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unusual facts about ashes


Arthur Justice

Justice made his Test debut for Australia in the first match of Ashes series against England in 1928 and played in all three Tests of that series.


1989 Ashes series

The Australian series victory began a 19 year period of Australian dominance that would see the Australians win the next three Ashes series in England, and four Ashes series in Australia, until England eventually regained the Ashes in the 2005 Ashes series.

Angelo Ravagli

In 1935, von Richthofen sent Ravagli to Vence, where Lawrence had spent the last weeks of his life in the Ad Astra Sanatorium, to have Lawrence's body exhumed and cremated and his ashes brought back to the ranch.

Annetenna

Annetenna was a short-lived band that emerged from the ashes of Ednaswap.

Ashes Ashes

Ashes Ashes is the debut album of the band Leiahdorus.

Ashes to Ashes

It is based on scriptural texts such as "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" (Genesis 3:19), and "I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee" (Ezekiel 28:18).

Audrey Brettle

After her death in 2003, her ashes were interred in Greenhaven Woodland Burial Ground.

Australian cricket team in England in 1981

Botham's innings included 6 sixes, which was an Ashes record until Kevin Pietersen's innings of 158 at The Oval in the 2005 Ashes series.

Barbara Becnel

On Sunday, June 25, 2006, Becnel and Neal released Williams' ashes into a lake in Thokoza Park, located in the black township of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Billy Bowden

Bowden was involved in an incident at the 2006 Brisbane Ashes test while standing at the square leg fielding position, when knocked to the ground by a ball hit by Geraint Jones.

Blood in Our Wells

The lyrics to "Furrows of Gods" are adapted from a 1980 poem by Lina Kostenko; the lyrics to "When the Flame Turns to Ashes" are adapted from a 1908 poem by Oleksandr Oles; the lyrics to "Solitude" are once again taken from the 1839 work of Taras Shevchenko; and the lyrics to "Eternity" are lifted verbatim from the 1929 work of Yuriy Klen.

Boun Oum

He died in Boulogne-Billancourt, France in 1981 and his ashes are buried at the Cimetiere de Trivaux in Meudon France,next to his wife Princess Bouaphanh na Champassak (b. 1920- d. 2013).

Carl Michael von Hausswolff

In 2012 he was heavily criticized for allegedly using ashes of Holocaust victims from the Majdanek concentration camp and using them in a painting.

Clean Monday

The Maronite Catholic Church and The Mar Thoma Nasranis of India-Syro-Malabar Catholic Church are notable amongst the Eastern rite that employs the use of ashes on this day.

David Reddish

In November 2013, producer James Cawley announced that Reddish had written a script for the Star Trek: Phase II web series entitled "Ashes & Tears."

Elizabeth Blackwell

Her ashes were buried in the graveyard of St Munn's Parish Church in Kilmun, Scotland, and obituaries honoring her appeared in publications such as The Lancet and The British Medical Journal.

England and Wales Cricket Board

The ECB courted further controversy in 2005 when they appeared to dither over the employment contract of the bowling coach Troy Cooley who was seen by many as an important contributor to England's Ashes success.

Finn Brothers

This song was also used on the final session of the last day of the 2005 England vs. Australia Ashes cricket series on Channel 4 Television, at the end of the last day of cricket being shown on British terrestrial television.

Graham Yallop

In his account of the 1978-79 Ashes series "The Ashes Retained" England captain Mike Brearley reported that the English players nicknamed Yallop "Banzai" because of his tendency to adopt suicidally attacking fields at all times, when on occasion a more defensive approach may have prevented the England team's free scoring.

Greg Blewett

He followed that with a century in the WACA Ground in Perth during his second match and scored a century at Edgbaston in England in 1997 and scoring three centuries in his first three Ashes Test series.

Homerazzi

Homer bursts in on the celebrities at their favorite nightclub and takes many compromising photos (of which include Sideshow Mel eating the American flag, Paris Texan making out with Milhouse, Drederick Tatum snorting the ashes of Secretariat like cocaine, and Mayor Quimby and Kent Brockman dressed in sexual costumes and roleplaying) Wolfcastle, resigned to having everyone's outrageous acts exposed, asks Homer what he plans to do with the pictures.

Isa Guha

She took a career best 5 for 40 in her seventh Test match, against Australia at the Bradman Oval in Bowral in February 2008 and took nine wickets in the match, winning the player of the match award as England retained the Ashes.

J. S. Woodsworth

He died in Vancouver, British Columbia in early 1942, and his ashes were scattered in the Strait of Georgia.

James F. Calvert

Skate surfaced at the North Pole on 17 March 1959 to commit the ashes of the famed explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins to the Arctic waste.

John Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury

At school he played both association football and cricket although not in their representative XIs, but he won in 1876 a game of Eton Fives with Ivo Bligh who was later famous as the captain of the England cricket team of "Ashes" fame.

Kallal

However Vendyl Jones of the Vendyl Jones Research Institute interpreted the Copper Scroll in the Archaeological Museum of Jordan to contain mention of sixty-four lost objects buried in the "Cave of the Column" mentioned in the Copper Scroll, including a kallal buried behind a pillar, which would be a reference to the kallal of ashes in the Mishnah.

Kevin Wicks

Denise reveals in June that she and Carly had scattered Kevin's ashes in the South China Sea.

Kurt Schork

After Schork died, as per his personal wishes, upon cremation half of his ashes was buried next to his mother in Washington, D.C., and half at "Groblje LAV" (The Lion Cemetery) in Sarajevo, next to the grave of Boško and Admira, the central figures in Schork's acclaimed story.

Lands of Threepwood

Cotton cloth or linen was originally bleached by repeatedly steeping it in an alkaline solution or lye derived from ash tree or fern ashes, called 'bucking'.

Lanning Roper

Lanning Roper died in Paddington, London, and his ashes were scattered over the gardens at Scotney Castle.

Leslie Audus

On 9 June 2012, his ashes were returned to his hometown of Isleham, where they were interred in the Isleham Cemetery.

Memorial Park, Houston

The ashes of former professional golfer Dave Marr were spread over the course after Marr's death, as Memorial Park was the course where Marr learned to play golf.

Mike Stephenson

He first appeared on British airwaves in 1988, when he was invited to co-commentate on the rugby league Ashes series in Australia for BBC Radio 2 with Eddie Hemmings.

My Old Man Said

MOMS was formed in 2011 from the ashes of the supporter protest against the controversial appointment of Aston Villa F.C. manager Alex McLeish.

Olsztyn, Silesian Voivodeship

Furthermore, there are ashes of hundreds of Soviet POWs, shot by Germans in 1941-1944 (see Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs).

Pahala, Hawaii

In Hawaiian, Pāhala refers to the ashes of leaves from the hala tree (Pandanus tectorius).

Radius Ensemble

For the 2008-2009 season guest artists include Robin Young (of radio station WBUR) as narrator for the Holocaust-inspired There is wind and there are ashes in the wind by Osvaldo Golijov, Robert D. Levin on piano for the Mozart Quintet in E-flat major for piano and winds, K.452, Marcus Thompson on viola for the Brahms String quintet in F, Op. 88, and Fenwick Smith on flute for Shulamit Ran's Mirage for Five Players.

Sarah Basset

When the remains of the stake was cleared, legend say that a purple flower (the "Bermudiana", a New World iris of the genus Sisyrinchium) was found in her ashes; before her death Sarah had declared that there would be a sign that she was guiltless and today the flower blooms about Bermuda.

Señorío of Cuzcatlán

On the ashes of the once mighty Cuzcatlan in 1525, Pedro de Alvarado's cousin Diego de Alvarado established the Villa De San Salvador.

St Leonard's Church, Aldrington

The ashes of actor C. Aubrey Smith are interred in his mother's grave in the churchyard of St Leonard's.

Stanley Alexander de Smith

His work for Mauritius is commemorated by a memorial in the Pamplemousses Botanical Gardens; his ashes were scattered in that country.

The Mindbenders

A second song by Bayer and Wine, "Ashes to Ashes," took the Mindbenders to No. 14 in the UK Singles Chart in the autumn of 1966, after an earlier effort in 1966, "Can't Live With You (Can't Live Without You)" had struggled to break the UK Top 30.

Typhoon Saturday

Formed in 1981 from the ashes of Worksop band Veiled Threat, singer Elaine McLeod, Bassist Derek Taylor and drummer Nigel Fitzpatrick recruited Nick Robinson on guitar to form Red Zoo.

UP Aerospace

James Doohan, who played Chief Engineer Scott on the 1960s television series Star Trek, and from astronaut Gordon Cooper, were rocketed into suborbital space (along with ashes of about 200 other people) by UP Aerospace from Spaceport America.

Vaidyanath Jyotirlinga

This place could have been a centre of tantric cults like Kapalika/Bhairava where Lord Shiva is worshipped significantly as smasan vasin (meaning, residing in crematorium), sava bhasma bhushita (meaning, smearing body with ashes of burnt bodies).

Vinnie Vincent Invasion

The album featured one of the group's best-known hits, "Ashes to Ashes," and "Love Kills," which appeared on the A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master soundtrack.

Washington, D.C. hardcore

Hardcore in D.C also has grown a large following in the late '80s and the '90s: Swiz, Device, World's Collide, Fury, Battery, Ashes, Gauge, Smart Went Crazy, and Damnation A.D., with a majority of these bands releasing albums on Jade Tree Records, THD, Art Monk Construction, Lovvitt Records, and Sammich.

Wayne Connally

Connally was cremated, his ashes were scattered on the family ranch in Floresville, and a cenotaph was erected in his honor at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.

Willets Point, Queens

The "Valley of Ashes" described in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is said to have been inspired by Willets Point.


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