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Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States. The state is the tenth largest by area, the least populous and the second least densely populated state in the country. Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska, on the south by Colorado, on the southwes...
How many states border it?
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Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska, on the south by Colorado, on the southwest by Utah, and on the west by Idaho.
Six
Annie's sister, Julia, was having a birthday party in the afternoon. Annie's mother was going to bake the cake for the party. Mother asked Annie to help her bake the cake. They chose to make a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Annie got the bowls and the ingredients they would need for the cake. She helped measur...
What was she doing?
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having a birthday party
having a birthday party
(CNN) -- Jason Priestley played Brandon Walsh on "Beverly Hills 90210" from 1990 to 1998. Having long since hung up his Peach Pit uniform and Beverly Hills Beach Club cabana boy polo shirt, his character became a journalist and departed to take a job at the Washington Bureau of the New York Chronicle, and Priestley lef...
What was the name of the book Jason Priestley wrote?
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jason priestley : a memoir
jason priestley : a memoir
CHAPTER XIV DEFEAT A good fire burned on the hearth in the library at Sandymere, although the mild air of an early spring morning floated in through the open window. Challoner sat in a big leather chair, watching the flames and thinking of his nephew, when a servant entered and handed him a card. Challoner glance...
Was it evening when all this was happening?
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early spring morning
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CHAPTER XXIII: Paddy The Beaver Does A Kind Deed Paddy the Beaver listened to all that his small cousin, Jerry Muskrat, had to tell him about the trouble which Paddy's dam had caused in the Laughing Brook and the Smiling Pool. "You see, we who live in the Smiling Pool love it dearly, and we don't want to have to le...
Was he smaller than the muskrat?
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I am bigger than you
No.
(CNN)How do Republicans try to breathe new life into an old scandal? We've seen it time and time again. Here's how it works: Step One: Republicans, with nothing in their arsenal to use against Hillary Clinton, selectively leak to reporters a "scandalous" tidbit -- often one that has been previously reported. Step T...
What newspaper wrote a piece about her?
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New York Times
New York Times
David bought a new house and wanted to start a garden in his backyard. He asked his friend Anthony to go with him to the store. David and Anthony went to the store on Saturday to pick out soil and seeds. They went into the big store and passed by many other things like jewelry, books, and movies, and then they reached ...
What
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A preschool also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, playschool; kindergarten (outside the US and UK) is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children, usually between the ages of 2½ and 5, prior to the commencement of compulsory education at primary school. They...
Who founded the first preschool in Strassbourg in 1779?
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johann friedrich oberlin and louise scheppler
CHAPTER I WYNDHAM PAYS DUTY Red reflections trembled on the sea, a fringe of languid surf broke along the beach, and as the liner turned a point, a white town that rose in terraces, glimmered like a pearl. A yellow flag ran up to the masthead, the throb of engines slowed, and a noisy launch steamed out from behind ...
Why?
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I hope he is, because if he doesn't come it might imply he means to make things difficult for us.
if he doesn't come he might be making things difficult
(CNN) -- Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid icon, Nobel peace laureate and South Africa's first black president, celebrated his 90th birthday Friday by doing something he had indicated he would not do again -- grant an interview to journalists. Mandela sits at the 6th Nelson Mandela Lecture in Soweto, Johannesburg. A c...
What is he known for?
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Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid icon
being anti-apartheid
(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal is known as the undisputed king of clay with seven French Open titles to his name -- but the Spaniard was given an almighty scare in the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters Friday. Nadal, who has won the past eight editions of the tournament, was made to fight all the way by Bulgaria's Grig...
in what competition?
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Spaniard was given an almighty scare in the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters Friday
the Monte Carlo Masters
The stinker was that no one let the elf in. He had waited at the door for four whole hours, but was afraid to knock in case the noise would wake the humans. This elf was the tooth fairy's helper, but one day hoped to work in the North Pole. That would never happen if he couldn't even help the tooth fairy with teeth on ...
how long had he?
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That would never happen if he couldn't even help the tooth fairy with teeth on his first day working for her.
It was his first day.
CHAPTER XXIV Captain Richard Beverley, on his way through the hotel smoking room to the Savoy bar, stopped short. He looked at the girl who had half risen from her seat on the couch with a sudden impulse of half startled recognition. Her little smile of welcome was entirely convincing. "Why, it's Nora Sharey!" he e...
And what did he take on after?
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flying
However, not all highest courts are named as such. Civil law states do not tend to have singular highest courts. Additionally, the highest court in some jurisdictions is not named the "Supreme Court", for example, the High Court of Australia; this is because decisions by the High Court could formerly be appealed to the...
Do some nations have a place for constitutional matters?
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1,490
number of jurisdictions also maintain a separate constitutional court
yes
(CNN) -- Do not go backstage at Cirque Du Soleil. It will only hurt your self-esteem. Anthony Gatto says he's been in training since he was 3 years old and performing since he was 8. In the performers' tent for the touring show "Kooza," there are the chiseled men catapulting their partners onto each other's shoulde...
What is the name of the event?
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In the performers' tent for the touring show "Kooza," there are the chiseled men catapulting their partners onto each other's shoulders from a giant see-saw and the woman doing contortions on children's-sized blocks.
Kooza
CHAPTER XI. FOR AND AGAINST. Saunders was excited or he would not have spoken so hastily or so bluntly. Hal grew very pale, and clenched his hands. "You say I entered Mr. Saunders' room?" he demanded, turning to Ferris. "I do," replied the tall boy. He had hardly spoken, when Hal strode over with such a det...
what?
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"It is false. It is more likely that you entered Mr. Saunders' room yourself.
entering Mr. Saunders' room .
Thousands of protesters surrounded Bangkok's Government House on Friday seeking the removal of Thailand's embattled caretaker government amid soaring political tensions following the ouster of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The People's Democratic Reform Committee, which has been protesting the government...
Who is the security adviser to the government?
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Lt. Gen. Paradon Patthanathabut, security adviser to the government
Lt. Gen. Paradon Patthanathabut
(CNN) -- Hope Murray thought her prayers had been answered. Hope Murray, left, was desperate to find affordable health care for her daughter Meredith. Her daughter, Meredith, desperately needed to see a doctor after suffering a brain injury in a car accident, but health insurance companies wouldn't sell her a polic...
Who did she try to visit?
989
1,006
Dr. Robert Epsten
Dr. Robert Epsten
The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts". A program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, GRI maintains a research library, organizes exhibitions and other events, sponsors a residential scho...
What was the name of the special project conducted by GRI between 1995 and 1999?
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l . a . as subject : the transformative culture of los angeles communities
l . a . as subject : the transformative culture of los angeles communities
CHAPTER XV AN AUTOMOBILING ADVENTURE "What did you run over?" asked Sam. "Look for yourself," returned his big brother. "This is an outrage! I wish I could catch the party responsible for it," he added bitterly. Dick had stopped the touring car in the midst of a quantity of broken glass bottles. The glass cover...
What did Tom suggest as the cause of the glass bottles?
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maybe it was done by some country fellow who is running an auto repair shop
maybe it was done by some country fellow who is running an auto repair shop
(CNN) -- When Jack Nicklaus gives you advice, it pays to listen. Rory McIlroy did so last year, and he won his first major tournament. Now, having missed three cuts in a row ahead of his U.S. Open title defense next week, the world No. 2 has again acted on the wisdom of one of golf's greatest champions. McIlroy had...
who won thier first tournament?
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Rory McIlroy did so last year, and he won his first major tournament
Rory McIlroy
Chapter IX Man and Man Tarzan of the Apes lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years, only that he grew stronger and wiser, and learned from his books more and more of the strange worlds which lay somewhere outside his primeval forest. To him life was never monotonous or stale. Th...
does tarzan have a longer name?
27
45
Tarzan of the Apes
yes
CHAPTER III THE LIBERTY GIRLS An hour later six girls met at the home of Alora Jones, who lived with her father in a fine mansion across the street from Colonel Hathaway's residence. These girls were prepared to work, and work diligently, under the leadership of Mary Louise, for they had been planning and discussing ...
Do they have a long time to do it?
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and there's a short time to do it in
no
(CNN) -- In the sight of Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer, the man who would be king awaits his destiny. Diminutive and unassuming, Lionel Messi's faith in his ability has never been in question -- but a God-like shadow has always haunted him. If Diego Maradona is a deity to Argentines, then Messi is a prophet....
For who?
877
915
381 goals in 466 matches for Barcelona
Barcelona.
BT Group plc (trading as BT) is a holding company which owns British Telecommunications plc, a British multinational telecommunications company with head offices in London, United Kingdom. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-line, mobile and broadband services in the UK, and a...
Did Government keep their shares?
980
1,051
null
no
Mitt Romney hit his party's "magic number" on Tuesday, unofficially clinching the Republican presidential nomination in a race he entered as the front-runner and has had to himself for weeks. Romney led the pack when he announced his second run for the White House last June, and he has watched his rivals for the nomi...
Where did they hail from?
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483
The delegates to put him over the 1,144 necessary for the GOP nomination came in Texas,
Texas
CHAPTER XLI In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors So the mourning being ready, and Sir Pitt Crawley warned of their arrival, Colonel Crawley and his wife took a couple of places in the same old High-flyer coach by which Rebecca had travelled in the defunct Baronet's company, on her first journey into t...
Who wanted to drive?
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595
Rawdon took his place outside, and would have liked to drive, but his grief forbade
Rawdon
(CNN) -- It was the moment the world had been waiting for, and as he has so often in his glittering career, Lionel Messi delivered. After a frantic opening to the World Cup in Brazil with entertainment and goals aplenty, one of its gold-plated stars announced his arrival in style. A trademark slaloming run from the...
was it played in a country?
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After a frantic opening to the World Cup in Brazil with entertainment and goals aplenty, one of its gold-plated stars announced his arrival in style.
in Brazil
CHAPTER ONE PLAYING PILGRIMS "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, w...
what does Jo want to purchase with it?
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1,466
Undine and Sintran
Undine and Sintran
Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions . Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilites radically opposed to, and questioning of, institutionalized compositional, performing, and aesthetic conventions in music . Eleme...
Did Harry Partch and Ivor Darreg use traditional instruments?
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No
Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper, 1,351,587 in the urban...
What river is the area around?
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around a dam in the river Amstel
Amstel
With an estimated population of 1,381,069 as of July 1, 2014, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the US and a bordering country after Detroit–Windsor, with a pop...
Who claimed the by for Spain?
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uan Rodríguez Cabrillo
CHAPTER XXXIII From Titherington, the aviator, in his Devonshire home, from a millionaire amateur flier among the orange-groves at Pasadena, from his carpenter father in Joralemon, and from Gertie in New York, Carl had invitations for Christmas, but none that he could accept. VanZile had said, pleasantly, "Going out ...
What was he called?
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Josiah Bagby, Jr., son of the eccentric doctor at whose school Carl had learned to fly,
Josiah Bagby, Jr
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers. Memphis had a population of 652,717 in 2016, making it the second largest city in the state o...
What is a resident of Memphis known as?
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A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian,
A Memphian,
(CNN) -- Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier died of a heart attack in Port-au-Prince at the age of 63, a family member told CNN Saturday. Known by his nickname "Baby Doc," the so-called "President for life" actually fled Haiti in 1986 and stunned Haiti when he returned 25 years later. He was charged with ...
Was Baby Doc kinder?
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1,353
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no
(CNN) -- After months of speculation, one of Formula One's worst kept secrets has finally been confirmed. Fernando Alonso, the double world champion who recently left Ferrari, will rejoin McLaren for the 2015 season, which gets underway in March. The Spaniard, who won back-to-back world titles with Renault in 2005 ...
How long was he with Ferrari?
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four-year association with Ferrari.
four years
HYANNIS, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Family and close friends of Eunice Kennedy Shriver attended a Friday morning funeral for the sister of the late President John F. Kennedy. Special Olympics athlete Loretta Claiborne, at casket, and Maria Shriver attend Eunice Shriver's wake Thursday. Shriver, a champion of the disabl...
What state?
1,042
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in Brookline, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
SAVANNAH, Georgia (CNN) -- What does it really take to dress someone as fashion-forward and in the spotlight as Michelle Obama? Designer Yigal Azrouël talks with students at the Savannah College of Art and Design. "Bravery," says Isabel Toledo, designer of the first lady's attention-grabbing lemongrass yellow wool ...
What color outfit did Michelle Obama wear?
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first lady's attention-grabbing lemongrass yellow wool and lace ensemble that she wore for the inauguration
Lemongrass yellow.
The First Nations () are the predominant Aboriginal peoples of Canada south of the Arctic. Those in the Arctic area are distinct and known as Inuit. The Métis, another distinct ethnicity, developed after European contact and relations primarily between First Nations people and Europeans. There are currently 634 recogni...
what other distinct group is mentioned?
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Métis,
Métis,
Motown is an American record company. The record company was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan. The name, a portmanteau of "motor" and "town", has also become a nickname for Detroit. Motown played an...
what company did Berry start?
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Tamla Records
CHAPTER XXIX CHECK AGAIN Though the jongejuffrouw seemed inexpressibly tired and weak, her attitude toward Diogenes lost nothing of its cold aloofness. She was peeping out under the hood of the sledge when he approached it, and at sight of him she immediately drew in her head. "Will you deign to descend, mejuffro...
Why does Diogenes offer to carry Gilda?
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"The road is very slippery, mejuffrouw," he added warningly,
The road is very slippery
Istanbul (CNN) -- A Turkish prosecutor has openly accused police of interfering with a high-level corruption investigation. "Court orders have not been carried out and there has been open pressure on the judicial process from both the chief prosecutor's office and from the police force, which is supposed to carry out...
who resigned?
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1,485
Muammer Guler
Muammer Guler
(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 is the article about?
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auto races
A pub /pʌb/, or public house is, despite its name, a private house, but is called a public house because it is licensed to sell alcohol to the general public. It is a drinking establishment in Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Denmark and New England. In many places, especially in villages, a pub can be...
What changed then?
772
990
Traditionally the windows of town pubs were of smoked or frosted glass to obscure the clientele from the street but from the 1990s onwards, there has been a move towards clear glass, in keeping with brighter interiors.
move towards clear glass
The German equivalent was used with the founding of the North German Confederation whose constitution granted legislative power over the protection of intellectual property (Schutz des geistigen Eigentums) to the confederation. When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention (1883) and the Bern...
Where did the second occur?
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merged in 1893, they located in Berne
Berne
London (CNN) -- Alex Salmond, Scotland's First Minister, is fond of saying that when the United Nations was first formed in 1945, it had just 50 members. Today, he adds, that figure has risen to almost 200. It's a nice line, although in reality the emergence of a new nation remains relatively rare. But there does see...
Who is Salmond addressing soon?
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703
this weekend addresses delegates at the Scottish National Party's
delegates
Montana i/mɒnˈtænə/ is a state in the Western region of the United States. The state's name is derived from the Spanish word montaña (mountain). Montana has several nicknames, although none official, including "Big Sky Country" and "The Treasure State", and slogans that include "Land of the Shining Mountains" and more ...
Were very many nominated?
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1,347
74 animals were nominated
yes
CHAPTER XVI MORE DISCOVERIES "You settled up with him in full?" gasped Rick. "Yes-- some time ago." "Not for that stock in the Sunset Irrigation Company." "I was not talking about the Irrigation Company. That is another affair. Your father was to see us about that on the morning when he-- er-- when he failed ...
What's his last name?
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Rover
Rover
CHAPTER III THE TEAM THAT RAN AWAY "Oh, Dave, the gully!" cried his sister Laura. "If we go into that we'll all be killed!" "Please keep quiet, Laura," flung back her brother in a low, tense voice. "These horses are scared enough as it is." Dave was doing his best to bring the spirited grays out of their mad ga...
What was Dave's sister's name?
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laura
CHAPTER XIX MAUD MAKES A MEMORANDUM My mother used to say to me: "Never expect to find brains in a pretty girl." Perhaps she said it because I was not a pretty girl and she wished to encourage me. In any event, that absurd notion of the ancients that when the fairies bestow the gift of beauty on a baby they withhol...
What did she have along with her looks?
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brains
Tasha and Hassan went to their grandma's house. They were going to stay there for two days. Tasha was happy because she likes to play with the farm animals. She wanted to milk the cow. She also wanted to play with the baby pig. Hassan wanted to stay in the house and bake sugar cookies. He also wanted to make fresh coco...
What was the fresh milk put into?
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the bucket
the bucket
(CNN) -- Two Kenyan aid workers who had been held by the al Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaab since 2011 have been rescued near Somalia's border with Kenya, the African Union Mission in Somalia said Friday. The rescue was carried out on the outskirts of Dhobley town in Somalia by peacekeepers for the mission, kn...
was anyone hurt?
1,654
1,687
The bombings left 74 people dead.
yes
Productores de Música de España (Spanish Music Producers) (shortened as Promusicae, sometimes stylised PROMUSICAE) is the organisation responsible for the Spanish Albums Chart and other music charts. It is a trade association that represents more than 90 percent of the Spanish recorded music industry. It is the Interna...
What was its original name?
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nder the name of the Spanish Group of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
the Spanish Group of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
A naughty boy was sitting in math class on Tuesday. There was a broken sink in the back of the room full of water. There was also a kitty on the open window. A loud plane was flying outside and scared the kitty inside. The naughty boy walked up to the kitty and picked it up. What do you think he did next? He threw the ...
Where?
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on the open window
on the open window
CHAPTER XXIII. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor Anne had to live through more than two weeks, as it happened. Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk int...
Besides the caterpillars, what else was Ruby afraid of?
1,460
1,538
the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress
her mother, if she should tear her new muslin dress
CHAPTER VII. HAL DETERMINES TO INVESTIGATE. When Hal came to his senses he found himself in the arms of a boy slightly taller than himself, who was doing all in his power to restore consciousness by the application of snow to Hal's forehead. "What--what----" he began. "Good! yer come around at last, have yer?" ...
Who is the janitor in Hal's building?
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Daniel McCabe janitor of the building I work in
Daniel McCabe is janitor of the building he works in
(CNN) -- In Pennsylvania, Tyler Dix, a 16-year-old movie buff, is wide awake by 7 a.m. to cook breakfast for his younger siblings. Moranda Hern and Kaylei Deakin started Sisterhood of the Traveling BDUs, or battle dress uniforms. In Georgia, Tucker Simmons, a 14-year old novice guitarist, prepares ice packs for his...
does he live in the US?
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29
null
yes
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...
What was Lizzie's dad's job?
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driver
driver
CHAPTER XIV. "My beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by, With thy proudly arch'd and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye-- "Thus, thus I leap upon thy back, and scour the distant plains: Away! who overtakes me now, shall claim thee for his pains." _The Arab to his Steed_. Bulstrode seemed happy to mee...
Was she behaving strangely?
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1,331
deep blue eye was fixed on vacancy
Yes
Gdańsk (, ; German: "" , ) is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It is the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and is also the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the city of...
Who was the first ruler?
700
782
With its origins as a Polish stronghold erected in the 980s by Mieszko I of Poland
Mieszko I
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...
When did it start?
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end of the Ordovician Period
end of the Ordovician Period
CHAPTER XXV MUMPS IS TAUGHT A LESSON The cadets stared blankly at each other. Only two of them were undressed; the others had all of their clothing on. It was time for the head assistant to go the rounds, to see that all was right for the night. Should he be allowed to enter the dormitory he would certainly "smel...
Whose bed was closest to Tom's?
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946
Larry
Larry
(CNN) -- Hilary Duff says her new album is "very positive" but admits that it started out "a lot heavier and a lot darker" because of the separation from her husband, Mike Comrie. "I'm separated from my husband right now, which has been a very difficult thing to go through," she told Billboard's "Pop Shop" podcast. "...
What show was the stepping stone of her singing career?
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1,198
Duff established a successful singing career on the heels of her popular Disney show, "Lizzie McGuire,"
"Lizzie McGuire,"
Albany is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County. Roughly north of New York City, Albany developed on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. The population of the City of Albany was 97,856 according to the 2010 census. Albany constitutes ...
What is it's population according to the 2010 census?
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population of the City of Albany was 97,856 according to the 2010 census.
97,856
A nurse under mandatory quarantine in New Jersey after caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has blasted stringent new state policies for dealing with health care workers returning from West Africa, saying the change could lead to medical professionals being treated like "criminals and prisoners." In a first-pers...
What did Kaci Hickox write about the new state policies for dealing with health care workers returning from West Africa?
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she was ordered placed in quarantine at a hospital
she was ordered placed in quarantine at a hospital
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment, at which time the in...
How much is it worth?
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null
Duke is the seventh-wealthiest private university in America with $11.4 billion in cash and investments in fiscal year 2014.
$11.4 billion in cash and investments
CHAPTER NINETEEN. MOUNTAINEERING IN GENERAL. A week passed away, during which Nita was confined to bed, and the Count waited on her with the most tender solicitude. As their meals were sent to their rooms, it was not necessary for the latter to appear in the _salle-a-manger_ or the _salon_. He kept himself carefull...
How often does he ask about Nita?
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869
availed himself of every opportunity
availed himself of every opportunity
Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and some other Asian languages. In Standard Chinese they are called Hanzi (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字). They have been adapted to write a number of other languages including: Japanese, where they are known as kanji, Korean, where they ...
How many do they learn?
2,004
2,042
null
1,800
(CNN) -- Inside the Charles Manson room at the Museum of Death in Hollywood, Anne Forde looks at crime scene photos from the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. "I was a kid when he was involved in these crimes," says Forde, who grew up in County Cork, Ireland. "It's just been a fascination for me ever since." "His eyes ju...
how old was Forde when the crimes were committed?
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null
"I was a kid when he was involved in these crimes," says Forde
young
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league, sanctioned by U.S. Soccer, that represents the sport's highest level in both the United States and Canada. MLS constitutes one of the major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada. The league comprises 22 teams—19 in the U.S. and 3 in ...
What is the MLS Cup?
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championship game
championship game
Rochester ( or ) is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York State. Rochester is the third most populous city in New York, with over 210,000 residents, and its metropolitan area has a population of nearly 1.1 million people. Rochester was one of America's first boomtowns, rising to prominence ...
Name an institution there with a well regarding program for research?
469
null
University of Rochester
University of Rochester
Chapter 7. THE LION AND THE LAMB When the boys were gone a lull fell upon Plumfield, and the family scattered to various places for brief outings, as August had come and all felt the need of change. The Professor took Mrs Jo to the mountains. The Laurences were at the seashore, and there Meg's family and the Bhaer bo...
what turned the lion into a lamb and the lamb into a lion
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sudden danger and a haunting fear
sudden danger and a haunting fear
Richard Ben Cramer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose 1992 book "What It Takes" remains one of the most detailed and passionate of all presidential campaign chronicles, died Monday night, according to his longtime agent, Philippa "Flip" Brophy. He was 62. The cause of death was lung cancer. Cramer's work -- a...
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Richard Ben Cramer
Richard Ben Cramer
As the number of possible tests for even simple software components is practically infinite, all software testing uses some strategy to select tests that are feasible for the available time and resources. As a result, software testing typically (but not exclusively) attempts to execute a program or application with the...
What did it do instead?
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it furnishes a criticism or comparison that compares the state
it furnishes a criticism
CHAPTER VIII. 'LE BROUILON' But never more the same two sister pearls Ran down the silken thread to kiss each other. --Tennyson Berenger was obliged to crave permission from the King to spend some hours in riding with Osbert to the first hostel on their way, to make arrangements for the relay of horses that was t...
Where was Berenger hoping to go?
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Berenger was obliged to crave permission from the King to spend some hours in riding with Osbert to the first hostel on their way
A hostel
Honolulu is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is an unincorporated part of and the county seat of the City and County of Honolulu on the island of Oahu. The city is the main gateway to Hawaii and a major portal into the United States. The city is also a major hub for international business, m...
What is a CCD?
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census county division (CCD).
a census county division
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global development network. Headquartered in New York City, UNDP advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. It provides expert advice, training and grants support to devel...
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advocates for change
for change
(EW.com) -- Carrie Underwood blew away the competition on the Billboard 200 this week, scoring her third straight number one album with her fourth release, "Blown Away," and moving 267,000 copies. Other Top 10 newcomers included Norah Jones, with her Danger Mouse-produced "Little Broken Hearts," B.O.B., Marilyn Manso...
What is her current single, "Good Girl" ranked?
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No. 8
No. 8
Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia. The term is a portmanteau of its constituent continents (Europe & Asia). Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and by Africa...
Which is?
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Some major islands, including Great Britain, Iceland, and Ireland, and those of Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia, are often included under the popular definition of Eurasia
Iceland
Charles V (; ; Dutch: "Karel"; ) (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519, as well as of the lands of the former Duchy of Burgundy from 1506. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 155...
What did Charles V rule over?
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was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519
the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire
(CNN) -- When a black man dies at the hands of a white police officer, not often is there video evidence that could end the speculation and show what happened. In the case of John Crawford III, there is video evidence -- and Walmart needs to release the tape to the public immediately. Crawford was 22 years old when...
Where was the Walmart located ?
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went to the Walmart last month in Beavercreek,
Beavercreek
CHAPTER VII. It is not worth while to go on describing every day at Stokesley, since lessons were far too much alike; and play-times, though varied enough for the house of Merrifield, might be less entertaining to the readers. Enough to say, that by Saturday afternoon John had not only forfeited his last farthing...
what day was it
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Enough to say, that by Saturday
Saturday
Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is the ninth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded as...
How does it rank in terms of size to other Ivy League colleges?
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Dartmouth is the smallest university in the Ivy League
the smallest
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent (the first being Asia). At about 30.3 million km (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of its total land area. With /1e9 round 1 billion people as of , it accounts for about 16%...
What is the median age of the population in Africa?
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202
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19 . 7
CHAPTER I "NEREI REPANDIROSTRUM INCURVICERVICUM PECUS." A Dingy, swashy, splashy afternoon in October; a school-yard filled with a mob of riotous boys. A lot of us standing outside. Suddenly came a dull, crashing sound from the schoolroom. At the ominous interruption I shuddered involuntarily, and called to Smith...
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Suddenly came a dull, crashing sound from the schoolroom
the schoolroom
Hindu philosophy refers to a group of darśanas (philosophies, world views, teachings) that emerged in ancient India. The mainstream Hindu philosophy includes six systems (ṣaḍdarśana) – Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mimamsa and Vedanta. These are also called the Astika (orthodox) philosophical traditions and are th...
how many are named?
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Nāstika Indian philosophies include Buddhism, Jainism, Cārvāka, Ājīvika, and others.
Four
Sarah is a girl. Sarah has one brother. Sarah's brother's name is Timothy. Sarah has one sister. Sarah's sister's name is Annabelle. Their last name is MacGregor. One day Sarah went to the park with her brother Timothy. They swung on the swings for a short time. Then Annabelle came out and swung with them. They all san...
Which sibling left the others first?
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Timothy
Timothy
Jim was looking up at the sky when he saw it. He saw a bright light. It got brighter and brighter. But after a few seconds, it started getting less bright. It took him a second to know for sure, but he knew he had seen a shooting star! This wasn't the first time that Jim had seen something strange in the sky. It was ...
What did he see?
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He saw a bright light.
A bright light.
(CNN) -- Many have claimed to know the identity of the notorious Zodiac Killer, who terrorized northern California with a trail of unresolved murders in the 1960s. But their stories have not panned out. Now, a Louisiana man believes he has the definitive answer to the chilling mystery: Who was the crazed, elusive kil...
What was Stewart's job?
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He was vice president of a cleaning company.
One hot summer day in August my family and I wanted to go to the beach. We had not gone to the beach in a very long time and felt that today was a great day to do it. We piled everyone into the car-my mom, my dad, my sister, my dog, and me. I begged mom and dad to let me sit in the front seat, but they said no. I had...
why?
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mom said it was getting late
she said it was getting late
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia"' (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, "yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk" ), is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west...
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Ethiopia
Ethiopia
CHAPTER III. AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION. "Who ever saw such a downpour before?" growled one of the three men, as he switched the water from his soft felt hat. "I'm wet to the skin." "I'm no better off," replied one of the others. "I think we were fools to leave Macklin's place, Gilroy." "Just what I think, Fette...
What was the guy who started this talk wearing?
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"Who ever saw such a downpour before?" growled one of the three men, as he switched the water from his soft felt hat.
A hat
Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day. It often lasts for a few days and can result in dehydration due to fluid loss. Signs of dehydration often begin with loss of the normal stretchiness of the skin and irritable behaviour. This can progres...
what non infectious causes are listed?
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non-infectious causes may also result in diarrhea, including hyperthyroidism, lactose intolerance, inflammatory bowel disease, a number of medications, and irritable bowel syndrome
hyperthyroidism, lactose intolerance, inflammatory bowel disease, a number of medications, and irritable bowel syndrome
(CNN) -- Achtung, baby! Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a flamboyant Austrian fashionista in "Bruno." There's a British theory that everything sounds funnier delivered with a Teutonic accent. That's tested to the limit in Sacha Baron Cohen's newest provocation, "Bruno," but it's not what comes out of his mouth that make...
What brightly colored outfit is he known to wear?
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lederhosen
lederhosen
I'm here to tell you the story of a robot named Carl. He came from a far away land known as Factory. Carl was sad because he was missing a part called a tire. He also needed a sun gatherer. But, the tire was more important. Once Carl got all these parts he could travel to his new home in the nation of Lab and the city ...
who phoned to say the parts were ready?
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Carl got a message from Mr. X
Mr. X
(CNN) -- A Michigan teenager pleaded guilty Monday in the mob beating of a 54-year-old grandfather after he inadvertently struck a child with his truck in April, according to a news release from the Wayne County Prosecutor's office. Bruce Wimbush, 18, pleaded guilty to assault with intent to do great bodily harm, acc...
What is the victims name?
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Utash, the driver
Utash
(CNN) -- When plans were announced to build a giant new transoceanic canal across Nicaragua, the young Hong Kong businessman leading the project acknowledged the widespread skepticism. "We don't want it to become an international joke," said Wang Jing, a 40-year-old with no significant engineering experience and a back...
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construction will start on Dec. 22.
Dec. 22.
(CNN) -- Two Kenyan aid workers who had been held by the al Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaab since 2011 have been rescued near Somalia's border with Kenya, the African Union Mission in Somalia said Friday. The rescue was carried out on the outskirts of Dhobley town in Somalia by peacekeepers for the mission, kn...
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in Kampala, Uganda
Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets. It is a versatile material with many uses, including writing, printing, packaging, cleaning, and a number of industrial and construction processes. The pulp p...
Is paper a thick material?
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Paper is a thin material
No.
CHAPTER 15 Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice. When Arthur went with his regiment to Windsor, the ladies intended to spend their evenings at home, a rule which had many exceptions, although Violet was so liable to suffer from late hours and crowded rooms, that Lady Elizabeth begged her to a...
What did Violet feel about Theodora's conduct in company?
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uneasy and distressed
uneasy and distressed