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When was quantum field theory developed? | [
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"text": "The third thread in the development of quantum field theory was the need to handle the statistics of many-particle systems consistently and with ease. In 1927, Pascual Jordan tried to extend the canonical quantization of fields to the many-body wave functions of identical p... | [
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"text": "As a successful theoretical framework today, quantum field theory emerged from the work of generations of theoretical physicists spanning much of the 20th century. Its development began in the 1920s with the description of interactions between light and electrons, culminating ... |
How long does a philosophy degree take? | [
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"text": "Doctoral degrees or doctorates, such as the Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD or DPhil) or Doctor of Education (EdD or DEd) are awarded following a programme of original research that contributes new knowledge within the context of the student's discipline. Doctoral degrees ... | [
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"text": "Students pursuing the Ph.D. degree must first complete a master's degree program, which takes two years after graduation with a bachelor's degree (five years in total). The candidate must find funding and a formal doctoral advisor (Directeur de thèse) with a habilitation t... |
Was there a year 0? | [
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"text": "Cassini gave the following reasons for using a year 0:\nFred Espanak of NASA lists 50 phases of the moon within year 0, showing that it is a full year, not an instant in time. Jean Meeus gives the following explanation:\nAlthough he used the usual French terms \"avant J.-C.\" (... | [
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"text": "ㅅ is one of the Korean hangul. The Unicode for ㅅ is U+3137.",
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"text": "Games Def Interceptions Fumbles Sacks & Tackles \nYear Age Tm Pos No. G GS Int Yds TD Lng PD FF Fmb FR Yds TD Sk Tkl Ast Sfty AV\n2004 23 NWE ss 4... |
Can you prevent traumatic brain injury? | [
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"text": "Faculty provides care for thousands suffering from mild to traumatic brain injuries. The concussion clinic at Medstar NRH focuses primarily on this form of brain injury and is regarded as one of the best in the country according to U.S. News & World Report. 75 percent of a... | [
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"text": "The treatment for emergency traumatic brain injuries focuses on assuring the person has enough oxygen from the brain blood supply, and on maintaining normal blood pressure to avoid further injuries of the head or neck. The person may need surgery to remove clotted blood or r... |
When is the dialectical method used? | [
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"text": "The Dialect Test was created by A.J. Ellis in February 1879, and was used in the fieldwork for his work \"On Early English Pronunciation\". It stands as one of the earliest methods of identifying vowel sounds and features of speech. The aim was to capture the main vowel sou... | [
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"text": "The little arrow method is an early method for comparing regional dialects. In the little arrows method, researchers begin with a general map of a region, often with traditional linguistic dialect boundaries indicated for reference. Then, informants from several sites are a... |
Have the Colorado Rockies won a title? | [
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"text": "The Colorado Rockies' 2009 season is a season in American baseball, in which the Rockies won their third Wild Card title, and second in three years. The Rockies drew 2,665,080 fans for the season, their highest total since 2002. The average home attendance was 32,902 fans. ... |
Who invented Hangul? | [
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"text": "Hangul, a phonemic Korean alphabet invented around 1446 by scholars in the court of Sejong the Great, was little used for several centuries because of the perceived cultural superiority of Classical Chinese (a position similar to that of Latin in Europe). However, the Cathol... | [
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"text": "The primary written language of Sungkyunkwan was hanja. Although hangul was invented in 1443, it did not become the primary language of study because the literary elite believed that the difficult hanja was more sophisticated. Hangul was invented to solve the widespread ill... |
What do Grasshoppers eat? | [
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"text": "Grasshoppers eat large quantities of foliage both as adults and during their development, and can be serious pests of arid land and prairies. Pasture, grain, forage, vegetable and other crops can be affected. Grasshoppers often bask in the sun, and thrive in warm sunny cond... | [
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"text": "In 1911, Abraham Isaac Kook, the chief rabbi of Ottoman Palestine, addressed a question to the rabbinic Court at Sana'a concerning their custom of eating grasshoppers, and whether this custom was observed by observing their outward features, or by simply relying upon an ora... |
When was Guitar Hero Live first released? | [
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"text": "In 2015, Activision announced the first new title to the series in 5 years, \"Guitar Hero Live\", released in October 2015. The title is considered a reboot of the series, with development being performed by FreeStyleGames, who had developed the \"DJ Hero\" games previously.... | [
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"text": "In an earnings report shortly following the game's release, Activision stated that \"Guitar Hero Live\" was outselling their previous two \"Guitar Hero\" games, \"\" and \"Guitar Hero 5\", though did not report exact sales numbers. In their quarterly earnings results prese... |
When were bluebonnets named the state flower of Texas? | [
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"text": "Bluebonnet is a name given to any number of blue-flowered species of the genus \"Lupinus\" predominantly found in southwestern United States and is collectively the state flower of Texas. The shape of the petals on the flower resembles the bonnet worn by pioneer women to sh... | [
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"text": "The plant was operated by the National Gypsum Company but overseen by the military and was one of the four Ordnance plants in the United States during World War II. The army engineers were in charge of all plant construction while the Gypsum personnel and others worked out ... |
Who created the series Clannad? | [
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"text": "The \"Clannad\" animated television series is based on the visual novel \"Clannad\" by the Japanese visual novel brand Key. The episodes, produced by the animation studio Kyoto Animation, are directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, written by Fumihiko Shimo, and features character de... | [
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"text": "After \"Magical Ring\", Clannad were commissioned to score the 26-episode drama series \"Robin of Sherwood\", aired from 1984 to 1986. They once again began to stretch themselves, creating music for a range of characters and events. For the first time in the career, the albu... |
When was the Battle of Suoi Chau Pha fought? | [
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"text": "The Battle of Suoi Chau Pha (6 August 1967) was fought during the Vietnam War between Australian troops and the Viet Cong. The battle took place during Operation Ballarat, an Australian search and destroy operation in the eastern Hat Dich area, north-west of Nui Dat in Phuo... | [
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"text": "On the basis of documents captured by the Australians during the battle the Viet Cong were identified as being from C12 Company, 3rd Battalion, 274th Regiment, probably assisted by the battalion Reconnaissance Platoon and a number of local force guides. It was assessed tha... |
How old was Cho Namchul when he died? | [
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"text": "Cho Namchul (November 30, 1923 - July 2, 2006, alternately Cho Namcheol) was a professional Go player (Baduk in Korean). He died of natural causes in Seoul at the age of 83.",
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"text": "His grandfather taught him Go when he was young. Seeing great talent in Cho, his father sent him to Japan in 1962. His rise to becoming one of the greatest Go players began when he joined Minoru Kitani's Go school. He was accompanied by his uncle Cho Namchul and his brother ... |
What is the Navy's military mascot? | [
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"text": "Navy Bill is a sculpture of the United States Naval Academy's mascot, \"Bill the Goat\", a billy goat. It was designed by Clemente Spampinato in 1956, and presented to the Academy in 1957. Until 2010, the sculpture stood just inside Gate 1 to the Academy. Following a five-y... | [
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"text": "Mascots are also popular in military units. For example, the United States Marine Corps uses the English Bulldog as its mascot, while the United States Army uses the mule, the United States Navy uses the goat, and the United States Air Force uses the Gyrfalcon.",
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How many permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are there? | [
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"text": "1. The Security Council shall consist of fifteen Members of the United Nations. The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America shall be permanent members of the ... |
Who created the Gundam animated series? | [
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"text": "\"Mobile Fighter G Gundam\" was produced by Sunrise in association with advertising agencies Sotsu and Dentsu, and toy company Bandai. The series was created to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the \"Gundam\" franchise, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino in 1979. \"G Gundam\" was... | [
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"text": "The \"Mobile Suit Gundam SEED\" anime series is animated by the Japanese anime studio Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. It aired from October 5, 2002 to September 27, 2003, with fifty episodes on TBS. As with other series from the Gundam franchise, \"Gundam SEED\" takes... |
Are steam locomotives more powerful than diesel? | [
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"text": "Dieselisation took place largely because of the tremendous reduction in operating costs it allowed. Steam locomotives require large pools of labour to clean, load, maintain and run. They also require extensive service, coaling and watering facilities. This was their biggest ... | [
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"text": "As diesel locomotives advanced, the cost of manufacturing and operating them dropped, and they became cheaper to own and operate than steam locomotives. In North America, steam locomotives were custom-made for specific railway routes, so economies of scale were difficult to... |
When was special relativity developed? | [
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"text": "In physics, special relativity (SR, also known as the special theory of relativity or STR) is the generally accepted and experimentally well-confirmed physical theory regarding the relationship between space and time. In Albert Einstein's original pedagogical treatment, it is ... | [
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"text": "General relativity is a theory of gravitation developed by Einstein in the years 1907–1915. The development of general relativity began with the equivalence principle, under which the states of accelerated motion and being at rest in a gravitational field (for example, when s... |
Why do witches have pointed hats? | [
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"text": "A witch hat (), in popular culture, is the style of hat characterized by a conical crown and a wide brim (like akubras and gats).\nThe origins of the witch hat as displayed today is disputed. A common theory is that it is an exaggeration of the edgeless hats associated with... | [
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"text": "Perspicacia Tick is a \"\"Witch Finder\"\", a travelling witch with the responsibility of finding young girls who have the potential to be witches. She makes a living as a teacher, a role which has given her a habit of correcting spelling, grammar and punctuation. Since she ... |
Who was the last Han Dynasty Emperor? | [
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"text": "Emperor Xian, the last emperor of the Han dynasty, was a descendant of the first emperor Liu Bang. Lasting for over 400 years (the first to last for more than a century), the Han Dynasty is regarded as one of the golden ages of Chinese history. The Han Dynasty was interrupt... | [
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"text": "The later Zhou, the last dynasty of the Five Dynasties period was founded by Guo Wei, a Han Chinese, who served as the Assistant Military Commissioner at the court of the Later Han which was ruled by Shatuo Turks. He founded his dynasty by launching a military coup against the... |
When was the first web page released? | [
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"text": "The first web page may be lost, but Paul Jones of UNC-Chapel Hill in North Carolina announced in May 2013 that Berners-Lee gave him what he says is the oldest known web page during a 1991 visit to UNC. Jones stored it on a magneto-optical drive and on his NeXT computer. On 6 A... | [
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"text": "The structure and appearance of a web page is described by a combination of two standardized languages:\nHowever, most older web browsers either did not fully implement the specifications for these languages or were developed prior to the finalization of the specifications (... |
When did Iain M. Banks create The Culture? | [
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"text": "\"A Gift from the Culture\", published in 1987, is a short work of space opera, by the Scottish science fiction author Iain M. Banks. The story is an early venture into the \"complex and unusual and very distant\" setting of the Culture, which Banks would further develop th... | [
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"text": "Banks published work under two names. His parents had intended to name him \"Iain Menzies Banks\", but his father made a mistake when registering the birth and \"Iain Banks\" became the officially registered name. Despite this error, Banks used the middle name and submitted \"... |
How many people died during WW1? | [
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"text": "During the First World War, the Germans constructed an airport. The airport still exists and is now used for private purposes. Also remaining is the German Military cemetery, which is also partly situated in Menen. There are 47,864 soldiers buried there, who all died during W... | [
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"text": "During the war, Darwin was bombed 64 times over almost two years, with the first two raids alone on 19 February 1942 resulting in the deaths of an estimated 243 people. Other sources place the figure as much higher, even up to 1000, and a memorial plaque on the Darwin Espla... |
How old is the town of Wolfstein in Germany? | [
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"text": "Wolfstein was founded in 1275 on Habsburg King Rudolph I's orders, which called for a “fortified and free” town near his castle, “Woluisstein”, now known as the \"Alt-Wolfstein\" (“Old Wolfstein”) ruin. Rudolph forthwith granted the new town the same town rights and freedom... | [
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"text": "Spreading out from the old town (known as the \"Flecken\", meaning “market town”) in the hollow, the settled parts of town lay in the 19th century on the slopes between the Tauchental (dale) and Schlossgasse (or Obergasse – a lane), on the narrow strips of land either side o... |
What is within a nucleus of a cell? | [
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"text": "\"Marteilia\" has a very peculiar morphology. The outermost cell is the primary cell. Within the primary cell, there is a nucleus and between 3 and 16 secondary cells. Within a secondary cell, there is a nucleus and between 1 to 6 spores. Within each spore, there is a nucle... |
Who started human rights? | [
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"text": "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was implemented on 10 December 1948 by the United Nations. Therefore, we have officially witnessed 68 years of the United Nations approaching human rights issues on a global scale. The declaration was created after the end of ... | [
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"text": "In a December 2012 article, Dorra Megdiche Meziou took a cynical view of the Human Rights Day event. While acknowledging “the historic achievements of the incumbent President of the Republic, Moncef Marzouki, as a human rights activist,” noting that he had been on “the stee... |
When was the first Spanish Grand Prix? | [
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"text": "The first Spanish Grand Prix in 1913 was not actually run to the Grand Prix formula of the day, but to touring car rules, taking place on a 300-kilometre road circuit at Guadarrama, near Madrid, on the road to Valladolid.",
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"text": "After this first race, the track fell into financial difficulties, and the organisers had to look for another venue. In 1926, the Spanish Grand Prix moved to the 11-mile Circuito Lasarte on the northern coast near Bilbao, home of the main race in Spain during the 1920s—the Sa... |
Who is the Mayor of San Francisco? | [
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"text": "A special election was held for Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on June 5, 2018. The winner of the election will serve until 2020, filling the unexpired term of Ed Lee, who was elected in 2011 and 2015, and died in office on December 12, 2017. Upon Lee's death... | [
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"text": "The Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco is the head of the executive branch of the San Francisco city and county government. The officeholder has the duty to enforce city laws, and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the San Francisco Board of Super... |
When does Menopause start? | [
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"text": "Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time in most women's lives when menstrual periods stop permanently, and they are no longer able to bear children. Menopause typically occurs between 49 and 52 years of age. Medical professionals often define menopause as having ... | [
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"text": "The musical started previews in July 2017 and officially opened Off-Broadway in August 2017 at Westside Theatre.The New York Times's Anita Gates gave a review to the Broadway production as she writes, \"I wish I had Bobby Goldman’s faith that New York is filled with attract... |
When did Alfred die? | [
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"text": "Alfred died on 10 March 1948. The press at the time speculated that ‘his pet hate got him in the end’, linking Alfred's dislike of aeroplanes with the passage of one over the zoo shortly before his death. The actual cause of his demise was tuberculosis which he contracted ... | [
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"text": "Alfred Greene, born 1827 in Hawkins County, was a reconnaissance scout during the American Civil War and did not join either the Union Army or the Army of the Confederacy. He was killed in 1863 by a gang of three bushwackers when he secretly went home to visit his wife who ... |
What language do Chechens speak? | [
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"text": "Chechens in Jordan have good relations with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and are able to practice their own culture and language. Chechen language usage is strong among the Chechen community in Jordan. Chechens are bilingual in both Chechen and Arabic, but do not speak Ara... | [
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"text": "However, regarding this exodus, there is an alternative view. According to the Russian economists Boris Lvin and Andrei Iliaronov,\nThe Chechen authorities are regularly accused of crimes against the population, especially the Russian-speaking people. However, before the curre... |
When were the Gallic Wars? | [
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"text": "The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman vi... | [
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"text": "The Gallic sack led to a long-lasting and profound fear of the Gauls in Rome. In 350 and 349 BC, unspecified Gauls attacked Latium. They were probably marauding raids. On the second occasion, Marcus Valerius Corvus was said to have fought a duel with a Gallic champion. Polyb... |
When did Michelangelo create the David? | [
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"text": "David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. \"David\" is a marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.",
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"text": "David (inspired by Michelangelo) is a sculpture by Turkish conceptual artist Serkan Özkaya. It is a reproduction of Michelangelo's \"David\" made of gold-painted foam, twice the size of the original, and based on a computer model by Stanford University professor Marc Levoy.... |
When was the Nazi party founded? | [
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"text": "Shortly after the First World War, Graf became a member of the German Workers' Party (DAP). Later, the DAP was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP; Nazi Party) and taken over by Adolf Hitler. Founded in 1920, the \"Sturmabteilung\" (SA) was the first ... | [
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"text": "The American Nazi Party (ANP) is a far-right American political party founded by George Lincoln Rockwell with its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Rockwell founded the organization as the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists (WUFENS), but renamed it the Amer... |
Are wolves good pets? | [
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"text": "Some wildlife centers housing captive wolves prohibit handlers from entering wolf enclosures if they happen to have a cold or other vulnerability which the wolves can detect. Captive wolves are generally shy and avoid eye contact with humans other than their owner, as well ... | [
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"text": "Wild wolves are sometimes kept as exotic pets, and in some rarer occasions, as working animals. Although closely related to domesticated dogs, wolves do not show the same tractability as dogs in living alongside humans, and generally, much more work is required in order to ... |
When did Justin Morgan first appear as a character on Home and Away? | [
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"text": "Justin Morgan is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera \"Home and Away\", played by James Stewart. The actor was contacted by his agent and the head of drama at Seven Network about the role. After hearing their pitch, Stewart auditioned and won the... | [
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"text": "Ruth \"Roo\" Stewart (also Morgan) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera \"Home and Away\", played by Justine Clarke from 1988 to 1989. The character made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 20 January 1988. Clarke quit the role in 1... |
How many people live in china? | [
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"text": "According to the 2006 census, 82.96 million disabled people live in China, an estimated 6.34% of the overall population. This statistic had a 1.44% increase from the year 1987. Men outnumber women in China’s 1.35 billion population making it no surprise that more than half ... | [
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"text": "As a result of the lack of formal registration and structure, it is difficult to ascertain with some degree of certainty, the number of Bahá'ís in China. The number of active followers of Bahá'u'lláh's Teachings in China has spread beyond the scope of knowledge of the exis... |
When was the Prohibition Era in the US? | [
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"text": "Research shows that prohibition reduced overall alcohol consumption by half during the 1920s, and consumption remained below pre-Prohibition levels until the 1940s, suggesting that Prohibition did socialize a significant proportion of the population in temperate habits, at ... | [
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"text": "However, some scholars have attributed the crime during the Prohibition era to increased urbanization, rather than to the criminalization of alcohol use. In some cities, such as New York City, crime rates decreased during the Prohibition era. Crime rates overall declined f... |
When did the Taff Vale Junction Railway get made? | [
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"text": "In time the Canal became overwhelmed by the volume of traffic, and encouraged by the successful opening of railways with more advanced technology than the horse tramways of previous years, the Taff Vale Railway was promoted. It was authorised by Parliament in 1836 and it op... | [
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"text": "The Barry Railway went on to promote a direct Cardiff, Penarth and Barry Junction Railway, which would run direct and also have a roundabout line following the coast. The Taff Vale opposed this and promoted its own alternative lines. Parliament decided on a compromise, in wh... |
Who invented air conditioning? | [
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"text": "Air conditioning is the cooling and de-humidification of indoor air for thermal comfort. Using a system of coils as a solution to cool and remove moisture from muggy air in a printing plant that was wrinkling magazine pages, Willis Carrier invented and manufactured the wor... | [
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"text": "The 2nd-century Chinese mechanical engineer and inventor Ding Huan of the Han Dynasty invented a rotary fan for air conditioning, with seven wheels in diameter and manually powered by prisoners of the time. In 747, Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712–762) of the Tang Dynasty (618–907) ... |
What is the largest asteroid? | [
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"text": "Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt.\nIt is sometimes assumed that Ceres has been \"re\"classified as a dwarf planet, and that it is therefore no longer considered an asteroid. For example, a news update at Space.com spoke of \"Pallas, the largest asteroid, and... | [
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"text": "Eunomia (minor planet designation 15 Eunomia) is a very large asteroid in the inner asteroid belt. It is the largest of the stony (S-type) asteroids, and somewhere between the 8th- and 12th-largest main-belt asteroid overall (uncertainty in diameters causes uncertainty in its... |
When did the American Renaissance happen? | [
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"text": "Many argue that the ideas characterizing the Renaissance had their origin in late 13th-century Florence, in particular with the writings of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) and Petrarch (1304–1374), as well as the paintings of Giotto di Bondone (1267–1337). Some writers date the R... | [
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"text": "\"American Renaissance\" has held conferences since 1994. Anti-racist activists were sometimes successful in persuading private hotels to cancel their reservations with \"American Renaissance\". In 2011, the publication planned to hold a three-day conference at a Sheraton Ai... |
What does GDP stand for? | [
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"text": "Most economists assess progress in people's welfare by comparing the gross domestic product over time—that is, by adding up the annual dollar value of all goods and services produced within a country over successive years. However, GDP was not intended to be used for such pur... | [
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"text": "GDP does not account for the distribution of income among the residents of a country, because GDP is merely an aggregate measure. An economy may be highly developed or growing rapidly, but also contain a wide gap between the rich and the poor in a society. These inequalities ... |
What is the most abundant fish species in the Indian ocean? | [
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"text": "The abundant sea harvest of the Indian Ocean around the Atolls of the Maldives and, Lakshadweep in India yields many pelagic fishes, like skipjack, yellowfin tuna, little tunny (known locally as laṭṭi) and frigate mackerel. All these fishes have been traditionally processed... | [
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"text": "Fish are abundant in most bodies of water. They can be found in nearly all aquatic environments, from high mountain streams (e.g., char and gudgeon) to the abyssal and even hadal depths of the deepest oceans (e.g., gulpers and anglerfish), although no species has yet been do... |
What ethnicity are Chechens? | [
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"text": "Two ethnic groups that were specifically targeted for persecution by Stalin's Soviet Union were the Chechens and the Ingush. Unlike the other nationalities that could be suspected of connection to foreign states which shared their ethnic background, the Chechens and the In... | [
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"text": "The Chechen-Slav ethnic clashes took place from 1958 to 1965 in North Caucasus (part of the Soviet Union at the time), upon ethnic tensions between Slavic settlers and local Chechens and Ingushs. The violence began in 1958, upon a conflict between a Russian sailor and an In... |
What's the minimum age for driving? | [
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"text": "A minimum driving age often exists regardless of possession of a foreign license; an American cannot drive below the local minimum age in Europe, nor can a 17-year-old Briton drive in mainland Europe where the minimum age is 18.",
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When was the Argentine Basketball Federation formed? | [
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"text": "In 1921 the \"Argentine Basketball Federation\" (original name: \"Federación Argentina de Basket-Ball\" – FABB) was established to organise competitions not only in Buenos Aires but in several cities around Argentina, such as Bahía Blanca and Córdoba where basketball would ... |
How long is a general apprenticeship in terms of years? | [
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"text": "In the mid 1950s the Pye factory in Haig Road (now Elizabeth Way), Cambridge employed around 100 young men participating in electrical or mechanical five-year apprenticeships. The apprentices generally started at age 16 with some passes at “O” level General Certificate of E... |
When was Sony Pictures Television established? | [
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Who wrote Frankenstein? | [
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Who led the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? | [
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When did Andy Richter leave Late Night with Conan O'Brien? | [
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Can you over-water a cactus? | [
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How far is Milton Keynes from London? | [
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Does Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War have a second game? | [
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"text": "Some notable original mods and campaigns have been created, such as \"Wings of Dawn\" which takes place in an anime-style world, and \"Blue Planet\" which offers a continuation of \"Freespace 2\", telling of a civil war between Earth and the GTVA. \"The FreeSpace Port\", so... | [
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"text": "Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War, also known as Conflict: FreeSpace – The Great War in Europe, or simply just FreeSpace; is a 1998 space combat simulation IBM PC compatible computer game developed by Volition, when it was split off from Parallax Software, and published by I... |
What is the newest member country to join NATO? | [
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"text": "The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in respon... |
When did Mount Victoria become a railway station? | [
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"text": "The Mount Victoria Railway Station is associated with John Whitton, Engineer-in-Chief of the NSW Railways, as the original station building was built to a design from his time, and with George Cowdery, Engineer-in-Chief for Existing Lines, as the two-level stone addition co... |
Who was King Zhaoxiang of Qin's mother? | [
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"text": "In 306 BC, the young King Zhaoxiang ascended to the throne, with his mother Queen Dowager Xuan serving as regent. Knowing Qin could not focus on eradicating Yiqu when it had the hostile eastern states to deal with, and her son's rule was still shaky due to numerous rival pr... | [
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"text": "In 305 BC, two of King Zhaoxiang's older half-brothers, Prince Zhuang (公子壯) and Prince Yong (公子雍), who a year ago were both rival contenders for the throne, conspired to carry out a coup with Queen Huiwen (惠文后, the mother of the late King Wu) and Queen Wu (悼武王后, King Wu's ch... |
What's the biggest wasp? | [
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"text": "The largest social wasp is the Asian giant hornet, at up to in length. The various tarantula hawk wasps are of a similar size and can overpower a spider many times its own weight, and move it to its burrow, with a sting that is excruciatingly painful to humans. The solitar... | [
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"text": "The most commonly known wasps, such as yellowjackets and hornets, are in the family Vespidae and are eusocial, living together in a nest with an egg-laying queen and non-reproducing workers. Eusociality is favoured by the unusual haplodiploid system of sex determination in ... |
When was the University of Maryland football team established? | [
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"text": "The 1902 Maryland Aggies football team represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) in the 1902 college football season. In their first season under head coach D. John Markey, the Aggies compiled a 3–5–2 record and were outscored by t... |
Who wrote the Federalist papers? | [
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"text": "The identity of the author of Federalist paper No. 64 was long disputed. An exact reason as to why the authorship was lost is not known; however, different theories emerged as to why the authorship was not evident. The first and most likely of the theories is that John Jay b... |
Where is the Sanjay Gandhi National Park? | [
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"text": "Sanjay Gandhi National Park is an protected area near Mumbai in Maharashtra State in India. It was formerly known as Borivali National Park.\nIt is notable as one of the major national parks existing within a metropolis limit and is one of the most visited parks in the world.... | [
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"text": "The park was further expanded to a total area of 82.25 square km in 1981. The park was renamed Sanjay Gandhi National Park in 1996, after Sanjay Gandhi, the son of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The same year, some forests from the Thane division were merged into the pa... |
Who has to initiate a plea bargain? | [
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"text": "However, in 1975 the Attorney-General of Alaska, Avrum Gross, ordered an end to all plea-bargaining; subsequent attorneys-general continued the practice. Similar consequences were observed in New Orleans, Ventura County, California, and in Oakland County, Michigan, where p... |
When was Texas Instruments founded? | [
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"text": "In 1951, McDermott, along with Cecil Howard Green, Patrick E. Haggerty, and J. Erik Jonsson co-founded Texas Instruments. This was done when the company changed its name to Texas Instruments; GSI becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the new company. This acknowledged that t... | [
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"text": "Texas Instruments invented the hand-held calculator (a prototype called \"Cal Tech\") in 1967 and the single-chip microcomputer in 1971, was assigned the first patent on a single-chip microprocessor (invented by Gary Boone) on September 4, 1973. This was disputed by Gilbert H... |
Where was Louise-Marie-Madeleine Guillaume de Fontaine born? | [
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"text": "Louise-Marie-Madeleine Guillaume de Fontaine (after marriage known as Madame Dupin; 28 October 1706 – 20 November 1799) was a French \"saloniste\".",
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At what age did William Morris "Bill" Lawry start playing cricket? | [
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"text": "Lawry was born in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury. He was given the names William Morris after the early Prime Minister of Australia, William Morris Hughes. His father Alfred played amateur cricket until the age of 51. Bill never saw his father play, who was aged 47 when Bi... | [
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"text": "William Morris \"Bill\" Lawry, AM (born 11 February 1937) is a former cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. He captained Australia in 25 Tests, winning nine, losing eight and drawing eight, and led Australia in the inaugural One Day International match, played in 1... |
What is the biggest cricket competition? | [
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"text": "The 2018–19 Regional Four Day Competition is the 53rd edition of the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the Cricket West Indies (CWI). The competition started on 6 December 2018 and is scheduled to conclude on 10... |
When did construction on I-69 begin? | [
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"text": "The original plan (in a DEIS prepared by INDOT in 2004, but later dropped) was for I-69 to leave the now-former I-164 alignment somewhere just east of Green River Road (exit 3) and head south (instead of turning west with I-164) for approximately before crossing the Ohio a... | [
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"text": "Environmentalists claimed the construction of I-69 would lead to the destruction of of forest and more than of wetlands. The route selected passes through the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge but on a corridor that the federal government purposely did not acquire for ... |
In what city did Abel Posse grow up? | [
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"text": "Abel Parentini Posse was born on 7 January 1934, in the Argentine city of Córdoba where he only lived the first two years of his life. Two years after birth the family moved to the capital city of Buenos Aires due to his father's work commitments. His mother, Elba Alicia Po... | [
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"text": "After graduating, Posse decided to travel to Europe. Thanks to a university scholarship, he undertook doctoral studies in Political Sciences at La Sorbonne in Paris. A few months prior to his travels, he published his first poem, “Invocación al fantasma de mi infancia muer... |
When was Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai get released? | [
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"text": "The first \"Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai\" manga series, written and illustrated by Itachi, has been published in Media Factory's \"Monthly Comic Alive\" magazine since its May 2010 issue, released on March 27, 2010. Additionally, the series has been collected in 14 \"tankō... | [
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"text": "A visual novel, \"Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Portable\", was developed by Namco Bandai Games for the PlayStation Portable and released on February 23, 2012.",
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How often do solar flares occur? | [
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"text": "Since superflares can occur on stars apparently equivalent in every way to the Sun, it is natural to ask if they can occur on the Sun itself. An estimate based on the original Kepler photometric studies suggested a frequency on solar-type stars (early G-type and rotation p... | [
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"text": "Coronal mass ejections are often associated with other forms of solar activity, most notably:\nThe association of a CME with some of those phenomena is common but not fully understood. For example, CMEs and flares are normally closely related, but there was confusion about t... |
Who is Pike's Peak named for? | [
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"text": "\"Tava\" or \"sun\", is the Ute word that was given by these first people to the mountain that we now call Pikes Peak. The band of Ute people who called the Pikes Peak region their home were the \"Tabeguache\", meaning the \"People of Sun Mountain\". The Ute people first ar... | [
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Does the Audi S4 come with manual transmission option? | [
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"text": "Acceleration from a standstill to takes 5.1 seconds for the saloon with manual gearbox, the Avant one tenth of a second slower at 5.2 seconds. The same dash to 100 km/h in the saloon with S tronic takes 5.3 seconds, and the Avant at 5.4 seconds. The top speed is electronica... | [
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"text": "This engine is mated to either a six-speed manual transmission (identification code: KMR) or a seven-speed 'S tronic' DL501 dual clutch transmission (identification code: LHK), the latter with steering wheel mounted paddle-shifters for tiptronic gear selection, which replac... |
Who are the main villains of Metroid? | [
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"text": "Throughout the history of the \"Metroid\" series, Ridley has received positive reception as the series antagonist. He is widely considered one of the most renowned and best Nintendo villains of all time and is regarded as a favorite amongst both the \"Metroid\" fandom and th... | [
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"text": "is the archenemy of Samus Aran, an intelligent and sadistic dragon-like extraterrestrial that despite being killed multiple times by her, is always revived by the Space Pirates (or accidentally by the Galactic Federation in \"\") using cloning or robotics. Other than Samus... |
Is there a language other than Spanish spoken in Spain? | [
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"text": "In Spain and in some other parts of the Spanish-speaking world, Spanish is called not only (Spanish) but also (Castilian), the language from the kingdom of Castile, contrasting it with other languages spoken in Spain such as Galician, Basque, Asturian, Catalan, Aragonese and O... | [
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"text": "The languages of Spain (), or Spanish languages (), are the languages spoken or once spoken in Spain. Romance languages are the most widely spoken in Spain; of which Spanish, or Castilian, is the only language which has official status for the whole country. Various other la... |
When was the Annapolis Naval Academy founded? | [
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"text": "The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy adjacent to Annapolis, Maryland. Established on 10 October 1845, under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, it is the second oldest of the Uni... | [
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"text": "The United States Naval Academy (USNA) is an undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The Academy was founded in 1845 and graduated its first class in 1846. The Academy ... |
What is an organophosphate? | [
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"text": "Under a 1988 amendment to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates organophosphate pesticides Its focus was initially on registering pesticides for use on food crops. No pesticide can be sold i... |
What are the stages of grief? | [
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"text": "Joanne Jozefowski in 1999 through \"The Phoenix Phenomenon: Rising from the Ashes of Grief\" summarizes five stages to rebuild a shattered life.There is a distinction between grief counseling and grief therapy. Counseling involves helping people move through uncomplicated, ... |
When was the Mansfield Town Football Club first founded? | [
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"text": "Mansfield Town Football Club is an English association football club based in the Nottinghamshire town of Mansfield. Founded in 1897 as Mansfield Wesleyans, the team first entered the Mansfield & District Amateur League in 1902. Four years later, the club turned professiona... | [
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"text": "The club began its existence playing in the Mansfield and District Amateur League. In 1911, Mansfield became a founding member of a new league, the Central Alliance. In 1919, the club moved to Field Mill, which remains their ground to this date, and in 1921, the club joined... |
Who is the current political leader of Indonesia? | [
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"text": "Since 1999, Indonesia has had a multi-party system. In all legislative elections since the fall of New Order, no political party has managed to win an overall majority of seats. The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which secured the most votes in the 2014 elec... | [
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"text": "The New Indonesia Party of Struggle () is a political party in Indonesia. It was established as the New Indonesia Alliance Party (\"Partai Perhimpunan Indonesia Baru\") by the economist Dr. Sjahrir and was initially made up of university students, middle-class people and th... |
What country has the most tornados? | [
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"text": "More tornadoes occur in Texas than in any other US state. The state which has the highest number of tornadoes per unit area is Florida, although most of the tornadoes in Florida are weak tornadoes of EF0 or EF1 intensity. A number of Florida's tornadoes occur along the edge... |
When did the TV show ER first air? | [
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"text": "In its first year, \"ER\" attracted an average of 19 million viewers per episode, becoming the years second most watched television show, just behind \"Seinfeld\". In the following two seasons (1995-1997), \"ER\" was the most watched show in North America. For almost five ye... |
When did Machen publish The Great God Pan? | [
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"text": "The Great God Pan is a horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write \"The Great God Pan\" by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the magazine \"... | [
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How long did American troops stay in Germany after WWII? | [
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"text": "An American ex-serviceman leaves Allied-occupied Germany after WWII and is persuaded by his English wife to settle in Liverpool' Looking for work, he becomes a lorry driver. He comes into contact with criminals involved in theft from commercial vehicles and draws close to t... |
What year was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights published? | [
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"text": "The Declaration of Human Rights Day is commemorated every year on December 10, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration, and is known as Human Rights Day or International Human Rights Day. The commemoration is observed by individuals, community and religio... |
When did the cartoon DuckTales first air? | [
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"text": "The cartoon premiered worldwide between 18–20 September 1987 (the time and date varying between markets), with a television movie special entitled \"\"The Treasure of the Golden Suns\"\", which was later split up into a five-part serial in future reruns. The first season, air... | [
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"text": "\"DuckTales\" has received a franchise of merchandise, including video games and comic books, along with an animated theatrical spin-off film entitled \"\", which was released to theaters across the United States on August 3, 1990. The series is notable for being the first Di... |
When was the World Wide Web invented? | [
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"text": "Two decades after Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, he outlined the design issues of what later became the Solid project in drafts he wrote for the World Wide Web Consortium. Berners-Lee became increasingly dismayed at seeing his invention being abused, such ... |
Do jelly fish have nervous systems? | [
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"text": "Like cnidarians (jellyfish, etc.) and ctenophores (comb jellies), and unlike all other known metazoans, sponges' bodies consist of a non-living jelly-like mass (mesoglea) sandwiched between two main layers of cells. Cnidarians and ctenophores have simple nervous systems, and ... | [
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"text": "Hair cells in fish are used to detect water movements around their bodies. These hair cells are embedded in a jelly-like protrusion called cupula. The hair cells therefore can not be seen and do not appear on the surface of skin.",
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Who were Petar II Petrović-Njegoš parents? | [
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"text": "Petar II Petrović-Njegoš was born Radivoje \"Rade\" Petrović on in the mountain village of Njeguši, near Cetinje. His father, Tomislav \"Tomo\" Petrović (b. 1762–63), was a member of the Petrović clan of the Njeguši tribe of Katuni \"nahiya\". Njegoš's mother, Ivana Prorokovi... | [
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"text": "The day after Petar's death, all of Montenegro's chieftains met in Cetinje to confirm the new \"vladika\". According to one account, there were several chieftains who did not wish to see Njegoš bestowed the title. They considered him too young and inexperienced, and disliked... |
When was Siri introduced by Apple? | [
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"text": "Siri was originally released as a stand-alone application for the iOS operating system in February 2010, and at the time, the developers were also intending to release Siri for Android and BlackBerry devices. Two months later, Apple acquired Siri. On October 4, 2011, Apple... | [
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"text": "The Siri intelligent personal voice assistant that Forstall introduced in September 2011 has received a mixed reception with some observers regarding it as a \"flop\". Forstall was vigorously criticized after the new Maps app, introduced in iOS 6, received criticism for ina... |
Who launched the first satellite? | [
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"text": "ISRO built India's first satellite, Aryabhata, which was launched by the Soviet Union on 19April 1975. It was named after the mathematician Aryabhata. In 1980, Rohini became the first satellite to be placed in orbit by an Indian-made launch vehicle, SLV-3. ISRO subsequently ... | [
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"text": "While Canada was the third country to build a satellite which was launched into space, it was launched aboard an American rocket from an American spaceport. The same goes for Australia, who launched first satellite involved a donated U.S. Redstone rocket and American support ... |
How many members does the National Labor Relations Board have? | [
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"text": "The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has five Members, each of whom serves for a five-year term. Terms are staggered so that one Member's term expires each year (although delays in nominations and confirmation, as well as the use of recess appointments, can upset this ... | [
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"text": "The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency of the Federal government of the United States with responsibilities for enforcing U.S. labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices. Under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935... |
When was the Institutional Revolutionary Party established in Mexico? | [
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"text": "Cárdenas's successor Manuel Ávila Camacho gave the party its present name in 1946. The party, under its three different names, held every political position until 1946 when the PAN started winning posts for municipal president and federal deputies and senators, starting in 19... | [
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"text": "In late 1969 a close associate of Torrijos announced the formation of the New Panama Movement. This movement was originally intended to organize peasants, workers, and other social groups and was patterned after that of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party. No organi... |
When was the Royal Observer Corps established? | [
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"text": "The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation operating in the United Kingdom between October 1925 and 31 December 1995, when the Corps' civilian volunteers were stood down. (ROC headquarters staff at RAF Bentley Priory stood down on 31 March 1996). Compos... | [
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"text": "The Royal Observer Corps Medal is a long service medal awarded in the United Kingdom to members of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) relating to service between 1941 and December 1995, when the ROC was stood down. The medal was initiated in 1950 by HM King George Vl.",
"ti... |
Where is the Caraga Administrative Region located? | [
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"text": "Caraga, officially known as the Caraga Administrative Region or simply Caraga Region and designated as Region XIII, is an administrative region in the Philippines occupying the northeastern section of the island of Mindanao. The Caraga Region was created through \"Republic Ac... | [
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"text": "Caraga Regional Hospital is located in Surigao City, on the northeastern tip of the Philippine island of Mindanao. The hospital is one of at least three hospitals serving the area. The three (Caraga, Miranda Hospital and Surigao Medical Center) all are located within of eac... |
What is the biggest diamond? | [
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"text": "The Cullinan mine continues to produce large stones. The Cullinan Heritage, a white diamond, was discovered in September 2009. This stone was the 19th biggest uncut diamond ever found and was sold in February 2010 to Chow Tai Fook Jewellery for $35.5m, the highest price eve... | [
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"text": "The theme of the museum is the alluvial diamant diggings of this region 1925–1935, then the richest public diggings in the world. The biggest pure red diamond (flawless) (\"pigeon blood red\") in the world was found here in 1927. The stone was of . It was sold for 66 pounds... |
Who is the WWE Champion? | [
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"text": "At the top of WWE's championship hierarchy are the WWE Universal Championship on Raw and the WWE Championship on SmackDown. The Universal Championship is held by record two-time champion Brock Lesnar, who won the vacant title by defeating Braun Strowman at Crown Jewel on No... | [
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"text": "The WWE European Championship is a former professional wrestling title competed for in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The title was created on February 26, 1997. The first champion was The British Bulldog who defeated Owen Hart in a tournament final. The title was retir... |
What is the difference between speed and velocity? | [
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"text": "Relativistic speed refers to speed at which relativistic effects become significant to the desired accuracy of measurement of the phenomenon being observed. Relativistic effects are those discrepancies between values calculated by models considering and not considering rela... | [
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"text": "Associated with propagation of a disturbance are several different velocities. For definiteness, consider an amplitude modulated electromagnetic carrier wave. The phase velocity is the speed of the underlying carrier wave. The group velocity is the speed of the modulation or... |
Where was Christian von Ehrenfels born? | [
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"text": "Christian von Ehrenfels was born on 20 June 1859 in Rodaun near Vienna and grew up at his father's castle Brunn am Walde in Lower Austria. He joined secondary school in Krems and first studied at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna and then changed to the Universität Wie... | [
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"text": "Omar, or as he later chose, Umar Rolf Ehrenfels was born 28 April 1901 in Prague, Austria. He was baptised Rolf Werner Leopold von Ehrenfels. His father was Roman Catholic Baron Christian von Ehrenfels (1859–1932) professor of philosophy at the German part of Prague Universi... |
When did New France end? | [
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"text": "New France () was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris (1763... | [] |
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