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When was quantum field theory developed?
[ "Quantum field theory\nQuantum field theory naturally began with the study of electromagnetic interactions, as the electromagnetic field was the only known classical field as of the 1920s.[8]:1" ]
[ "Cumrun Vafa\nCumrun Vafa is a string theorist. His research is focused on the nature of quantum gravity and the relation between geometry and quantum field theories. He is known in the string theory community for his co-discovery, with Strominger, that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a black hole can be accounte...
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Does plastic decompose at all?
[ "Biodegradable plastic\nBiodegradable plastics are plastics that can be decomposed by the action of living organisms, usually bacteria.[1]" ]
[ "Plastic Beach\nThe first time Albarn went to Mali, he was taken to a landfill where he saw people \"taking every little bit, a little bit of fabric to the fabric regenerators, or the metal and the cans to the ironsmiths and the aluminium recyclers, and it goes on and by the time you get to the road, they're sellin...
10
Who was the first Nobel prize winner for Literature?
[ "List of Nobel laureates in Literature\nThe Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which are awarded...
[ "List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania\nThe Nobel Prizes are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peac...
124
How long does a philosophy degree take?
[ "Doctor of Philosophy\nThe specific requirements to earn a PhD degree vary considerably according to the country, institution, and time period, from entry-level research degrees to higher doctorates. During the studies that lead to the degree, the student is called a doctoral student or PhD student; a student who h...
[ "Henry Odera Oruka\nPhilosophic Sagacity is not philosophy is the main argument of D. A. Masolo. Based on Socratic method, his analysis shows how frequently tradition and opinion are based on insufficient reasoning. For him, true philosophy relies on analysis, definition, and explanation. Pre-Socratic knowledge has...
83
Was there a year 0?
[ "Year zero\nYear zero does not exist in the anno Domini system usually used to number years in the Gregorian calendar and in its predecessor, the Julian calendar. In this system, the year 1 BC is followed by AD 1. However, there is a year zero in astronomical year numbering (where it coincides with the Julian year ...
[ "Framingham Risk Score\nTotal cholesterol, mg/dL: Age 20–39 years: Under 160: 0 points. 160-199: 4 points. 200-239: 7 points. 240-279: 9 points. 280 or higher: 11 points. • Age 40–49 years: Under 160: 0 points. 160-199: 3 points. 200-239: 5 points. 240-279: 6 points. 280 or higher: 8 points. • Age 50–59 years: Unde...
19
Can you prevent traumatic brain injury?
[ "Traumatic brain injury\nPrevention measures include use of protective technology in vehicles, such as seat belts and sports or motorcycle helmets, as well as efforts to reduce the number of collisions, such as safety education programs and enforcement of traffic laws. Depending on the injury, treatment required ma...
[ "Bill Pascrell\nOn March 12, 2013, Pascrell introduced the Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2013 (H.R. 1098; 113th Congress), a bill that would reauthorize appropriations for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) projects to reduce the incidence of traumatic brain injury and projects related...
10
When is the dialectical method used?
[ "Dialectic\nDialectic or dialectics (Greek: διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; related to dialogue), also known as the dialectical method, is at base a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments. Dialectic resembles debate...
[ "The English Dialect Dictionary\nAmong linguists, the Dialect Grammar has been criticised more than the Dialect Dictionary itself. Wright has been accused of borrowing material from the work of Alexander John Ellis that he had previously criticised. Peter Anderson claimed that Wright did Ellis a \"disservice\" by c...
83
Have the Colorado Rockies won a title?
[ "Colorado Rockies\nThe Colorado Rockies are an American professional baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. The Rockies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. The team's home venue is Coors Field, located in the Lower Downtown area of Denver. The Rockies...
[ "Colorado Springs Sky Sox\nThe Colorado Springs Sky Sox were a Minor League Baseball team in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The team played in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and was the Triple-A affiliate of the major league Milwaukee Brewers (2015–2018), Colorado Rockies (1993–2014), and Cleveland Indians (1988–1992)...
55
What do Grasshoppers eat?
[ "Grasshopper\nGrasshoppers are plant-eaters, with a few species at times becoming serious pests of cereals, vegetables and pasture, especially when they swarm in their millions as locusts and destroy crops over wide areas. They protect themselves from predators by camouflage; when detected, many species attempt to ...
[ "Little big-eared bat\n\"M. megalotis\" feeds mostly on insects and possibly fruit, currently there is not enough data to determine if this species eats a large amount of fruit or to pinpoint what kind of fruit it eats. Small beetles make up the majority of this bat’s diet, with grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches,...
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How large is the Kerman province of southeastern Iran?
[ "Kerman Province\nKerman Province (Persian: استان کرمان‎, Ostān-e Kermān) is the largest province of the 31 provinces of Iran. Kerman is in the southeast of Iran with its administrative center in the city of Kerman. In 2014 it was placed in Region 5.[3] Mentioned in ancient times as the Achamenid satrapy of Carmani...
[ "Kerman Cement Plant\nKerman Cement Plant ( – \"Kārkhāneh-ye Sīmān-e Kermān\") is a village and company town in Ekhtiarabad Rural District, in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 31, in 10 families.", "Sonbol, Kerman\nSonbol () is a village in Rayen...
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When was Guitar Hero Live first released?
[ "Guitar Hero Live\nGuitar Hero Live is a music video game developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision. It was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One in October 2015 and to iOS devices including Apple TV in November 2015. As with previous games in the series, the goal is...
[ "Guitar Hero Smash Hits\nAll 48 tracks in the game are master recordings of songs previously featured in the first five published games of the \"Guitar Hero\" series: \"Guitar Hero\", \"Guitar Hero II\", \"\", \"\", and \"\". \"Freya\" and \"Cult of Personality\" are re-recordings performed by The Sword and Living ...
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When were bluebonnets named the state flower of Texas?
[ "Bluebonnet (plant)\nOn March 7, 1901, Lupinus subcarnosus became the only species of bluebonnet recognized as the state flower of Texas;[2] however, Lupinus texensis emerged as the favorite of most Texans. So, in 1971, the Texas Legislature made any similar species of Lupinus that could be found in Texas the state...
[ "The Grove, Texas\nThe Grove is an unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas, United States. It is located some 16 miles southeast of Gatesville, Texas in the eastern portion of the county. The Grove is located on Texas State Highway 36. The area is known for its abundance of Texas bluebonnet flowers during...
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Who created the series Clannad?
[ "Clannad (visual novel)\nClannad(クラナド,Kuranado) is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key and released on April 28, 2004 for Windows PCs. While both of Key's first two previous works, Kanon and Air, had been released first as adult games and then censored for the younger market, Clannad was released with a rating...
[ "List of Clannad episodes\nA continuation of the first anime series titled Clannad After Story produced by the same staff as with the first series, and containing the same cast of voice actors,[10] adapts the After Story arc from the Clannad visual novel, which is a continuation of Nagisa's scenario. The second sea...
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When was the USS Taylor built?
[ "USS Taylor (FFG-50)\nTaylor's keel was laid down by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine, on May 5, 1983. She was launched November 5, 1983, and commissioned December 1, 1984 in Bath, Maine. Taylor was sponsored by Barbara A. Taylor, the widow of the ship's namesake, and Diane Taylor-Oeland as matron of honor." ]
[ "USS Vision (SP-744)\n\"Vision\" was built as a private, wooden-hulled, \"Express-Cruiser\"-type screw motor launch of the same name in 1916 by the Albany Boat Corporation at Watervliet, New York, to a design by Thomas V. Taylor. On 3 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, L. E. An...
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What's the difference between man-slaughter and homicide?
[ "Murder (United States law)\nIn the United States, the law regarding murder varies by jurisdiction. In most U.S. jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide, of which first degree murder and felony murder are the most serious, followed by second degree murder, followed by voluntary ma...
[ "Homicide: Life on the Street (season 2)\nWhat I learned is that it is very hard for a network to make a real commitment. A hit-and-run sensibility is prevalent. ... In all fairness to NBC, this is a tougher kind of show than any other show they carry. It is different, and no one is going to endorse different in th...
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When did DC comics first introduce the Guardians of the Universe?
[ "Guardians of the Universe\nThe Guardians of the Universe are a fictional race of extraterrestrials appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Green Lantern. They first appeared in Green Lantern Vol. 2, Issue 1 (July 1960), and were created by John Broome and Gil Kane.[1]...
[ "Manhunter (comics)\nManhunter is the name given to several different fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. They are depicted as superheroes, antiheroes, the Manhunters, and an entire race of androids created by the Guardians of the Universe as a forerunner to the Green Lantern Corps...
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What is the largest parrot in New Zealand?
[ "Kakapo\nThe kakapo is a large, rotund parrot; the adult can measure from 58 to 64cm (23 to 25in) in length, and weight can vary from 0.95 to 4kg (2 to 9lb) at maturity.[13][14] Males are larger than females. Twenty-eight males were found to average 2kg (4.4lb) in one study, and 39 males were found to average 2.06k...
[ "New Zealand parrot\nThe superfamily diverged from the other parrots around 82 million years ago when New Zealand broke off from Gondwana, while the ancestors of the genera \"Nestor\" and \"Strigops\" diverged from each other between 60 and 80 million years ago.", "Corvidae\nThe other major group of highly intell...
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When was the first Assassin's Creed released?
[ "Assassin's Creed\nThe video game series took inspiration from the novel Alamut by the Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol,[1] while building upon concepts from the Prince of Persia series.[2] It begins with the self-titled game in 2007, and has featured eleven main games. The most recent released game is 2018's Assas...
[ "Assassin's Creed\nAssassin's Creed Chronicles is an episodic 2.5D action game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. The first episode is available with the purchase of Assassin's Creed Unity's DLC season pass and features Shao Jun in 16th century China.[39] The second entry, India, w...
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When was the Battle of Suoi Chau Pha fought?
[ "Battle of Suoi Chau Pha\nThe Battle of Suoi Chau Pha (6 August 1967) was fought during the Vietnam War between Australian troops and the Viet Cong. The battle took place during Operation Ballarat, an Australian search and destroy operation in the eastern Hat Dich area, north-west of Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy province. ...
[ "1966 in the Vietnam War\nThe Battle of Suoi Bong Trang was fought on the night of 23–24 February 1966 between US and Australian troops, and the Viet Cong and PAVN. The battle occurred during \"Operation Rolling Stone\", a major American security operation to protect engineers building a tactically important road i...
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How old was Cho Namchul when he died?
[ "Cho Nam-chul\nCho Namchul (November 30, 1923 - July 2, 2006, alternately Cho Namcheol) was a professional Go player (Baduk in Korean). He died of natural causes in Seoul at the age of 83." ]
[ "Hee Il Cho\nCho was born in Pohang, Korea, on 13 October 1940, during the period of Japanese occupation. He was the eldest of three brothers. He began training in the martial arts when he was around 10 years old. In an interview, he commented on his childhood in Pohang, Korea: \"Although they were not really gang ...
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What is the Navy's military mascot?
[ "Bill the Goat\nBill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy. The mascot is a live goat and is also represented by a costumed midshipman. There is also a bronze statue of the goat in the north end zone of Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.[1] This statue also plays a role in \"Army Week\" traditi...
[ "List of mascots\nThis is a list of mascots. A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.", "Mascot (sternwheeler)\nIn late February 1907, \"M...
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How many permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are there?
[ "Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council\nThe permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five states which the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council: China (formerly the Republic of China), Fra...
[ "United Nations Security Council\nAlong with the five permanent members, the Security Council of the United Nations has temporary members that hold their seats on a rotating basis by geographic region. Non-permanent members may be involved in global security briefings.[74] In its first two decades, the Security Cou...
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Who created the Gundam animated series?
[ "Gundam\nGundam(Japanese:ガンダム,Hepburn:Gandamu), also known as the Gundam series(ガンダムシリーズ,Gandamu Shirīzu), is a science fiction media franchise created by Sunrise that features giant robots (mecha) with the name \"Gundam\" (after the original titular mecha). The franchise began on April 7, 1979 with Mobile Suit Gun...
[ "List of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam episodes\n\"Mobile Suit Victory Gundam\" is a 1993 Japanese science fiction anime television series created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Bandai Visual, Sotsu Agency, Sunrise, and TV Asahi with music production by Starchild Records and Apollon. Spanning 51 epis...
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Are steam locomotives more powerful than diesel?
[ "Dieselisation\nDieselisation took place largely because of the tremendous reduction in operating costs it allowed. Steam locomotives require large pools of labour to clean, load, maintain and run. They also require extensive service, coaling and watering facilities. This was their biggest inferior measure as compa...
[ "Locomotive\nIn 1906, Rudolf Diesel, Adolf Klose and the steam and diesel engine manufacturer Gebrüder Sulzer founded Diesel-Sulzer-Klose GmbH to manufacture diesel-powered locomotives. The Prussian State Railways ordered a diesel locomotive from the company in 1909. The world's first diesel-powered locomotive (a d...
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Can the DC character Nightwing fly?
[ "Nightwing\nTo disguise themselves, Superman and Jimmy Olsen create vigilante identities inspired by Batman and Robin. Because neither bats nor robins lived on Krypton, Superman chooses the names of two birds owned by his Kandorian friend Nor-Kan: Nightwing for himself, and Flamebird for Jimmy. Nightwing and Flameb...
[ "Devin K. Grayson\nGrayson and her girlfriend at the time began watching the series \"compulsively\". Grayson also visited a friend who worked in a comic book store near her apartment in San Francisco and asked her friend about her namesake, Dick Grayson (aka Nightwing). Grayson left the store with a multitude of c...
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How long has Lucha Libre been around?
[ "Lucha libre\nLucha libre (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈlut͡ʃa ˈliβɾe], meaning \"freestyle wrestling\"[1] or literally translated as \"free fight\") is the term used in México for professional wrestling. Since its introduction to Mexico in the early 20th century, it has developed into a unique form of the genre, charac...
[ "Los Guerreros Laguneros\nLos Guerreros Laguneros (Spanish for \"The Warriors from the Lagoon\") is a \"Lucha Libre\" (Professional wrestling) group, referred to as a \"stable\", based in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in Mexico. The stable was created in 2001 and has, since its inception, been led by Último...
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When was special relativity developed?
[ "Theory of relativity\nAlbert Einstein published the theory of special relativity in 1905, building on many theoretical results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others. Max Planck, Hermann Minkowski and others did subsequent work." ]
[ "Postulates of special relativity\nThe postulates of special relativity can be expressed very succinctly using the mathematical language of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. The second postulate is then an assertion that the four-dimensional spacetime \"M\" is a pseudo-Riemannian manifold equipped with a metric \"g\" of...
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Why do witches have pointed hats?
[ "Witch hat\nThe origins of the witch hat as displayed today is disputed. A common theory is that it is an exaggeration of the edgeless hats associated with the Welsh and later the Puritans, or an exaggeration of the conical hats believed to stimulate the brain of the wearer. These \"thinking caps\" are the precurso...
[ "Witches' hat\nWitch hat, Witches hat, or Witches' hat may refer to:", "Lyndal Roper\nIn 2004 Roper published \"Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany\", a study of the Burning Times of persecution of people as witches in Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries in an attempt to understand why it took p...
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Who was the last Han Dynasty Emperor?
[ "Emperor Xian of Han\nEmperor Xian of Han (2 April 181 – 21 April 234), personal name Liu Xie, courtesy name Bohe, was the 14th and last emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty in China. He reigned from 28 September 189 until 11 December 220.[4][5]" ]
[ "The Emperor in Han Dynasty\nThe Emperor in Han Dynasty, also released under the title The Emperor Han Wu in some countries, is a 2005 Chinese historical television series based on the life of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty. It uses the historical texts \"Records of the Grand Historian\" and \"Book of Han\" as its s...
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Who was the first ruler of the Tang dynasty?
[ "Emperor Gaozu of Tang\nEmperor Gaozu of Tang (7 April 566 – 25 June 635), born Li Yuan, courtesy name Shude, was the founder of the Tang Dynasty of China, and the first emperor of this dynasty from 618 to 626. Under the Sui dynasty, Li Yuan was the governor in the area of modern-day Shanxi, and was based in Taiyua...
[ "Queen Seondeok of Silla\nJanuary of 632, Queen Seondeok, became the first queen of Silla. As a ruler, Queen Seondeok's primary concern was the livelihood of her people. Right after she was crowned, she appeased her people by letting them know of her policies as a new ruler. She sent royal inspectors in every part ...
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When was the first web page released?
[ "History of the World Wide Web\nThe first web page may be lost, but Paul Jones of UNC-Chapel Hill in North Carolina revealed in May 2013 that he has a copy of a page sent to him in 1991 by Berners-Lee which is the oldest known web page. Jones stored the plain-text page, with hyperlinks, on a floppy disk and on his ...
[ "History of the web browser\nThe first web browser, WorldWideWeb, was developed in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee for the NeXT Computer (at the same time as the first web server for the same machine) and introduced to his colleagues at CERN in March 1991. Berners-Lee recruited Nicola Pellow, a math student intern working ...
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When did Iain M. Banks create The Culture?
[ "The Culture\nBanks says he conceived the Culture in the 1960s, and that it is a combination of wish fulfilment and a reaction against the predominantly right-wing science fiction produced in the United States.[71] In his opinion, the Culture might be a \"great place to live\", with no exploitation of people or AIs...
[ "Consider Phlebas\nConsider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. Written after a 1984 draft, it is the first to feature the Culture.", "Surface Detail\nSurface Detail by Iain M. Banks is a science fiction novel in his Culture series, first published in the UK ...
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How many people died during WW1?
[ "World War I casualties\nThe total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I were about 40 million: estimates range from 15 to 19million deaths and about 23million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history." ]
[ "Ara Sarafian\nIn February 2007, Sarafian accepted the suggestion of the then-chairman of the Turkish Historical Society, Yusuf Halaçoğlu, to cooperate on a joint project. Sarafian later proposed a joint case study of \"what happened on the Harput Plain\" and \"how many people died\" during the deportations.", "S...
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How old is the town of Wolfstein in Germany?
[ "Wolfstein, Rhineland-Palatinate\nWolfstein was founded in 1275 on Habsburg King Rudolph I's orders, which called for a “fortified and free” town near his castle, “Woluisstein”, now known as the Alt-Wolfstein (“Old Wolfstein”) ruin. Rudolph forthwith granted the new town the same town rights and freedoms as the tow...
[ "Wolfstein, Rhineland-Palatinate\nSignposted paths open the Königsberg and its environs to the hiker. The Glan-Lautertal-Höhenweg, part of the Großer Westpfalzwanderweg (“Great West Palatinate Hiking Trail”) leads through the town's municipal area. Hiking destinations of particular note are the Laufhauser Weiher (p...
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What is within a nucleus of a cell?
[ "Cell nucleus\nCell nuclei contain most of the cell's genetic material, organized as multiple long linear DNA molecules in a complex with a large variety of proteins, such as histones, to form chromosomes. The genes within these chromosomes are the cell's nuclear genome and are structured in such a way to promote c...
[ "Cell nucleus\nIn cell biology, the nucleus (pl. nuclei; from Latin nucleus or nuculeus, meaning kernel or seed) is a membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells. Eukaryotes usually have a single nucleus, but a few cell types, such as mammalian red blood cells, have no nuclei, and a few others including o...
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What is the population of emperor penguins in Antarctica?
[ "Emperor penguin\nThe total population was estimated in 2009 to be at around 595,000 adult birds, in 46 known colonies spread around the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic; around 35% of the known population lives north of the Antarctic Circle. Major breeding colonies were located at Cape Washington, Coulman Island in Vic...
[ "Anthropornis\nAnthropornis is a genus of giant penguin that lived 45-33 million years ago, during the Late Eocene and the earliest part of the Oligocene. It reached in height and in weight. Fossils of it have been found in the La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island off the coast of Antarctica and in New Zealand. By...
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Who started human rights?
[ "History of human rights\nSome historians suggest that the Achaemenid Persian Empire of ancient Iran established unprecedented principles of human rights in the 6th century BC under Cyrus the Great. After his conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 539 BC, the king issued the Cyrus cylinder, discovered in 1879 and...
[ "Egyptian Union of Liberal Youth\nLife Team (Act for Human Rights)\nApril - August 2008, EULY, started the \"LIFE TEAM\" project to produce plays – songs – music – movies etc., to promote human rights and liberal ideas and values . Life Team started with program Act for human rights .this project was funded from fr...
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When was the first Spanish Grand Prix?
[ "Spanish Grand Prix\nThe first Spanish Grand Prix in 1913 was not actually run to the Grand Prix formula of the day, but to touring car rules, taking place on a 300-kilometre road circuit at Guadarrama, near Madrid, on the road to Valladolid." ]
[ "1962 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 1962 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was a FIM event held on 6 May 1962 at Montjuïc circuit. It was the first round of the 1962 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and the 100th World Championship Grand Prix held since the championship began in 1949.", "1971 Grand Prix motor...
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Who is the Mayor of San Francisco?
[ "Mayor of San Francisco\nThe current mayor is former District 5 Supervisor and President of the Board of Supervisors London Breed, who won a special election following the death of Mayor Ed Lee on December 12, 2017. Breed will serve out the remainder of Lee's uncompleted term (until January 8, 2020), after which sh...
[ "Sirna Therapeutics\nSirna selected San Francisco due to its proximity to various scientific institutions, its workforce, and the payroll tax exemption for biotechnology companies. Sirna's move was a part of a trend of biotechnology companies moving to San Francisco, bolstered due to a campaign to attract biotechno...
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When does Menopause start?
[ "Menopause\nMenopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time in most women's lives when menstrual periods stop permanently, and they are no longer able to bear children.[2][8] Menopause typically occurs between 49 and 52 years of age.[3] Medical professionals often define menopause as having occurred when a wo...
[ "Heavy menstrual bleeding\nWhere an underlying cause can be identified, treatment may be directed at this. Clearly heavy periods at menarche and menopause may settle spontaneously (the menarche being the start and menopause being the cessation of periods).", "Phytoestrogen\nIn some countries, phytoestrogenic plan...
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When did Alfred die?
[ "Alfred the Great\nAlfred died on 26 October 899 at the age of 50 or 51.[134] How he died is unknown, although he suffered throughout his life with a painful and unpleasant illness. His biographer Asser gave a detailed description of Alfred's symptoms and this has allowed modern doctors to provide a possible diagno...
[ "Le Mulâtre\nThree years later, Georges knows that Alfred is happily married and has become a father. He chooses this moment of happiness for his revenge. He enters the mansion by stealth, gives the wife poison, and forces Alfred to watch her die, taunting him. He then picks up an ax to behead Alfred. Only then doe...
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What language do Chechens speak?
[ "Chechen language\nChechen (нохчийн мотт , [ˈnɔx.t͡ʃiːn mu͜ɔt]) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by more than 1.4 million people, mostly in the Chechen Republic and by members of the Chechen diaspora throughout Russia, Jordan, Central Asia (mainly Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), and Georgia." ]
[ "Chechnya\nHowever, regarding this exodus, there is an alternative view. According to the Russian economists Boris Lvin and Andrei Iliaronov,\nThe Chechen authorities are regularly accused of crimes against the population, especially the Russian-speaking people. However, before the current war the emigration of the...
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When were the Gallic Wars?
[ "Gallic Wars\nThe Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expa...
[ "Vingeanne\nThe Gauls thought the Romans were retreating towards Italy and decided to attack.\nOne group of Gallic cavalry blocked the Roman advance while two groups of cavalry harried the Roman's flanks.\nAfter hard fighting, the German cavalry broke the Gallic cavalry on the right and chased them back to the main...
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What is the oldest overseas U.S. military base?
[ "Guantanamo Bay Naval Base\nGuantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB (also called GTMO because of the abbreviation of Guantanamo or Gitmo because of the common pronunciation of this word by the U.S. military[1]), is a United ...
[ "List of countries with overseas military bases\nThis is a list of overseas military bases by country. The establishment of military bases abroad enable a country to project power, e.g. to conduct expeditionary warfare, and thereby influence events abroad. Depending on their size and infrastructure, they can be use...
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When did Michelangelo create the David?
[ "David (Michelangelo)\nThe history of the statue begins before Michelangelo's work on it from 1501 to 1504.[3] Prior to Michelangelo's involvement, the Overseers of the Office of Works of Florence Cathedral, consisting mostly of members of the influential woolen cloth guild, the Arte della Lana, had plans to commis...
[ "David (inspired by Michelangelo)\nDavid (inspired by Michelangelo) is a sculpture by Turkish conceptual artist Serkan Özkaya. It is a reproduction of Michelangelo's \"David\" made of gold-painted foam, twice the size of the original, and based on a computer model by Stanford University professor Marc Levoy. It was...
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When was the Nazi party founded?
[ "Nazi Party\nHitler's first DAP speech was held in the Hofbräukeller on 16 October 1919. He was the second speaker of the evening, and spoke to 111 people.[43] Hitler later declared that this was when he realised he could really \"make a good speech\".[30] At first, Hitler spoke only to relatively small groups, but...
[ "Karl-Heinz Gerstner\nIn 1931 he joined the socialist \"Red students group\". On 1 May 1933 he joined the Nazi party: he was member number 2,673,178. Party membership had surged since January 1933 when the Nazis took power and lost no time in transforming Germany into a one-party dictatorship. Nevertheless, in his ...
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Is the USS Hobson still in use?
[ "USS Hobson (DD-464)\nIn 1952, Hobson collided with the aircraft carrier USS<i>Wasp(CV-18) and sunk with the loss of 176 crew. The ships had been undertaking amphibious exercises in the Atlantic, with Wasp practicing night flying, when Hobson attempted to turn in front of the carrier and collided with Wasp. Hobson ...
[ "Magnolia Grove (Greensboro, Alabama)\nOn January 22, 1942, the \"Gleaves\"-class destroyer, USS \"Hobson\", was commissioned in his honor posthumously. Magnolia Grove was dedicated as a state shrine in his honor on May 1, 1947, largely due to the appeal of his youngest sister, Miss Margaret Hobson. ", "USS Hobso...
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Are wolves good pets?
[ "Wolves as pets and working animals\nWild wolves are sometimes kept as exotic pets, and in some rarer occasions, as working animals. Although closely related to domesticated dogs, wolves do not show the same tractability as dogs in living alongside humans, and generally, much more work is required in order to obtai...
[ "Wolves as pets and working animals\nSome wildlife centers housing captive wolves prohibit handlers from entering wolf enclosures if they happen to have a cold or other vulnerability which the wolves can detect.[4] Captive wolves are generally shy and avoid eye contact with humans other than their owner, as well as...
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When did Justin Morgan first appear as a character on Home and Away?
[ "Justin Morgan (Home and Away)\nJustin Morgan is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera Home and Away, played by James Stewart. The actor was contacted by his agent and the head of drama at Seven Network about the role. After hearing their pitch, Stewart auditioned and won the part. He bega...
[ "List of Home and Away characters (2018)\nLance Salisbury, played by Angus McLaren, made his first appearance on 17 April 2018. McLaren's casting and character details were announced on 16 April 2018. Of joining the cast, McLaren commented, \"It's very exciting. It hit home for me when I walked into the Diner and a...
122
When was the Prohibition Era in the US?
[ "Prohibition in the United States\nProhibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933." ]
[ "Secret passage\nThe Regal Knickerbocker, in Chicago, Illinois, is a grand 350-room hotel built in the 1920s, during the U.S. Prohibition era. When the hotel was remodeled in 1980, workers found a secret door in one of the penthouse ballrooms, which leads to a stairway down to ground level. This may have been used ...
107
When did the Taff Vale Junction Railway get made?
[ "Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway\nThomas Powell had extensive colliery interests in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, and he needed to get a transport link to pits he owned at Llantwit Fardre. Failing to generate interest elsewhere, he determined to build a railway himself to the Glamorganshire Canal at ...
[ "Barry Railway Company\nThe Taff Vale set about obtaining Parliamentary authorisation in 1885 to acquire the Bute Docks, but this was refused by the Lords Committee when the Taff Vale would not agree to running powers requested by the Barry Railway northward from the Trehafod and Treforest connections. The Taff Val...
51
What is the most common type of desert?
[ "Desert climate\nThe desert climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk), is a climate in which there is an excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert climates hold little moisture and evaporate the little rainfall they receive. Covering 14.2% of e...
[ "Apostatic selection\nMost of the work done on the behavioural basis of apostatic selection was done by A.B Bond. It has been suggested that for frequency dependent predation, the amount of encounters with the prey aids to shape the predators prey detection.These ideas are based on the assumption that when the pred...
44
Who invented air conditioning?
[ "Air conditioning\nModern air conditioning emerged from advances in chemistry during the 19th century, and the first large-scale electrical air conditioning was invented and used in 1902 by US inventor Willis Carrier. The introduction of residential air conditioning in the 1920s helped enable the great migration to...
[ "Air conditioning\nIn 1902, the first modern electrical air conditioning unit was invented by Willis Carrier in Buffalo, New York. After graduating from Cornell University, Carrier found a job at the Buffalo Forge Company. There, he began experimenting with air conditioning as a way to solve an application problem ...
21
What is the largest asteroid?
[ "List of exceptional asteroids\nThe largest asteroids with an accurately measured mass, due to the fact that they have been (and are being) studied by the probe Dawn, are 1 Ceres with a mass of 939.3 ± 0.5×1018 kg, and 4 Vesta at 259.076 ± 0.001×1018 kg. The third-largest asteroid with an accurately measured mass, ...
[ "Ceres (dwarf planet)\nCeres is the largest object in the asteroid belt.\nIt is sometimes assumed that Ceres has been \"re\"classified as a dwarf planet, and that it is therefore no longer considered an asteroid. For example, a news update at Space.com spoke of \"Pallas, the largest asteroid, and Ceres, the dwarf p...
52
When did the American Renaissance happen?
[ "American Renaissance\nThe American Renaissance was a period of American architecture and the arts from 1876 to 1917,[1] characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance humanism. The era spans the period between the C...
[ "Chicago Black Renaissance\nDuring the Great Migration, which brought tens of thousands of African-Americans to Chicago's South Side, African-American writers, artists, and community leaders began promoting racial pride and a new black consciousness, similar to that of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. Unlik...
107
What does GDP stand for?
[ "Gross domestic product\nGross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a period of time, often annually GDP (nominal) per capita does not, however, reflect differences in the cost of living and the inflation rates of the countries; therefore u...
[ "Economy of Thailand\nThe table below shows the Thai GDP per capita in comparison with other East and Southeast Asian economies. All data, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars (US$).\nNote: According to the NESDB, the Thai nominal GDP per capita stands at 167,508 baht (US$5,390). The data shown in the above t...
80
What is the most abundant fish species in the Indian ocean?
[ "Giant trevally\nThe giant trevally is abundant in the central Indo-Pacific region, found throughout all the archipelagos and offshore islands including Indonesia, Philippines and Solomon Islands. Along continental Asia, the species has been recorded from Malaysia to Vietnam, but not China.[5] Despite this, its off...
[ "Indian oil sardine\nThe Indian oil sardine (\"Sardinella longiceps\") is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus \"Sardinella\". It is one of the two most important commercial fishes in India (with the mackerel). The Indian oil sardine is one of the more regionally limited species of \"Sardinella\" and can be fo...
15
What ethnicity are Chechens?
[ "Chechens\nChechens (/ˈtʃɛtʃən/; Chechen: Нохчий Noxçiy; Old Chechen: Нахчой Naxçoy) are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group of the Nakh peoples originating in the North Caucasus region of Eastern Europe. They refer to themselves as Vainakhs (which means our people in Chechen) or Nokhchiy (pronounced [no̞xtʃʼiː]; si...
[ "German Sadulaev\nGerman Sadulaev was born in 1973, in the town of Shali, in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, to a Chechen father and Terek Cossack mother. His father's mother was also a Russian. Because his grandmother was a Russian, she and the children were not deported as part of Aardakh but the father, a Chechen, was,...
162
What's the minimum age for driving?
[ "List of countries by minimum driving age\nThe minimum driving age is the minimum age at which a person may obtain a driver's licence to lawfully drive a motor vehicle on public roads. That age is determined by and for each jurisdiction and is most commonly set at 18 years of age, but learner drivers may be permitt...
[ "List of countries by minimum driving age\nYouth Youth suffrage Youth rights Age of candidacy Voting age", "Graduated driver licensing\nReceipt of a full drivers license typically requires a specific minimum age, a minimum time period of driving experience, and may require the passing of a final road test of driv...
146
When was the Argentine Basketball Federation formed?
[ "History of the Argentina national basketball team\nIn successive years, other clubs such as Ñaró, Estudiantes (LP), River Plate, Gimnasia y Esgrima, Universitario and Racing) registered their teams to the Federation. On August 30, 1929, the Argentine Basketball Federation (current \"Confederación Argentina\") was ...
[ "Argentine Basketball Federation\nIt is a member of the FIBA Americas, and it is responsible for the Argentina national basketball team and the Argentina women's national basketball team. Currently there are approximately 1,200 clubs registered with the association, as well as 130,500 male and 11,000 female players...
25
How long is a general apprenticeship in terms of years?
[ "Apprenticeship\nAn apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeship also enables practitioners to gain a license to practice in a regulated profession. Most of th...
[ "Engineering Apprenticeships at Pye of Cambridge Ltd\nIn the mid 1950s the Pye factory in Haig Road (now Elizabeth Way), Cambridge employed around 100 young men participating in electrical or mechanical five-year apprenticeships. The apprentices generally started at age 16 with some passes at “O” level General Cert...
146
When was Sony Pictures Television established?
[ "Sony Pictures Television\nSony Pictures Television Inc. (or SPT) is an American television production and distribution studio founded in 2002 as the successor to Columbia TriStar Television. Based in Culver City, it is a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures Entertainment and a unit of the Japanese conglo...
[ "2waytraffic\nIn April 2012, it became \"Sony Pictures Television International Formats\", with the 2waytraffic logo immediately being replaced by the Sony Pictures Television logo on internationally licensed shows. It's currently an in-name-only unit of Sony Pictures Television.", "GetTV\nDue to its ownership by...
62
Who led the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
[ "Universal Declaration of Human Rights\nThe Commission established a special Universal Declaration of Human Rights Drafting Committee, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, to write the articles of the Declaration. The Committee met in two sessions over the course of two years." ]
[ "Political views of H.G. Wells\nIn his later political writing, Wells incorporated into his discussions of the World State a notion of universal human rights that would protect and guarantee the freedom of the individual. His 1940 publication \"The Rights of Man\" laid the groundwork for the 1948 Universal Declarat...
21
When did Andy Richter leave Late Night with Conan O'Brien?
[ "Andy Richter\nAfter seven years with the show, Richter departed from Late Night after the show on May 26, 2000. He later said of the decision, \"After seven years of being on the show, I got itchy. I have a philosophy that if you enjoy good fortune, rather than sit there and say, 'Oh, that's fine, this amount is g...
[ "Late Night with Conan O'Brien\nLate Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. \"Late Night\" aired weeknights at 1...
85
Can you over-water a cactus?
[ "Cactus\nFungi, bacteria and viruses attack cacti, the first two particularly when plants are over-watered. Fusarium rot can gain entry through a wound and cause rotting accompanied by red-violet mold. \"Helminosporium rot\" is caused by Bipolaris cactivora (syn. Helminosporium cactivorum[107]); Phytophthora specie...
[ "Gateway Playhouse\n1969\nThere's a Girl in My Soup\nWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf\nGypsy\nThe Sound of Music\nThe Most Happy Fella\nCan Can\nNow It Makes Sense\nBarn Theatre\nYou Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running\nTobacco Road\nCactus Flower\nThe Fantasticks\nScuba Duba", "Phone Losers of America\n...
10
How far is Milton Keynes from London?
[ "Milton Keynes\nMilton Keynes (/kiːnz/(listen) KEENZ), locally abbreviated to MK, is a large town[note 1] in the Borough of Milton Keynes, of which it is the administrative centre. It was formally designated as a new town on 23 January 1967,[2] with the design brief to become a \"city\" in scale. It is located abou...
[ "Expansion plans for Milton Keynes\nIn Milton Keynes, from 2004 to 2011 there were two local planning authorities: Milton Keynes Partnership (MKP) and Milton Keynes Council (MKC).", "Buses in Milton Keynes\nIn Spring 2005 EasyBus changed its London terminus from Hendon to a more central location in Baker Street. ...
153
Does Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War have a second game?
[ "FreeSpace 2\nFreeSpace 2 is a 1999 space combat simulation computer game developed by Volition as the sequel to Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War. It was completed ahead of schedule in less than a year, and released to very positive reviews. However, the game became a commercial failure, and was described by cert...
[ "FreeSpace 2\nThe news of FreeSpace 2 being in development was confirmed in a chat on November 6, 1998. FreeSpace 2 was developed in less than one year. The Volition team revealed they had written up a story and will be targeting high-end hardware with dogfights for a greater number of ships and even larger and mor...
90
What is the newest member country to join NATO?
[ "Member states of NATO\nNATO has added new members seven times since its founding in 1949, and since 2017 NATO has had 29 members. Twelve countries were part of the founding of NATO: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United S...
[ "1986 Spanish NATO membership referendum\nA Spanish NATO membership referendum was held on Wednesday, 12 March 1986, to gauge support for the country either remaining a member of, or leaving, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which it had joined in 1982. The question asked was \"In your view, should Sp...
80
When did Mount Victoria become a railway station?
[ "Mount Victoria, New South Wales\nAfter the railway station, marking the termination of the Main Western railway line, was opened in 1869 the town also became known as Mount Victoria.[10][11] The town's name was officially changed after the first Post Office was built in 1876.[8]" ]
[ "Mount Victoria railway station\nMount Victoria Railway Station Group is of state significance as a large complex of buildings illustrating clearly the pattern of development of railway facilities in the Blue Mountains area. It is the most substantial railway station complex in the Blue Mountains and indicates the ...
40
Who was King Zhaoxiang of Qin's mother?
[ "King Zhaoxiang of Qin\nBecause King Zhaoxiang had not yet legally come of age (traditionally at the age of 20), his mother, who was now known as Queen Dowager Xuan, became the regent. She was supported by her brothers, Wei Ran and Mi Rong (羋戎), as well as two other sons, Prince Yi (公子悝) and Prince Fu (公子巿), the fo...
[ "King Zhaoxiang of Qin\nIn 299 BC, King Zhaoxiang invited Lord Mengchang to Qin with the intention of appointing him as chancellor. However, after hearing (perhaps ill-intended) warnings from his ministers that Lord Mengchang was still loyal to his home state of Qi (which had just soured its diplomatic relationship...
116
When did The Prizefighter series begin?
[ "Prizefighter series\nThe Prizefighter series was a professional boxing tournament created by boxing promoter Barry Hearn and aired on Sky Sports. The format has an initial eight fighters, who compete in four quarter-finals of 3 x 3 minute rounds (number and length of the rounds is same as in amateur boxing) follow...
[ "Prizefighter series\n— Sam Sexton, winner of the 2nd Prizefighter tournament", "Prizefighter series\nOn 5 May 2012, the Prizefighter series went to Belfast for the first time. At the King's Hall, Belfast, the 24th installment of the Prizefighter competition showcased Irish fighters from the middleweight division...
54
What's the biggest wasp?
[ "Asian giant hornet\nThe Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), including the subspecies Japanese giant hornet (V. m. japonica),[2] colloquially known as the yak-killer hornet,[3] is the world's largest hornet, native to temperate and tropical Eastern Asia. They prefer to live in low mountains and forests, while al...
[ "Polybia rejecta\nPolybia rejecta is a species of social wasp found in the Neotropics region of the world. It was discovered by Fabricius in South America in the 1790s. The wasp is associated with many other organisms, particularly specific species of ants and birds such as the \"Azteca\" ants and the cacique birds...
52
When was the University of Maryland football team established?
[ "Maryland Terrapins football\nIn 1892, the school then known as the Maryland Agricultural College fielded its first officially-sanctioned college football team. They went scoreless in all three of that season's games, but the following year, posted a perfect record of 6–0. For the first two decades of the program, ...
[ "1894 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1894 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1894 college football season. Maryland participated as a member of the Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association, which was formed as a result of a di...
87
Who wrote the Federalist papers?
[ "The Federalist Papers\nThe Federalist (later known as The Federalist Papers) is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym \"Publius\" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. The first 77 of these essays were publishe...
[ "Anti-Federalist Papers\nIn the table below, a selection of Anti-Federalist papers have been contrasted with their Federalist counterparts.\nThe Anti-Federalists proved unable to stop the ratification of the US Constitution, which took effect in 1789. Since then, the essays they wrote have largely fallen into obscu...
38
Where is the Sanjay Gandhi National Park?
[ "Sanjay Gandhi National Park\nSanjay Gandhi National Park is an 87km2 (34sqmi) protected area near Mumbai in Maharashtra State in India.[4] It was formerly known as Borivali National Park.[5][6] It is notable as one of the major national parks existing within a metropolis limit and is one of the most visited parks ...
[ "Vihar Lake\nThe lake and its catchment are protected by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Sanjay Gandhi National Park Authority.\nThe catchment areas of Vihar lake has high hills rising on all sides. The seclusion, protection, and security provided under the Sanjay Gandhi National Park has ensured well wo...
36
Who has to initiate a plea bargain?
[ "Plea bargain\nThe plea bargain (also plea agreement or plea deal) is any agreement in a criminal case between the prosecutor and defendant whereby the defendant agrees to plead guilty or nolo contendere to a particular charge in return for some concession from the prosecutor. This may mean that the defendant will ...
[ "Plea bargaining in the United States\nThe ruling distinguished \"Brady\" from other prior cases emphasizing improper confessions, concluding: \"we cannot hold that it is unconstitutional for the State to extend a benefit to a defendant who in turn extends a substantial benefit to the State and who demonstrates by ...
20
When was Texas Instruments founded?
[ "Texas Instruments\nTexas Instruments emerged in 1951 after a reorganization of Geophysical Service Incorporated, a company founded in 1930 that manufactured equipment for use in the seismic industry, as well as defense electronics.[8] TI produced the world's first commercial silicon transistor in 1954[9], and desi...
[ "Texas Instruments SN76489\nThe SN76489 Digital Complex Sound Generator (DCSG) is a TTL-compatible programmable sound generator chip from Texas Instruments. It contains:Its main application was the generation of music and sound effects in game consoles, arcade games and home computers (such as the Texas Instruments...
169
Where was Louise-Marie-Madeleine Guillaume de Fontaine born?
[ "Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine\nLouise-Marie-Madeleine Guillaume de Fontaine (after marriage known as Madame Dupin; 28 October 1706 – 20 November 1799) was a French saloniste." ]
[ "Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine\nLouise-Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Louis-Guillaume, ecuyer, Seigneur de Fontaine, councillor of the King, commissioner of the Navy and galleys de France and Marie-Anne-Armande Dancourt his wife born on the twenty-eight of October in the Sourdière street on this parish where w...
156
At what age did William Morris "Bill" Lawry start playing cricket?
[ "Bill Lawry\nLawry was born in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury. He was given the names William Morris after the early Prime Minister of Australia, William Morris Hughes. His father Alfred played amateur cricket until the age of 51. Bill never saw his father play, who was aged 47 when Bill was born.[3] Aged nine, ...
[ "Bill Lawry\nFollowing the tour, Lawry wrote a series of newspaper articles that criticised the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and their treatment of the Australian team.[43] The BCCI complained to the Australian Board of Control, objecting to Lawry's \"exaggerated and baseless\" statements.[38] The A...
147
What is the biggest cricket competition?
[ "International cricket\nMost games are played as parts of \"tours\", when one nation travels to another for a number of weeks or months, and plays a number of matches of various sorts against the host nation. The ICC also organises competitions that are for several countries at once, including the Cricket World Cup...
[ "Malaysia national under-19 cricket team\nThey qualified for the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup,which they also hosted,and as of date is their only qualification in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup,which is also considered as their biggest success to date and is also considered as the biggest success in Malaysian cr...
64
When did construction on I-69 begin?
[ "Interstate 69\nInterstate 69 (I-69) is an Interstate Highway in the United States currently consisting of seven disjointed parts with an original continuous segment from Indianapolis, Indiana, northeast to the Canada–US border in Port Huron, Michigan, at 355.8 miles (572.6km). The remaining separated parts are var...
[ "Interstate 69 in Mississippi\nIn Clarksdale, I-69 will merge with U.S. Route 278 and continue south, serving Shelby, following the existing U.S. 61 route. I-69 and U.S. 278 will diverge from U.S. 61 near Merigold, bypassing Cleveland to the west, and continue south to near Shaw, then west to Benoit where it will i...
63
In what city did Abel Posse grow up?
[ "Abel Posse\nAbel Parentini Posse was born on 7 January 1934, in the Argentine city of Córdoba where he only lived the first two years of his life.[1] Two years after birth the family moved to the capital city of Buenos Aires due to his father's work commitments. His mother, Elba Alicia Posse, belonged to the creol...
[ "Bereshit (parsha)\nReading the words of \"And Cain spoke to Abel his brother,\" a Midrash imagined the subject of their discussion. The Midrash taught that they divided the world between them. The first took the land and the second took the movables. The first told the second that he was standing on the first's la...
2
When was Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai get released?
[ "Haganai\nHaganai(はがない), short for Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai(僕は友達が少ない, literally \"I Don't Have Many Friends\"),[note 1] is a Japanese light novel series written by Yomi Hirasaka, illustrated by Buriki, and published by Media Factory. It has been given several manga adaptations; the first incarnation, its title ...
[ "Boku wa Kuma\n\"Boku wa Kuma\" was her first try at writing a children's song. On October 1, 2006, it aired on the children's music program Minna no Uta on radio, and on TV the day after. Due to strong demand, the song had been planned for continuous rebroadcasting from October 2006 to January 2007 on Minna no Uta...
136
How often do solar flares occur?
[ "Solar flare\nThe frequency of occurrence of solar flares varies, from several per day when the Sun is particularly \"active\" to less than one every week when the Sun is \"quiet\", following the 11-year cycle (the solar cycle). Large flares are less frequent than smaller ones." ]
[ "Solar cycle\nThe occurrence frequency of coronal mass ejections and flares is strongly modulated by the cycle. Flares of any given size are some 50 times more frequent at solar maximum than at minimum. Large coronal mass ejections occur on average a few times a day at solar maximum, down to one every few days at s...
103
Where did John Bruce Thompson go to law school?
[ "Jack Thompson (activist)\nThompson grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, attended Cuyahoga Falls H.S.[10] and attended Denison University. He received media attention when he hosted his own political talk show on the college radio station.[11] He then attended Vanderbilt University Law School, where he met his wife, Patrici...
[ "John C. Thompson\nJohn C. Thompson was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, probably in 1790. He studied law with an attorney in Hartford, Connecticut, and attained admission to the bar. He moved to Windsor, Vermont in 1813, where he established himself as an attorney and also became active in politics as a Democratic-...
65
Who is Pike's Peak named for?
[ "Pikes Peak\n\"Tava\" or \"sun\", is the Ute word that was given by these first people to the mountain that we now call Pikes Peak. The band of Ute people who called the Pikes Peak region their home were the \"Tabeguache\", meaning the \"People of Sun Mountain\".[4] The Ute people first arrived in Colorado about 50...
[ "Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway\nThe Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cog Railway (also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway) was an Abt rack system cog railway with track in Colorado, USA, climbing the well-known mountain Pikes Peak. The base station was in Manitou Springs, Colorado near Colorado Springs.", "Pikes Peak Cent...
58
Does the Audi S4 come with manual transmission option?
[ "Audi S4\nIn standard form, the powertrain detail of the C4-based S4 was available with only one engine, a single turbocharged and intercooled version of Audi's 2.2-litre 20-valve inline five-cylinder engine This displaced 2,226 cubic centimetres (135.8cuin) and was equipped with an advanced Bosch Motronic electron...
[ "Audi S4\nThe Audi S4 is the high performance variant of Audi's compact executive car A4. The original Audi S4, built from 1991 until 1994, was a performance-oriented version of Audi's 100 saloon/sedan. All subsequent S4s since 1997 have been based on the Audi A4; and as the A4 has evolved from one generation to th...
158
What is the oldest grave at Arlington National Cemetery?
[ "Arlington National Cemetery\nAt the outbreak of the Civil War, most military personnel who died in battle near Washington, D.C., were buried at the United States Soldiers' Cemetery in Washington, D.C., or Alexandria Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia, but by late 1863 both were nearly full.[12] On July 16, 1862, Con...
[ "Wayne Maurice Caron\nCaron, age 21, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia. His Arlington Cemetery grave location number is 51-2600.", "Confederate Memorial (Arlington National Cemetery)\nThe Confederate dead were reburied on of ground on the west side of Arlington National Cemeter...
81
Who are the main villains of Metroid?
[ "Ridley (Metroid)\nRidley,[lower-alpha 1] also known by his aliases Geoform 187 and The Cunning God of Death, is one of the main antagonists of the Metroid series. An extraterrestrial dragon, he became Samus Aran's archenemy after leading a Space Pirate raid on her homeworld that killed her parents. Despite having ...
[ "Kalimán\n1. \"The Tomb Raiders\", issues 1-10, main villain: Eric von Kraufen\n2. \"The Valley of the Vampires\", issues 11-32, main villain: Count Bártok\n3. \"Mysteries of Bonampak\", issues 33-47, main villain: Captain Scott\n4. \"The Mystery of the Astronauts\", issues 47-64, main villain: Van Zeland\n5. \"The...
167
When was The Global Marshall Plan Initiative formed?
[ "Global Marshall Plan Initiative\nThe idea of a Global Marshall Plan was first published in 1990 by U.S. politician, entrepreneur and environmentalist Al Gore in his book “Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit”. The choice of name deliberately recalls the historical Marshall Plan after the Second World...
[ "Global Marshall Plan Initiative\nSome of the more than 200 organizations that support the Global Marshall Plan Initiative, set up a coordination circle for the initiative in December 2010 in Munich and took over the political and content related duties that had until then been shared out between others. The coordi...
108
Is there a language other than Spanish spoken in Spain?
[ "Languages of Spain\nIn terms of the number of speakers and dominance, the most prominent of the languages of Spain is Spanish (Castilian), spoken by about 99% of Spaniards as a first or second language.[5] Catalan (or Valencian) is spoken by 19%, Galician by 5%, and Basque by 2% of the population.[6]" ]
[ "Florida\nIn 1988, English was affirmed as the state's official language in the Florida Constitution. Spanish is also widely spoken, especially as immigration has continued from Latin America. Twenty percent of the population speak Spanish as their first language. Twenty-seven percent of Florida's population report...
162
How long is the Warrior series?
[ "Warriors (novel series)\nSuper Editions are stand alone books in the Warriors series that are approximately double the length of a normal Warriors book, about 500 pages long." ]
[ "Ishikawa Goemon\nGoemon is the titular character of the long-running Konami video game series \"Ganbare Goemon\" as well as a television series based on it. Goemon appears in the video game series \"Samurai Warriors\" and \"Warriors Orochi\", where he is a self-proclaimed king of thieves, wielding a giant mace and...
60
When was the Annapolis Naval Academy founded?
[ "United States Naval Academy\nThe institution was founded as the Naval School on 10 October 1845 by Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. The campus was established at Annapolis on the grounds of the former U.S. Army post Fort Severn. The school opened with 50 midshipman students and seven professors. The decision...
[ "Jennings House (Annapolis, Maryland)\nJennings House, located in Annapolis, Maryland, was the residence of the Governors of Maryland from 1777 until 1870, when it was replaced by Government House. The building was sold to the United States Naval Academy in 1869 for $25,000 (). It was demolished in 1901.", "Willi...
87
What is an organophosphate?
[ "Organophosphate\nOrganophosphates (also known as phosphate esters) are a class of organophosphorus compounds with the general structure O=P(OR)3. They can be considered as esters of phosphoric acid. Like most functional groups organophosphates occur in a diverse range of forms, with important examples including ke...
[ "Clothianidin\nClothianidin is an alternative to organophosphate, carbamate, and pyrethroid pesticides. It poses lower risks to mammals, including humans, when compared to organophosphates and carbamates. It has helped prevent insect pests build up resistance to organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides.", "Nicot...
148
What are the stages of grief?
[ "Kübler-Ross model\nThe Kübler-Ross model is popularly known as the five stages of grief, though more accurately, the model postulates a progression of emotional states experienced by terminally ill patients after diagnosis. The five stages are chronologically: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance."...
[ "Susan Anderson (psychotherapist)\nWhile Kübler-Ross, Anderson, and others have attempted to define discrete stages of grief, such as an initial period of numbness leading to depression and finally to reorganization and recovery, most modern grief specialists recognize the variations and fluidity of grief experienc...
137
When was the Mansfield Town Football Club first founded?
[ "Mansfield Town F.C.\nMansfield Town Football Club is a professional football club based in the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The club was formed in 1897 as Mansfield Wesleyans, changing its name to Mansfield Wesley in 1906 before settling on Mansfield Town in 1910, and are nicknamed “The Stags”. The...
[ "Charles Howson\nCharles Howson (18 July 1896 – 1976) was an English professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in Wombwell, he started his career with Rotherham Town in 1919, before joining his hometown club a year later. Numerous Football League clubs enquired to Wombwell with interest in acquiring th...
25
Who is the current political leader of Indonesia?
[ "President of Indonesia\nOn 20 October 2014, Joko Widodo became the seventh and current president of Indonesia." ]
[ "Muslim women political leaders\nThere are many twentieth and twenty-first century examples of women leading Muslim-majority countries. The majority of all Muslims in the world live in countries that have, at some time, elected women as their leaders. The three most populous Muslim-majority countries have had women...
37
Who is the current head of the Royal Air Force?
[ "Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom)\nThe Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) is the professional head of the Royal Air Force and a member of both the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Air Force Board. The post was created in 1918 with Major General Sir Hugh Trenchard as the first incumbent. The current and 29th Chief...
[ "Royal Australian Air Force Band\nThe Royal Australian Air Force Band (Air Force Band) is the Royal Australian Air Force's official musical branch. The current commanding officer is Squadron Leader Mark Pentreath, CSM. The director of music is Flight Lieutenant Daniel Phillips.", "Air force\nOver the following de...
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What country has the most tornados?
[ "Tornado climatology\nTornadoes have been recorded on all continents except Antarctica and are most common in the middle latitudes where conditions are often favorable for convective storm development.[1] The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, as well as the strongest and most violent tornadoes. A...
[ "Climate of Alabama\nTornadoes occur frequently in Alabama during the spring and fall months, these tornadoes can be devastating and even deadly.– these are common throughout the state, although the peak season for tornadoes varies from the northern to southern parts of the state. Alabama, along with Kansas, has th...
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When did the TV show ER first air?
[ "ER (TV series)\nER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist and medical doctor Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes spanning over 15 seasons. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in associati...
[ "KDKA-TV\nKDKA-TV aired \"The Rosie O'Donnell Show\" during its entire six-year run at the 4 p.m. time slot. After the show ended its run in 2002, rather than airing its replacement (the short-lived \"Caroline Rhea Show\", which aired on WPXI), KDKA-TV became the first station in the Pittsburgh market to air a 4 p....
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