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    mo'ai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moai or moʻai (/ˈmoʊ.aɪ/ MOH-eye; Spanish: moái; Rapa Nui: moʻai, lit. 'statue') are monolithic human figures...
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  • of Moai SDK, an open source game engine, and Moai Cloud, a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) for the hosting and deployment of game services. Moai developers...
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  • Moai are large statues of Easter Island. Moai also may refer to: Moai (seamount), submarine volcano type Moai kavakava, small wooden statues Moai (game...
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  • the removal from Easter Island in 1868 of the moai now displayed at the British Museum, a total of 12 moai are known to have been removed from Easter Island...
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    the collections of the French surrealist André Breton. "5 minutes with… A moai kavakava ancestor figure from Easter Island". Christies. 28 March 2019. Retrieved...
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    island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, which were created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter...
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  • Antennarius moai, commonly known as the Moai frogfish, is a species of fish native to Easter Island in the South Pacific. This species was discovered by...
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  • Moai-kun (モアイくん, Mr. Moai) is a puzzle video game developed and published by Konami for the Family Computer in Japan in March 1990, and a spin-off of...
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  • Moais (模合, Mo-ai) are social support groups that form in order to provide varying support from social, financial, health, or spiritual interests. Moai...
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  • The Moai Seamount is a submarine volcano, the second most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. It is east of Pukao seamount and...
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    Rano Raraku (category Moai)
    monolithic sculptures (moai) were carved. Rano Raraku is a visual record of moai design vocabulary and technological innovation, where 887 moai remain. Rano Raraku...
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    Ahu Tongariki (category Moai)
    [ˈa.u toŋɡaˈɾiki]) is the largest ahu on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Its moais were toppled during the island's civil wars, and in the twentieth century...
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  • people turned to babies by the Fountain of Youth, and are told by the local Moai that a prophecy states that a volcano will erupt and destroy them. In a nearby...
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  • The Fraternal Order of Moai (FOM; also often known as The Moai) is a fraternal order and social club founded in 2005 by Matt "Kuku Ahu" Thatcher, Jim...
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    income derived from tourism, which focuses on the giant sculptures called moai. Over the past decade, Rapa Nui activists have been fighting for self-determination...
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    Moyai statue (category Moai)
    created to promote awareness of Niijima, are themed and modeled after the moai of Easter Island. The statues may be found across Japan, where they often...
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    1194–1250 CE) The Golden Virgin Jules Verne's Tomb Konark Sun Temple (1250 CE) Moai, Easter Islands (1250–1500 CE) Pietà (1498–1499) David (1501–1504) Veiled...
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    Pre-Columbian Moais, human figures dated between 1250 and 1500 in the Easter Island....
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    Chilean representative for Easter Island's Moais, Alberto Hortus, said Weber gave him a letter saying that the Moais had finished eighth and were morally one...
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  • a moai to France was held in Easter Island on 1 March 2010. Voters were asked whether they agreed with the Mare Nostrum Foundation displaying a moai in...
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  • The Moai Island Puzzle (孤島パズル, Kotō Pazuru, "Solitary Island Puzzle") is a 1989 Japanese mystery novel by Alice Arisugawa that falls into the honkaku (本格)...
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    of Polynesian ruins", such as the stone hats (pukao) on top of the giant moai statues of Easter Island. Citing W. J. Johnson, Churchward describes the...
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  • title and Thorgerson the cover artwork. Thorgerson drew inspiration from the Moai monoliths of Easter Island; two opposing faces forming an implied third face...
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    1194–1250 CE) The Golden Virgin Jules Verne's Tomb Konark Sun Temple (1250 CE) Moai, Easter Islands (1250–1500 CE) Pietà (1498–1499) David (1501–1504) Veiled...
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    1194–1250 CE) The Golden Virgin Jules Verne's Tomb Konark Sun Temple (1250 CE) Moai, Easter Islands (1250–1500 CE) Pietà (1498–1499) David (1501–1504) Veiled...
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    used to carve the pukao (topknots) for the famous moai statues, and even for the main bodies of some moai. Cinder track – Race track whose surface is composed...
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  • the Short Ears die no one will build the moai. The King, however, only allows them to compete after the moai has been completed. He makes the condition...
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    Italy, for construction. The Rapa Nui people used tuff to make most of the moai statues in Easter Island. Volcanic ash and weathered basalt produce some...
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    Heritage Sites, in particular the famous moai statues. Hanga Roa and the surrounding area have a number of moai, but there are larger ones elsewhere on...
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    1194–1250 CE) The Golden Virgin Jules Verne's Tomb Konark Sun Temple (1250 CE) Moai, Easter Islands (1250–1500 CE) Pietà (1498–1499) David (1501–1504) Veiled...
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