfeeding Breastfeeding in public is the controversy that never seems to die. A recent YouTube video that went viral shows a woman breastfeeding in public. One passerby tells her “not to do that in public”; another that being in “a decent place” – a bus stop, in this case – means not breastfeeding there. A few years ago, an experiment run by the Huffington Post showed that – even in states with laws protecting a woman’s right to nurse in public – women face censure, shaming and the threat of ejection from restaurants and public places when they breastfeed. At the same time, women who could breastfeed but don’t are widely perceived as selfish. Well-meaning organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics, La Leche League, and the Dr. So what is it that society wants? It’s twisted logic, and it’s nothing new. When it was a blessing, not a curse Oddly, although some 21st-century Americans construe it as offensive and inappropriate, public nursing hasn’t always been frowned upon.

How to Engage Students in Historical Thinking Using Everyday Objects Social studies students regularly consider the past through its written and material culture, whether that means diving into daily life in colonial America through letters or examining ancient coins to better understand the spread of the Roman Empire. Students can learn a lot about the work of historians by applying this approach to items from their own daily lives. I’ve found that if I remind my students that in the future, our lives and culture will be reconstructed in a similar fashion, they’re intrigued, and if I challenge them to imagine what a student 100 or 200 years from now might infer when examining a contemporary artifact, they’re keen to get to work. It might seem like an unorthodox approach, but again and again, my students have analyzed their own artifacts within this historical framework and have been pushed to think in new ways, both creatively and conceptually. Step 1: Explain What Artifacts Are Step 2: Share How to Analyze Artifacts Who used it? What is its significance?

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