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  • Waked about 4 o'clock with my wife, having a looseness, and peoples coming in the yard to the pump to draw water several times, so that fear of this day's fire made me fearful, and called Besse and sent her down to see, and it was Griffin's maid for water to wash her house.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Waked about 4 o'clock with my wife, having a looseness, and peoples coming in the yard to the pump to draw water several times, so that fear of this day's fire made me fearful, and called Besse and sent her down to see, and it was Griffin's maid for water to wash her house.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Waked about 4 o'clock with my wife, having a looseness, and peoples coming in the yard to the pump to draw water several times, so that fear of this day's fire made me fearful, and called Besse and sent her down to see, and it was Griffin's maid for water to wash her house.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Aug/Sep 1664 Pepys, Samuel 1664

  • He hath given up dice and cards, and hath asked of me books such as Besse's 'Sufferings' and George Fox's

    Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871

  • Breuning was 26 days younger than Besse Cooper of Georgia, whom the Gerontology Research Group in Los Angeles lists as the world's oldest person.

    World's oldest man dies at 114 2011

  • The Davis Besse incident has resurfaced in the wake of the ongoing nuclear crisis at Japanâ™s Fukushima Daiichi plant.

    U.S. Nuclear Regulator Lets Industry Write Rules The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • At 114 years and 313 days, Valentim is 48 days older than the world's previous known oldest person, American Besse Cooper.

    114-Year-Old Brazilian Woman Named World's Oldest Person 2011

  • In 2003, then NRCâ™s Chairman Richard Meserve disputed the inspector generalâ™s report 4, which found that the agencyâ™s decision on Davis Besse âœwas driven in large part by a desire to lessen the financial impact❠the plantâ™s owner.

    U.S. Nuclear Regulator Lets Industry Write Rules The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • At 114 years and 313 days, Valentim is 48 days older than the world's previous known oldest person, American Besse Cooper.

    114-Year-Old Brazilian Woman Named World's Oldest Person 2011

  • And, as in 2008, the 2011 Tour will next head into the hills of the Massif Central, first with an almost identical stage from Aigurande to Super-Besse — the summit finish where Riccardo Riccò (later disqualified for doping) sprinted home ahead of Alejandro Valverde and Cadel Evans.

    Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: Two times up the Alpe in the 2011 Tour de France? 2010

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