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did the ship hit soft sand after it veered off course?
Rome (CNN) -- The captain of the Costa Concordia did not "fall" into a lifeboat after the ship hit rocks, as he contends, a crew member testified. Instead, Francesco Schettino "jumped into the lifeboat," Stefano Iannelli said. Schettino is on trial in Grosseto on charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship after 32 p...
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Is he the oldest leader in Africa?
(CNN) -- Senegal's octogenarian incumbent president is seeking a third term Sunday, a bid that has sparked deadly protests and threatened the nation's reputation as one of the most stable democracies in Africa. The incumbent Abdoulaye Wade, 85, came to power in 2000 after multiple unsuccessful runs. One of the cont...
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were they going backwards?
CHAPTER V THE DEFEAT OF THE BULLY "Go ahead, Jack! You've got to win!" "Don't let 'em beat you, Bill. Put it all over those Rovers." "Oh, Jack, don't let them get the best of you!" cried Ruth. "You've got to win!" screamed Martha. "Here is where Glutts shows 'em what the _Yellow Streak_ can do!" So the cr...
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Has this character been in any other of his books?
(CNN) -- Elmore Leonard is something of a living legend among lovers of crime fiction. A favorite of millions of readers, a hero to scores of writers, he's been called "America's greatest crime writer." The 86-year old author has been writing bestselling books for sixty years, mostly Westerns and crime novels. Many of ...
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Are Arum and Honeysuckle both native to Europe?
Arum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to Europe, northern Africa, and western and central Asia, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean region. Frequently called "arum lilies", they are not closely related to the true lilies "Lilium". Plants in closely related "Zantedeschia" ...
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Are both Tylecodon and Witch-hazels plants
Witch-hazels ("Hamamelis," ) are a genus of flowering plants in the family Hamamelidaceae, with four species in North America ("H. mexicana", "H. ovalis", "H. virginiana", and "H. vernalis"), and one each in Japan ("H. japonica") and China ("H. mollis"). The North American species are occasionally called winterbloom. T...
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Does that concern Dora?
CHAPTER XXI THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE HOUSEBOAT Never was a girl more light-hearted than was Dora when in the saddle on the Kentucky thoroughbred. And her cousin was scarcely less elated. "Let us have a little race, Nellie," cried Dora. "It will be lots of fun." "Oh, we don't want the horses to run away," answer...
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is the movie the lake house based on a book
The Lake House is a 2006 American romantic drama directed by Alejandro Agresti and starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Christopher Plummer. It was written by David Auburn. The film is a remake of the South Korean motion picture Il Mare (2000). The story centers on an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living i...
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can you do an autopsy on a living person
An autopsy (post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death or to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational pu...
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are all of the songs in mamma mia here we go again by abba
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again was announced on May 19, 2017, with a release date of July 20, 2018. It was written and directed by Ol Parker. On September 27, 2017, Benny Andersson confirmed 3 ABBA songs that would be featured in the film: ``When I Kissed the Teacher,'' ``I Wonder (Departure),'' and ``Angeleyes.'' ``I Won...
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are shaw academy diplomas recognised in south africa
The Shaw Academy Professional Higher Diploma -- EQF Level 5 -- is the equivalent to an Associate Degree (USA), AQF Level Six (Australia), NQF Level Six (South Africa) & OQF Level Eight (Canada). The European Qualifications Framework encourages lifelong learning by promoting the validation of education.
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is environmental science and earth science the same thing
Earth science or geoscience is a widely embraced term for the fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. It is the branch of science dealing with the physical constitution of the earth and its atmosphere. Earth science is the study of our planet's physical characteristics, from earthquakes to raindrops, and...
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Does he know he is getting to school late constantly?
Tom gets up at half past seven in the morning. He has an egg and some milk for his breakfast. Then he begins to go to school slowly. When he is on his way to school, he thinks, "I tell my teacher my mother is ill on Monday morning. I tell him my bike is wrong on Tuesday. What do I tell my teacher today?" Tom thinks ove...
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Did they have a good talk?
CHAPTER XXVII THE SPY Wrayson found himself a few minutes later alone with the Baron, who, with some solemnity, rose and took the chair opposite to him. Conversation between them, however, languished, for the Baron spoke only in monosyllables, and his attitude gave Wrayson the idea that he viewed his presence at th...
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was season 14 the end of greys anatomy
On April 20, 2018, ABC officially renewed Grey's Anatomy for a network primetime drama record-setting fifteenth season.
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is there a bart station in san jose
Downtown San Jose BART station is a proposed underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Jose, California. The station would be co-located with the Santa Clara Light Rail Station and connect to the proposed Santa Clara, Richmond and San Francisco/Daly City stations. It would be preceded by the proposed Alum Rock ...
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do inmates on death row get a last meal
In the United States, most states give the meal a day or two before execution and use the euphemism ``special meal''. Alcohol or tobacco are usually denied. Unorthodox or unavailable requests are replaced with substitutes. Some states place tight restrictions. In Florida, the food for the last meal must be purchased lo...
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Are both Indigofera and Kadsura plant genera?
Indigofera is a large genus of over 750 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. They are widely distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Kadsura is a genus of woody vines in the Schisandraceae described as a genus in 1810.
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Is it a small city?
Buenos Aires ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meaning intended by t...
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was this available before?
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the traditional circuits of the public switched telephone network. It was first defined in 1988 in the CCITT red book. Prior to ISDN, the telephone ...
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can you put shower gel in your hair
Shower gels for men may contain the ingredient menthol, which gives a cooling and stimulating sensation on the skin, and some men's shower gels are also designed specifically for use on hair and body. Shower gels contain milder surfactant bases than shampoos, and some also contain gentle conditioning agents in the form...
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are the penguins out of the stanley cup
The two teams have faced-off eleven times in the playoffs, with the Penguins winning nine of the eleven matchups, their two series losses coming in the 1994 and 2018 playoffs. The Penguins defeated the Capitals en route to all five of their Stanley Cup victories. They have met in a decisive, series-deciding Game 7 in t...
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Are Yale University and University of Oklahoma both among the five oldest universities in the USA?
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a coeducational...
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is it possible for hair to change color
Hair color is the pigmentation of hair follicles due to two types of melanin: eumelanin and pheomelanin. Generally, if more eumelanin is present, the color of the hair is darker; if less eumelanin is present, the hair is lighter. Levels of melanin can vary over time causing a person's hair color to change, and it is po...
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can a male horse breed with a female donkey
A hinny is a domestic equine hybrid that is the offspring of a male horse, a stallion, and a female donkey, a jenny. It is the reciprocal cross to the more common mule, which is the product of a male donkey, a jack, and a female horse, a mare.
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Was there a girl?
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (CNN) -- He escaped the war, but life's no happier now for Omar. The 8-year-old Syrian refugee longs for friends back in Qusayr, hard hit by a civil war that grinds on. He also misses days in school -- when the most he had to worry about was finishing his homework. "I work so I can bring money f...
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Is there a possibility of bipartisanship?
(CNN) -- As President Obama's second-term Cabinet starts to take shape, we can see some of the outlines of what the White House hopes to do in the next four years. The major theme is that Obama is prepared to defend his turf, tooth and nail. This is a Cabinet whose strength is defense rather than offense. Gone are ...
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is there more than one airport in birmingham
Birmingham Airport (IATA: BHX, ICAO: EGBB), formerly Birmingham International Airport and before that, Elmdon Airport, is an international airport located 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) east-southeast of Birmingham city centre, slightly north of Bickenhill in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England. It has a CA...
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by the end of the fourth century christianity was the official religion of the roman empire
Nicene Christianity became the state church of the Roman Empire with the Edict of Thessalonica in 380 AD, when Emperor Theodosius I made it the Empire's sole authorized religion. The Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, and the Catholic Church each claim to be the historical continuation of this church in its o...
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Was he loved by both democrats and republicans?
(CNN) -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced. Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in...
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Does the city have tech startups?
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (Literally "Frankfurt on the Main", ), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2015 population of 732,688 within its administrative boundaries, and 2.3 million in its urban area. The city is at the centre of ...
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Does Leo agree it is ok for her to get help this way?
What can you do on the Internet? Many of us like to read the news, buy things and play games. Some students now have a new use for the Internet - helping them with their homework. Tina, 14, from Shenzhen, Guangdong, often searches online for the answers to her math problems. She said sometimes she and even her parents ...
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Does Sue think Miss Johnsy is healthy and strong?
Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor of the apartment building. For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it. He earned a little money by serving as a model to artists who could not pay for a professional model. He was a fierce, little, old man who protect...
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Do they handle appeals?
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...
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Are Cinefantastique and Utne Reader both magazines?
Cinefantastique was a horror, fantasy, and science fiction film magazine. Utne Reader (a.k.a. Utne) is a quarterly American magazine that collects and reprints articles on politics, culture, and the environment, generally from alternative media sources including journals, newsletters, weeklies, zines, music, and DVDs.
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is the minor pentatonic scale the same as the blues scale
The hexatonic, or six-note, blues scale consists of the minor pentatonic scale plus the ♭5th degree of the original heptatonic scale. This added note can be spelled as either a ♭5 or a ♯4.
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are the blue lagoon characters brother and sister
The story centers on two cousins, Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, who are marooned with a galley cook on an island in the South Pacific following a shipwreck. The galley cook, Paddy Button, assumes responsibility for the children and teaches them how to survive, cautioning them to avoid the ``arita'' berries, which he ca...
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Was it a serious claim?
CHAPTER XXXII. JOY. It was useless for the boys to argue with themselves that the rapid discharge of musketry could have no sinister meaning. They were in that frame of mind when no silver lining can be seen, even to the smallest cloud; and against their own better judgment they decided that the strange schooner ei...
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Do both The Portage Canal and Erie Canal allow connection to the Atlantic Ocean ?
The Portage Canal was built to connect the Fox River and Wisconsin River at Portage, Wisconsin along the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway. For a time, it completed a route from the north Atlantic Ocean, through the St. Lawrence Seaway and down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and back to the Atlantic. The Erie Canal ...
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Is Caracas a large city?
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital, the center of the Greater Caracas Area, and the largest city of Venezuela. Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordill...
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Are Sempervivum and Sagittaria both aquatic plants?
Sempervivum (Brit. , U.S. sem-per-VEE-vum) is a genus of about 40 species of flowering plants in the Crassulaceae family, commonly known as houseleeks. Other common names include liveforever (the source of the taxonomical designation "Sempervivum", literally "always/forever alive") and hen and chicks, a name shared wit...
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Was Nasreddin helpful?
Ali, who was working a long way from home, wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night .At last he found the house of a letter writer whose name was Nasreddin. Nasreddin was already in bed. "...
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are walmart and sam's club the same
Sam's West, Inc. (doing business as Sam's Club and stylized as Sam's CLUB) is an American chain of membership-only retail warehouse clubs owned and operated by Walmart Inc., founded in 1983 and named after Walmart founder Sam Walton. As of 2012, Sam's Club chain serves 47 million U.S. (including Puerto Rico) members an...
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is it illegal to count cards in casinos
Card counting is not illegal under British law, nor is it under federal, state, or local laws in the United States provided that no external card counting device or person assists the player in counting cards. Still, casinos object to the practice, and try to prevent it, banning players believed to be counters. In thei...
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Is it her first time in that position?
(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...
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did they also use representations of eggs?
Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs, are decorated eggs that are usually used as gifts on the occasion of Easter or springtime celebration. As such, Easter eggs are common during the season of Eastertide (Easter season). The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitut...
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was John's dad happy that he came clean about it?
Dave and John were playing catch in the living room. Rose told them that was dumb, but she did not stop them. She kept writing in her notebook. If they wanted to get in trouble, then they could. It was not her responsibility. Dave told John to go long. Dave did not have good aim and missed John's hands when he threw ...
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Did Toronto want to host the games, at first?
The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Italian: "Giochi della XVII Olimpiade"), was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960, in Rome, Italy. Rome had been awarded the organization of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but after the 1906 eruption of Moun...
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Does Henry do the same?
Jenny and Henry were born on the same day and they look the same. Their father is a taxi driver and he is busy all the time. He goes out early in the morning, but comes back when his children are sleeping in bed. He makes a lot of money but he doesn't talk with them about their study. The two children study in the same...
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Were Michael Winner and Guy Hamilton both English film directors?
Robert Michael Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English film director and producer, and a restaurant critic for "The Sunday Times". Mervyn Ian Guy Hamilton, DSC (16 September 1922 – 20 April 2016) was an English film director. He directed 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four James Bond ...
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was she alone in the office?
CHAPTER XII TOM SPEAKS HIS MIND "Tom, Miss Harrow would like to see you." It was an hour later, and the Rovers and the Laning girls had spent the time in watching the efforts of the others to put out the last of the fire. In the meanwhile, some of those present had gone through the addition to the main building a...
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Was she mean?
Alice was twenty-three years old, and she was a nurse at a big hospital . She was very kind and all of her patients likes her very much . One day she was out shopping. She saw an old woman. The woman was waiting to cross a busy street . Alice wanted to cross the street, too. So she went over to help the woman cross the...
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Was he a generous man?
CHAPTER XIII THE WESTERN EXPRESS The old miser was very much excited and began to pace the floor of his cottage. "Yes, I better tell the police, that's what I better do," he muttered. "There won't be any necessity to tell the police--if it was really my brother who did it," said Sam. "Why not, I'd like to kno...
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Were The Adventures of Huck Finn and Piglet's Big Movie distributed by the same studio?
The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 American adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers, distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures, and starring Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Jason Robards and Robbie Coltrane; it is based on Mark Twain's novel "Adventures of Huckleberry...
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was let it be the beatles last album
Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970, almost a month after the group's break-up. Like most of the band's previous releases, it was a number one album in many countries, including both the US and the UK, and was released in tandem with the mo...
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is speed the same as velocity or acceleration
Speed describes only how fast an object is moving, whereas velocity gives both how fast it is and in which direction the object is moving. If a car is said to travel at 60 km/h, its speed has been specified. However, if the car is said to move at 60 km/h to the north, its velocity has now been specified.
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Are Octavio Paz and Richard Aldington of the same nationality?
Octavio Paz Lozano (] ; March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.
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Did the ensuing peace last?
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by Great Britain. The wars stemmed from the unresolved disputes associated with the Frenc...
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Are Gaoyou and Arxan both located in China?
Gaoyou (), is a county-level city under the administration of Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China, located in the Yangtze River Delta on the north side of the Yangtze River. Arxan (; Mongolian: "Arxaan hôt" or Рашаан хот; literally "spring" or "spa") is a county-level city of northeastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republi...
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can you have a mustache in the coast guard
Mustaches are generally allowed in both the military and police forces (except for those undergoing basic training), so long as they are well-groomed. U.S. Army regulations, for example, require that a mustaches be ``neatly trimmed, tapered, and tidy'', and that ``no portion of the mustache will cover the upper lip lin...
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Did he purchase anything else?
Rock stars and their money Around the world young people are spending unbelievable sums of money listening to rock music. Forbes reports that at least fifty rock stars have incomes between two million and six million dollars per year. "It doesn't make sense," says Johnny Mathis, one of the older music millionaires,...
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Are The Cab and Zeeshan Zaidi are both from Las Vegas?
The Cab is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. Their debut album, "Whisper War", was released on April 29, 2008. They have been called "The Band You Need to Know 2008" by "Alternative Press" magazine. They were also featured in the '100 Bands You Need to Know in 2010' by the magazine and were one of the three...
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did it move?
CHAPTER III LISTER CLEARS THE GROUND The sun was on the rocks and the lichen shone in rings of soft and varied color. Blue shadows filled the dale, which, from the side of the Buttress, looked profoundly deep. A row of young men and women followed a ledge that crossed the face of the steep crag; Mortimer Hyslop lea...
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Did Jong Tae-se score a goal?
(CNN) -- North Korea twice came back from behind to hold Greece 2-2 in a friendly between two sides heading to the World Cup next month, while fellow finalists Paraguay lost 2-1 to the Republic of Ireland. In a match played at a neutral venue in Altach, Austria, Costas Katsouranis gave Greece the lead in the second m...
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does the state of washington have the death penalty
Since the death penalty was reinstated in the late 1970s, inmates have been able to choose if their execution will be carried out by lethal injection or hanging. If the inmate makes no decision, lethal injection is the default method. Washington is the only state with an active gallows (Delaware dismantled theirs in 20...
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Is the entire country affected by the fires?
Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- The mortality rate in Moscow, Russia, has "doubled recently" because of an extended streak of heat and smog, Andrei Seltsovsky, the head of the city health department, told Russian news agencies Monday. Seltsovsky said that the average daily mortality rate in Moscow is 360 to 380 cases, but "t...
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Are both Firmiana and Petasites a genus of flowering plants in the Malvaceae family?
Firmiana (parasoltree) is a genus of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family, formerly placed in the now defunct Sterculiaceae. Genus name honors Karl Joseph von Firmian. Petasites is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, that are commonly referred to as butterburs and coltsfoots. They are pe...
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Are Solo and La Croix Sparkling Water produced in the same country ?
Solo is an orange-flavoured soft drink, owned by the Norwegian companies Ringnes, Oskar Sylte, Aass, and Mack. The recipe was originally Spanish, and brought to the Tønsberg Bryggeri by Torleif Gulliksrud in 1934. Solo quickly became Norway's most popular soft drink, and until the 1960s was bigger than Coca-Cola in Nor...
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do they also make pottery?
Tucson (/ˈtuːsɒn/ /tuːˈsɒn/) is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona. The 2010 United States Census put the population at 520,116, while the 2013 estimated population of the entire Tucson metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was 996,544. The Tucson MSA ...
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Was Wilson indicted?
(CNN)Weeks after a grand jury chose not to indict the officer who shot Michael Brown, officials have released a new mound of documents from the weeks of proceedings. They include more witness interviews, an autopsy conducted by a Justice Department medical examiner, as well as radio communications from the day of the...
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Is there another body of land that is joined to it?
Saint Pierre and Miquelon, officially the Overseas Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near the Newfoundland and Labrador province of Canada. It is the only part of New France that remains under French co...
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Did he have a lot of acne?
(CNN) -- Chingaiz Khan was an unknown quantity when he arrived for a junior weightlifting tournament in South Waziristan nine years ago. Chaotic and intensely religious, the Pakistani region is known by locals as "the most dangerous place in the world." The 12-year-old Chingaiz, with his short, jet-black hair and s...
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Are Robert Florey and Geoff Murphy both in the film-making profession?
Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist, and occasional actor. Geoffrey Peter Murphy {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 13 October 1938) is a New Zealand filmmaker, as a producer, director and screenwriter best known for his work during the renai...
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is mary hardin baylor the same as baylor university
The University of Mary Hardin--Baylor (UMHB) is a Christian co-educational institution of higher learning located in Belton, Texas, United States. UMHB was chartered by the Republic of Texas in 1845 as ``Baylor Female College,'' the female department of what is now Baylor University. It has since become its own institu...
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is the us postal service part of the us government
The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states. It is one of the few government agencies...
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Was he also fined?
(CNN) -- Evangelist Tony Alamo is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison after an Arkansas judge sentenced him to 175 years Friday on charges that included taking minors across state lines for sex, according to prosecutors. A jury convicted Alamo in July on 10 federal counts covering offenses that spanned 11 ...
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Does A king live there?
One upon a time there was a dragon named Jack. He was large and had big scales, but did not have claws or a mean look on his face like other dragons did. He also didn't have wings and couldn't fly. Jack lived near a castle that had a princess trapped in it. This castle looked and was guarded by an evil dragon named Rya...
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Was she interested in him?
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SAUSAGE CHAPPIE The personality that wins cost Archie two dollars in cash and a lot of embarrassment when he asked for it at the store. To buy a treatise of that name would automatically seem to argue that you haven't a winning personality already, and Archie was at some pains to explain to the gir...
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Did he think the defense department was doing a good job?
Sen. Ted Cruz slammed the White House on Tuesday for a "failure of leadership" as President Barack Obama prepares to nominate his administration's fourth defense secretary. The Texas Republican, who is considering a 2016 run in hopes of heading his own White House administration, called the unusually high turnover at...
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Are Herman C. Raymaker and Ted Sharks both American film directors?
Herman C. Raymaker (22 January 1893 – 6 March 1944) was an American film director and actor. He directed 51 films between 1917 and 1934. His last two films as director were "Trailing the Killer" (1932) and "Adventure Girl" (1934). Ted Sharks (born January 25) is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and edit...
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But is it justified?
Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts. Ultratop is a non-profit organization, created on the initiative of the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA), the Belgian member organization of the International Federati...
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can you sail from the black sea to the mediterranean
The Black Sea has a positive water balance; that is, a net outflow of water 300 km (72 cu mi) per year through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles into the Aegean Sea. Mediterranean water flows into the Black Sea as part of a two-way hydrological exchange. The Black Sea outflow is cooler and less saline, and floats over ...
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is hocus pocus based on a true story
In the 1994 TV documentary Hocus Pocus: Begin the Magic, and on the film's Blu-ray release, producer David Kirschner said he came up with the idea for the film one night. He and his young daughter were sitting outside and his neighbor's black cat strayed by. Kirschner invented a tale of how the cat was once a boy who w...
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is there a difference between stakeholder and shareholder
In a corporation, as defined in its first usage in a 1963 internal memorandum at the Stanford Research Institute, a stakeholder is a member of the ``groups without whose support the organization would cease to exist''. The theory was later developed and championed by R. Edward Freeman in the 1980s. Since then it has ga...
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can you get drafted out of high school into the nba
The NBA high school draftees are players who have been drafted to the National Basketball Association (NBA) straight out of high school without playing basketball at the collegiate level. The process of jumping directly from high school to the professional level is also known as going prep-to-pro. Since 2006, the pract...
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Did he ask for any other person?
CHAPTER III. THE END OF THE BALL. THE priest's long journey did not appear to have fatigued him. He was as cheerful and as polite as ever--and so paternally attentive to Stella that it was quite impossible for her to pass him with a formal bow. "I have come all the way from Devonshire," he said. "The train has be...
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is oil and natural gas the same thing
Natural gas is often informally referred to simply as ``gas'', especially when compared to other energy sources such as oil or coal. However, it is not to be confused with gasoline, especially in North America, where the term gasoline is often shortened in colloquial usage to gas.
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does jack die in jack and the cuckoo clock heart
Miss Acacia finds Jack in front of Madeleine's grave, shivering in the cold. She tries to use the key to turn his clock but he throws away the key, choosing to die from not using the key. Then they finally kiss. When Jack breaks the kiss, time has stopped for him. Jack sings a song about climbing to Heaven while using ...
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Is it an easy contest?
(CNN) -- Fans of "Dancing With the Stars" know how grueling the competition can be. Contestants practice for hours a day, and almost every season some celebs are brought low by injury. So how in the world will Valerie Harper, who just months ago announced that she had a terminal form of cancer, go for that mirror bal...
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Does he say he will stand them a magnum of Pommery 92?
CHAPTER XI MR. LITTLESON, FLATTERER Once more a little luncheon was in progress at the corner table in the millionaires' club. This time Littleson also was of the party. He had been describing his luncheon of the day before to his friends. "I am dead sure of one thing," he declared. "She is on our side, and I hon...
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Were the letters intact?
CHAPTER VIII LAST DAYS ON THE FARM "I believe you are right," said Tom, after he, too, had looked over some of the bits of paper strewn around. "Here is the word 'box' and here is the word 'Saturday.'" "Yes, and here are the words, 'fast freight,'" added Sam. "This was nothing more than a letter box for the freig...
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Did he start his journey in Guadalupe?
During the 14th century in the northeastern part of the state nomad tribes by the name of Jornado hunted bison along the Rio Grande; they left numerous rock paintings throughout the northeastern part of the state. When the Spanish explorers reached this area they found their descendants, Suma and Manso tribes. In the s...
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was he the first son?
The Kingdom of Prussia () was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918 and included parts of present-day Germany, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Denmark, Belgium and the Czech Republic. It was the driving force behind the unification of Germany in 1871 and was the leading state of the Ge...
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Are both ToryBoy The Movie and The Mouth of the Wolf award winning movies?
ToryBoy The Movie is a British documentary feature film directed by and starring John Walsh. It follows Walsh as he becomes a political candidate for the Conservative Party in the north east England constituency of Middlesbrough. A staunch Labour Party supporter all his life, Walsh had become disillusioned with the par...
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Are Pittsburgh International Airport and Sawyer International Airport in the same country?
Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA: PIT, ICAO: KPIT, FAA LID: PIT) , formerly Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, is a civil–military international airport in the suburbs of the United States' city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is located in Findlay and Moon townships of Allegheny County, about 20 mi west o...
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Was the car marked?
(CNN) -- A staff member of the aid organization Doctors Without Borders has died after an attack on a vehicle near the capital of South Sudan, the group said Friday. The aid worker, Joseph, whose full name has been withheld at the request of his family, died two days after the attack, which took place Monday on a mai...
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are there going to be any more riddick movies
In April 2016, Vin Diesel confirmed that he and writer-director David Twohy were developing a fourth Riddick movie titled The Chronicles of Riddick: Furia. In May 2016, he explained that production on The Chronicles of Riddick: Furia may begin in early 2017. In a video, Vin Diesel asked: ``Are you guys excited to hear ...
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Were Faces of Death and A Brony Tale directed by the same person?
Faces of Death (also released more recently as The Original Faces of Death) is a 1978 American mondo horror film directed by Conan LeCilaire and written by Alan Black. A Brony Tale (originally titled Brony) is a 2014 Canadian-American documentary film directed by Brent Hodge. The film explores the brony phenomenon, the...
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would he be the next boss of AC Milan?
(CNN) -- Italian manager Gianfranco Zola has been sacked by English Premier League club West Ham, while former England boss Steve McLaren has joined German side Wolfsburg. The Hammers announced in a statement on their official Web site that they had terminated Zola's contract after a season in which they finished jus...
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Was this confirmed by historical documents?
(CNN)"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd," wrote Miguel de Cervantes, the Shakespeare of Spain. And the quest to find his remains has sometimes seemed both, even (dare one say it) quixotic in a time of recession. But forensic scientists have persevered, and appear to have triumphed. Almost...
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