35,843 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 357 of 359.
“The EU has agreed to cut emissions by 10% overall in these sectors in 2013-2020”
“The snails can grow to more than 20 centimetres long”
“The year in classical music, 1995:”
“The whole car industry has been set an average emission target of 120g of CO2 per kilometre by 2012 for new cars, compared with current levels of 160g/km.”
“enjoy feasting on 500 species of plants”
“spent two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company”
“The target for 2020 is 95g/km.”
“were first reported in Solomon Islands in 2006”
“interviews recorded in 1989, and 1991”
“manufacturers have been given until 2015 to meet their specific targets for each model.”
“Sam Seke brought this story to Pacific Beat audiences in 2007, after farmers spotted two snails on North Guadalcanal”
“one of the hit CDs of the 1995 season”
“There are plans to build 10 to 12 big pilot plants in the EU by 2015”
“Volume Two is titled "Reverberations: 1850-1856,"”
“The EU package sets the goal of increasing renewable energy's share of the market to 20% by 2020, from around 8.5% today.”
“four hands”
“Within that goal, 10% of transport fuels will have to come from renewables, including biofuels.”
“Volume Two”
“The commission wants a strict certification system to ensure that only biofuels achieving a real cut of at least 35% in CO2 emissions will be allowed.”
“perform five French carols”
“The UK's proposed target is 15% by 2020”
“Recorded December 2nd at Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis.”
“the EU's reliance on imported gas is set to increase from 57% currently to 84% by 2030”
“Writer CLIFTON TAUBERT grew up in the segregated South in the 1950s.”
“on imported oil from 82% to 93%”
“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).”
“Energy consumption is to be cut by 20% by 2020”
“When We Were Colored has been made into a new film. (REBROADCAST from 8/8/95)”
“The residential sector accounts for 25% of Europe's energy consumption”
“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."”
“Professor Achterberg said that the research cruise was originally planned about three or four years ago”
“in concert with the Atlanta Symphony on May 22nd.”
“iron contained in the ash cloud from last month's eruption of the volcano beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier”
“The local newspaper printed full page menorahs and they were displayed in nearly 10,000 homes and businesses.”
“The expedition - aboard the RRS Discovery, a Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc) vessel - is part of a climate change project that is looking at the efficiency of phytoplankton to absorb atmospheric CO2 and sequester it in the deep…”
“(December 17th, 10:30 p.m. EST)”
“June 2007 was the end of a period of 'frantic activity' in the housing market, he says, similar in nature to the late 1980s.”
“This week, December 10-17, has been declared 'Not In Our Town Week,' a nationally-coordinated campaign against hate crimes.”
“There is a shortage of properties on the market, with many people wanting to move into owning rather than renting. However, there is a nervousness among buyers owing to uncertainty over the future of interest rates and unemployment. Those …”
“He died this week at the age of 86, from cancer.”
“'The number of sales is dramatically down on where they were in 2007,' he says.”
“He spent fifty years with The New York Times.”
“UNRWA looks after more than four million Palestinian refugees in five countries”
“He began as a reporter in London in 1940, covering the war.”
“It has been conducting trials with 1,500 machines in the region and has begun to distribute a further 2,100 to a school in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza strip.”
“He retired in 1989 at the age of 80.”
“Several days ago Austria became the latest country to join the South Stream project.”
“In 1991 he wrote a new memoir, called Deadline (Random House).”
“In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Yannos Papantoniou, Greece's Economy Minister between 1994 and 2001, urged Europe to act 'at very high speed' to rescue the economy.”
“12-man ensemble”
“The collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 triggered the global banking crisis and contributed to a worldwide recession.”
“four selections”
“orbits almost 480 million km out from the Sun”
“"Vital Signs" which was written in 1993 after he discovered how low his T-cell count had fallen.”
“is about 200km in diameter”
“Hemphill also wrote two poetry books Earth Life and Conditions and a collection called Ceremonies.”
“orbits at more than one-and-a-half-times the Sun-Mars distance”
“It generates wealth through entrepreneurial ventures and has raised $30 million which it then gives to programs dealing with hunger”
“a Nasa spacecraft will go into orbit around one of these bodies in 2011”
“Kapilow says is a veritable catalog of flirting techniques contained in a two-and-a-half minute song.”
“24 Themis ... orbits almost 480 million km out from the Sun.”
“Malle died last Thursday of complications from lymphoma.”
“24 Themis is about 200km in diameter.”
“He was 63.”
“It orbits at more than one-and-a-half-times the Sun-Mars distance.”
“He was married to TV actress Candace Bergen for 15 years.”
“a Nasa spacecraft will go into orbit around one of these bodies in 2011.”
“They have a ten-year-old daughter, Chloe.”
“orbits almost 480 million km out from the Sun.”
“"Pretty Baby," the 1978 movie about child prostitution that made Brooke Shields a star.”
“about 200km in diameter”
“French filmmaker LOUIS MALLE in February 1988”
“more than one-and-a-half-times the Sun-Mars distance”
“Thirkell wrote nearly 40 novels.”
“two independent teams”
“Both books were originally published in the 1940s in Great Britain.”
“David Smith, deputy commissioner at the ICO told the Infosec security conference the NHS had highlighted 287 breaches to it in the period. That accounts for more than 30% of the total number reported.”
“Thirkell had a loyal following of readers who in the late 1930s and 40s would set up reading groups called 'Thirkell Circles'.”
“Most of the breaches (113) were the result of stolen data or hardware, followed by 82 cases of lost data or hardware.”
“She has written a novel based on the fashion world The Look, (Dutton 1995)”
“The NHS - the UK's largest employer with 1.7m staff - is in the process of rolling out digital patient records.”
“commissioned for Battle by Carnegie Hall in 1992”
“But in the 1600s, a loss of habitat - coupled with relentless persecution by man - made this charismatic species extinct in Britain. And that is the way it has been for some 400 years.”
“1994 National Book ward”
“In the 1980s, a tiny group of cranes established home in Norfolk. But the population there has struggled to survive, barely reaching anything like sustainable numbers.”
“Founded 13 years ago to explore the vocal art of the Middle Ages”
“Getting the eggs here was the first challenge. Because of the volcanic ash cloud, they had to be brought into the UK overland. The first hatch happened within hours of the eggs arriving...”
“14th-century composer Guillaume de Machaut”
“"We knew we would be cutting it fine, but we didn't know quite how close it was," he told BBC News. "It really was a privilege to bring back such an iconic bird to Britain; they are back where they belong, almost like a long-lost friend."”
“the 300th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell”
“The plan is to release these first young cranes into the wild late this summer. Another 20 birds will follow in each of the next four years.”
“"Mission accomplished for me is going to be seeing flocks of wild, flying cranes over the Somerset levels, a sight we haven't seen in well over 400 years."”
“there were 114,000 more children born in 2008 than in 2001 - with each year having seen an increase.”
“Some 54% of those polled for charity the Cricket Foundation said they witnessed bad sportsmanship in every single school sports match they played.”
“While over half said they themselves would break the rules in team games.”
“This willingness to cheat went down to 13.3% for those playing individual sports.”
“More than one in four (27%) of youngsters in the city said they saw unfair play 'lots of times' in a single game, whereas in Sheffield only 7% said the same.”
“Half of parents said the felt it was their responsibility to deal with their child's unfair play, while 28% said it was down to the coach.”
“Seven in 10 (72%) said they would describe a sportsman who played unfairly as a 'cheat', with just 4% saying they would consider them 'cool'.”
“But some 67% said that seeing a sportsman break the rules to win would not make them do the same.”
