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    and built by Athanaric and stretches from Romania: Buciumeni-Tiganesti-Tapu-Stoicani and in after that another 126 km from the village of Vadul lui Isac...
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    desecration by enemies, or to protect living descendants from a dangerous "tapu" (sacred, forbidden or taboo) that Māori may have believed the ancestral...
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    Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, sometimes simply called Tabu (pronounced [ˈtapu]), is a 1931 American synchronized sound film directed by F. W. Murnau....
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    the same name. Settlement did not extend to the mountain, which was deemed tapu (sacred) as it had been used as a chiefly burial ground for generations.: 23 ...
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    Waitākere Ranges area. The island is a portion of a Miocene era volcanic dyke swarm. In Te Kawerau ā Maki oral histories, the island was visited by the...
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    named the main island (Fenua Tapu) as Nederlandsch Eiland. Dutch map of Nui atoll, made in June 1825. View of Fenua Tapu, Nui atoll. View of Nui atoll...
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