But those six companies are not only survivors, but also pathbreakers for the thousands to come.
Steven Taylor and Peter Lovenkrands were the only survivors of that game for the Magpies, with four youngsters handed their debuts.
Gordon Drummond skippers the side, while Kyle Coetzer, Fraser Watts and Gregor Maiden are the only survivors from the successful 2004 squad.
Kieran McGeeney and Seamus Moynihan are the only survivors from the 1998 series when the International Rules contests were revived after an eight-year lapse.
Peter de Villiers has made 10 changes, leaving captain John Smit, vice-captain Victor Matfield, Fourie du Preez, Tendai Mtawarira and Juan Smith as the only survivors in the starting XV.
Italy also had an inexperienced line-up with Gennaro Gattuso and Fabio Grosso the only survivors from the 2006 World Cup final win over France for the game played in front of only 8, 000 spectators.
Mick Kieron, from the association, said he believed that survivors had only come together officially in recent years.
There are only a handful of survivors of the battle still alive and they are reportedly also opposed to the airport.
Xinhua quoted government officials as saying rescuers who hiked into the city found only 2, 300 survivors in the town of about 10, 000, and 1, 000 were badly hurt.
There are only 12 known Berga survivors still living.
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American forces not only brought freedom to the survivors of Nazi horrors, they also made sure that in its aftermath the world would know what had happened.
Nas' 40th birthday in September will put him in the company of elite survivors, though only a few of hip-hop's quadragenarians can legitimately challenge him for title of best lyricist.
So the only good comes from helping the survivors and others in similar circumstances.
Leon's high-speed finish provides cancer survivors with an athletic role model only weeks after the defrocking of Austin's more-famous cancer-battling competitor, Lance Armstrong.
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But there have been some delays in southern India in Kerala, where 11, 000 homes were to be constructed, with only 51 so far completed and handed over to survivors.
His presence there, along with hundreds of Jewish survivors, made Auschwitz this week not only a warning to humanity, as the words on the monument suggest, but also a sign that hope can yet be found in the lives of men and women who lived through the Holocaust.
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But the most common ones kill off only about one fly in 20, leaving plenty of survivors to go on the rampage.
The organisers had anticipated that hundreds of survivors would turn up to this demonstration - but only 24 came.
Chinese media said the first body had been found - but only 36 hours after the landslip - and that the chances of finding survivors were slim.
CNN's Arwa Damon spoke with a few dozen survivors from these villages in the area, most of whom only made it through because they weren't home during the quake.
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Construction workers only need limited juice for charging power tools and perhaps a cellphone power, pretty much the same thing disaster survivors require immediately after impact.
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