33,203 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 331 of 333.
“after reigning for two years and five months”
“spent two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company”
“There are around 500 medieval chroniclers”
“interviews recorded in 1989, and 1991”
“the 250 or so men who have inherited St Peter’s throne”
“one of the hit CDs of the 1995 season”
“Peter Stanford presents “She-Pope” on BBC1 on 20 December at 10.30pm”
“Volume Two is titled "Reverberations: 1850-1856,"”
“for the past 11 years I have lived overseas in countries where it is perfectly normal to converse with other travellers on public transport.”
“four hands”
“the only place I have ever been mugged was at Morden station.”
“Volume Two”
“by 60-80 per cent from 1990 levels”
“Writer CLIFTON TAUBERT grew up in the segregated South in the 1950s.”
“just over 5 per cent by 2010 – the US actually committed itself to 7 per cent”
“His experiences growing up black in America are chronicled in his two memoirs When We Were Colored and the Pulitzer Prize nominated The Last Train North (Penguin Books).”
“about 30 per cent”
“When We Were Colored has been made into a new film. (REBROADCAST from 8/8/95)”
“Two-thirds of Bangladesh was covered in water this summer”
“Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews two new albums by The Smithereens: a new best‑of, "Blown to Smithereens," (Capital Records) and a collection of rare old tracks, "Attack of the Smithereens."”
“56 million people from their homes”
“in concert with the Atlanta Symphony on May 22nd.”
“over 50 countries have been hit by severe floods in 1998, and at least 45 by droughts”
“The local newspaper printed full page menorahs and they were displayed in nearly 10,000 homes and businesses.”
“five billion people clustered in and near the tropics will suffer far more than the one billion or so in the industrialised, temperate North”
“(December 17th, 10:30 p.m. EST)”
“9 per cent of GNP in developing countries, as opposed to 1-2 per cent in the industrialised North”
“This week, December 10-17, has been declared 'Not In Our Town Week,' a nationally-coordinated campaign against hate crimes.”
“34 people in the US – a similar storm killed over 200,000 in Bangladesh”
“12-man ensemble”
“20 times as much carbon”
“More than half of all new car registrations in the US”
“7 per cent is now being widely proclaimed as an over‑exacting target”
“Samuel Hiaji is a 45-year-old journalist. He says: 'A woman must be disciplined, especially if she has a habit of shouting at her husband. No man really enjoys beating his wife, but women will always be beaten by husbands if they don’t tam…”
“they didn’t want people defacing their temple after they’d just spent a reported £100 million on it.”
“The Mormons now claim 180,000 members in the British Isles.”
“In 1837 seven missionaries arrived from New York to look up relatives in the town.”
“The temple was finished in Sardinian granite”
“Twelve life-size fibreglass oxen, one for each of the tribes of Israel, were supporting a sunken whirlpool bath.”
“the president said that the greatest number of people for whom he had acted as a baptismal proxy at one go was a dozen.”
“Funds came from the 10 per cent of income every follower gives the Mormons.”
“There have been rumours that these floor coverings will be ripped up and thrown out after a series of open days which finished last summer”
“they say that the temple had undergone “cleansing” – understood to be both spiritual and domestic – before its formal dedication last June.”
“In 1980, the population of Cuba was 11.1 million; the population of Chile, 9.7 million.”
“the drowning of 41 people in July 1994, when a tugboat of passengers trying to get to Florida was rammed off the Cuban coast.”
“The party was officially organised by a handful of intellectuals and Soviet advisers in 1921.”
“It had been founded the previous year by men who were soon purged.”
“to emerge victorious in 1949 to rule China.”
“Cook had played no part. Wei had been released and flown to the US on 16 November”
“Li Peng, until recently China’s premier and the leader who announced martial law in Tiananmen Square on 20 May 1989”
“China stands first on Amnesty’s global list of extrajudicial executioners.”
“The State Department and Whitehall both expressed “dismay” at last week’s arrests but named only Xu.”
“despite a consultation exercise which showed public opinion running at four to one against, allowed the companies to axe News at Ten so that they could run "adult blockbusters" from 9pm onwards”
“Their business plan was abysmally wrong. I said they would go broke and they couldn’t sustain it”
“It was first described, in words that made the world weep, by Richard Dimbleby, as he surveyed the scene at Belsen on its liberation by British forces in May 1945.”
“Ever since independence 51 years ago, India has failed to tackle its basic problems on a macro level.”
“More than 30 per cent of the population are still below the poverty line”
“50 per cent are illiterate”
“Power shortages rise to 25-30 per cent of demand”
“It covers more than 80 per cent of the population”
“Our annual Republic Day parade and the Beating of the Retreat ceremony are the only things that work in India to the minute”
“India’s ‘bedrock’ was its ‘spiritual genius’ and added: ‘Let others talk of . . . the glory of acquisition or of the power and spread of commercialism . . . religion is the one consideration in India.’”
“In his 1987 encyclical, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, John Paul II goes on to say: “The church does not propose economic and political systems or programmes.””
“Macmurray’s thinking is rooted in the philosophy of personalism which was developed by the French thinker Emmanuel Mounier in the 1930s.”
“In 1969 Karol Wojtyla published, in Polish, a new account of personalism, called The Acting Person.”
“The New Statesman has created two of the great popular movements of modern Britain – the first being the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1950s, the second Charter 88, ten years ago.”
“In 1988 I was the Statesman‘s newly made editor... Major’s hapless government is history, and a remarkably popular, trusted and competent Labour government is in power.”
“It closed 18 months ago, and is now being demolished”
““Then, when there were labour shortages, they fetched workers from India and Pakistan. They worked the night-shifts, sleeping in beds turn and turn about, just as the Irish did 100 years ago. Now they are bringing in the material from Indi…”
“Nuri was dismissed in June 1998 for trying to form a union in a sub-contractor to Marks and Spencer in Jakarta.”
“The looms went to India.”
“they anticipate in memory the thousands being laid off each day in the Jakarta of 1998.”
“Developed countries would reduce emissions 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels by 2010.”
“The US agreed a 7 per cent cut”
“Europe took 8 per cent.”
“Last week, 160 nations gathered in Buenos Aires”
“At 3am on Saturday – nine hours after the conference was due to end”
“By 5am, after a good deal of talking – including a fair bit of plain language from me – we had put together a package which brought them back and satisfied everybody.”
“Four of the five hottest years in the UK since 1650 have occurred in the past ten years.”
“agreed at Rio in 1992”
“At Kyoto I said we had a two- to three-year “window of credibility” through which to move towards ratification.”
“less than 12 months from Kyoto”
“All the targets for the years 2008-12 agreed at Kyoto remained intact.”
“Now we have set a timetable for agreeing those rules within two years.”
“We have agreed a legally binding target of a 12.5 per cent cut in greenhouse gases. We are well on our way to achieving this target and want to go further with a 20 per cent cut in CO2 emissions.”
“At least the European Union has the decency to give its $500 million worth of surplus subsidised food to Russia for free.”
“The United States, on the other hand, has graciously offered to lend the Russian government money to buy its $600 million worth of surplus subsidised food – thereby adding to the Russian government’s vast and unrepayable debts.”
“At least one of these companies, Roskhleboprodukt, has done this sort of thing before: it distributed grain three times in 1991 and 1992.”
“Already Russia has exported 1.5 million tonnes of wheat this year, according to the Institute for Agrarian Market Research here.”
“True, Russia has agreed not to re-export American aid, but even if it keeps to this promise, which seems unlikely...”
“Gennady Kulik, the deputy prime minister, whose pet project this is, insisted last week that “no, we are not going to stop exporting”.”
“He is right: if anyone other than the employees of Roskhleboprodukt stands to gain from this exercise, it is they. And if anyone loses, it will be the Russians, and not only the hungry Russians. When, once again, a western effort to “help”…”
“Rather, I am thinking of those missing chunks of the last $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan to Russia, now being sought by Russian interior ministry officials.”
“Take the Cayman Islands. By 1994 they were playing host to as many as 546 banks, though there were actually only six in the George Town capital of the kind that actually cash cheques. Only 69 had a physical presence: the rest were just nam…”
“Jersey’s economic adviser, John Christensen, resigned from his post four months ago, having spent 11 years telling Jersey politicians that their growing offshore finance industry would inevitably lead to a vulnerable single-sector economy.”
“A Home Office report on the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, commissioned from a retired Treasury official, Andrew Edwards, is expected next week.”
“One inhabitant of Sark was found to be on the board of as many as 2,400 companies, most of which he knew almost nothing about.”
“Among Edwards’ recommendations are that the 100,000 offshore companies registered on the Channel Isles should be forced to file proper accounts and tell island regulators who owns them.”
“Now he believes it is probably too late. Demand from financial services has made it impossible to diversify – homes for first-time buyers cost £170,000.”
“A Foreign Office report about the offshore centres of the Caribbean is due soon, and in May the G8 backed a plan by the Organisati”
