Jon Henley
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/ 12 November 2007

Not all black and white

Henry Williams (born February 11 1782, died July 16 1867) is as good a place to start as any. A doubtless well-intentioned former navy man, Reverend Williams was a missionary who had been busy winning antipodean souls for Jesus since 1822. By February 1840, when the first lieutenant governor of what would become Britain’s newest colony landed in New Zealand, Williams was leader of the Church of England’s mission there.

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/ 6 January 2006

Global vote for new seven wonders

The Acropolis in Athens made it, as did Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, China’s Great Wall, the Colosseum in Rome, the Inca temple of Machu Picchu in Peru, Stonehenge in England and the Moai — the Easter Island statues. Less immediately obvious choices in a final shortlist of 21 contenders for the New Seven Wonders of the World included the Kremlin in Moscow, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.

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/ 5 August 2005

France expels imams

France has expelled two radical Islamist leaders in the wake of the London bombings and plans to round up and send home up to two dozen more by the end of the month, the Interior Ministry said this week. A ministry spokesperson said France had ”no problem” deporting speakers accused of inflaming anti-Western feeling.

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/ 27 May 2005

French suffer identity crisis

Last Saturday afternoon at the Palais des Sports in Paris, a dapper aristocrat called Philippe de Villiers assembled about 5 000 people who presumably had other things to do. His posters, plastered everywhere, were eloquent: ”We all,”’ they said, ”have a good reason to vote no.”