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.

One of the world's largest Bauxite mines in Weipa, Australia

In Australia and New Zealand the largest barter exchange is Bartercard, founded in 1991, with offices in the UK, Thailand and Cyprus.

The largest reserves are found in the USA, Russia, China, India and Australia.

( largest metropolitan-wide network in Australia )

The largest party in Australia, the Liberal Party of Australia adheres to the principles of social conservatism and Australian conservatism.

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

Ltd., a subsidiary of the Germany-based company Cognis, is also producing β-carotene from microalgae grown in two sites in Australia that are the world ’ s largest algae farms.

In the final, Australia made 359 runs for the loss of two wickets, the largest ever total in a final, defeating India by 125 runs.

Chiropractic is well established in the U. S., Canada and Australia and is the " third largest of the doctored health professions ( behind only medicine and dentistry )".

Recent research compared the variation between all of the described Diprotodon species with the variation in one of Australia ’ s largest living marsupials the Eastern Grey Kangaroo and found the range was comparable, with a near continent-wide distribution.

* 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the " Welcome Stranger ", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

* Four pillars policy, a legislative policy of the Government of Australia to maintain the separation of four of the largest banks in Australia by disallowing their merger or acquisition by any of the other three banks

Mount Isa, Australia, is often incorrectly referred to as the largest city in the world by area.

In reality, Mount Isa is the second largest city in Australia ; there are several cities around the world with larger incorporated areas.

The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles ( called desert pavement or gibber plains ) and salt lakes.

Irish Australians form the second largest ancestry group in Australia, numbering 1, 919, 727 or 9. 0 per cent of respondents in the 2001 Census.

Greenland is the world's largest island with an area of over 2. 1 million km², while Australia, the world's smallest continent has an area of 7. 6 million km², but there is no standard of size which distinguishes islands from continents, or from islets.

Japanese investment by 1988 made Australia the single largest source of Japanese regional imports.

Lake Eyre () is the lowest point in Australia, at approximately ( AHD ) below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, it is the largest lake in Australia and 18th largest in the world.

In Australia and the United Kingdom it has been held that a single word is insufficient to comprise a copyright work.

The single, " Don't Dream It's Over ", was released in December 1986 and reached number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart and number eight in Australia.

The second single, " Fall at Your Feet ", was less successful in Australia and New Zealand but did at least reach the US Hot 100.

The single was a minor hit in Australia and the UK.

The EFT network in Australia is made up of seven proprietary networks in which peers have interchange agreements, making an effective single network.

The Asia Pacific Floorball Championships are played every single year in Australia, Singapore, or Japan.

On taking office, Holt declared that Australia had no intention of increasing its commitment to the war, but just one month later, in December 1966, he announced that Australia would treble its troop commitment to 4, 500, including 1, 500 National Service conscripts, creating a single independent Australian task force based at Nui Dat.

Australia: In Australia ISBNs are issued by the commercial library services agency Thorpe-Bowker, and prices range from $ 40 for a single ISBN ( plus a $ 55 registration fee for new publishers ) through to $ 2, 750 for a block of 1, 000 ISBNs.

Lennon never reached the same level of success in the U. S. post-Valotte, but he hit number five in Australia with the 1989 single " Now You're In Heaven ", which also gave him his second # 1 hit on the Album Rock Tracks chart in the USA.

In 1968 she and her step-father Tommy Leonetti, then working in Australia, recorded the single " Let's Take A Walk ", released under the name of " Tommy Leonetti and his daughter Kim ".

LARP does not have a single point of origin, but was invented independently by groups in North America, Europe, and Australia.

In South Australia, for the first time in the Nationals ' history, in 2002 the single Nationals member in the House of Assembly entered the Rann Labor Government as a Minister forming an informal coalition between the two parties.

The single shot to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number 1 in the UK and Australia.

Ted Eldred of Melbourne, Australia, met this demand by developing the single hose regulator used today.

The first commercially successful single hose scuba gear was invented by Ted Eldred of Melbourne, Australia, ( Porpoise, 1952 ) although many people were working on the problem at the same time.

25 or 26 metre-with permits from state authorities-( 82 ft to 85 ft ), 62. 5 ton ( 137, 788 lb ) B-doubles are very common in all parts of Australia including state capitals and on major routes may outnumber single trailer configurations.

The single was the second highest selling independent single for Australia in 1985, behind Hoodoo Gurus ' " Like Wow-Wipeout !".

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

In Australia, which uses a single transferable vote proportional representation system, they avoided the need for an electoral threshold by establishing smaller electorates with each multi-member electorate returning fewer members of a Parliament and as such requiring a higher quota percentage in order to be elected.

The first single from Flood, " Birdhouse in Your Soul ", reached number 3 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks Chart and was a top 40 hit elsewhere, including Australia and the United Kingdom.