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The naval officials say the presence of HMAS Warramunga and her crew highlights greater cooperation between Canberra and Beijing.
Australia, China Conduct Live-Fire Naval Exercise in Yellow Sea 2010
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The Australian frigate, HMAS Warramunga, participated in the first live-firing exercise of its kind with the Chinese navy off the Shandong Peninsular in the Yellow Sea in north-eastern China.
Australia, China Conduct Live-Fire Naval Exercise in Yellow Sea 2010
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Certification of the Warramunga seismic array in northern Australia and two radionuclide monitoring stations in Melbourne and Perth means
Stations Approved for Nuclear Test Monitoring - Media release - Minister for Foreign Affairs 2001
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World; it is also not unknown in America; in Australia, on the other hand, though many species of serpent are found, there does not appear to be any species of cult unless we include the Warramunga cult of the mythical Wollunqua totem animal, whom they seek to placate by rites.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Thus among the Warramunga the headman of the white cockatoo totem seeks to multiply white cockatoos by holding an effigy of the bird and mimicking its harsh cry.
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Thus among the Warramunga the headman of the white cockatoo totem seeks to multiply white cockatoos by holding an effigy of the bird and mimicking its harsh cry.
Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 1922
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Among the tribes of Central Australia, in addition to his ordinary name, each individual has his sacred or secret name, only known to the older and fully initiated members of his own totemic group; among the Warramunga, it is not permitted to women to utter even a man's ordinary name, though she knows it.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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Warramunga tribe of Central Australia, a festival taken part in by both sexes, in which all the ordinary rules of social life are broken, a kind of Saturnalia in which, however, there is no sexual license, for sexual license is, it need scarcely be said, no essential part of the orgy, even when the orgy lightens the burden of sexual constraints.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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Thus among the Warramunga the headman of the white cockatoo totem seeks to multiply white cockatoos by holding an effigy of the bird and mimicking its harsh cry.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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Range; but the Warramunga fear that it may at any moment sally out and do some damage.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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