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.

However, while the names Shiraz and Hermitage gradually seem to have replaced Scyras in Australia from the mid-19th century, the spelling Shiraz has also been documented in British sources back to at least the 1830s.

Children's music in Australia developed gradually over the latter half of the 20th century.

He enjoyed the less pressured life of Western Australia and his political views gradually moderated.

From that time on, the fear that it might be extinct gradually grew into near-certainty after the swamps and wetlands in Australia around Bass River in south-west Gippsland were drained for farming in the early 1900s.

The number of subspecies is unclear-with four recognised by most authorities, although others have proposed the three Australian subspecies gradually change across Australia and should be treated as one.

Metrication in Australia caused the former mile markers to be gradually replaced with 10 km markers on highways and country roads, and even these have been removed from most major highways with distances to several towns ahead being shown on signboards.

Microbreweries are gradually appearing in other countries ( such as New Zealand and Australia ) where a similar market concentration exists.

Branch offices in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom were closed in about 2004, and the corresponding directories were said to have been sold but / and were gradually merged with the main directory.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia gradually developed into the central bank of Australia.

From that time on, as Australia drifted further north and the climate became gradually more arid, the lakes and floodplains started to dry.

The first American car, the Studebaker Golden Hawk ( 211 / 211M ), was released in February 1958 and by the early 1960s the Corgi range was being exported widely, finding particular popularity in Europe, Australia, Canada, the United States of America and Southeast Asia such as Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, and gradually more foreign vehicles were included to appeal to these new markets.

During the last 30 years, it has gradually gained adherents in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Australia, Ireland, Italy and Spain.

It used to be a public holiday in Western Australia, but gradually the celebrations were pre-empted by those who wished to celebrate the achievement of the eight-hour day.

An agreement was enacted with the state and territory governments of Australia in 1999 that their various duties, levies and taxes on consumption would be removed gradually over time, with the budget shortfall being replaced by GST income from the Commonwealth Grants Commission.

It was jointly developed by Australia and the United Kingdom between 1951 and 1954, and was in service from 1958 until gradually replaced by the Swingfire missile in the late 1960s.

However, a new team gradually reassembled around Enevoldson and partial funding was secured thanks to commitments from partners in the United States and Australia.

So it reached gradually the two Americas and Australia.

In October 2003 Airnorth acquired the assets of Airlines of South Australia ( ASA ) with the intention of gradually merging the two companies and operating under Airnorth's Air Operator's Certificate.

During the 1930s, when Fleming's anarchist politics was out of favour with the May Day Committee, then controlled by the Communist Party of Australia, Fleming started marching a block ahead with his red flag with Anarchy emblazoned in white, going so slowly the march caught up with him ; or sometimes he started back In the ranks and gradually edged to the front.

Writers from the United States and the British colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada were influenced by the literature of Britain and are often classed as a part of Victorian literature, although they were gradually developing their own distinctive voices.

The range was gradually introduced in Australia from May 1973.

Ostensibly a quarterly, Scripsi's gradually slowing publishing rate, rarely managing more than three issues a year, led the Australia Council to withdraw funding in 1994, and the magazine closed.