The Cricket Holiday Special (Comic Book) (Unnoticed Tales of the Cricket Book 1)

The Cricket Holiday Special (Comic Book) (Unnoticed Tales. Book) (Unnoticed Tales of the Cricket Book 1) - Kindle edition by Jef Holbrook.
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Here are 11 surprising and often adorable facts about crickets. Interestingly, the name for the sport of cricket has a totally different origin: How do crickets chirp? Old-timey illustrators sidestepped this question by drawing them playing tiny violins. In fact, they sing with their wings. Crickets make sound in a similar way. They rub a scraping organ on one wing against a comb-like organ on the other. Each cricket species has distinctive noise-making structures that produce unique sounds. Scientists have even managed to recreate the sound of an extinct cricket relative, a fossilized Jurassic bush cricket katydid , by examining the shape of its wings.

Most female crickets lack those sound-making wing structures. And males of some cricket species never make a peep. Many of them have a whole repertoire of calls: Crickets call more frequently when the weather gets hotter. It uses its incredibly sophisticated hearing system to find a singing cricket and drop maggots on it. Those maggots burrow into their victim and devour it from the inside. Male crickets on Kauai have responded in a remarkable way. Those silent, safe crickets compensate for their lack of courtship songs by spending more time on the move [ PDF ], which improves their chances of running into potential mates.

Insects have ears in weird places. Those cricket-eating parasitic flies, for example, have ears just below their head and neck. And cricket ears are tiny spots, just a fraction of a millimeter long, on their front legs just below the knees. But that somber insect has some pretty colorful relatives. Early British settlers brought familiar meats and crops with them from Europe and these remain important in the Australian diet. The British settlers found some familiar game — such as swan , goose , pigeon , and fish — but the new settlers often had difficulty adjusting to the prospect of native fauna as a staple diet.

Queensland and New South Wales became Australia's main beef cattle producers, while dairy cattle farming is found in the southern states, predominantly in Victoria. Wheat and other grain crops are spread fairly evenly throughout the mainland states. Sugar cane is also a major crop in Queensland and New South Wales. Fruit and vegetables are grown throughout Australia. The post-World War II multicultural immigration program brought new flavours and influences, with waves of immigrants from Greece, Italy, Vietnam, China, and elsewhere bringing about diversification of the typical diet consumed.

Australia's 11 million square kilometre fishing zone is the third largest in the world and allows for easy access to seafood which significantly influences Australian cuisine. Clean ocean environments produce high quality seafoods. Lobster , prawns , tuna , salmon and abalone are the main ocean species harvested commercially, while aquaculture produces more than 60 species for consumption, including oysters , salmonoids, southern bluefin tuna , mussels , prawns, barramundi , yellowtail kingfish , and freshwater finifish.

Fishing and aquaculture constitute Australia's fifth most valuable agricultural industry after wool , beef , wheat and dairy. Vegemite is a well-known spread originating from Australia. Iconic Australian desserts include pavlova and lamingtons. Australia's reputation as a nation of heavy drinkers goes back to the earliest days of colonial Sydney, when rum was used as currency and grain shortages followed the installation of the first stills.

James Squires is considered to have founded Australia's first commercial brewery in and the Cascade Brewery in Hobart has been operating since Since the s, Australian beers have become increasingly popular globally, with Foster's Lager being an iconic export. Foster's is not however the biggest seller on the local market, with alternatives including Victoria Bitter outselling it. Billy tea was a staple drink of the Australian colonial period.

It is typically boiled over a camp fire with a gum leaf added for flavouring. Wine is produced in every state, however, wine regions are mainly in the southern, cooler regions. Australia has no official designated national dress , but iconic local styles include bushwear and surfwear. Major clothing brands associated with bushwear are the broad brimmed Akubra hats, Driza-Bone coats and R.

Williams bushmen's outfitters featuring in particular: Blundstone Footwear and Country Road are also linked to this tradition. Made from the leaves of Livistona australis , the cabbage tree hat was the first uniquely Australian headwear, dating back to the early s, and was the hat of choice for colonial-born Australians. Australian surfers popularised the ugg boot , a unisex sheepskin boot with fleece on the inside, a tanned outer surface and a synthetic sole.

Worn by the working classes in Australia, the boot style emerged as a global fashion trend in the s. The slouch hat was first worn by military forces in Australia in , looped up on one side so that rifles could be held at the slope without damaging the brim. After federation, the slouch hat became standard Australian Army headgear in and since then it has developed into an important national symbol and is worn on ceremonial occasions by the Australian army.

Australians generally have a relaxed attitude to what beachgoers wear, although this has not always been the case. At the start of the twentieth century a proposed ordinance in Sydney would have forced men to wear skirts over their "bathing costume" to be decent.

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This led to the Sydney bathing costume protests which resulted in the proposal being dropped. Over time swim briefs, better known locally as speedos or more recently as budgy smugglers, became an iconic swimwear for Australian males. Many Australians are passionate about sport, and it forms a major part of the country's culture in terms of spectating and participation. Cricket is popular in the summer, and football codes are popular in the winter. It is generally agreed that cricket enjoys the most popularity in all parts of the country.

Australian traditions such as grand finals and footy tipping are shared amongst the codes. Australia's successes in events such as the Olympic Games , Commonwealth Games , World Cup competitions in cricket , rugby union , rugby league , field hockey , netball , and major tournaments in tennis , golf , surfing , and other sports are a source of pride for many Australians. Sports people such as Donald Bradman , Dawn Fraser , and Cathy Freeman remain in the nation's cultural memory and are accorded high civilian honours and public status. Cricket is Australia's most popular summer sport and has been played since colonial times.

It is followed in all states and territories, unlike the football codes which vary in popularity between regions. The first recorded cricket match in Australia took place in Sydney in Intercolonial contests started in [] and Sheffield Shield inter-state cricket continues to this day. In —67, prominent cricketer and Australian rules football pioneer Tom Wills coached an Aboriginal cricket team, which later toured England in under the captaincy of Charles Lawrence.

The —77 season is notable for a match between a combined XI from New South Wales and Victoria and a touring English team at the Melbourne Cricket Ground , which was later recognised as the first Test match. The English media then dubbed the next English tour to Australia —83 as the quest to "regain the ashes". Successful cricketers often become lasting celebrities in Australia. Sir Donald Bradman , who made his Test debut in the —29 series against England, is regarded as the game's greatest batsman and a byword for sporting excellence. Internationally, Australia has for most of the last century sat at or near the top of the cricketing world.

In the s, Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer founded World Series Cricket from which many international forms of the game have evolved. Events on the cricket pitch have occasionally been elevated to diplomatic incidents in Australian history, such as the infamous Bodyline controversy of the s, in which the English team bowled in a physically intimidating way leading to accusations of unsportsmanlike conduct.

Australian rules football is the most highly attended spectator sport in Australia. Its core support lies in four of the six states: Originating in Melbourne in the late s and codified in , the sport is the world's oldest major football code. International rules football is a hybrid sport of Australian football and Gaelic football devised to facilitate matches between Australia and Ireland. Rugby union was first played in Australia in the s and is followed predominately in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

The national team is known as the Wallabies. Despite having a relatively small player base, Australia has twice won the Rugby World Cup , in and , and hosted the Rugby World Cup. Rugby test matches are also popular and have at times become highly politicised, such as when many Australians, including the Wallabies, demonstrated against the racially selected South African teams of the s.

In , rugby league was established in Australia, by former rugby union players and supporters as a breakaway professional code. The new code gained and has maintained a wider following in Australia than rugby union, which remained amateur until the s. The sport has roots in the working class communities of Lancashire and Yorkshire in Northern England, translating to similar areas in Sydney and Brisbane.

Australia's national team , the Kangaroos, has contested all 15 Rugby League World Cup titles, winning 11 of them. Despite attracting less media attention than Australian rules football and rugby league, soccer is Australia's highest participation football code. In the Socceroos moved from the Oceania Football Confederation to the Asian Football Confederation , a much stronger confederation which has allowed the Australian team to avoid repetition of a history of missed World Cup qualifications in forced sudden-death playoffs.

Australia's warm climate and long coastline of sandy beaches and rolling waves provide ideal conditions for water sports such as swimming and surfing. The majority of Australians live in cities or towns on or near the coast, and so beaches are a place that millions of Australians visit regularly.

Swimming is a popular pastime for Australians. In the early s, members of the Australian Cavill family pioneered the crawl stroke "Australian crawl" and butterfly stroke. Australians have a particular affinity for surf lifesaving , and surf lifesavers have a revered status in Australian culture.

Surf Life Saving Australia has conducted hundreds of thousands of rescues around Australia.

Tens of thousands of Australians compete in surf lifesaving training and competitions, such as Ironman events. In the summer of , Duke Kahanamoku of Hawaii introduced surf board riding to Sydney's Freshwater Beach , amazing locals and starting a long term love affair with the sport in Australia. The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is a much anticipated fixture on the Australian sporting calendar. Australia won the America's Cup under skipper John Bertrand in , becoming the first country other than the United States to win the race. Horse racing has had a prominent place in Australian culture since the colonial era, with the first spectator sports event in Australia being Lachlan Macquarie 's race meeting at Hyde Park , Sydney, in Basketball is popular in Australia in terms of participation, especially among children.

Netball has the highest participation rate of any women's sport in Australia. Established in , the ANZ Championship is the premier netball league in Australia and New Zealand, featuring five teams from each country.

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The Australian national netball team the Diamonds is considered the best in the world, having won 10 of 13 World Netball Championships. The Australian V8 Supercars series is steadily growing in popularity across the world, where television coverage allows. Australia regularly raises world champion field hockey teams.

Australian cyclists have won international cycling competitions, most notably Cadel Evans ' win in the Tour de France. Among young people and within schools nationwide, various forms of handball or downball games have been among the most prevalent sports games for some decades. Snow sports are enjoyed in the Australian Alps and in Tasmania. The sport remains a popular winter activity in the south-eastern states and territories.

Australia has long participated in the Winter Olympics and has won medals at the Games since the s. Increased interest and participation in American sports has led to opportunities for Australians to play at the top level in sports such as baseball , ice hockey and American football.

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Australian basketballers have done well at the Olympics, coming fourth four times. The skill set of Australian rules footballers fits the mould of US National Football League NFL punters , and they stand out from their American peers with their ability to tackle returners. Australian stories and legends have a cultural significance independent of their empirical truth or falsehood. This can be seen in the portrayal of bushranger Ned Kelly as a mixture of the underdog and Robin Hood.

Militarily, Australians have served in numerous overseas wars, ranging from World War I through to recent regional security missions, such as East Timor , Iraq and Afghanistan. Australian war culture generally consists of sombre reflection and commemoration, focussing on noble sacrifice rather than glory. The Australian experience of defeat in the Gallipoli Campaign , the first iconic moment in modern Australia's involvement in war, is viewed by Australians with both pride for the fighting of the soldiers, and bitterness for the perceived negligence on the part of British commanders.

During the First World War, Australian soldiers were considered to be remarkably determined, united and hard-working. Many Australians knew how to ride and shoot prior to enlistment, making them talented recruits, but they were also infamous for their lax attitude towards formal parade ground discipline, a notoriety that the Australian soldiers revelled in. From this the notion of the larrikin Digger emerged, [ citation needed ] an important part of contemporary Australian identity. Critics and scholars have sometimes scrutinised Australian culture, with aspects of it loosely criticised for being kitsch , low-brow or rooted in poor taste.

The phrase " the lucky country ", coined by Donald Horne , is a reference to Australia's weather, lifestyle, and history. Unlike other cultures based on a nurturing landscape that they seek to protect from others, Australian settlers experienced great hardship and had to support each other in order to survive. The battle against the elements led to the nickname of a member of Australia's working class being the "Aussie battler". An aspect of the mateship culture on language is that Australians have a propensity for the diminutive forms of names e.

One result of the prevalence of the "mateship" culture is that Australian society is stringently anti-hierarchical.


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Australians are expected to behave with humility and not think of themselves as better than their peers. Even the most successful and beautiful Australians are eager to proclaim how ordinary they are, to the extent that two-thirds of the highest earning households define themselves as middle class, lower middle class or even working class.

Most forms of address are by first name or nickname, and only children regularly use titles such as "Sir" or "Ma'am" for authority figures. The mateship culture combined with the original convict and then colonial culture has created an irreverence for established authority, particularly if it is pompous or out of touch with reality. Politicians, or "pollies", are generally disliked and distrusted.

Politicians who seek to lead must comply to the views of the egalitarian electorate, who will punish any hint of arrogance or glory-seeking behaviour. Voter turnout at elections had in fact been so low that compulsory voting was introduced for the federal election. Mirroring the tall poppy syndrome which brings back to Earth the high fliers, the egalitarian Australian society has a traditional Australian support for the " underdog. Related to the underdog is the belief in a "fair go", which is said to be a key part of Australian culture and Australian society.

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Recent examples of this include media presentation of the treatment of illegal immigrants asylum seekers , and refugees, [] [] as well as the community campaign in support of "a fair go" for the large group of Australian doctors who have been classified as "non-vocationally registered general practitioners " non-VR GPs , [] and are subject to discriminatory pay and conditions compared to their colleagues, for identical work. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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