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The woomera is held in one hand while the other hand places the butt of the spear on the woomera's hook; the hollow curved shape facilitates this alignment without looking. The woomera effectively lengthens the thrower's arm, greatly increasing the velocity of the spear. Correcting for the game animal's lateral dodging is accomplished by ...
The traditional Aboriginal axe also made strong use of spinifex resin. Woomera, at left. Note clump of spinifex resin at the base of the handle. The base of the woomera has a clump of this resin attached to it. The resin was also used as a binder when making paint with ochre. [5] 2) To make items waterproof.
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Minecraft is a media franchise developed from and centered around the video game of the same name. Developed by Mojang Studios (formerly known as Mojang AB) and Xbox Game Studios , which are owned by Microsoft Corporation , the franchise consists of six video games, along with various books, merchandise, events, and an upcoming theatrical film.
Waddies made by the Arrernte people Aboriginal man carrying waddy, woomera (spear-thrower) and spear, South Australia, c. 1876. A waddy, nulla-nulla, leangle or boondi is an Aboriginal Australian hardwood club or hunting stick for use as a weapon or as a throwing stick for hunting animals. Waddy comes from the Darug people of Port Jackson ...
The Marree Man geoglyph depicts a man holding either a woomera (used to launch a throwing stick) or a boomerang (but see Plaque section below). By December 1998, it had been noted that the outline matched, in reverse, that of the Artemision bronze statue of Zeus raised from the Aegean Sea in 1928.
The word woomera is an Australian Aboriginal word of the Dharug language of the Eora people of the Sydney basin; a woomera is a wooden spear-throwing device. [9] [10] [11] Woomera was adopted initially as an appropriate [12] name for the settlement of Woomera, [13] that is also called Woomera Village, based on a recommendation from Group Captain Alfred George Pither.
JAXA have used the Woomera Test Range for several major trials since 2000. The first was the 'NEX-ST' which involved the testing of a 'shape' strapped to a sounding rocket. The aim was to get the 'shape' (i.e. a model of a future SST airframe) into the right part of the atmosphere (about 400,000ft up) and at the right speed (about Mach 6-7)to ...