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.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

It was night on this hemisphere, but the light blazed from the megalopolises of Australia, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, India, Siberia.

A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

In 1814 a bishop of Calcutta was made ; in 1824 the first bishop was sent to the West Indies and in 1836 to Australia.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

Bligh promised that on the tour to Australia in 1882 – 83, which he was to captain, he would regain " the ashes ".

As it took many years for the name " The Ashes " to be given to the ongoing series between England and Australia, there was no concept of there being a representation of the ashes being presented to the winners.

:“ 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.

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

The title of this book revived the Ashes legend and it was after this that England v Australia series were customarily referred to as " The Ashes ".

My one idea when going into bat was to make runs for Australia.

Australia recovered the Ashes in 1934 and held them until 1953, although no international cricket was possible during the Second World War.

The 1938 series was high-scoring affair with many high-scoring draws, resulting in a 1 – 1 result, Australia retaining the Ashes.

Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the Second and Fourth Tests at Lord's and Headingley respectively ; the crowd at Headingley remains a record, and it was there that Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory.

The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably Ian Meckiff, whom the English management and media accused of illegally throwing Australia to victory.

It was in the 1960s that the bipolar dominance of England and Australia in world cricket was seriously challenged for the first time.

This behavior is probably far more widespread than currently recognized ; more than 240 species of birds that nest in foliage in Australia have been recorded nesting in mistletoe, representing more than 75 % of the resident birds.

Before CB was authorized in Australia, there were hand-held 27-MHz " walkie-talkies " which utilised several frequencies between the present CB channels, such as 27. 240 MHz.

In 2000, Australia converted to 230 V as the nominal standard with a tolerance of + 10 % − 6 %., this superseding the old 240 V standard, AS2926-1987.

Natalie Clarke crossed Bass Strait from Stanley, Tasmania to Venus Bay, Victoria in Australia, a distance of 240 km, in 9 hours 30 minutes on March 22, 2010.

One Arctic Tern, ringed as a chick ( not yet able to fly ) on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast in eastern Great Britain in summer 1982, reached Melbourne, Australia in October 1982, a sea journey of over 22, 000 km ( 14, 000 statute miles ) in just three months from fledging — an average of over 240 km per day, and one of the longest journeys ever recorded for a bird.

Between 1997-2003, CVA was contracted to deliver 5, 240 places across Australia.

Pre-facelift Mercedes-Benz E 240 Elegance sedan, Australia

Pre-facelift Mercedes-Benz E 240 Elegance wagon, Australia

However, in the match that was played on 31 July, Australia beat the Irish women's cricket team by 240 runs, Karen Rolton and Lisa Sthalekar both making centuries as Australia made 295 for 3, and Cecelia Joyce top-scored for Ireland with a paltry 18-Shelley Nitschke taking four for 15 as Ireland collapsed to 55 all out in 26 overs.

Founded in May 2003 by Justin Krebs and Matt O ' Neill at Rudy's Bar and Grill in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, it has, as of March 2008, 240 chapters in forty-five states, plus Washington DC, Vancouver, Calgary, Buenos Aires Argentina and Melbourne Australia.

* Goals: 412 ( Port Adelaide 240, West Adelaide 112 and South Australia 60 )

He struck 240 in a ten-wicket win over South Australia and then made 103 and 55 in a low-scoring two-wicket win over Western Australia, scoring over 38 % of his team's runs.

In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

Percy Roberts, a leading judge will not be at the International Show this year for the Junior Judging Contest as he has been invited to judge in Australia in March.

People depend less on seeds for foods in Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina, where extensive grazing lands support sheep or cattle, and the consumption of meat is high.

* Robert Owen Evans is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and an amateur astronomer who holds the all-time record for visual discoveries of supernovae.

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.

This match ended in a victory for Australia

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

But England responded with 437 and then dramatically dismissed Australia for 166 with Bobby Peel taking 6 for 67.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

Clarrie Grimmett's 29 wickets at 31. 89 for Australia in this high-scoring series were also important.

England eventually faced a massive 707 run target for victory and failed, Australia winning the series 2 – 1.

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

West Indies defeated England twice in the mid-1960s and South Africa, in two series before they were banned for apartheid, completely outplayed Australia 3 – 1 and 4 – 0.

Allan Border made his Test debut for Australia in 1978 – 79.

Chasing just 130, Australia were sensationally dismissed for 111, Bob Willis taking 8 – 43.

In the latter part of the 1990s Waugh himself, along with his twin brother Mark, scored heavily for Australia and fast bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie made a serious impact, especially the former.