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July, 1850 president died Millard Fillmore sworn following day
[ "Millard Fillmore\nMillard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853), the last Whig president, and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. Fillmore was the only Whig president who did not die in office or get ...
[ "Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur (August 30, 1837 – January 12, 1880) was the wife of the 21st President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur I. She died before he took office as President.", "Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Histor...
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1906 territory Papua island Australian
[ "Papua New Guinea\nPapua New Guinea (PNG; /ˈpaːpuːə njuː ˈɡɪniː/; Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the south...
[ "Tuggeranong Homestead Tuggeranong Homestead is located in the Australian Capital Territory in the area now covered by the suburb of Richardson. The first authorised landowner of the Tuggeranong area following white settlement was Peter Murdoch, aide-de-camp of Thomas Brisbane, who was awarded a grant of 2,000 acr...
8
The Heart of a Woman poet's autobiography
[ "The Heart of a Woman\nThe Heart of a Woman (1981) is an autobiography by American writer Maya Angelou. The book is the fourth installment in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. The Heart of a Woman recounts events in Angelou's life between 1957 and 1962 and follows her travels to California, New York City, ...
[ "Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya Eufrosinia Antonovna Kersnovskaya (Russian: Евфроси́ния Анто́новна Керсно́вская; 8 January 1908 – 8 March 1994) was a Russian woman who spent 12 years in Gulag camps and wrote her memoirs in 12 notebooks, 2,200,000 characters, accompanied with 680 pictures. She wrote three copies of the wor...
2
Indian Cuisine dish rice dhal vegetables roti papad
[ "Jeera rice\nZeera rice or Jeera rice is an Indian dish consisting of rice and cumin seeds. This rice dish is known as \"Zeera rice\" in Pakistan. It is a popular dish in North India, an everyday rice dish. It is easy to prepare unlike a biryani. Jeera is the Hindi word for cumin seeds.The ingredients used are r...
[ "Kichadi Kichadi is a Malayali dish (south India) made of curd and cucumber in raw or cooked form. Kichadi is often served as part of the Sadhya.", "Kalathappam Kalathappam also known as Kalthappam, is a North Malabar, especially Kasaragod, rice cake or delicacy made of grind rice (brown rice), water, coconut oil...
2
American twins famous American professional tennis double players
[ "Lists of tennis players\nBy Name List of male tennis players List of female tennis playersBy Grand Slam championship List of Australian Open champions List of French Open champions List of Wimbledon champions List of U.S. Open champions", "Mike Bryan\nMichael Carl \"Mike\" Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an Ameri...
[ "Lester Stoefen Lester Rollo Stoefen (March 30, 1911 in Des Moines, Iowa - February 8, 1970 in La Jolla, California) was an American tennis player of the 1930s. Stoefen won three Grand Slam doubles titles: 1934 Wimbledon Championships, 1933 and 1934 U.S. National Championships. In 1933 he was ranked World No. 9 by ...
2
Compilers that can compile both C and C++
[ "Dev-C++\nDev-C++ is a free full-featured integrated development environment (IDE) distributed under the GNU General Public License for programming in C and C++. It is written in Delphi.It is bundled with, and uses, the MinGW or TDM-GCC 64bit port of the GCC as its compiler.", "Embeddable Common Lisp\nEmbeddable ...
[ "Libsigc++ Libsigc++ is a C++ library for typesafe callbacks.'libsigc++' implements a callback system for use in abstract interfaces and general programming. Libsigc++ is one of the earliest implementations of the signals and slots concept implemented using C++ template metaprogramming. It was created as an altern...
2
Operating systems to which Steve Jobs related
[ "History of Mac OS\nOn January 24, 1984, Apple ComputerInc. (now Apple Inc.) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, later retroactively renamed to the Macintosh 128K model. The operating system of early Macintosh is named \"System Software\" or \"System\", and its ensuing series was later renamed to Mac OS aft...
[ "Cocoa (API) Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for the OS X operating system.For iOS, there is a similar API called Cocoa Touch which includes gesture recognition, animation, and a different set of graphical control elements, and is for applications for the iOS operatin...
5
toy train manufacturers that are still in business
[ "Mamod\nMamod is a British toy manufacturer specialising in manufacturing live steam models. The company was founded in 1937 in Birmingham in the UK by Geoffrey Malins. The name is a contraction of 'Ma' lins 'Mod' els'. Malins started off making steam engines which were sold under the Hobbies brand name but he soon...
[ "TTX Company TTX Company (formerly Trailer Train) is a private company that owns a large fleet of freight cars and provides them to stockholding railroads. It also provides freight car management services (information and accounting). TTX is the largest railroad car provider in the United States.", "Faller Faller...
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countries which have won the FIFA world cup
[ "2010 FIFA World Cup Final\nThe 2010 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match that took place on 11 July 2010 at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, to determine the winner of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Spain defeated the Netherlands 1–0 with a goal from Andrés Iniesta four minutes from the end of extra time....
[ "List of Sweden international footballers The Sweden national football team has traditionally been a strong team in international football, with eleven World Cup appearances—collecting one silver and two bronze medals—and three medals in the Olympics, including one gold. Sweden played its first international game a...
0
What is the longest river?
[ "List of rivers of New Zealand by length\nThis is a list of the longest rivers in New Zealand, and some other prominent rivers, ordered by length.South Island rivers are marked \"SI\", and North Island rivers \"NI\".", "List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem)\nThe main stems of 38 rivers in the...
[ "Zuari River The Zuari River (Konkani: जुवारी Zuvari, pronounced [zuwəːriː])is the largest river in the state of Goa, India. It is a tidal river. The Zuari originates at Hemad-Barshem in the Western Ghats. The Zuari is also referred to as the Aghanashani in the interior regions.", "Gurk (river) The Gurk (Slovene...
10
Give me all people that were born in Vienna and died in Berlin.
[ "Karl Hellmer\nKarl Hellmer (11 March 1896 – 18 May 1974) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1932 and 1969. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Berlin, Germany.", "Eduard von Winterstein\nEduard Clemens Franz Anna Freiherr von Wangenheim, commonly referred to as Eduard von Winterst...
[ "Otto Hofmann Otto Hofmann (16 March 1896 – 31 December 1982) was an Austrian SS-Obergruppenführer and director of Nazi Germany's \"Race and Settlement Main Office\". Although Hofmann was sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes in 1948, he was pardoned on 7 April 1954. Thereafter, he worked as a clerk until ...
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Give me all actors starring in movies directed by and starring William Shatner.
[ "The Ashes of Eden\nThe Ashes of Eden is a Star Trek novel co-written by William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, and Garfield Reeves-Stevens as part of the \"Shatnerverse\" series of novels. This is Shatner's first Trek collaboration.The audio adaptation of the book is notable as the first time in the entire Star T...
[ "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic historical drama film written and directed by Peter Weir, and starring Russell Crowe as Captain Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Dr. Stephen Maturin. The film was released by 20th Century Fox, Mir...
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In which military conflicts did Lawrence of Arabia participate?
[ "The Mint (book)\nThe Mint is a book written by T. E. Lawrence, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, and published posthumously. It describes his time in the Royal Air Force, working, despite having held senior rank in the army (Colonel), as an ordinary Aircraftman, under an assumed name, 352087 Ross. The book is notable, despite...
[ "Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. (October 2, 1935 - December 8, 1967) was a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American astronaut.", "Anthony Quinn For other people named Anthony Quinn see Anthony Quinn (disambiguation).Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3...
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What is the largest city in Australia?
[ "List of cities in Australia\nThis is a list of cities in Australia arranged by state.", "List of cities in Australia by population\nThis list of Australian cities by population provides rankings of Australian cities according to various systems defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Firstly, they are ra...
[ "Yackandandah Yackandandah /ˈjækəndændə/ is a small tourist town in northeast Victoria, Australia. It is near the regional cities of Wodonga and Albury, and is close to the tourist town of Beechworth. At the 2006 census, Yackandandah had a population of 663.", "Kingscote, South Australia Kingscote is the largest ...
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Who composed the music for Harold and Maude?
[ "Cat Stevens\nYusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian, and education philanthropist. His 1967 debut album reached the top 10 in the UK, and the album's title song \"Matthew and ...
[ "Haddon Hall (opera) Haddon Hall is an English light opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Sydney Grundy. The opera, set at the eponymous hall, dramatises the legend of Dorothy Vernon's elopement with John Manners, resetting the tale in the 17th century. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on Septem...
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Which television shows were created by Walt Disney?
[ "The Little Mermaid (TV series)\nDisney's The Little Mermaid is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation based on the 1989 Disney film of the same name. It features the adventures of Ariel as a mermaid prior to the events of the film. This series is the first Disney televi...
[ "Disney Publishing Worldwide Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW), formerly The Disney Publishing Group and Buena Vista Publishing Group, is the publishing subsidiary of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Its imprints include Disney Editions, Hyperion Books for Child...
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Who designed the Brooklyn Bridge?
[ "John A. Roebling\nJohn Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer. He is famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge.", "Brooklyn Bridge\nThe Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-sta...
[ "Thomas Andrews (shipbuilder) Thomas Andrews, Jr. (7 February 1873 – 15 April 1912) was an Irish business man and shipbuilder; managing director and also head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland. Andrews was the naval architect in charge of the plans for the ...
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Give me all actors starring in Batman Begins.
[ "Christian Bale filmography\nEnglish actor Christian Bale starred in various drama films, a few television shows and advertisements. He made his acting debut in 1986, on the television film Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna. The following year, he made his film debut starring alongside John Malkovich and Miranda Richa...
[ "List of Alias characters The following is a partial list of characters from the TV series, Alias: Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow Michael Vartan as Michael Vaughn Ron Rifkin as Arvin Sloane Carl Lumbly as Marcus Dixon Kevin Weisman as Marshall Flinkman Victor Garber as Jack Bristow Bradley Cooper as Will Tippin ...
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Which languages are spoken in Estonia?
[ "Languages of the European Union\nThe languages of the European Union are languages used by people within the member states of the European Union. They include the twenty-four official languages of the European Union along with a range of others.", "Estonian Sign Language\nEstonian Sign Language (ESL, Estonian: E...
[ "Finno-Ugric peoples The Finno-Ugric peoples are any of several peoples of Eurasia who speak languages of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, such as the Khanty, Mansi, Hungarians, Maris, Mordvins, Sámi, Estonians, Karelians, Finns, Udmurts and Komis.", "Estonian Internal Security Service The Est...
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In which country is the Limerick Lake?
[ "Limerick, Saskatchewan\nLimerick is a small village in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. The population of Limerick is approximately 150. It is about 150 km (94 mi) north of the US border and a few km from the towns of Lafleche and Gravelbourg. The village is named after the Irish city of Limerick.", "Limerick At...
[ "Carlingford Lough Carlingford Lough (Irish: Loch Cairlinn; Ulster Scots: Carlinford Loch or Cairlinfurd Loch) is a glacial fjord or sea inlet that forms part of the border between Northern Ireland to the north and the Republic of Ireland to the south. On its northern shore is County Down and on its southern shore ...
3
Give me all female German chancellors.
[ "List of spouses of German presidents and chancellors\nThis is a list of spouses of the President of Germany and Chancellor.", "Guido Westerwelle\nGuido Westerwelle (German: [ˈɡiːdo ˈvɛstɐˌvɛlə]; born 27 December 1961) is a German politician who served as the Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor A...
[ "Tanja Kreil Tanja Kreil (born 1977) is a German electrician notable for filing a lawsuit against the Bundeswehr (Germany's armed forces) with European Court of Justice that forced the German military to allow women to join the armed forces.Following the 2000 ruling, the German government changed a law that banned ...
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What is the highest mountain?
[ "Clingmans Dome\nClingmans Dome (or Clingman's Dome) is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. At an elevation of 6,643 feet (2,025 m), it is the highest mountain in the Smokies, the highest point in the state of Tennessee, and the highest point ...
[ "Yangra Yangra (Ganesh I) is the highest peak of the Ganesh Himal, which is a subrange of the Himalayan mountain range. Although not an 8,000 metre peak, and little visited, it enjoys great vertical relief over the nearby valleys.", "Mount Anglem Mount Anglem (Maori Hananui) is the highest point on New Zealand's ...
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books of the Jewish canon
[ "1 Maccabees\n1 Maccabees is a book written in Hebrew by a Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom, about the latter part of the 2nd century BC. The original Hebrew is lost and the most important surviving version is the Greek translation contained in the Septuagint. The book is held as...
[ "Book of Judith The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded from Jewish texts and assigned by Protestants to the Apocrypha.", "Jewish Publication Society of America Version The Jewish Publication...
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houses of the Russian parliament
[ "State Duma\nThe State Duma (Russian: Госуда́рственная ду́ма (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), common abbreviation: Госду́ма (Gosduma)) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (legislature), the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia. The Duma headquarters are located in ce...
[ "National Library of Russia The National Library of Russia in St Petersburg (known as the Imperial Public Library from 1795 to 1917; Russian Public Library from 1917 to 1925; State Public Library from 1925 to 1992 (since 1932 named after M.Saltykov-Shchedrin); NLR), is not only the oldest public library in the nat...
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kenya's captain in cricket
[ "Captain (cricket)\nThe captain of a cricket team, often referred to as the skipper, is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player. As in other sports, the captain is usually experienced and has good communication skills, who is likely to be ...
[ "Hansie Cronje Wessel Johannes \"Hansie\" Cronje (25 September 1969 – 1 June 2002) was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s. He died in a plane crash in 2002. He was voted the 11th greatest South African in 2004 despite having been banned from cricket for lif...
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the first 13 american states
[ "Massachusetts\nMassachusetts /ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɨts/, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, Vermont and New Hampshire to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to t...
[ "United Provinces of the River Plate The United Provinces of South America (Spanish: Provincias Unidas de Sudamérica) was the original name of the state that emerged from the May Revolution and the early developments of the Argentine War of Independence.", "John B. Henderson John Brooks Henderson (November 16, 18...
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Chefs with a show on the Food Network.
[ "Cupcake Wars\nCupcake Wars is an American reality competition series which premiered on December 27, 2009 and concluded on December 28, 2013 and aired on the cable television network Food Network. The cooking show is hosted by Justin Willman and based on creating unique and professional-style cupcakes.The show is ...
[ "Gennaro Contaldo Gennaro Contaldo, (born (1949-01-21)January 21, 1949) is an Italian chef and restaurateur, known for his association with his protégé, Jamie Oliver, and his partnership with fellow Italian chef Antonio Carluccio and their BBC Two television series Two Greedy Italians.", "Harold Dieterle Harold D...
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finland car industry manufacturer saab sisu
[ "Saab 900\nThe Saab 900 is a compact luxury automobile that was produced by Saab from 1978 until 1998 in two generations. The first generation from 1978 to 1993 is known as the \"classic\"; the generation from 1994 to 1998 is known as the \"new generation\" (see below).The \"classic\" Saab 900 was based on the Saab...
[ "Elcat Electric Vehicles ELCAT is a battery electric vehicle manufacturer based in Järvenpää, Finland.Elcat Automotive was owned by an electricity producer called Fortum until the production decreases in the early 21st century. Elcat began working in 1974 to design electric cars for Nordic climate. The first proto...
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france second world war normandy
[ "60th Infantry Regiment (United States)\nThe U.S. 60th Infantry Regiment is a regimental unit in the United States Army. Its 2nd and 3rd Battalion conduct Basic Combat Training.Participating in three wars on three continents, the 60th has played a conspicuous role in the achievements of 5th Division in WWI and 9th ...
[ "D-Day (game) D-Day is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill first in 1961 and later re-released in 1965, 1971, 1977 and 1991.An operational/strategic simulation of the Western Front between June and September, 1944, the game simulates the invasion by the Allies of France while it was occupied by the Axis Powers...
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gallo roman architecture in paris
[ "Thermes de Cluny\nThe Thermes de Cluny are the ruins of Gallo-Roman thermal baths lying in the heart of Paris' 5th arrondissement, and which are partly subsumed into the Musée national du Moyen Âge - Thermes et hôtel de Cluny.The present bath ruins constitute about one-third of a massive bath complex that is belie...
[ "Le Spleen de Paris Le Spleen de Paris, also known as Paris Spleen or Petits Poèmes en prose, is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire.The collection was published posthumously in 1869 (see 1869) and is associated with the modernist literary movement.Baudelaire mentions he had read Aloysius Ber...
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List of films from the surrealist category
[ "Surrealist cinema\nSurrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production with origins in Paris in the 1920s. Related to Dada cinema, Surrealist cinema is characterised by juxtapositions, the rejection of dramatic psychology, and a frequent use of shocking imagery. The first Surrealist...
[ "Mario Montez René Rivera, (July 20, 1935 – September 26, 2013), known professionally as Mario Montez, was one of the Warhol superstars, appearing in thirteen of Andy Warhol's underground films from 1964 to 1966. He took his name as a male homage to the actress Maria Montez, an important gay icon in the fifties and...
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Valley fever fungal infection San Joaquin
[ "San Joaquin Valley\nThe San Joaquin Valley /ˌsæn hwɑːˈkiːn/ is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River.", "Coccidioides\nCoccidioides is a genus of dimorphic ascomycetes in the family Onygenac...
[ "Penicillium marneffei Penicillium species are usually regarded as unimportant in terms of causing human disease. Penicillium marneffei, discovered in 1956, is different. This is the only known thermally dimorphic species of Penicillium, and it can cause a lethal systemic infection (penicilliosis) with fever and an...
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North Dakota's lowest river of another colour
[ "Little Muddy Creek (North Dakota)\nLittle Muddy Creek or Little Muddy River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 45 miles (72 km) long, in northwestern North Dakota in the United States.It rises in the prairie country of northern Williams County and flows west, then south, joining the Missouri near ...
[ "Pecatonica River The Pecatonica River is a tributary of the Rock River, 194 miles (312 km) long, in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois in the United States.The word Pecatonica is an anglicization of two Algonquian language words: Bekaa (or Pekaa in some dialects), which means \"slow\", and niba, which means ...
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residents small island city-state Malay Peninsula Chinese
[ "Asajaya\nAsajaya (Chinese: 雅沙再也) is a small Sarawakian town located in the Samarahan Division. Most of its inhabitants are made up of the Malay, Chinese and Iban people. Asajaya has a small town, known as Pekan Asajaya. It is a focal point for the residents nearby. There is a district office - Pejabat Daerah Asaja...
[ "Dumpas The Dumpas are an indigenous ethnic group residing in Sabah, eastern Malaysia on the island of Borneo. They reside in the kampung Rancangan Nangoh village and Perancangan village in Labuk-Sugut District of Kudat Division. Their population was estimated at 1,078 in the year 2000. Their language (ISO 639-3 dm...
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John Lennon Yoko Ono album Starting Over
[ "Feeling the Space\nFeeling the Space is Yoko Ono's fourth solo album, her last one on Apple Records and her last release of the 1970s. (A fifth album, A Story, would be recorded in 1974, but not released until 1997).", "Fly (Yoko Ono album)\nFly is the second album by Yoko Ono, produced by her and John Lennon, a...
[ "Lennon (musical) Lennon is a musical with music and lyrics by John Lennon and book by Don Scardino, who also directed its premiere. The musical is about the life of John Lennon and was notable for Scardino's choice to be almost exclusively based on Lennon's own words and to focus on Lennon's solo career, with no s...
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John Turturro 1991 Coen Brothers film
[ "Coen brothers filmography\nThis is the filmography of the American filmmaker duo the Coen brothers.", "Miller's Crossing\nMiller's Crossing is a 1990 American neo-noir black comedy gangster film written and directed by the Coen brothers, and starring Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, J...
[ "John C. Higgins John C. Higgins (April 28, 1908 - July 2, 1995) was an American screenwriter. During the 1930s and early 1940s, the Winnipeg, Canada-born scribe worked on mostly complex murder mystery films, including the James Stewart film Murder Man (1935). During the late 1940s, Higgins continued to pen thril...
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Baguio Quezon City Manila official independence 1945
[ "Manila\nManila (Philippine English: /məˈnɪlə/; Filipino: Maynilà) is the capital city of the Philippines.", "Military history of the Philippines during World War II\nThe Commonwealth of the Philippines was attacked by the Empire of Japan on December 8, 1941 nine hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor (the Phili...
[ "Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo Chitto jetha bhoyshunyo (Where the mind is without fear) is one of the most quoted poems in India and Bangladesh.Written by Rabindranath Tagore before India's independence, it represents Tagore's dream of how the new, awakened India should be to fight and chase the British from India. The o...
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daggeroso inclined to use a dagger novel Sons and Lovers
[ "Sons and Lovers (1960 film)\nSons and Lovers is a 1960 CinemaScope British film adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence 1913 novel of the same name. It was adapted by T. E. B. Clarke and Gavin Lambert, directed by Jack Cardiff. and stars Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, William Lucas and Donald Plea...
[ "E. R. Braithwaite Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (born June 27, 1920; some sources state 1912 or 1922) is a Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people. He is the author of the 1959 autobiographical novel To Sir, With ...
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Directed Bela Glen Glenda Bride Monster Plan 9 Outer Space
[ "Glen or Glenda\nGlen or Glenda is a 1953 drama film written, directed by, and starring Ed Wood, and featuring Bela Lugosi and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller. The title was originally I Changed My Sex! and is often given as Glen or Glenda? but the question mark is not present in the film itself or on its pos...
[ "The Arrangement (1969 film) The Arrangement is a 1969 film drama directed by Elia Kazan, based upon his 1967 novel of the same title.It tells the story of a successful Los Angeles-area advertising executive of Greek-American extraction, Evangelos Arness, who goes by the professional name \"Eddie Anderson.\" He is ...
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1994 short story collection Alice Munro is Open
[ "List of short stories by Alice Munro\nThis is a list of short stories written by Alice Munro. It includes stories that were published in single-author collections (books), the first story ever published, \"The Dimensions of a Shadow\" (1950), and other stories having appeared elsewhere.", "Open Secrets\nOpen Sec...
[ "The Middleman and Other Stories The Middleman and Other Stories, (1988) is a collection of short stories by Bharati Mukherjee. Stories from this volume are frequently anthologized, particularly Orbiting, A Wife's Story, and The Middleman. The short story Jasmine would later be developed into the 1989 novel Jasmi...
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Asian port state-city Sir Stamford Raffles
[ "Downtown Core\nThe Downtown Core is a 266-hectare urban planning area in the south of the city-state of Singapore. The Downtown Core surrounds the mouth of the Singapore River and southeastern portion of its watershed, and is part of the Central Area, Singapore's central business district. It is one of the most de...
[ "Singapore Area Licensing Scheme The Singapore Area Licensing Scheme (ALS), (Malay : Skim Perlesenan Kawasan Singapura) introduced in 1975, charged drivers entering downtown Singapore, and thereby aimed to manage traffic demand. This was the first urban traffic congestion pricing scheme to be successfully implement...
2
Large glaciers island nation Langjokull Hofsjokull Vatnajokull
[ "Bárðarbunga\nBárðarbunga ([ˈpaurðarpuŋka]), Bardarbunga (Anglophone spelling), is a stratovolcano located under Vatnajökull, Iceland's most extensive glacier. The second highest mountain in Iceland, 2,009 metres (6,591 ft) above sea level, Bárðarbunga is also part of a volcanic system that is approximately 200 kil...
[ "Stefansson Island Stefansson Island is an uninhabited island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. It has a total area of 4,463 km2 (1,723 sq mi), making it the 128th largest island in the world, and Canada's 27th largest island. The island is located in Viscount Melville S...
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successor James G. Blaine studied law
[ "William P. Frye\nWilliam Pierce Frye (September 2, 1830 – August 8, 1911) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Frye, a member of the Republican Party, spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of Representatives and U.S. House of Representatives before being...
[ "James H. Hawley James Henry Hawley (January 17, 1847 – August 3, 1929) was an attorney and politician from Idaho. He was state's ninth Governor from 1911 to 1913, and the mayor of Boise from 1903 to 1905. He also acted as prosecutor or defense attorney for a substantial number of criminal cases. Outside of crimina...
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Beloved author African-American Nobel Prize Literature
[ "Wole Soyinka\nAkinwande Oluwole \"Wole\" Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká, pronounced [wɔlé ʃójĩká]; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored in that category.Soyinka was born into a Yoru...
[ "Poems of Black Africa Poems of Black Africa is a poetry anthology edited by Wole Soyinka, and published in 1975 (see 1975 in poetry) as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series. It was arranged by theme.", "Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and d...
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Seoul Korea river name ethnic group China
[ "Han Chinese\nThe Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to East Asia. They constitute approximately 92% of the population of Mainland China, 93% of the population of Hong Kong, 92% of the population of Macau, 98% of the population of Taiwan, 74% of the population of Singapore, 24.5% of the population of Malaysia, ...
[ "Gakgung The Korean Bow (Korean: 각궁, Gak-gung hanja : 國弓, literally means nation bow) is a water buffalo horn-based composite reflex bow, standardized about 1900 CE from the variety of such weapons in earlier use. It uses with thumb draw. The Korean Thumb ring is different from the Manchu, Mongol, or the Turkish ...
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Prime minister Canada nicknamed Silver-Tongued Laurier longest unbroken term
[ "List of Prime Ministers of Canada by residence\nBefore 1951 the Prime Minister of Canada had no official residence and they lived in a variety of structures around Ottawa:John A. Macdonald1867-1870 - A now demolished house at 63 Daly Street in Sandy Hill1872-1873 - A now demolished house 195 Chapel St.", "List o...
[ "William M. Bulger William Michael \"Billy\" Bulger (born February 2, 1934) is a retired American Democratic politician, lawyer, and educator from South Boston, Massachusetts, whose eighteen-year tenure as President of the Massachusetts Senate is the longest in history, and who was also president of the University ...
2
U.S. president authorise nuclear weapons against Japan
[ "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki\nThe United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.In...
[ "Operation Eagle Claw Operation Eagle Claw (or Operation Evening Light or Operation Rice Bowl) was a United States Armed Forces operation ordered by US President Jimmy Carter to attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis by rescuing 52 diplomats held captive at the embassy of the United States, Tehran on 24 April 1980....
8
Texas city Baylor University tornado 1953
[ "1953 Waco tornado outbreak\nThe 1953 Waco tornado outbreak was a series of 33 tornadoes, over a three day period, occurring in 10 different U.S. States. Tornadoes appeared daily, from May 9 to May 11, 1953, from Minnesota in the north to Texas in the south. The strongest (F5 on the Fujita scale) and deadliest (1...
[ "Golden Cyclones The Golden Cyclones were a 1930s group of women athletes who played Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) softball, basketball and track-and-field. Based in Dallas, Texas they were sponsored by the Employers Casualty Insurance Company (ECC) and coached by \"Colonel\" Melvin J.", "Burton Coliseum The Burto...
2
1997 Houston airport president
[ "Houston County Airport (Texas)\nHouston County Airport (ICAO: KDKR, FAA LID: DKR) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) southeast of the central business district of Crockett, in Houston County, Texas, United States. It is owned by Houston County.Although most U.S.", "George Bush Intercontinental Airpor...
[ "Minute Maid Park Minute Maid Park (also The Ballpark at Union Station, Enron Field, and Astros Field) is a ballpark in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States that opened in 2000 to house the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team.The ballpark was Houston's first retractable-roofed stadium, protecting fans and a...
2
Kennedy assassination governor of Texas seriously injured
[ "List of assassinated American politicians\nThis is a list of assassinated American politicians. Individuals listed were either elected or appointed to office, or were candidates for elected office.", "John F. Kennedy\nJohn Fitzgerald \"Jack\" Kennedy (JFK), (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), was an American po...
[ "William P. Hobby William Pettus Hobby (March 26, 1878 – June 7, 1964) was the publisher of the Houston Post and the 27th Governor of the U.S. state of Texas from 1917 to 1921.", "Thomas Mitchell Campbell Thomas Mitchell Campbell (April 22, 1856 – April 1, 1923) was the 24th Governor of Texas from 1907 to 1911.",...
2
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral Bulgarian city liberation Turks
[ "Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta\nThe Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a cathedral in Yalta, Crimea, built in 1902.", "Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn\nThe Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is an orthodox cathedral in the Tallinn Old Town, Estonia. It was built to a design by Mikhail Preobrazhensky in a typical Russi...
[ "Saints Constantine and Helena, Bulgaria Saints Constantine and Helena (Bulgarian: Св. св. Константин и Елена) is a resort town on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast within a landscaped park 10 km north of downtown Varna, 2 km east of its Vinitsa quarter, and 7 km south of Golden Sands. Bulgaria's oldest Black Sea reso...
2
England football player highest paid
[ "Luis Suárez\nLuis Alberto Suárez Díaz (American Spanish: [ˈlwis ˈswaɾes]; born 24 January 1987) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Uruguay national team as a striker. In July 2014, he moved from Liverpool to Barcelona for a fee reported by the English press in th...
[ "Francis Jeffers Francis Jeffers (born 25 January 1981) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. In his career Jeffers has played for Premier League teams Everton, Arsenal, Charlton Athletic and Blackburn Rovers, as well as various lower-tier clubs. He has one cap for England, scoring o...
0
prima ballerina Bolshoi Theatre 1960
[ "List of dance personalities\nThis is a partial list of people involved in dance", "Violetta Elvin\nVioletta Elvin (born 3 November 1924) is a Russian former prima ballerina.", "Bolshoi Theatre\nThe Bolshoi Theatre (Russian: Большо́й теа́тр, tr. Bol'shoy Teatr. Translation: Big Theatre; IPA: [bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈatr])...
[ "Ludmila Belousova Ludmila Yevgenyevna Belousova (Russian: Людмила Евгеньевна Белоусова; born 22 November 1935) is a former Russian pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With her partner and husband Oleg Protopopov she is a two-time Olympic champion (1964, 1968) and four-time World champion (1965–1968). In ...
2
Bob Ricker Executive Director the latest front group for the anti-gun movement
[ "Bob Ricker\nBob Ricker (died December 4, 2009) was a member of the board of directors and Executive Director of the American Hunters and Shooters Association who resigned on January 6, 2009 after accusing gun manufacturers of \"irresponsible\" and \"negligent\" behavior." ]
[ "Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) is an evangelical Christian organization promoting a complementarian rather than egalitarian, feminist or patriarchal view of gender issues. CBMW's current president is Dr. J. Ligon Duncan, III, who is also the pastor of...
2
most famous award winning actor singer
[ "Levi Kreis\nLevi Kreis (born November 4, 1981) is an American recording artist and Tony award winning actor from Oliver Springs, Tennessee.", "Roshan Ranawana\nRoshan Ranawana (Sinhalese: රොෂාන් රණවන) (born 23 March 1981) is a Sarasaviya Awards winning Sri Lankan actor, singer, and a model. Roshan was awarded th...
[ "Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones (March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress during the Hollywood golden years. Jones, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Song of Bernadette (1943), was also Academy Award-nominated for her performa...
1
mathematician computer scientist MIT's six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows
[ "Hal Abelson\nHarold \"Hal\" Abelson (born April 26, 1947) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation.", "Alan Edelman\nAlan Stuart Edelman (born June 1963, Brooklyn, New York) is an ...
[ "Jerome Lettvin Jerome Ysroael Lettvin (February 23, 1920 – April 23, 2011), often known as Jerry Lettvin, was an American cognitive scientist, and Professor of Electrical and Bioengineering and Communications Physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is best known as the lead author of the ...
2
most famous civic-military airports
[ "Toncontín International Airport\nToncontín International Airport (IATA: TGU, ICAO: MHTG) or Teniente Coronel Hernán Acosta Mejía Airport is a civil and military airport located 6 km (4 mi) from the centre of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.The History Channel programme Most Extreme Airports ranks it as the second most dange...
[ "Presidente Carlos Ibáñez del Campo International Airport Presidente Carlos Ibáñez International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Presidente Carlos Ibáñez) (IATA: PUQ, ICAO: SCCI) is an airport serving the city of Punta Arenas in southern Chile in the Patagonia region of South America. Because of high amo...
8
most beautiful railway stations world cities located
[ "Rohri-Chaman railway line\nThe Rohri-Chaman railway line is the second most important railway line in Pakistan. Its connect the Balochistan province with other provinces of the Pakistan. This railway line start from Rohri and end on Chaman passing through Quetta city. Its pass through historic Bolan pass. The tota...
[ "Bucharest North railway station Bucharest North railway station (Romanian: București Gara de Nord) is the main railway station in Bucharest and the largest railway station in Romania. The vast majority of mainline trains to and from Bucharest originate from Gara de Nord.", "Parasnath railway station Parasnath ra...
8
famous historical battlefields opponents fought
[ "Battle of Cedar Creek\nThe Battle of Cedar Creek, or Battle of Belle Grove, fought October 19, 1864, was the culminating battle of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War. Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal Early launched a surprise attack against the encamped army of Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, ac...
[ "Battle of White Plains The Battle of White Plains was a battle in the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on October 28, 1776, near White Plains, New York. Following the retreat of George Washington's Continental Army northward from New York City, British General William Howe...
8
allegedly caused World War I
[ "Aftermath of World War I\nThe aftermath of World War I saw drastic political, cultural, and social change across Europe, Asia, Africa, and even in areas outside those that were directly involved.", "German strategic bombing during World War I\nThe best-known German strategic bombing campaign during World War I w...
[ "Robert Lansing Robert Lansing (October 17, 1864 – October 30, 1928) was an American lawyer and Conservative Democratic politician who served as Legal Advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I, and then as United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1915 to 1920. Before...
8
movie directors directed a block buster
[ "William Beaudine\nWilliam Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film actor and director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres.", "Steven Spielberg\nSteven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an Am...
[ "Richard Brooks Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and occasional film producer. His outstanding works as director are Blackboard Jungle (1955), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960) – for which he won an Academy Award for Best Writing (A...
4
famous computer scientists disappeared at sea
[ "Jim Gray (computer scientist)\nJames Nicholas \"Jim\" Gray (born January 12, 1944; lost at sea January 28, 2007; declared deceased May 16, 2012) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 \"for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leader...
[ "Robert Fano Robert Mario Fano (born 11 November 1917 in Turin, Italy, as Roberto Mario Fano) is an Italian-American computer scientist, currently professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fano is known principally for his work on information theor...
2
famous river confluence dam constructed
[ "Irrawaddy River\nThe Irrawaddy River or Ayeyarwady River (Burmese: ဧရာဝတီမြစ်; MLCTS: erawa.ti mrac, pronounced: [ʔèjàwədì mjɪʔ], also spelt Ayeyarwaddy) is a river that flows from north to south through Myanmar. It is the country's largest river and most important commercial waterway. Originating from the conflue...
[ "Pothundi Dam Pothundi Dam is an irrigation dam near Pothundi village in the Palakkad district of Kerala state, India. Constructed in the 19th century, it is considered one of the oldest dams in India. It provides irrigation to an area of 5,470 hectares (13,500 acres) in the Palakkad district and drinking water sup...
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frequently visited sharks gulf Indian Ocean
[ "Silvertip shark\nThe silvertip shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus) is a large species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, with a fragmented distribution throughout the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. This species is often encountered around offshore islands and coral reefs, and has been known to di...
[ "Gulf Coast waterdog The Gulf Coast waterdog, speckled waterdog or Beyer’s waterdog (Necturus beyeri) is a species of aquatic salamanders native to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in the United States.", "White-margin fin smooth-hound The white-margin fin smooth-hound (Mustelus albipinnis) is a smooth-hound fro...
8
baseball player most homeruns national league
[ "Dolph Camilli\nAdolph Louis Camilli (April 23, 1907 – October 21, 1997) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1941 after leading the league in home runs and ...
[ "Tony Gwynn Anthony Keith \"Tony\" Gwynn, Sr. (May 9, 1960 – June 16, 2014), nicknamed \"Mr. Padre\", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 20 seasons (1982–2001) in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres. The left-handed hitting Gwynn won eight batting titles in his career, t...
2
Alan Moore graphic novels adapted to film
[ "From Hell (film)\nFrom Hell is a 2001 American horror mystery film directed by the Hughes brothers and loosely based on the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell about the Jack the Ripper murders.", "Batman: The Killing Joke\nBatman: The Killing Joke is a 1988 one-shot graphic novel featuring ...
[ "Karl May film adaptations Karl May film adaptations are films based on stories and characters by German author Karl May (1842–1912). The characters Old Shatterhand, Winnetou, and Kara Ben Nemsi are very famous in Central Europe. In most of the film versions the novels were reworked to a great extent, some movies u...
4
Works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
[ "Willow Tearooms\nThe Willow Tearooms are tearooms at 119 - 121 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, designed by internationally renowned architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which opened for business in October 1903. They quickly gained enormous popularity, and are the most famous of the many Glasgow tearooms th...
[ "Scott Hayden Scott Hayden (March 31, 1882 — September 16, 1915) was an African-American composer of ragtime music.Born in Sedalia, Missouri, he was the son of Marion and Julia Hayden. Hayden is remembered today for the four rags he composed in collaboration with Scott Joplin, \"Sunflower Slow Drag,\" \"Something D...
2
List of countries in World War Two
[ "Thailand\nThailand (/ˈtaɪlænd/ TY-land or /ˈtaɪlənd/ TY-lənd; Thai: ประเทศไทย, rtgs: Prathet Thai), officially the Kingdom of Thailand (Thai: ราชอาณาจักรไทย, rtgs: Ratcha-anachak Thai; IPA: [râːt.tɕʰá.ʔāː.nāː.tɕàk tʰāj]), formerly known as Siam (Thai: สยาม; rtgs: Sayam), is a country at the centre of the Indochine...
[ "Italian war crimes Italian war crimes have been associated mainly with Fascist Italy in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and World War II.", "Home front during World War II The home front covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war. World War II was a total war; homeland production became even more i...
8
Nordic authors who are known for children's literature
[ "Auður Jónsdóttir\nAuður Jónsdóttir (born 1973 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic author, playwright and freelance journalist.Her debut novel, Stjórnlaus Lukka (Bliss), was nominated for the Icelandic literature Prize in 1998.", "Erna Osland\nErna Osland (born 1951) is a Norwegian teacher and author of children's lite...
[ "Carlsen Verlag Carlsen Verlag is a subsidiary of the homonymous Danish publishing house which in turn belongs to the Swedish media company Bonnier. The branch was founded on 25 April 1953 in Hamburg. The publisher's program focuses on books for children, i.e. Harry Potter, Rugrats', and The Adventures of Tintin.By...
2
Hybrid cars sold in Europe
[ "Dodge Intrepid\nThe Dodge Intrepid is a full-size automobile available as a front-wheel drive four-door sedan that was produced by Dodge for model years 1993 to 2004. It was related to the Chrysler Concorde, Chrysler LHS, Chrysler New Yorker, Eagle Vision, and also the 300M sedans. The Intrepid, Concorde, and Vis...
[ "Citroën H Van The Citroën H Van, Type H, H-Type or HY is a light truck (or delivery van) produced by the French car maker Citroën between 1947 and 1981. It was developed as a simple front wheel driven van after World War II. A total of 473,289 were produced in 34 years in factories in France and Belgium. Most of t...
12
Tom Hanks movies where he plays a leading role.
[ "Splash (film)\nSplash is a 1984 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Dody Goodman. The film involves a young man who falls in love with a mysterious woman who is secretly a mermaid...
[ "Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, and narrator. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus, and won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2005 for Million Dollar Bab...
4
Pure object-oriented programing languages
[ "D (programming language)\nThe D programming language is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm system programming language created by Walter Bright of Digital Mars and released in 2001. Bright was joined in the design and development effort in 2006 by Andrei Alexandrescu.", "Clascal\nClascal was an objec...
[ "ObjectCenter ObjectCenter is the version of CodeCenter for the C++ language. ObjectCenter is an integrated development environment (IDE) offering facilities similar to CodeCenter, plus other features such as class browsing facilities. ObjectCenter was formerly named Saber-C++. CodeCenter and ObjectCenter were c...
2
Makers of lawn tennis rackets
[ "Dunlop Sport\nDunlop Sport is a British sporting goods company that specialises in tennis and golf equipment. Dunlop have manufactured sporting equipment since 1910.In most parts of the world, Dunlop Sports is owned by Sports Direct International. DNA (Housemarks) Limited, a company jointly owned by Sports Direct ...
[ "Bogner Amplification Bogner Amplification is an American guitar amplifier manufacturing company founded by Reinhold Bogner in 1989 in Los Angeles, California. Bogner began by custom-building boutique amplifiers based on classic (blackface) Fenders, and now offers different models of serially produced amplifiers.",...
2
Computer systems that have a recursive acronym for the name
[ "GNU\nGNU /ɡnuː/ is an extensive collection of computer software that can be used to build a Unix-like operating system. GNU is composed wholly of free software. GNU is a recursive acronym for \"GNU's Not Unix!\", chosen because GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing ...
[ "IAS machine The IAS machine was the first electronic computer built at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. It is sometimes called the von Neumann machine, since the paper describing its design was edited by John von Neumann, a mathematics professor at both Princeton University an...
2
Noble english person from the Hundred Years' War
[ "Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham\nHumphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham KG (15 August 1402 – 10 July 1460) was an English nobleman. A great-grandson of King Edward III on his mother's side, he was a military commander in the Hundred Years' War and in the Wars of the Roses.", "Richard II of England\n...
[ "John Lexington Sir John Lexington (or Lexinton or Lessington; also de Lexington) (died 1257) was a baron and royal official in 13th century England. He has been described as having been Lord Chancellor, but other scholars believe he merely held the royal seals while the office was vacant or the chancellor was abro...
2
State capitals of the United States of America
[ "Columbia, South Carolina\nColumbia is the capital of and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, with a population of 129,272 as of the 2010 United States Census. As of July 1, 2013, the city's population was estimated to be 133,358 (U.S. Census Bureau, July 2014 release). The city serves as the county s...
[ "Prince Kuhio Federal Building The Prince Kūhiō Federal Building, formally the Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole Federal Building and United States Courthouse, is the official seat of the United States federal government and its local branches of various agencies and departments in the state of Hawaiʻi.", "Hawaii ...
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National capitals situated on islands
[ "Tórshavn\nTórshavn (IPA: [ˈtʰɔuʂhaun]; Danish: Thorshavn) is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands, a country situated between Scotland and Iceland. Tórshavn is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the northwest of the city lies the 347-meter (1,138 ft) high mountain Húsareyn...
[ "Columbia Island (District of Columbia) Columbia Island is an island located in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It formed naturally as an extension of Analostan Island in the latter part of the 1800s, and over time erosion and flooding severed it from Analostan. The U.S. federal governm...
8
Nobel Prize in Literature winners who were also poets
[ "Ivan Bunin\nIvan Alekseyevich Bunin (/ˈbuːniːn/ or /ˈbuːnɪn/; Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин; IPA: [ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈbunʲɪn]; 22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1870 – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carrie...
[ "Poetry of Mao Zedong Mao Zedong (1893–1976), the first Chairman of the Communist Party of China and leader of the People's Republic of China for nearly 30 years, wrote poetry, starting in the 1920s, during the Red Army's epic retreat during the Long March of 1934-1936, and after coming to power in 1949. Although M...
2
Formula 1 drivers that won the Monaco Grand Prix
[ "David Coulthard\nDavid Marshall Coulthard, MBE (/ˈkoʊlθɑrt/; born 27 March 1971), known as DC, is a retired British Formula One racing driver from Twynholm, Scotland. He was runner-up in the 2001 Formula One World Drivers' Championship, driving for McLaren.Coulthard began karting at the age of eleven and achieved ...
[ "1972 French Grand Prix The 1972 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Charade Circuit in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France on July 2, 1972.Due to cutting the corners, a stone thrown from Emerson Fittipaldi's Lotus hit Helmut Marko in the eye during the race, ending his F1 career. The stones also ...
12
Formula one races in Europe
[ "2002 European Grand Prix\nThe 2002 European Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Nürburgring on 23 June 2002. It was won by Ferrari driver Rubens Barrichello, his first win since his victory at the 2000 German Grand Prix. His team mate Michael Schumacher finished second in another dominating performance by th...
[ "1997 Spanish Grand Prix The 1997 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on May 25, 1997 at the Circuit de Catalunya.This classic Spanish Grand Prix is memorable for the great performance of Olivier Panis, starting from 12th on the grid, and finishing 2nd closing on the leader Jacques Villeneuve by 1.5 to 2...
12
Formula One World Constructors' Champions
[ "List of Formula One World Constructors' Championship runners-up\nThis is a list of all runners-up in the Formula One Constructors' World Championship from 1958.", "2009 Formula One season\nThe 2009 Formula One season was the 60th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 2009 FIA Formula One World ...
[ "Will Power William Steven \"Will\" Power (born March 1, 1981) is an Australian motorsports driver who currently competes in the IndyCar Series, driving for Team Penske. He is the 2014 IndyCar champion, and as of 2015 the most successful road and street course race winner in the series' history with 19 wins tied wi...
12
Musicians who appeared in the Blues Brothers movies
[ "John Goodman\nJohn Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor. Early in his career, he was best known for playing Dan Conner on the television series Roseanne (1988–1997), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1993. He is also a regular collaborator with the Coen brothers on such f...
[ "MFSB MFSB (according to the \"clean\" interpretation, Mother Father Sister Brother) was a pool of more than thirty studio musicians based at Philadelphia’s famed Sigma Sound Studios. They worked closely with the production team of Gamble and Huff and producer/arranger Thom Bell, and backed up such groups as Harold...
5
French car models in 1960's
[ "Simca Vedette\nThe Simca Vedette is a large car, manufactured from 1954 to 1961 by the French automaker Simca, at their factory in Poissy, France. It was marketed with different model names according to trim and equipment levels. The Vedette was Simca's largest model at that time and it spawned a more economical v...
[ "Monica (automobile) Monica was a brand of luxury cars created in France in the 1970s by Jean Tastevin, a French industrialist whose wife's name was Monica.Monica was the last attempt (after Facel Vega) to create a luxury brand in France. Its only French competitor was the Citroën SM Opéra, the sedan which was buil...
12
Swiss cantons where they speak German
[ "Canton of Fribourg\nThe Canton of Fribourg is a canton of Switzerland. It is located in the west of the country. The capital of the canton is Fribourg. The name Fribourg is French, whereas About this sound Freiburg is the German name for both the canton and the town.", "Canton of Uri\nThe Canton of Uri (German:...
[ "Franconian Switzerland Franconian Switzerland (German: Fränkische Schweiz) is an upland in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany and a popular tourist retreat.", "Bellinzona Bellinzona (Italian pronunciation: [bellinˈtsoːna]; French: Bellinzone, pronounced: [bɛlɛ̃zon]; archaic German: Bellenz [ˈbɛlɛnts]; Latin Bili...
9
Movies with eight or more Academy Awards
[ "West Side Story (film)\nWest Side Story is a 1961 American romantic musical drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beyme...
[ "8mm (film) 8mm is a 1999 American-German crime mystery thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. The film stars Nicolas Cage as a private investigator who delves into the world of snuff films.", "Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1987 The 8th Boston Society of Film Critics...
4
FIFA world cup national team winners since 1974
[ "1998 FIFA World Cup Final\nThe 1998 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match that was played on 12 July 1998 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis to determine the winner of the 1998 FIFA World Cup.", "1974 FIFA World Cup Final\nThe 1974 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match of the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the 1...
[ "Djalma Santos Djalma Pereira Dias dos Santos known simply as Djalma Santos (Brazilian Portuguese: [diˈʒawmɐ ˈsɐ̃tus]; also spelled Dejalma Santos, (27 February 1929 – 23 July 2013) was a Brazilian footballer who started for the Brazil national team in four World Cups, winning two, in 1958 and 1962. Santos is cons...
0
Novels that won the Booker Prize
[ "Hilary Mantel\nDame Hilary Mary Mantel, DBE FRSL (/mænˈtɛl/ man-TEL; born Thompson, 6 July 1952), is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction.She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first for the 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromw...
[ "Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, ...
2
Science fiction book written in the 1980
[ "The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9\nThe Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the ninth volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey Books in August 1980, and in hardcover by Gollancz in October of the same ye...
[ "A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess published in 1962. Set in a near future English society that has a subculture of extreme youth violence, the novella has a teenage protagonist, Alex, who narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on ...
2
record-breaking sprinters in male 100-meter sprints
[ "Don Quarrie\nDonald O'Riley Quarrie CD (born 25 February 1951) is a former Jamaican track and field athlete, one of the world's top sprinters during the 1970s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics he was the gold medallist in the Olympic 200 meters and silver medallist in the Olympic 100 meters. In all, he competed in fiv...
[ "Herb Elliott Herbert James \"Herb\" Elliott AC MBE (born 25 February 1938) is an Australian former athlete, one of the world's greatest middle distance runners. In August 1958 he set the world record in the mile run, clocking 3:54.5, 2.7 seconds under the record held by Derek Ibbotson; later in the month he set th...
2
professional baseball team in Japan
[ "2014 Japan Series\nThe 2014 SMBC Japan Series was the 65th edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) championship series known colloquially as the Japan Series. The best-of-seven playoff was won by the Pacific League champion Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in five games over the Central League champion Hanshin Tiger...
[ "Hideo Nomo Hideo Nomo (野茂 英雄|Nomo Hideo?, born August 31, 1968 in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan) is a retired Japanese-American baseball pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). He achieved early success in his native country, where he played with the Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1990 to...
8
Japanese players in Major League Baseball
[ "Nori Aoki\nNorichika \"Nori\" Aoki (青木 宣親, Aoki Norichika, born January 5, 1982) is a Japanese professional baseball right fielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has also played in MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals and for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Prof...
[ "Juan Uribe Juan Cespedes Uribe Tena (born March 22, 1979) is a Dominican professional baseball infielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He stands 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighs 235 pounds (107 kg). He previously played in MLB for the Colorado Rockies, the Chicago White Sox, the San Francisc...
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National Parks East Coast Canada US
[ "Bruce Peninsula National Park\nBruce Peninsula National Park is a national park on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada. Located on a part of the Niagara Escarpment, the park comprises 156 square kilometres and is one of the largest protected areas in southern Ontario, forming the core of UNESCO's Niagara Escarp...
[ "Grand Beach Provincial Park Grand Beach Provincial Park is a provincial park in Manitoba, Canada. It is located on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg, and has large white sand dunes and ancient beaches from the end of the last ice age.", "Killarney Provincial Park Killarney Provincial Park is a provincial park in c...
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Films directed by Akira Kurosawa
[ "Ikiru\nIkiru (生きる, \"To Live\") is a 1952 Japanese film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a minor Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest for meaning. The script was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, although the plots are not similar b...
[ "Stolen Desire Stolen Desire (盗まれた欲情, Nusumareta yokujō) is a 1958 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. This was the first film Imamura directed.", "The Ballad of Narayama (1958 film) The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama Bushikō) is a 1958 Japanese period drama directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. The feature fi...
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Hanseatic league in Germany in the Netherlands Circle
[ "Treaty of Utrecht (1474)\nThe Treaty of Utrecht was signed in 1474 after the Anglo-Hanseatic War between England and the Hanseatic League.This naval war had begun in 1470 using the naval strategy of commerce raiding in the North sea and the Channel. One of the most successful Man of war was the Peter von Danzig.",...
[ "Fürstenbund The (Deutsche) Fürstenbund \"\\[German] League of Princes\") was an alliance of mostly Protestant princes in the Holy Roman Empire formed in 1785 under the leadership of Frederick II of Prussia.", "Staatsbewind The Staatsbewind (translated into English as \"state council\" or \"state authority\") was...
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Chemical elements that are named after people
[ "Livermorium\nLivermorium is a synthetic superheavy element with symbol Lv and atomic number 116. It is an extremely radioactive element that has only been created in the laboratory and has not been observed in nature. The element is named after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States, which...
[ "Chemical Galaxy Chemical Galaxy is a new representation by Philip Stewart of the periodic system of the elements, better known in tabular form as the periodic table, based on the cyclical nature of characteristics of the chemical elements (which depend principally on the valence electrons).", "Ununpentium Ununpe...
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Which German cities have more than 250000 inhabitants?
[ "List of cities in Germany by population\nThis is a list of cities in Germany by population. In Germany, a city (Großstadt) is officially defined as an administration unit with a population greater than 100,000. The federal capital is shown in yellow, state capitals (except Schwerin, which does not meet the list cr...
[ "Gütersloh Gütersloh (German pronunciation: [ˈɡyːtɐsloː]) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the area of Westphalia and the administrative region of Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a district of the same name and has a population of 96,320 people.", "Saarlouis Saarlouis (German p...
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Who was the successor of John F. Kennedy?
[ "Electoral history of John F. Kennedy\nElectoral history of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (1961–1963); United States Senator (1953–1960) and United States Representative (1947–1953) from Massachusetts.Massachusetts's 11th congressional district, 1946 (Democratic primary): John F. Kennedy – 22...
[ "White House Chief of Staff The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking employee of the White House. The position is a modern successor to the earlier role of the President's private secretary. The role was formalized as the Assistant to the President in 1946 and acquired its current name in 1961.The Chi...
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Who is the mayor of Berlin?
[ "Michael Müller (politician)\nMichael Müller (born 9 December 1964 in Berlin) is a German politician of the SPD. He has been Governing Mayor of Berlin since 11 December 2014.", "Dietrich Stobbe\nDietrich Stobbe (25 March 1938 – 19 February 2011) was a German politician from Weepers, East Prussia.Stobbe served as ...
[ "Capital of Germany The capital of Germany is the city state of Berlin. It is the seat of the President of Germany, whose official residence is Schloss Bellevue. The Bundesrat \"\\federal council\") is the representation of the Federal States (Bundesländer) of Germany and has its seat at the former Prussian Herren...
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What is the second highest mountain on Earth?
[ "Eight-thousander\nThe eight-thousanders are the 14 independent mountains on Earth that are more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) high above sea level. All eight-thousanders are located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia. They are the mountains whose summits are in the death zone.The first recorded...
[ "Kula Kangri Kula Kangri is claimed by many authorities to be the highest mountain in Bhutan but this is disputed by others, who claim that Kula Kangri is wholly in Tibet. The first ascent was by a combined Japanese/Chinese team in 1986. The mountain occupies two ranges, the Himalaya and the Bhutan Himalaya.Chinese...
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Give me all professional skateboarders from Sweden.
[ "Tony Magnusson\nTony Magnusson (born February 23, 1963), is a Swedish semi-retired professional skateboarder and part-owner of Osiris Shoes. Magnusson gained significant fame throughout the 1980s by inventing several tricks and becoming one of the first professional skateboarders to start a rider-owned company.", ...
[ "Björn Rosengren Björn Folke Rosengren, born 14 April 1942 in Täby, county of Stockholm; Swedish, active in the labour union and a Social Democratic politician; chairman of the Swedish community salaried employees' association (SKTF) 1976-1982 and the white-collar's central organisation TCO 1982–1994 (a position he...
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