In the NFC Championship game that year, Graham's Cardinals played the Philadelphia Eagles, whose punter, Saverio Rocca, also was an ex-Aussie Rules player from North Melbourne.

During that tour a small terracotta urn was presented to England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women.

:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.

Though the team did not win, the urn containing the ashes was sent ( could mean presented ) to him just before leaving Melbourne .”

Adelaide was not as badly hit as the larger gold-rush cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and silver and lead discoveries at Broken Hill provided some relief.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

On 26 March 2005 Paul Hester was found dead, after hanging himself from a tree in a park near his home in Melbourne.

The first One-Day International event was played on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971, to fill the time available and as compensation for the frustrated crowd.

The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979.

In July 2010, Dublin was named as a UNESCO City of Literature, joining Edinburgh, Melbourne and Iowa City with the permanent title.

Alex ’ s cousin, Collier, who had already played with Melbourne, was the team ’ s first captain.

In 1879 Essendon played Melbourne in one of the earliest night matches recorded when the ball was painted white.

Essendon were known as the " Same Olds " ( as in " the same old Essendon ") in order to distinguish the Essendon VFL side ( that played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground ) to which this article refers, from the separate and unconnected Essendon VFA side ( that played at what was then the Essendon Cricket Ground ), which existed from 1900 to 1921.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

Collingwood succumbed first as the Dons powered their way to an 82 point first semi final victory, and a fortnight later it was the turn of the North Melbourne Football Club as Essendon won the preliminary final a good deal more comfortably than the ultimate margin of 17 points suggested.

Two seasons later Coleman's career was tragically ended after he dislocated a knee during the Round 8 clash with the North Melbourne Football Club at Essendon.

1959 saw another grand final loss to Melbourne, this time by 37 points, but the fact that the average age of the Essendon side was only 22 was seen as providing considerable cause for optimism.

Following Adam Ramanauskas ' personal battle with cancer, a ' Clash for Cancer ' match against Melbourne was launched in 2006.

* Enterprize ( 1829 ), Australian topsail schooner that was involved in the founding of Melbourne, Australia

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

It was first shown in Melbourne, Australia on 26 December 1906 and in the UK in January 1908.

Middle Park, the home of South Melbourne FC was demolished in 1994 due to expansion at Albert Park.

Other notable casualties from the Ten archive include hundreds of episodes of the Melbourne-based pop music shows commissioned and broadcast by ATV-0 Melbourne in the 1960s and early 1970s – The Go !!

By 1999 Kennett was voted out, but key landmarks that his government commissioned, such as the Crown Casino, the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre and the new Melbourne Museum, remain.

A 2005 report called Liveable Melbourne that was commissioned by The Age and conducted by Tract Consultants and ACIL Tasman, ranked Melbourne suburbs and assigned them scores on fourteen characteristics such as crime, CBD proximity, and traffic congestion.

Sitting only 33 centimetres from the ground, these trams were built in France and commissioned at the Preston Workshops in Melbourne.

The new Solid State Interlocking was commissioned in 1989, and was the first fully computerised system in Melbourne.

USA on 1 February 2007 ); Sonata for Organ ( premiered by Robert Green at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales on 22 August 2007 ); the opera, Far from the Madding Crowd, premièred at the Thomas Hardy Festival in July 2006 ; Mass for Unaccompanied Solo Voice, premiered by soprano Paula Downes at the MIT Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 6 March 2008 ; Sonata for Horn, Violin and Piano for the Brahms Trio Prague ( Monica Vrabcová, violin ; Ondrej Vrabec, Horn Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Wiesner, piano ), premiered at the Suk Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague on 5 February 2008 ( a CD of this work has now been released on the Czech Philharmonic Artesmon label ); Finished Fields, a setting of four poems by Wilfred Owen commissioned by Jonathan Pugsley ( bass-baritone ) and Duncan Honeybourne ( piano ) and premiered in Weymouth, Dorset on 12 November 2008 ; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra for pianist Duncan Honeybourne and the Central England Ensemble, conducted by Anthony Bradbury in Birmingham Town Hall on 1 March 2009, and given again by the same artists in Coventry Cathedral in July 2010 ; Sonata for Contrabass Flute and Piano for Peter Sheridan, premiered in 2009 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; and Sonata for Clarinet and Piano for clarinettist Angus Merion and Duncan Honeybourne, premiered in Salisbury, UK in January 2010.

In recognition of his influence across both Church and state, the Catholic Church commissioned a statue of Mannix, pictured above, that is located in the forecourt of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, facing Parliament House.

She suffered from osteoarthritis but continued to write prolifically, including a novel, Neap Tide ( Penguin 1999 ), a collection of poetry, Halfway Up The Mountain, a play commissioned by the Playbox Theatre in Melbourne, Nowhere, and other unpublished works.

The first CTC installation in Australia was commissioned in September 1957 on the Glen Waverley line in suburban Melbourne.

The sculpture was commissioned from Melbourne mosaic artist Deborah Halpern for installation in the ‘ moat ’ in front of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1985, but off-loaded by the Gallery when major renovations were undertaken in 1999.

Since then he has worked with Melbourne's Chamber Made Opera ( Recital, The Two Executioners and Lacuna ), and with the Melbourne International Arts Festival ( Cosmonaut, commissioned by Opera Australia and Sabat Jesus ).

In 1992, a musical theatre production entitled " A Smedley of Revolution " was commissioned by the Theatre Faculty of the University of Melbourne from the Australian writer Tania Peitzker.

A 2005 report called Liveable Melbourne that was commissioned by The Age and conducted by Tract Consultants and ACIL Tasman, ranked Melbourne suburbs and assigned them scores on fourteen characteristics such as crime, CBD proximity, and traffic congestion.

A memorial statue was commissioned from sculptor James White showing the Queen in ceremonial gowns casting her regal gaze across ornamental lakes, sweeping lawns and rose gardens to the Melbourne Arts Centre Spire and the city skyscrapers.

He has worked on some major public art projects including " Flume ", Ashford Kent, UK, " Proximities: Local histories / Global entanglements ", a key public art project commissioned to celebrate the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games ; Chifley Square Commission, Sydney 1997 ; The M4 Freeway Commission, Sydney 2000 and the Progettomoderno Commission, Treviso, Italy, 2002.

In 2004 COGA commissioned a history of the school, which was researched and written by Melbourne writer Melanie Guile.

In December 1954 he was commissioned by Melbourne industrialist James P. Beveridge to paint Australia's official portrait of Queen Elizabeth, who posed for him at Buckingham Palace.