35,843 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 150 of 359.
“Six fire engines were sent to the scene”
“Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse”
“the NBC will begin its service with 24 stations”
“It took more than three hours before the fire was extinguished at 2100 BST on Sunday.”
“death of 5-year-old child”
“the ABC’s Radio Australia PNG service will come into operation the next Sunday”
“Four volunteers from the West Country who were aboard an aid flotilla when it was stormed by Israeli commandos have returned to the UK.”
“the two young boys”
“Sakir Yildirim and Cliff Hanley, from Bristol, and Ibrahim Musaji from Gloucester, arrived at Heathrow Airport on Sunday.”
“14th-floor window”
“Nine people died when Israeli commandos stormed the Turkish ship last week.”
“one half of the comedy duo 'Bob & Ray'.”
“27-year-old”
“1992 book of poems about the working class, "What Work Is," (Knopf)”
“48-year-old”
“127 passengers died.”
“1445 BST”
“one of five finalists for the 'Debut Artist of the Year' prize at the first Performance Today Awards this weekend.”
“Sunday”
“last May”
“B2192 near Eason's Green”
“published this week”
“shocked but unhurt”
“Today is the one hundred and twenty second annual Kentucky Derby race.”
“She was also the first woman to be made a freeman of the City of Bath in a ceremony earlier in June.”
“The race has changed dramatically since its beginnings in 1875.”
“She came first in the skeleton event in Vancouver in February.”
“the first Kentucky Derby included 14 black jockeys in a 15 jockey lineup.”
“13 Australia v South Africa (Old Trafford)”
“In March, the Canadian group was named Debut Artist of the Year in the first Performance Today Awards”
“13 West Indies v New Zealand (Southampton)”
“recognizing the strong impression the players made in their first PT appearance last September”
“30 Semi-final: Australia v West Indies (The Oval)”
“Texas ranks No. 1 in the United States in beef production and the U.S. is second only to Brazil globally, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”
“2 Semi-final: England v South Africa (The Oval)”
“Argentina ranks sixth.”
“The tunnel was closed for over an hour and a half”
“We do have them up to pretty high quality. We sold them a lot of semen, embryos, and breeding stock”
“Some commuters said the delays had added up to an hour on to their journeys.”
“Argentine beef cattle is mostly grass-fed on open pastures, taking longer to reach the point it is ready for market.”
“A sculpted limestone head by Amedeo Modigliani has sold for 43.2m euros (£35.8m) at Christie's auction house in Paris - a record for the artist.”
“He packed four T-bone steaks into his shopping cart.”
“The 65cm head was first shown at the Salon d'Automne exhibition in Paris in 1912.”
“a poll found one fifth of the American public think it seems "possible" that the Holocaust never happened”
“More than 100 homes in Burnley had to be evacuated when a fire broke out in a garage containing gas cylinders.”
“Lee, who was appointed president eight years ago by Taiwan's parliament, gained more than 50 percent of the vote, an unexpectedly large margin.”
“Residents from 40 of the homes were forced to spend the night with relatives, or at the town's St Peter's Centre, a fire service spokesman said.”
“There are 100 million landmines in place around the world, left over from wars and conflicts”
“Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service spent 18 hours at the scene and used eight appliances to bring the fire under control and safely cool the cylinders.”
“U.S. President Clinton today vowed to punish those responsible for the 'murderous act', and said he would make the terrorism issue his top priority at this week's G-7 summit.”
“But there was still a small number who had not complied and officers were looking for them at the airport.”
“It is the worst terrorist attack against U.S. interests in the region since the bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983.”
“A spokesman for the force said letters had been sent to the 55 and the majority had handed over their documents.”
“1966 biography of his personal friend Ernest Hemingway, "Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir."”
“But where people had not complied officers had been sent to their homes to speak to them.”
“(Rebroadcast from 8-23-93).”
“A number of families were evacuated during the alert, but were able to return to their homes on Thursday.”
“In 1984, 12-year-old pianist Evgeny Kissin performed an extraodinary concert of music by Chopin at the Moscow Conservatory, including both concertos and several solo pieces.”
“An earthquake measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale has hit parts of Dumfries and Galloway.”
“Two other pieces Kissin played in the famous Moscow concert were Chopin's Mazurkas Nos. 40 and 49.”
“According to the British Geological Survey the earthquake had an intensity rating of three, which is described as a fairly weak vibration.”
“there's no evidence the agency helped distribute crack”
“Dumfries was the centre of a quake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale on Boxing Day 2006.”
“it might take months to fully exmaine records of the relationship between the CIA and Nicaraguan Contra members implicated in cocaine trafficking in California in the 1980s”
“Some Twitter users said their houses had been shaken by the tremor at about 1800 BST.”
“He recently turned 39.”
“Zoe, a student at Motherwell College, was seen leaving her Newmains home at 1700 BST on 22 May.”
“There's Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, age 41”
“She was later seen on CCTV footage in a local store at about 1730 BST.”
“Like in tennis, Serena Williams is making a comeback at age 44.”
“Residents reported seeing a fire in woods known as Monkey Hill a few hours later.”
“(13:00)”
“Robert Bayne, 20, from Wishaw, appeared on petition at Hamilton Sheriff Court.”
“The 17-year-old's burned body was discovered in a field near Branchalfield Drive in Wishaw ten days ago.”
“when work starts in 2011 on Guernsey's airport runway.”
“An exhibition about the works will be held on 21 and 22 June at the airport.”
“A fifth person, a Chinese man who was on the premises but not working, was also a failed asylum seeker.”
“Insurance assessor Steven Rodway, 38, of Brentwood, died in Ongar Road, Stapleford Tawney, on 13 June.”
“The crash happened at 1910 BST near the Passingford Bridge roundabout.”
“Mr Rodway, a father to two young daughters, had been in training for a charity bike ride when he died, his widow said.”
“Coming of Age' explores 21 years of melas”
“The public can see the exhibition at Nottingham's New Art Exchange until 24 July”
“in Bradford's Cartwright Hall between 7 August and 7 November”
“the events brought hundreds together”
“About 250 people have been evacuated from a campsite on the North York Moors after an area of moorland caught alight, firefighters have said.”
“Crews were called to the blaze near Spiers campsite, Cropton, at 1354 BST.”
“Ten fire engines are in attendance.”
“Earlier, another area of moorland had also caught fire at Eller Beck Bridge by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway line near Goathland at 1245 BST.”
“The joint operation lasted almost two years and culminated on Wednesday with more than 400 arrests across 16 states.”
“During the 22 months the operation lasted, officers seized more than $150m (£103m), 2.2 tonnes of cocaine, half a tonne of methamphetamine and 62 tonnes of marijuana.”
“Mr Holder said it had been the most extensive and most successful law enforcement effort to date targeting Mexican drug cartels.”
“In its National Drug Threat Assessment, the justice department said trade in marijuana, ecstasy and methamphetamine had also grown.”
“Officials said the death toll has reached 1,430 with 3,238 injured.”
“Three people were saved after a paramedic in Staffordshire discovered a fire outside their flats.”
“He found a fire in wooden decking on a walkway in front of the flats and raised the alarm with the occupants to enable them to get. No-one was injured in the incident and the cause is being investigated. An ambulance service spokesman said…”
“He found a fire in wooden decking on a walkway in front of the flats and raised the alarm with the occupants to enable them to get.”
“No-one was injured in the incident and the cause is being investigated.”
“All three occupants were unaware of the fire even though one of the flats had already become smoke-filled.”
“Officers have been investigating four reports of men approaching girls in Warlingham, Caterham and Whyteleafe.”
“The incidents, on the border of Surrey and south west London, took place between 13 and 20 May.”
