33,292 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 102 of 333.
“After the end of World War Two 50 years ago”
“More than 30 firefighters have been tackling a fire at a barn in south Shropshire.”
“visit he made to Warsaw last year”
“Up to eight tonnes of hay caught fire in a Dutch barn on Hope Bagot Lane in Knowbury, near Ludlow.”
“Terry talked with him in 1989 after the release of his acclaimed memoir”
“at 0130 BST on Sunday”
“about his unhappy upbringing in a working‑class town in Washington State in the late 1950s”
“The three-day festival”
“The book has been adapted for screen; there's now a movie version starring, Robert DeNiro, and Ellen Barkin”
“more than 30,000 people”
“WOLFF, who served in Vietnam”
“its sole occupant - a 26-year-old man”
“later worked as a reporter for The Washington Post”
“Emergency services were called to the scene on the A714 near Wigtown at about 20:35 on Saturday.”
“has also written two highly regarded collections of short stories”
“at about 1056 BST”
“She co-wrote some of the most popular songs of the early 1960's”
“Team members will each complete a section of the 70 mile (112.65km) relay which includes equipment changeovers between team members.”
“In the 1980's, when she was writing songs for Cyndi Lauper and Irene Cara”
“taking place next month”
“(Rebroadcast from 1986)”
“Tamanna Rahman and Amil Khan spent two months living on an estate to find out if racism was still an issue in 2009.”
“since the age of 17”
“The programme was broadcast on BBC One in October 2009.”
“the February 1994 issue of "High Times" magazine”
“He joined the Royal Marines in 2007”
“the five-hundred year old mummy discovered in Peru last year”
“At least 13 people have been killed in a bus crash on a remote mountain road in the Philippines.”
“She was around 13 years old at the time of her death”
“The Filipino driver and at least two children were among the dead.”
“87-year-old Japanese conductor Takashi Asahina”
“About 40 people have been pulled from the wreckage alive.”
“an hour-and-a-quarter's worth of conducting”
“More than 50 yachts, including crews from Devon and Cornwall started the race at 1200 BST.”
“Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931)”
“The course goes clockwise around Great Britain and Ireland, and includes four compulsory 48-hour stops at Kinsale, Barra, Lerwick and Lowestoft.”
“Etude in A-flat, Op. 36”
“The race is held every four years by the Royal Western Yacht Club.”
“(Sony Classical SK 48081)”
“A seven-year-old boy”
“an estimated three to four thousand servicemen die annually from non-combat causes”
“aged 37”
“He was one of the inventors of pop art in the 1960's”
“highs of 19 or 20 Celsius”
“Century View," a look at 100 years of change at the keyboard.”
“Adam Hose has scored two half-centuries in this season's T20 Blast”
“Lullaby from Kernis's 1990 composition "Before Sleep and Dreams."”
“The Rapids are fifth out of sixth in the Central and West Group of this year's competition with three wins from their seven games”
“The recording was made December 13th at the Hamakua Music Festival on the Big Island of Hawaii.”
“host Somerset at New Road on Sunday (14:30 BST)”
“Beethoven's Clarinet Trio, Op. 11”
“More than 35 firefighters worked for several hours to extinguish the blaze at Digby Street, Kettering, which began at 0030 BST.”
“A BOOK IN WHICH SHE CHRONICLED LIFE ON A RIVER HOUSEBOAT ALONG THE OHIO AND TENNESSEE RIVERS OVER A 30-YEAR SPAN.”
“believed to be 70”
“He has recorded three solo albums: "Mandy Patinkin," "Dress Casual," and "Experiment."”
“at about 1230 BST on Friday”
“most recently one from the National Association of Black Journalists.”
“Firefighters were initially called to a skip fire behind shops in Redlands Retail Park, Poole, on Tuesday at 1832 BST.”
“ten years ago this week”
“Six fire engines were at the scene at the height of the fire.”
“according to the United Nations — contaminated more than 100-thousand square miles of land and affected nine million people in some way”
“cocaine worth about £175,000 was found in a car near Dundalk”
“hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Ukraine and Belarus”
“Their car was stopped on a motorway by a Garda patrol on Tuesday night”
“program sponsored by a religious organization called khah-BAHD”
“The two occupants, aged 29 and 33, were taken to Dundalk Garda Station”
“a 14 year-old boy”
“he may have been seen more than 200 miles away in Aberdeen.”
“a two-paragraph item”
“The 44-year-old was last seen at his home on 21 April.”
“From the 1995 edition of the Schubertiade”
“from 1200 to 1800 BST”
“New York 92nd Street Y's ambitious 10-year project to present all of Franz Schubert's music in concert”
“fourth year”
“Overture in F, D. 675”
“almost 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of land was destroyed”
“The show grew out of his work as a writer-performer with 'Saturday Night Live,' in 1989.”
“Appliances from five fire stations took about eight hours to bring the blaze on Muncaster Fell near Ravenglass under control on Friday”
“(REBROADCAST. Originally aired 9/25/92).”
“The charges relate to the discovery of an alleged dissident bomb-making factory near Dundalk at the weekend.”
“He's written 'Brando: The Biography' (Hyperion), the result of seven years of research and over 700 interviews.”
“Philip McKevitt from Aghaboy, Mountpleasant, is charged with possession of a modified trailer and two gas cylinders.”
“CBS'' eight-hour mini-series that starts this Sunday.”
“A second man in his 30s is still being held.”
“more than 3 million gallons of oil”
“Mr McKevitt, who appeared in court with a bandage on his head, stood briefly as the charge was read out but did not speak.”
“55 years ago today”
“His lawyer told the court Mr McKevitt had suffered injuries to his head and body and needed medical attention.”
“The guide has radically altered harpists' understanding of Spanish practices in the 17th and 18th century”
“got married in a small ceremony at their Los Angeles home on 22 May, according to People magazine.”
“He's a 26 year-old Native American”
“Morissette, 36, said she and the 30-year-old rapper were 'very excited to embark on this journey'.”
“His first book of poetry and short-stories, 'The Business of Fancydancing,' (Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn) published in 1992”
“Two kittens, thought to be about four-weeks-old, have been abandoned by a road side in Shropshire.”
“wide-ranging, dexterous and consistently capable of raising your neck hair," and termed ALEXIE "one of the major lyric voices of our time."”
“ALEXIE has a new book, 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.' (Atlantic Monthly Press)”
“(3:30)”
“It was recently reissued on compact disc (Mercury 434 360-2).”
“Wilma Cozart-Fine received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cannes Classical Awards last month for her work as producer of the 'Living Presence' series in the 1950 and '60s.”
“"Possession," a Booker Prize-winning Victorian novel published here in 1990.”
