The Treaty of Waitangi is the founding document of New Zealand. It is an agreement entered into by representatives of the Crown and of MÄori iwi (tribes) and hapÅ« (sub-tribes). It is named after the place in the Bay of Islands where the Treaty was first signed, on 6 February 1840.ore than 40 chiefs signed the MÄori copy of the Treaty at Waitangi on 6 February 1840. Copies were then taken all around the country, and chiefs from many places signed. There were about 50 signing meetings between February and September 1840 and about 540 chiefs gave their agreement.
Definitions for persistence of vision. Persistence of vision. Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina. The myth of persistence of vision is the belief that human perception of motion is the result of persistence of vision.
This article is about the painting by Salvador DalÃ­. For other uses, see The Persistence of Memory (disambiguation). The Persistence of Memory (Catalan: La persistÃ¨ncia de la memÃ²ria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador DalÃ­, and is one of his most recognizable works. First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor.