Frankie was fairly glutted with ideas, as he had hinted upon his arrival: `` It's really tremendous when you think Ella Fitzgerald is coming from Australia.

The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.

:“ When in the autumn the English Eleven went to Australia it was said that they had come to Australia to “ fetch ” the ashes.

:“ In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket “ whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia ”.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

Australia had scored a massive 586 ( Syd Gregory 201, George Giffen 161 ) and then dismissed England for 325.

At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

Australia had a narrow first innings lead of 22.

Australia had one of the strongest batting line-ups ever in the early 1930s, with Bradman, Archie Jackson, Stan McCabe, Bill Woodfull and Bill Ponsford.

Although England decisively won the Ashes 4 – 1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders.

The MCC had made it clear, in light of the revelations of the bodyline series, that these players would not face Australia.

The Ashes resumed after the war when England toured in 1946 – 47, and as in 1920 – 21, found that Australia had made the best post-war recovery.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

This was a remarkable match in which Australia looked certain to take a 2 – 0 series lead after they had forced England to follow-on 227 runs behind.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

Australia, now captained by Allan Border, had themselves been weakened by a rebel South African tour, the loss of Terry Alderman being a particular factor.

In the period between 1989 and the beginning of the 2005 series, the two sides had played 43 times ; Australia winning 28 times, England 7 times, with 8 draws.

All others were consolation victories when the Ashes had been secured by Australia.

The 12 countries had significant interests in Antarctica at the time: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.

In order for the song to become the anthem, it had to face a vote between the Royal anthem God Save the Queen, the " unofficial anthem " Waltzing Matilda and Song of Australia.

The first intercolonial match had been played between Victoria and South Australia on 2 August 1879.

The concept has fallen into disuse in Australia.

Memories of World War II linger among the older members of the Australian public, as does a contemporary fear of Japanese economic domination over countries, particularly Australia, although such fears have fallen off in response to Japan's economic stagnation in the 1990s.

Hassett allowed him to bowl only in the second innings, when nine West Indian wickets had fallen and Australia were on the verge of an inevitable victory.

One case in New South Wales, Australia ended in the man suing his former fiancée because she threw the ring away, after he told her she could keep it even though the marriage plans had fallen through.

After peaking in the 1970s and early 1980s, the use of 27 MHz CB in Australia has fallen dramatically due to the introduction of 477 MHz UHF CB ( with FM and repeaters ) and the proliferation of cheap, compact handheld UHF transceivers.

Research using a series of victim surveys in 18 countries of the European Union funded by the European Commission has reported ( 2005 ) that the level of crime in Europe has fallen back to the levels of 1990, and notes that levels of common crime have shown declining trends in the U. S., Canada, Australia and other industrialized countries as well.

The butcherbirds became predators of small animals much like the northern hemisphere shrikes, while the Australian Magpie became a predominantly ground-hunting omnivore, and the currawongs hunt in living and fallen trees on the main, scavenging and hunting insects and small vertebrates and occupying the niche of many Eurasian corvids in Australia.

By the end of October, stock markets in Hong Kong had fallen 45. 5 %, Australia 41. 8 %, Spain 31 %, the United Kingdom 26. 45 %, the United States 22. 68 %, and Canada 22. 5 %.

In 2003, the government of Victoria, Australia purchased the house where the five journalists had stayed, as it had fallen into disrepair, and renovated it to serve as a creche, library and vocational training centre.

In Australia, birth at home has fallen steadily over the years and is currently 0. 3 %, ranging from nearly 1 % in the Northern Territory to 0. 1 % in Queensland.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, from 1985 – 2000, 78 % of firearm deaths in Australia were suicides, and firearm suicides have fallen from about 22 % of all suicides in 1992 to 7 % of all suicides in 2005.

Hockey told ABC TV's Q & A audience on 7 March 2011 that corporate Australia had fallen behind in female boardroom representation, and if companies failed to meet a reasonable target within a period of time, then " more punitive measures " needed to be taken by parliament.

* Royal Romance: examined Australia's passionate response to Queen Elizabeth II's first visit to Australia in 1954, and whether the nation has fallen out of love since ( February-October 2004 )

Australia were confident that the Indians would not be able to make the target of 181 on a deteriorating pitch after 19 wickets had fallen for 167 on the second day.

For example, death rates from cardiovascular disease have fallen 30 % in the general population in Australia since 1991, and 70 % in the last 35-years and the infant mortality rate figure reduced 25 % over 1993-2003 and 48 % over 1983-2003.

In Australia, they are most common in forested areas where there are abundant, termite-filled, fallen logs.

Australia had lost three consecutive Ashes series and had fallen from the heights of the Invincibles of 1948.

This usage has however fallen out of favour in Canada and Australia.

The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is typical of thousands of war memorials in using the words of John 15: 13 ' no greater love ' in its tribute to the fallen.

Continual, heavy rain had fallen for three weeks, leading up to the flood, which occurred on Sunday, 27 January 1974, during the Australia Day weekend.