33,203 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 332 of 333.
“four selections”
“On 3 September 1995, thousands of demonstrators from around the world attended an extraordinary march in Papeete, Tahiti, to protest France’s pending tests.”
“It generates wealth through entrepreneurial ventures and has raised $30 million which it then gives to programs dealing with hunger”
“France went ahead and detonated a nuclear device at Muraroa atoll on 5 September 1995.”
“1994 National Book ward”
“one of the National Broadcasting Commission of Papua New Guinea's 19 provincial radio stations”
“the 300th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell”
“For the first full week of the state of emergency the station was off a air.”
“Locke's 1674 instrumental music for 'The Tempest'”
“was off air for more than 12 months”
“He's 73 years old and he's been acting for 50 of those.”
“collected their pay each fortnight for more than a year.”
“In 1956 ROBARDS first came to the attention of the critics with his performance in Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh."”
“A report three years ago headed by Sir Comala Carlo, the distinguished public servant found the organization had been starved of cash, morale was low, and the management was weak and ineffective.”
“Recorded last year at the Church of the Saviour in Cleveland.”
“In 1984, ABC television broadcast a (Four Corners) current affairs story about PNG’s border problems with Indonesia.”
“for their last World Series appearance in 1991.”
“Sinclair Solomon, the editor of one of Papua New Guinea's two national daily newspapers, The New Guinea News.”
“His new book R.L.'s Dream will be released in August.”
“We've got two morning papers, we've got two weekly newspapers, they're all very lively.”
“Galipeau has been a probation officer for over 27 years.”
“At independence nine years ago, there were only two active media outlets in Papua New Guinea.”
“17 orchestral musicians who landed in New York and formed the New American Chamber Orchestra”
“In fact, there's one particular case that comes to mind, the dowry affair of 1982.”
“to honor his 65th birthday last November.”
“Luke Sellar says the most direct case of attempted interference in the Post Courier's coverage of the news occurred in 1980, when the national airline, Air New Guinea, had a running battle with the then Deputy Prime Minister.”
“and a CD will be issued in the fall of 1995 by Albany Records”
“Russell Hunter, an experienced Scottish journalist who arrived in Papua New Guinea about four years ago.”
“7 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, 17 WERE INJURED”
“Its reporter Alfred Sassaco interviewed James Nyaro twice - long before the ABC did - and he took exclusive photos of a Swiss mission pilot, while the pilot was still held captive by the OPM.”
“WILL BE AIRED ON MONDAY FOR THE PEOPLE IN HONEA PATH AND ON PUBLIC TELEVISION'S DOCUMENTARY SERIES P.O.V. ON JUNE 27, 1995”
“In 1965, six Tongan boys aged between 13 and 16 decided to run away from their school in Tonga and borrow a boat for a seafaring adventure.”
“two Columbia University anthropologists”
“After a week marooned at sea, they eventually found refuge on an uninhabited island - Ata Island.”
“"Picture Bride," won the 1995 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for best dramatic film.”
“They survived for 15 months until an Australian fisherman, Peter Warner, spotted one of the boys and subsequently rescued them.”
“Oswald's Tale... is Mailer's 28th book.”
“Two years later Peter Warner brought these young men to Sydney to help build and crew his fishing boat, named Ata, after the island.”
“In 1968, He won a Pulitzer Prize for Armies of the Night”
“and attended by 60 delegates representing member countries in the region.”
“and was again a Pulitzer recipient in 1980 for The Executioner's Song.”
“It was the sixth Conference since the South Pacific Commission (now known as the Pacific Community) was established in 1947.”
“Mailer published his first book in 1948.”
“where 200 Papua New Guinea villagers stage a sing-sing.”
“On July 18, 1988 the YATES' five year old son Marcus was killed in gun crossfire between two drug dealers fighting for turf in a corner store.”
“recorded around 1944 and 1945”
“two others were shot but survived, one of them was Marcus' six year old brother.”
“(2:43)”
“after a fourteen year estrangement.”
“(3:03)”
“(REBROADCAST FROM 8/22/88)”
“(2;21)”
“In 1960 he starred in 'Spartacus'”
“(2:47)”
“A restored version of the film was released in 1991 that includes previously cut scenes”
“Two speakers, Raymon and Nain.”
“(REBROADCAST FROM 4/19/91)”
“Two speakers, first is Wai and second is not identified.”
“LINDA WERTHEIMER has been with NPR since the network first went on the air with All Things Considered, May 3, 1971.”
“(2:24)”
“It will be released May 29, 1995.”
“(2:07)”
“The book marks 25th Anniversary of the founding of NPR not ATC.”
“Four items sung by mixed choir of Poreporena.”
“will be in two upcoming films”
“five-cd set”
“last 60 years”
“Biographer DEIRDRE BAIR (pronounced "Bear") has written acclaimed biographies of Samuel Becket... (which won the 1981 National Book Award)”
“GESSEN's immigrated to the U.S. in 1981, when she was 14 to be with her parents.”
“February 25 & 26”
“His 1988 book "Borrowed Time: An Aids Memoir," was the first such memoir to be published about AIDS, and won a National Book Award.”
“The book was called "a gallant, courageous love story."”
“In 1992, MONETTE wrote a memoir about his own life before he came out of the closet at the age of 25, "Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story," (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).”
“Born in 1915 in Harlem”
“won a fellowship to Juilliard when he was 20”
“left the United States in 1949”
“He died Monday at age 68.”
“Merrill took to Europe at age 24”
“That was in 1950.”
“His memoir 'A Different Person' (Knopf) detailed his two and a half years there”
“MERRILL wrote eleven books of poems”
“the winner of two National Book Awards”
“the Bollingen Prize for Poetry”
“the Pulitzer Prize”
“NORA LUSTIG, SENIOR FELLOW IN THE FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES PROGRAM AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE AND PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AT EL COLEGIO DE MEXICO IN MEXICO CITY (1975-91)”
“In 1989, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola was "under a state of emergency."”
“In early 1990, Warden John P. Whitely was hired.”
“NPR's Terry Gross speaks with special correspondent Wilbert Rideau...”
“His book, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," published in 1990 was a fairy tale written for his son.”
“1994 revives Lowe's solo career.”
“After the band broke up in 1975”
“he produced five albums for Elvis Costello.”
“In 1992 he was one quarter of the band 'Little Village' with John Hiatt and Ry Cooder.”
“The suite is based on six of Thurber's caricatures of dogs.”
“to celebrate the centennial of local hero humorist James Thurber.”
“Recorded in concert in Columbus, Ohio on December 4th during the world premiere performances of the work.”
“We feature a segment from a 1988 interview with WILSON.”
“migration to California in the 1920s.”
“Pianist Michael Boriskin is counting down to the next millenium with a fascinating retrospective called "Centuryview," looking back at a century of change at the piano keyboard.”
“Today, as they begin 1995, the centennials of Paul Hindemith, Carl Orff and William Grant Still, the tercentenary of Henry Purcell's death, etc. etc. etc., and Year Six of their conversations”
