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Air Tahiti Nui is in the Top 10 for the first time, so quite an achievement for them as well.
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Air Tahiti Nui is in the Top 10 for the first time, so quite an achievement for them as well.
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Open for more than 50 years, the Nui is the kind of low-key little grass shack that inspires so many faux-tiki joints on the mainland.
Hanalei, Hawaii 2009
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Rapa Nui was repeatedly ravaged by Peruvian slaving parties and nonnative diseases.
Don't Blame the Natives Charles C. Mann 2011
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Its population fell to 110 in the 1870s, a time when a French sheep rancher, a megalomaniac out of Conrad, was trying to make Rapa Nui into his private fiefdom/bordello.
Don't Blame the Natives Charles C. Mann 2011
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By September 1966, fighting was centered in the miserable terrain north of the Rockpile, centered on the Nui Cay Tre Ridgeline later known as Mutter's Ridge.
Beth Crumley: 1st Battalion, 4th Marines Does "Whatever it Takes" Beth Crumley 2012
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By September 1966, fighting was centered in the miserable terrain north of the Rockpile, centered on the Nui Cay Tre Ridgeline later known as Mutter's Ridge.
Beth Crumley: 1st Battalion, 4th Marines Does "Whatever it Takes" Beth Crumley 2012
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"Rather than a case of abject failure," the authors argue, "Rapa Nui is an unlikely story of success."
Don't Blame the Natives Charles C. Mann 2011
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Rapa Nui, as the island is called by its residents, was small—just 63 square miles—and almost devoid of natural resources.
Don't Blame the Natives Charles C. Mann 2011
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The Petén, homeland of the classic Maya, is a leading example; Rapa Nui may be another.
Don't Blame the Natives Charles C. Mann 2011
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