Greatest kiwi lives
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@nonpartizan said in Greatest kiwi lives:
their impact on NZ and or the world at large?
Freddy Flintoff?
/Sarc
Seriously though, good question. Shows our focus on sports though
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@Bovidae said in Greatest kiwi lives:
Look at our bank notes. Āpirana Ngata is the other person not mentioned so far.
Yep - you'd have to start with the people on bank notes.
I can't remember - what/how used to be on the $1/$2 notes?
Edit: answered my own question - we just had the queen on ALL notes until the early 90s, when we'd stopped the $1/$2 notes already. Weird - don't remember that change - the change from queen on a fiver to Sir Ed, for example.I always find it interesting when travelling - to note what each country puts on their currency. Such a quick insight into a place. I seem to recall Brasil was similar to NZ - notable people on the front, a native animal/bird/fish on the back.
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@nonpartizan said in Greatest kiwi lives:
It's one of the things that sucks about the Euro - it's just architecture which is fine and all but pretty bland.
I guess with the Euro - they're pretty hamstrung. Trying to get any sort of agreement for what represents their "identity" - across dozens of pretty different countries... amazed they even settled on that.
But just looked it up - realised they're not actual buildings/etc - but entirely stylized examples of architectural styles. (Original artist used actual bridges - but obviously that was going to fail)
Quite clever, actually - use the metaphor of "bridges" connecting the Union, and an abstracted set of images, so that nobody can whinge "why's the Pont de Nuilly there, but not Tower Bridge - fucking outrageous, innit?".Due to the great number of historic bridges, arches, and gateways throughout the European continent, all the structures represented on the notes are entirely stylized illustrations of the relevant architectural styles, designed to evoke the landmarks within the European Union,[17] representing various European ages and styles.
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There was a TV show back in the early 2000's that listed their top 100 NZ History makers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand's_Top_100_History_Makers
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@Toddy said in Greatest kiwi lives:
There was a TV show back in the early 2000's that listed their top 100 NZ History makers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand's_Top_100_History_Makers
John Minto makes it and the Bushwackers don't ?
That's some bullshit right there
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@nzzp said in Greatest kiwi lives:
@nonpartizan said in Greatest kiwi lives:
their impact on NZ and or the world at large?
Freddy Flintoff?
/Sarc
Seriously though, good question. Shows our focus on sports though
Ben Stokes?
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Dame Lisa Marie Carrington
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@Toddy said in Greatest kiwi lives:
There was a TV show back in the early 2000's that listed their top 100 NZ History makers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand's_Top_100_History_Makers
Dr King, founder of Plunkett, probably saved and enriched the lives of hundreds of thousands of kiwis. Racist sexist fluffybunny, but the foundation has done huge amounts of good
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Does it have to be a human? Phar Lap?
