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June 19th 2009
"Bungy as we know it today started with a small group of individuals who have been throwing themselves from huge towers for centuries with nothing more than a few vines tied to their feet - the people of Vanuatu in the Pacific", says the blurb on the AJ Hackett website, the company that has replaced vines with thousands of pieces of thin white elastic all meshed together. The principle is stil ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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