35,843 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 143 of 359.
“has spent the past 40 years collecting the majority of the shoes”
“Two people have died in crashes on Essex roads at the weekend.”
“All 14 people on board were killed in Saudi Arabia when a helicopter belonging to the world’s largest oil company crashed on Sunday morning, according to the Saudi Ministry of Energy.”
“He was 64.”
“A 49-year-old female cyclist died on Sunday when she lost control of her bike riding downhill on Mill Road in Lawford near Manningtree.”
“The accident occurred around 6 a.m. in Ras Tanura, and everyone killed was a Saudi national, the statement said.”
“a Texas world beat polka band who began working on the project with the eccentric Tiny Tim eight years ago.”
“A motorcyclist, believed to be a 19-year-old from Loughton, died when he was in collision with a pedestrian at Albert Road, Buckhurst Hill on Sunday.”
“(REBROADCAST FROM 2/25/93).”
“The 31-year-old Antigua & Barbuda international joined the Minstermen when Hinshelwood was in charge two years ago and has now followed him south after his contract expired.”
“He'll also be appearing tomorrow at The Museum of Television & Radio in New York City, to talk about his work on 'Saturday Night Live' (he was on for a while) and his syndicated radio program, 'Le Show.'”
“The 37-year-old male motorcyclist”
“She dropped out of singing for a while but made a comeback during the 70s in New York's cabaret world.”
“at about 1830 BST on Tuesday”
“He was Sinatra's rehearsal pianist, and he was on the road accompanying Tony Bennett for 21 years.”
“The coastguard was called to the dive vessel Wey Chieftan IV on Tuesday at 1705 BST after the man returned from the Salsette wreck in Weymouth Bay.”
“He was the first African to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature (in 1986)”
“Up to seven people are believed to have been injured - one of them seriously - in a crash involving up to five cars in Argyll.”
“He's written 21 books”
“the road was closed in both directions.”
“ESCOVEDO has just released his second solo album.”
“The road connects the A82 at Loch Lomond to the Kintyre peninsula.”
“Thursday or Friday, July 20th and 21st tarting around eight in the evening.”
“Diversions were put in place.”
“7:07”
“Two fire engines were called to the property in Bushloe End, Wigston Magna, at around 0500 BST.”
“he has written 19 novels”
“no-one was injured”
“the 1986 Pulitzer Prize winning book "Lonesome Dove"”
“Up to 20 firefighters have tackled another heath fire in Dorset.”
“Dead Man's Walk (Simon & Schuster 1995)”
“Dorset Fire and Rescue Service said they received 60 calls from the public alerting them about the fire at Ballard Down in New Swanage at about 1336 BST.”
“HANK BALLARD who wrote the song and recorded it first (with the Midnighters') in 1958”
“It took almost three hours for the fire crews to extinguish 600sqm (0.15 acres) of gorse that was alight.”
“80th birthday "Mostly Morton" tribute to Gould”
“There were 11 heath fires in the county in May.”
“In 1881 he did just that.”
“Temporary traffic lights will be in place outside the property on Bailiff's Cross Road for four months while work continues.”
“Legend No. 5 performed by the Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.”
“The semi-finals will take place on the weekend of 11-12 July”
“Stephen Gunzenhauser (GOON-tsen-howzer) conducts.”
“Louth and Mayo will meet in the other semi-final with both matches to be played on the weekend of 11-12 July”
“the USAir flight that crash near Pittsburgh in the fall of 1994.”
“Kerry edged past Tyrone 2-25 to 0-27”
“A GIFT OF AT LEAST 150-THOUSAND DOLLARS COMING FROM A WOMAN WHO SPENT 75 OF HER 86 YEARS CLEANING AND IRONING OTHER PEOPLES' CLOTHES.”
“Louth booked their semi-final spot for the first time since 1957”
“some services in over 50 languages”
“no Ulster representation in the semi-finals for the first time since 2016”
“over 1 million books”
“Three people from Ireland have died in a car crash in Spain.”
“Writer MICHAEL IGNATIEFF ("ig-NAT-tee-ef"), who has investigated six of the world's trouble spots for a BBC television series, and a companion book: "Blood & Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).”
“Another person has been seriously injured”
“In a recent survey by the wedding website The Knot, 67% of couples are getting married by a friend.”
“Thelma Townsend, 62”
“That year, 27% of couples used a friend for their ceremony.”
“almost a week”
“The Universal Life Church ordains ministers online and boasts that it has ordained 20 million people.”
“Friday morning”
“The Knot estimates that more than 2 million couples will get married this year, and we're not even halfway through wedding season.”
“since Saturday”
“She has officiated the weddings of a brother, two nieces, a nephew and many, many others.”
“The first hurricane of the 2010 Pacific season has formed off the coast of Acapulco in Mexico, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) says.”
“the February 15 oil spill”
“The 49-year-old man driving the van”
“it took four to five days after the spill for changing winds to push the slick to Temby”
“The crash happened at around 1245 BST.”
“The spill is being called the biggest in British history”
“The road was shut for about two hours.”
“This Sunday, the first-ever Performance Today Awards, the first of their kind on the American classical music scene, will be given out at a Classical Music Coalition ceremony in Washington, DC.”
“Kintail MRT said the buildings were expensive to maintain and did not offer the modern facilities they needed.”
“The PT Awards salute artistic excellence as well as commitment to expanding the horizons and awareness of classical music”
“Morvich-based Kintail's area includes Loch Quoich, Achnasheen and 37 Munros.”
“One of the six categories is Debut Artist of the Year”
“Team members have started fundraising by attempting to cycle to the most northerly, easterly, southerly and westerly points of mainland Scotland.”
“an award to be given to a young performer or ensemble making a first appearance on PT during calendar year 1995.”
“Those involved in the cycling challenge planned to set off on Friday and to return to Morvich by the middle of next week.”
“Les Violons du Roy (lay vee-oh-loh(n) d(oo) RWAH)—"The King's Violins"—an ensemble of 15 musicians from Quebec City in Canada”
“Vandals have caused "significant damage" to about 150 headstones at a cemetery in Glasgow.”
“who came south of the border to perform music by Franz Benda and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach in NPR's Studio 4A last April.”
“Cardonald Cemetery was targeted sometime between 1700 BST on Wednesday and 0900 BST on Thursday.”
“We'll hear Les Violons play two brief Symphonies, on in D minor by J.C.F. Bach, the other in C by Czech composer Franz Benda.”
“The father and son were hurt when a 6ft by 4ft (1.82m by 1.21m) piece of debris hit them in Shelton Square at around 1500 BST on Wednesday,”
“GJELTON just won the prestigious George Polk Award for his piece, 'Massacre on the Mountaintop.'”
“Twenty-five firefighters were called to the fire in a chemical storage unit at the Polyurethane Progress Ltd site in Church Street shortly before 0500 BST.”
“The piece aired September 22, 1992”
“shortly before 0500 BST”
“A team of Environment Agency staff was also sent to the scene in a bid to stop potentially hazardous chemicals leaking into the nearby River Calder.”
“after entries rose by 20%”
“From 5 to 25 July”
“more than 60 scarecrows will be on display around the town centre”
“Money raised will be shared between St Michael's Hospice and Beautiful Battle”
“The 28-year-old, who lives in Birkdale, has fitted an 8ft by 4ft (2.4m by 1.2m) projector screen by the pitch.”
“The loft converter, who runs his own business, employed three of his friends to help build the stadium, which they completed in a week.”
“Portishead Open Air Pool closed for about an hour due to "visibility issues".”
“Some 1,000 people had visited during the day.”
“half the pool would open until closing time at 1900 BST.”
“He added that the pool was expected to open as usual on Friday.”
“It was in excellent condition and had DF security markings on both sides of the petrol tank. The red Honda 450 ES machine was stolen from a shed at Claggan Road in the early hours of 29 May.”
“substantial damage" to most of the site”
“Three fire crews spent almost three hours tackling a blaze from 0637 BST on Sunday”