33,211 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 268 of 333.
“Marvin Isley, who was the group's bass player, stopped performing in 1996 because of complications from diabetes, including the loss of his legs. [...] has died, aged 56.”
“Marvin Isley, who was the group's bass player, stopped performing in 1996 because of complications from diabetes, including the loss of his legs.”
“The Isley Brothers' career has spanned six decades, producing popular hits such as Shout, Fight the Power, Summer Breeze and Who's that Lady.”
“The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.”
“Mr Isley died on Sunday at a hospice near his home in Chicago, according to a hospital spokesman.”
“Marvin joined in 1973 along with Ernie Isley and their cousin Chris, playing on the band's 14 Top 10 hits, including Harvest for the World.”
“In 1984, Marvin, Ernie and Chris formed their own group, Isley-Jasper-Isley, and in 1985 had a No 1 R&B hit with Caravan of Love.”
“The Isley Brothers was formed in 1954 by Marvin's three older brothers.”
“Dolgarrog Railway Society spent 10 years diligently buying pieces of track, and restoring a diesel locomotive and goods vans.”
“Now Ainscough Strategic Land is bringing in a crane and 16 lorry-loads of rail, track and sleepers.”
“If we'd had to purchase the track ourselves and arrange transport, it would have taken up to a further 15 years to get to the stage we're at today,”
“The railway society has achieved a tremendous amount over the past ten years”
“Placements are due to start towards the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011.”
“Some local authorities in Wales have already started offering the new sessions and all are expected to be up and running by September.”
“"Fantastic? No, Mr Fox is a vicious pest,”
“foxes are among the most amenable, least aggressive mammals”
“sentences handed to eight people over the Bhopal gas leak, external in India in 1984 are "derisory"”
“have waited more than 25 years for justice”
“The greatest censure" should fall on the Indian government., external It has a "casual, callous and confused approach to corporate liability"”
“the key is if you want to score, "don't look at the goalie"”
“It forgot to look at the phenomenon of English footballers sending their kicks over the crossbar.”
“16-member eurozone”
“Only 13% of viewers will switch off if England go out before the final - so a party at any stage of the tournament is a fairly safe bet.”
“considerable progress”
“More than 800 training places are to be created in UK heritage projects under a £17m National Lottery scheme.”
“The £17m windfall for heritage projects announced on Tuesday is three times more than had been planned originally.”
“The increased funding has been possible because of a rise in sales of lottery tickets, now at their highest level for 10 years.”
“The 808 on‑job training placements will be spread across 54 different projects.”
“Sixteen trainees across the UK will be taught to conserve and restore historic ironwork by learning traditional blacksmithing skills.”
“Just days after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, close to 500 individual terminals accessed the BGAN "spot beam" over the country.”
“It was set up to improve the habitat of fish on eight rivers around the country - the Tweed, Dee, South Esk, Tay, Spey, Moriston, Bladnoch and Oykel.”
“The Conservation of Atlantic Salmon in Scotland (CASS) project was one of five recognised for its work.”
“The other four schemes recognised were based in Sweden, Portugal and Austria.”
“It exceeded its objectives, reopening over 150km of rivers to the Atlantic salmon,”
“As a result, salmon are now returning to rivers where they have not been seen for as much as 250 years.”
“Now in its sixth year, Wychwood is one of a handful of festivals”
“Now in its sixth year, Wychwood is one of a handful of festivals unashamedly catering for the more affluent, family-focussed festival goer.”
“Families are at the heart of its target audience - to the extent that the dates are chosen to coincide with half-term holidays, says festival director Graeme Merifield.”
“Latitude festival - a weekend that features the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sadler's Wells ballet and orchestras, as well as the more traditional fare of bands such as Vampire Weekend, Florence and The Machine and Belle & Sebastian.”
“There are currently 14 volcanoes around the world that are erupting”
“for the 2010 Berlin Airshow”
“2010 Berlin Airshow”
“Home Office research collated in 1996 showed a rise of 30% on England match days.”
“In a sporting event we get as many as nine or ten times the number of incidents recorded.”
“The posters will be displayed across pubs, hospitals, surgeries and buses.”
“The Manchester Domestic Abuse Helpline is on 0161 636 7525.”
“She said: "I never thought it would get to the High Court case - I never thought we would get this far. I never thought we would raise the money but the community support has been absolutely phenomenal."”
“99.99% of the people in the world today are agriculturalists”
“drained around 13,000 years ago”
“Younger Dryas (12,800-11,500 years ago)”
“a little over 21 years old in the 1970s in the US”
“It's over 25 years now in the US”
“It's nearly 30 in some countries in Europe, such as Switzerland”
“probably going to stop around 9.2-9.5 billion”
“Earlier reports that 77 bodies had been recovered were mistaken, officials said.”
“Guerrero state is a focal point for drug-related violence that has claimed more than 22,000 lives in Mexico since 2006.”
“While most of the drug-related violence over the past four years has been concentrated in northern Mexico along the border with the US, other regions have not been immune.”
“Sophie Anderson, who is 17 months old and is in care, was visited by her mother Lucy in Banbridge on Monday.”
“They were supposed to attend a toddlers' group, but did not turn up.”
“Detectives believe Sophie's father Stuart Creaney boarded the 0730 BST sailing earlier that morning.”
“Lucy Anderson, 30, is described as approximately 5ft 6in tall...”
“The 22-year-old father is described as being boyish-looking...”
“Born in 1959 in Ystrad in Rhondda”
“I share the Bhopalis' sense of outrage and betrayal,”
“This is not the justice that we have been waiting for, because the principal accused - Warren Anderson, Union Carbide corporation USA - are not here,”
“Forty tonnes of a toxin called methyl isocyanate leaked from the pesticide factory and settled over slums in Bhopal on 3 December 1984.”
“Official figures show at least 3,000 people died at the time and as many as 15,000 have died since.”
“Campaigners put the death toll as high as 25,000”
“Twenty years ago Union Carbide paid $470m (£282m) in compensation to the Indian government.”
“Dow Chemicals, which bought the company in 1999, says this settlement resolved all existing and future claims against the company.”
“about 1750 BST on Monday”
“There were two people on board”
“The two men were not injured in the incident”
“flights had been suspended at the airport for just over two hours, but resumed at 2000 BST”
“Stuart Cable, 40”
“Mabel, 79”
“sacked from the band in 2003”
“sell‑out crowd of 30,000”
“made up their differences within a year of their split and had been friends again for the last five years”
“closed after six months on air”
“at 0530 BST on Monday”
“at the age of 97.”
“only three reached safety and of the 73 recaptured, 50 were shot.”
“in November 1942”
“On the night of 24 March 1944, about 200 prisoners”
“A total of 76 prisoners escaped from the camp but only three reached safety.”
“The 1963 film The Great Escape”
“Alex Lees, who died last year aged 97.”
“Mr Harrison, who was number 98 on the escape list”
“Jack Harrison took part in the famous breakout from Stalag Luft III in 1944”
“A plan by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to enter into peace talks with the Taliban received the backing of tribal leaders at a three-day meeting in Kabul last week.”
“Construction industry organisation, the Construction Products Association (CPA), says the school building programme is worth £10bn a year”
“the negative impact on construction firms would deepen until at least 2014, forecasting the closure of firms and the loss of jobs.”
“In an interview on 27 May, she said that Israelis should get 'the hell out of Palestine' and suggested they went to Germany, Poland or the US.”
“Thomas, 89, was the longest-serving reporter in the White House.”
“Rachael Slack, 38, and 23-month-old Auden, were killed by her ex-boyfriend Andrew Cairns, 44, at her home in Holbrook, Derbyshire, on 2 June.”
“His neighbour Phyllis Bodycote, 80, said Cairns, who had severe depression, may have been told that he could no longer see his son. Mrs Bodycote said he told her: "I am going to see my Auden. I am having my little boy."”
“About 600 people died in fighting in the Sudan region of Darfur in May, the highest monthly toll since peacekeepers were deployed in 2008, officials say.”
“which saw nine civilians killed”
“which killed nine pro-Palestinian activists”
