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Australia was struck first around 45, 000 years ago, followed by Tasmania about 41, 000 years ago ( after formation of a land bridge to Australia about 43, 000 years ago ), Japan apparently about 30, 000 years ago, North America 13, 000 years ago, South America about 500 years later, Cyprus 10, 000 years ago, the Antilles 6000 years ago, New Caledonia and nearby islands 3000 years ago, Madagascar 2000 years ago, New Zealand 700 years ago, the Mascarenes 400 years ago, and the Commander Islands 250 years ago.
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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.
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.
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* Lara struck 277 runs against Australia in Sydney, his maiden Test century, the fourth highest maiden Test century by any batsman, the highest individual score in all Tests between the two teams and the fourth-highest century ever recorded against Australia by any Test batsman.
Benaud then struck an unbeaten 100 and totalled 1 / 64 in the next match against Western Australia before the Australians departed for England.
The first of these came in the First Test at Johannesburg, where after conceding 1 / 115, Benaud struck 122, his highest Test score, to see Australia reach a draw.
* January 5 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
* Cyclone Yasi, which struck Australia in 2011
In Australia, the sport attracted criticism when a 39-year-old man playing at a registered field in Victoria died of a suspected heart attack, after being struck in the chest.
He had to deal with the sensitive subject of immigration from and between Commonwealth countries, where a delicate balance had to be struck between resistance in some quarters in Britain and Australia to non-white immigration on the one hand, and on the other the danger of sanctions in India and Pakistan against British commercial interests if discriminatory policies were pursued.
Prisoner premiered in Australia on 27 February 1979 and instantly struck a chord with the audience, initially prompting the producers to extend the series from a 16-part serial to 20-parts, and then to an ongoing concern.
Despite these issues, at the start of the 2004 / 05 season the league struck a new television deal with Fox Sports in Australia and a multi-year naming-rights sponsorship deal with electronics manufacturer Philips.
However the court also famously struck down Menzies Liberal government legislation banning the Communist Party of Australia in the Communist Party case ( 1951 ), Latham's last major case.
Livestock poisoned by chronic ingestion of large amounts of swainsonine develop a medical condition known as locoism ( also swainsonine disease, swainsonine toxicosis, locoweed disease, and loco disease ; North America ) and pea struck ( Australia ).
In Australia, species of Swainsona ( Darling pea ) that cause pea struck include:
Similarly, the Topps Company struck agreements with Amalgamated and British Confectionery in the United Kingdom and Scanlen's in Australia.
Ponting struck 62 not out in the second innings as Australia won by nine wickets in the Second Test in Melbourne, and then brought up his maiden century as captain, scoring 207 in the New Year's Test in Sydney, which ended in another convincing nine-wicket triumph.
Upon arriving in Australia in 1913, Griffin was struck by the natural beauty of the Sydney Habour, and at the first Australian town planning conference ; he emphasised that best planning practice should respect the natural character of the site ’ s landscape.
As a result, Kinnie is now produced under license from Farsons in Australia and deals are being struck with partners in Eastern Europe and South Africa.
A recent study conducted by the National Coroners Information System ( NCIS ) in Australia has revealed twenty-nine ( 29 ) closed case fatalities ( and at least a dozen case fatalities still under coronial investigation ) that had been reported to Australian coroners where a person was " struck in an emergency lane after their vehicle had stopped " between July 2000 and November 2010.
With the series lost, England won the final game, their first victory over Australia since the war and Australia's first defeat in 26 matches ; Hutton contributed scores of 79 and 60 not out and struck the winning run.
Eventually an agreement was struck whereby the islands and their inhabitants remain Australian, but the maritime boundary between Australia and Papua New Guinea runs through the centre of the strait.
These were installed at the Bath Street works, and in that year trade tokens were struck for use in Australia.
Woodfull struck 83 run out as Australia took a third consecutive innings victory.
Billibellary and the other clan elders signed a document, which came to be called Batman's Treaty, the only treaty ever struck between the European settlers and the indigenous people of Australia.
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