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  The Ashes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ashes urn is reputed to contain a burnt set of bails symbolising the death of English cricket.
The urn is not used as a trophy for the Ashes series, and whichever side "holds" the Ashes, the urn remains in the MCC Museum at Lord's.
The Ashes urn itself is never physically awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum at Lord's Cricket Ground, where it can be seen together with a specially-made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Ashes   (4446 words)

  
 The 11th Hour Web Magazine
Whether she is saving a system from annihilation or a government from treason, Honor is constantly standing with her back to the figurative wall against the demons, pushed to the limit and past and yet forging on, bloodied but unbowed.
And she is left, as are we all, with the Ashes of Victory.
My copy of On Basilisk Station is near to disintegrating, and while Ashes of Victory has not quite the same style of fast-paced action, it bears reading anew (and often) to absorb the many and profound changes Weber has wrought in the Harrington universe.
www.the11thhour.com /archives/042000/bookreviews/ashesofvictory.html   (843 words)

  
 Ashes Victory - The England Cricket Team - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
With England's improvement under Michael Vaughan, the 2005 Ashes series was eagerly anticipated by all sports fans; all tickets were sold out months in advance.
England went on to lose that match, before winning the second Test by 2 runs (the closest Ashes victory in history), drawing the third (when they failed to dismiss Australia's last pair), and then winning the fourth amid scenes of unbearable tension to go into the last Test with an unbeatable 2-1 series lead.
Ashes Victory - The England Cricket Team : That was the summer that was when the noise of leather hitting the willow ruled supreme.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/ashes-victory-the-england-cricket-team   (372 words)

  
 Ashes Cricket Victory Parade — London Event and Ticket Guide
The Ashes Cricket Victory Parade is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 13th September, with the actual event beginning at 11.10am.
Traffic will be diverted away from central London whilst the Ashes Cricket Victory Parade takes place with many offices and business in central London expected to come to a standstill during the celebrations of this historic sporting event.
However, with the Ashes Cricket having become the event of the summer, it is likely everyone will be joining in the celebrations rather than complaining.
www.viewlondon.co.uk /ashes_cricket_victory_parade_index.html   (242 words)

  
 Waugh toasts final Ashes win - smh.com.au
Steve Waugh has celebrated the last Ashes series victory of his long career after leading Australia to another crushing defeat of England in the third Test at the WACA Ground.
Waugh equalled Allan Border's national record of 32 Test victories as captain when Australia finished off England by an innings and 48 runs inside three days to record its eighth consecutive Ashes series win.
England is broken, losing the first three matches in a combined 11 days, and its tour was typified by the sight of tailender Alex Tudor leaving the ground on a stretcher after he was struck by a short-pitched delivery from Brett Lee.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/12/02/1038712859396.html   (270 words)

  
 Eng close in on Ashes victory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Flintoff (26) and Pietersen (23) were coasting when Lee struck with the first ball of a new spell to swing the momentum again.
Flintoff posted his maiden Ashes hundred and shared a 177-run stand with Geraint Jones as England amassed 477 in the first innings.
Hoggard chipped in again with valuable wickets before and after lunch on Sunday and Steve Harmison claimed the last three wickets as Australia were out for 387 in their second innings, leaving England 41 overs on the fourth day to get the required runs.
www.news24.com /News24/Sport/Cricket/0,,2-9-839_1761236,00.html   (690 words)

  
 RTÉ.ie Sport - England edge towards Ashes victory
England look to be on course for Ashes victory after day four of the fifth and final test was ruined by bad light.
England will resume on 34 for one in their second innings, 40 runs ahead of Australia with 98 overs scheduled to be bowled for Monday.
England were delighted with their fightback today, when they took the last eight Australia first-innings wickets for 90 runs.
www.rte.ie /sport/2005/0911/ashes.html   (125 words)

  
 Ashes: Historic victory has corks popping
When the last of those spectator- scattering shots, followed immediately by a four, took Pietersen to 150, Warne was pulled out of the attack after a five-hour marathon in which had he used every trick in his book to pull off Australia's Great Escape.
The 23,000 crowd rose to acclaim the greatest spinner of all time, but he sank slowly to his haunches, knowing that for the first time since bursting on to the Ashes stage 12 years ago, he was a loser - despite taking 40 wickets in the series.
The game was to all intents and purposes over, although the regulations forced the teams to stay on until the required number of overs were completed, compounding Australia's misery.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk /sport/s/173/173728_ashes_historic_victory_has_corks_popping.html   (1084 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Sport - The Ashes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
MICHAEL Vaughan is almost certain to miss this winter's Ashes series after a specialist yesterday advised a further operation on his troublesome right knee.
MEMORABILIA from England's Ashes victory is up for grabs at an Edinburgh auction.
CRICKET hero Kevin Pietersen was so drunk after England's Ashes victory that he can't remember...
sport.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=708   (370 words)

  
 Ashes Series 2001: England and Australia
Slater was axed for Australia's fifth Ashes Test win over England, which the Aussies won on Monday to complete a 4-1 series triumph.
However, let no one be in any doubt that Australia, who wrapped up their seventh successive Ashes series victory with an innings and 25 run victory over England at The Oval on Monday, could easily have come away with a 4-0 triumph.
London, August 22: England go into the fifth and final Ashes Test here at The Oval on Thursday on the back of a famous victory knowing better than anyone how fortunate they are to be 3-1 rather than 4-0 down in the series.
www.yehhaicricket.com /matches2001/ashes_series/ashes.html   (1947 words)

  
 Ashes | Cosmic Variance
for a while there, it had to be admitted that the ashes were overhyped, and overshadowed by any half decent india v pakistan series (the first one day game between the two sides last year made international headlines!).
Ashes fever is really starting to grip the whole country, as football is pushed off the back pages.
Unbelievable, but the Ashes have come back to England, despite predictions of a 5-0 whitewash by some of the aussies.
cosmicvariance.com /2005/07/21/ashes   (3081 words)

  
 Honor Harrington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An officer in a star fleet known as the Royal Manticoran Navy, Harrington bears a striking professional resemblance to both the real life Admiral Lord Nelson, Captain Thomas Cochrane, and the fictional (composite) character Horatio Hornblower.
By the tenth main-line novel (Ashes of Victory) Honor has emerged as a strategist of note as well, and has been promoted to Admiral in both the Manticoran and Grayson space navies.
This is the RMN's equivalent of HMS Victory or USS Constitution - the oldest ship still in commission.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honor_Harrington   (1971 words)

  
 ESPN.com - GEN - UPDATE 4-Cricket-England seal closest ever Ashes test victory
It was the closest winning margin in Ashes history in one of the most enthralling and tense games that either captain could remember and left the five-match series perfectly poised at 1-1.
England's victory gave them their first win in a 'live' test against Australia since the first test of the 1997 series, also at Edgbaston.
Two Ashes tests have been decided by three runs, the latest when England beat Australia in Melbourne in 1982-3.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/wire?section=cricket&id=2127773   (797 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Technology | MP3 download offers Ashes memento
The audio clips include the moment when England regained the Ashes, plus a four minute collection of other key events.
Cricket-related searches outstripped those for football by 55% during the 3rd Ashes test at Old Trafford, according to Hitwise.
Following the rugby World Cup, the station was inundated with requests for the moment Jonny Wilkinson secured victory with a late drop goal, he told the BBC News website.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/4240938.stm   (337 words)

  
 books about: ashes (harrington revolution outlander)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In Ashes of Victory, the ninth installment in David Weber's Honor Harrington series, Commodore Harrington returns from the Havenite prison planet known as Hell, along with some 400,000 liberated Prisoners of War in tow.
Ash has a solid grip of the "Zen of recovery".
She's never known anything but the dingy streets of her own city, but she is taken in by the crew of the airship "Mourning Dawn" and soon finds herself in strange lands filled with wonders and horrors beyond her wildest dreams.
www.very-clever.com /books/ashes   (1402 words)

  
 BBC - London - In Pictures - Ashes victory celebrations
The crowd was explosive and i have never been part of such a victory before.
Victory to the boys and England and thak you for giving me such opportunity
Have been gripped by the Ashes all summer and to see the team in London with such a great atmosphere was just brilliant!
www.bbc.co.uk /london/content/image_galleries/ashes_gallery.shtml   (607 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Cricket - Australia closes in on Ashes success - Saturday November 30, 2002 06:57 AM
England was forced to do without fast bowler Chris Silverwood, who was ruled out of the rest of the test with a torn ligament in his left ankle.
As England's injury woes continued, Australia continued to crush its Ashes opponents for the third test in a row.
While Waugh continued to struggle for his runs, Gilchrist reduced the Ashes veteran to a mere spectator.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2002/11/30/aus_eng_copy2_ap   (577 words)

  
 Telegraph | Sport | England celebrates Ashes victory
England have won the Ashes for the first time in 18 years after a tense final day of the series at the Oval.
Victory came thanks to a knock of 158 from South-African born batsman Kevin Pietersen after the hosts had a shaky start.
A gripping finale was always on the cards as Australia looked to win the game, draw the series and thereby retain the famous urn.
www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml;jsessionid=BULJLTYW1AYRZQFIQMGSM5WAVCBQWJVC?xml=/sport/2005/09/12/ucengl12.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/12/ixportaltop.html   (531 words)

  
 SFBookcase.com - Ashes of Victory by David Weber - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.
SFBookcase.com - Ashes of Victory by David Weber - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.
'Ashes of Victory' has set up a dark age that will indefinately settle upon her first home world for the next two,...
As one of the few members of the House of Lords in the Queens corner this may be a battle even Honor Harrington can't win.
www.sfbookcase.com /viewbook.asp?bookno=2115   (145 words)

  
 News - Gough backs England for Ashes victory : HTCricket.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gough, in Melbourne to play for the World XI against Asia in Monday's tsunami appeal one-dayer at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, conceded winning the Ashes for the first time since 1987 would be difficult.
But the 34-year-old fast bowler, who retired from Test cricket in 2003 after chronic knee problems to become a one-day specialist, believes the current side is the best he has seen in his playing career.
Gough warned Australia was the Test cricket benchmark and pointed to his own experience of never having played in a series win over Australia as proof of how confidence can suddenly erode when faced with the world's no. 1 cricket nation.
www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Jan/07/htcricket/14_1186992.htm   (237 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Ashes of Victory (Honor Harrington Series, Book 9): Books: David Weber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In Ashes of Victory we get only a brief hot slice of Honor in action when she finds herself defending her Manticoran Queen and Grayson's Protector against attempted murder in a gutsy maneuver that saves their lives and nearly destroys her new runabout.
In Ashes of Victory, Honor continues to endure the despicable politics of personal destruction by various factions admist more intimate trials of repair of her body and healing both herself and her terribly injured treecat Nimitz.
Ashes of Victory delivers all I have come to expect from a Weber novel EXCEPT a white-knuckled death-ride by Lady Harrington.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671578545?v=glance   (2715 words)

  
 CEN News : Huntingdon and St Ives Edition : Ashes a victory for bat manufacturers too
ASHES success has brought a record year for Huntingdon cricket bat makers Hunts County Bats.
The firm, which sponsors Ashes hero Ashley Giles, saw a 25 per cent increase in sales after the series victory against Australia and a big demand from wholesalers for deliveries to be brought forward in time for Christmas.
On Saturday England's Ashes heroes dominated the sporting honours in the New Year honours list.
www.cambridge-news.co.uk /news/huntingdon/2006/01/02/964cc611-235a-4002-b5e0-ef7b0f987037.lpf   (316 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Ashes Victory: The Official Story of the Greatest Ever Test Series in the Team's Own Words: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
From Englands capitualtion at Lords, to rge magical 2 run victory at Edgbaston inspired by Andrew Flintoff, but eventually won Steve Harmison, up to the ridiculous outburst by Australian captain after his run out at Trent Bridge (perfectly described by Matthew Hoggard: '...we all thought, what's his problem?').
Even the manic celebrations the day after the Ashes were won at The Oval are covered here, telling of how at 4.30 am Marcus Trescothick was in the hotel lobby eating a cheese and ham toastie, and Flintoff and Harmison were the only two players still going strong at the bar.
This book has lots of beautiful images but the biggest impression this book will leave you with is the sheer joy the players felt to win the Ashes and in the process generate huge interest among the people in England and around the world.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0752875175   (790 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Cricket - MacGill leads Australia to 3-1 series win - Wednesday January 06, 1999 02:37 PM
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Stuart MacGill spun Australia to a 3-1 Ashes series victory over England when he sealed the fifth and final test Tuesday by claiming 12 wickets for the match.
MacGill, employed as a net bowler by England four years ago, followed his 5-57 in the tourists' first innings with 7-50 in the second, making the most of violent turn with his leg-spinners off a helpful pitch.
Captain Mark Taylor, possibly playing a test for the last time at the SCG, broke a world record for catching to start England's slide Tuesday after it resumed on 104 for two, needing a record 287 in its second innings to level the series at 2-2.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/1999/01/05/australia_england   (836 words)

  
 Bublos.com, Books ›› Ashes of Victory (Honor Harrington Series, Book 9)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Yep, she's back: minus a left arm and an eye, minus a few inches of hair, and more than a little banged up in the process, the indestructible, ever-resilient Honor is back from the dead--and she's got some 400,000 liberated POWs from Hades in tow for good measure.
In the longest book of this naval space-opera series, David Weber plunges his beloved heroine (now an admiral!) into a thick tangle of political plots, as she takes on a more mature, behind-the-scenes role than in previous books.
Ashes of Victory is another captivating read from David Weber, and a fine addition to his "Honorverse."
www.bublos.com /isbn/0671319779.html   (1580 words)

  
 Ashes parade: cricket victory celebrations by England's teams in London
Ashes parade: cricket victory celebrations by England's teams in London
On Monday 12th September 2005 England won the Ashes for the first time in 18 years, having beaten the Australians 2-1 over the 5-match series.
The English women's team also won the Women's Ashes, for the first time in 42 years.
www.ukstudentlife.com /Ideas/Album/Ashes.htm   (305 words)

  
 England stamps Ashes triumph
Images of Michael Vaughan, Andrew Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen and England colleagues will appear on four stamps to mark the "momentous occasion" of regaining the Ashes from Australia -- two first class domestic stamps and two for letters to be sent overseas.
The English cricketers will be the first living people outside the Royal Family to have their likenesses clearly identifiable on British stamps.
England's cricketers defeated Australia 2-1 over the summer, the first time they had won an Ashes series since 1987.
www.rediff.com /cricket/2005/oct/06stamps.htm   (115 words)

  
 Ashes of Victory (Honor Harrington #9) Comments
They not only sacked him, they tried him on corruption charges (and, for the most part, it was Holland's money, not England's money that he was accused of stealing).
The end of the war did not go well and Louis XIV scraped out what might be considered a victory.
A better match to AoV can be found in The Seven Years War (aka French and Indian War).
www.drizzle.com /~robertaw/hh_aov_comments.html   (3423 words)

  
 England Set for Victory - Day 4 - 5th Ashes Test
Three LBW decisions against Australia — two justified and one not - set England up for victory on Day Five, as the hosts slumped to 2-5 and 3-25 early in the final session of Day Four.
Nevertheless, Andy Bichel’s surprise promotion to Number Three bore fruit, the gutsy Queenslander defying the pain of a blow from Harmison’s bowling to his already injured left index finger to reach his highest Test score of 49* by stumps.
Richard Dawson (0-2) bowled the final over of the day, one in which England held the upper hand from start to finish.
www.abcofcricket.com /Article_Library/news050103/news050103.htm   (2235 words)

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