Aborigine wants boomerang to return from Britain

An Aboriginal leader said Friday he wants a boomerang to return to Australia more than 300 years after it was taken as a souvenir by celebrated British explorer Capt. James Cook.

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Capt. Cook's boomerang to be auctioned in London

Christie's says it will auction an Aboriginal boomerang collected by the explorer Capt. James Cook.

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Boomerang Comes Back After 25 Years

Boomerangs really do come back — even after 25 years. Officials in an Australian Outback town were surprised when a boomerang arrived in the post. Along with it was a note from a guilt-ridden American who said he stole it years earlier from a museum in the mining town of Mount Isa, and now felt rotten about it.

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The BOOMERANG II SYSTEM is an integrated hardware and software system to detect incoming small-arms fire and to indicate the shooter's position by showing the azimuth angle of the shooter relative to the forward direction of the vehicle.

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Boomerangs really do come back, even after 25 years. Officials in an Australian Outback town were surprised when a boomerang arrived in the post.

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Does a boomerang thrown in space return to its pitcher? It does if it was thrown inside an airy environment like the International Space Station, a Japanese astronaut proved last week.

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In an unprecedented experiment, a Japanese astronaut has thrown a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies back, much like on Earth.

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Astronaut Takao Doi "threw a boomerang and saw it come back" during his free time on March 18 at the International Space Station (ISS), a spokeswoman at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.

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A Japanese astronaut plans to throw a boomerang inside a space station to test how it can fly in zero gravity, an official said.

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Japanese astronaut Takao Doi is set to throw a boomerang inside the International Space Station in March to test how it flies, after receiving training from a world boomerang champion, it has been learned.

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Svetlana Orlova had no idea why she had been invited on to the daytime television show and she was shocked to find herself face to face with the man who had beaten her for years.

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Cut out a small boomerang shape from a thin card and flick it from a book angled slightly upward. It works just like a proper boomerang.

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Do the quiz, see how Aussie you really are.

I got 19 out of 20 - not bad for a pom. It says I'm a little ripper! I have a near perfect grasp of the colourful gab and can probably make myself understood in most social occasions, such as Gazza's weekly Barbie... but they bet I can't throw a boomerang!

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