35,843 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 165 of 359.
“built in 1871”
“It marks the eighth time that the nation of 5.4 million people which joined the bloc in 1972, has assumed the unenviable role of “honest broker”.”
“During the 1977 New York blackout, which lasted 25 hours, there was civil unrest...”
“The Northern Powerhouse Rail scheme championed by Andy Burnham is likely to go above its £45billion budget, an inquiry has revealed.”
“The former Prime Minister of Australia has warned the Labour Government that if they are "not prepared to upset the French", they are "not protecting their sovereignty"... Tony Abbott declared that the UK must take small boat crossings int…”
“the band said that the June 30 and July 2 shows will now take place on July 11 and July 13, respectively.”
“She called Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack "an inevitable consequence of apartheid, of occupation, decades of occupation" during a May interview with Hasan Piker, the anti-American streamer who has said "America deserved 9/11."”
“Mora said he is tired of watching his crops rot on the tree and drop and decided instead to give it away before losing another year’s worth of fruit... Mora announced he was giving away the fruit from June 29 to July 3...”
“He's been writing for 35 years”
“At the end of a two-week trial, the verdict went strongly in favor of Maria Avila, who was viciously attacked by Hades, a 200-pound Caucasian shepherd owned by Brown, while emptying trash outside the singer’s Tarzana, California house.”
“‘That four that started the game – they will cause nightmares for every single defender in the tournament and I don’t know how they stop that to be fair. ‘A level above. Brazil won in the last minute. Germany and Holland have gone out. The…”
“the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library when it opens in the Badlands of North Dakota on July 4, the day America turns 250.”
“highlighted by Historic England as one of 20 sites that, with investment, have the potential to create new homes”
“Because of ongoing disruption in the energy market, the formula will push the cap well beyond the current $44 per barrel, possibly even beyond the original $60 figure, and grant Moscow economic relief – a politically untenable scenario.”
“Veolia saw a fire occur at least once a day in its facilities and waste collection vehicles across the UK last year”
“It comes after the cost of HS2 ballooned by at least £60 billion from the initial estimates for the project.”
“In September 2022, some 70,000 Russians fled the country - roughly the size of the entire fighting force in Ukraine.”
“lead singer and bassist Geddy Lee was diagnosed with laryngitis and bronchitis.”
“The remark prompted a reporter for Denver's NBC affiliate, Kyle Clark, to ask Kiros if she believed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks "were the inevitable consequence of American foreign policy." Kiros said they were. "Inevitable in the s…”
“I grew it, planted it. I’ve worked for the last eight years to be able to get this fruit. And now watching it fall on the floor. Just standing here quietly listening to the drop, it’s frustrating.”
“BURKE's new book, his eighth Dave Robicheaux novel, is called "Dixie City Jam."”
“The 96,000-square-foot library and museum, which features a gently sloping roof covered with native grasses, stands on a butte west of the tiny town of Medora overlooking the Missouri River and Theodore Roosevelt National Park.”
“converted about 30 listed mills within Bradford and Leeds”
“"We will not allow the sanctions package to pass in this form. We have a vote, and we will use it," Radev said last month.”
“During the 1977 New York blackout, which lasted 25 hours, there was civil unrest, resulting in widespread looting and arson”
“Our Committee has heard troubling echoes of the same mistakes in loose governance that HS2 made early on, and so much of the project remains almost impressionistic, twelve years on. HS2 have even been brought on board to develop NPR’s own …”
“The mobilisation disproportionately affected the young and educated, with 85 per cent of Russian men under 35, and 80 per cent having some form of higher education.”
“Before the latest setback, Rush performed two shows on June 26 and June 28 in Fort Worth.”
“Thank you to everyone who came out today! We are so grateful for the love and support... We were not expecting this kind of turnout and we appreciate your patience as we get organized.”
“His next book,"RL's Dream" (Norton) comes out this August.”
“speculate what Roosevelt, who died 107 years ago, might think...”
“maybe 1,000" homes”
“Cyprus deftly seized the moment to open the first cluster of accession talks, known as fundamentals, with the two candidates, which are informally paired.”
“served as head of Harvard’s astronomy department until 2020”
“Capping a project’s funding before it was even designed or costed feels like putting a roof on a house before the foundations are even laid.”
“Lee could “barely speak, let alone sing,” during soundcheck earlier in the day.”
“This game will feel existential, not only to the coach, but to all 68,827 in the building.”
“On November 14, 1965 they were together at the site one of the first and bloodiest major land battle of the Vietnam War, Ia Drang.”
“He was the first president to dive in a submersible watercraft, the first to fly in an early version of an aircraft and he personally used a steam-powered shovel to cut tracts from the Panama Canal”
“could provide 42,000 homes”
“We will not allow the sanctions package to pass in this form. We have a vote, and we will use it,”
“began the quest in 2017”
“Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) will deliver the biggest investment in rail connectivity in a generation, giving the North the transport links it deserves and driving growth, jobs and investment across the region.”
“Maria Avila gave emotional testimony at the two-week trial, breaking down on the witness stand as she described the Dec. 12, 2020, mauling at Brown’s home in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles.”
“Games like this, Mauricio Pochettino said, are 90 percent emotion.”
“He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his reporting from Vietnam.”
“VidCon's 15th anniversary”
“89% of people agree Britain's mills are an important part of our heritage”
“Belgium are scheduled to face Senegal on Wednesday night in a knockout round of 32 fixture at Seattle Stadium as Rudi Garcia’s Belgian side enter the match on a 16-game unbeaten streak...”
“more than a dozen scientists and UFO activists”
“More than 450 Blue Badges have been revoked following investigations that uncovered the permits were still being used after the people they were issued to had passed away.”
“Brown, 37, testified as the first witness at the trial.”
“Pochettino would like to reduce that 90 percent to 50 or 60 when his U.S. national team faces Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday.”
“In 1967 HALBERSTAM retired from newspaper reporting.”
“After closing in 2002”
“...Senegal look to build on their 5–0 group stage finale win against Iraq...”
“2014 meteor crash”
“The Blue Badge scheme operates throughout the UK, granting people with disabilities and limited mobility certain allowances when it comes to parking. This includes permitting them to park closer to their destination and providing wider par…”
“The number of American adults who say they consume alcohol has fallen to 54%, according to an August 2025 Gallup poll”
“(REBROADCAST FROM 11/11/92)”
“destroyed in a fire on 28 January 2016”
“Belgium won one game and drew two in group play.”
“Loeb’s team drew attention in 2023”
“The coach bus — which was transporting 15 crew members from Royal Jordanian Airlines flight RJ826 — smashed into two vehicles around 11:45 p.m. on Monday near Exit 16 for Greenpoint Avenue, according to the airline and the NYPD.”
“(REBROADCAST FROM 6/3/93)”
“Gupta owns Legram Mills in Bradford and is planning to convert the former textile mill, built in 1871, into 130 student and residential apartments.”
“On 21 June, the global average reached 21.0°C, according to measurements taken by both the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS).”
“has now attended five World Cups”
“Royal Jordanian stated that the accident resulted in the death of one crew member, while the remaining injured are in stable condition and receiving the necessary medical care,”
“Daniel talks with Michal Shapiro who produced a 3 cd collection of accordion music from across the planet.”
“The project was recently highlighted by Historic England as one of 20 sites that, with investment, have the potential to create new homes.”
“This beats the previous records from 2023 (20.83ºC) and 2024 (20.86ºC) by 0.1°C.”
“CUNY was a Senior advisor to the US government on the Somalia famine in 1992.”
“According to the public body that champions England's historic environment, the vacant textile mills of Yorkshire and Lancashire could provide 42,000 homes - and it is advertising a range of properties for investment.”
“Rising ocean temperatures outside the polar regions have been between 0.35ºC and 0.73ºC higher over the last three years compared with the long-term average, according to Copernicus.”
“Sontag was in Sarajevo in August, where she directed a performance of Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot' in the Serbo-Croatian language.”
“However, mills remain a 'great part of local life', says Lambe, and according to Historic England, 89% of people agree Britain's mills are an important part of our heritage.”
“The UN also predicted an 86 per cent chance that one of those years will surpass 2024 as the hottest on record.”
“KENOVIC has made three other films.”
“Lupton has helped build 'maybe 1,000' homes in Bradford and he says they all work on a process of the developer renting out the properties until he gets his money back.”
“Otto has also warned against placing too much emphasis on the natural El Niño phenomenon’s role in worsening global weather extremes: “It comes and goes. Climate change on the contrary gets worse as long as we do not stop burning fossil fu…”
“Since January he's been in Sarajevo, implementing new water and gas systems.”
“Gupta is working with Beckwith Design Associates on the project, which has converted about 30 listed mills within Bradford and Leeds.”
“performed specifically for NPR and Performance Today last Sunday afternoon in Atlanta”
“Former textile mill Drummond Mills was burned down in 2016”
“Funeral prayers for the children, who were up to 14 years old, began before dawn and continued through Wednesday morning.”
“I haven't had my black bins collected for three weeks.”
“Mohammad Ashfaq, a laborer whose 7-year-old son and nephew were killed in the collapse.”
“In recent weeks, our collections have been disrupted for some residents while we continue to work through the issues arising from the service changes. This was exacerbated at the end of last week by the extreme heat.”
“"Yesterday she went to her tuition class at around 4 p.m.," Farooq said. "Around 4:45 p.m., my family called me and said the roof of the tuition center had collapsed. They told me many children were trapped under the debris. Fourteen child…”
“The utility company said it has 60 concrete abstraction jobs running at any one time, using specialist high-power water jets to break down the waste into small pieces so it can be safely sucked out.”
“Venezuela's rare double earthquakes happened within seconds of each other on June 24 at 6:04 p.m., measuring a magnitude 7.2 and 7.5.”
“Over the past 12 months engineers had spent "thousands of hours removing solidified concrete from pipes across London and the Thames Valley region", it claimed.”
“As of Wednesday, the number of people killed by the earthquakes had risen to 2,295, and more than 11,200 injured, said Jorge Rodríguez, Venezuela's National Assembly president.”
“The pressure is equivalent to placing the weight of a large SUV onto an area the size of a thumbnail, the company said.”
“The death toll "will unavoidably and sadly keep on growing as the search-and-rescue operation continues, and as we are able to detail further assessment of the impacts of the quakes," Gianluca Rampolla, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in…”
“Rampolla said the U.N. agreed with Venezuela's government to procure 10,000 body bags, adding, "we truly hope that actually the number is going to be smaller than that."”
“An analysis of satellite data by Corey Scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University estimated that 58,870 buildings were likely damaged or destroyed by the earthquakes.”
“Up to 6.8 million people could be affected by the disaster, requiring shelter, water, sanitation, healthcare and other relief items, according to the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration.”
“Six days after the quakes hit, a 3-year-old boy was pulled alive from the rubble in La Guaira. Interim President Delcy Rodríguez wrote on the Telegram messaging app that the rescue of the child, named Klieber Morán, was "a source of hope f…”
