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total number of death row inmates in the us
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"text": "on death row in the United States on January 1, 2013. Since 1977, the states of Texas (464), Virginia (108) and Oklahoma (94) have executed the most death row inmates. , California (683), Florida (390), Texas (330) and Pennsylvania (218) housed more than half of all inmates pending on death row. , the longest-serving prisoner on death row in the US who has been executed was Jack Alderman who served over 33 years. He was executed in Georgia in 2008. However, Alderman only holds the distinction of being the longest-serving \"executed\" inmate so far. A Florida inmate, Gary Alvord, arrived",
"title": "Death row"
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"id": "14192122",
"text": "punishable by death penalty. But perhaps the best indicator that this law is not a deterrent to criminality is the ever-increasing number of death convicts. From 1994 to 1995 the number of persons on death row increased from 12 to 104. From 1995 to 1996 it increased to 182. In 1997 the total death convicts was at 520 and in 1998 the inmates in death row was at 781. As of November 1999 there are a total of 956 death convicts at the National Bilibid Prisons and at the Correctional Institute for Women. As of December 31, 1999, based on",
"title": "Presidency of Joseph Estrada"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "12820372",
"text": "on Florida's death row in 1974. On April 9, 2013, Alvord had been on death row for exactly 39 years when he died on May 19, 2013 from a brain tumor, having been longer on death row than any other United States inmate. The oldest prisoner on death row in the United States was Leroy Nash, age 94, in Arizona. He died of natural causes on February 12, 2010. Notes: Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar is the only facility in the United States Department of Defense designated to house female Level III inmates. When the United Kingdom had capital punishment, sentenced",
"title": "Death row"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2456648",
"text": "1976. However, this is an under-representation relative to the proportion of convicted murderers; 52.5% of all homicide offenders between 1980 and 2008 were African Americans. According to a 2003 Amnesty International report, blacks and whites were the victims of murder in almost equal numbers. Approximately 13.5% of death row inmates are of Hispanic or Latino descent, while they make up 17.4% of the general population. As of October 1, 2016, the Death Penalty Information Center reports that there are only 54 women on death row. This constitutes 1.86% of the total death row population. 16 women have been executed since",
"title": "Capital punishment in the United States"
},
{
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"id": "6762996",
"text": "to be 113 per 100,000 for the period 1976–1999. This is about ten times the rate of suicide in the United States as a whole and about six times the rate of suicide in the general U.S. prison population. Since the re-institution of the death penalty in 1976 to January 1, 2017, 145 prisoners have waived their appeals and asked that the execution be carried out. In the post-\"Furman\" era, four states (Connecticut, New Mexico, Oregon, and Pennsylvania) have executed only volunteers. The theory of the death row phenomenon may be traced to 1989, when the European Court of Human",
"title": "Death row phenomenon"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "12820370",
"text": "commit suicide. In the United States, prisoners may wait many years before execution can be carried out due to the complex and time-consuming appeals procedures mandated in the jurisdiction. The time between sentencing and execution has increased relatively steadily between 1977 and 2010, including a 22% jump between 1989 and 1990 and a similar jump between 2008 and 2009. In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months (roughly 15 years) between sentencing and execution. Nearly a quarter of inmates on death row in the U.S. die of natural causes while awaiting execution. There were 3,125 people",
"title": "Death row"
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{
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"id": "2457140",
"text": "people, and Gary Lee Sampson who was sentenced to death a second time in 2017 for two carjacking murders (after an original 2003 death sentence for the same crimes was vacated in 2011). As of September 28, 2018, there are 63 offenders on federal death row, most of them at Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. The only woman on federal death row as of 2018, Lisa M. Montgomery, is held at Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas. , aside from those at Terre Haute, three male death row inmates are held at ADX Florence, two are",
"title": "Capital punishment by the United States federal government"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "12820368",
"text": "Death row Death row is a special section of a prison that houses inmates who are awaiting execution after being sentenced to death for the conviction of capital crimes. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution (\"been on death row\"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists. In the United States, after a person is found guilty of a capital offense, the judge will give the jury the option of imposing a death sentence or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. It is then up to",
"title": "Death row"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "12820374",
"text": "prisoners who have spent several years under sentence of death, stating that it does not desire to see the death row phenomenon emerge in countries under its jurisdiction. Death row Death row is a special section of a prison that houses inmates who are awaiting execution after being sentenced to death for the conviction of capital crimes. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution (\"been on death row\"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists. In the United States, after a person is found guilty of a",
"title": "Death row"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2456647",
"text": "Wyoming, which is the least populous state, has only one condemned man. But executions are more frequent (and happen more quickly after sentencing) in conservative states. Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, carried out over 500 executions during the post-\"Furman\" era, more than a third of the national total. California has carried out only 13 executions during the same period, and has carried out none since 2006. African Americans made up 41% of death row inmates while making up only 12.6% of the general population. They have made up 34% of those actually executed since",
"title": "Capital punishment in the United States"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "11517635",
"text": "considered to be a practical life sentence. Over 159,000 people were serving life sentences as of 2012, with just under a third, nearly 50,000, serving life without a chance of parole. In 1993, the \"Times\" survey found, about 20 percent of all lifers had no chance of parole. By 2004, that had risen to 28 percent. As a result, the US is now housing by far the world's largest and most permanent population of prisoners who are guaranteed to die of old age behind bars. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, for instance, more than 3,000 of the 5,100 prisoners are",
"title": "Life imprisonment in the United States"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2456646",
"text": "said to be widely or routinely used in the United States; in recent years the average has been about one death sentence for every 200 murder convictions. Alabama has the highest \"per capita\" rate of death sentences. This is because Alabama was one of the few states that allowed judges to override a jury recommendation in favor of life imprisonment, a possibility it removed in March 2017. The distribution of death sentences among states is loosely proportional to their populations and murder rates. California, which is the most populous state, has also the largest death row with over 700 inmates.",
"title": "Capital punishment in the United States"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "8474933",
"text": "a significant and reliable objective index of contemporary values because it is so directly involved\" in the criminal justice system. In \"Enmund\" the Court recited that of 362 appellate decisions since 1954, only 6 involved a death sentence for a nontriggerman convicted of felony murder, and all 6 executions took place in 1955. This was comparatively rarer than death sentences for rape, of which there had been 72 between 1955 and 1977. Also, as of October 1, 1981, there were 796 people on death row in the United States, of whom only 3 had been sentenced to death absent a",
"title": "Felony murder and the death penalty in the United States"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2456613",
"text": "Illinois and Maryland, governors commuted all death sentences after enacting the new law. In Connecticut, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that the repeal must be retroactive. New Mexico is the only state with remaining death row inmates and no present death penalty statute. Nebraska's legislature also passed a repeal in 2015, but a referendum campaign gathered enough signatures to suspend it. Capital punishment was reinstated by popular vote on November 8, 2016. The same day, California's electorate defeated a proposal to repeal the death penalty, and adopted another initiative to speed up its appeal process. On October 11,",
"title": "Capital punishment in the United States"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2513289",
"text": "annual budget of $210 million. It is one of the largest prisons in the United States with a population of 4,223 inmates as of October 30, 2013. By December 2016 the population had declined to 3,774 inmates. Men condemned to death in California (with some exceptions) must be held at San Quentin, while condemned women are held at Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. As of December 2015, San Quentin held almost 700 male inmates in its Condemned Unit, or \"death row.\" As of 2001, San Quentin's death row was described as \"the largest in the Western Hemisphere\"; as of",
"title": "San Quentin State Prison"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2456598",
"text": "161 who were sentenced to death in the modern era were exonerated before their execution. As of April 1, 2018, 2,743 are still on death row. The first recorded death sentence in the British North American colonies was carried out in 1608 on Captain George Kendall, who was executed by firing squad at the Jamestown colony for spying for the Spanish government. The Bill of Rights adopted in 1789 included the Eighth Amendment which prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. The Fifth Amendment was drafted with language implying a possible use of the death penalty, requiring a grand jury indictment for",
"title": "Capital punishment in the United States"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2460058",
"text": "four times as many as Virginia (the state with the second-highest total of executions in the post-\"Gregg\" era) and over 37 times as many as California (the state with the largest number of death row inmates; California has not executed anyone since January 2006). Lists of people executed in Texas The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819-1849, is divided into periods of ten years. Since 1819, 1,313 individuals (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of December 11, 2018. Between 1819 and 1923, 390",
"title": "Lists of people executed in Texas"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "14024103",
"text": "always to be held accountable for your actions.\" Others point to academic studies that suggest African American defendants are more likely to receive a death sentence than defendants of other races, even when controlling for the circumstances of the murder, suggesting that individual factors do not explain the racial disparities. As of 2017, women account for 1.88% (53 people) of inmates on death row, with men accounting for the other 98.12% (2764). Since 1976, 1.1% (16) of those executed were women. Sexual orientation may also bias sentencing. In 1993, a jury deliberating over the sentencing of convicted murderer Charles Rhines",
"title": "Capital punishment debate in the United States"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "19444260",
"text": "Race and capital punishment in the United States The relationship between race and capital punishment in the United States has been studied extensively. As of 2014, 42% of those on death row in the United States were black. However, this is an under-representation relative to the proportion of convicted murderers; 52.5% of all homicide offenders between 1980 and 2008 were black. According to the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports, between the early 1960s and the late 1970s, the rate of homicides doubled. For every 100,000 U.S residents, the homicide victim rate elevated from 4.6 to 9.7. The homicide victim rate per",
"title": "Race and capital punishment in the United States"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2456671",
"text": "largest number of clemencies was granted in January 2003 in Illinois when outgoing Governor George Ryan, who had already imposed a moratorium on executions, pardoned four death-row inmates and commuted the sentences of the remaining 167 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. When Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation abolishing the death penalty in Illinois in March 2011, he commuted the sentences of the fifteen inmates on death row to life imprisonment. Previous post-\"Furman\" mass clemencies took place in 1986 in New Mexico, when Governor Toney Anaya commuted all death sentences because of his personal opposition to the",
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2,718
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big little lies season 2 how many episodes
|
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"seven"
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[
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"has_answer": true,
"id": "18768923",
"text": "series garnered several accolades. It received 16 Emmy Award nominations and won eight, including Outstanding Limited Series and acting awards for Kidman, Skarsgård, and Dern. The trio also won Golden Globe Awards in addition to a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film win for the series. Kidman and Skarsgård also received Screen Actors Guild Awards for their performances. Despite originally being billed as a miniseries, HBO renewed the series for a second season. Production on the second season began in March 2018 and is set to premiere in 2019. All seven episodes are being written by Kelley",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768928",
"text": "the second season. On March 27, 2018, it was announced that Douglas Smith had joined the cast in a recurring role. On April 3, 2018, it was confirmed that Kathryn Newton, Robin Weigert, Merrin Dungey, and Sarah Sokolovic were returning for the second season. Newton and Sokolovic have been upped from recurring roles to series regulars. Additionally, it was announced that Crystal Fox had joined the cast in a main role and that Mo McRae would appear in a recurring capacity. On April 10, 2018, it was announced that Martin Donovan had been cast in a recurring role. In May",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768932",
"text": "show garnered an array of critical accolades, he changed his mind: \"It'd be great to reunite the team and to do it. Are we going to be able to do it, altogether? I wish.\" In July 2017, two weeks after the series was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series, HBO revealed that a second season was possible, and that Moriarty had been asked to write a story for it. In December 2017, after the Critics' Choice Television Award and Golden Globe Award nomination voting periods were over, HBO officially renewed the series for a seven-episode second",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768933",
"text": "season to be written by David E. Kelley and directed by Andrea Arnold. Vallée will remain an executive producer of the series. Meryl Streep will join the cast as the mother of Alexander Skarsgård's character. The announcement of the second season, and—specifically—its timing, enraged the producers of rival shows that are competing for award nomination in the limited series category. Immediately following HBO's decision to produce a second installment of \"Big Little Lies\", the Producers Guild of America moved to reclassify the original installment of the show from a limited series to a drama series for the upcoming 2018 PGA",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
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"has_answer": false,
"id": "14603961",
"text": "comedy series \"Married\". Burns was cast as Assistant District Attorney Emily Sinclair in Season Two of the show \"How to Get Away With Murder\". In 2009, \"Entertainment Weekly\" named her one of the \"25 Funniest Actresses in Hollywood\". In June 2013 \"Entertainment Weekly\" named Burns one of \"15 Actresses We're Rooting For\" as part of its \"Emmy Watch\". In 2016, Burns appeared as Margie Turley in the Lorne Michaels-produced \"Brother Nature\". In 2017, Burns appeared as Gabrielle in the HBO original miniseries \"Big Little Lies\" and in the Netflix series \". Sarah Burns Sarah Burns (born July 26, 1981) is",
"title": "Sarah Burns"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768930",
"text": "were shot in Pacific Grove and Carmel Highlands as well. On October 16, 2016, HBO released the first teaser trailer for the series. On December 5, 2016, HBO released a full length trailer for the series. On February 7, 2017, the series held its official premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Internationally, the series premiered on February 20, 2017, in Australia on Showcase, and on March 13, 2017, in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Sky Atlantic. The show was initially conceived of and billed as a miniseries of seven episodes. In the wake of the",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18865172",
"text": "Lies\", filmed on location in Monterey, California. It was originally released February 19, 2017 on HBO. The mini-series stars Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Alexander Skarsgård, Adam Scott, Laura Dern, and Zoë Kravitz, and won 8 Emmy Awards at the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards including Outstanding Miniseries. Despite being called a miniseries, HBO announced in December 2017 that the series would return for a second season. Big Little Lies (novel) Big Little Lies is a 2014 novel written by Liane Moriarty. It was published in July 2014 by Penguin Publishing. The novel made the \"New York Times\" Best Seller",
"title": "Big Little Lies (novel)"
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"id": "20569372",
"text": "Showtime series \"I'm Dying Up Here,\" starring Melissa Leo, Michael Angarano, and Al Madrigal. In addition to cinematography, Frohna served as director for multiple episodes of \"Transparent\", including \"The Book of Life\" and \"I Never Promised You a Promised Land\", and of \"I Love Dick\" for the episode \"This Is Not A Love Letter\". In February 2018, Frohna began pre-production with director Andrea Arnold for season 2 of the HBO series \"Big Little Lies\", starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Zoë Kravitz, and Laura Dern. In 2017, Frohna was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series",
"title": "Jim Frohna"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "15790703",
"text": "marketing, and two children, George and Anna. Her novel \"Big Little Lies\" has been adapted into a television series by HBO, and stars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, and Alexander Skarsgård. The series premiered on February 19, 2017, and concluded on April 2, 2017. A second series was announced in December, 2017. A previous novel, \"The Husband's Secret\", is being adapted into a film. In September 2013, CBS Films acquired the rights to the novel. In May 2017, it was announced that the film will star Blake Lively. \"The Space Brigade\" series (also known as",
"title": "Liane Moriarty"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7854255",
"text": "Andrea Arnold Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actress. She won an Academy Award for her short film \"Wasp\" in 2005. She has since made the leap to feature films and television, including \"Red Road\" (2006), \"Fish Tank\" (2009), and \"American Honey\" (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Arnold has also directed four episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series \"Transparent\", as well as all seven episodes of the second season of the Emmy Award-winning series \"Big Little Lies\". Arnold was born in Dartford, Kent, the",
"title": "Andrea Arnold"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768922",
"text": "Big Little Lies (TV series) Big Little Lies is an American drama television series, based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty, that premiered on February 19, 2017, on HBO. Created and written by David E. Kelley, the series' seven-episode first season was directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. \"Big Little Lies\" stars Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley and tells the story of three emotionally troubled women in Monterey, California, who become embroiled in a murder investigation. Alexander Skarsgård, Laura Dern, Jeffrey Nordling, Adam Scott, Zoë Kravitz, and James Tupper feature in supporting roles. Critically acclaimed, the",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768931",
"text": "Emmy nominations, Reese Witherspoon said: \"As of right now, I think it's pretty whole. I feel really good about where it is, and if this is all it ever was, it's a beautiful thing we all accomplished together\", while Vallée came out strongly against the idea of producing a second season: \"There's no reason to make a season two. That was meant to be a one-time deal, and it's finishing in a way where it's for the audience to imagine what can happen. If we do a season two, we'll break that beautiful thing and spoil it\". Later, when the",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768935",
"text": "shows of 2017. A soundtrack for the series was released on Google Play and iTunes on March 31, 2017. The first season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on August 1, 2017. Big Little Lies (TV series) Big Little Lies is an American drama television series, based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty, that premiered on February 19, 2017, on HBO. Created and written by David E. Kelley, the series' seven-episode first season was directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. \"Big Little Lies\" stars Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley and tells the story of three emotionally",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768926",
"text": "announcement of the production's development, it was reported that Kidman and Witherspoon would also star in the adaptation as well. In December 2015, it announced that Shailene Woodley, Adam Scott, Laura Dern, and Zoë Kravitz had joined the cast in lead roles. On January 5, 2016, it was announced that Alexander Skarsgard and James Tupper had joined the main cast and that Jeffrey Nordling, Santiago Cabrera, P. J. Byrne, Kelen Coleman, Sarah Burns, Darby Camp, Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti, Ivy George, Chloe Coleman, Virginia Kull, Sarah Baker, Kathreen Khavari, Larry Bates, Hong Chau, and Gia Carides had joined the show's",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "731777",
"text": "make her television debut in a main role by starring in the second season of the HBO series \"Big Little Lies\", in which she plays Mary-Louise Wright, the mother-in-law of Nicole Kidman's character, and will star with Gary Oldman in Steven Soderbergh's political thriller \"The Laundromat\", based on the Panama Papers scandal. In addition, Streep has signed on to play Aunt March in \"Little Women\", an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel \"Little Women\", written and directed by Greta Gerwig with an ensemble cast including Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern, and Chris Cooper. \"Vanity Fair\" commented that",
"title": "Meryl Streep"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768927",
"text": "supporting cast. A few days later, it was reported that Iain Armitage had joined the cast in the role of Woodley's character's son. Soon after that, it was reported that Merrin Dungey, Larry Sullivan, and David Monahan had also joined the cast. On January 24, 2018, it was announced that Meryl Streep had joined the main cast in the role of Mary Louise Wright, the mother of Perry (played by Alexander Skarsgard in Season 1). In February 2018, it was confirmed that Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, Adam Scott, James Tupper, Jeffrey Nordling and Iain Armitage were returning for",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "15704337",
"text": "Gadson, who drummed for Bill Withers. His song \"Cold Little Heart\" serves as the opening theme for the HBO miniseries \"Big Little Lies\". Season 1 of the Netflix series \"Seven Seconds\" features his song \"Love & Hate\". Season 1 of the Netflix series The Get Down features his songs \"Rule the World\", and \"Black Man in a White World\". Season 3 episode 11 of the TNT series Animal Kingdom features his song \"Love and Hate\" Season 7 Episode 8 of Suits entitled \"100\" features his song \"Love and Hate\" Season 1 Episode 4 of Atlanta features his song \"Home Again\"",
"title": "Michael Kiwanuka"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768925",
"text": "that television series would be written by David E. Kelley. On May 8, 2015, it was announced that HBO had given the production a series order and that in addition to writing, Kelley would also executive produce. On October 23, 2015, it was reported that Jean-Marc Vallée was in talks to direct the first episode of the series with the potential to direct more. On December 17, 2015, it was announced that Vallée would direct all seven episodes of the series. On November 28, 2016, it was announced that the series would premiere on February 19, 2017. Alongside the initial",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18768929",
"text": "2018, it was reported that Poorna Jagannathan had joined the cast in a recurring capacity. Additionally, it was confirmed that P.J. Byrne would reprise his role of Principal Nippal. On June 15, 2018, it was announced that Denis O'Hare had been cast in a recurring role. The series was shot with an Arri Alexa digital camera. Jean-Marc Vallée, who directed the entirety of the first season, preferred using natural lighting and handheld shooting style to allow actors to move freely around the set. Much of the series was filmed on location on the Monterey Peninsula and Big Sur. Several scenes",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "928110",
"text": "a voice role in the animated film \"Sing\", as well as serving as a major performer on the film's soundtrack. The movie became Witherspoon's biggest hit, being the first to make over $200 million domestically and $600 million worldwide. In January 2016, Witherspoon began filming her first television project since \"Return To Lonesome Dove\", the seven-part miniseries adaptation of the Liane Moriarty bestseller, \"Big Little Lies\". She produced the miniseries, along with her co-star, Nicole Kidman, and the show's director, Jean-Marc Vallée, her second project under his direction. The series premiered on February 19, 2017 on HBO and finished on",
"title": "Reese Witherspoon"
}
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who sang waiting for a girl like you
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"Foreigner"
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"has_answer": true,
"id": "8685225",
"text": "Waiting for a Girl Like You \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\" is a 1981 power ballad by the British-American rock band Foreigner. The distinctive synthesizer theme was performed by the then-little-known Thomas Dolby, and this song also marked a major departure from their earlier singles because their previous singles were mid to upper tempo rock songs while this song was a softer love song with the energy of a power ballad. It was the second single released from the album \"4\" (1981) and was co-written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones. It has become one of the band's most",
"title": "Waiting for a Girl Like You"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "8685227",
"text": "held off the number 1 spot by Olivia Newton-John's single \"Physical\" for nine consecutive weeks, and then by Hall & Oates' \"I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)\" for a tenth week on January 30, 1982. Because of its chart longevity, it ended up being the number 19 song on the Top 100 singles of 1982. The song was the band's biggest hit until \"I Want to Know What Love Is\" hit number 1 in 1985. The song lists at number 100 on \"\"Billboard\"'s Greatest Songs of All Time\". Waiting for a Girl Like You \"Waiting for a Girl",
"title": "Waiting for a Girl Like You"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "8685226",
"text": "successful songs worldwide, peaking at number 2 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and number 1 on \"Billboard\"'s Rock Tracks chart. On the \"Billboard\" Adult Contemporary chart, the song reached number 5. The song peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\" achieved a chart distinction by spending its record-setting 10 weeks in the number 2 position of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, without ever reaching the top. It debuted on the Hot 100 chart dated October 10, 1981. It reached the number 2 position in the week of November 28, where it was",
"title": "Waiting for a Girl Like You"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "8710727",
"text": "\"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, holding that spot for the entire month of September. \"Urgent\" hit #1 on the \"Billboard\" Rock Tracks chart, a position it held for four weeks. \"Urgent\" was the most successful single from the \"4\" album on album-oriented rock radio, though it was outsold by the album's later single, \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\", which reached #2 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in November 1981 and remained at that spot through the end of the following January, for a total of ten weeks, being certified Gold. \"4\" went Gold and Platinum during the chart run of",
"title": "Urgent (song)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "2521086",
"text": "4 (Foreigner album) 4, also known as Foreigner 4, is the fourth studio album by the British-American rock band Foreigner, released on July 2, 1981 on Atlantic Records. Several singles from the album were hits, including \"Urgent\", \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\" and \"Juke Box Hero\". The album was a success worldwide, holding the #1 position on the \"Billboard\" album chart for a total of 10 weeks. It eventually sold over seven million copies in the US alone. The album was originally titled \"Silent Partners\" and later was changed to \"4\", reflecting both the fact that it was Foreigner's",
"title": "4 (Foreigner album)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "2521089",
"text": "stereo-multichannel Super Audio CD by Warner Japan in their Warner Premium Sound series. June 2015 saw its re-release on Atlantic Records premium 180-gram vinyl with its original 1981 classic track listing. Album – Billboard (United States) Singles – Billboard (United States) 4 (Foreigner album) 4, also known as Foreigner 4, is the fourth studio album by the British-American rock band Foreigner, released on July 2, 1981 on Atlantic Records. Several singles from the album were hits, including \"Urgent\", \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\" and \"Juke Box Hero\". The album was a success worldwide, holding the #1 position on the",
"title": "4 (Foreigner album)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "4343681",
"text": "including \"Hot Blooded\", \"Feels Like the First Time\", \"Cold as Ice\", \"Long, Long Way from Home\", \"Double Vision\", \"Blue Morning, Blue Day\", \"Head Games\", \"Dirty White Boy\", \"Urgent\", \"Juke Box Hero\", \"Break It Up\" and \"Say You Will\". He co-wrote most of the songs for the band, which achieved two of its biggest hits with the ballads \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\", which spent ten weeks at #2 on the 1981/82 American Hot 100, and \"I Want to Know What Love Is\", which was a #1 hit internationally (US & UK) in 1985. Gramm and Foreigner founder Mick Jones",
"title": "Lou Gramm"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "20372647",
"text": "among female rappers. It spent sixteen weeks atop the Radio Songs chart, tying Mariah Carey's \"We Belong Together\" as the longest-leading number one this century. Additionally, it reached number one in eleven other countries, including Canada and New Zealand. The song received a nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. \"Girls Like You\" was revealed as the ninth track on \"Red Pill Blues\" via Apple Music. It was announced as the third official single from the album, following the song \"Wait\". The remix versions of \"Girls Like You\" was released on August 2, 2018, featuring",
"title": "Girls Like You"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "11944858",
"text": "more than 50 million copies worldwide, almost 40 million of them in the United States alone. Among the 47 singles released by the band, 14 of them became top 20 hits in the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, including the number-one song \"I Want to Know What Love Is\" and the number-two \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\", which spent a record-setting 10 weeks at the number 2 position of the chart without ever reaching the top. Four of these singles were certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments of over a million copies, all of them which peaked within the",
"title": "Foreigner discography"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "2529166",
"text": "meantime, Foreigner began work on the next album at Electric Lady Studios in New York City with producer Robert John \"Mutt\" Lange, engineered by Dave Wittman (currently with Trans-Siberian Orchestra). \"4\" (released in July 1981) contained the hits \"Urgent\" (which includes the famous Junior Walker sax solo), \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\", \"Juke Box Hero\" and \"Break it Up\". Before releasing albums of his own, Thomas Dolby played synthesizers on \"4\" (he contributed the signature synth sound on \"Urgent\" and played the intro to \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\"). For their 1981–82 tour in support of \"4\", the",
"title": "Foreigner (band)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1615929",
"text": "The Troggs The Troggs (originally called the Troglodytes) are an English garage rock band formed in Andover, Hampshire in May 1964. They had a number of hits in the United Kingdom and the United States. Their most famous songs include the US chart-toppers \"Wild Thing\", \"With a Girl Like You\" and \"Love Is All Around\", all of which sold over 1 million copies and were awarded gold discs. \"Wild Thing\" is ranked #257 on the \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was an influence on garage rock and punk rock. Reg Presley (lead",
"title": "The Troggs"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "8160429",
"text": "whoever needs a knock on the head. In September 2014, Cobra Verde announced on cobraverde.com that it will be touring again and returning to the studio to record its next album. The OC Cobra Verde recorded a version of \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\" for the Fox television teen drama \"The OC.\" The band also performed the song on the show, called \"The Journey,\" which aired March 16, 2006. Cobra Verde plays a Foreigner tribute band that has been hired by Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) to perform at a birthday party for his friend Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie). Ryan",
"title": "Cobra Verde (band)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "5532124",
"text": "Langston of Throwing Muses guests on most tracks. The singles from the album were \"Time\" (the album version being titled \"Question Of Time\"), which included a sample from Pink Floyd's \"Time\" (from \"The Dark Side of the Moon\"), followed by a cover of Randy Newman's \"Mama Told Me Not to Come.\" The single \"A Girl Like You\" was released in May 1992 and became an international hit, scoring No. 2 on the \"Billboard\" US Modern Rock (Alternative Songs) chart on 15 August 1992. The song was later covered by Tom Jones, who then asked the band to write \"Show Me",
"title": "The Wolfgang Press"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "11944859",
"text": "top 3 (\"Hot Blooded\", \"Double Vision\", \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\" and \"I Want to Know What Love Is\"). Despite its British roots, the band achieved only moderate success in the UK Singles Chart, with only two of their songs, \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\" and \"I Want to Know What Love Is\", peaking within the top 20. In 2014, Rhino released a boxed set of the band's seven albums recorded for Atlantic entitled \"Foreigner: The Complete Atlantic Studios Albums 1977-1991\". The first four albums that were expanded to include bonus tracks in 2002 were included in the",
"title": "Foreigner discography"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "10812731",
"text": "With a Girl Like You \"With a Girl like You\" is a song released by the English rock band the Troggs, written by Reg Presley and produced by Larry Page. The song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 4 August 1966, where it remained for two weeks. In the U.S., it peaked at #29 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The song is featured, uncut, in a school dance scene from the 1991 Nicole Kidman/Noah Taylor film, \"Flirting\". It is also featured in the films and/or soundtracks to \"Shine\", \"The Good Night\" and \"The Boat That Rocked\". The",
"title": "With a Girl Like You"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "20372646",
"text": "Girls Like You \"Girls Like You\" is a song recorded by American band Maroon 5, from their sixth studio album \"Red Pill Blues\" (2017). A second version featuring American rapper Cardi B was released by 222 and Interscope Records as the album's third single on May 30, 2018. This version was written by Adam Levine, Cirkut, Cardi B, Starrah, Jason Evigan, and Gian Stone and was produced by Cirkut and Evigan. The single reached number one on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, making it Maroon 5's fourth and Cardi B's third chart-topper, who extended her record for most number-ones",
"title": "Girls Like You"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "9811935",
"text": "Wait for You (Elliott Yamin song) \"Wait for You\" is a song by former \"American Idol\" contestant Elliott Yamin. It is the first official single from his self-titled album \"Elliott Yamin\" (following the retail-only promotional hit \"Movin' On\"). \"Wait for You\" is a slow-tempo ballad composed in C major. He mentions in the song waiting indefinitely for the one he loves to come back to him. Despite the fact she has left him, he insists he knows she still loves him. \"Wait For You\" is often compared to songs by 98 Degrees (\"My Everything\"), Natalie (\"Goin' Crazy\"), S Club 7",
"title": "Wait for You (Elliott Yamin song)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18993769",
"text": "Lovato's \"most powerful\" video yet. Lovato and Sirah performed the song live for the very first time on August 13, 2016 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas during the Future Now Tour. Credits adapted from \"Confident\" album liner notes. Waitin for You \"Waitin for You\" is a song recorded by American singer Demi Lovato featuring rapper Sirah. The duo along with Julia Michaels, Jason Evigan and Steve Mac composed the song for Lovato's fifth studio album \"Confident\" (2015). Evigan and Mac also handled the song's production, with Mitch Allan serving as a vocal producer. In December 2013,",
"title": "Waitin for You"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1615942",
"text": "of a cover version of the Troggs song \"Strange Movies\". In 2012, Norwegian band Ulver covered the song \"66-5-4-3-2-1\" for their covers album \"Childhood's End\". The Troggs The Troggs (originally called the Troglodytes) are an English garage rock band formed in Andover, Hampshire in May 1964. They had a number of hits in the United Kingdom and the United States. Their most famous songs include the US chart-toppers \"Wild Thing\", \"With a Girl Like You\" and \"Love Is All Around\", all of which sold over 1 million copies and were awarded gold discs. \"Wild Thing\" is ranked #257 on the",
"title": "The Troggs"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "13806630",
"text": "was later released as a single re-recorded by John Du Cann. He was born in Andover, Hampshire, England. Bond was the original drummer with the 1960s band The Troggs, whose hits included \"Wild Thing\", (UK no. 2; US no. 1); \"With a Girl Like You\", (UK no. 1; US no. 29) and \"I Can't Control Myself\", (UK no. 2; US top 50), all in 1966, and \"Love is All Around\" (UK no. 5; US no. 7) in 1967 (1968 in the US). The Troggs also had several smaller hits, including \"Any Way That You Want Me\", a UK no. 8",
"title": "Ronnie Bond"
}
] |
Foreigner
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where do you cross the arctic circle in norway
|
[
"Saltfjellet"
] |
[
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7138810",
"text": "Arctic Norway Arctic Norway () comprises the northernmost parts of Norway that lie above the Arctic circle. Norway, being one of the most stretched-out countries in the world, reaches from approximately 58°N to 81°N, so large parts lie north of the Arctic circle at 66°33′. Arctic Norway consists of four geographically separated parts: The Arctic circle crosses mainland Norway at Saltfjellet, which separates Helgeland from the northern part of Nordland county. Thus about half of the county lies north of the Arctic circle, along with the whole of Troms and Finnmark counties. The total area of mainland Norway above the",
"title": "Arctic Norway"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7138812",
"text": "the coast of Greenland. It has an area of 373 km. The population is 18, which is the staff of the weather station. Arctic Norway Arctic Norway () comprises the northernmost parts of Norway that lie above the Arctic circle. Norway, being one of the most stretched-out countries in the world, reaches from approximately 58°N to 81°N, so large parts lie north of the Arctic circle at 66°33′. Arctic Norway consists of four geographically separated parts: The Arctic circle crosses mainland Norway at Saltfjellet, which separates Helgeland from the northern part of Nordland county. Thus about half of the county",
"title": "Arctic Norway"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2720466",
"text": "Hurtigruten Hurtigruten (\"Express Route\", also known as the Norwegian Coastal Express) is a Norwegian cruise, ferry and cargo operator. The company was founded in 1893 to operate voyages on Norway's western and northern coast between Bergen and Kirkenes. Hurtigruten ships sail almost the entire length of the country, crossing the arctic circle and completing the round-trip journey in 11 days. The trip has been described as the \"World's Most Beautiful Sea Voyage,\" with stops in such places as Bergen, the Geiranger fjord, and the Lofoten Islands. The company has nearly 2% of the worldwide cruise market. More recently, Hurtigruten has",
"title": "Hurtigruten"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3756897",
"text": "European route E6 European route E6 (, , or simply E6) is the main north-south road through Norway, and the west coast of Sweden. It is 3 088 km (1.919 mi) long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to the Arctic Circle and Nordkapp. The route ends in Kirkenes close to the Russian border. From south to north, E6 runs through Trelleborg, Malmö, Helsingborg, Halmstad, Gothenburg, Svinesund in Sweden, before crossing the border at the Svinesund Bridge into Norway. It then passes Halden, Sarpsborg, Moss to",
"title": "European route E6"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "15272698",
"text": "Hålogaland Bridge The Hålogaland Bridge () is a suspension bridge which crosses the Rombaksfjorden in the municipality of Narvik in Nordland county, Norway. As the second-longest bridge span in Norway, it is part of the European Route E6 highway. It will shorten the driving distance from Narvik to Bjerkvik by and from Narvik to Bjørnfjell, via European Route E10 by . The bridge was estimated to cost . Financing came from a mix of state grants and tolls. The bridge lies above the Arctic Circle and is the longest suspension bridge within the Arctic Circle at the time of its",
"title": "Hålogaland Bridge"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "17442552",
"text": "Circle is divided among 8 countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States (Alaska), Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut), Denmark (Greenland) and Iceland (where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey). The climate inside the Arctic Circle is generally cold, but the coastal areas of Norway have a generally mild climate as a result of the Gulf Stream, which makes the ports of northern Norway and northwest Russia ice-free all year long. In the interior, summers can be quite warm, while winters are extremely cold. For example, summer temperatures in Norilsk, Russia will sometimes reach as high",
"title": "Arctic Circle"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "9391163",
"text": "Saltfjellet Saltfjellet is a mountain area in Nordland county, Norway that separates the two regions of Helgeland and Salten. It is also a cultural border between the Southern and Central parts of Sápmi. The Saltfjell is one of the largest mountain ranges in Norway, and is also where the Arctic Circle cuts through the country. This range is part of seven municipalities: The northern part is part of Saltdal, Bodø, Beiarn and Gildeskål, the western part is in Meløy and Rødøy while the southern part is in Rana. The highest mountain is Ølfjellet at above sea level. The mountains stretch",
"title": "Saltfjellet"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7484812",
"text": "Nordkalottruta Nordkalottruta or Arctic Trail (Finnish: \"Kalottireitti\", Swedish: \"Nordkalottleden\") is a marked hiking trail in the Arctic region of the Nordic countries. It has a total length of 800 km and lies along the border of Norway, Sweden and Finland. It begins at Kautokeino (located in Finnmark, Northern Norway) and of the 800 km, 380 km of the trail lies in Norway, 350 km in Sweden and 70 km in Finland. The trail crosses international borders 15 times and ends in the south in Sulitjelma (Norway) or alternately Kvikkjokk (Sweden). The trail was originally planned in 1977. It passes through",
"title": "Nordkalottruta"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7138811",
"text": "Arctic circle is ca. . The population is about 393,000, which makes this the most populated arctic region in the world. Svalbard archipelago is situated some north of mainland Norway and has an area of . The population is about 2,400, and includes Longyearbyen, the northernmost town in the world. Bear Island () is situated some north of mainland Norway, about two-thirds the distance to Svalbard. It has an area of . The population is 9, which is the staff of the weather station. Jan Mayen is situated some 880 km northwest of mainland Norway and about 450 km off",
"title": "Arctic Norway"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "121290",
"text": "and on 30% of the road. North of Gävle there are varying speed limits, with , and as the most common. The speed limits on the main roads in Sweden were changed on many stretches in October 2008, which saw the introduction of the 120 km/h limit. The E 4 is the fastest road to go from Germany/Denmark to areas north of the Arctic Circle, including places in Norway such as Tromsø or the North Cape. The route passes through or nearby the cities Tornio, Haparanda, Luleå, Piteå, Skellefteå, Umeå, Örnsköldsvik, Härnösand, Sundsvall, Hudiksvall, Söderhamn, Gävle, Uppsala, Stockholm, Södertälje, Nyköping,",
"title": "European route E4"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1390817",
"text": "Tourism in Norway As of 2008, Norway ranks 17th in the World Economic Forum's Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report. Tourism in Norway contributed to 4.2% of the gross domestic product as reported in 2016.Every one in fifteen people throughout the country work in the tourism industry. Tourism is seasonal in Norway, with more than half of total tourists visiting between the months of May and August. The main attractions of Norway are the varied landscapes that extend across the Arctic Circle. It is famous for its fjord-indented coastline and its mountains, ski resorts, lakes and woods. Popular tourist destinations in",
"title": "Tourism in Norway"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "1468232",
"text": "Mo i Rana, Mosjøen and Rognan are situated in such valleys. Norway's second-largest glacier, Svartisen, the second-largest lake, Røssvatnet, and the second-deepest fjord, Tysfjord (897 m) are all located in Nordland. The largest river (waterflow) is Vefsna which forms the Laksforsen waterfall. The Saltfjellet mountain range forms a natural border between Helgeland and Salten, and is where the Arctic Circle cuts through the county. The western part of this mountain range is dominated by steep mountains and fjord inlets, with glaciers stretching towards the sea, while the eastern part of the mountains is more gentle and rounded, with some forested",
"title": "Nordland"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1390823",
"text": "view until May 2009. Tourism in Norway As of 2008, Norway ranks 17th in the World Economic Forum's Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report. Tourism in Norway contributed to 4.2% of the gross domestic product as reported in 2016.Every one in fifteen people throughout the country work in the tourism industry. Tourism is seasonal in Norway, with more than half of total tourists visiting between the months of May and August. The main attractions of Norway are the varied landscapes that extend across the Arctic Circle. It is famous for its fjord-indented coastline and its mountains, ski resorts, lakes and woods.",
"title": "Tourism in Norway"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "4934745",
"text": "often hugging the sides of fjords until Mo i Rana Station (). From Mo the line runs up the Dunderland Valley at a 1.2% gradient. From Dunderland Station () the line climbs at a 1.8% gradient for onto the Saltfjellet mountain plateau. It reaches its highest elevation just south of Stødi Station (), at above mean sea level, about after passing the Arctic Circle. The line then descends for the next at a 1.8% gradient until reaching almost sea level at Rognan Station (), by which time it has reached the district of Salten. The section onward to Finneid Station",
"title": "Nordland Line"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "4486116",
"text": "south of the Arctic Circle, is called Helgeland. Here there is a multitude of islands and skerries on the outside of the coastal range, some flat, some with impressive shapes, like Mount Torghatten, which has a hole through it, and the Seven Sisters near Sandnessjøen. The inland is covered with dense spruce forests and mountains near the Swedish border; some of the biggest rivers in the region are the Vefsna and the Ranelva. The highest mountain in Northern Norway is found here in the Okstindan range south of Mo i Rana with Oksskolten reaching above sea level, and with the",
"title": "Northern Norway"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "4486117",
"text": "glacier Okstindbreen. The Saltfjellet range, with its Svartisen glacier and intersecting Arctic Circle, divides Helgeland from the next region, called Salten. Notable peaks in Salten are the Børvasstindan south of Bodø, Suliskongen near Fauske (, highest mountain north of the Arctic Circle), the Steigartindan and the phallic Hamarøytinden. Between Saltfjellet and eastern Finnmark, Norway spruce trees have originally been planted and are mostly privately owned. The older plantations are now producing lumber, 80 years after planted. Lofoten is a chain of peaks that jut out of the ocean. From the mainland side it looks very barren, but behind the violet-black",
"title": "Northern Norway"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "6403366",
"text": "Ofotfjord Ofotfjord () or Narvik Fjord is a fjord in Nordland county, Norway. It is an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, located about north of the Arctic Circle. The long Ofotfjorden is Norway's 12th longest fjord and it is also the 18th deepest, with a maximum depth of . In the English language and in many historical documents, this fjord is often called the \"Narvik Fjord\", since the town of Narvik is located on the inner shores of the fjord. The fjord is surrounded by mountains, some reaching , and even in Skjomen, where the \"Frostisen\" glacier can be seen.",
"title": "Ofotfjord"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16064538",
"text": "Scandinavian Mountains The Scandinavian Mountains or the Scandes is a mountain range that runs through the Scandinavian Peninsula. The Scandinavian Mountains are often erroneously thought to be equivalent to the Scandinavian Caledonides, an ancient mountain range and orogen covering roughly the same area. The western sides of the mountains drop precipitously into the North Sea and Norwegian Sea, forming the fjords of Norway, whereas to the northeast they gradually curve towards Finland. To the north they form the border between Norway and Sweden, still reaching high at the Arctic Circle. The mountain range just touches northwesternmost Finland, but are scarcely",
"title": "Scandinavian Mountains"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "669030",
"text": "(\"night\"), since above the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun never shines from the north, except inside the Arctic Circle during the summer midnight sun. The direction north is often associated with colder climates because most of the world's land at high latitudes is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The Arctic Circle passes through the Arctic Ocean, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States (Alaska), Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut), Denmark (Greenland) and Iceland (where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey). By convention, the top side of a map is often north. To go north using a",
"title": "North"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "9391166",
"text": "was closed in the winter. The railway line was built over the mountain during World War II and opened in 1947. The mountain range is named after the Salten district, named after Saltfjorden (the Salt fjord). The last element is the finite form of \"fjell\" which means \"mountain\". Saltfjellet Saltfjellet is a mountain area in Nordland county, Norway that separates the two regions of Helgeland and Salten. It is also a cultural border between the Southern and Central parts of Sápmi. The Saltfjell is one of the largest mountain ranges in Norway, and is also where the Arctic Circle cuts",
"title": "Saltfjellet"
}
] |
Saltfjellet
|
who is the main character in green eggs and ham
|
[
"Sam-I-am"
] |
[
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "3096724",
"text": "Green Eggs and Ham Green Eggs and Ham is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published on August 12, 1960. As of 2016, the book has sold 8 million copies worldwide. The story has appeared in several adaptations starting with 1973's \"Dr. Seuss on the Loose\" starring Paul Winchell as the voice of both Sam-I-am and the first-person narrator. The story follows a strange creature who does not like green eggs and ham and his friend Sam-I-Am who wants him to eat it. The story becomes a refrain as Sam persistently follows his friend through an assortment of locations",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18936864",
"text": "Green Eggs and Ham (TV series) Green Eggs and Ham is an upcoming American animated television series from Warner Bros. Animation, A Very Good Production, A Stern Talking To, Random House Children's Entertainment and Gulfstream Television and distributed by Warner Bros. Television. It is slated to air for 13 half-hour episodes on Netflix and to be based on the 1960 Dr. Seuss book of the same title. Jared Stern, Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Kleeman, Mike Karz and David Dobkin are the executive producers of the show. Stern will also serve as a writer and showrunner. The series will have thirteen episodes.",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "3096725",
"text": "(in a house, in a box, in a car, in a tree, on a train, in the dark, in the rain, on a boat) and dining partners (a mouse, a fox, and a goat). The friend finally gives in and tries the dish, just to make Sam “let him be”, and finds it quite tasty, happily responding, \"I do so like green eggs and ham. Thank you. Thank you, Sam-I-am.\" \"Green Eggs and Ham\" is one of Seuss's \"Beginner Books\", written in a very simple vocabulary for beginning readers. The vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 words and",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18936865",
"text": "Sam-I-Am and his friend go on a cross-country trip that would test the limits of their friendship. As they learn to try new things, they find out what adventure brings. Green Eggs and Ham (TV series) Green Eggs and Ham is an upcoming American animated television series from Warner Bros. Animation, A Very Good Production, A Stern Talking To, Random House Children's Entertainment and Gulfstream Television and distributed by Warner Bros. Television. It is slated to air for 13 half-hour episodes on Netflix and to be based on the 1960 Dr. Seuss book of the same title. Jared Stern, Ellen",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "1903636",
"text": "in 1999 (though some of Winchell's vocals from previous Pooh animations were included). Other Disney roles included parts in \"The Aristocats\" as a Siamese cat named Shun Gon, and \"The Fox and the Hound\" as Boomer the woodpecker. He was also the original voice of Zummi Gummi on the TV series \"Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears\" for seasons 1–5; Jim Cummings took over for the final season in 1990. Winchell provided the voices of Sam-I-Am and the unnamed character Sam pesters in \"Green Eggs and Ham\" from the animated television special \"Dr. Seuss on the Loose\" in 1973. He",
"title": "Paul Winchell"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1470849",
"text": "in key roles. For his role as Sam, Penn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002. The film launched the career of child actress Dakota Fanning, who was then seven years old and had only acted in two small roles. She became the youngest actress to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. The movie's title is derived from the opening lines \"I am Sam / Sam I am\" of the book \"Green Eggs and Ham\", which is read in the movie. Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), a man with an",
"title": "I Am Sam"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3782228",
"text": "books on the list. The first two stories in the book (\"The Sneetches\" and \"The Zax\") were later adapted, along with \"Green Eggs and Ham\", into 1973's animated TV musical special \"Dr. Seuss on the Loose: The Sneetches, The Zax, Green Eggs and Ham\" with Hans Conried voicing the narrator and both Zaxes respectively, and Paul Winchell and Bob Holt voicing the Sneetches and Sylvester McMonkey McBean respectively. The first story in the collection tells of a group of yellow bird-like creatures called the Sneetches, some of whom have a green star on their bellies. At the beginning of the",
"title": "The Sneetches and Other Stories"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2960879",
"text": "Fox in Socks Fox in Socks is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1965. It features two main characters, Fox (an anthropomorphic fox) who speaks almost entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters and Knox (a yellow anthropomorphic character) who has a hard time following up Fox's tongue-twisters until the end. The book in some ways bears a resemblance to \"Green Eggs and Ham\", another book by Dr. Seuss. Both stories contain two main characters: one who is stubborn and wants to be left alone; the other, a persistent and sometimes annoying opposite. The book begins by introducing Fox",
"title": "Fox in Socks"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "17543223",
"text": "Award for Best Comedy. As of August 2015, Wells and partner Flint Wainess are developing a sitcom pilot for Comedy Central titled \"Bad Couple\", which Wells would star in if ordered to series. Wells and Wainess are also consulting writers on the upcoming Netflix animated children's series \"Green Eggs and Ham\", based on the popular Dr. Seuss book. In March 2017, Wells wrote, directed, and starred in the feature film \"Mr. Roosevelt\", which premiered at the SXSW film festival in Narrative Spotlight. It has won multiple awards including the Audience Award and Louis Black Lone Star Jury Award at SXSW",
"title": "Noël Wells"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2960885",
"text": "poem about an elephant who tripped and fell on his nose. This version of the book was published in 1980 by Keter Publications in Jerusalem. Fox in Socks Fox in Socks is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1965. It features two main characters, Fox (an anthropomorphic fox) who speaks almost entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters and Knox (a yellow anthropomorphic character) who has a hard time following up Fox's tongue-twisters until the end. The book in some ways bears a resemblance to \"Green Eggs and Ham\", another book by Dr. Seuss. Both stories contain two main",
"title": "Fox in Socks"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3096726",
"text": "was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss's publisher, that Seuss (after completing \"The Cat in the Hat\" using 236 words) could not complete an entire book without exceeding that limit. The 50 words are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you. \"Green Eggs and Ham\" was published on August 12, 1960.",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7655069",
"text": "Dr. Seuss on the Loose Dr. Seuss on the Loose (titled Green Eggs and Ham and Other Stories for the sing-a-long videocasette release and the deluxe edition releases) is an animated musical television special, first airing on CBS on October 15, 1973, and hosted by The Cat in the Hat who appears in bridging sequences where he introduced animated adaptations of Dr. Seuss children's stories \"The Sneetches\", \"The Zax\" and \"Green Eggs and Ham\". Allan Sherman reprised his role as the voice of The Cat in the Hat from the 1971 television special. This was the final project Sherman worked",
"title": "Dr. Seuss on the Loose"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3096729",
"text": "the floor of the United States Senate during his filibuster over the funding over Obamacare. Musician will.i.am has stated that his moniker is inspired by the story. On September 29, 1991, following Dr. Seuss' death earlier that week, the Reverend Jesse Jackson recited an excerpt of \"Green Eggs and Ham\" on \"Saturday Night Live\" during a special tribute segment. In 1965, a withdrawn source claimed that the book was banned in China for its \"portrayal of early Marxism\". The ban was lifted in 1991, following Seuss' death. Green Eggs and Ham Green Eggs and Ham is a children's book by",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3907961",
"text": "animation as a storyboard artist for \"Green Eggs and Ham\", a Netflix show produced by Warner Brother premiering in 2018. His previous credits include \"Adventure Time,\" \"Axe Cop,\" \"Golan The Insatiable,\" \"Major Lazer,\" \"Lucas Bros Moving Company\" and \"High School USA.\" The animated short, \"Sympathy for Slenderman\" for which Kim contributed character and background designs was nominated for a Webby Award in 2014. Derek Kirk Kim Derek Kirk Kim is a Korean-American writer, artist and filmmaker. He is currently directing on \"Amphibia\", an animated series airing in 2019 on the Disney Channel. He was also the lead character designer of",
"title": "Derek Kirk Kim"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3162300",
"text": "The Duck Avenger in \"\". Rob also voiced Alfredo Fettuccini, Bob the Ghost Pirate, Lookout and Ghost Priest in \"The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition\". He voiced the Fox and the Mouse in the \"Green Eggs and Ham\" PC game. He also voiced Tlaloc in \"Tak and the Power of Juju\". Most recently he has voiced The Riddler in \"\", a role he reprised in \"\". Rob is the voice of talking alien dog Beak-Beak in \"Armikrog\". Paulsen also voices Smash Hit in\" \" and \"\". Paulsen is also the off-camera voice of the syndicated television series \"Funniest Pets",
"title": "Rob Paulsen"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3096728",
"text": "year, it was ranked number 12 among the \"Top 100 Picture Books\" in a survey published by \"School Library Journal\" – the first of five Dr. Seuss books on the list. The book has become sufficiently ingrained in the cultural consciousness that U.S. District Court Judge James Muirhead referenced \"Green Eggs and Ham\" in his September 21, 2007 court ruling after receiving an egg in the mail from prisoner Charles Jay Wolff who was protesting against the prison diet. Muirhead ordered the egg destroyed and rendered his judgment in the style of Seuss. Senator Ted Cruz read the book on",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2387159",
"text": "tiny flying \"Elephant-Bird\", amazing everyone but dismaying Horton, who panics at the thought of flying progeny. Gertrude reassures him that they can raise the child together, and they agree to do so. With the story finished, the Cat returns to close the show (\"Finale\"/\"Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!\"), then vanishes along with the scenery, leaving his hat and Jojo, who is now the Boy again. The Boy picks the hat up, dons it, and says, \"Seuss!\" During a curtain call, the company performs a number based on \"Green Eggs and Ham\" (\"Green Eggs and Ham\"). Major characters Minor characters",
"title": "Seussical"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3907955",
"text": "Derek Kirk Kim Derek Kirk Kim is a Korean-American writer, artist and filmmaker. He is currently directing on \"Amphibia\", an animated series airing in 2019 on the Disney Channel. He was also the lead character designer of \"Adventure Time\" and a storyboard artist for \"Green Eggs and Ham\". He is also the writer of TUNE and the writer and director of the spin-off webseries, Mythomania. He won all three major comics industry awards, the Eisner (2004), the Harvey (2004), and the Ignatz Award (2003) for his debut graphic novel \"Same Difference and Other Stories.\" (The contents of which were originally",
"title": "Derek Kirk Kim"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3096727",
"text": "By 2001, it had become the fourth-best selling English-language children's hardcover book of all time. As of 2014, the book has sold 8 million copies. In 1999 the National Education Association (NEA) conducted an online survey of children and teachers, seeking the 100 most popular children's books. The children ranked \"Green Eggs and Ham\" third, just above another Dr. Seuss book, \"The Cat in the Hat\". The teachers ranked it fourth. Teachers ranked it fourth again in a 2007 NEA poll. \"Scholastic Parent & Child\" magazine placed it #7 among the \"100 Greatest Books for Kids\" in 2012. That same",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "115632",
"text": "his well-known pseudonym Dr. Seuss, though he also authored more than a dozen books as Theo LeSieg and one as Rosetta Stone. His books have topped many bestseller lists, sold over 600 million copies, and been translated into more than 20 languages. In 2000, \"Publishers Weekly\" compiled a list of the best-selling children's books of all time; of the top 100 hardcover books, 16 were written by Geisel, including \"Green Eggs and Ham\", at number 4, \"The Cat in the Hat\", at number 9, and \"One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish\", at number 13. In the years after",
"title": "Dr. Seuss"
}
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do veins carry blood to the heart or away
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"to"
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{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "639661",
"text": "Vein Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Most veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart; exceptions are the pulmonary and umbilical veins, both of which carry oxygenated blood to the heart. In contrast to veins, arteries carry blood away from the heart. Veins are less muscular than arteries and are often closer to the skin. There are valves in most veins to prevent backflow. Veins are present throughout the body as tubes that carry blood back to the heart. Veins are classified in a number of ways, including superficial vs. deep, pulmonary",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "639667",
"text": "venules, which continue to converge and form the larger veins. The de-oxygenated blood is taken by veins to the right atrium of the heart, which transfers the blood to the right ventricle, where it is then pumped through the pulmonary arteries to the lungs. In pulmonary circulation the pulmonary veins return oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium, which empties into the left ventricle, completing the cycle of blood circulation. The return of blood to the heart is assisted by the action of the muscle pump, and by the thoracic pump action of breathing during respiration. Standing or",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "639669",
"text": "pressure. The arteries are perceived as carrying oxygenated blood to the tissues, while veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart. This is true of the systemic circulation, by far the larger of the two circuits of blood in the body, which transports oxygen from the heart to the tissues of the body. However, in pulmonary circulation, the arteries carry deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs, and veins return blood from the lungs to the heart. The difference between veins and arteries is their direction of flow (out of the heart by arteries, returning to the heart for",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "639666",
"text": "cells called tunica intima. The precise location of veins varies much more from person to person than that of arteries. Veins serve to return blood from organs to the heart. Veins are also called \"capacitance vessels\" because most of the blood volume (60%) is contained within veins. In systemic circulation oxygenated blood is pumped by the left ventricle through the arteries to the muscles and organs of the body, where its nutrients and gases are exchanged at capillaries. After taking up cellular waste and carbon dioxide in capillaries, blood is channeled through vessels that converge with one another to form",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "639663",
"text": "person's skin, how much oxygen is being carried in the blood, and how big and deep the vessels are. When a vein is drained of blood and removed from an organism, it appears grey-white. The largest veins in the human body are the venae cavae. These are two large veins which enter the right atrium of the heart from above and below. The superior vena cava carries blood from the arms and head to the right atrium of the heart, while the inferior vena cava carries blood from the legs and abdomen to the heart. The inferior vena cava is",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "639664",
"text": "retroperitoneal and runs to the right and roughly parallel to the abdominal aorta along the spine. Large veins feed into these two veins, and smaller veins into these. Together this forms the venous system. Whilst the main veins hold a relatively constant position, the position of veins person to person can display quite a lot of variation. The pulmonary veins carry relatively oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart. The superior and inferior venae cavae carry relatively deoxygenated blood from the upper and lower systemic circulations, respectively. The portal venous system is a series of veins or venules that",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "639683",
"text": "blood, each with distinct and separate functions. Growth and energy were derived from venous blood created in the liver from chyle, while arterial blood gave vitality by containing pneuma (air) and originated in the heart. Blood flowed from both creating organs to all parts of the body where it was consumed and there was no return of blood to the heart or liver. The heart did not pump blood around, the heart's motion sucked blood in during diastole and the blood moved by the pulsation of the arteries themselves. Galen believed that the arterial blood was created by venous blood",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "639670",
"text": "veins), not their oxygen content. In addition, deoxygenated blood that is carried from the tissues back to the heart for reoxygenation in the systemic circulation still carries some oxygen, though it is considerably less than that carried by the systemic arteries or pulmonary veins. Although most veins take blood back to the heart, there is an exception. Portal veins carry blood between capillary beds. For example, the hepatic portal vein takes blood from the capillary beds in the digestive tract and transports it to the capillary beds in the liver. The blood is then drained in the gastrointestinal tract and",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "472789",
"text": "away from the heart to the tissues, except for pulmonary arteries, which carry blood to the lungs for oxygenation (usually veins carry deoxygenated blood to the heart but the pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood as well). There are two types of unique arteries. The pulmonary artery carries blood from the heart to the lungs, where it receives oxygen. It is unique because the blood in it is not \"oxygenated\", as it has not yet passed through the lungs. The other unique artery is the umbilical artery, which carries deoxygenated blood from a fetus to its mother. Arteries have a blood",
"title": "Artery"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2824654",
"text": "Venous blood Venous blood is deoxygenated blood which travels from the peripheral vessels, through the venous system into the right atrium of the heart. Deoxygenated blood is then pumped by the right ventricle to the lungs via the pulmonary artery which is divided in two branches, left and right to the left and right lungs respectively. Blood is oxygenated in the lungs and returns to the left atrium through the pulmonary veins. Venous blood is typically colder than arterial blood, and has a lower oxygen content and pH. It also has lower concentrations of glucose and other nutrients, and has",
"title": "Venous blood"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7389336",
"text": "Hepatic portal system In human anatomy, the hepatic portal system is the system of veins comprising the hepatic portal vein and its tributaries. It is also called the portal venous system, although it is not the only example of a portal venous system, and splanchnic veins, which is \"not\" synonymous with \"hepatic portal system\" and is imprecise (as it means \"visceral veins\" and not necessarily the \"veins of the abdominal viscera\"). The portal venous system is responsible for directing blood from parts of the gastrointestinal tract to the liver. Substances absorbed in the small intestine travel first to the liver",
"title": "Hepatic portal system"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "588400",
"text": "body. This is a result of the left and right side of the heart working together to allow blood to flow continuously to the lungs and other parts of the body. Oxygen poor blood enters the right side of the heart through two large veins. Oxygen rich blood from the lungs enters through the pulmonary veins on the left side of the heart into the aorta and then reaches the rest of the body. The capillaries are responsible for allowing the blood to receive oxygen through tiny air sacs in the lungs. This is also the site where carbon dioxide",
"title": "Blood vessel"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2981477",
"text": "where carbon dioxide is released and oxygen is picked up during respiration. Arteries are further divided into very fine capillaries which are extremely thin-walled. The pulmonary vein returns oxygenated blood to the left atrium of the heart. The oxygenated blood then leaves the lungs through pulmonary veins, which return it to the left heart, completing the pulmonary cycle. This blood then enters the left atrium, which pumps it through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. From the left ventricle, the blood passes through the aortic valve to the aorta. The blood is then distributed to the body through the",
"title": "Pulmonary circulation"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "47129",
"text": "vary somewhat between species. In non-mammalian vertebrates, however, there are some key differences: Blood is circulated around the body through blood vessels by the pumping action of the heart. In humans, blood is pumped from the strong left ventricle of the heart through arteries to peripheral tissues and returns to the right atrium of the heart through veins. It then enters the right ventricle and is pumped through the pulmonary artery to the lungs and returns to the left atrium through the pulmonary veins. Blood then enters the left ventricle to be circulated again. Arterial blood carries oxygen from inhaled",
"title": "Blood"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2992577",
"text": "drain into the pulmonary circulation in whole or in part, this is known as a total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (or drainage), or partial anomalous pulmonary connection, respectively. Pulmonary vein The pulmonary veins are the veins that transfer oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart. The largest pulmonary veins are the four \"main pulmonary veins\", two from each lung that drain into the left atrium of the heart. The pulmonary veins are part of the pulmonary circulation. Two main pulmonary veins emerge from each lung hilum, receiving blood from three or four bronchial veins apiece and draining into the",
"title": "Pulmonary vein"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "473072",
"text": "to and from the body and the pulmonary circulation to and from the lungs. Blood in the pulmonary circulation exchanges carbon dioxide for oxygen in the lungs through the process of respiration. The systemic circulation then transports oxygen to the body and returns carbon dioxide and relatively deoxygenated blood to the heart for transfer to the lungs. The right heart collects deoxygenated blood from two large veins, the superior and inferior venae cavae. Blood collects in the right and left atrium continuously. The superior vena cava drains blood from above the diaphragm and empties into the upper back part of",
"title": "Heart"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "639671",
"text": "spleen, where it is taken up by the hepatic veins, and blood is taken back into the heart. Since this is an important function in mammals, damage to the hepatic portal vein can be dangerous. Blood clotting in the hepatic portal vein can cause portal hypertension, which results in a decrease of blood fluid to the liver. The vessels that remove the deoxygenated blood from the heart muscle are known as cardiac veins. These include the great cardiac vein, the middle cardiac vein, the small cardiac vein, the smallest cardiac veins, and the anterior cardiac veins. Coronary veins carry blood",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2992574",
"text": "Pulmonary vein The pulmonary veins are the veins that transfer oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart. The largest pulmonary veins are the four \"main pulmonary veins\", two from each lung that drain into the left atrium of the heart. The pulmonary veins are part of the pulmonary circulation. Two main pulmonary veins emerge from each lung hilum, receiving blood from three or four bronchial veins apiece and draining into the left atrium. An inferior and superior main vein drains each lung, so there are four main veins in total. At the root of the lung, the right superior",
"title": "Pulmonary vein"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3038825",
"text": "Venule A venule is a very small blood vessel in the microcirculation that allows blood to return from the capillary beds to drain into the larger blood vessels, the veins. Venules range from 7μm to 1mm in diameter. Veins contain approximately 70% of total blood volume, 25% of which is contained in the venules. Many venules unite to form a vein. Venule walls have three layers: An inner endothelium composed of squamous endothelial cells that act as a membrane, a middle layer of muscle and elastic tissue and an outer layer of fibrous connective tissue. The middle layer is poorly",
"title": "Venule"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "588392",
"text": "between the blood and the tissues; and the veins, which carry blood from the capillaries back toward the heart. The word \"vascular\", meaning relating to the blood vessels, is derived from the Latin \"vas\", meaning vessel. A few structures (such as cartilage and the lens of the eye) do not contain blood vessels and are labeled. The arteries and veins have three layers. The middle layer is thicker in the arteries than it is in the veins: Capillaries consist of little more than a layer of endothelium and occasional connective tissue. When blood vessels connect to form a region of",
"title": "Blood vessel"
}
] |
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who played charlie bucket in the original charlie and the chocolate factory
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"Peter Gardner[4] Ostrum"
] |
[
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3195419",
"text": "Peter Ostrum Peter Gardner Ostrum (; born November 1, 1957) is an American veterinarian and former child actor whose only film role was as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\". Ostrum was 12 years old when selected by talent agents for \"Willy Wonka\". Though he enjoyed the experience of shooting the film, he opted not to sign a three-film contract when it was over. After eschewing a career in film and theatre, Ostrum became reluctant to speak about his one starring role. In 1990, he began an annual tradition of speaking to schoolchildren",
"title": "Peter Ostrum"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "3195432",
"text": "on Call\", funded by Pfizer, highlighting the work of large animal veterinarians. Peter Ostrum Peter Gardner Ostrum (; born November 1, 1957) is an American veterinarian and former child actor whose only film role was as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\". Ostrum was 12 years old when selected by talent agents for \"Willy Wonka\". Though he enjoyed the experience of shooting the film, he opted not to sign a three-film contract when it was over. After eschewing a career in film and theatre, Ostrum became reluctant to speak about his one starring",
"title": "Peter Ostrum"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "11448480",
"text": "Diana Sowle Diana Mae Sowle (née Laumer; June 19, 1930 – October 19, 2018) was an American actress of film and theater and voice artist, best known for playing Mrs. Bucket (Charlie Bucket's mother) in the 1971 film \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\" and her performance of \"Cheer up Charlie\" in that film, although her voice in the song was dubbed by Diana Lee. Sowle joined the cast while in Germany, where it was filmed. At the time of her death in 2018, she was the last surviving parent from the film. Sowle's death left three remaining adult cast",
"title": "Diana Sowle"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1488132",
"text": "film tells the story of Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) as he receives a Golden Ticket and visits Willy Wonka's chocolate factory with four other children from around the world. Filming took place in Munich in 1970, and the film was released by Paramount Pictures on June 30, 1971. With a budget of just $3 million, the film received generally positive reviews and earned $4 million by the end of its original run. The film became highly popular in part through repeated television airings and home entertainment sales. In 1972, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score,",
"title": "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "680741",
"text": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin, 11 months later. The book has been adapted into two major motion pictures: \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\" in 1971, and \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" in 2005. The book's sequel, \"Charlie",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "427555",
"text": "adaptation of the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. Starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Deep Roy as the Oompa-Loompas, the film generally took a more faithful approach to the source material than the 1971 adaptation, \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\", although some liberties were taken, such as adding Wonka's issue with his father (played by Christopher Lee). \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. The film made over $207 million domestically. Filming proved difficult as Burton, Depp, and Danny Elfman had",
"title": "Tim Burton"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "4330722",
"text": "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2005, he portrayed the main role of Charlie Bucket in Tim Burton's musical fantasy film \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", adapted from the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. He was reportedly recommended by co-star Johnny Depp, with whom Highmore had worked in \"Finding Neverland\"; Depp had been impressed by the young actor's performance and thus put his name forward for the role. Highmore had not seen the original 1971 version of the film, and decided not to see it until he was done filming so his",
"title": "Freddie Highmore"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "4273950",
"text": "Elfman contributed to a film score using written songs and his vocals. Filming took place from June to December 2004 at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" was released to positive critical reception and was a box office success, grossing $475 million worldwide. Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) is a poor boy who lives near the Wonka Candy Company. The company's owner, Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), has for long closed access to his factory due to problems concerning industrial espionage that led him to fire all his employees, among them Charlie's Grandpa Joe (David Kelly). One",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "773955",
"text": "to win. Albertson appeared as Charlie Bucket's Grandpa Joe in \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\" (1971), and in \"The Poseidon Adventure\" (1972), where he played Manny Rosen, husband to Belle, played by Shelley Winters. Albertson said that his one regret was that he did not reprise his role in the movie version of \"The Sunshine Boys\". When producer Ray Stark acquired the film rights from Neil Simon in 1973, Albertson was expected to play the part, but by the time MGM had bought the rights in 1974 and was preparing to begin filming in February 1975, Albertson was not",
"title": "Jack Albertson"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "4273968",
"text": "1971 film for the purpose of money. Depp said he was disappointed by Wilder's comment, and responded that the film was not a remake, but a new adaptation of Dahl's 1964 book. The casting calls for Charlie Bucket, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt, and Mike Teavee took place in the United States and United Kingdom, while Augustus Gloop's casting took place in Germany. Burton said he sought actors \"who had something of the character in them\", and found Mike Teavee the hardest character to cast. Burton was finding trouble casting Charlie, until Depp, who had worked with Freddie Highmore on \"Finding",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1488133",
"text": "and Wilder was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, but lost both to \"Fiddler on the Roof\". The film also introduced the song \"The Candy Man\", which went on to become a popular hit when recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". In a small town in 1970, Charlie Bucket, a poor paperboy, watches a group of children visit a candy shop. Walking home, he passes Willy Wonka's",
"title": "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "4273948",
"text": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 musical fantasy comedy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, based on the 1964 British novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket. The storyline follows Charlie, who wins a contest and, along with four other contest winners, is led by Wonka on a tour of his chocolate factory, the most magnificent in the world. Development for a second adaptation of \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" (filmed previously as",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16869145",
"text": "the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. The storyline concerns Charlie, who takes a tour he has won, led by Wonka, through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world. Development for another adaptation of \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", filmed previously as \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\", began in 1991, 20 years after the first film version, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the Dahl Estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, directors such as Gary",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "5539991",
"text": "the father of Golden Ticket winner Violet Beauregarde, in \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\". He was the last surviving adult character who toured the factory in the movie; however, Diana Sowle, who played Mrs. Bucket, lived until October 2018. In 1973’s \"Soylent Green\" he played Charles, the manager of the building where the murdered character portrayed by Joseph Cotten lived. He was the bartender in \"The Shakiest Gun in the West\" (1968), and a congressman in \"\" (1972), which starred James Earl Jones as the first black president of the United States. He appeared in the Jerry Lewis vehicle",
"title": "Leonard Stone"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3195422",
"text": "who were searching nationwide for the actor to portray Charlie Bucket in \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\". The agents took Polaroid photos of Ostrum and recorded him reading from the original novel, then returned to New York. Two months later Ostrum was called to New York for a screen test where he sang \"My Country, 'Tis of Thee\", and a month after that he was contacted and given ten days to prepare to leave for filming. Ostrum left for Munich on August 10, 1970. In 2000, Ostrum recalled that shooting \"Willy Wonka\" in Munich was \"sort of like being",
"title": "Peter Ostrum"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "11448596",
"text": "Ernst Ziegler Ernst Ziegler (born Ernst Aldoff, 16 April 1894 – 11 April 1974), was a German actor. Ziegler began his film career in 1932, appearing in the German film \"Die verkaufte Braut\" (The Bartered Bride). He went on to act in other German films and on German television. In 1970, he appeared in the American film \"Something for Everyone\", starring Angela Lansbury. His final film role was as Grandpa George (Charlie Bucket's grandfather) in the 1971 film \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\". By this time, Ziegler's health was deteriorating, and he was legally blind. He died of emphysema",
"title": "Ernst Ziegler"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "11448597",
"text": "in April 1974, in West Berlin five days before his 80th birthday. Ernst Ziegler Ernst Ziegler (born Ernst Aldoff, 16 April 1894 – 11 April 1974), was a German actor. Ziegler began his film career in 1932, appearing in the German film \"Die verkaufte Braut\" (The Bartered Bride). He went on to act in other German films and on German television. In 1970, he appeared in the American film \"Something for Everyone\", starring Angela Lansbury. His final film role was as Grandpa George (Charlie Bucket's grandfather) in the 1971 film \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\". By this time, Ziegler's",
"title": "Ernst Ziegler"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "11448579",
"text": "Dora Altmann Dora Altmann (born Dora Alrich, 20 February 1881 – 24 December 1971) was a German actress, who acted in on television and film during the 1960s and early 1970s. Altmann was 80 years old when she made her screen debut in 1961 as Veronika in \"Die drei Eisbären\". She played the small uncredited part of Grandma Georgina, (Charlie Bucket's grandmother), in the 1971 film version of \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\", her only US film credit. Her final screen role, as Frau Windegger on the episode \"Wenn Steine sprechen\" of the television series \"Tatort\", was aired in",
"title": "Dora Altmann"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "4273969",
"text": "Neverland\", suggested Highmore for the part. Highmore had already read the book before, but decided to read it once more prior to auditioning. The actor did not see the original film adaptation, and chose not to see it until after Burton's production, so his portrayal would not be influenced. Before Adam Godley was officially cast as Mr. Teavee, Dan Castellaneta, Tim Allen, Ed O'Neill, Bob Saget, and Ray Romano were all considered for the role. It has been rumored that Gregory Peck was considered for the role of Grandpa Joe. Other actors that were considered for Grandpa Joe included Richard",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "11448634",
"text": "Franziska Liebing Franziska Liebing (6 February 1899 – 3 January 1993) also known as Franziska Liebig, was a German film and later US film actress. Liebling was born in Ersnas, Sweden, although many sources stated she was born in Munich, where she spend her working life She was active on screen between 1953 and 1979, papering in TV series and made for TV films, although she was most notable roles as Grandma Josephine (Charlie Bucket's grandmother) in the 1971 film \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\". Her final on-screen role came in \"Der Ruepp\" in 1979 She was married to",
"title": "Franziska Liebing"
}
] |
Peter Gardner[4] Ostrum
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what is 1 radian in terms of pi
|
[
"1/2π"
] |
[
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "318218",
"text": "and the integral computes the area between that half of a circle and the axis. The trigonometric functions rely on angles, and mathematicians generally use radians as units of measurement. plays an important role in angles measured in radians, which are defined so that a complete circle spans an angle of 2 radians. The angle measure of 180° is equal to radians, and 1° = /180 radians. Common trigonometric functions have periods that are multiples of ; for example, sine and cosine have period 2, so for any angle and any integer , Many of the appearances of in the",
"title": "Pi"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18947201",
"text": "the angle is measured as long as each angle is measured in the same unit. One \"radian\" is the angle subtended by an arc of a circle that has the same length as the circle's radius. The radian is the derived quantity of angular measurement in the SI system. By definition, it is dimensionless, though it may be specified as \"rad\" to avoid ambiguity. Angles measured in degrees, are shown with the symbol °. Subdivisions of the degree are minute (symbol ', 1' = 1/60°) and second {symbol \", 1\" = 1/3600°}. An angle of 360° corresponds to the angle",
"title": "Angular unit"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "318229",
"text": "if a compact surface has Gauss curvature \"K\", then where is the Euler characteristic, which is an integer. An example is the surface area of a sphere \"S\" of curvature 1 (so that its radius of curvature, which coincides with its radius, is also 1.) The Euler characteristic of a sphere can be computed from its homology groups and is found to be equal to two. Thus we have reproducing the formula for the surface area of a sphere of radius 1. The constant appears in many other integral formulae in topology, in particular, those involving characteristic classes via the",
"title": "Pi"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "4908151",
"text": "0.1 mil equals exactly 1 cm at 100 meters), while conversions of minutes of arc to both metric and imperial values are approximate. Because of the definition of pi, in a circle with a diameter of one there are 2000π milliradians (≈ 6283.185 mil) per full turn. In other words, one real milliradian covers just under of the circumference of a circle, which is the definition used by telescopic rifle sight manufacturers in reticles for stadiametric rangefinding. For maps and artillery, three rounded definitions are used which are close to the real definition, but more easily can be divided into",
"title": "Milliradian"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "318256",
"text": "technologically minded groups. Several college cheers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology include \"3.14159\". Pi Day in 2015 was particularly significant because the date and time 3/14/15 9:26:53 reflected many more digits of pi. During the 2011 auction for Nortel's portfolio of valuable technology patents, Google made a series of unusually specific bids based on mathematical and scientific constants, including . In 1958 Albert Eagle proposed replacing by (tau), where , to simplify formulas. However, no other authors are known to use in this way. Some people use a different value, , arguing that , as the number of radians",
"title": "Pi"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "318202",
"text": "being used as late as 1767. Euler started using the single-letter form beginning with his 1727 \"Essay Explaining The Properties Of Air\", though he used , the ratio of radius to periphery, in this and some later writing. Euler first used in his 1736 work \"Mechanica\", and continued in his widely-read 1748 work \"Introductio in analysin infinitorum\" (he wrote: \"for the sake of brevity we will write this number as ; thus is equal to half the circumference of a circle of radius 1\"). Because Euler corresponded heavily with other mathematicians in Europe, the use of the Greek letter spread",
"title": "Pi"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "318257",
"text": "in one turn, or as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius rather than its diameter, is more natural than and simplifies many formulas. Celebrations of this number, because it approximately equals 6.28, by making 28 June \"Tau Day\" and eating \"twice the pie\", have been reported in the media. However, this use of has not made its way into mainstream mathematics. In 1897, an amateur American mathematician attempted to persuade the Indiana legislature to pass the Indiana Pi Bill, which described a method to square the circle and contained text that implied various incorrect values for ,",
"title": "Pi"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7475726",
"text": "second\" is in calculation of the power transmitted by a shaft. In the International System of Units, widely used in physics and engineering, the power \"p\" is equal to the rotational speed \"ω\" (in radians per second) multiplied by the torque \"τ\" applied to the shaft, in newton-meters. Thus, , and the unit is the watt, with no numerical coefficient needed. In other systems, an additional factor may be necessary. For example, if one multiplies angular velocity in revolutions per minute (rpm) by the torque in pound-feet, then a factor is needed to convert the result in horsepower. An angular",
"title": "Radian per second"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "15380595",
"text": "Life of Pi (film) Life of Pi is a 2012 American survival drama film based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name. Directed by Ang Lee, the film's adapted screenplay was written by David Magee, and it stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu Hashmi, Adil Hussain, and Gérard Depardieu. The storyline revolves around an Indian man named \"Pi\" Patel, telling a novelist about his life story, and how at 16 he survives a shipwreck and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. The film had its worldwide premiere as the",
"title": "Life of Pi (film)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "318166",
"text": "Pi The number () is a mathematical constant. Originally defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, it now has various equivalent definitions and appears in many formulas in all areas of mathematics and physics. It is approximately equal to 3.14159. It has been represented by the Greek letter \"\" since the mid-18th century, though it is also sometimes spelled out as \"pi\". It is also called Archimedes' constant. Being an irrational number, cannot be expressed as a common fraction (equivalently, its decimal representation never ends and never settles into a permanently repeating pattern). Still, fractions such",
"title": "Pi"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "337381",
"text": "Pi Day Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14 in the \"month/day\" format) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant digits of . In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day. Pi Approximation Day is observed on July 22 (22/7 in the \"day/month\" format), since the fraction is a common approximation of, which is accurate to two decimal places and dates from Archimedes. Two Pi Day, also known as Tau Day, is lightly observed on June 28 (6/28 in",
"title": "Pi Day"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "318217",
"text": "ellipses, spheres, cones, and tori. Below are some of the more common formulae that involve . The formulae above are special cases of the volume of the \"n\"-dimensional ball and the surface area of its boundary, the (\"n\"−1)-dimensional sphere, given below. Definite integrals that describe circumference, area, or volume of shapes generated by circles typically have values that involve . For example, an integral that specifies half the area of a circle of radius one is given by: In that integral the function represents the top half of a circle (the square root is a consequence of the Pythagorean theorem),",
"title": "Pi"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "352110",
"text": "Radian The radian (SI symbol rad) is the SI unit for measuring angles, and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics. The length of an arc of a unit circle is numerically equal to the measurement in radians of the angle that it subtends; one radian is just under 57.3 degrees (expansion at ). The unit was formerly an SI supplementary unit, but this category was abolished in 1995 and the radian is now considered an SI derived unit. Separately, the SI unit of solid angle measurement is the steradian. The radian is most",
"title": "Radian"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "352124",
"text": "(μrad) and nanoradians (nrad) are used in astronomy, and can also be used to measure the beam quality of lasers with ultra-low divergence. More common is arc second, which is rad (around 4.8481 microradians). Similarly, the prefixes smaller than milli- are potentially useful in measuring extremely small angles. Radian The radian (SI symbol rad) is the SI unit for measuring angles, and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics. The length of an arc of a unit circle is numerically equal to the measurement in radians of the angle that it subtends; one radian",
"title": "Radian"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "318183",
"text": "include: Digits in other number systems Any complex number, say , can be expressed using a pair of real numbers. In the polar coordinate system, one number (radius or \"r\") is used to represent 's distance from the origin of the complex plane and the other (angle or ) to represent a counter-clockwise rotation from the positive real line as follows: where is the imaginary unit satisfying = −1. The frequent appearance of in complex analysis can be related to the behavior of the exponential function of a complex variable, described by Euler's formula: where the constant is the base",
"title": "Pi"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2491193",
"text": "Life of Pi Life of Pi is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor \"Pi\" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The novel has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. It was rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001. The UK edition won",
"title": "Life of Pi"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "318232",
"text": "the integral, so it can be replaced by any convenient surface in the same homology class, in particular, a sphere, where spherical coordinates can be used to calculate the integral. A consequence of the Gauss law is that the negative Laplacian of the potential is equal to times the Dirac delta function: More general distributions of matter (or charge) are obtained from this by convolution, giving the Poisson equation where is the distribution function. The constant also plays an analogous role in four-dimensional potentials associated with Einstein's equations, a fundamental formula which forms the basis of the general theory of",
"title": "Pi"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7475725",
"text": "Radian per second The radian per second (symbol: rad·s or rad/s) is the SI unit of rotational speed (angular velocity), commonly denoted by the Greek letter \"ω\" (omega). The radian per second is also the unit of angular frequency. The radian per second is defined as the change in the orientation of an object, in radians, every second. Since the radian is a dimensionless unit, the radian per second is dimensionally equivalent to the hertz—both are defined as s. This may lead to confusion between the quantities angular frequency \"ω\" and frequency \"ν\". A use of the \"unit radian per",
"title": "Radian per second"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "73252",
"text": "pi, is represented by the Greek letter . The first few decimal digits of the numerical value of are 3.141592653589793 ... Pi is defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter : Or, equivalently, as the ratio of the circumference to twice the radius. The above formula can be rearranged to solve for the circumference: The use of the mathematical constant is ubiquitous in mathematics, engineering, and science. In \"Measurement of a Circle\" written circa 250 BCE, Archimedes showed that this ratio (, since he did not use the name ) was greater than 3 but less",
"title": "Circumference"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "318258",
"text": "including 3.2. The bill is notorious as an attempt to establish a value of scientific constant by legislative fiat. The bill was passed by the Indiana House of Representatives, but rejected by the Senate, meaning it did not become a law. In contemporary internet culture, individuals and organizations frequently pay homage to the number . For instance, the computer scientist Donald Knuth let the version numbers of his program TeX approach . The versions are 3, 3.1, 3.14, and so forth. Footnotes References Pi The number () is a mathematical constant. Originally defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference",
"title": "Pi"
}
] |
1/2π
|
when does season 5 of bates motel come out
|
[
"February 20, 2017"
] |
[
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "18845785",
"text": "Bates Motel (season 5) The fifth and final season of \"Bates Motel\" premiered on February 20, 2017, and concluded on April 24, 2017. The season consisted of 10 episodes and aired on Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on A&E. The series itself is described as a \"contemporary prequel\" to the 1960 film \"Psycho\", following the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in the Hitchcock film. However, the final season of the series loosely adapts the plot of \"Psycho\". The series takes place in the fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon. The season",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 5)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18845786",
"text": "was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 19, 2017. In June 2016, showrunner Kerry Ehrin confirmed the return of Kenny Johnson as Caleb Calhoun for the final season, in an interview with \"Deadline Hollywood\". The following month, it was announced that Rihanna had been cast in the iconic role of Marion Crane. In September 2016, Isabelle McNally joined the cast of the series, portraying the role of Madeleine Loomis, a young woman who resembles Norma. That same month, Brooke Smith joined the cast as Sheriff Jane Greene. In January 2017, Austin Nichols was cast in the role of Sam",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 5)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "18845789",
"text": "subsequently demolished. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The season has received positive reviews from television critics. It received 81 out of 100 from Metacritic, based on 8 reviews, indicating \"universal acclaim\". Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 8 out of 8 critical responses were positive, averaging a 100% rating. Overall, the fifth season of \"Bates Motel\" averaged 1.29 million viewers, with a 0.5 rating in the 18–49 demographic. In its fifth and final season, \"Bates Motel\" was nominated for one award. Bates Motel (season 5) The fifth and final season of \"Bates Motel\" premiered on February 20, 2017, and concluded on April 24,",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 5)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18845787",
"text": "Loomis, a prominent role in both the source material and the film adaptation. That same month, Ryan Hurst's return as Chick Hogan was reported. In March 2017, it was revealed that series executive producer Carlton Cuse would appear as a police officer trailing Marion Crane. That same month, Natalia Cordova-Buckley joined the cast as Julia Ramos, an attorney. The series was filmed on location in Aldergrove, British Columbia. At the beginning of the first season, a replica of the original Bates Motel set from the film \"Psycho\" was built on 272nd Street. Freddie Highmore was tapped to write an episode",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 5)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18845788",
"text": "for the season, as well as direct an episode, marking his directorial debut. Max Thieriot and Nestor Carbonell were also tapped to direct an episode each for season 5. Production on the season began on September 16, 2016. The series filmed its final scenes at the specially-built Bates Motel set in Aldergrove on January 25, 2017, and production began tearing the house down the following day. Carbonell filmed his final scenes as Sheriff Alex Romero on January 27, 2017. Filming officially wrapped for the series on January 31, 2017. In February 2017, the Bates Motel exterior set in Aldergrove was",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 5)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16780293",
"text": "illness becomes dangerous, and Norma as she struggles to protect her son, and those around him, from himself. The series was filmed outside Vancouver in Aldergrove, British Columbia, along with other locations within the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. A&E chose to skip a pilot of the series, opting to go straight-to-series by ordering a 10-episode first season. On June 15, 2015, the series was renewed for a fourth and fifth season, making \"Bates Motel\" A&E's longest-running original scripted drama series in the channel's history. The series' lead actors, Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore, received particular praise for their performances",
"title": "Bates Motel (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16780305",
"text": "is available through most Canadian cable and satellite companies. In Australia, the series premiered on Fox8 on May 26, 2013. In the UK and Ireland, it premiered on Universal Channel on April 2, 2014. In Jamaica, it premiered on CVM TV on August 11, 2014. In the Middle East, it premiered on OSN First HD in mid-2014. The second season premiered on January 5, 2015. In the Philippines, \"Bates Motel\" began airing on Jack TV on August 12, 2013. In South Africa, the series premiered on MNet on June 21, 2013. The series premiered in India on Colors Infinity on",
"title": "Bates Motel (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16780301",
"text": "second season, was promoted to a series regular for the third season. It was announced on July 22, 2016 at San Diego Comic-Con International that Rihanna would appear in the iconic role of Marion Crane for the fifth and final season. A replica of the original Bates Motel set from the film \"Psycho\" was built on location at approximately 1054 272nd Street in Aldergrove, British Columbia, where portions of the series were filmed. The original house and motel is located in Universal Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles. Additional filming for the series took place in multiple areas in Metro Vancouver, including",
"title": "Bates Motel (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16780304",
"text": "Tomatoes reported a 100% positive rating from 17 reviews. The site's consensus reads, \"\"Bates Motel\" fulfills its menacing potential in a fourth season that confidently careens toward the mother-son duo's ghastly destiny.\" The fifth and final season of \"Bates Motel\" received a score of 81 out of 100 on Metacritic, indicating \"universal acclaim\". Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% rating from 21 reviews. The site's consensus reads, \"\"Bates Motel\"'s final season brings the franchise full circle, with a satisfyingly creepy conclusion to the trials and tribulations of Norman Bates.\" In Canada, the series airs only on the U.S. network A&E, which",
"title": "Bates Motel (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "5393621",
"text": "100, and Kendrick Lamars single, \"Loyalty\", which earned Rihanna her ninth Grammy Award at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. In November 2017, Rihanna was part of N.E.R.Ds comeback single \"Lemon\" from the band's album \"No One Ever Really Dies\". Rihanna officially revealed that she had begun work on her ninth studio album, just months after releasing \"Anti\". On 19 October 2017, Shakka revealed that he was working with Rihanna on her \"absolutely insane\" album. Rihanna played the recurring role of Marion Crane in the fifth and final season of \"Bates Motel\". The show received universal acclaim from critics. Rihanna also",
"title": "Rihanna"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16780297",
"text": "professional help he needs. This complicates their once unbreakable trust as Norman struggles to maintain his grip on reality. Meanwhile, Sheriff Romero once again finds himself drawn into Norma and Norman's lives. He agrees to marry Norma because his insurance will enable her to place Norman in an expensive psychiatric hospital. His generosity backfires, however, when Norman learns of the marriage. Norman bitterly resents Romero for coming between him and his mother and at one point threatens the sheriff with an axe. The fifth season begins two years after the death of Norma. Publicly happy and well-adjusted, Norman struggles at",
"title": "Bates Motel (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16780292",
"text": "(White Pine Bay, Oregon, as opposed to Fairvale, California) and in a modern-day setting. However, the final season loosely adapts the plot of \"Psycho\". Max Thieriot and Olivia Cooke both starred as part of the main cast throughout the series' run. After recurring in the first season, Nestor Carbonell was added to the main cast from season two onward. The series begins in Arizona with the death of Norma's husband, after which Norma purchases the Seafairer motel located in a coastal Oregon town so that she and Norman can start a new life. Subsequent seasons follow Norman as his mental",
"title": "Bates Motel (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16780291",
"text": "Bates Motel (TV series) Bates Motel is an American psychological horror drama television series that aired from March 18, 2013 to April 24, 2017. It was developed by Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, and Anthony Cipriano, and is produced by Universal Television and American Genre for the cable network A&E. The series, a contemporary prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film \"Psycho\"; based on Robert Bloch's 1959 novel of the same name, depicts the lives of Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his mother Norma (Vera Farmiga) prior to the events portrayed in the novel and film, albeit in a different fictional town",
"title": "Bates Motel (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "6743213",
"text": "Drama Series in 2013. The series followed Cuse and Ehrin's original plan to run for five seasons of ten episodes each for a total of fifty episodes. An episode of \"Bates Motel\"'s in season 4, entitled \"Forever,\" written by Carlton Cuse with Kerry Ehrin, made the New York Times Memorable TV Episodes of 2016 list and the Hollywood Reporter's 2016 Best Episode list. For its final season, \"Bates Motel\" also won 2017 People's Choice awards for Favorite Cable Drama, and Favorite Actor and Actress for Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga. The fifth and final season also included the television series",
"title": "Carlton Cuse"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7014545",
"text": "\"Bosch\". In August 2015, she joined the main cast of ABC's crime drama series \"Wicked City\". In December 2015, Newman joined the fourth-season cast of \"Bates Motel\" as the major recurring character Rebecca Hamilton, a past love interest of Sheriff Romero (Nestor Carbonell). She will star in Lech Majewski's fantasy film \"Valley of the Gods\", opposite Josh Hartnett and Charlotte Rampling. In August 2016, she was cast in the recurring role of Wildred Darnell on the fifth season of TNT's procedural drama series \"Major Crimes\". The following year, Newman began starring in the series regular role of Sarah Lieberman on",
"title": "Jaime Ray Newman"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16780306",
"text": "November 6, 2015. NBCUniversal partnered with Hot Topic, the American retailer of pop culture merchandise, to introduce a collection of clothing and accessories inspired by \"Bates Motel\". The merchandise, including items such as bathrobes and bloody shower curtains, became available at Hot Topic's website and select stores on March 18, 2014. As of 2018, the merchandise is no longer available through Hot Topic. Bates Motel (TV series) Bates Motel is an American psychological horror drama television series that aired from March 18, 2013 to April 24, 2017. It was developed by Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, and Anthony Cipriano, and is",
"title": "Bates Motel (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16780302",
"text": "Steveston, Coquitlam, Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver and Fort Langley. In February 2017, after filming was completed for the series, the Bates Motel exterior set in Aldergrove was demolished. The first season of \"Bates Motel\" received a score of 66 on Metacritic, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 83% of 42 critics gave the first season a positive review. The site's consensus reads, \"\"Bates Motel\" utilizes mind manipulation and suspenseful fear tactics, on top of consistently sharp character work and wonderfully uncomfortable familial relationships.\" The second season of \"Bates Motel\" received a score of 67 out of",
"title": "Bates Motel (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "13515683",
"text": "was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. Rihanna portrayed Marion in the fifth and final season of the TV series \"Bates Motel\", a contemporary prequel to the 1960 film \"Psycho\", set in the present day. This version of the character is a contemporary take on the role. In this continuity, she is a notary public living in Seattle, Washington. When Marion was a child, her mother got sick and died, Marion's father refused to raise her and sent Marion to live with her aunt in Miami, Florida. When she was a teenager, Marion ran away from home",
"title": "Marion Crane"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16780300",
"text": "same day, Max Thieriot was cast as Norman's half-brother, Dylan Massett. Shortly after, on September 19, 2012, Nicola Peltz was cast as Bradley Martin, a possible love interest for Norman. Finally, on September 20, 2012, Olivia Cooke was the final main cast member to join the series, in the role of Emma Decody, Norman's best friend. Nestor Carbonell was cast in a recurring role as Sheriff Alex Romero in the first season, but was upgraded to the main cast at the beginning of the second season. In July 2014, Kenny Johnson, who recurred as Norma's brother Caleb Calhoun in the",
"title": "Bates Motel (TV series)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18845780",
"text": "Bates Motel (season 4) The fourth season of \"Bates Motel\" premiered on March 7, 2016, and concluded on May 16, 2016. The season consisted of 10 episodes and aired on Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on A&E. The series itself is described as a \"contemporary prequel\" to the 1960 film \"Psycho\", following the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in the Hitchcock film. The series takes place in the fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon. The season received critical acclaim from television critics, and was nominated for two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 4)"
}
] |
February 20, 2017
|
how many episodes are in series 7 game of thrones
|
[
"seven"
] |
[
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "18938987",
"text": "Game of Thrones (season 7) The seventh and penultimate season of the fantasy drama television series \"Game of Thrones\" premiered on HBO on July 16, 2017, and concluded on August 27, 2017. Unlike previous seasons that consisted of ten episodes each, the seventh season consisted of only seven. Like the previous season, it largely consisted of original content not found in George R. R. Martin's \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" series, while also incorporating material Martin revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series. The series was adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "18938998",
"text": "Bender, who worked on the show's sixth season, said that the seventh season would consist of seven episodes. Benioff and Weiss stated that they were unable to produce 10 episodes in the show's usual 12 to 14 month time frame, as Weiss said \"It's crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid-range movie schedule.\" HBO confirmed on July 18, 2016, that the seventh season would consist of seven episodes, and would premiere later than usual in mid-2017 because of the later filming schedule. Later it was confirmed that the season would debut on July 16. The seventh",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18938999",
"text": "season of the series includes its longest episode, with the finale running for 81 minutes. The penultimate episode also runs for 71 minutes – around 16 minutes longer than an average \"Game of Thrones\" episode. The first five episodes mostly run longer than average (55 minutes), at 59, 59, 63, 50, and 59 minutes respectively. The previous longest episode in the series was the sixth-season finale, \"The Winds of Winter\", which ran for 69 minutes. Ramin Djawadi returned as the composer of the show for the seventh season. On Metacritic, the season (based on the first episode) has a score",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18938989",
"text": "the Seven Kingdoms. HBO ordered the seventh season on April 21, 2016, three days before the premiere of the show's sixth season, and began filming on August 31, 2016. The season was filmed primarily in Northern Ireland, Spain, Croatia and Iceland. \"Game of Thrones\" features a large ensemble cast, including Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, and Kit Harington. The season introduces several new cast members, including Jim Broadbent and Tom Hopper. The series received 22 nominations for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, and won for Outstanding Drama Series and Dinklage won for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18938990",
"text": "Drama Series. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The recurring actors listed here are those who appeared in season 7. They are listed by the region in which they first appear. Series creators and executive producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss serve as showrunners for the seventh season. The directors for the seventh season are Jeremy Podeswa (episodes 1 and 7), Mark Mylod (episodes 2 and 3), Matt Shakman (episodes 4 and 5) and Alan Taylor (episode 6). This marks Taylor's return to the series after an absence since the second season. Shakman is a first-time \"Game of Thrones\" director, with the rest each",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18938997",
"text": "fifth season. New York Mets baseball pitcher Noah Syndergaard made a background cameo as a javelin-throwing Lannister soldier in \"The Spoils of War.\" On April 21, 2016, HBO officially ordered the seventh season of \"Game of Thrones\", just three days prior to the premiere of the show's sixth season. In a June 2016 interview with \"Variety\", co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss revealed the seventh season would likely consist of fewer episodes, stating at the time of the interview that they were \"down to our final 13 episodes after this season. We're heading into the final lap.\" Director Jack",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "157544",
"text": "a dozen Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series. By the end of 2016, all seasons up to season 6 (which premiered on April 24, 2016) had been aired on HBO and all seasons had been released on DVD and/or Blu-ray for home viewing (see List of Game of Thrones episodes). The company confirmed on July 18, 2016 that season 7 would consist of seven episodes instead of the usual ten, and would premiere later than usual, in mid-2017, because of the later filming schedule. This was necessary in order to be shooting during the winter season in Europe. Season 7",
"title": "George R. R. Martin"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "12800963",
"text": "content. In April 2016, the showrunners' plan was to shoot 13 more episodes after the sixth season: seven episodes in the seventh season and six episodes in the eighth. Later that month, the series was renewed for a seventh season with a seven-episode order. Eight seasons were ordered and filmed, adapting the novels at a rate of about 48 seconds per page for the first three seasons. The first two seasons adapted one novel each. For the later seasons, its creators see \"Game of Thrones\" as an adaptation of \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" as a whole rather than",
"title": "Game of Thrones"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18939002",
"text": "Now and HBO Go apps are included. Over the season, the viewer numbers averaged at over 30 million per episode across all platforms. The season was simulcast around the world by HBO and its broadcast partners in 186 countries. In some countries, it aired the day after its first release. On July 23, 2016, a teaser production trailer was released by HBO at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con. The trailer mostly consisted of voice overs, and shots of crew members creating sets and props. The first footage from the season was revealed in a new promotional video released by HBO",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "12800935",
"text": "Game of Thrones Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of \"A Song of Ice and Fire\", George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is \"A Game of Thrones\". It is filmed in Belfast and elsewhere in Northern Ireland, Canada, Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The series premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and its seventh season ended on August 27, 2017. The series will conclude with its eighth season",
"title": "Game of Thrones"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18939000",
"text": "of 77 out of 100 based on 12 reviews, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". On Rotten Tomatoes, the seventh season has a 94% approval rating from 46 critics with an average rating of 8.31 out of 10, and a 92% average episode score, with the site's consensus reading, \"After a year-long wait, \"Game of Thrones\" roars back with powerful storytelling and a focused interest in its central characters—particularly the female ones.\" The series premiere surpassed 30 million viewers across all of the network's domestic platforms weeks after its release. The show's numbers continued to climb in other countries as well. In",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "20300002",
"text": "Beyond the Wall (Game of Thrones) \"Beyond the Wall\" is the sixth and penultimate episode of the seventh season of HBO's fantasy television series \"Game of Thrones\", and the 66th overall. It was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Alan Taylor. At 70 minutes, it was the series' longest episode until the airing of the season's finale. The episode's main plot focuses on Jon Snow's raiding party as they journey north of the Wall; they successfully capture a wight to prove the threat, though Thoros is killed. Daenerys rescues the group from the",
"title": "Beyond the Wall (Game of Thrones)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "20049003",
"text": "episodes, stating that after season six, they were \"down to our final 13 episodes after this season. We're heading into the final lap.\" Benioff and Weiss stated that they were unable to produce 10 episodes in the show's usual 12 to 14-month time frame, as Weiss said, \"It's crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid-range movie schedule.\" HBO confirmed in July 2016, that the seventh season would consist of seven episodes, and would premiere later than usual in mid-2017 because of the later filming schedule. Benioff and Weiss later confirmed that the eighth season will consist",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 8)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "12800970",
"text": "of the European locations. Each ten-episode season of \"Game of Thrones\" has four to six directors, who usually direct back-to-back episodes. Alan Taylor has directed seven episodes, the most episodes of the series. Alex Graves, David Nutter, Mark Mylod and Jeremy Podeswa have directed six each. Daniel Minahan directed five episodes, and Michelle MacLaren, Alik Sakharov, and Miguel Sapochnik directed four each. Brian Kirk directed three episodes during the first season, and Tim Van Patten directed the series' first two episodes. Neil Marshall directed two episodes, both with large battle scenes: \"Blackwater\" and \"The Watchers on the Wall\". Other directors",
"title": "Game of Thrones"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "20300029",
"text": "before it was set to air, on August 20, 2017. Four days before its official broadcast, HBO Spain and HBO Nordic accidentally allowed \"Beyond the Wall\" to be available for on-demand viewing for one hour before being removed. Beyond the Wall (Game of Thrones) \"Beyond the Wall\" is the sixth and penultimate episode of the seventh season of HBO's fantasy television series \"Game of Thrones\", and the 66th overall. It was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Alan Taylor. At 70 minutes, it was the series' longest episode until the airing of the",
"title": "Beyond the Wall (Game of Thrones)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18938994",
"text": "The Dark Hedges in Stranocum, which was previously used as the Kingsroad in the second season. Some scenes were filmed in Iceland. Filming also occurred in Dubrovnik, Croatia, which is used for location of King's Landing. The scene where Arya was reunited with Nymeria was filmed in Alberta, Canada. \"Deadline\" reported on June 21, 2016, that the five main cast members, Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, and Kit Harington had been in contract negotiations for the final two seasons. It was reported that the cast members have increased their salary to $500,000 per episode for the seventh",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18938991",
"text": "having directed multiple episodes in previous seasons. Michele Clapton returned to the show as costume designer, after spending some time away from the show in the sixth season. She previously worked on the show for the first five seasons, as well as the end of the sixth season. The seventh season contains original material not found in the \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" series. Some of the show's sixth season also consists of material revealed to the writers of the television series during discussions with Martin. Filming began on August 31, 2016, at Titanic Studios in Belfast, and ended",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "20048998",
"text": "Game of Thrones (season 8) The eighth and final season of the fantasy drama television series \"Game of Thrones\" was announced by HBO in July 2016. Unlike the first six seasons that each had ten episodes and the seventh that had seven episodes, the eighth season will have only six episodes. Like the previous season, it will largely consist of original content not found currently in George R. R. Martin's \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" series and will also adapt material Martin has revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series, \"The Winds of Winter\" and \"A",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 8)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "12801004",
"text": "out of 100 (based on 29 reviews) on Metacritic. The sixth season has been praised by critics, though not as highly as its predecessors. It has a score of 73 on Metacritic (based on nine reviews), indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". The seventh season scored 77 out of 100 (based on twelve reviews) and was praised for its action sequences and focused central characters, but received criticism for its breakneck pace and plot developments that \"defied logic.\" Despite its otherwise enthusiastic reception by critics, \"Game of Thrones\" has been criticized for the amount of female nudity, violence, and sexual violence (especially",
"title": "Game of Thrones"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "14195696",
"text": "to begin filming in London in 2016. On April 11, 2016, Season 5 was confirmed to be the show's last; it consists of seven episodes and premiered on August 20, 2017. The series finale, Season 5's \"Episode Seven\", aired on October 8, 2017. \"Episodes\" has received positive reviews by critics, with specific praise being given to the performances of stars Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig, and Matt LeBlanc. For his performance in the series Matt LeBlanc won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy and has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards. After married",
"title": "Episodes (TV series)"
}
] |
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who is next in line to be the monarch of england
|
[
"Charles, Prince of Wales"
] |
[
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "3544754",
"text": "Catholics are eligible. Queen Elizabeth II is the sovereign, and her heir apparent is her eldest son, Charles, Prince of Wales. Next in line after him is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Wales's elder son. Third in line is Prince George, the eldest child of the Duke of Cambridge, followed by his sister, Princess Charlotte and younger brother, Prince Louis. Sixth in line is Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, the younger son of the Prince of Wales. Under the Perth Agreement, which came into effect in 2015, only the first six in line of succession require the",
"title": "Succession to the British throne"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "4058590",
"text": "The Act required that the regent should be the next person in the line of succession who was: The Counsellors of State were to consist of: Thus, at the time of the passing of the Act, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester would have become Regent in the event that King George VI died while The Princess Elizabeth was still a minor. The current prospective regent under the Act would be Charles, Prince of Wales. Section 4 of the Act prohibits the regent from giving royal assent to a bill to change the line of succession to the British throne or",
"title": "Regency Acts"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "575685",
"text": "the throne remains. The necessary UK legislation making the changes received the royal assent on 25 April 2013 and was brought into force in March 2015 after the equivalent legislation was approved in all the other Commonwealth realms. Though Catholics are prohibited from succeeding and are deemed \"naturally dead\" for succession purposes, the disqualification does not extend to the individual's legitimate Protestant descendants. The Regency Acts allow for regencies in the event of a monarch who is a minor or who is physically or mentally incapacitated. When a regency is necessary, the next qualified individual in the line of succession",
"title": "Monarchy of the United Kingdom"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "4058613",
"text": "is third in line to the throne after his grandfather and father. If the prince were to succeed to the throne before his 18th birthday on 22 July 2031, his uncle, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (the Prince of Wales' younger son), would serve as regent, as George's younger siblings Charlotte and Louis (currently fourth and fifth in line, respectively) would also be minors. In the event that Prince Harry would be unable to serve as regent, the next in line would be his uncle (Prince George's grand-uncle) Prince Andrew, Duke of York, followed by the Duke of York's elder",
"title": "Regency Acts"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3544753",
"text": "Succession to the British throne Succession to the British throne is determined by descent, sex (for people born before October 2011), legitimacy, and religion. Under common law, the Crown is inherited by a sovereign's children or by a childless sovereign's nearest collateral line. The Bill of Rights 1689 and the Act of Settlement 1701 restrict succession to the throne to the legitimate Protestant descendants of Sophia of Hanover that are in \"communion with the Church of England\". Spouses of Roman Catholics were disqualified from 1689 until the law was amended in 2015. Protestant descendants of those excluded for being Roman",
"title": "Succession to the British throne"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3544794",
"text": "the undoubted king. Succession to the British throne Succession to the British throne is determined by descent, sex (for people born before October 2011), legitimacy, and religion. Under common law, the Crown is inherited by a sovereign's children or by a childless sovereign's nearest collateral line. The Bill of Rights 1689 and the Act of Settlement 1701 restrict succession to the throne to the legitimate Protestant descendants of Sophia of Hanover that are in \"communion with the Church of England\". Spouses of Roman Catholics were disqualified from 1689 until the law was amended in 2015. Protestant descendants of those excluded",
"title": "Succession to the British throne"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1542327",
"text": "Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944) is the youngest grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary. He practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, which he inherited, as the second duke, in 1974. He is a paternal cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, and currently 26th in the line of succession to the British throne as well as the first in line not descended from King George VI. He is also the",
"title": "Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "16966255",
"text": "came into effect was George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, who had married a Roman Catholic in 1988, and was restored to the line of succession in 34th place, after his father the Duke of Kent. The provision of the Act of Settlement requiring the monarch to be a Protestant continues, as the monarch remains the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. The Royal Marriages Act 1772 is repealed. Instead, only the first six persons in line to the throne require the Sovereign's approval to marry. Marriage without the Sovereign's consent would disqualify the person and the person's descendants",
"title": "Succession to the Crown Act 2013"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "575686",
"text": "automatically becomes regent, unless they themselves are a minor or incapacitated. Special provisions were made for Queen Elizabeth II by the Regency Act 1953, which stated that the Duke of Edinburgh (the Queen's husband) could act as regent in these circumstances. During a temporary physical infirmity or an absence from the kingdom, the sovereign may temporarily delegate some of his or her functions to Counsellors of State, the monarch's spouse and the first four adults in the line of succession. The present Counsellors of State are: the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke",
"title": "Monarchy of the United Kingdom"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "4058612",
"text": "the regent. , under the provisions of the Regency Acts in force, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, would act as regent in the event of the incapacity of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The next person in the line of succession, the Prince of Wales' elder son Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, would also be able to succeed without necessitating a regency and would be eligible to be regent for his grandmother or his father. , the first person under the age of 18 in the line of succession to the throne is William's son Prince George of Cambridge, who",
"title": "Regency Acts"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "575681",
"text": "unanimous consent of all the realms. Succession is governed by statutes such as the Bill of Rights 1689, the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Acts of Union 1707. The rules of succession may only be changed by an Act of Parliament; it is not possible for an individual to renounce his or her right of succession. The Act of Settlement restricts the succession to the legitimate Protestant descendants of Sophia of Hanover (1630–1714), a granddaughter of James I. Upon the death of a sovereign, his or her heir immediately and automatically succeeds (hence the phrase \"The king is dead,",
"title": "Monarchy of the United Kingdom"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3544778",
"text": "stipulate whoever is monarch of the United Kingdom will also be monarch of that realm. In February 1952, on her accession, Elizabeth II was proclaimed as sovereign separately throughout her realms. In October 2011, the heads of government of all 16 realms agreed unanimously at a meeting held in Perth, Australia, to proposed changes to the royal succession laws that would see the order of succession for people born after 28 October 2011 governed by absolute primogeniture—wherein succession passes to an individual's children according to birth order, regardless of sex—instead of male-preference primogeniture. They also agreed to lift a ban",
"title": "Succession to the British throne"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "568862",
"text": "George II of Great Britain George II (George Augustus; ; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760. George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain: he was born and brought up in northern Germany. His grandmother, Sophia of Hanover, became second in line to the British throne after about 50 Catholics higher in line were excluded by the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Acts of",
"title": "George II of Great Britain"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "9892967",
"text": "queen and the throne would have been inherited by her eldest child, and so on. Friederike is not considered a pretender to the British throne, as this alternative line of succession is completely hypothetical. Next in line would be her eldest child, Felicitas Catharini Malina Johanna von Reiche. Alternative successions of the English and British crown British history provides several opportunities for alternative claimants to the Crown to arise, and historical scholars have on occasion traced to present times the heirs of those alternative claims. Throughout this article, the names of \"would-have-been\" monarchs are in \"italics\". Richard II abdicated in",
"title": "Alternative successions of the English and British crown"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3544779",
"text": "on those who marry Roman Catholics. The ban on Catholics themselves was retained to ensure that the monarch would be in communion with the Church of England. The changes came into effect across the Commonwealth realms on 26 March 2015, after legislation was made according to each realm's constitution. Following the changes coming into effect, the positions of the first 27 in line remained unchanged, including Princess Anne and her children and grandchildren, until the birth of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge on 2 May 2015. The first to be affected by the changes, on the day they came into effect",
"title": "Succession to the British throne"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "9892966",
"text": "Prince of Wales; end the ban on marriage of dynasts to Catholics; and limit the requirement for those in line to the throne to acquire permission of the sovereign to marry. However, the requirement for the sovereign to be in communion with the Church of England remains. This change has now been enacted as the Succession to the Crown Act 2013; but it does not apply retroactively. If this system of primogeniture had been applied on the death of Victoria (whose actual successor was her second child and first son Edward VII), then Princess Victoria, Princess Royal would have become",
"title": "Alternative successions of the English and British crown"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1966895",
"text": "Sir Angus Ogilvy, to whom she was married from 1963 until his death in 2004. As of 14 December 2018, she is 52nd in the line of succession to the British throne; at the time of her birth in 1936, she was sixth. Princess Alexandra was born on 25 December 1936 at 3 Belgrave Square, London. Her parents were Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. She was named",
"title": "Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "798030",
"text": "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982) is a member of the British royal family. He is a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, and the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales. Since birth, he has been second in the line of succession to the British throne after his father. William was educated at four schools in the United Kingdom and studied for a degree at the University of St. Andrews. During a gap year, he spent time in Chile, Belize, and Africa. In",
"title": "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "579483",
"text": "constraints, but he chose not to engage in a conflict with Parliament and agreed to abide by the statute. The Bill of Rights also settled the question of succession to the Crown. After the death of either William or Mary, the other would continue to reign. Next in the line of succession was Mary II's sister, Anne, and her issue, followed by any children William might have had by a subsequent marriage. Roman Catholics, as well as those who married Catholics, were excluded. Although most in Britain accepted William and Mary as sovereigns, a significant minority refused to acknowledge their",
"title": "William III of England"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "189651",
"text": "Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September 1984) is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne. He was officially styled Prince Henry of Wales from birth until his marriage, but is known as Prince Harry. Harry was educated at schools in the United Kingdom and spent parts of his gap year in Australia and Lesotho. He then underwent officer training at the Royal",
"title": "Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex"
}
] |
Charles, Prince of Wales
|
who is in charge of enforcing the pendleton act of 1883
|
[
"United States Civil Service Commission"
] |
[
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "660304",
"text": "Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, ) is a United States federal law enacted in 1883 that mandated that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. The act provided selection of government employees by competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation. It also made it illegal to fire or demote government officials for political reasons and prohibited soliciting campaign donations on Federal government property. To enforce the merit system and the judicial system, the law also created the United States",
"title": "Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "3941402",
"text": "in 1883. The Pendleton law was passed in part due to public outcry over the assassination of President Garfield. The Pendleton Act renewed funding for the Civil Service Commission and established a three-man commission to run Civil Service whose commissioners were chosen by President Arthur. The Civil Service Commission administered the civil service of the United States federal government. The Pendleton law required certain applicants to take the civil service exam in order to be given certain jobs; it also prevented elected officials and political appointees from firing civil servants, removing civil servants from the influences of political patronage and",
"title": "United States Civil Service Commission"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "660307",
"text": "to the presidency. Once in office, President Arthur pushed through legislation for civil reform. On January 16, 1883 Congress passed the Civil Service Act, which is sometimes referred to as the Pendleton Act after Senator George H. Pendleton of Ohio, one of the primary sponsors. The Act was written by Dorman Bridgman Eaton, a staunch opponent of the patronage system who was later first chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission. However, the law would also prove to be a major political liability for Arthur. The law offended machine politicians, or politicians who belong to a small clique that",
"title": "Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "13532575",
"text": "and Marshall Jewell as Attorney General and Postmaster General, respectively, who supported Bristow's investigations. In 1875, Pierrepont cleaned up corruption among the United States Attorneys and Marshals in the South. The Civil Service Reform Act (called \"the Pendleton Act\") is an 1883 federal law that created the United States Civil Service Commission. It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called \"spoils system\". Drafted during the Chester A. Arthur administration, the Pendleton Act served as a response to President James Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker. The Act was passed into",
"title": "U.S. Civil Service Reform"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "11229834",
"text": "of Congress; the Senate approved the bill 38–5 and the House soon concurred by a vote of 155–47. Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act into law on January 16, 1883. The bill created a civil service commission to oversee civil service examinations and outlawed the use of \"assessments,\" fees that political appointees were expected to pay to their respective political parties as the price for their appointments. These reforms had previously been proposed by the Jay Commission, which had investigated Arthur during his time as Collector of the Port of New York. In just two years' time, an",
"title": "Presidency of Chester A. Arthur"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "19290368",
"text": "her childhood nickname \"Minnie\". She was raised and grew up in Norwalk. After high school, she attended Vassar College in New York City, graduating in 1880. Her first job was a favorable position for a young lady, a clerk with the Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. Hoyt was the first woman selected to a US civil service position. The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, also known as the Civil Service Act, is a federal law established in 1883 which decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit and examination scores instead of political affiliation. US president",
"title": "Mary F. Hoyt"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "13532576",
"text": "law in January 1883; it was sponsored by Democratic Senator George H. Pendleton of Ohio. It was drafted by Dorman Bridgman Eaton, a leading reformer who became the first chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission. Its most famous commissioner was Theodore Roosevelt (1889–95). The new law prohibited mandatory campaign contributions, or \"assessments\", which amounted to 50–75% of party financing in the Gilded Age. Second, the Pendleton Act required entrance exams for aspiring bureaucrats. At first it covered very few jobs but there was a ratchet provision whereby outgoing presidents could lock in their own appointees by converting their jobs",
"title": "U.S. Civil Service Reform"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "8556450",
"text": "$179,700 in 2012. , the Federal Government, excluding the Postal Service and soldiers, employed about 2 million civilian workers. The Federal Government is the nation's single largest employer. Although most federal agencies are based in the Washington, D.C. region, only about 16% (or about 288,000) of the federal government workforce is employed in this region. Public support in the United States for civil service reform strengthened following the assassination of President James Garfield. The United States Civil Service Commission was created by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, which was passed into law on January 16, 1883. The commission was",
"title": "United States federal civil service"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "8556441",
"text": "that are authorized to create their own hiring policies and are not subject to most appointment, pay, and classification laws. In the early 19th century, positions in the federal government were held at the pleasure of the president—a person could be fired at any time. The spoils system meant that jobs were used to support the American political parties, though this was gradually changed by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 and subsequent laws. By 1909, almost two-thirds of the U.S. federal workforce was appointed based on merit, that is, qualifications measured by tests. Certain senior civil service",
"title": "United States federal civil service"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "660305",
"text": "Civil Service Commission. This board would be in charge of determining the rules and regulations of the act. The act also allowed for the president, by executive order, to decide which positions would be subject to the act and which would not. A result was the shift of the parties to reliance on funding from business, since they could no longer depend on patronage. In 1877, there was growing interest in the United States concerning the effects of the spoils system on the American political system. New York City established the Civil Service Reform Association to help address the issues,",
"title": "Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "2752196",
"text": "well as proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel. At times he was a member of the United States House of Representatives, the New York City Board of Advisors, and the New York State Senate. In 1873, Tweed was convicted for diverting between $40 million and $200 million of public monies. Six months after James Garfield became president in 1881, Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker, assassinated him. To prevent further political violence and to assuage public outrage, Congress passed the Pendleton Act in 1883, which set up the Civil Service Commission. Henceforth, applicants for most federal government jobs would have to",
"title": "Patronage"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "6567861",
"text": "be incompetent and provided protection for \"whistleblowers\" The CSRA was one of the largest reforms in Federal personnel regulations since the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 and is one of the Carter Administration's major domestic achievements. However, the long lasting effects and the legacy of the CSRA are widely disputed. Some claim that the CSRA has accomplished virtually nothing. Others claim that the CSRA has accomplished quite a bit. On one side of the argument, it is claimed that the CSRA has not affected unequal hiring methods, has not formed a division of experienced administrators that it was",
"title": "Civil Service Reform Act of 1978"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "10418018",
"text": "President\", the new Stalwart president Chester A. Arthur surprised those in his own faction by promoting civil service reform and issuing government jobs based on a merit system. The Half-Breeds put through Congress the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (authored by Democrat George H. Pendleton), and Arthur signed the bill into law on January 16, 1883. The act put an end to the spoils system, at least symbolically, placing a significant number of federal employees under the merit system and putting the government on the road to true reform. The act also set up the United States Civil Service Commission,",
"title": "Half-Breeds (politics)"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "281641",
"text": "of United States President James A. Garfield by a disappointed office seeker in 1881 proved its dangers. Two years later in 1883, the system of appointments to the United States Federal Bureaucracy was revamped by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, partially based on the British meritocratic civil service that had been established years earlier. The act stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit, through competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation. It also made it illegal to fire or demote government employees for political reasons. To enforce the merit system and",
"title": "Meritocracy"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "11839843",
"text": "National Civil Service Reform League The National Civil Service Reform League was a non-profit organization in the United States founded in 1881 for the purpose of investigating the efficiency of the civil service. Among its founders were George William Curtis, chairman of the first United States Civil Service Commission, and Dorman B. Eaton, principal author of the Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883) and first chairman of the reconstituted commission. Largely through its influence many important civil service measures were passed. During World War I, its work was especially valuable in securing civil service efficiency as a factor in military success.",
"title": "National Civil Service Reform League"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1489694",
"text": "to the United States Senate. During his only term, from 1881 to 1885, he served concurrently as the Chairman of the Democratic Conference. Following the 1881 assassination of James A. Garfield, he passed his most notable legislation, known as the Pendleton Act of 1883, requiring civil service exams for government positions. The Act helped put an end to the system of patronage in widespread use at the time, but it cost Pendelton politically, as many members of his own party preferred the spoils system. He was thus not renominated to the Senate. Instead, President Grover Cleveland appointed him Envoy Extraordinary",
"title": "George H. Pendleton"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1489689",
"text": "the 1869 Ohio gubernatorial election, he temporarily left politics. He served as the president of the Kentucky Central Railroad before returning to Congress. Pendleton won election to the U.S. Senate in 1879 and served a single term, becoming Chairman of the Senate Democratic Conference. After the assassination of President James A. Garfield, he wrote and helped pass the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883. The act required many civil service hires to be based on merit rather than political connections. Passage of the act lost him support in Ohio and he was not nominated for a second term in",
"title": "George H. Pendleton"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "17672891",
"text": "patronage problem had gotten out of control, and shifted public opinion, convincing the United States that the President of the United States had more important things to do than to engage in patronage. Congress was eventually spurred to pass the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, which created a Civil Service Commission and advocated a merit system for selecting government employees. In addition, passage of the Hatch Act of 1939 forbade the intimidation or bribery of voters and restricted political campaign activities by federal employees. It prohibited using any public funds designated for relief or public works for electoral",
"title": "Political appointments in the United States"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1399651",
"text": "person could be fired at any time. The spoils system meant that jobs were used to support the political parties. This was changed in slow stages by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 and subsequent laws. By 1909, almost two thirds of the U.S. federal work force was appointed based on merit, that is, qualifications measured by tests. Certain senior civil service positions, including some heads of diplomatic missions and executive agencies are filled by political appointees. Under the Hatch Act of 1939, civil servants are not allowed to engage in political activities while performing their duties. The",
"title": "Civil service"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "11229835",
"text": "unrepentant Stalwart had become the president who ushered in long-awaited civil service reform. Even after Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act into law, proponents of the act doubted Arthur's commitment to reform. The act initially applied only to ten percent of federal jobs and, without proper implementation by the president, would not have affected the remaining civil service positions. To the surprise of his critics, Arthur acted quickly to appoint the members of the newly-created Civil Service Commission, naming reformers Dorman Bridgman Eaton, John Milton Gregory, and Leroy D. Thoman as commissioners. The chief examiner, Silas W. Burt,",
"title": "Presidency of Chester A. Arthur"
}
] |
United States Civil Service Commission
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what is the name of latest version of android
|
[
"Oreo"
] |
[
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "20611860",
"text": "Android Pie Android 9 \"Pie\" (codenamed Android P during development) is the ninth major update and the 16th version of the Android operating system. It was first released as an alpha quality developer preview in March 2018 and released to the public on August 6, 2018. Android Pie, then referred to as \"Android P,\" was first announced by Google on March 7, 2018, and the first developer preview was released on the same day. The second preview, considered beta quality, was released on May 8, 2018. The third preview, called Beta 2, was released on June 6, 2018. The fourth",
"title": "Android Pie"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "20068605",
"text": "Android Oreo Android \"Oreo\" (codenamed Android O during development) is the eighth major update and the 15th version of the Android operating system. It was first released as an alpha quality developer preview in March 2017 and released to the public on August 21, 2017. It contains a number of major features, including notification grouping, picture-in-picture support for video, performance improvements and battery usage optimization, and support for autofillers, Bluetooth 5, system-level integration with VoIP apps, wide color gamuts, and Wi-Fi Aware. Android Oreo also introduces two major platform features: Android Go – a software distribution of the operating system",
"title": "Android Oreo"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "19379655",
"text": "Beta Preview 4 was released on June 15, 2016. On June 30, 2016, Google announced that N's release name would be \"Nougat\"; it was also confirmed that Nougat would be version 7.0 of Android. The final Beta Preview, 5, was released on July 18, 2016. Android 7.0 was officially released on August 22, 2016, with the Nexus 6, 5X, 6P, 9, Nexus Player, Pixel C, and as the first devices to receive the update. Dave Burke, Android's Vice President of Engineering, stated in August 2016 that updates to Nougat would be released quarterly as maintenance releases focusing on \"continued refinements",
"title": "Android Nougat"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "19379651",
"text": "Android Nougat Android 7.0 \"Nougat\" (codenamed Android N during development) is the seventh major version and 14th original version of the Android operating system. First released as an alpha test version on March 9, 2016, it was officially released on August 22, 2016, with Nexus devices being the first to receive the update. The LG V20 was the first smartphone released with Nougat. Nougat introduces notable changes to the operating system and its development platform, including the ability to display multiple apps on-screen at once in a split-screen view, support for inline replies to notifications, and an expanded \"Doze\" power-saving",
"title": "Android Nougat"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "20611861",
"text": "preview, called Beta 3, was released on July 2, 2018. The final beta of Android P was released on July 25, 2018. Android \"P\" was officially released on August 6, 2018 as \"Android 9 Pie\" and was initially available for Google Pixel devices and the Essential Phone. The Sony Xperia XZ3 was the first device with Android Pie pre-installed. Google announced it will release Android 9 Pie (Go Edition), the lite version of Android Pie, in autumn. Some users are reporting reduced battery life after upgrading to Android Pie. Android Pie Android 9 \"Pie\" (codenamed Android P during development) is",
"title": "Android Pie"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "20068606",
"text": "for low-end devices – and support for implementing a hardware abstraction layer. , 21.5% of Android devices run Oreo, with 14.0% on 8.0 and 7.5% on 8.1. Android Oreo was internally codenamed \"Oatmeal Cookie.\" On March 21, 2017, Google released the first developer preview of Android \"O\", available for the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus Player, Pixel C, and both Pixel smartphones. The second, considered beta quality, was released May 17, 2017. The third developer preview was released on June 8, 2017 and offered a finalized version of the API. DP3 finalized the release's API to API level 26, changed",
"title": "Android Oreo"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "19661590",
"text": "adding tab navigation with swipe gesture, quick menu, enhanced navigation page (China only), content blocker status UI (in menu). The stable version was subsequently released worldwide in May 2017, following the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8. Version 6.2 was released on October 30, 2017, adding high contrast mode and night mode. Version 6.4 was released on February 19, 2018, adding download manager and enabled web bluetooth by default. Version 7.2 was released on June 7, 2018, adding WebGL2, Intersection Observer, Web Assembly and Protected Browsing. Version 7.4 was released on August 19, 2018, adding authentication with Intelligent Scan, customised",
"title": "Samsung Internet for Android"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18770860",
"text": "Android Marshmallow Android 6.0 \"Marshmallow\" (codenamed Android M during development) is the sixth major version of the Android operating system and the 13th version of Android. First released as a beta build on May 28, 2015, it was officially released on October 5, 2015, with Nexus devices being the first to receive the update. Marshmallow primarily focuses on improving the overall user experience of its predecessor, Lollipop. It introduced a new permissions architecture, new APIs for contextual assistants (first used by a new feature \"Now on Tap\" to provide context-sensitive search results), a new power management system that reduces background",
"title": "Android Marshmallow"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18770871",
"text": "to license Google Mobile Services software. The requirement for mandatory device encryption was originally intended to take effect on Lollipop, but was delayed due to performance issues. Android Marshmallow Android 6.0 \"Marshmallow\" (codenamed Android M during development) is the sixth major version of the Android operating system and the 13th version of Android. First released as a beta build on May 28, 2015, it was officially released on October 5, 2015, with Nexus devices being the first to receive the update. Marshmallow primarily focuses on improving the overall user experience of its predecessor, Lollipop. It introduced a new permissions architecture,",
"title": "Android Marshmallow"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "20391877",
"text": "port. It has a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and is IP54 dust and water resistant. The Nokia 7 initially came with near-stock Android 7.1.1 \"Nougat\", and HMD released the upgrade to Android 8.1 \"Oreo” in May 2018. Nokia 7 The Nokia 7 is a mid-range Nokia-branded smartphone running Android, by HMD Global. It was launched on 19 October 2017 and was released on 24 October exclusively in China. Nokia 7.1, which is an upgrade to the prior Nokia 7, was released on October 28, 2018 with an upgraded Snapdragon 660 processor. The Nokia 7 comes with the mid-range Snapdragon 630, backed",
"title": "Nokia 7"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "18126825",
"text": "Android Lollipop Android \"Lollipop\" is a codename for the Android mobile operating system developed by Google, spanning versions between 5.0 and 5.1.1. Unveiled on June 25, 2014 at the Google I/O 2014 conference, it became available through official over-the-air (OTA) updates on November 12, 2014, for select devices that run distributions of Android serviced by Google (such as Nexus and Google Play edition devices). Its source code was made available on November 3, 2014. It is the fifth major update and the twelfth version of Android. One of the most prominent changes in the Lollipop release is a redesigned user",
"title": "Android Lollipop"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "15300366",
"text": "Cupcake. The most recent version of Android is Android 9 Pie, which was released in August 2018. The development of Android started in 2003 by Android, Inc., which was purchased by Google in 2005. There were at least two internal releases of the software inside Google and the OHA before the beta version was released. To avoid confusion, the code names \"Astro Boy\" and \"Bender\" were only known to be tagged internally on some early pre-1.0 milestone builds, and thus were never used as the actual code names of the 1.0 and 1.1 release of the OS, as many people",
"title": "Android version history"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "19379653",
"text": "Nougat, with 18.1% on Android 7.0 (API 24) and 10.1% on Android 7.1 (API 25), making Nougat the most widely used codename Android, while Android 6.0 Marshmallow (API 23) is more popular than either of those Nougat versions. The release was internally codenamed \"New York Cheesecake\". On March 9, 2016, ahead of the Google I/O developer conference, Google released the first alpha version of Android \"N\" as part of a new \"Android Beta Program\" intended for testing by developers and enthusiasts before official release \"this summer\". The developer preview builds were compatible with only current Google Nexus devices; the 5X,",
"title": "Android Nougat"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "15300365",
"text": "Android version history The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of the Android beta on November 5, 2007. The first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released on September 23, 2008. Android is continually developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, and it has seen a number of updates to its base operating system since the initial release. Versions 1.0 and 1.1 were not released under specific code names, although Android 1.1 was unofficially known as Petit Four. Android code names are confectionery-themed and have been in alphabetical order since 2009's Android 1.5",
"title": "Android version history"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "19379658",
"text": "Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones released in October 2016; the new version adds support for the Google Daydream VR platform, image keyboards, expanded emoji support (including male and female versions), support for actions to be displayed in menus on home screen app shortcuts, and other new features. A preview of 7.1 for existing Nexus devices was released via Android Beta Program later in the month, and officially released as Android 7.1.1 on December 5, 2016. As of 7.1.1, the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 were considered end-of-life, and did not receive any further updates. Android 7.1.2 was released in April",
"title": "Android Nougat"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "19379654",
"text": "6P, 6, 9, Pixel C, and Nexus Player. The \"Android Beta Program\" that was introduced allows testers to opt-in for over-the-air updates to new beta versions as they are released. On April 13, 2016, Android N Beta Preview 2 was released. Google further discussed Android \"N\" during the I/O keynote on May 18, 2016, and unveiled its new virtual reality platform, Daydream. Beta Preview 3, the first preview release deemed suitable for wider public beta testing, was released at this time. Google also announced that it would hold a contest to determine the official release name of the operating system.",
"title": "Android Nougat"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "20068607",
"text": "the camera UI, reverted the Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity levels in the status bar back to Wi-Fi left, added themed notifications, added a battery animation in Settings: Battery, a new icon and darker background for the Clock app, and a teardrop icon shape for apps. On July 24, 2017, a fourth developer preview was released which included the final system behaviors and the latest bug fixes and optimizations. Android \"O\" was officially released on August 21, 2017 under the name \"Oreo\". Its lawn statue was unveiled at a promotional event across from Chelsea Market in New York City—a building which",
"title": "Android Oreo"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "15300371",
"text": "camera, which was relaxed to a fixed-focus camera. Android version history The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of the Android beta on November 5, 2007. The first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released on September 23, 2008. Android is continually developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, and it has seen a number of updates to its base operating system since the initial release. Versions 1.0 and 1.1 were not released under specific code names, although Android 1.1 was unofficially known as Petit Four. Android code names are confectionery-themed and have",
"title": "Android version history"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "10693432",
"text": "commercial Android device launched in September 2008. The operating system has since gone through multiple major releases, with the current version being 9 \"Pie\", released in August 2018. The core Android source code is known as Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and is primarily licensed under the Apache License. Android is also associated with a suite of proprietary software developed by Google, called Google Mobile Services (GMS) that very frequently comes pre-installed in devices, which usually includes the Google Chrome web browser and Google Search and always includes core apps for services such as Gmail, as well as the application",
"title": "Android (operating system)"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "20024357",
"text": "Android beta testing program. The official Android 8.0 Oreo update began rolling out to the Nokia 5 on January 30, 2018. Nokia announced on Twitter that the Nokia 5 , along with the Nokia 6 and Nokia 3 will receive the Android Pie update at the usual phase. The Nokia 5 was released in India on 13 June 2017. It was released in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2017. 9. Nokia announced on twitter that the Nokia 5 will get the Android Pie update along with the Nokia 3 and Nokia 6. Nokia 5 The Nokia 5 is a",
"title": "Nokia 5"
}
] |
Oreo
|
why was there so much interest in cuba both before and after the civil war
|
[
"sugar markets"
] |
[
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "14734049",
"text": "on Cuba, with which it had extensive economic ties. Historians have long debated America's intentions in becoming involved in the conflict. For a significant period during and after the war, selfless humanitarian interest in the fate of the Cuban people was accepted as the major impetus for the declaration of war. A supporting argument for this line of thinking is that yellow journalism created an inflammatory mood in the country and swayed public opinion to sympathize with Cuba. Recently this school of thinking has grown less popular. Many historians now believe that the United States was acting more out of",
"title": "United States declaration of war upon Spain"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1933001",
"text": "of the Soviet Union into Europe after the 1917 Russian Revolution, Castro immediately sought to \"export\" his revolution to other countries in the Caribbean and beyond, sending weapons to Algerian rebels as early as 1960. In the following decades, Cuba became heavily involved in supporting Communist insurgencies and independence movements in many developing countries, sending military aid to insurgents in Ghana, Nicaragua, Yemen and Angola, among others. Castro's intervention in the Angolan Civil War in the 1970s and 1980s was particularly significant, involving as many as 60,000 Cuban soldiers. Following the American embargo, the Soviet Union became Cuba's main ally.",
"title": "Cuban Revolution"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "4295603",
"text": "of the 19th century, Spain had lost most of its American possessions and a series of rebellions had shaken Cuba. This, combined with calls for annexation of Cuba in the United States, led to the Spanish–American War, and in 1902 Cuba gained formal independence. During the first decades of the 20th century, USA interests were dominant and in Cuba, leading to large influence over the island. This ended in 1959 when de facto leader Fulgencio Batista was ousted by revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro. Quickly deteriorating relations with the US led to Cuba's alliance with the Soviet Union and Castro's",
"title": "Cubans"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "17342305",
"text": "Cuba during World War II The history of Cuba during World War II begins in 1939. Because of Cuba's geographical position at the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, Havana's role as the principal trading port in the West Indies, and the country's natural resources, Cuba was an important participant in the American Theater of World War II, and subsequently one of the greatest beneficiaries of the United States' Lend-Lease program. Cuba declared war on the Axis powers in December 1941, making it one of the first Latin American countries to enter the conflict, and by the war's end in",
"title": "Cuba during World War II"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7860704",
"text": "known as the Ostend Manifesto was devised by U.S. diplomats, interested in adding a slave state to the Union. The Manifesto proposed buying Cuba from Spain for $130 million. If Spain were to reject the offer, the Manifesto implied that, in the name of Manifest Destiny, war would be necessary. When the plans became public, because of one author's vocal enthusiasm for the plan, the manifesto caused a scandal, and was rejected, in part because of objections from anti-slavery campaigners. The Cuban rebellion 1868-1878 against Spanish rule, called by historians the Ten Years' War, gained wide sympathy in the U.S.",
"title": "Cuba–United States relations"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "380299",
"text": "was the Cuban \"Junta\", under the leadership of Tomás Estrada Palma, who in 1902 became Cuba's first president. The Junta dealt with leading newspapers and Washington officials and held fund-raising events across the US. It funded and smuggled weapons. It mounted a large propaganda campaign that generated enormous popular support in the U.S. in favor of the Cubans. Protestant churches and most Democrats were supportive, but business interests called on Washington to negotiate a settlement and avoid war. Cuba attracted enormous American attention, but almost no discussion involved the other Spanish colonies of the Philippines, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Historians",
"title": "Spanish–American War"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "66094",
"text": "United States but were also quite often a source of dispute with Cuba's ostensible allies in the Kremlin. The Sandinista insurgency in Nicaragua, which led to the demise of the Somoza dictatorship in 1979, was openly supported by Cuba. However, it was on the African continent where Cuba was most active, supporting a total of 17 liberation movements or leftist governments, in countries including Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique. Its Angolan involvement was particularly intense and noteworthy with heavy assistance given to the Marxist–Leninist MPLA in the Angolan Civil War. Cuba's involvement in the Angolan Civil War began",
"title": "History of Cuba"
},
{
"has_answer": true,
"id": "380297",
"text": "American Civil War and Cuba's Ten Years' War, U.S. businessmen began monopolizing the devalued sugar markets in Cuba. In 1894, 90% of Cuba's total exports went to the United States, which also provided 40% of Cuba's imports. Cuba's total exports to the U.S. were almost twelve times larger than the export to her mother country, Spain. U.S. business interests indicated that while Spain still held political authority over Cuba, economic authority in Cuba, acting-authority, was shifting to the US. The U.S. became interested in a trans-isthmus canal either in Nicaragua, or in Panama, where the Panama Canal would later be",
"title": "Spanish–American War"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "4860880",
"text": "global communist interests with a valuable \"western front\" against the United States. The United States' opposition to Castro was based on the U.S. government's position that coercion inside Cuba was severe and that the government was serving as a model for allied anti-colonial movements elsewhere in the Americas. Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, Robert Kennedy and Richard Goodwin suggested to President Kennedy that the U.S. government begin a sustained campaign of intelligence and covert action against the government in Cuba. They believed that a centralized effort led by senior officials from the White",
"title": "Cuban Project"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "65988",
"text": "13 British colonies of North America, and the victory of the French Revolution of 1789, influenced early Cuban liberation movements, as did the successful revolt of black slaves in Haiti in 1791. One of the first, headed by a free black, Nicolás Morales, was aimed at gaining equality between \"mulatto and whites\" and the abolition of sales taxes and other fiscal burdens. Morales' plot was discovered in 1795 in Bayamo, and the conspirators were jailed. As a result of the political upheavals caused by the Iberian Peninsular War and the removal of Ferdinand VII from the Spanish throne, a western",
"title": "History of Cuba"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "65981",
"text": "with any foreign ships. The resultant stagnation of economic growth was particularly pronounced in Cuba because of its great strategic importance in the Caribbean, and the stranglehold that Spain kept on it as a result. As soon as Spain opened Cuba's ports up to foreign ships, a great sugar boom began that lasted until the 1880s. The island was perfect for growing sugar, being dominated by rolling plains, with rich soil and adequate rainfall. By 1860, Cuba was devoted to growing sugar, having to import all other necessary goods. Cuba was particularly dependent on the United States, which bought 82",
"title": "History of Cuba"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "66051",
"text": "in Europe, Cuba played a significant role as a base to protect the West Indies from German U-boat attacks. A draft law was instituted, and 25,000 Cuban troops raised, but the war ended before they could be sent into action. Alfredo Zayas, who had taken part in the Liberal rebellion of 1916-17, was elected President in 1920 and took office in 1921. When the Cuban financial system collapsed after a drop in sugar prices, Zayas secured a loan from the United States in 1922. Despite the country’s nominal independence, one historian has concluded that the continued U.S. military intervention and",
"title": "History of Cuba"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "66102",
"text": "referred to as the \"Special Period\". When the Soviet Union, the country's primary source of trade, was dissolved in late 1991, a major supporter of Cuba's economy was lost, leaving it essentially paralyzed because of the economy's narrow basis, focused on just a few products with just a few buyers. National oil supplies, which were mostly imported, were severely reduced. Over 80% of Cuba's trade was lost and living conditions declined. A \"Special Period in Peacetime\" was declared, which included cutbacks on transport and electricity and even food rationing. In response, the United States tightened up its trade embargo, hoping",
"title": "History of Cuba"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "1872076",
"text": "Spain. On April 25, the United States declared war. America claimed to have had no self-serving interest in Cuba, but some political and military leaders and imperialists did believe the war would be an opportunity for the United States to expand territories overseas and to demonstrate its increasing naval power against a weak foe. Moreover, the United States sought to expand economic ties with Cuba for its resources in sugar and tobacco, all of which influenced America's decision to intervene. It was evident that gaining territories across the globe would increase the strength and influence of the United States and",
"title": "Battle of Santiago de Cuba"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "380306",
"text": "Cuba now suffered losses as the conflict continued unresolved. These firms pressed Congress and McKinley to seek an end to the revolt. Other American business concerns, specifically those who had invested in Cuban sugar, looked to the Spanish to restore order. Stability, not war, was the goal of both interests. How stability would be achieved would depend largely on the ability of Spain and the U.S. to work out their issues diplomatically. While tension increased among the Cubans and Spanish Government, popular support of intervention began to spring up in the United States, due to the emergence of the \"Cuba",
"title": "Spanish–American War"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7860705",
"text": "Juntas based in New York Raised money, and smuggled men and munitions to Cuba, while energetically spreading propaganda in American newspapers. The Grant administration turned a blind eye to this violation of American neutrality. In 1869, President Ulysses Grant was urged by popular opinion to support rebels in Cuba with military assistance and to give them U.S. diplomatic recognition. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish wanted stability and favored the Spanish government, without publicly Challenging the popular anti-Spanish American viewpoint. Grant and Fish gave lip service to Cuban independence, called for an end to slavery in Cuba, and quietly opposed American",
"title": "Cuba–United States relations"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "66109",
"text": "known as the \"Black Spring\". The government imprisoned 75 dissident thinkers, including 29 journalists, librarians, human rights activists, and democracy activists, on the basis that they were acting as agents of the United States by accepting aid from the U.S. government. Though it was largely diplomatically isolated from the West at this time, Cuba nonetheless cultivated regional allies. After the rise to power of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1999, Cuba and Venezuela formed an increasingly close relationship based on their shared leftist ideologies, trade links and mutual opposition to U.S. influence in Latin America. Additionally, Cuba continued its post-revolution",
"title": "History of Cuba"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "66101",
"text": "Nikolai Leonov, the KGB chief in Mexico City, was one of the first Soviet officials to recognize Fidel Castro's potential as a revolutionary, and urged the Soviet Union to strengthen ties with the new Cuban leader. The USSR saw Cuba as having far more appeal with new revolutionary movements, western intellectuals, and members of the New Left, given Cuba's perceived David and Goliath struggle against U.S. \"imperialism\". In 1963, shortly after the Cuban missile crisis, 1,500 DI agents, including Che Guevara, were invited to the USSR for intensive training in intelligence operations. Starting from the mid-1980s, Cuba experienced a crisis",
"title": "History of Cuba"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "65997",
"text": "blacks, slave traders looked for others sources of cheap labour, such as Chinese colonists and Indians from Yucatán. Another feature of the population was the number of Spanish-born colonists, known as \"peninsulares\", who were mostly adult males; they constituted between ten and twenty per cent of the population between the middle of the 19th century and the great depression of the 1930s. Black unrest and British pressure to abolish slavery motivated many Creoles to advocate Cuba's annexation by the United States, where slavery was still legal. Other Cubans supported the idea due to their desire for American-style economic development and",
"title": "History of Cuba"
},
{
"has_answer": false,
"id": "7748896",
"text": "such as food and fuel shortages. The government did not accept American donations of food, medicines, and cash until 1993. On 5 August 1994, state security dispersed protesters in a spontaneous protest in Havana. Cuba has since found a new source of aid and support in the People's Republic of China. In addition, Hugo Chávez, former President of Venezuela, and Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, became allies and both countries are major oil and gas exporters. In 2003, the government arrested and imprisoned a large number of civil activists, a period known as the \"Black Spring\". In February 2008, Fidel",
"title": "Cuba"
}
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