As troops fanned out in the town awaiting the arrival of Hawker Hunter jets to bomb and destroy civilian government, Allende desperately but vainly tried to contact Pinochet and for a few hours was convinced that his military commander had been kidnapped and silenced by the insurgents.
In November, fears of a jihadi "blowback" were fanned by a sectarian attack at al-Ahsa, in the kingdom's eastern province, which killed five people on the Shia religious holiday of Ashura.
Every weekend, activists fanned out across target seats, armed with clipboards and flyers, bringing the good news.
Colombia's military fanned out through the jungles of the country's north-west on Monday in the hunt for a general whose kidnap by presumed leftist Farc rebels has put two years of peace talks in limbo.
A day later in Castaño de Robledo a small table was put outside Paqi's bar and laden with glasses of rough red wine and slices of chorizo, salchica and ham fanned out on a plate like a drift of red and gold autumn leaves.
A team of reporters for the Europa project fanned out to find out what the EU did well.
While last week's shock Conservative victory has fanned fears of a British exit from the EU, the focus for most of Osborne's counterparts around the region remains on the fate of heavily indebted Greece.
What unfolded over the next 80 minutes, if you subscribe to the more romantic interpretations, created one country and fanned the flames of a revolution in another.
Winehouse, who had fanned herself with a notebook during the hearing, at first seemed confused by his decision, leaving the dock only after her solicitor appeared to clarify the not guilty verdict.
And while that conspiracy theory didn't originate in the House or the Senate, Republican lawmakers have fanned the flames.
As the canvassing teams fanned out across the south side of Glasgow, one group tackled a 23-storey tower block on Caledonia Road in the Gorbals.
