Figures for the number of inmates with access to Sky TV in their cells rose from 1, 536 in 2006 to 4, 070 in 2009.

BBC: TV in prison: What men and women watch in their cells

Palm trees rose against the sky from inside the compound.

NEWYORKER: The Kingpins

Their beauty as they rose through the night sky made him cry about the end of things.

ECONOMIST: Ray Bradbury

With three minutes left, Carroll rose into the London sky with big-bodied opponent Marouane Fellaini all over him, met Craig Bellamy's free kick and headed it past Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard.

WSJ: Extreme Makeover: Liverpool Edition?

But against all the odds, on the 16 July 1969, just 30 months after the fatal fire - the first Saturn V rocket attempting to carry men from the surface of one world to another rose into the Florida sky.

BBC: The magic of Apollo

Stars popped out of the evening sky, then an almost-full moon rose above the trees and lit up the ledge.

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But the sky was cloudless, and as the sun rose everyone settled down and some even nodded off, which Jake Early regretted, feeling that when the Union soldiers came they should find black folk not at their ease but smartly arrayed as a welcoming company of free men and women.

NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'

Sometimes a slender column of smoke rose from the village and dissipated in the vast sky over the plains.

NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho

The curtainless windows were rectangles of electric-blue sky that turned to gray and then normal daylight as the patients rose and slowly, in their thin striped cotton robes, began wandering down the corridor that led into the common room.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

The small petals eventually rose on long stems and converged to become a cauldron pointing up to the sky above the stadium.

CNN: July 28, 2012 -- Updated 1302 GMT (2102 HKT)