Boomerang
There is no agreement on who first invented the boomerang. Many scientists believe that boomerangs were created independently by a number of prehistoric hunting peoples because they have bee...
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Army offers to pay as stray rocket hits house MOSCOW (Reuters) - R...
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A Spaniard who defied a restraining order and went on a television show to beg his estranged girlfriend to marry him, only to be snubbed, was ordered jailed Wednesday on suspicion of stabbing her t...
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A hospital is reminding employees that federal law prohibits them from looking at even their own medical records, after several workers came forward in the wake of related firings and suspensions a...
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A hospital is reminding employees that federal law prohibits them from looking at even their own medical records, after several workers came forward in the wake of related firings and suspensions a...
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Richard Knerr, co-founder of the toy company that popularized the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, has died. He was 82.Knerr, who started Wham-O in 1948 with his childhood fr...
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The head of the Cartoon Network resigned Friday following a marketing stunt that caused a security scare in Boston.The announcement about Jim Samples resigning was made in an internal memo sent to ...
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Authorities in Wakayama Prefecture are making Japan's first
attempt to develop an artificial reef to enhance surfing conditions
in a local beach to attract surfers from across the nation and ...
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ZAGREB, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Following are key facts about
Croatia. RECENT HISTORY: Croatia left Socialist Yugoslavia in 1991,
waging an independence war with its ethnic Serb minority and the
Yugos...
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Richard KnerrARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Richard Knerr, co-founder of the toy company that popularized the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, has died. He was 82.Knerr, who st...
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Australia's giant prehistoric animals, including 10-foot-tall kangaroos and wombat-like creatures as big as a rhinoceros, were likely wiped out by aboriginal settlers, not climate change, a researc...
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Boomerang
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