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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.
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.

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After winning the First Test by an innings after being controversially sent in by Hutton, Australia lost its way and England took a hat-trick of victories to win the series 3 1.
Australia also lost all three tests to the visitors, even getting held to a stand-still in two of the three games.
The 1959 tour to Australia and New Zealand marked once again a very successful tour for the Lions, who only lost six of their 35 fixtures.
The Lions easily won both tests against Australia and lost the first three tests against the All Blacks, but did find victory ( 9 6 ) in the final test.
Between the second and third tests, the one-day tournament continued, now with Cronje as captain, South Africa made the final series but lost it 2-1 to Australia.
Cronje produced better form against Australia, averaging over 50 in both test and ODI series although both were lost.
In the triangular one day series they won the group with Australia just scraping through, they also won the first ' final ' but South Africa lost the last two finals.
Under Cronje's captaincy, South Africa won 27 Tests and lost 11, completing series victories against every team except Australia.
Australia lost heavily by ten wickets in the first Test at Sydney, when the bowling spearhead of bodyline, Harold Larwood, took ten wickets.
In North and Central America, and to some extent in West Africa, Australia and other parts of the world, every male acquires at puberty a tutelary spirit ( see Demonology ); in some Native American tribes the youth kills the animal of which he dreams in his initiation fast ; its claw, skin or feathers are put into a little bag and become his " medicine " and must be carefully retained, for a " medicine " once lost can never be replaced.
At the 1996 election, the Keating Government was swept from power in a landslide, losing 29 seats and suffering a five percent two party preferred swing -- in terms of seats lost, the second-worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level in Australia.
Benaud had less of an impact on the next two Tests, which Australia lost and drew, totalling 6 / 244.
After Harvey led the team to victory at Lord's, Benaud had an unhappy return in the Third at Headingley scoring two runs in two innings and taking match figures of 2 / 108 as Australia lost within three days.
The USSR came to bear the brunt of the carnage of Hitler's war machine and the Communist Party in Australia lost its early war stigma as a result.
" Later, he would comment that he " lost Vivien " in Australia.
The Cup was then lost to the Royal Perth Yacht Club of Australia, which entered the Australia II into the contest.
* November 8 MS City of Rayville is sunk by a naval mine, the first US merchant to be lost in the war off Cape Otway, Australia
In his research Zaken outlines three major eruptions that took place between 1843 and 1933 during which the Assyrian Christians lost their land and hegemony in their habitat in the Hakkārī ( or Julamerk ) region in southeastern Turkey and became refugees in other lands, notably Iran and Iraq, and ultimately in exiled communities in European and western countries ( the USA, Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, Sweden, France, to mention some of these countries ).
One is the wreck of the VOC ship Zuytdorp lost in 1711 on the coast of Western Australia and where there remains considerable speculation that some of the crew survived and after establishing themselves on shore intermixed with Indigenous tribes from the area.
The Soviet Union seems to have lost the land east of the Urals to China into a rump state, and China has conquered all of East Asia, Southeast Asia, eastern Australia, and New Zealand ( deporting unwanted people to Luna in the process ).
In 1893, 14 banks failed, twelve of those, with 905 branches throughout Australia, had liabilities assessed at £ 166, 000, 000, and thousands of people lost the whole of their possessions.
In 1786 Jean-François de La Pérouse, representing France, sailed to the Queen Charlotte Islands after visiting Nootka Sound but any possible French claims to this region were lost when La Pérouse and his men and journals were lost in a shipwreck near Australia.

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