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Hampshire (, ; abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, the former capital city of England. Hampshire is the most populous ceremonial county in the United Kingdom (excluding the metropolitan counties) with almost half of the count...
what counties border it?
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Dorset to the west, Wiltshire to the north-west, Berkshire to the north, Surrey to the north-east, and West Sussex to the east.
Dorset , Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey, and West Sussex
(CNN) -- Italian manager Gianfranco Zola has been sacked by English Premier League club West Ham, while former England boss Steve McLaren has joined German side Wolfsburg. The Hammers announced in a statement on their official Web site that they had terminated Zola's contract after a season in which they finished jus...
why not?
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has ruled himself out of the running
he has ruled himself out of the running
For the second time since the U.S.-led effort to counter ISIS began, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, said he would not rule out asking the President to send U.S. ground troops into Iraq. "I've never been limited in my ability to make a recommendation of any size or sort to the Presiden...
which one?
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Rep. Buck McKeon, R-California
republican
CHAPTER VIII THE ROVER BOYS IN NEW YORK The more the Rover boys talked about the treasure hunt the more enthusiastic they became, until, as Tom expressed it, they were "simply boiling over with enthusiasm." "It will be a grand thing for the Stanhopes and the Lanings if we do locate that treasure," said Sam. "Mr. ...
What does Dick want money for?
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And Dick wants to get all he can for Dora,
Dora
600 (six hundred) is the natural number following 599 and preceding 601. Six hundred is a composite number, an abundant number, a pronic number and a Harshad number. 601 prime number, centered pentagonal number 602 = 2 × 7 × 43, nontotient, area code for Phoenix, AZ along with 480 and 623 603 = 3 × 67, Harshad numb...
What is 2 x 5 x 61?
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610 = 2 × 5 × 61
610
Occitan, also known as lenga d'òc by its native speakers, is a Romance language. It is spoken in southern France, Italy's Occitan Valleys, Monaco, and Spain's Val d'Aran; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitania. Occitan is also spoken in the linguistic enclave of Guardia Piemontese (Calabria,...
Where else?
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Italy's Occitan Valleys
Italy's Occitan Valleys
CHAPTER XXVII A LEMON That bulwark of _Peaceful Moments_, Pugsy Maloney, was rather the man of action than the man of tact. Otherwise, when, a moment later, he thrust his head up through the trap, he would have withdrawn delicately, and not split the silence with a raucous "Hey!" which acted on John and Betty like ...
Who did Pugsy get past?
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"How on earth did you get up here, Pugsy?" he asked. "How did you get past Sam?"
Sam
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson feared his father so much he would faint or vomit sometimes when his father entered the room -- even when the pop singer was an adult, according to a book written by a former Jackson confidant. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Michael Jackson's confidant, sat down with the King ...
In what year?
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the pop star's child molestation trial, which ended with an acquittal in 200
2005.
One upon a time there was a dragon named Jack. He was large and had big scales, but did not have claws or a mean look on his face like other dragons did. He also didn't have wings and couldn't fly. Jack lived near a castle that had a princess trapped in it. This castle looked and was guarded by an evil dragon named Rya...
What are their names?
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One upon a time there was a dragon named Jack. He was large and had big scales, but did not have claws or a mean look on his face like other dragons did. He also didn't have wings and couldn't fly. Jack lived near a castle that had a princess trapped in it. This castle looked and was guarded by an evil dragon named Rya...
Jack.and Ryan
(CNN) -- A 42-year-old immigrant from Rwanda, who is accused of lying her way into the United States after allegedly participating in the 1994 genocide that left up to 800,000 people dead, is going on trial in a New Hampshire federal court. Jury selection is set to begin Wednesday in the case of Beatrice Munyenyezi, ...
Where is her trial?
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is going on trial in a New Hampshire federal court.
New Hampshire
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As a Member of Parliament (MP), he represented five constituencies over the course of his career. A...
how long was he prime minister?
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1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
10 years in total
(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo salvaged a point for Real Madrid in a pulsating and controversial Madrid derby Sunday to keep his side top of the three-way title race in La Liga. Real were trailing Atletico 2-1 with eight minutes remaining when he equalized after an assist from Gareth Bale, firing home from the edge of th...
What is his job for the team?
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home assistant coach
home assistant coach
A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus, , of the family Pinaceae. "Pinus" is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The Plant List compiled by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accepts 126 species names of pines as current, together with 35 unresolved species and many more synonyms. T...
where does the name come from?
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some have traced to the Indo-European base *pīt- ‘resin’ (source of English pituitary).
some have traced to the Indo-European base *pīt- ‘resin’ (source of English pituitary).
Islamism, also known as Political Islam (Arabic: إسلام سياسي‎ islām siyāsī), is an Islamic revival movement often characterized by moral conservatism, literalism, and the attempt "to implement Islamic values in all spheres of life." Islamism favors the reordering of government and society in accordance with the Shari'a...
Do they want to keep their religion to themselves?
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attempt "to implement Islamic values in all spheres of life
No
(CNN) -- Defending English Premier League champions Manchester City had to come from behind twice to snatch a 2-2 draw at improved Liverpool Sunday. Liverpool stumbled to a 3-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion on the opening day of the season, but could count themselves unfortunate not to claim three points at Anfield....
When Yaya scored?
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Yaya Toure capitalized on hesitancy just after the hour mark.
just after the hour mark.
CHAPTER III. A SERIOUS CHARGE. "What do you want?" asked Hardwick abruptly. "Is Mr. Sumner in?" returned Hal. "No." "Then I'll wait till he comes." Hardwick stared at Hal. "Won't I do?" he asked sharply. "I'm afraid not, sir." "What do you want to see him about?" "He asked me to call," replied the y...
who was to arrive at 10?
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Mr. Sumner asked me to meet him here at ten o'clock."
Mr. Sumner
It is generally considered that the Pacific War began on 7/8 December 1941, on which date Japan invaded Thailand and attacked the British possessions of Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong as well as the United States military bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines. Some historians contend that the conflic...
And how many times did they do this?
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Jen put on her favorite dress. She liked it because it had cats on it. She was very excited about her birthday cake. Maybe the cake would have a turtle on it. Jen was going to have turkey. She had no gravy, so she had chicken for dinner instead. After eating the chicken, she remembered she was late for the dance! She r...
What was she late for?
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she remembered she was late for the dance!
The dance!
Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- A lawyer for Amanda Knox said Thursday the only option for the jury considering her murder appeal in Italy is to clear her of guilt. Knox's lawyers gave their final arguments in Perugia Thursday in an effort to counter prosecutors' portrayal of her as a cunning "femme fatale." Lawyer Carlo D...
Who did the prosecutor ask the jury to consider?
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Giancarlo Costagliola, who asked the jury to put themselves in the shoes of Kercher's family
Kercher's family
(CNN) -- Fantasia Barrino did not deny an alleged relationship with a married man, but a statement from her manager said the singer-actress did not wreck his marriage. A North Carolina woman, in a child custody case filing, charged that Barrino carried on a year-long affair with her husband, Antwaun Cook, who is the ...
Who was his babies mother?
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Paula Cook
Paula Cook
A news agency (French: "agence de presse") is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters. A news agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire, or news service. Although there are many new...
Who did they rely on in France?
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news agencies
CHAPTER VI. THE BEGINNING OF PERSECUTION. When Mary Masters got up on the morning after her arrival she knew that she would have to endure much on that day. Everybody had smiled on her the preceding evening, but the smiles were of a nature which declared themselves to be preparatory to some coming event. The people...
How long did she have to decide about him?
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There were to be two months,
two months
Vishnu (; Sanskrit: विष्णु, IAST: "") is one of the principal deities of Hinduism, and the Supreme Being in its Vaishnavism tradition. Vishnu is the "preserver" in the Hindu trinity (Trimurti) that includes Brahma and Shiva. In Vaishnavism, Vishnu is identical to the formless metaphysical concept called Brahman, the ...
How did Yaska define Vishnu in the Nirukta?
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visnur visvater va vyasnoter va
visnur visvater va vyasnoter va
CHAPTER IX. GOING TO OSTIA. While Rollo was at Rome, he made the acquaintance of a boy named Copley. Copley was an English boy, and he was about a year older than Rollo. Rollo first saw him at the door of the hotel, as he, Copley, was dismounting from his horse, on his return from a ride which he had been taking in...
Why was Copley not allowed to take Jessie on his ride?
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she is not safe
she is not safe
CHAPTER XXII ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD Claire dressed Dlorus, cooked a dinner of beet greens, potatoes, and trout; and by bullying and great sweetness kept Dlorus from too many trips to the gin bottle. Milt caught the trout, cut wood, locked in a log shed Pinky's forlorn mining-tools. They started for North Yaki...
anyone else ?
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Dr. Beach
(CNN)The Mormon church has excommunicated a popular podcaster, saying his public dissents from the religion's core beliefs have led others away from the church. John Dehlin, founder of the podcast "Mormon Stories," describes himself as an "unorthodox" Mormon whose church roots reach back five generations. Under Tuesd...
then how?
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"You have spread these teachings widely via the Internet to hundreds of people in the past a
via the Internet
(CNN) -- To start with, Cordell Jude was hungry. He was 22, the spring days were growing longer and the temperature in Phoenix had climbed to 80 degrees that Tuesday in April 2012. It was not much cooler as the sun slipped behind the Sierra Estrella mountains, so shortly before 8 pm, Jude drove with his pregnant fi...
How old was he?
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Daniel Adkins was 29
29
The radian 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 s; one radian is just under 57.3 degrees (expansion at ). The unit was formerly an SI supplementary unit, but this category...
What does the term describe?
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the plane angle subtended by a circular arc
CHAPTER XVII. NEAR TO DEATH. The Irishwoman had come up behind Hal so softly--she wore rubbers--that the youth did not hear her, and he was, therefore, thoroughly startled when she made the exclamation quoted at the end of the preceding chapter. Ferris and Macklin jumped to their feet and both rushed out in the h...
Where?
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and Macklin tried to shove Hal into the room.
The room.
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, and formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of th...
Is that everyone?
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and Joe Brandt
Joe Brandt
CHAPTER II. THE CAPTAIN OF JUSTICE There was a moment's silence after Rinolfo had flung that announcement. "The Captain of Justice?" quoth my mother at length, her voice startled. "What does he seek?" "The person of my Lord Agostino d'Anguissola," said Rinolfo steadily. She sighed very heavily. "A felon's end!"...
What will he bring back with him?
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He will return again with more," said Rinolfo.
more men
CHAPTER XII So sailed the Ship of Fools--Michael playing with Scraps, respecting Cocky and by Cocky being bullied and wheedled, singing with Steward and worshipping him; Daughtry drinking his six quarts of beer each day, collecting his wages the first of each month, and admiring Charles Stough Greenleaf as the finest...
who was drinking beer?
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Daughtry
Daughtry
The provinces and territories of Canada are the administrative divisions that are responsible for the delivery of sub-national governance within the geographical areas of Canada under the authority of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, ...
Under what authority?
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he authority of the Canadian Constitution
the Canadian Constitution
(CNN) -- California's parole board Tuesday refused to release onetime Manson family acolyte Leslie Van Houten, finding the 60-year-old remains dangerous more than four decades after the group's Southern California murder spree. The board found that Van Houten "still poses a risk to society," spokesman Luis Patino sai...
What is she in prison for?
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following her final conviction on first-degree murder charges in 1978 and a sentence of life in prison.
First-degree murder.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; "AG") is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), the only one in which all member nations have equal representation, and the main deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the UN. Its powers are to oversee the budget of the UN, appoint t...
What is the composition of the United Nations General Assembly?
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all member nations have equal representation , and the main deliberative , policy - making and representative organ of the un . its powers are to oversee the budget of the un , appoint the non - permanent members to the security council , receive reports from other parts of the un and make recommendations in the form o...
all member nations have equal representation , and the main deliberative , policy - making and representative organ of the un . its powers are to oversee the budget of the un , appoint the non - permanent members to the security council , receive reports from other parts of the un and make recommendations in the form o...
CHAPTER IV To reach their table, the one concerning which Francis and his friend had been speculating, the new arrivals, piloted by Louis, had to pass within a few feet of the two men. The woman, serene, coldly beautiful, dressed like a Frenchwoman in unrelieved black, with extraordinary attention to details, passed ...
What did Andrew Wilmore comment on when he saw Oliver Hilditch and Francis?
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curiosity
curiosity
Since the 19th century, the built-up area of Paris has grown far beyond its administrative borders; together with its suburbs, the whole agglomeration has a population of 10,550,350 (Jan. 2012 census). Paris' metropolitan area spans most of the Paris region and has a population of 12,341,418 (Jan. 2012 census), or one-...
What fraction of all of France is it?
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one-fifth of the population of France.
one-fifth
Sierra Leone (), officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north-east, Liberia to the south-east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west. Sierra Leone has a tropical climate, with a diverse environment ranging from savannah to rainforests. The country has a ...
What is it’s population?
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a population of 7,075,641
7,075,641
Chemical engineering is a branch of engineering that applies physical sciences (physics and chemistry), life sciences (microbiology and biochemistry), together with applied mathematics and economics to produce, transform, transport, and properly use chemicals, materials and energy. A chemical engineer designs large-sca...
Who served as the first Secretary?
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, with Davis as its first Secretary
Davis
The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The most commonly known Crusades are the campaigns in the Eastern Mediterranean aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Islamic rule but the term "Crusades" is also applied to other church-sanctioned campaigns. These were...
to do what?
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1,688
Volunteers became Crusaders
to be Crusaders
(CNN) -- Abu Yahya al-Libi, al Qaeda's No. 2 man, was killed in Pakistan on Monday, according to U.S. officials. Al-Libi's death was "another serious blow to core al Qaeda," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. Al-Libi, 49, was a well-regarded figure in jihadist circles and had emerged as one of the terrorist net...
WHAT DID HE USE TO JUSTIFY ORGANIZATION'S ACTIONS?
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used his religious training to justify the organization's actions
religious training
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American multinational computer software company. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more recent foray towards rich Internet application software dev...
Do artists like their products?
-1
-1
unknown
unknown
CHAPTER II: The Jacobite Agent. So twelve years passed. Ronald Leslie grew up a sturdy lad, full of fun and mischief in spite of the sober atmosphere of the bailie's house; and neither flogging at school nor lecturing at home appeared to have the slightest effect in reducing him to that state of sober tranquillity wh...
how long passed?
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49
twelve years
twelve years
Sally was walking through the park. The bluebirds were singing and the weather was nice. She waved at her neighbor Jerry, who was taking his kitten out. Then she heard a loud noise. The noise was coming from a nearby tree. She walked over to the tree to take a look and found a puppy curled up by the roots. It was makin...
where did she bring it?
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Home.
The UEFA European Championship (known informally as the Euros) is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), determining the continental champion of Europe. Held every four years since 1960, in the even-...
Does it have a less formal name?
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61
(known informally as the Euros
the Euros
CHAPTER XXVII A PRISONER OF THE ENEMY Never dreaming of the plot hatched out against him, Dick retired as usual that night. Now that the worry over the competitive drill was a thing of the past he realized that he was worn out, and scarcely had his head touched the pillow than he was in the land of Nod. His awake...
what did he think was going to happen?
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He had thought they were going to do something "grand" to the captian of the company that won the prize.
Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother Charles Wesley were also significant leaders in the movement. It originated as a revival within ...
What is methodism?
13
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the Methodist movemen
(CNN) -- Casey Anthony is responsible for the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, a report released Thursday by Florida's Department of Children and Families concludes. A month after a jury acquitted Anthony on murder and child neglect charges, the state agency found that Anthony "is the caregiver responsib...
Where does she live?
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25-year-old Orlando woman
Orlando
CHAPTER XXIII. STRANGE DISCOVERIES. Frank Massanet was surprised and delighted to have Richard come to work again. "You have indeed a good friend in Mr. Joyce," he remarked when the boy had told him what the leather merchant had done. "One such is worth a thousand of the common sort." During the afternoon Earle...
Does Frank always talk like that?
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1,142
It was seldom that Frank Massanet spoke in such an arbitrary way,
no
Joe was moving to a different state. He wanted to make the move without spending much money. He thought about driving in his own vehicle, but didn't do that. So Joe found a shipping company that shipped boxes on trailer trucks. First, Joe packed all his stuff in boxes. Then, he borrowed a small truck from a friend. He ...
Where was Joe moving?
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35
to a different state
to a different state
The word pharmacy is derived from its root word pharma which was a term used since the 15th–17th centuries. However, the original Greek roots from pharmakos imply sorcery or even poison. In addition to pharma responsibilities, the pharma offered general medical advice and a range of services that are now performed sole...
Is that only used in English?
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was called an apothecary and several languages have this as the dominant term
no
Moscow (CNN) -- There is no basic human right to barge into a church to make a political statement, jump around near the altar, and shout obscenities. But there is most certainly the right not to lose your liberty for doing so, even if the act is offensive. But that is exactly what happened Friday. A court in Moscow ...
What he did?
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who died in prison in 2009 after he blew the whistle on a massive government extortion scheme
Blew the whistle on a massive government extortion scheme
(HLNtv.com) -- The father of two Southern California children who went missing after their mother was killed pleaded Tuesday for their suspected abductor to release his daughter. A massive manhunt is under way for James DiMaggio, whom law enforcement authorities describe as a friend of the mother, Christina Anderson....
Who is pleading with him?
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Brett Anderson
(CNN) -- Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has dismissed an allegation that he was behind the death of a lawyer who left a video blaming the president if anything happened to him. A video with Rodrigo Rosenberg appears on YouTube in which he accuses Guatemala's leader in his death. The lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg, wa...
When did they occur?
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in connection with two killings last month.
Last month
The Inuit (pronounced or ; Inuktitut: , "the people") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska. Inuit is a plural noun; the singular is Inuk. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo-Aleut family. Inuit Sign Language is a critically endangered ...
What language group are those peoples' language a part of?
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The Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo-Aleut family
the Eskimo-Aleut family
CHAPTER IV "Which of them is it?" asked Longueville of his friend, after they had bidden good-night to the three ladies and to Captain Lovelock, who went off to begin, as he said, the evening. They stood, when they had turned away from the door of Mrs. Vivian's lodgings, in the little, rough-paved German street. "W...
did someone bid good morning ?
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good-night
good-night
Zebras cannot clap. However, one weekend a magic clown wiggled his nose and said a few magical words and a zebra could clap. This zebra lived in a zoo with many other zebras. This zebra's name was John, John the Zebra. John was so excited that he could clap. He tried to clap as much as he could. He had trouble understa...
What did he do?
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He tried to clap as much as he could
clapped as much as he could
The Bantu languages (), technically the Narrow Bantu languages as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other Bantoid languages, constitute a traditional branch of the Niger–Congo languages. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the dis...
How many learned Zulu as a second language?
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15.7 million
The West Indies or Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago. The region is known as the area running from Florida westward along...
Why is the region called the West Indies?
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to distinguish the region from the East Indies of South Asia and Southeast Asia.
to distinguish the region from the East Indies of South Asia and Southeast Asia.
(CNN) -- Luis Suarez will have to wait until late October to make his debut for Spanish club Barcelona after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) partially upheld the Uruguay star's ban for biting an opponent on Thursday. The striker was suspended from all football-related activity for four months -- preventing h...
On what day did the incident happen?
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biting an opponent on Thursday
on Thursday
James was a nice old man who lived by himself. Every day he would walk down the road by his house and say hello to everyone. It was fun saying hello to everyone but he felt lonely sometimes. He wanted a pet to take care of. One day as he was walking down the road a little brown and spotted puppy came up to him and want...
Does he live alone?
0
45
James was a nice old man who lived by himself
Yes
CHAPTER XXV. ON THE RANGE. Although it was nearly noon, the time when the natives of Yucatan believe a siesta is absolutely necessary, Cummings insisted that the flight should be continued without further delay. "It would not be surprising if the Chan Santa Cruz sentinels had seen that idiotic Jake, and followed ...
Did they leave the ravine?
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asked why they had left the ravine
yes
The region, as part of Lorraine, was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and then was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century, and formalized as one of the provinces of France. The Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse, known as Stadtrepublik Mülhausen, became a part of Alsace after a vote by its citizens on ...
What happened in 843?
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843 at the Treaty of Verdun
the Treaty of Verdun
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace. Locally it is often referred to simply as "The City". The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1, 1683, as one of the original counties of the U.S. state o...
What is the median residential property sale price in Manhattan as of 2017?
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exceeded us
exceeded us
CHAPTER 6. AN APPRENTICESHIP TO THE TEMPLE. The action of our characters during the night included in the last two chapters has now come to a pause. Vetranio is awaiting his guests for the banquet; Numerian is in the chapel, preparing for the discourse that he is to deliver to his friends; Ulpius is meditating in h...
What's she rubbing?
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caressing the precious fragment that she had saved from the ruins of her lute
fragments
The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. As with other geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period's start and end are well identified, but the exact dates are unce...
Where?
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on land
War is a state of armed conflict between societies. It is generally characterized by extreme aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. An absence of war is usually called "peace". Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general...
what is war
0
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a state of armed conflict between societies
(CNN) -- South African pair Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel put their Augusta disappointments behind them to impress in the opening round of the Malaysian Open Thursday. Schwartzel finished 18 shots off the pace in his defense of the U.S. Masters crown, handing over the Green Jacket to Bubba Watson, who beat Oo...
What was the score of Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel in the opening round of the Malaysian Open?
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18 shots off the pace in his defense of the u . s . masters crown , handing over the green jacket to bubba watson , who beat oosthuizen in a dramatic playoff sunday . shrugging off jet lag after a 30 - hour journey from georgia to kuala lumpur , schwartzel powered to an eight - under 64
18 shots off the pace in his defense of the u . s . masters crown , handing over the green jacket to bubba watson , who beat oosthuizen in a dramatic playoff sunday . shrugging off jet lag after a 30 - hour journey from georgia to kuala lumpur , schwartzel powered to an eight - under 64
CHAPTER IV TARGET PRACTICE The two boys spent most of the following week rolling logs and they were busy among them one hot afternoon when Mr. Oliver walked out of the bush nearby. As they did not immediately see him, he stopped and stood watching them in the shadow for a few minutes. Frank was feeling more cheerfu...
Is Jake related to any of the characters?
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unknown
unknown
CHAPTER XI A CALL FROM THE STERN For the instant after Tom slipped over the side of the _Golden Wave_, Dan Baxter was too dazed to do more than stare at the spot where he had last seen the boy with whom he had been struggling. "Gone!" he muttered presently. "Gone!" he repeated and crouched back in the darkness. ...
is he a young man?
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1,049
old Jerry
no
Jos, Nigeria (CNN) -- A string of bombs struck churches in five Nigerian cities Sunday, leaving dozens dead and wounded on the holiday, authorities and witnesses said. The blasts mark the second holiday season that bombs have hit Christian houses of worship in the west African nation. In a statement issued late Sunda...
Where is Damaturu?
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In Damaturu, a northern town in Yobe state
in Yobe state
While there is some international commonality in the way political parties are recognized, and in how they operate, there are often many differences, and some are significant. Many political parties have an ideological core, but some do not, and many represent very different ideologies than they did when first founded....
is the US a 3-party system?
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The United States is a two-party system, with its two most powerful parties being the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
No
CHAPTER II HESTER THINKS IT "A GREAT PITY" "You will understand," Mannering said, as the brougham drove off, "that you and I are speaking together merely as friends. I have nothing official to say to you. It would be presumption on my part to assume that the time is ripe for anything definite while you are still at...
Who did he suggest would lead it?
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"Under myself,"
Himself.
CHAPTER X The night of sleep was so short that it was difficult for Helen to believe that hours had passed. Bo appeared livelier this morning, with less complaint of aches. "Nell, you've got color!" exclaimed Bo. "And your eyes are bright. Isn't the morning perfectly lovely?... Couldn't you get drunk on that air? I...
What was Helen doing?
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she laced her boots.
Laced her boots.
(CNN) -- Charles Dickens, who was born 200 years ago this week, created some of the best-known and most loved figures in English literature, from Oliver Twist and David Copperfield to Pip, Miss Havisham and Magwitch. But of all the characters he wrote about, none played as important a role in his work as that of Lond...
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Warren's Blacking Warehouse
Warren's Blacking Warehouse
CHAPTER XXIII. AGAIN AT CROKER'S HALL. About three o'clock on that day Mr Whittlestaff came home. The pony-carriage had gone to meet him, but Mary remained purposely out of the way. She could not rush out to greet him, as she would have done had his absence been occasioned by any other cause. But he had no sooner t...
from who?
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Mr Gordon
Mr Gordon
(CNN) -- Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the biracial woman who revealed nine years ago she was the illegitimate daughter of former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond, died Monday, her family's spokesman said. She was 87. Washington-Williams kept her father's identity secret until six months after Thurmond, a segregat...
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Thurmond, a segregationist leader for decades, died in June 2003 at age 100.
100
NEW YORK (CNN) -- In the midst of the ongoing culture wars, can it be a good idea to put out a comedy about two Stone Age men who wander into the Bible? In "Year One," Jack Black stars as an inquisitive Stone Age man, with Michael Cera as his sidekick. Harold Ramis thinks so. "Year One," which he directed, concer...
Who were some of the comedians featured in "Year One"?
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christopher mintz - plasse ( " superbad " ) , horatio sanz ( " saturday night live , " " step brothers " ) and bill hader
christopher mintz - plasse ( " superbad " ) , horatio sanz ( " saturday night live , " " step brothers " ) and bill hader
Washington (CNN) -- It was a long summer for President Barack Obama, who for months has defended his decision not to send U.S. troops to fight ISIS on the ground in the Middle East. But lawmakers contend that in the wake of a rapidly-spreading Ebola crisis and the upcoming midterm elections, the President's commitmen...
Where was the other senator from?
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South Carolina
South Carolina
(CNN) -- We first thought about starting this piece with the story of Saleha Begum, a survivor of Bangladesh's 1971 war in which, some reports say, as many as 400,000 women were raped. Begum had been tied to a banana tree and repeatedly gang raped and burned with cigarettes for months until she was shot and left for de...
Where did Salena Begum live?
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) -- We first thought about starting this piece with the story of Saleha Begum, a survivor of Bangladesh's 1971 war in which,
Bangladesh
Chapter I. Retirement From Leadership. (1874-1875) “ἐγὼ μὲν, ὧναξ, πρεσβύτερός τε ἤδη εἰμὶ καὶ βαρὺς ἀείρεσθαι; σὺ δέ τινα τῶνδε τῶν νεωτέρων κέλευε ταῦτα ποιέειν.”—HERODOTUS iv. 150. “I am too old, O king, and slow to stir; so bid thou one of the younger men here do these things.” A member of the great governmen...
Who would not be the head of the liberal party any longer?
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Gladstone would no longer retain the leadership of the liberal party
Gladstone
(CNN) -- Kanye West wants his listeners to know that he is "a close high" to God. His latest album, "Yeezus," released Tuesday, offered several controversial track titles, including "New Slaves," "Black Skinhead" and the most audacious, "I Am a God." The track's credit says "featuring God," as if He's just another ar...
Do some think he is crazy for thinking himself equal to God?
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(CNN) -- Nico Rosberg dominated the final, vital qualifying session of the 2014 F1 season in Abu Dhabi, putting the German in the box seat for the World Championship title. The Mercedes driver, who has endured a fine but torrid season alongside his rival Lewis Hamilton, led the session from the start as Hamilton put ...
Was this a typical change?
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controversial
No, it was controversial
(CNN) -- Mark Webber vowed to push Sebastian Vettel for the 2013 world title when their champion Red Bull team launched its new Formula One car on Sunday. The veteran Australian has had to play second fiddle to the all-conquering Vettel in the past three seasons, despite at stages being in contention for his maiden c...
Which one?
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Formula One
CHAPTER XVI--THE GIRL WHO HAD NOT GROWN UP News, as usual, Christian Young brought--news of the drinking at Guvutu, where the men boasted that they drank between drinks; news of the new rifles adrift on Ysabel, of the latest murders on Malaita, of Tom Butler's sickness on Santa Ana; and last and most important, news ...
Where did Joan have to go first?
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"But I've got to go to Guvutu first." Joan looked at the men
Guvutu
(CNN) -- Scotland's Paul Lawrie carded a final round seven-under-par 65 on Sunday to win the Qatar Masters by four strokes, his second victory in the tournament. The 43-year-old -- who also won in Doha in 1999, the year he went on the lift the British Open -- recorded a 15-under-par aggregate of 201, clear of Austral...
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43-year-old
43
Sammy, Kate and Ben were planning a birthday party for their friend Stew. This party was going to be a surprise. They were going to have the party in Stew's house. Sammy's job was making the house look nice. Kate's job was to get a clown to come to the party. Ben's job was to make enough food for all of the guests. Als...
Who's house was the party going to be at?
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They were going to have the party in Stew's house
Stew's house
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is a research university located in San Francisco, California and part of the University of California system. The university is entirely dedicated to health sciences and is a major center of medical and biological research and teaching, and is ranked as one of the to...
What is the college dedicated to?
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entirely dedicated to health sciences
health sciences
Miami, Florida (CNN) -- A Florida man who admitted to the near-fatal beating of his two-year-old son while teaching him how to box remained behind bars Thursday, facing felony charges. Lee Willie Dejesus, 23, of Homestead, appeared in court Wednesday night wearing a green protective vest reserved for those on suicide...
How long did he wait before he called 911?
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as long as an hour
CHAPTER X For three weeks after his meeting with Bertrade de Montfort and his sojourn at the castle of John de Stutevill, Norman of Torn was busy with his wild horde in reducing and sacking the castle of John de Grey, a royalist baron who had captured and hanged two of the outlaw's fighting men; and never again after...
Were guests a normal thing there?
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for visitors seldom came to this inaccessible and unhospitable fortress
No.
The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress. It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries. LCC should not be confused with LCCN, the system of Library of Congress Control Numbers assigned to all b...
when Did Putnam come up with the classification?
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1897,
1897,
CHAPTER XXXIX UNDISTURBED LETTUCE When Ralph Haverley came in from his long moonlight ramble, he was so happy that he went to bed and slept as sound as rock. But before he closed his eyes he said to himself,-- "I will do that to-morrow; the very first thing to-morrow." But people do not always do what they inte...
Who was Ralph's letter from?
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Miriam
Miriam
CHAPTER IX--SMELLING DEATH Adam Salton, though he talked little, did not let the grass grow under his feet in any matter which he had undertaken, or in which he was interested. He had agreed with Sir Nathaniel that they should not do anything with regard to the mystery of Lady Arabella's fear of the mongoose, but he ...
What was Adam trying to figure out?
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He was in his own mind perpetually casting about for information or clues which might lead to possible lines of action. Baffled by the killing of the mongoose, he looked around for another line to follow. He was fascinated by the idea of there being a mysterious link between the woman and the animal
Why Lady Arabella feared the mongoose.
CHAPTER XXII Mrs. Theodore Hastings was forty-eight years old, which her friends said was the reason why her mansion on Fifth Avenue was furnished and lit with the delicate sombreness of an old Italian palace. There was about it none of the garishness, the almost resplendent brilliancy associated with the abodes of m...
Did she choose her guests carefully?
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carefully selected dinner guests
Yes.
The girl was scared. She had been lost in the woods for over an hour. Then she heard something howling in the distance. Finally, it was getting dark. It all made her more scared than she had ever been. The howling grew louder. Then the girl came into a small opening in the woods. And she saw the wolf! She was so scared...
Why?
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He was so pleased she ate with him
He was so pleased she ate with him
The sound of the women washing laundry down at the lake woke Lizzie up. She yawned, stretching out like a lazy cat. Her sister was also awake. "Lizzie", Meghan whispered, "are you awake?" Lizzie nodded and rolled out of bed. Meghan rolled over and went back to sleep. As Lizzie walked down the hallway, she accidentall...
Did Lizzie appologize for it?
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Sorry, Ralph", said Lizzie
yes
(CNN) -- The four New York Times staffers recently held captive for about a week by pro-Moammar Gadhafi troops made it out of Libya alive. However, they're unsure if their driver, Mohammed, did. And the experience is forcing the seasoned war journalists to reconsider how they look at the world. "We probably should ...
What happened to the journalists after that?
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The journalists, who were blindfolded soon thereafter
they were blindfolded
The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University or simply Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England. It has no known date of foundation, but there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest ...
What is "Oxbridge"?
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The two "ancient universities" are frequently jointly referred to as "Oxbridge".
the combination of two ancient universities
(CNN) -- Lewis Hamilton endured a nightmare start to testing his new Mercedes after driving straight off the track at Jerez on his first day following a hydraulic problem Wednesday. The 2008 world champion, who left McLaren at the end of last season, was on his 15th lap of timed testing when his car went off the trac...
What car does he drive?
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testing his new Mercedes
Mercedes
The city's name was historically written as 那古野 or 名護屋 (both read as "Nagoya"). One possible origin is the adjective , meaning 'peaceful'. The name Chūkyō (中京, consisting of "chū" (middle) + "kyō" (capital)) is also used to refer to Nagoya. Notable examples of the use of the name Chūkyō include the Chūkyō Industrial ...
What word do some people think the city's name comes from?
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peacefu
peacefu