SYD01:AUSTRALIA-OLYMPICS:SYDNEY,8MAR99-Australian swimmer Jasmin Geisel holds aloft the Sydney 2000 Olympic torch in Sydney March 8. The unveiling of the metallic, boomerang-style Olympic torch which was inspired by the Sydney Opera House, the Pacific Ocean and the Aboriginal Boomerang will begin in Greece in May 2000 and travel the longest distance in Games history 27,000 kilometres (16,534 miles) to Sydney for the opening of the Games on September15, 2000.

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Scientists unveiled the first detailed pictures of the infant universe April 26, showing it to be tiny, hot and cosmically "flat." This image of approximately 1800 square degrees of the southern sky was taken using the BOOMERANG telescope over a 10 day period from December 1998 - January, 1999. The image shows the distant Universe as it makes its transition from a glowing plasma to a perfectly transparent gas, approximately 14 billion years ago, a mere 300,000 years after the Big Bang. 

Queen Elizabeth smiles as she is shown a boomerang by Australian history teacher Phillip Sullivan as she visits Bourke Public School March 22. Queen Elizabeth visited the town of about 3,500 in outback New South Wales, 900 kms (560 miles) north west of Sydney as part of her two-week tour of Australia.

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth is presented with traditional hunting tools, a boomerang and a nulla nulla by Greg McKellar (C) and his wife Francis (R) at the Muda Aboriginal Language and Cultural Centre in Bourke March 22. Queen Elizabeth visited the town of about 3,500 in Out Back New South Wales, 900 kms (560 miles) north west of Sydney as part of her two-week tour of Australia.

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Australian swimmer Jasmin Geisel holds aloft the Sydney 2000 Olympic torch in Sydney March 8. The unveiling of the metallic, boomerang-style Olympic torch which was inspired by the Sydney Opera House, the Pacific Ocean and the Aboriginal Boomerang will begin in Greece in May 2000 and travel the longest distance in Games history 27,000 kilometres (16,534 miles) to Sydney for the opening of the Games on September15, 2000 

Irish President Mary McAleese (C) and her husband Dr Martin (L) receive a hand carved traditional Aboriginal boomerang and walking stick from Sydney Nelson at the National Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Darling Harbour in Sydney September 8. President McAleese is on the ninth day of her 11 day tour of Australia.

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Supporters stand behind animal rights campaigner Pam Clarke (3rd R) as they hold posters bearing the modified Sydney 2000 Olympic logo outside the Federal Court in Sydney June 25. The court ordered the Tasmanian battery hen campaigner to stop using the modified logo, and to give up all copies of material which featured it. The Sydney Olympics graphic, which originally featured a runner with boomerang-shaped limbs and the words Sydney 2000, was altered with the Olympic rings being changed into five eggs and the words "Free Battery Hens" being added.

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Supporters stand behind animal rights campaigner Pam Clarke as they hold posters bearing the modified Sydney 2000 Olympic logo outside the Federal Court in Sydney June 25. The court ordered the Tasmanian battery hen campaigner to stop using the modified logo, and to give up all copies of material which featured it. The Sydney Olympics graphic, which originally featured a runner with boomerang-shaped limbs and the words Sydney 2000, was altered with the Olympic rings being changed into five eggs and the words "Free Battery Hens" being added.

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FOR RELEASE WITH STORY BC-SINGAPORE-ISLAND - A young boy cycles from a bicycle rental store on the island of Pulau Ubin. The island off the northern coast of Singapore with just 600 inhabitants, is something of an alter ego to the modern bustling city state. There are charming kelongs or fishing traps, plantations and mangrove swamps, all vestiges of a bygone era. Nature lovers come to the island, shaped like a boomerang and just eight km long and 1.5 km wide, to bird-watch and hike while sports enthusiast like to thrash around in the bush on moutain bikes. Picture taken on August 30.

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Australian Prime Minister John Howard (L) is presented with a boomerang by Aboriginal war veteran Ken Colburg from Perth at the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) memorial in London's Battersea Park June 21. Howard is on a one week official visit to the United Kingdom before flying off to America.

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Sydney's 2000 Olympic Games logo in unveiled at a launch in Sydney, September 14. The logo, which features at its centre three Aboriginal boomerang shapes joined together in a stylised image of an athlete is expected to earn A$100 million (US$80 million) in royalties over the next four years from domestic and international merchandising. 

Sydney's 2000 Olympic Games logo in unveiled at a launch in Sydney, September 14. The logo, which features at its centre three Aboriginal boomerang shapes joined together in a stylised image of an athlete is expected to earn A$100 million (US$80 million) in royalties over the next four years from domestic and international merchandising.

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Comic Ben Elton poses with a boomerang November 22nd to promote his new television "Stark" series which has been filmed in Australia. Elton will star in the three-part adaptation of his book "Stark