Word: austrailia
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...Nugan and Michael Hand founded the banking house in Sydney, Austrailia. By the time of Nugan's death seven years later, the concern was responsible for more than $1 billion and had opened offices in Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands, the Philippines, Hawaii, Panama, Saudi Arabia and Thailand. Customers included the United States Government, Wing On Bank, and the Bank of Austrlia-New Zealand...
...During Austrailia's Stone Age, which Captain Cook doomed in 1770, the aborigines painted on cliffs and in caves. Today their descendants explain that ancient rock pictures of hunting and dancing stick men, in northern Australia, were done by Mimis. ("Mimis" are so thin they can hunt only in still weather, and so shy they have never been seen.) For the haloed, mouthless figures painted in caves in the Kimberley district, they have a different explanation: Wondjina (gentle fertility gods) first made them by casting shadows on the rock. Before each rainy season, the aborigines retouch the divine shadows...
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