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question: Who did Philip's troops quickly route? answer: Officials paragraph: As Philip marched south, his opponents blocked him near Chaeronea, Boeotia. During the ensuing Battle of Chaeronea, Philip commanded the right wing and Alexander the left, accompanied by a group of Philip's trusted generals. According to the ...
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25-292-1578
question: What is Charlie's role at the audition where he meets Julie Gillis? answer: Agent paragraph: Charlie Y. Reader is a 35-year-old theatrical agent in New York , living a seemingly idyllic life as a bachelor . Numerous women ( among them Poppy , Helen , and Jessica come and go , cleaning and cooking for him . Ch...
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56-670-3537
question: What do we know about wavelength from the paragraph? answer: It is the distance between two crests, and is a factor in wave size paragraph: The highest point of a wave is the crest. The lowest point is the trough. The vertical distance between a crest and a trough is the height of the wave. Wave height is als...
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398-4547-24020
question: Where was Kongfuzi born? answer: Shandong Province paragraph: In the rest of the world, China's supreme sage, Kongfuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu), is better known by the romanized name "Confucius." He was born in 551 b.c. in what is now Shandong Province in eastern China. So profound was his influence that eleven Chinese...
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341-3933-20880
question: Who approved of plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan? answer: Berger and Clarke paragraph: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans. He worried also lest Pakistani a...
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8-94-558
question: Who then shoots a stream of balls answer: Tom tries to shoot Jerry paragraph: { { Plot } } Tom plays pool in a deserted pool hall , pocketing two balls by lowdown means and then wakes Jerry up by shooting the 10-ball into the pocket where he is sleeping . Jerry awakes just in time to avoid the 10-ball and is...
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449-5052-26828
question: What were the occupations of Joan Fontaine's mother and father? answer: Actress paragraph: Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine died Sunday, her longtime friend Noel Beutel said Monday. She was 96. Fontaine died "very peacefully" in her sleep of natural causes, Beutel said. She was in her Carmel, California, h...
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67-792-4163
question: What they find when they cleaned Joe's house? answer: Gold paragraph: After his cousin Joe dies , Layne Vassimer and his girlfriend Macy , along with their friends Stephen , Maurice , Iris and Katrina , decide to clean up Joe's house with the intention of selling it . When they see it for the first time , th...
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339-3902-20715
question: What is the economic demographic of MALS' clients? answer: Wealthy paragraph: MALS was formed here more than 30 years ago. Today, 14 staff attorneys, 26 office workers and 21 University of Memphis third- year law students work out of rented offices in the old Claridge Hotel building at 109 N. Main. Offices ar...
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71-827-4333
question: Which other games aren't as fun as tag? answer: Jump rope paragraph: Tommy and Suzy (brother and sister) went to the playground one afternoon with their mom and dad, Jan and Dean. They were playing a game of tag and having the best time ever running after each other and laughing. They liked to play tag instea...
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question: What caused the emperor to emerge shaken but uninjured? answer: His position paragraph: The explosion, while killing one of the Cossacks and seriously wounding the driver and people on the sidewalk, had only damaged the bulletproof carriage, a gift from Napoleon III of France. The emperor emerged shaken but u...
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419-4740-25213
question: What did Gov. George Pataki say that it was time to do due to the public dismay from the disappointing work on rebuilding Lower Manhattan? answer: Retire paragraph: Responding to a wave of public dismay over the first designs for rebuilding Lower Manhattan, Gov. George Pataki has sent word that it's time to g...
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259-2893-15357
question: What rules exist throughout the country because of a California ban? answer: Legalization of Marijuana paragraph: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind. The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread...
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437-4931-26272
question: How long was Mahender engaged to his wife? answer: 5 years paragraph: The movie is a powerful story that deals with feminism and patriarchy in the middle class of India . It is shot in the present and past tense showing lives of the characters Mahender and Sudha as they lived together as well as separately . ...
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question: Leaving your footprint in mud, is similar to what process that creates fossils? answer: Casting paragraph: Fossils may form in other ways. Fossils can be preserved almost completely. In this process, the organism doesnt change much. As seen below, tree sap may cover an organism. With time, the sap hardens. It...
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question: The framework to improve transportation spending congress is being asked for would cost how much? answer: $50 Million paragraph: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a $50 billion plan to renew the country...
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question: What requirements was Al Qaeda able to meet by spring and summer of 2000? answer: "What they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm." paragraph: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between $400,000 and $50...
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question: Who demonstrated that sound could not travel through empty space, but only matter? answer: Robert Boyle paragraph: Sound waves are mechanical waves. They can travel only through matter. They cannot travel through empty space. This was demonstrated in the 1600s by a scientist named Robert Boyle. Boyle placed a...
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question: How many books were produced by Durer in total? answer: 3 paragraph: As for engravings, Durer's work was restricted to portraits and illustrations for his treatise. The portraits include Cardinal-Elector Albert of Mainz; Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony; the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer; Philip...
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question: What did the stock price close at yesterday and what was the earnings per share last year Q3? answer: $0.25 a share, $4.51 a share paragraph: William C. Walbrecher Jr., an executive at San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Bank, was named president and chief executive officer of Citadel Holding Corp. and its pri...
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question: What is the process called when water is no longer able to move? answer: disposition paragraph: Flowing water causes sediment to move. Flowing water can erode both rocks and soil. You have already learned that materials can dissolve in water. With enough time, even rocks can be dissolved by water. This proces...
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question: What committee of the NYMS was Hamilton apart of? answer: : Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade paragraph: Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would ar...
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question: When Genrikh Kolontyrskiy, Moysey Kucher and Dora Kucher submitted applications fraudulently, what two organizations did their money come from? answer: The Hardship fund paragraph: New York (CNN) -- Three defendants pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to conspiring to defraud a Holocaust reparations org...
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336-3860-20468
question: When was the cuneiform script, the world's oldest form of writing on record developed? answer: Sumeria paragraph: The modern Republic of Turkey dates only from 1923, but the history of the land within its borders stretches back to the dawn of humanity. Widespread finds of Stone Age implements in cave excavati...
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question: Pattern of Earth Process is? answer: The same paragraph: Earth processes have not changed over time. The way things happen now is the same way things happened in the past. Mountains grow and mountains slowly wear away. The same process is at work the same as it was billions of years ago. As the environment ch...
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question: What did the critics like? answer: Emil Malaquez paragraph: The next evening, she arrived with a stack of glistening stopboxes containing sushi, sashimi, oysters in their shells, and Terran vegetables fresh plucked from their hydroponic beds. Wondering about the reason for her extravagance, I asked how work h...
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question: Why are the women worried? answer: They were afraid for there lives paragraph: A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue , where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall , a citizen who got shot . Jason object...
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49-586-3077
question: What is the number of the urn first given to the relatives of Pilar Gonzalez Ferreira? answer: 134 paragraph: Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- Relatives of a woman killed in a Spanish airline crash were erroneously given the remains of another victim, and then were asked by authorities to return them, CNN partner netwo...
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question: How long was Alexander and his troops in Persepolis? answer: Five months paragraph: From Babylon, Alexander went to Susa, one of the Achaemenid capitals, and captured its legendary treasury. He sent the bulk of his army to the Persian ceremonial capital of Persepolis via the Royal Road. Alexander himself took...
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109-1299-6655
question: What is the difference between magnetic force and the force a human uses to move things? answer: Magnets touch something paragraph: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials. This force is called a magnetic force. The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally th...
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65-760-3966
question: Does a teeter-totter move if it is balanced? answer: No it does not paragraph: Static electricity is like a teeter-totter. What happens if a teeter-totter is balanced? Correct! It does not move. What about when its not balanced? Yes, it will now begin to move. Charges move when they are not balanced. Charges ...
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question: In what ways was the coming of the Europeans to Jamaica bad for the Arawak people? answer: Oppression paragraph: The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America. Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean island...
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385-4406-23310
question: What is one thing non-living matter used for? answer: Carry out life process paragraph: Living things need non-living matter as well as energy. What do you think matter is used for? One thing is to build bodies. They also need it to carry out the processes of life. Any non-living matter that living things nee...
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question: What was a difference between the hunting and gathering practices of the Archaics and the Anasazi? answer: The Archaics chased prey as far away as Washington State paragraph: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c. , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake. Durin...
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191-2125-11098
question: How did Patricia Philips' work and interest make an impact on the provision of legal services in the state of California? answer: We don't learn anything about Patricia Philip's work in this passage paragraph: "The impact of her interest and work on the provision of legal services in the state of California i...
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410-4644-24544
question: What happened under the rule of Emporer Chu Ti in 1409? answer: Declared war paragraph: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live. The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish. But it had a sheltered harb...
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10-121-688
question: Who moved to Germany first: Abdelghani Mzoudi or Zakariya Essabar? answer: Mzoudi paragraph: Zakariya Essabar, a Moroccan citizen, moved to Germany in February 1997 and to Hamburg in 1998, where he studied medical technology. Soon after moving to Hamburg, Essabar met Binalshibh and the others through a Turkis...
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question: What is the accepted aim of the educational profession versus what we too often act as if we care for? answer: The aim is to discover a new and complex world of people and things paragraph: In actual practice, however, we act too often as if we only cared for economic values. If we are to live up to our educ...
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question: To get a sense of how fast plates move, what can you look at on your body? answer: Fingernails paragraph: Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earth's crust. Earthquakes let scientists know where the crust was moving. This led to the discovery that the Earths crust was broken up into regions, or...
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96-1144-5805
question: Who is the 19 year old and playing for Spain at the World Under-20 championship in Colombia? answer: Oriol Romeu paragraph: (CNN) -- English club Chelsea have completed the signing of Oriol Romeu from Spanish and European champions Barcelona. The 19-year-old is currently playing for Spain at the World Under-2...
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255-2843-15049
question: What did the President do immediately after Andrew Card told him "America is under attack."? answer: Stayed calm paragraph: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft. The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and...
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question: What was the worst oil spill in U.S. history? answer: The April 20, 2010 spill paragraph: (CNN) -- Declaring 2010 "The best year in safety performance in our company's history," Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses...
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224-2510-13273
question: Which settlement was first, Marseilles, or Nice? answer: Nice paragraph: The French have always wanted to know what it means to be a French­man. Their history has been a constant quest for national identity: a conflict between strong regional loyalties and central authority. In about 2000 b.c. Celtic tribes —...
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question: Why did Pushkin move to the Caucasus and Crimea? answer: Because he had created controversy with his poems and became a spokesman for literary radicals which angered the government paragraph: Born in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen. By the time he finished school as part of the ...
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335-3848-20409
question: Why does Nardo struggle to remember these events? answer: He has bad memory paragraph: I had drunk too much, I confess, though we all had. Somehow, Tasha and I began to argue the worth of Solevgrad jazz, as inconsequential a topic as I can imagine. She had studied it in school, so she thought herself as an ex...
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question: Did the contract promote a demeaning type of relationship for Mrs. Herbert answer: No it did not paragraph: Mr. Neville ( ( ( Anthony Higgins , a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero , is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert for her...
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question: How long have people been finding fossils and what did they inspire? answer: Millions of years, inspired them with myths paragraph: For thousands of years, people have found fossils. The fossils caused curiosity about Earths past. How did these organisms live? What type of world did they live in? Fossils can ...
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111-1313-6768
question: What tools would you use to measure the amount of rain and wind speed? answer: Hygrometer paragraph: You might want to know how cold it is. You may need to know how fast the wind is blowing. Maybe it rained last night? Do you know how much? Does it feel humid to you? You have heard all these questions before....
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question: Can lawyers help grandparents with guardianship issues? answer: Yes Lawyers can Transfer Guardianship orders and monitor it's use paragraph: It's just this hard when I try to answer the question: Why do older Oklahomans need lawyers? The answers are important enough that they will be a discussion topic of thi...
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question: What did Shelly say when she found a puppy she liked? answer: Mommy, this is the one! paragraph: Shelly wanted a puppy. She asked her mommy and daddy every day for one. She told them that she would help take care of the puppy, if she could have one. Her mommy and daddy talked it over and said that they would ...
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question: What does the Iranian government fear and why? answer: The broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade paragraph: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once...
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374-4285-22790
question: Who solved a lot of Thelma James problems? answer: Loan program paragraph: Thelma James was a prime candidate for a real estate ripoff: She is 68, has precious little money and can't read or write. "I won't lie to you. I was so-o-o excited," the widow and former duplex dweller said of the purchase of her firs...
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355-4085-21685
question: Japan was the third largest economy by the end of which decade? answer: 1970 paragraph: Peace and Prosperity: After years of government propaganda predicting the worst atrocities, most Japanese civilians were surprised at the warmth and friendliness of the occupying forces. The postwar period began, however, ...
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330-3779-20083
question: Where is the buyer of the 1933 double eagle coin believed to reside? answer: Israel paragraph: The 1933 double eagle, a $20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, $7.59 million...
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410-4667-24711
question: What attracted bigger vessels to the island? answer: Deep-water channel close to the coast paragraph: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live. The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish. But it had a ...
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93-1110-5667
question: What did the bombs destroy? answer: Aircraft paragraph: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created inde...
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240-2663-14085
question: Who was Preetam with, when he met Nandini unexpectedly? answer: Jaanu paragraph: The protagonist Preetam ( ( ( Ganesh , on a visit to Eva Mall amidst a heavy wind , spots a pretty girl , Nandini . While staring at her , he inadvertently falls into a manhole . Nandini rescues him from the pit , but in the pr...
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100-1182-5990
question: What company makes western boots and leather accessories? answer: Equus Capital Corp paragraph: Tony Lama Co. said that Equus Investment II Limited Partnership has proposed changing the offer for the company to $13.65 in cash and stock from an all-cash transaction. Under terms of the new proposal, Equus, mana...
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66-775-4084
question: What two things did Clarke urge decision makers to do because the future could happen at any time? answer: Imagine themselves in a future terrorist attack and ask themselves what they could have done earlier paragraph: The Principals Committee had its first meeting on al Qaeda on September 4. On the day of th...
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35-423-2271
question: When The supervisor instructed the controller to follow standard procedures for handling a "no radio" aircraft what further steps by America 11 alarmed them? answer: The controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight paragraph: American Airlines Flight 11: FAA Awareness. Although the Boston Center air traffi...
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80-936-4860
question: What organization did Congress approve restriction on the sorts of cases federally funded legal aid attorneys can take? answer: The NAACP paragraph: The Legal Services Corp. (LSC), a quasi-governmental agency that provides legal aid for the poor, would receive $329 million in fiscal 2004 under President Bush'...
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254-2832-14983
question: Why is it impossible for Joseph to live upstairs? answer: He lost the use of his left arm and cannot carry groceries upstairs paragraph: After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment t...
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162-1819-9487
question: After what year did the kings of Spain began to visit Madrid? answer: 1477 paragraph: Though prehistoric remains from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages have been unearthed in the Manzanares Valley, prior to Madrid's sudden elevation to capital city in 1561 its history was rather undistinguished. Ove...
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307-3474-18306
question: Which business executive in California arranged the jouney on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot his commercial? answer: Mcllvain paragraph: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike t...
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36-431-2311
question: Who will the Web site benefit? answer: $6.6 million grant will pay for staffing operations and $50,000 for a legal aid website paragraph: On a day it celebrated 50 years of giving free legal advice, Southern Arizona Legal Aid announced it has received two grants totaling more than $7 million. One of the grant...
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256-2860-15171
question: What is different when something constricts as compared to when it dilates? answer: Size paragraph: You couldnt survive without your skin. It has many important functions. The main function of the skin is controlling what enters and leaves the body. It prevents the loss of too much water from the body. It als...
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344-3979-21156
question: What does the EU's agreement to water down proposals for a radical overhaul of data privacy regulation signify? answer: Power of lobbying from companies like Face Book and Google paragraph: (Financial Times) -- The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track...
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336-3863-20492
question: How could one describe Çatalhöyük, near Konya? answer: The birthplace of the Myceneans paragraph: The modern Republic of Turkey dates only from 1923, but the history of the land within its borders stretches back to the dawn of humanity. Widespread finds of Stone Age implements in cave excavations show that An...
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question: In Nov. 1999 what intelligence agency intercepted a call and who did they arrest in an effect to stop a terrorist attack? answer: Abu Hoshar and 15 others paragraph: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama...
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53-628-3272
question: What does Mauricio Vivero fight for? answer: Teachers paragraph: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Electio...
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388-4443-23472
question: What is the oldest university in Albania? answer: The University of Albania paragraph: Before the establishment of the People's Republic, Albania's illiteracy rate was as high as 85%. Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II. When the People's Republic was established in 1945, the Party gave h...
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170-1873-9781
question: President Clinton often spoke of terrorist camps, but did he refer to Bin Laden by name and what was the reason for his choice? answer: No, he said little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda. this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity para...
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question: How does knowledge of reflection help pool players? answer: You can predict the angle of the reflected light. They need it to go to a certain place. They know the angle it will hit the side of the pool table. paragraph: Light rays strike a reflecting surface. They are then reflected back. You can predict the ...
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question: What did Einstein publish in that showed the statistics of absorption and proposed the possibility of stimulated emission? answer: Schrodinger's work of 1926 paragraph: Einstein was displeased with quantum theory and mechanics (the very theory he helped create), despite its acceptance by other physicists, sta...
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question: What circumstances threatened to relegate Las Vegas to the status of a small desert community that could no longer support its 3000 residents? answer: Influx of hordes of people paragraph: Dam Good Luck: From the beginning, Las Vegas was built to serve travelers. The railroad needed a way station, and Las Veg...
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410-4646-24560
question: Who was the key figure in the sultanate and what did he do? answer: Parameswara. he conquered many neighboring islands paragraph: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live. The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small...
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393-4489-23740
question: Name all of the American government officials mentioned in the article: answer: Syed Hamid Albar paragraph: Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses. "If you get young officers...
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404-4594-24261
question: What lead to the development of katakana system? answer: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese paragraph: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 dec...
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question: When did the Secret Service initiate security enhancements around the White House? answer: When it became apparent that it wasn't an accident paragraph: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it ...
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241-2670-14132
question: How does mass relate to weight? answer: They are closely related paragraph: If you have a mass of 50 kg on Earth, what is your weight in newtons? An object with more mass is pulled by gravity with greater force. Mass and weight are closely related. However, the weight of an object can change if the force of g...
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437-4931-26271
question: How long was Mahender engaged to his wife? answer: 2 years paragraph: The movie is a powerful story that deals with feminism and patriarchy in the middle class of India . It is shot in the present and past tense showing lives of the characters Mahender and Sudha as they lived together as well as separately . ...
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question: Which country's government arrested Jose Abello Silva? answer: U.S.A paragraph: In Colombia, the drug-financed guerrillas trying to seize the country and destroy democracy include M-19, which Castro has clearly backed. Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney handling drug indictments in Florida, doesn't think f...
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question: What are some of the languages are now spoken by employees of the NLS? answer: French, Polynesian, Arabic paragraph: Neighborhood Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor, has expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, areas with large Asian populations, many of whom speak limited...
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309-3519-18630
question: Where was Mohamed Atta born and what university did he attend to get and architect degree? answer: In Kandahar, Edinburg University paragraph: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four...
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109-1294-6629
question: Name a few types of non contact force answer: Maglev train paragraph: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials. This force is called a magnetic force. The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about. You exert a force on a book when you lift it. You a...
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question: Did Jake's grandfather teach him how to catch with the mitt he bought him? answer: No paragraph: Jake was walking to the park to play baseball with his friends. He loved being outside on sunny days, and now that school was over for the year, he was playing baseball every day. The more he played, the better he...
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question: What created a crisis of succession following this era of increased trade? answer: Sebastiao died paragraph: To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. Portuguese explorers then embarked up...
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340-3921-20825
question: What day of the week did Marsha meet her noodle friend? answer: Thursday paragraph: Marsha loves playing with her noodle friend. She had it for a long time so it is now a dark brown color. When her mom first made it, it was white. The night she met her noodle friend was spaghetti night. Marsha's favorite dinn...
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question: What were two reasons the Secret Service, the CIA and counterterrorism officials advised President Clinton not to visit Pakistan? answer: Tensions between Pakistan and India paragraph: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds. Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful. As on...
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question: What was Gross accused of that ultimately led to his arrest in December 2009? answer: Crimes against the security of State paragraph: (CNN) -- Cuba will pardon more than 2,900 prisoners, the government said Friday, though U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross is not among those who will be freed. The decision to rele...
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question: Who at the White House asked the Vice President to get in Touch with the President and what was top be confirmed? answer: Joshua Bolten's secretary - The engage order paragraph: At the conference room table was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten. Bolten watched the exchanges and, after what he ca...
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question: Who was Tumble? answer: A turtle, billy's pet paragraph: Billy had a pet turtle that he took good care of, everyday. His turtle's name was Tumble. Tumble liked to walk around outside in the garden and dig small holes to sleep in. Billy loved Tumble and would visit him outside when he got home from school. Tum...
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question: Who did Gifford recognize when he saw a head above the hedge? answer: Gifford recognized Gervase Henshaw when he saw a head above the hedge paragraph: Late on the next Sunday afternoon Gifford had gone for a country walk which he had arranged to bring him round in time for the evening service at the little v...
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391-4480-23680
question: Who is the current Prime Minister of Japan? answer: Prime Minister Natashi Oguawa paragraph: (CNN) -- Japan's prime minister conceded defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, signaling the return to power of the Liberal Democratic Party and ending the brief rule of the disappointing upstart Democratic Party ...
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question: What covered all the grass, trees and flowers? answer: The winter snowfall paragraph: It is almost summer time. Spring has been very long and very rainy. Winter was very warm and very long. In the winter the snows falls on the ground. It covers all the grass. It covers all the trees. It covers all the flowers...
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question: How long after the President learned of the attack did United 93 crash in Pennsylvania? answer: Almost an hour paragraph: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft. The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and c...
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454-5125-27209
question: What position did Reupke hold one year ago? answer: General Manager paragraph: Reuters Holdings PLC said Michael Reupke resigned as general manager to pursue unspecified interests, a move the news organization termed an "amicable separation." Mr. Reupke, 52 years old and a 27-year Reuters veteran, had been th...
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question: Why did Parameswara take money to Beijing in 1411? answer: To help the people paragraph: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live. The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish. But it had a sheltered har...
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question: How are electrical charges similar to a teeter-totter? answer: They are outside paragraph: Static electricity is like a teeter-totter. What happens if a teeter-totter is balanced? Correct! It does not move. What about when its not balanced? Yes, it will now begin to move. Charges move when they are not balanc...
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question: What were a few of the tightly controlled commercial pyramids in Japan? answer: A dozen family run combines of different industries paragraph: Triumph and Disaster: The 20th century saw a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up for the 250 years of Tokugawa isolation. By 1930 raw-material product...
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