The space balls are coming
Soviet Russia aimed a satellite at Venus. It hit Ashburton.
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Te Pahi’s medal
The rise, fall, and resurrection of a pioneering rangatira
Black Tuesday
The stock market crashes, burns.
“We are everywhere”
The fight to decriminalise homosexuality.
Ka mate, ka ora
In the early 1800s, young Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha narrowly escaped death. His legacy lives on in the haka he composed.
A plague on all our houses
How one bacterium built our health system.
Leap of faith
In WWI, fighter pilots went down with their aircraft. Could a bag of folded silk save them? In 1917, a New Zealander jumped out of a plane to find out.
The art of change
A turning point for taonga Māori.
How to make a film in eight days
Our first silver-screen heroine is born.
Wragge predicts the weather
An overconfident meteorologist comes up with the idea of naming storms after people—especially people he doesn’t like.
Stevenson’s close call
On a brief visit to Auckland, the celebrated author of Treasure Island almost didn’t make it out of the harbour.
The Penguin sinks
A steamer goes down off Wellington.
The Sandow Season
It was the sensation of 1902—a celebrity bodybuilder toured New Zealand encouraging locals to get ripped.
Murder on Sacred Mountain
The Burgess Gang brings terror to the goldfields.
A most savage squabble
Scientists fight over old bones.
The doom of the world
The return of Halley’s Comet in 1910 prompted a deluge of fake news.
The great Nazi hoax
‘Captain Calder’ scams the government.
Cross fire
The British medal that inspired the New Zealand Cross.
Mother superior
A saint in the making.
Eyes on the prize
Bare-knuckle fighters take on the law.
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