33,292 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 103 of 333.
“"Babel Tower" is the third book in a planned quartet of novels ("The Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life") set in different mid-centuary time frames.”
“at about 1830 BST on Wednesday”
“A civilian aircraft crashed near the eastern French town of Tomblaine on Sunday, killing 11 people on board.”
“This ABC Weekend Magazine TV documentary looks at some of the challenges facing Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the two-year lead-up to its independence.”
“Set in the turbulant 1960s”
“in the most recent incident a tractor and a cement mixer were taken from a house in Frensham”
“the axing of fifty percent of the ex-patriot public service”
“Between them they have photographed every major news event in the last 15 years.”
“a 4x4 vehicle and a mini digger worth £8,000 were stolen from Chiddingfold”
“a joint display, ("In Times of War and Peace: The Photographs of David and Peter Turnley") will be exhibited from June 7 - September 8 in New York City.”
“an excavator and a dumper worth £20,000 were also taken from Ash Vale”
“PETER works as a contract photographer for "Newsweek"”
“Residents will be consulted this summer on plans for the multi-million pound park, to be called The Hive on King Hedges Road.”
“David is a staff photographer for the "Detroit Free Press."”
“What will make The Hive really different to other business parks is that its major focus will be on business that's good for both society and the environment.”
“On May 31, the Pope issued an Apostolic letter to bishops declaring that women could not be ordained as priests.”
“About 30,000 people are expected at the festival, which runs until Sunday in Noble's Park, Douglas.”
“More than 1,400 people are dead and over 3,200 injured, according to authorities, with many still unaccounted for.”
“This year there will be four shows and 30 different artists over the three days.”
“President Delcy Rodríguez has pledged to save 'as many people as possible' and called for unity as the death toll from the country's worst earthquakes in more than a century continues to rise.”
“which attracted 25,000 people”
“Isabel Mendoza, a Venezuelan street vendor who has lived in Colombia for the past five years, arrived at a donation center in Bogotá...”
“Ms Condron has led a campaign against the site since 2005.”
“Gisella Serrano, a Venezuelan humanitarian worker, said she expects the crisis to last for months.”
“Ms Condron was challenging planning permissions granted to Miller Argent for an adjacent 23-hectare site, the Cwmbargoed Disposal Point, which is three kilometres from her home.”
“Sometimes, in between preparing food in the kitchen, "I wonder to myself what would it have been like?" Miller said of the early days at the 276-year-old tavern.”
“She argued that the improved facility will process 1m tonnes of coal per year at a rate of 500 tonnes per hour, creating dust, causing problems for surface drainage, and blighting the surrounding land with light pollution.”
“Down the street from Middleton Tavern, the William Paca House & Garden offers an intricate view of the life of one of Maryland's four signers of the Declaration of Independence. Paca, who served as Maryland's governor in the late 18th cent…”
“But local people say the site is just 36m (118ft) away from some houses, raising concerns over noise and dust.”
“The diets of the early colonists differed based on regional availability, but seafood dominated many plates as well. "There was just like this treasure trove of seafood that was fresh, and it wasn't polluted," Miller said. So many oysters …”
“there were 26 accidents on last year's Mad Sunday”
“The Founding Fathers were considered very much trendsetters, and a lot of them are Francophiles," said Sarah Lohman, a food historian and author of Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine.”
“Last year seven riders were seriously injured”
“Jefferson loved macaroni," said Ashley Rose Young, another food historian, who is an American history curator at the Library of Congress.”
“four slightly injured”
“Founding Fathers, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, helped shape food culture 250 years ago, according to food historians.”
“15 suffered damage to their motorbikes”
“As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, it's hard not to imagine, along with Gross, how people's diets shaped everyday life then.”
“The Air France Concorde crashed soon after take-off, after hitting a metal strip from a Continental jet that had taken off earlier.”
“He was the CBS Chief Watergate Correspondent, and is now narrating a five-part BBC documentary, "Watergate."”
“Mr Perrier, 80, is a former head of the Concorde division at Aerospatiale, now part of the aerospace company EADS.”
“After ending up on Nixon's "enemy list," SCHORR resigned from CBS in 1976”
“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasts 14 to 23 named storms.”
“The "Watergate" series will air this week on the Discovery channel”
“Eight to 14 of these could develop into hurricanes, it says.”
“and will coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Nixon's resignation”
“The season could be one of the most active on record, with between three to seven major hurricanes, the NOAA said.”
“In recent days, Iran struck two ships attempting passage through the Strait of Hormuz. These ships were going through this newly coordinated route that hugged the coast of Oman, which shares part of the strait with Iran.”
“Major hurricanes can reach category three or higher, which means they bring sustained winds of at least 111mph (178km/h).”
“Traffic did drop over the weekend, according to monitoring groups.”
“The NOAA says the seasonal forecasts have a 70% probability.”
“A deal was reached between the U.S., Israel and the Lebanese government late Friday.”
“The hurricane season begins on 1 June and runs until the end of November.”
“The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City issued a rare "particularly dangerous situation" red flag warning in parts of Utah, Friday, for the first time in the office's history, due to a volatile combination of high winds, temperature…”
“Birstall Parish Council received £15,000 from the Youth Capital and Youth Opportunity funds to pay for a shelter and youth workers.”
“The fire, which has burned an area larger than the size of Salt Lake City, remains completely uncontained.”
“More than 1,700 people are known to have been killed”
“The vast majority of wildfires in the U.S. are started by humans every year, according to the U.S. Forest Service.”
“Officials have confirmed at least 1430 deaths from the magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes that struck on Wednesday.”
“The loss of these forests isn't just, 'I can't take a pretty picture,' said Mitchell Hung, an earth-systems researcher who led the study as a graduate student at UCLA, in a statement. "There are profound socioeconomic impacts. Real dollars…”
“Every person saved is a miracle”
“At Trinity Moravian Church, which has about 200 members...”
“An estimated £4,000 of equipment has been damaged by vandals at a Somerset cricket club.”
“who leads this 114-year-old red-brick church...”
“Six teenage girls who got into difficulty while undertaking a Duke of Edinburgh's Award in the Highlands were found safe and well over the weekend.”
“They were reported missing north of the 2,428ft (740m) Beinn Uidhe in Assynt at about 2030 BST on Friday.”
“A search by members of Dundonnell and Assynt mountain rescue teams and the Search and Rescue Dogs Association found the six by 0345 BST on Saturday.”
“In 1969 Elvaston Castle Country Park was the first one to be acquired by the county council, which made the purchase along with the Derby Corporation.”
“It now attracts more than 300,000 visitors a year.”
“The castle — which despite its name is really a country house — and more than 200 acres of surrounding woodland, parkland and gardens, was bought from Needlers development company.”
“The £160,000 B Class Atlantic 85 lifeboat is said by the RNLI to have better communication systems than its predecessor Eric Rowse, an Atlantic 75. A spokesman said the new boat can also carry more crew members.”
“The project will start on the top deck at the Green Street car park and should finish there by 10 July before moving on to other levels, which should be completed by the end of August”
“Hampshire Fire and Rescue said 36 firefighters were called to the property in Station Road, Chilbolton, near Stockbridge, just before 0900 BST.”
“Crews from seven stations took 90 minutes to extinguish the fire but the roof collapsed and top floor of the house was also destroyed.”
“Three children have been charged with threatening a schoolboy with a knife and trying to rob him in Nottingham.”
“They are accused of threatening the 14-year-old boy and demanding he hand over his mobile phone in Sherbourne Road, Aspley, on 6 April.”
“The union said the offer had "failed to make any material improvement" to pay in 2010 and ballot papers would be sent out on 18 June. [...] The ballot will close on 5 July with the result expected the same day.”
“BT replaced a single-year offer of a 2% rise, with a two-year deal, offering 2% in the first year, followed by 3%.”
“However, the CWU is seeking a 5% rise this year.”
“Jay Harris, 18, died in April last year after losing his footing at Jees and Boon quarry in Hartshill near Nuneaton, Warwickshire.”
“A coroner later recorded a verdict of accidental death.”
“Jay's father, Steve, is now supporting a national campaign aimed a reducing the number of people killed or injured in quarries each summer.”
“The Mineral Products Association campaign aims to warn people that quarries have hidden dangers with deep lakes, cold temperatures and possible hidden currents.”
“More than 10km (6.2 miles) of ageing water mains pipes in Cheltenham are to be replaced.”
“Severn Trent Water said the pipes were old and prone to leaks and needed replacing to ensure customers received a "quality, uninterrupted" supply.”
“These deaths takes the number of UK service personnel killed in Afghanistan to 292.”
“they have not been carried out at such great depth as the Deepwater Horizon leak - 5,000 feet (1.5km) below the surface.”
“BP announces on 4 June that it is collecting oil at a rate of 1,000 barrels a day.”
“Despite pumping more than 30,000 barrels of heavy mud itno the BOP and a range of junkshot, the operation fails to overcome the flow from the well.”
“The tube tool has been able to collect about 3,000 barrels a day of oil and some 14 million standard cubic feet a day of gas.”
“The insertion tuibe is connected to its own riser pipe that takes the oil and gas to the Transocean Discoverer Enterprise drillship, 5,000ft (1,524m) above on the surface. ... which has the capacity to store 139,000 barrels of oil.”
“BP is drilling two relief wells in an additional effort to relieve the flow of oil. Work on the first relief well started on 2 May, with the second starting on 16 May. Both wells are expected to take around three months to complete from th…”
“The current record is held by an American who crossed the Channel in five hours and nine minutes in 2006.”
“Their attempt to beat that and become the first team to cross the Channel is due to take place between 18 and 25 June, depending on the weather and tidal conditions.”
“I am now very close to the crossing, and I hope that the training and support that the University of Chichester has given me will pay off. Crossing one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world is the bit that worries me” "May was the st…”
“May was the start of the stand-up paddle race season in the UK - I have managed to get two third places in the national series so far so I am feeling fit and confident that I am ready to go.”
“The four men and one woman are hoping to break the world record for the fastest stand-up paddleboard crossing.”
“The other team members are the UK women's stand-up paddleboard champion Claire Blacklock, 37, from Chichester, BSUPA head coach Simon Bassett, 44, from Itchenor, West Sussex, longboarding champion Elliot Dudley, 24, from Cardiff and UK sta…”
“They hope to climb Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in England and Snowdon in Wales within 24 hours.”
“They will then travel through the night to arrive at Scafell Pike at about 0400 BST and aim to leave the Lake District at about 0730 BST to arrive at Snowdon five hours later.”
