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Washington (CNN) -- Establishment Republicans, backed by business-friendly outside groups, launched a counter-offensive this year against conservative Senate challengers after two election cycles of hard-right candidates winning GOP primaries but losing in November. Republicans need to flip six seats this year to win...
who did he run against?
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irebrand Republican Rep. Steve Stockman launched a last-minute bid against Texas Sen. John Cornyn
John Cornyn
The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians. By 24 April 2017, it contained information on 211,735 mathematical scientists who contributed to research-level mathematics. For a typical mathematician, the project entry includes graduation year, thesis title, "alm...
Did it receive a grant?
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it received a grant
yes
Chloroplasts' main role is to conduct photosynthesis, where the photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll captures the energy from sunlight and converts it and stores it in the energy-storage molecules ATP and NADPH while freeing oxygen from water. They then use the ATP and NADPH to make organic molecules from carbon dioxide ...
How many per cell are in algae?
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The number of chloroplasts per cell varies from 1 in algae up to 100 in plants like Arabidopsis and wheat.
It varies
CHAPTER VIII AFFAIRS OF LAULII AND FANGALII _November--December_ 1888 For Becker I have not been able to conceal my distaste, for he seems to me both false and foolish. But of his successor, the unfortunately famous Dr. Knappe, we may think as of a good enough fellow driven distraught. Fond of Samoa and the Samoa...
who was weary ?
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England
England
Lower Saxony is a German state ("Bundesland") situated in northwestern Germany. It is the second largest state by land area, with , and fourth largest in population (7.9 million) among the sixteen "Länder" of Germany. In rural areas Northern Low Saxon, a dialect of Low German, and Saterland Frisian, a variety of Frisia...
What is popular with tourists?
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East Frisian Islands offshore
East Frisian Islands offshore
MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open data music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD (compact disc) information on the Internet. MusicBr...
Anywhere else?
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1,887
CAA
CAA
The family across the street has a cat. He is a cute black kitty named Dillon. The cat is about two years old, and the family has had him for about a year. He is an indoor cat who is not allowed to go outside. The children like to play with Dillon because he still acts like a kitten. Dillon jumps around, and chases fli...
Is bread part of his normal diet?
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The family only feeds him cat food, never human food like steak or potatoes
No
CHAPTER SIX. JACK HAS A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER. We never can tell what a day or an hour may bring forth. This is a solemn fact on which young and old might frequently ponder with advantage, and on which we might enlarge to an unlimited extent; but our space will not admit of moralising very much, therefore we beg the ...
were they large?
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six feet in diameter,
yes
CHAPTER XI. LADY PERSIFLAGE. Hampstead rushed up to Hendon almost without seeing his stepmother, intent on making preparations for his sister, and then, before October was over, rushed back to fetch her. He was very great at rushing, never begrudging himself any personal trouble in what he undertook to do. When he ...
Did she say he could persuade her?
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you cannot persuade me
no
(CNN) -- Camille Olivia Hanks was studying at the University of Maryland when she met Bill Cosby in the early '60s. He was doing stand-up comedy in Washington when the two were set up on a blind date. They fell in love and she left school to support his burgeoning career in entertainment. By 1964, the two were marrie...
What was she doing then?
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studying
studying
Paris, France (CNN) -- Former Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her six-year captivity in a book due to hit the shelves Tuesday. Betancourt, a former presidential candidate in Colombia, was held for more than six years by Marxist rebels before the Colombian military rescued her and 14 others in 2...
Who rescued her?
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Betancourt, a former presidential candidate in Colombia, was held for more than six years by Marxist rebels before the Colombian military rescued her and 14 others in 2008.
Colombian military
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...
And who stirred?
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Annie
Annie
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products...
Is it a legislative department?
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Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments.
no
(CNN)"A long, long, time ago..." Those five words, when uttered or sung, makes baby boomers immediately think of Don McLean's pop masterpiece "American Pie." It's hard to believe that his phenomenal 8½ minute allegory, which millions of Americans know by heart, is 44 years old. All sorts of historical cross-currents ...
How long is American Pie?
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8½ minute allegory,
8½ minutes.
(CNN) -- When Chuck and Elicia James ventured to their local animal shelter to adopt a dog, they expected to meet a new member of their family. Instead they found themselves reunited with their long lost canine. The James' had not seen Reckless, a brown and white terrier-pitbull mix, since he went missing over a year...
How did the James' family identify Reckless when they saw him at the animal shelter?
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an uncanny scar on the top of his head
an uncanny scar on the top of his head
CHAPTER XXII. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE Black Star and Night, answering to spur, swept swiftly westward along the white, slow-rising, sage-bordered trail. Venters heard a mournful howl from Ring, but Whitie was silent. The blacks settled into their fleet, long-striding gallop. The wind sweetly fanned Venters's hot fa...
What did she see?
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A small, dark, moving dot split the line where purple sage met blue sky. That dot was a band of riders
A small, dark, moving dot
SRINAGAR, Indian-administered Kashmir (CNN) -- Six family members were buried alive after an avalanche crashed into their house in a remote village in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said Friday. A total of 10 people were killed Friday following five days of continuous snowfall in the mountainous region. An ...
did anyone die in that avalanche?
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three people
CHAPTER XI. DETERIORATION OF CHARACTER. B.C. 329 Alexander at the summit of his ambition.--Sad changes.--Alexander becomes dissipated.--His officers became estranged.--Character of Parmenio.--His services to Alexander.--Parmenio's son, Philotas.--His dissolute character.--Conspiracies.--Plot of Dymnus.--Dymnus de...
WHat was his name?
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Alexander
Alexander
A small boy named John was at the park one day. He was swinging on the swings and his Tim friend played on the slide. John wanted to play on the slide now. John asked Tim if he could play on the slide. Tim said no. John was very upset and started crying. A girl named Susan saw him crying. Susan told the teacher Ms. Tam...
named?
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his Tim friend
Tim
Oliver is a cat. He has a sister called Spike. Oliver and Spike like to play outside. They chase bugs in the backyard. When they get tired, they sleep in the sun. They don't like to go outside when it is raining. On rainy days Oliver and Spike sit in the window. They watch the rain through the window. Oliver is big and...
do they like the rain ?
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hite fur.
No
(CNN) -- A year to the day after he killed his girlfriend, South African "blade runner" Oscar Pistorius broke his silence Friday, describing her death as a "devastating accident." The double amputee Olympic star is charged with premeditated murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a model and ...
who died?
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death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp
Reeva Steenkamp
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eleven-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover liked football, basketball and playing video games with his little brother. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy says the effects of bullying are becoming more severe. But on April 6, after enduring what his mother called "relentless" bullying at school, Carl hanged hi...
Did he have a hobby?
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playing video games with his little brother
playing video games
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia (; Czech and , "Česko-Slovensko") was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993. From 1939 to 1945, foll...
Where in Europe is it located?
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Central Europe
Chapter III WHO WAS IT? Who had taken it? This question tormented Treherne all that sleepless night. He suspected three persons, for only these had approached the fire after the note was hidden. He had kept his eye on it, he thought, till the stir of breaking up. In that moment it must have been removed by the majo...
Who?
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my lady;
His lady
(CNN) -- It's called the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, and weeks before authorities say he got on a plane with a bomb, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab was in it. The vast government databank, known as TIDE, is administered by the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center. It contains information about hundreds of thous...
what did he get on the plane with?
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a bomb
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because 1 and 5 are its only positive integer factors, whereas 6 is composite because it ...
how many digits in the largest prime number?
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22,338,618
(CNN) -- His nickname is "The Fever." Mexican officials say Jose Carlos Moreno Flores was a major drug lord in charge of trafficking and operations for a large Mexican cartel in the coastal state of Guerrero, where the beach resort of Acapulco is located. According to Mexico's Ministry of Defense, Moreno Flores was c...
Is he bad?
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Mexico's most wanted man.
Yes
CHAPTER II. SHEER GOSSIP "Where are the other children?" asked Miss Cornelia, when the first greetings--cordial on her side, rapturous on Anne's, and dignified on Susan's--were over. "Shirley is in bed and Jem and Walter and the twins are down in their beloved Rainbow Valley," said Anne. "They just came home this a...
What has been happening in the Glen to make this spring so exciting?
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we ' ve got settled with a minister
we ' ve got settled with a minister
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner. With an area of 70,550.19 square kilometres (27,200 sq mi), Bavaria is the largest German state by land area. Its territory comprises roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany. With 12.9 mi...
what is the capital city?
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Munich
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based. Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to ...
What's the difference between a professional one versus an amateur one?
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Professionals are paid.
CHAPTER TWENTY. KEEPING IT DOWN--MUTUAL EXPLANATIONS--DEATH--NEW-YEAR'S DAY. It need scarcely be said that the sailors outside did not remain long in ignorance of the unexpected and happy discovery related in the last chapter. Bolton, who had crept in after Fred, with proper delicacy of feeling retired the moment h...
Which hut did they go in?
1,392
1,426
Entering one of the largest huts,
The largest one
Hempstead, New York (CNN) -- President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face off Tuesday in the second of their three debates, this one in a town hall-style setting in which they'll take questions from likely voters. The stakes couldn't be higher: Obama must get his campaign back on track after a po...
what will the audience get to do?
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some of whom will get the chance to ask questions
Ask questions
Barry the bowl lived in a cabinet in the kitchen. He sat next to the pots and under the pans. He liked his home, but he never got out much. He was only used for mixing when his friend wanted to bake a cake. One day, his friend pulled him out of the cabinet and put him on the table. He got out the eggs, flour and sugar ...
Did he have a particular purpose?
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He was only used for mixing
mixing
(CNN)Australian-born actor Rod Taylor, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, "The Birds," died this week in Los Angeles. Taylor was 84. He died at home Wednesday surrounded by his family and loved ones, his daughter, Felicia Taylor, said in a statement. No cause of death was given. "My dad loved his work. B...
Where did he die?
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He died at home
He died at home.
The birds chirped, the sun beat down on a nearby window, and the noisy sound of an alarm clock tried to let me know it was seven in the morning. Not only that, but the sound of a high pitched voice, announcing "It's here! It's here Janet, it's here!" That voice belonged to my sister, Karen. What she meant was that the ...
What did Karen mean when she said "It's here!"?
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the day had finally come for our family trip to the nearby beach located beyond eagle point
the day had finally come for our family trip to the nearby beach located beyond eagle point
(CNN) -- A Tulane University football player who fractured his spine in a head-on collision with a teammate during a weekend game is "alert and responsive" after surgery, the school's athletic director said Monday. Devon Walker is expected to remain in intensive care for the next few days after a three-hour operation...
Will he stay there long?
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Devon Walker is expected to remain in intensive care for the next few days
for the next few days
Montenegro ( ; Montenegrin: "Crna Gora"/Црна Гора, , meaning "Black Mountain") is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the southwest and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east, and Albania to the...
What kind of state is it?
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sovereign state
CHAPTER XXVIII THE GAME IS CALLED In her notions and schemes regarding the person and estate of Ralph Haverley, the good cook, La Fleur, lacked one great advantage possessed by her rival planner and schemer Miss Panney; for she whose cause was espoused by the latter old woman was herself eager for the fray and desi...
who is the schemer ?
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Miss Panney
Miss Panney
CHAPTER X. GOOD ADVICE. Phonny was confined nearly a week with his wound. They moved the sofa on which he was lying up into a corner of the room, near Mrs. Henry's window, and there Stuyvesant and Malleville brought various things to him to amuse him. He was very patient and good-natured during his confinement to...
How many did he say?
767
803
"Why--there are many," said Wallace,
many
Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively "") is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's orig...
Who won?
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The abolitionists prevailed,
The abolitionists
(CNN) -- "We're here! Oh, my God. Alina, you look so chic! Turn around!" -- the seal of approval from fashion's newest darling. He's Patrick Pope, a Los Angeles-based Web producer who moonlights as P'Trique, the star of the viral videos, "S**t Fashion Girls Say." Since they debuted in February, the videos have had a ...
In what land does he have a fan club?
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the land of the double kiss
Cairo (CNN) -- Mohamed al-Zawahiri, brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, will be freed from prison in Egypt after 13 years, his attorney said Monday. He was acquitted by an Egyptian military court and will be released Tuesday, said attorney Nizar Ghorab. Mohamed al-Zawahiri was imprisoned in 1999 after bei...
How long was he locked up?
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13 years
13 years
Mikhail Furtado was extremely worried about his 12th-grade exams. A few days before he was due to get his results, his father walked in and found him dead. "I opened the cottage door, put the light on and I found him hanging. He was hanging," Anthony Furtado says. When the results came out, his father learned tha...
What country did this happen in?
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According to a recent World Health Organization report, India has the highest suicide rate in the world for the 15-to-29 age group.
India
London (CNN) -- Pierre Omidyar, founder of online auction site eBay, said Wednesday he is teaming up with journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has led reporting on secret U.S. surveillance programs, to create a new online mass media venture. Greenwald announced late Tuesday that he was quitting The Guardian for "a once-in...
Who was the former NSA contractor who exposed several leaks?
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leaks from former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Edward Snowden
New York (CNN) -- The mother of one of the two New Jersey men arrested last week at a New York airport allegedly on their way to fight with an al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia says the two men are guilty of stupidity -- but not of the sinister plan described by authorities. "Anything makes him angry. But he's not...
What does she think he is, then?
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he's a stupid kid
a stupid kid
Software engineering (SE) is the application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method. Typical formal definitions of software engineering include: When the first digital computers appeared in the early 1940s, the instructions to make them operate were wired into the machine. Practitioner...
What is the stored program architecture or von Neumann architecture?
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instructions to make them operate were wired into the machine . practitioners quickly realized that this design was not flexible
instructions to make them operate were wired into the machine . practitioners quickly realized that this design was not flexible
Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, along with surrounding minor islands, officially referred to as "Regione Siciliana". Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula, from which it is separated by the narrow Strait of Messin...
what area is the topic of the article?
0
6
Sicily
Sicily
Napoléon Bonaparte (/nəˈpoʊliən, -ˈpoʊljən/; French: [napɔleɔ̃ bɔnapaʁt], born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Em...
how long?
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a decade
a decade
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE BAXTERS TALK IT OVER, "Tom, we are in a fix." "So it would seem, Sam. Who ever dreamed of running across the Baxters in this fashion?" "We are in the hands of a trio of rascals now, for Crabtree is as bad as the others." "Perhaps, but he hasn't the nerve that Arnold Baxter has. What shall ...
Which way was fastest?
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We ought to have followed the shore around--we would have got there quicker
the shore
(CNN) -- Despite their public handshake on Monday it appears there is still some way to go before Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia bury the hatchet. A long-running spat between the two golfers resurfaced after they shared a contentious round together at The Players' Championship in May. After several verbal volleys in...
When did Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia shake hands?
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May
May
Beijing, China (CNN) -- A court in eastern China sentenced a man to death Saturday for attacking 29 kindergarten students and three teachers with a knife, state-run media said. The Taixing Intermediate People's Court found Xu Yuyuan, 47, guilty of intentional homicide after a half-day trial, Xinhua news agency said. ...
What punitive measures were sought by the prosecutors?
1,018
1,043
the second death penalty
the death penalty
Definitions of "Southeast Asia" vary, but most definitions include the area represented by the countries (sovereign states and dependent territories) listed below. All of the states except for East Timor are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The area, together with part of South Asia, was w...
Which country?
713
754
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India
India
(TIME.com) -- Two of Emily Cunningham's three children have food allergies. And protecting her kids is taking toll on the family budget. When she was nine months old, Cunningham's four-year-old daughter Elena ate a spoonful of yogurt and broke out in hives. Elena is allergic to eggs, tree nuts, dairy and peanuts, and...
How?
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And protecting her kids is taking toll on the family budget.
Its taking toll on the family budget.
Ralph the bee wanted to go visit his friend George the fly. George lived very far away, it would a long trip for Ralph. Ralph first flew over a jungle, in the jungle he met a nice tiger by the name of Benny. Benny wanted to play but Ralph had no time, he still had a long way to go. Then Ralph flew by a lake. At the lak...
who did he see there?
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Benny
Benny
There was once a small town by a river. There were many houses in this town and they were all different colors, shapes and sizes. which made the people happy. On one street there was a red house, a green house, a blue house and one purple house with yellow stripes. The people in the town were all very friendly and knew...
and pjs?
1,204
1,235
hey would put their pajamas on
yes
Within hours of becoming a national hero, a viral video star and the top topic on Twitter, Charles Ramsey talked about having trouble getting sleep. It wasn't because of all the excitement that followed his knocking down a Cleveland neighbor's door, freeing three women and a girl who police say were held hostage for ...
What city did it occur?
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a Cleveland neighbor's door
Cleveland
NEW YORK (CNN) -- It's been five years since Carrie Bradshaw journeyed to Paris in search of true love on the series finale of "Sex and the City." She appeared to have found it in the arms of Mr. Big, and she returned to New York -- and her now-settled friends -- ready for a new start. Sarah Jessica Parker was a driv...
Where does she return to?
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she returned to New York -
New York
Raleigh (/ˈrɑːli/; RAH-lee) is the capital of the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The c...
is it growing slowly?
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1,228
an estimated population of 2,037,430 in 2013
Not slow. It has an estimated population of 2,037,430 in 2013
Mississippi is a state in the southern region of the United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico. Its western border is formed by the Mississippi River. The state has a population of approximately 3 million. It is the 32nd most extensive and the 32nd most populous of the 50 United Sta...
What gulf forms part of it's southern boarder?
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with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.
Gulf of Mexico.
MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open data music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD (compact disc) information on the Internet. MusicBr...
Can users add tags?
1,172
1,189
add metadata tags
Yes
(CNN) -- Despite their public handshake on Monday it appears there is still some way to go before Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia bury the hatchet. A long-running spat between the two golfers resurfaced after they shared a contentious round together at The Players' Championship in May. After several verbal volleys in...
Did he apologize?
406
526
during the U.S Open led to an immediate and unreserved apology from the Spaniard, who denied it was racially motivated.
Yes
Hailey stood in her kitchen. She was looking for ideas of what to make for dinner. She could make pasta, soup, chili, or steak. She opened the refrigerator and took out a cartoon of juice. She sat down at the table and tried to write a list of ingredients she would need. She finally thought she would make chili for din...
How did Hailey get to the store to buy the missing ingredient?
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take her car
British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, with a population of more than four and a half million people. It is located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest and the Cascadia bioregion, along with American states Alaska, Idaho, Mont...
How many people live in British Columbia?
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118
with a population of more than four and a half million people.
more than four and a half million people.
A dispute between a Muslim gold shop owner and two Buddhist sellers erupted in clashes that left 10 people dead, 20 injured and four mosques burned to the ground in central Myanmar, local officials said Thursday. The clashes began Wednesday morning in Meiktila Township after a quarrel between the shop owner and the s...
Who imposed the curfew?
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583
police imposed a curfew
police
(CNN) -- Police in Texas used a Taser on a 42-year-old pastor and pepper spray to disperse members of his church after police said the pastor interfered with a traffic stop. Jose Moran was arrested early Wednesday morning after interfering with the duties of a public servant in the parking lot of a Webster, Texas, bu...
where did the incident take place?
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parking lot
parking lot
Palestine, officially the State of Palestine is a "de jure" sovereign state in the Middle East claiming the West Bank (bordering Israel and Jordan) and Gaza Strip (bordering Israel and Egypt) with East Jerusalem as the designated capital although its administrative center is located in Ramallah. Most of the areas claim...
which is worldwide ranked what?
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ranked 123rd in the world.
123rd
(CNN) -- Cockiness and swagger serve him on the golf course, but there's much more to golf's young phenom, Rory McIlroy. The U.S. Open winner might hang with tennis great Rafael Nadal, knock back some Heinekens or slip the electronic dance sounds of Swedish House Mafia into his iPod. Such tidbits are rolling out th...
Where is he from?
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Holywood, Northern Ireland
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- Omar bin Laden has a message for his father, Osama: "Find another way." Omar bin Laden says he last saw his father in 2000 when the son decided to leave al Qaeda. The son of the most-wanted man in the world spoke Sunday to CNN in a quiet, middle-class suburb about an hour outside Cairo, Egypt....
does he approve of killing?
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Omar bin Laden, who works as a contractor, said he is talking publicly because he wants an end to the violence
No
New York (CNN) -- The mother of one of the two New Jersey men arrested last week at a New York airport allegedly on their way to fight with an al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia says the two men are guilty of stupidity -- but not of the sinister plan described by authorities. "Anything makes him angry. But he's not...
How many people?
1,222
1,244
null
16 or 17 psychiatrists
CHAPTER IV. MONNA VALENTINA In after years the Lord of Aquila was wont to aver in all solemnity that it was the sight of her wondrous beauty set up such a disorder in his soul that it overcame his senses, and laid him swooning at her feet. That he, himself, believed it so, it is not ours to doubt, for all that we may...
Did he return with it?
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1,630
When he returned, the lady was kneeling with the unconscious man's head in her la
yes
Palermo (Italian: [paˈlɛrmo] ( listen), Sicilian: Palermu, Latin: Panormus, from Greek: Πάνορμος, Panormos, Arabic: بَلَرْم‎, Balarm; Phoenician: זִיז, Ziz) is a city in Insular Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architectu...
Can you name one?
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Gulf of Palermo
(CNN) -- A week can be a long time when you're one of the planet's best young skiers. On Wednesday, Mikaela Shiffrin turned 18. On Saturday she added the World Cup slalom crown to last month's world championships title, and on Tuesday she'll be back from Europe to appear on U.S. national television. "Hopefully I do...
Who was the fastest on the opening run?
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The Slovenian was the fastest on the opening run
The Slovenian
KUPANG, Indonesia (CNN) -- At Roslin Orphanage, children giggle through deep concentration as they try to master the "Chicken Dance." It's a far cry from the Indonesian orphans' earlier months and years. Budi Soehardi poses with young residents of Roslin Orphanage. "They are cheerful-looking and photogenic, but clo...
his age?
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1,368
Gerson Mangi, 20
20
CHAPTER III And a heart at leisure from itself To soothe and sympathize.--Miss Waring Recovery had fairly set in, and 'better' was the universal bulletin, eating and drinking the prevailing remedy. Henry Ward had quickly thrown off his illness. The sense that all depended on him, acted as a stimulus to his energi...
Where did he go to meet him?
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when he first entered his brother's room
His brother's room
In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name, although the term is used somewhat differently in the zoological code of nomenclature. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name (under the currently used system of scie...
What is the relationship between the two terms?
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synonym
Synonyms.
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime. Diving is one of the most popular O...
What other sports does it share traits with?
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gymnasts and dancers
gymnasts and dancers
However, some scholars contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language. It has been suggested by them and others, that the Sumerian language was originally that of the hunter and fisher peoples, who lived in the marshland and the Eastern Arabia littoral region, and were part of the Arabian bif...
Which of those followed sheep and goats?
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Semitic pastoralists living in black tents and following herds of sheep and goats
Semitic pastoralists
CHAPTER XLIV. THE GALIMAFRE Speats and raxes, speats and raxes, speat and raxes Lord Somerville's billet Never wont to let the grass grow under his feet, Henry of Navarre was impatient of awaiting his troops at Pont de Dronne, and proposed to hasten on to Quinet, as a convenient centre for collecting the neighbou...
Was it a big inn?
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a mere village inn, with scarcely any accommodation
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(CNN) -- Like a pop star leaving their biggest hit for the encore, Sepp Blatter made sure he saved his best for last. As a long day at the FIFA Congress in Sao Paulo came to an end, the 78-year-old announced he would stand for a fifth term -- reneging on a promise he made four years ago. The news, which was expecte...
Who mentioned that to change Blatter's mind is disappointing?
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David Gill, the English FA's representative on the Exco committee said: "The very fact in 2011 he was clear it was just for four years, that should have been the situation. To change his mind is disappointing," he said.
David Gill
New York (CNN) -- A member of Pedro Hernandez's family walked into a Camden, New Jersey, police station in the 1980s and reported that Hernandez told relatives and others that he had killed a boy in New York and threw the body near a Dumpster -- but there's no indication anything came out of that report, the family mem...
At what location?
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New Jersey
New Jersey
Guatemala City, Guatemala (CNN) -- Gunmen who shot dead Facundo Cabral likely did not have the Argentine folk singer as their intended target, said Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Menocal. Cabral, one of Latin America's best-known folk singers, was killed Saturday on his way to the airport in Guatemala City. In...
How many days of mourning was announced in respect to the singer's death?
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three
three
Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is prese...
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presenting facts selectively
Karachi (; ALA-LC: , ; ) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh. It is the most populous city in Pakistan, sixth most populous city proper in the world and the 8th most populous metropolitan city in the world. Ranked as a beta world city, the city is Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre. Karach...
What is the significance of Karachi's location on the Arabian Sea?
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a transport hub
a transport hub
Chapter 3: In A French Chateau. The three days' ride to the chateau of the Countess de Laville was marked by no incident. To Philip it was an exceedingly pleasant one. Everything was new to him; the architecture of the churches and villages, the dress of the people, their modes of agriculture, all differing widely fr...
Did the Huguenots like them?
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by the Huguenots they were saluted respectfully,
Yes
The Han Chinese, Han people or simply Han (; ; Han characters: 漢人 (Mandarin pinyin: "Hànrén"; literally "Han people") or 漢族 (pinyin: "Hànzú"; literally "Han ethnicity" or "Han ethnic group")) are an East Asian ethnic group. They constitute approximately 92% of the population of China, 95% of Taiwan (Han Taiwanese), 76%...
How many people is that?
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over 1.3 billion people
over 1.3 billion people
CHAPTER XX. THE CERTIFICATE OF SAFETY "You can leave de Batz and his gang alone, citizen Heron," said Chauvelin, as soon as he had closed the door behind him; "he had nothing to do with the escape of the Dauphin." Heron growled out a few words of incredulity. But Chauvelin shrugged his shoulders and looked with unu...
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to decipher the writing on it by the light from the lamp
to decipher the writing on it
(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. "...
Did they get a divorce?
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separation from her husband
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Bordeaux (; Gascon Occitan: "") is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France. The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 243,626 (2012). Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Bordeaux is the centre of the Bordeaux Métropole. With 749,595 inhabita...
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on the UNESCO World Heritage List
UNESCO World Heritage List
Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Named after George Washington, the first President of the United States, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 in accordance with ...
How many people live there?
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7 million
7 million
Aruba is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, located about west of the main part of the Lesser Antilles and north of the coast of Venezuela. It measures long from its northwestern to its southeastern end and across at its widest point. Together with Bonaire and Curaçao...
What are it and other Dutch Islands often called?
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other Dutch islands in the Caribbean are often called the Dutch Caribbean.
Dutch Caribbean.
Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south. Its capital, Luxembourg City, is, together with Brussels and Strasbourg, one of the three official capitals of the European Unio...
What was the population of Luxembourg in 2016?
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Luxembourg had a population of 576 249
576 249
CHAPTER IX. THE LOSS OF UMSLOPOGAAS Now, after the smelling out of the witch-doctors, Chaka caused a watch to be kept upon his mother Unandi, and his wife Baleka, my sister, and report was brought to him by those who watched, that the two women came to my huts by stealth, and there kissed and nursed a boy--one of my ...
how far away was the tribe that the king wanted the messenger to go to?
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he bade me go on a journey to a distant tribe that lived near the borders o
distant
(CNN) -- Serena Williams came from a set down against Maria Sharapova to win the Miami Masters for a record sixth time on Saturday. After a slow start, the world No.1 sprang into life in stunning fashion, winning the last 10 games of the match to eventually prevail 4-6 6-3 6-0. Williams' win -- the 48th of her care...
Who does she complement?
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Serena played a great match
Serena
CHAPTER XII MOVING ON "Here's a letter from my dear old friend Silas Watson," said Uncle John, delightedly. "It's from Palermo, where he has been staying with his ward--and your friend, girls--Kenneth Forbes, and he wants me to lug you all over to Sicily at once." "That's jolly," said Patsy, with a bright smile. ...
who read it correcly?
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Give me the letter, dear," said Patsy
Patsy
Chapter 4: Among The Islands. "Now, let us go through our calculations again," the captain said when they entered his cabin. "How long will you be, Captain?" the first mate asked. "Half an hour, Standing." "Then I will come again or, if you want me before that, send for me," and the first mate went out on deck ...
Where did the first officer depart to?
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out on deck
out on deck
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 ...
Whose house are they meeting at?
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An hour later six girls met at the home of Alora Jones
Alora Jones
CHAPTER XXV. THE HUNTSFORD CROQUET. "Une femme egoiste, non seulement de coeur, mais d'esprit, ne pent pas sortir d'elle-meme. Le moi est indelible chez elle. Une veritable egoiste ne sait meme pas etre fausse." --MME. E. DE GIRARDIN. "I am come to prepare you," said Lady Keith, putting her arm into her brother's...
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Alick
Alick
The red fox slowly walked out of his den he lives in; his own house in the ground. His eyes bounced side to side as he made sure the coast was clear, then he ran down the path of autumn leaves. As he reached the end there was a an apple tree without leaves, but still one shiny red colored apple hung from a branch. He c...
How did the fox reach the apple?
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he reached out a paw towards the apple
he reached out a paw towards the apple
CHAPTER XVI. HAL ON THE WATCH. "Let up there, you brute!" Dick Ferris looked around with a startled air. When he caught sight of Hal his face fell, and he released the girl. "What, you!" he exclaimed. "Exactly. What do you mean by treating this girl so rudely?" "You are following me," went on Ferris, igno...
Where did the fight end?
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Hal caught the bully by the arm, and a second later Dick Ferris measured his length in the gutter.
in the gutter
The Continental Army was created on 14 June 1775 by the Continental Congress as a unified army for the colonies to fight Great Britain, with George Washington appointed as its commander. The army was initially led by men who had served in the British Army or colonial militias and who brought much of British military he...
In what area of battle did the Americans struggle?
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o counter the guerrilla hit and run tactics
counter the guerrilla hit and run tactics