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George W. Bush
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In 2007, which president awarded Lee the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
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1962
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A movie adaptation of the book was released in what year?
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Gregory Peck
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Who played Atticus Finch in the 1962 movie of the same title?
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Gregory Peck
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Which actor received An Oscar for his role of Atticus Finch in the 1962 movie of the book?
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father's pocketwatch
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What item did Lee give the actor Gregory Peck after portraying Atticus Finch?
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grandson
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Which one of Gregory Peck's relatives was named after Harper Lee?
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her father's pocketwatch
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What personal effect did Lee give to Peck?
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grandson
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Which one of Peck's relatives was named Harper in honor of Lee?
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May 2005
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When did Lee randomly show up at the Los Angeles Public Library?
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a national treasure
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What did Peck's widow call Lee?
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Christopher Sergel
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Who turned the novel into a play?
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1990
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When was the play for To Kill a Mockingbird first performed?
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Monroeville
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What town labeled itself "The Literary Capital of Alabama"?
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townspeople
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Who makes up the cast of the annual play based on the book performed in Monroeville?
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racially segregated
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During the courtroom scene, what happens to the audience?
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the UK
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What country did Sergel's play tour around in and perform in 2006?
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Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
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The play was the opening act for the starting of the 2013 season at which location?
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Duncan Preston
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Who played Atticus Finch in the UK theater productions of the film in 2006 and 2011?
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July 14, 2015
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When was Go Set a Watchman introduced to the public?
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1957
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Go Set a Watchman was finished in what year?
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20
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How many years after To Kill a Mockingbird is the setting of Go Set A Watchman?
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Tonja Carter
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Who was Harper Lee's lawyer?
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Go Set a Watchman
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What is the earlier draft of the book titled?
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1957
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What year was Watchman completed?
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20
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How many years after Mockingbird was Watchman set?
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rape and racial inequality
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What two serious moral issues are dealt with in the novel?
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Atticus Finch
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Who is the protagonist of the novel?
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narration
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What is Lee's strongest style of writing?
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flashback
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What narrative technique does Lee use to combine the adult's perspective with the child's observations??
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all Southerners
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According to Lee, her book simply expressed a Christian code of honor and conduct inherit to whom?
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the neighborhood
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Besides the children's fascination with Boo, the first part of the book was concerned about their feelings for what?
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Southern romantic regionalism
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Lee's detailed explanations of the characters' behaviors caused one writer to catagorize the book as what?
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fine folks
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Scout defined people doing the best they could with what they had as who?
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The South itself
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What drives the plot of the book more than the characters?
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Tom Robinson
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Who is the main example of an innocent destroyed in the novel?
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Boo Radley
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What does Scout see symbollically as a mockingbird?
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real nice
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According to Atticus, most people are how when you truly view them?
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classical tragedy
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Reviewer R. A. Dave classified the novel how?
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The Chicago Sunday Tribune
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What newspaper wrote that the novel has strong contemporary national significance?
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Granville Hicks
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Which reviewer called the book melodramatic and contrived?
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Flannery O'Connor
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Which Southern writer deemed it a child's book?
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William Faulkner
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie vompared Lee to whom?
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Jane Austen
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Rosemary Goring connected Lee to whom?
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Allen Barra
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Who criticized Lee in The Wall Street Journal?
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Akin Ajayi
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Who wrote that the book forces readers to question issues without resolving them?
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Calpurnia
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Which character has some critics deemed a variation of a contented slave?
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black students
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According to one consultant, which group found the book demoralizing?
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poor rural "white trash"
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Michael Lund criticized the novel for demonizing whom?
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the harsh reality of inequality
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According to Diane McWhorter, every child in the South had to face what?
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an act of protest
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McWhorter wrote that the existance of the book was what?
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like Scripture
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How do the citizens of Monroeville quote lines of the book?
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Mockingbird groupies
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What do the Monroeville townspeople call tourists to their town?
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the Sun
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Where does solar energy come from?
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Solar energy
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What kind of energy consists of the light and heat provided by the Sun?
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solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture and artificial photosynthesis
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What technologies are used to harness solar energy from the sun?
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radiant light and heat from the Sun
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What is solar energy?
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174,000
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How many terawatts of solar radiation does the Earth receive?
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30%
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What percentage of solar radiation is reflected back by the atmosphere?
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3.5 to 7.0
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The areas that people live in typically receive what range of kWh/m2 per day?
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174,000
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How many terrawatts of radiation does the earth receive?
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Approximately 30%
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How much of the solar radiation is reflected back into space?
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150 to 300 watts per square meter or 3.5 to 7.0 kWh/m2 per day
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What are the insolation levels of most populated areas?
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clouds, oceans and land masses
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Where is the solar radiation not reflected back to space absorbed?
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71
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The Earth's oceans cover what percentage of the globe?
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14
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What is the average temperature of the Earth's surface in Celsius?
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photosynthesis
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What is the process by which green plants convert solar energy to stored energy?
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about 71%
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How much of the earth is covered by oceans?
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Warm air containing evaporated water from the oceans rises
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What is the cause of atmospheric circulation?
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When the air reaches a high altitude, where the temperature is low, water vapor condenses into clouds
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How does the water vapor that rises in warm air turn into clouds?
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The latent heat of water condensation amplifies convection
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What creates wind, cyclones and anti-cyclones?
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photosynthesis
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What is the process in which plants convert solar energy into stored energy called?
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3,850,000
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Each year the Earth absorbs how much solar energy in exajoules?
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one year
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In 2002, the Sun provided more energy in one hour than humans used in what span of time?
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3,000
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How much energy in exajoules does photosynthesis capture each year?
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one year
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Twice the amount of energy obtainable by all the non-renewable sources on Earth can be provided by the Sun in what span of time?
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approximately 3,850,000 exajoules (EJ) per year
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What is the amount of solar energy absorbed by the earth?
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approximately 3,000 EJ per year
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How much solar energy is captured by photosynthesis?
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coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined
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The amount of solar energy per year is twice as much as the energy that will ever be produced from what resources?
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the Sun
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Where do the majority of renewable energies derive their energy from?
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passive or active
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How are solar technologies defined?
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depending on the way they capture, convert and distribute sunlight
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What is one way that characterizes solar technologies as passive or active?
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geothermal and tidal
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Which renewable energies do not acquire their energy from the sun?
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direct or indirect
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How do renewable energies acquire energy from the sun?
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Active
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Are supply side solar technologies generally active or passive?
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Passive
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Are demand side solar technologies generally active or passive?
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solar thermal collectors
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What is an active solar technique used to generate energy?
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designing spaces that naturally circulate air
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What is an active solar technique used to generate energy?
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increase the supply of energy
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What does an active solar technique do?
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reduce the need for alternate resources
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What does a passive solar technique do?
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Frank Shuman
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What was the name of the inventor who built a solar engine in 1897?
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1908
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In what year was the Sun Power Company formed?
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1912
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Shuman patented his solar engine system in what year?
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a U.S. inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer
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Who is Frank Shuman?
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1897
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In what year did solar engine build his solar engine?
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steam engine
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What was the solar engine used to power?
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1908
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In what year was the Sun Power Company established?
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1912
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In what year did Frank Shuman patent his solar engine?
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Maadi, Egypt
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Where did Shuman build the world's first solar thermal power station?
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22,000
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How many liters of water per minute did Shuman's engine pump in litres?
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the 1970s
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In what decade were Shuman's ideas about solar energy revived?
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