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"context": "Perdita ( ) is an inner satellite of Uranus . Perdita 's discovery was complicated . The first photographs of Perdita were taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 , but it was not recognized from the photographs for more than a decade . In 1999 , the moon was noticed by Eri... | 1 |
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"context": "Malcolm Timothy Gladwell , CM ( born September 3 , 1963 ) is an English-born Canadian journalist , bestselling author , and speaker . He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996 . He has written five books , The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Di... | 1 |
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"context": "The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming , who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections . Since Fleming 's death in 1964 , eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or no... | 1 |
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"context": "Dave Dee , Dozy , Beaky , Mick & Tich were a British pop/rock group of the 1960s . Two of their single releases sold in excess of one million copies each , and they reached number one in the UK Singles Chart with the second of them , `` The Legend of Xanadu '' . \n \n Biograp... | 1 |
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"context": "The Prime Minister of Turkey ( Turkish : Başbakan ) is the head of government of Turkey . The prime minister is the leader of a political coalition in the Turkish parliament ( Meclis ) and the leader of the cabinet . The current holder of the position is Binali Yıldırım of th... | 1 |
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"context": "René Descartes ( ; ; Latinized : Renatus Cartesius ; adjectival form : `` Cartesian '' ; 31 March 1596 - 11 February 1650 ) was a French philosopher , mathematician , and scientist . Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy , much of subsequent Western philosophy is a r... | 1 |
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"context": "The Sixteen Men of Tain is the tenth studio album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth , released in March 2000 through Gnarly Geezer Records ( United States ) , Polydor Records ( Japan ) and JMS–Cream Records ( Europe ) ; a remastered edition was reissued in 2003 through Globe Musi... | 1 |
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"context": "The International System of Units ( , SI ) is the modern form of the metric system , and is the most widely used system of measurement . It comprises a coherent system of units of measurement built on seven base units . It defines twenty-two named units , and includes many mo... | 1 |
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"context": "Year 49 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar . At the time , it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Marcellus ( or , less frequently , year 705 Ab urbe condita ) . The denomination 49 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period... | 1 |
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