33,203 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 328 of 333.
“True Confessions and New Cliches, her performance pieces, in the following year”
“Voices, a collection of essays published by Edinburgh University Press in 1993”
“one of three new translations of Greek tragedies showing at the Fruitmarket in Glasgow”
“Since 1961, Border Television has been an independent company, based in Carlisle but serving a huge geographical area that includes the Lake District, the Isle of Man, Galloway and the Scottish Borders.”
“Hiding behind its smallness, with only 0.5 per cent of the ITV audience, and with the real difficulties inherent in covering such a culturally fractured region...”
“For nearly 40 years, Border News and Lookaround have bound together several communities in a shared televisual experience.”
“With a large geographical area stretching from the Berwickshire coast to the Isle of Man, Border’s news coverage involves substantial budgets...”
“When he began work in Balsall Heath 30 years ago”
“When he began work in Balsall Heath 30 years ago, he tells me, there was one voluntary agency. There are now 70 busying themselves”
“Atkinson, the secretary of Streetwatch, estimated he had 500 supporters he could call out if the pimps gave him trouble.”
“The protesters confronted clients every night, in all weathers, year after year, until roads t”
“Even without guns, he said, our young men kill one another at four times the rate of the English or the Welsh.”
“One estimate is that, by the time the civil war broke out in 1861, something like three-quarters of the South’s population had Celtic roots, mostly Scots and Ulster Scots (although, by then, there was a big population of Catholic Irish in …”
“in terms of lasting impact, the activities of a few hundred, or even a few score initial colonisers, can mean much for the cultural geography of a place than the contributions of tens of thousands of new immigrants”
“It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war,” Twain wrote, “and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus decorations. For it was he that created…”
“It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war,”
“over seven columns of its front page”
“2,000 viewers”
“But what about the poorest of all – the two million children in families without any work?”
“"Oil for food" has been working for three years and could have started years earlier had Saddam not blocked it.”
“the "programme has provided substantial assistance to address pressing humanitarian needs"”
“the UN recommends that Iraq set aside $91 million for a targeted child nutrition programme every six months.”
“Iraq allocated only $24 million – around 25 per cent of what is required.”
“Iraq is the world’s second-biggest oil exporter and has more than $8 billion available this year for foods, medicines, clean water, electricity, agriculture, education and the oil industry.”
“Britain puts holds on less than 1 per cent of contracts”
“Resolution 1284 provides for the suspension of the remaining (ie, non-humanitarian) sanctions if Iraq co-operates with the weapons inspectors. This should not be difficult. Suspension could happen within months.”
“22 independent experts concluded last year in the UN disarmament panel’s report.”
“4,250 square miles of brewing anarchy”
“Kosovo, the colony that belongs to the world: 4,250 square miles of brewing anarchy and anger that is now awash with visionless well-intent.”
“How, I wondered, had people endured a winter of power cuts that was also the coldest on record?”
“over 2,000 years”
“200 years”
“over 1,000 years”
“According to Clare Short, £12 million of state-sponsored aid.”
“The bombing, you might remember, happened, by sheer coincidence, just three days after Clinton was finally forced to admit his affair with a certain intern.”
“opened in Britain on 10 March.”
“in the early 1990s”
“published 20 years ago”
“Last year, an estimated 300,000 young South Africans hied it to Britain”
“for another 46 years”
“who has known Nelson Mandela for 50 years”
“Unknown hands had removed a note that, according to a catalogue, had been penned at the Queen Mother’s escritoire in 1940. This was at about the time when she was referring to the Duchess of Windsor as “the lowest of the low”, and the Duke…”
“It has since been claimed, in the Independent on Sunday, that the withheld documents – Box 24 of the Monckton collection – would have disclosed the Queen Mother’s pro-appeasement sympathies, though given that they probably won’t be release…”
“The Duke’s exchange of telegrams with Hitler in 1939 found the former monarch making a personal appeal for “a peaceful solution to the present problem”.”
“The old monster must have had them eating out of his hands with his punctilious observance of the social niceties: “Thank you for your telegram of the 27th,” his cable begins.”
“On 6 June 1941, Winston Churchill memoed the colonial secretary: “What is wanted is a competent and important American publicist who would come down from time to time to Nassau and try to instil sound ideas into that circle. It does not ma…”
“In the document case that I signed for – roughly the dimensions of a takeout pizza box – I found carbons of the Duke of Windsor’s memoirs.”
“On page 85, he had written: “Publicity was part of my heritage, and I was never so naive as to expect that my romance was a tender shoot that -” the sentence was unfinished, and scored out in blue ink.”
“Before we were allowed anywhere near the 20 or so manila document cases, we had to produce letters from our editors, confirming that we were in fact who we claimed to be...”
“One stack-denizen estimated that the document in question might have disappeared as early as the 1970s.”
“Appointed by the Chancellor at the end of 1998, Cruickshank is an abrasive individual who doesn’t pull his punches.”
“Blue Peter set a target of £600,000 to build bright new orphanages; £6.5 million was sent in.”
“Newsnight‘s Sue Lloyd-Roberts discovered only 12 substandard houses had ever been built”
“hundreds of thousands of pounds had gone AWOL”
“It recently decided to spend hundreds of thousands on a campaign to combat homophobia.”
“Professor Stephen Crow’s report on South-east planning last autumn aroused much Nimby anger from its forecast that another million or so Homes were needed over the next 20 years.”
“Every time she opens her mouth, it costs the taxpayer £91,520.”
“the bulk of the annual grant of £6,314,887”
“the Arts Council has made a three-year commitment to Scottish Opera and the Fat Lady will continue to perform her arias until 2003 at least.”
“commits more than a fifth of the Scottish Arts Council’s total grant of £30.1 million.”
“literature will receive only 4 per cent of the total grant”
“This amounts to a paltry £1.2 million compared to the £6.3 million to Scottish Opera alone”
“The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, receiving £1.3 million”
“up to 90 per cent of farmers are dependent upon cocoa.”
“a cocoa plant takes five years to bear fruit – so farmers cannot adapt quickly enough to take advantage of high prices or protect themselves against slumps.”
“more than 100,000 farmers and workers throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia.”
“A MORI poll in January 1999 revealed that 68 per cent of those questioned would like the chance to buy Fairtrade products.”
“Fairtrade Fortnight takes place on 6-19 March.”
“the blue-and-white standard since it was bestowed on the Greeks in 1830”
“the year they proclaimed independence from the Ottoman Turks”
“the 1974 invasion of Cyprus”
“Greece’s defiantly progressive foreign minister, George Papandreou, has even proposed that the two nations should jointly apply to host the 2008 European soccer championships”
“We have more in common with the Turks than is often assumed… We know and understand the Muslim culture because for 400 years we lived with it.”
“the 21st century”
“Of Austria’s main newspapers, the Kronenzeitung, the largest population daily, has turned its back on Haider, whom it once supported”
“the world needed to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide by 60 per cent if it was to halt global warming”
“finally managing 5 per cent (but from a different, more accommodating baseline)”
“58 per cent of the world’s refugees”
“32,000 who died in 1998”
“300 million displaced from their homes”
“frequency of “natural” disasters had tripled since the 1960s”
“two-thirds of the country was flooded”
“Hurricane Mitch battered Central America for more than a week”
“Something of the nature of this transformation is evident from the achievements of the greater Seattle area, the Pacific North West’s foremost urban district and a locality whose population has grown by more than 60 per cent since 1970.”
“In the mid-19th century, when the several thousand inhabitants of the then 700-year-old town of Inverness were acquiring rail links with the south, Seattle did not exist.”
“Kyrgyzsrtan’s five million, mainly Sunni, Muslims – in a country landlocked by China to the east, Tajikistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west and Kazakhstan to the north – feel that they have things in common with the Scots. But more i…”
“There are now 41 consulates in Edinburgh, with Bulgaria, Ireland, Bangladesh, Brazil, Mongolia and the Czech Republic all acquiring representation since the devolution referendum.”
“The Irish consul should know that better than any because Dublin has boomed since it became a capital, particularly since Ireland joined the EEC (as it then was) in the early 1970s.”
“On 26 March, the country will elect its next president, and virtually everyone believes that the winner will be Boris Yeltsin’s hand-picked successor, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.”
“And then there was the strikingly convenient timing of the terrorist bombings, blamed on the Chechens, in Moscow, Buinaksk and Volgodonsk, which wiped out four apartment buildings and killed 300 people.”
“The FSB, or the Federal Security Service (domestic successor of the KGB which, until last summer, was headed by Putin), recently admitted that none of the 14 suspects now being sought is actually Chechen.”
“It also pointed out that workers at the plant had been faking plutonium data since 1996.”
“In the time-honoured tradition of the nuclear industry, British Nuclear Fuels Limited tried to cover up the fact that its workers were falsifying quality-control data on mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (Mox) fuel.”
“But the cover-ups were bungled. So a few junior employees were sacked.”
“The nuclear inspectorate has given Sellafield two months to get its act together or face closure.”
“Only last September, an accident at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, near Tokyo in Japan, killed three workers and exposed the inhabitants of the town to high doses of radiation.”
“Silkwood’s family sued Kerr-McGee, the owners of the plant, for millions. They won, but then lost on appeal.”
“A recent Rand study declares that nuclear power has been “calculated” to be inherently safe and suggests that nuclear fission is the only way to meet the energy demands of the world.”
“Eighty per cent of women now carry on working in some form or other after the birth of their first child, and yet this figure is not sustained for very long after the birth of their second.”
“With two children, traditional patterns quickly reassert themselves for all but the most highly skilled women, and the majority of mothers drop down to part-time work after having their second child, or stop work altogether.”
