33,203 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 323 of 333.
“a supercyclone last year killed 10,000 people and affected 12 million households”
“More than 50 per cent of those questioned said they put the global environment before economics”
“25 per cent said they had made financial gifts to an environmental group in the past 12 months”
“Numbering 35,000, the Nenets are the last great survivors of the Far North.”
“the average male is lucky to live to 50.”
“All of the 11 children who live with Nerkagi were taken by her out of state orphanages.”
“At the “School of the Spirit” that Nerkagi set up three years ago, 24 Nenets infants learn...”
“benefits – which even after a large rise next year will reach only 660 roubles a head (about £16)”
“we should put four bottles of vodka in the middle of a chum”
“It is currently being negotiated clause by clause, sector by sector, under the umbrella name Gats 2000, although talks will continue way into 2002.”
“In fact, the top 20 service exporters are all developed countries, a factor that Susan George and Ellen Gould, of the Paris-based Globalisation Observatory, believe augurs ill for the developing world.”
“Barry Coates, the director of the World Development Movement, describes Gats 2000 as 'ideologically driven' and calls on the WTO to halt negotiations now”
“it was proposed to the Council of Europe by Winston Churchill in 1950.”
“The venture is wholeheartedly backed by the British general staff, most of all by its chief, General Sir Charles Guthrie”
“whom the Daily Mail did not hesitate to traduce as a toady (because he did not agree with its line).”
“The Independent, closest of all dailies to new Labour, is also the weakest in circulation”
“and even it sought to hedge to the right recently, hiring Bruce Anderson of the Spectator as a weekly columnist.”
“The man who is seen as the most powerful among them is not a commentator, but a reporter – Trevor Kavanagh, the political editor of the Sun.”
“Only two journalists rival or surpass Kavanagh in importance: Paul Dacre, the editor of the Daily Mail, and Charles Moore, the editor of the Daily Telegraph.”
“Dacre, who sees Blair sometimes, recently left the Prime Minister fuming impotently at his quite overt message that the Mail will be unrestrained in its attacks”
“last year it was overshadowed by the death in an air crash in July 1999 of his son, John F Kennedy Jr.”
“set out, in his station wagon, to kill the 43-year-old president-elect.”
“General Pinochet, 85 next weekend, is living out his last days...”
“Argentina has asked for his extradition for the assassination of his predecessor, Carlos Prats, in a car bomb in Buenos Aires in 1974.”
“No, 80 per cent hate Pinochet, only 20 per cent love him.”
“A tiny minority, 3 per cent, want Pinochet put on trial.”
“where one street is known as Widow’s Alley, because 16 people disappeared from homes there in the first weeks of the junta’s regime”
“At the time of the 1973 coup, paramilitary groups exacted vengeance – nearly a hundred people were killed and disappeared.”
“Dynion (Gents) outnumbered the Merched (Ladies) by about 20 to one”
“built in 1962 on a site used for rugby since 1884”
“I personally inspected three beautifully appointed, utterly empty, mother and baby changing units”
“On 27 January 2001, the 56th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Home Office says that a royal personage (as yet unnamed) and political and religious leaders will meet in a central London hall (address as yet unknown) to share …”
“As the Holocaust survivors age and become fewer in number,” explained Tony Blair, “it becomes our duty to take up the mantle and tell each generation what happened and what might happen again.”
“Our aims are contemporary, they say. We want to “restate the continuing need for vigilance in light of the troubling repetition of human tragedies in the world today . . . [and] a continuing commitment to oppose racism, anti-Semitism, vict…”
“BBC executives and the government have also banned references to the Turkish slaughter of 1,500,000 Armenians in 1915, the first 20th-century genocide, and one that has many impolitic resonances.”
“Wasn’t it Hitler who said ‘Who remembers the Armenians?’ when he laid the groundwork for the slaughter of the Jews?” he asked.”
“Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day War against its Arab neighbours. [Since then] too many public and private resources have been invested in memorialising the Nazi genocide.”
“John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford Hayes in 1876 and Benjamin Harrison in 1888”
“The Observer has just run a six-page spread on play in its magazine.”
“which, by the second half of this decade, should have increased the membership of the Union by around a third.”
“The real meat of getting the applicant countries in – there are deep divisions about which first, when and under what conditions – will start under the Swedish presidency, which succeeds the current French presidency in the new year.”
“housing (I was told that 48 per cent of homes were classed as unfit for habitation)”
“A few wretched people still live among the boarded-up flats, which were built 30 years ago, condemned three years ago, and still await the wreckers’ ball.”
“I would fear for the people,” said John Giles, 46, who was once on the dole for”
“Its short, brutish life cycle, from “show estate” to rotted slum, says a great deal about the mismanagement of inner-city areas in the postwar years. [...] built 30 years ago, condemned three years ago, and still await the wreckers’ ball.”
“the six men and one woman held in Havana”
“James Mawdsley, the human rights campaigner who was detained by the Burmese”
“the 40 British travellers, some of them pilgrims, taken hostage on a flight home from Saudi Arabia last month”
“They were said to be fit and well by their man in Havana.”
“a colleague of the six men and one woman held in Havana has claimed that the men, all private detectives from London, were retained to snoop on a Lebanese-Panamanian businessman on behalf of his wife.”
“They were set free almost before they knew they had been kidnapped. By happy chance, they picked Iraqi Tourism Week in which to be liberated.”
“They have since received a consular visit. They were said to be fit and well by their man in Havana.”
“the derailment at Hatfield that killed four people”
“events delayed his announcement by four days”
“for the five years from April 2001”
“fines amounting to £10m for every 1 per cent increase in delay”
“13 years of safe but overstretched running since the King’s Cross disaster”
“Patrick O’Brian was a name that he assumed in 1945 and, for more than half a century, an identity that came to consume him, slowly erasing his old self from history.”
“In July, the futurist known as FM-2030 passed away aged 69.”
“By the year 2030, he said, humans will have abolished death – thus this Future Man’s appellation.”
“Born in Belgium, Fereidoun M Esfandiary was the son of an Iranian diplomat. For the first 11 years of his life, he grew up in 17 countries...”
“I sort of outgrew my old name,” said FM-2030 in 1989. “I am not who I was ten years ago.”
“Last year, in his capacity as Hindu priest, Purohit expressed disapprobation at a gay Asian club in London naming itself after Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction, but insisted: “I have nothing against gays and lesbians.””
“I’ve tried to get there 17 times,”
“arrived at Sangatte in mid-July”
“the British government’s decision to start fining lorry drivers £2,000 per illegal immigrant as of April”
“In June, under pressure from French lorry drivers’ unions that were keen to avoid fines in Dover, the Calais Chamber of Commerce introduced carbon dioxide tests that can detect human bodies inside the trailers.”
“When security guards at the ferry port ran their instruments over one lorry, they discovered four men.”
“Now we have 850,”
“The month-long journey by lorry from Shiraz cost him $6,000”
“When he arrived in Calais, he had $1,000 left.”
“the smuggler whom they had paid $3,000 to get them across the Channel.”
“Mustafa and his family paid $18,000 to travel in the back of a lorry from Erbil”
“Claimants are housed, given an initial welfare payment of F2,000, and then receive F1,700 a month while their demand is reviewed.”
“In Britain, where income support for asylum‑seekers is fixed at £36.54 a week per person aged 25 and over – all but £10 of it in vouchers”
“waving a group of four young men on board”
“‘I sort of outgrew my old name,’ said FM-2030 in 1989. ‘I am not who I was ten years ago.’”
“and the viewers’ appetite for their stories has helped Channel 5’s prime-time ratings increase threefold in the past year.”
“Fifty million American homes now have a channel devoted exclusively to the genre.”
“A survey of viewers’ attitudes by the Broadcasting Standards Commission, released last week, was the latest in a long line of reports which confirm that British audiences are far more offended by TV’s portrayal of violence (50 per cent) th…”
“Of the total audience, 49 per cent were men, 47 per cent women, and the remainder were children under the age of 16.”
“The age profile skews in the direction of older viewers, with roughly two-thirds of the audience aged 45 years and above.”
“Every year for 2,000 years, we celebrated our festivals by saying ‘next year in Jerusalem’.”
“six American pool tables”
“The answer, quite simply, is that, with 4.5 million readers, it provided the best platform for getting my side of the story across.”
“In May, Jan Pasalbessi, an Indonesian man, was murdered in what appeared to be a racially motivated attack in south Wales; his daughter was also injured.”
“I was released after five hours.”
“Nor were they impressed when they heard that Special Branch had known everything since 1970, but decided not to go after them because they were “small fish”.”
“Pat Pottle died of cancer a few days ago.”
“The final version of the Declaration was published in the Herald in February 1940, with comments by distinguished personalities, including J B Priestley, A A Milne, Kingsley Martin, Barbara Wootton and Clement Attlee, the future Labour pri…”
“The Declaration was translated into 30 languages and sold thousands of copies.”
“on 1 January 1942 the allied powers belatedly included the protection of human rights among their official war aims.”
“First published in 1791, it was a bestseller – about one in ten readers bought it.”
“successive UK governments bequeathed a bill of rights as a leaving card to virtually all its former colonies, most recently to Hong Kong in 1991.”
“The author’s Values for a Godless Age, the story of the UK’s new Bill of Rights, was published by Penguin on 28 September”
“It has been home to 34 distilleries down the years...”
“Campbeltown remains one of four whisky regions, alongside Highlands, Lowlands and Islay.”
“Ireland now “imports” a net 20,000 people a year”
“The country, with a population of 3.7 million”
“The latest wage deal, for a 5.5 per cent increase in wages, was signed in the spring”
