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Title: Hakeem Olajuwon Background: Hakeem Olajuwon was born to Salim and Abike Olajuwon, working class Yoruba owners of a cement business in Lagos. He was the third of eight children. He credits his parents with instilling virtues of hard work and discipline into him and his siblings; "They taught us to be honest, wor...	[ "With Robinson in the air, Olajuwon performed an up-and-under move and made an easy layup." ]
Title: Gustave Courbet Background: Jean Desire Gustave Courbet (French: [gystav kuRbe]; 10 June 1819 - 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous g...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Menominee Background: The Menominee (also spelled Menomini, derived from the Ojibwe language word for "Wild Rice People;" known as Mamaceqtaw, "the people," in the Menominee language) are a federally recognized nation of Native Americans, with a 353.894 sq mi (916.581 km2) reservation in Wisconsin. Their histor...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Menominee Background: The Menominee (also spelled Menomini, derived from the Ojibwe language word for "Wild Rice People;" known as Mamaceqtaw, "the people," in the Menominee language) are a federally recognized nation of Native Americans, with a 353.894 sq mi (916.581 km2) reservation in Wisconsin. Their histor...	[ "After the tribe had regained federal recognition in 1973, it essentially restored the reservation to its historic boundaries in 1975." ]
Title: Amos Bronson Alcott Background: Amos Bronson Alcott (; November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to ...	[ "Alcott's opposition to slavery also fueled his opposition to the Mexican-American War which began in 1846." ]
Title: Edmund Hillary Background: Hillary was born to Percival Augustus and Gertrude (nee Clark) Hillary in Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 July 1919. His family moved to Tuakau, south of Auckland, in 1920, after his father, who served at Gallipoli with the 15th (North Auckland) Regiment, was allocated land there. His gr...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Joseph Conrad Background: Joseph Conrad (Polish pronunciation: ['juzef ,kon.rad]; born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was...	[ "Many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, Conrad's works." ]
Title: Joseph Conrad Background: Joseph Conrad (Polish pronunciation: ['juzef ,kon.rad]; born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was...	[ "Conrad was a Russian subject, having been born in the Russian part of what had once been the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth." ]
Title: Chuck Bown Background: Richard Charles "Chuck" Bown Jr. (born February 22, 1954) is a former NASCAR champion. His last ride came in 1999. He currently lives with his wife in Asheboro, North Carolina. He is the brother of former fellow NASCAR competitor Jim Bown. Section: Final years Passage: In 1994, Bown move...	[ "57 CSG Motorsports Ford" ]
Title: Dan Dierdorf Background: Daniel Lee Dierdorf (born June 29, 1949) is a former American football offensive lineman and current sportscaster. A native of Canton, Ohio, Dierdorf played college football for the University of Michigan from 1968 to 1970 and was selected as a consensus first-team All-American in 1970 ...	[ "On October 11, 1983, after the Cardinals began the season with a 1-5 record, Dierdorf announced that he would retire at the end of the 1983 season." ]
Title: Edmund Hillary Background: Hillary was born to Percival Augustus and Gertrude (nee Clark) Hillary in Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 July 1919. His family moved to Tuakau, south of Auckland, in 1920, after his father, who served at Gallipoli with the 15th (North Auckland) Regiment, was allocated land there. His gr...	[ "In 1962 he was a guest on the television game show What's My Line?;" ]
Title: Steve McQueen Background: Terence Steven McQueen was born on March 24, 1930, at St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. His father, William Terence McQueen, was a stunt pilot for a barnstorming flying circus who left McQueen's mother, Julia Ann (a.k.a. Julian; nee Crawford), six ...	[ "The blue-tinted sunglasses (Persol 714) worn by McQueen in the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair sold at a Bonhams & Butterfields auction in Los Angeles for $70,200 in 2006." ]
Title: Steve McQueen Background: Terence Steven McQueen was born on March 24, 1930, at St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. His father, William Terence McQueen, was a stunt pilot for a barnstorming flying circus who left McQueen's mother, Julia Ann (a.k.a. Julian; nee Crawford), six ...	[ "using a body double (Dan Holsten) and digital editing." ]
Title: Dan Dierdorf Background: Daniel Lee Dierdorf (born June 29, 1949) is a former American football offensive lineman and current sportscaster. A native of Canton, Ohio, Dierdorf played college football for the University of Michigan from 1968 to 1970 and was selected as a consensus first-team All-American in 1970 ...	[ "He was selected by the National Football League Players Association as the Offensive Lineman of the Year for three consecutive years from 1976 to 1978." ]
Title: Nicolae Iorga Background: Nicolae Iorga (Romanian pronunciation: [niko'la.e 'jorga]; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga; January 17, 1871 - November 27, 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright. Co-founder ...	[ "He expanded his contribution as an opinion journalist, publishing with some regularity in various local or national periodicals of various leanings," ]
Title: Bobby Womack Background: Born in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood, near East 85th Street and Quincy Avenue, to Naomi Womack and Friendly Womack, Bobby was the third of five brothers. Friendly Jr. and Curtis were the older brothers, Harry and Cecil were his younger brothers. They all grew up in the Cleveland slu...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Gustaf V of Sweden Background: Gustaf V was born in Drottningholm Palace in Ekero, Stockholm County, the son of Prince Oscar and Princess Sofia of Nassau. At birth Gustaf was created Duke of Varmland. Upon his father's accession to the throne in 1872, Gustaf became crown prince of both Sweden and Norway. On 8 D...	[ "This event has later received considerable attention from Swedish historians and is known as midsommarkrisen, the Midsummer Crisis." ]
Title: Lea Michele Background: Lea Michele Sarfati (; born August 29, 1986) is an American actress, singer and author. She began her career as a child actress on Broadway, appearing in productions of Les Miserables (1995-1996), Ragtime (1997-1999), Fiddler on the Roof (2004-2005), and Spring Awakening (2006-2008). Mic...	[ "She then starred in Garry Marshall's romantic comedy film New Year's Eve," ]
Title: Lea Michele Background: Lea Michele Sarfati (; born August 29, 1986) is an American actress, singer and author. She began her career as a child actress on Broadway, appearing in productions of Les Miserables (1995-1996), Ragtime (1997-1999), Fiddler on the Roof (2004-2005), and Spring Awakening (2006-2008). Mic...	[ "The second single from the album, \"On My Way\", was released on May 4, 2014," ]
Title: Karen Horney Background: Karen Horney was born Karen Danielsen on 16 September 1885 in Blankenese, Germany, near Hamburg. Her father, Berndt Wackels Danielsen (1836-1910), was Norwegian but had German citizenship. He was a ship's captain in the merchant marine, and a Protestant traditionalist (his children nick...	[ "Horney accepted that penis envy might occur occasionally in neurotic women, but stated that \"womb envy\" occurs just as much in men:" ]
Title: Karen Horney Background: Karen Horney was born Karen Danielsen on 16 September 1885 in Blankenese, Germany, near Hamburg. Her father, Berndt Wackels Danielsen (1836-1910), was Norwegian but had German citizenship. He was a ship's captain in the merchant marine, and a Protestant traditionalist (his children nick...	[ "a child might feel a lack of warmth and affection should a parent make fun of the child's feelings." ]
Title: Röyksopp Background: Royksopp (Norwegian pronunciation: ['royksop]) are a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromso, formed in 1998. The duo consists of Svein Berge and Torbjorn Brundtland. Royksopp is the Norwegian word for the class of mushrooms known as puffballs, the band's name substitutes o in place of o...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Röyksopp Background: Royksopp (Norwegian pronunciation: ['royksop]) are a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromso, formed in 1998. The duo consists of Svein Berge and Torbjorn Brundtland. Royksopp is the Norwegian word for the class of mushrooms known as puffballs, the band's name substitutes o in place of o...	[ "one of the two Royksopp and Erlend Oye collaborations found on Melody A.M., was featured in a Geico car insurance commercial." ]
Title: Canadian comics Background: Canadian comics refers to comics and cartooning by citizens of Canada or permanent residents of Canada regardless of residence. Canada has two official languages, and distinct comics cultures have developed in English and French Canada. The English tends to follow American trends, an...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Peter Cook Background: Cook was born at his parents' house, "Shearbridge", in Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward "Alec" Cook (1906-1984), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, nee Mayo (1908-1994). He was educ...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Canadian comics Background: Canadian comics refers to comics and cartooning by citizens of Canada or permanent residents of Canada regardless of residence. Canada has two official languages, and distinct comics cultures have developed in English and French Canada. The English tends to follow American trends, an...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: The Simpsons Movie Background: The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film based on the Fox television series The Simpsons. The film was directed by David Silverman, and stars the regular television cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shear...	[ "The film's website received a Webby Award at the 12th Annual Webby Awards in the category \"Best Movie and Film Website\"." ]
Title: Mark Levin Background: Mark Reed Levin (; born September 21, 1957) is an American lawyer, author, and radio personality. He is the host of syndicated radio show The Mark Levin Show, as well as Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News. Levin worked in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and was a chief of sta...	[ "According to Politico in May 2009, Levin pronounced \"almost daily\" that Obama \"was a failure, a liar and a \"statist\" who is trying to destroy individual freedom.\"" ]
Title: Mark Levin Background: Mark Reed Levin (; born September 21, 1957) is an American lawyer, author, and radio personality. He is the host of syndicated radio show The Mark Levin Show, as well as Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News. Levin worked in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and was a chief of sta...	[ "Kansas City, Missouri and Leesburg, Virginia." ]
Title: Hulk Hogan Background: Terry Eugene Bollea was born in Augusta, Georgia on August 11, 1953, the son of construction foreman Pietro "Peter" Bollea (December 6, 1913 - December 18, 2001) and homemaker and dance teacher Ruth V. (nee Moody; 1922 - January 1, 2011). He is of French, Italian, Panamanian, and Scottish...	[ "defeated them at the main event of the first SummerSlam." ]
Title: The Simpsons Movie Background: The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film based on the Fox television series The Simpsons. The film was directed by David Silverman, and stars the regular television cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shear...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: George H. W. Bush Background: George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republ...	[ "participated in operations in the Philippines" ]
Title: Tamia Background: Tamia Marilyn Hill (nee Washington) was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario with her mother Barbara, and three younger brothers Tiras, Tajhee, and Trajan. Aside from the music she heard and sang at church, Tamia was exposed to diverse music from an early age by her mother. Singing was always h...	[ "Tamia collaborated with American singers Gladys Knight, Brandy, and Chaka Khan for the single, \"Missing You\"," ]
Title: Tamia Background: Tamia Marilyn Hill (nee Washington) was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario with her mother Barbara, and three younger brothers Tiras, Tajhee, and Trajan. Aside from the music she heard and sang at church, Tamia was exposed to diverse music from an early age by her mother. Singing was always h...	[ "In August 2012, Tamia's fifth studio Beautiful Surprise was released" ]
Title: Diosdado Macapagal Background: Diosdado Macapagal was born on September 28, 1910, in Lubao, Pampanga, the third of five children in a poor family. His father, Urbano Macapagal y Romero (c. 1883 - 1946), was a poet who wrote in the local Pampangan language, and his mother, Romana Pangan Macapagal, daughter of At...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: David Rockefeller Background: Rockefeller was born in New York City, New York. He grew up in an eight-story house at 10 West 54th Street, the tallest private residence ever built in the city. Rockefeller was the youngest of six children born to financier John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and socialite Abigail Greene...	[ "His and the Council's chief liaison to President Bill Clinton in order to garner support for this initiative was through Clinton's chief of staff," ]
Title: Cat Stevens Background: Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His 1967 debut album reached the top 10 in the UK, and the album's title song "Matthew and Son" charted at number 2 on ...	[ "Marylebone area of London," ]
Title: Cat Stevens Background: Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His 1967 debut album reached the top 10 in the UK, and the album's title song "Matthew and Son" charted at number 2 on ...	[ "10," ]
Title: Jake Tapper Background: Tapper was born in New York City and was raised in Queen Village in Philadelphia . He is the son of Theodore S. "Ted" and Helen Anne (nee Palmatier) Tapper. Section: Life and career Passage: In 1992, Tapper served as a Campaign Press Secretary for Democratic congressional candidate Marj...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Jake Tapper Background: Tapper was born in New York City and was raised in Queen Village in Philadelphia . He is the son of Theodore S. "Ted" and Helen Anne (nee Palmatier) Tapper. Section: ABC News Passage: ABC News hired Tapper in 2003. While working there, Tapper covered a range of topics including work in ...	[ "retired General Colin Powell, and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, in addition to interviews with other newsmakers" ]
Title: David Rockefeller Background: Rockefeller was born in New York City, New York. He grew up in an eight-story house at 10 West 54th Street, the tallest private residence ever built in the city. Rockefeller was the youngest of six children born to financier John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and socialite Abigail Greene...	[ "Jay\" Rockefeller IV. President Jimmy Carter offered him the position of United States Secretary of the Treasury but he declined." ]
Title: Iberians Background: The Iberians (Latin: Hiberi, from Greek: Iberes, Iberes) were a set of peoples that Greek and Roman sources (among others, Hecataeus of Miletus, Avienus, Herodotus and Strabo) identified with that name in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula, at least from the 6th centur...	[ "the Iberian territories were divided into two major provinces, Hispania Ulterior and Hispania Citerior." ]
Title: Iberians Background: The Iberians (Latin: Hiberi, from Greek: Iberes, Iberes) were a set of peoples that Greek and Roman sources (among others, Hecataeus of Miletus, Avienus, Herodotus and Strabo) identified with that name in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula, at least from the 6th centur...	[ "the oracular healing deity \"Betatun\" is known from a Latin inscription at Fuertes del Rey. There was clearly an important female deity associated with the earth and regeneration" ]
Title: Chris Jericho Background: Christopher Keith Irvine was born on November 9, 1970 in Manhasset, New York. His father, ice hockey player Ted Irvine, had relocated there to play for the New York Rangers. When his father retired, they moved back to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Irvine is of Scottish descent on his father's si...	[ "The next night on Raw, Jericho turned heel by betraying WWE Champion John Cena after defeating Christian and Tyson Tomko in a tag team" ]
Title: Chris Jericho Background: Christopher Keith Irvine was born on November 9, 1970 in Manhasset, New York. His father, ice hockey player Ted Irvine, had relocated there to play for the New York Rangers. When his father retired, they moved back to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Irvine is of Scottish descent on his father's si...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Evanescence Background: Evanescence () is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording independent albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than 17 million c...	[ "the band is taking selected songs from their previous albums and stripping out the rock guitars and drums, rebuilding them into a classical arrangement reminiscent of a soundtrack." ]
Title: Black Seminoles Background: The Black Seminoles are black Indians associated with the Seminole people in Florida and Oklahoma. They are the descendants of free blacks and of escaped slaves (called maroons) who allied with Seminole groups in Spanish Florida. Historically, the Black Seminoles lived mostly in dist...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Black Seminoles Background: The Black Seminoles are black Indians associated with the Seminole people in Florida and Oklahoma. They are the descendants of free blacks and of escaped slaves (called maroons) who allied with Seminole groups in Spanish Florida. Historically, the Black Seminoles lived mostly in dist...	[ "they gathered the roots of a native plant called coontie, grinding, soaking, and straining them to make a starchy flour" ]
Title: Evanescence Background: Evanescence () is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording independent albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than 17 million c...	[ "The tour for The Open Door began on October 5, 2006, in Toronto and included locations in" ]
Title: Tommy Lawton Background: Thomas Lawton was born on 6 October 1919 to Elizabeth Riley and Thomas Lawton senior in Farnworth, Lancashire. His father was a railway signalman of Irish extraction, and his mother worked as a weaver at Harrowby Mill. His father left the family 18 months after Lawton was born, and Eliz...	[ "He formed a productive forward partnership with Jackie Sewell in the 1948-49 campaign, and scored 23 goals in 40 league and cup appearances." ]
Title: Mitt Romney Background: Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. Raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan by h...	[ "He organized a team to handle financial and management issues, sought to counter anti-Mormon sentiments," ]
Title: Mitt Romney Background: Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. Raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan by h...	[ "Of primarily English descent, he also has Scottish and German ancestry." ]
Title: Garry Kasparov Background: Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: Garri Kimovich Kasparov, Russian pronunciation: ['garjI 'kjim@vjItc ka'spar@f]; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian, and formerly Soviet, chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, who many c...	[ "the match was ended without result by Florencio Campomanes," ]
Title: Sanjay Gupta Background: Sanjay Gupta ( SAHN-jay GOOP-t@; born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon and medical reporter. He serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and as assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of...	[ "health infomercial site that presents itself as patient education and is played in physician waiting rooms and does not in her view adequately disclose its promotional nature." ]
Title: Sanjay Gupta Background: Sanjay Gupta ( SAHN-jay GOOP-t@; born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon and medical reporter. He serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and as assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of...	[ "Former surgeon general Joycelyn Elders also supported Gupta's nomination, saying: \"He has enough well-trained, well-qualified public health people to teach him the things he needs to do the job.\"" ]
Title: Jack White Background: John Anthony Gillis was born in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest of ten children--and the seventh son--of Teresa (nee Bandyk) and Gorman M. Gillis. His mother's family was Polish, while his father was Scottish-Canadian. He was raised a Catholic, and his father and mother both worked for th...	[ "White stood by the remarks saying, \"I'll hear TV commercials where the music's ripping off sounds of mine, to the point I think it's me." ]
Title: Jack White Background: John Anthony Gillis was born in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest of ten children--and the seventh son--of Teresa (nee Bandyk) and Gorman M. Gillis. His mother's family was Polish, while his father was Scottish-Canadian. He was raised a Catholic, and his father and mother both worked for th...	[ "the Detroit Free Press produced copies of both a marriage license and divorce certificate for him and Meg, confirming their history as a married couple." ]
Title: J. M. Barrie Background: Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (; 9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. Secti...	[ "Barrie's mother found comfort in the fact that her dead son would remain a boy forever, never to grow up and leave her." ]
Title: J. M. Barrie Background: Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (; 9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. Secti...	[ "George Bernard Shaw was his neighbour in London for several years, and once participated in a Western that Barrie scripted and filmed." ]
Title: Steven Moffat Background: Steven William Moffat (; born 18 November 1961) is a Scottish television writer and producer, best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of British television series Doctor Who and Sherlock. Moffat's first television work was the teen drama series Press Gang....	[ "Moffat has blamed its failure on an unprecedented level of network interference." ]
Title: Steven Moffat Background: Steven William Moffat (; born 18 November 1961) is a Scottish television writer and producer, best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of British television series Doctor Who and Sherlock. Moffat's first television work was the teen drama series Press Gang....	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Norman Finkelstein Background: Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist, activist, professor, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, an interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who w...	[ "Finkelstein argues that Elie Wiesel and others exploit the memory of the Holocaust as an \"ideological weapon\"." ]
Title: The KLF Background: The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, furthermore known as The JAMs and The Timelords and by other names) were a British electronic band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beginning in 1987, Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) released hip ...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: The KLF Background: The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, furthermore known as The JAMs and The Timelords and by other names) were a British electronic band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beginning in 1987, Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) released hip ...	[ "Bill Drummond" ]
Title: Malcolm Marshall Background: , Malcolm Denzil Marshall (18 April 1958 - 4 November 1999) was a West Indian cricketer. Primarily a fast bowler, Marshall is regarded as one of the finest and fastest pacemen ever to have played Test cricket. His Test bowling average of 20.94 is the best of anyone who has taken 200...	[ "After 1980/81 he was out of the Test side for two years, but an excellent 1982 season when he took 134 wickets at under 16 apiece," ]
Title: Malcolm Marshall Background: , Malcolm Denzil Marshall (18 April 1958 - 4 November 1999) was a West Indian cricketer. Primarily a fast bowler, Marshall is regarded as one of the finest and fastest pacemen ever to have played Test cricket. His Test bowling average of 20.94 is the best of anyone who has taken 200...	[ "He played cricket for the Banks Brewery team from 1976." ]
Title: Vladimir Nabokov Background: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (; Russian: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, pronounced [vla'djimjIr na'bok@f] ( listen), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 - 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, translator and entomologist. Section: Ber...	[ "fifteen Berlin years," ]
Title: Sachin Tendulkar Background: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ( ( listen); born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian international cricketer and a former captain of the Indian national team, regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. The highest run scorer of all time in International cricket, Tendulkar took up c...	[ "He played a part in India's victory in Mumbai in that series with a fast 55, though Australia took the series 2-1." ]
Title: Mark Ronson Background: Ronson was born at the Wellington Hospital, St John's Wood, London, to Jewish parents, Laurence Ronson, a real-estate speculator and music manager, and Ann Dexter. His ancestors emigrated from Austria, Russia, and Lithuania. Ronson was brought up in Masorti Judaism and had a Bar Mitzvah ...	[ "where it peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart," ]
Title: Mark Ronson Background: Ronson was born at the Wellington Hospital, St John's Wood, London, to Jewish parents, Laurence Ronson, a real-estate speculator and music manager, and Ann Dexter. His ancestors emigrated from Austria, Russia, and Lithuania. Ronson was brought up in Masorti Judaism and had a Bar Mitzvah ...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Cyndi Lauper Background: Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. Her career has spanned over 30 years. Her debut solo album She's So Unusual (1983) Section: Activism Passage: Lauper has been an LGBT rights supporter throughout her c...	[ "Lauper devoted a concert tour in 2005 to promoting the Foundation's message." ]
Title: Cyndi Lauper Background: Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. Her career has spanned over 30 years. Her debut solo album She's So Unusual (1983) Section: 2016-present: Detour and more Passage: In January 2016, Lauper announced sh...	[ "Lauper was nominated for an Olivier Award" ]
Title: Jason Kidd Background: Kidd was born in San Francisco, and raised in an upper middle class section of Oakland. His father, Steve, was African-American, and his mother, Anne, is Irish-American. As a youth, Kidd was highly scouted for AAU teams and tourneys, garnering various all-star and MVP awards. He attended ...	[ "broke his ankle late in the regular season," ]
Title: Jason Kidd Background: Kidd was born in San Francisco, and raised in an upper middle class section of Oakland. His father, Steve, was African-American, and his mother, Anne, is Irish-American. As a youth, Kidd was highly scouted for AAU teams and tourneys, garnering various all-star and MVP awards. He attended ...	[ "On January 22, 2018, the Bucks fired Kidd after the team posted a 23-22 record midway through the 2017-18 season." ]
Title: Joseph Merrick Background: Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 - 11 April 1890), often incorrectly called John Merrick, was an English man with very severe face and body deformities who was first exhibited at a freak show as the "Elephant Man", and then went to live at the London Hospital after he met Frederick...	[ "his father secured him a hawker's licence which enabled him to earn money selling items from the haberdashery shop, door to door." ]
Title: Dorothy Day Background: Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B. (November 8, 1897 - November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert. Day initially lived a bohemian lifestyle before gaining fame as a social activist after her conversion. She later became a key figure in the Catholic Worker Mov...	[ "Day explained that anarchists accepted her as someone who shared the values of their movement \"[" ]
Title: Paul Brown Background: Brown grew up in Massillon, Ohio, where he moved with his family from Norwalk when he was nine years of age. His father, Lester, was a dispatcher for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. Massillon was a shipping and steel town obsessed with its high school and professional football teams,...	[ "Massillon lost only one game, a 7-0 defeat at New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1937" ]
Title: Paul Brown Background: Brown grew up in Massillon, Ohio, where he moved with his family from Norwalk when he was nine years of age. His father, Lester, was a dispatcher for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. Massillon was a shipping and steel town obsessed with its high school and professional football teams,...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Tenacious D Background: Tenacious D is an American rock duo that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1994. Composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Jack Black and lead guitarist and vocalist Kyle Gass, the band has released three albums - Tenacious D (2001), The Pick of Destiny (2006) and Rize of the Fenix ...	[ "Black admits the duo did not see eye to eye due to animosity between the two," ]
Title: Frankie Lymon Background: Franklin Joseph Lymon (September 30, 1942 - February 27, 1968), known professionally as Frankie Lymon, was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll group The Teenagers. The...	[ "Lymon's slowly declining sales fell sharply in the early 1960s." ]
Title: Octavia E. Butler Background: Octavia Estelle Butler was born on June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, California, the only child of Octavia Margaret Guy, a housemaid, and Laurice James Butler, a shoeshine man. Butler's father died when she was seven, so Octavia was raised by her mother and maternal grandmother in what s...	[ "Butler admits that she writes science fiction because she does not want her work to be labeled or used as a marketing tool." ]
Title: Octavia E. Butler Background: Octavia Estelle Butler was born on June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, California, the only child of Octavia Margaret Guy, a housemaid, and Laurice James Butler, a shoeshine man. Butler's father died when she was seven, so Octavia was raised by her mother and maternal grandmother in what s...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Stereophonics Background: Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band that formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in the Cynon Valley. The band consists of Kelly Jones (lead vocals, lead guitar), Richard Jones (bass, piano, backing vocals), Adam Zindani (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Jamie Morrison (drums) and tour...	[ "guitarists," ]
Title: Anna May Wong Background: Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 - February 3, 1961) was an American actress. She is considered to be the first Chinese American movie star, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. Her long and varied career spanned silent film, sound film, televi...	[ "At the age of nine, she constantly begged filmmakers to give her roles, earning herself the nickname \"C.C.C.\" or \"Curious Chinese Child\"." ]
Title: Stereophonics Background: Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band that formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in the Cynon Valley. The band consists of Kelly Jones (lead vocals, lead guitar), Richard Jones (bass, piano, backing vocals), Adam Zindani (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Jamie Morrison (drums) and tour...	[ "The album also contained one of the band's most famous tracks, \"Have a Nice Day\", which reached number five in the UK charts." ]
Title: Giuseppe Garibaldi Background: Garibaldi was born and christened Joseph-Marie Garibaldi on 4 July 1807 in Nice, which had been directly annexed by First French Empire in 1805, to Ligurian family of Giovanni Domenico Garibaldi from Chiavari and Maria Rosa Nicoletta Raimondo from Loano. In 1814, the Congress of V...	[ "These conditions could not be met." ]
Title: Giuseppe Garibaldi Background: Garibaldi was born and christened Joseph-Marie Garibaldi on 4 July 1807 in Nice, which had been directly annexed by First French Empire in 1805, to Ligurian family of Giovanni Domenico Garibaldi from Chiavari and Maria Rosa Nicoletta Raimondo from Loano. In 1814, the Congress of V...	[ "Garibaldi took momentary refuge in San Marino," ]
Title: Paddy Chayefsky Background: Chayefsky was born in The Bronx, New York City to Russian Jewish immigrants Harry and Gussie Stuchevsky Chayefsky who came from Moscow to New York in 1907. He had two older brothers, William and Isidor. He spent part of his youth in Mount Vernon, New York. Section: Post-war Passage:...	[ "During the late 1940s, he began working full-time on short stories and radio scripts, and during that period, he was a gagwriter for radio host Robert Q. Lewis." ]
Title: Paddy Chayefsky Background: Chayefsky was born in The Bronx, New York City to Russian Jewish immigrants Harry and Gussie Stuchevsky Chayefsky who came from Moscow to New York in 1907. He had two older brothers, William and Isidor. He spent part of his youth in Mount Vernon, New York. Section: Television Passag...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Lea Michele Background: Lea Michele Sarfati (; born August 29, 1986) is an American actress, singer and author. She began her career as a child actress on Broadway, appearing in productions of Les Miserables (1995-1996), Ragtime (1997-1999), Fiddler on the Roof (2004-2005), and Spring Awakening (2006-2008). Mic...	[ "She was also nominated for the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy," ]
Title: Lea Michele Background: Lea Michele Sarfati (; born August 29, 1986) is an American actress, singer and author. She began her career as a child actress on Broadway, appearing in productions of Les Miserables (1995-1996), Ragtime (1997-1999), Fiddler on the Roof (2004-2005), and Spring Awakening (2006-2008). Mic...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Ray Walston Background: Walston was born Herman Raymond Walston on November 2, 1914, in Laurel, Mississippi, the second son and youngest of three children born to lumberjack Harry Norman Walston (1881-1946) and Mittie (nee Kimball) Walston (December 25, 1883-August 16, 1950). He had an older sister, Carrie (190...	[ "head groundskeeper at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco," ]
Title: Ray Walston Background: Walston was born Herman Raymond Walston on November 2, 1914, in Laurel, Mississippi, the second son and youngest of three children born to lumberjack Harry Norman Walston (1881-1946) and Mittie (nee Kimball) Walston (December 25, 1883-August 16, 1950). He had an older sister, Carrie (190...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: Juan Carlos I of Spain Background: Juan Carlos was born to Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies in Rome, Italy, where his grandfather, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and other members of the Spanish Royal Family lived in exile following the proclamation of the Second...	[ "when his father (whom many monarchists had recognized as the legitimate, exiled King of Spain during the Franco era) formally renounced his claim" ]
Title: Juan Carlos I of Spain Background: Juan Carlos was born to Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies in Rome, Italy, where his grandfather, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and other members of the Spanish Royal Family lived in exile following the proclamation of the Second...	[ "CANNOTANSWER", "Not enough information", "Cannot answer", "Do not know" ]
Title: James Levine Background: James Lawrence Levine (; born June 23, 1943) is an American conductor and pianist. He is primarily known for his tenure as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera (the "Met"), a position he held for 40 years (1976-2016). He was formally terminated by the Met from all his positions and ...	[ "before entering his father's clothing business, and his mother (Helen Goldstein Levine) was briefly an actress on Broadway, performing as \"Helen Golden\"." ]
Title: James Levine Background: James Lawrence Levine (; born June 23, 1943) is an American conductor and pianist. He is primarily known for his tenure as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera (the "Met"), a position he held for 40 years (1976-2016). He was formally terminated by the Met from all his positions and ...	[ "became the Met's principal conductor in 1973, and its Music Director in 1975. In 1983, he served as conductor and musical director for the Franco Zeffirelli" ]
Title: Little Richard Background: Little Richard was born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia. He was the third of twelve children of Leva Mae (nee Stewart) and Charles "Bud" Penniman. His father was a church deacon who sold bootlegged moonshine on the side and owned a nightclub, the Tip In I...	[ "became involved in voyeurism in his early twenties, when a female friend would drive him around and pick up men who would allow him to watch them have sex" ]
Title: Little Richard Background: Little Richard was born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia. He was the third of twelve children of Leva Mae (nee Stewart) and Charles "Bud" Penniman. His father was a church deacon who sold bootlegged moonshine on the side and owned a nightclub, the Tip In I...	[ "In 1992 he released his final album, Little Richard Meets Masayoshi Takanaka featuring members of Richard's then current touring band." ]
Title: Billie Jean King Background: King was born in Long Beach, California, into a conservative Methodist family, the daughter of Betty (nee Jerman), a housewife, and Bill Moffitt, a firefighter. Billie Jean's family was athletic. Her mother excelled at swimming, her father played basketball, baseball and ran track. ...	[ "her third round match with Tanya Harford of South Africa, King was down 7-5, 5-4 (40-0) before saving three match points to win the second set 7-6(2)" ]

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