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question: What do you notice about figure 1.11? answer: Figure 1.11 is a futuristic looking train, with no wheels that leviates above a track paragraph: Take a look at this train in Figure 1.11. It looks very futuristic. What do you notice about it? Did you notice that the train has no wheels? How can a train have no w...
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432-4867-25977
question: Who was hit by a truck? answer: Louis Creed paragraph: The Creed family moves into a new home , close to a road where truckers often drive unsafely . They befriend their neighbor , Jud Crandall , who tells them about a nearby pet cemetery which was built on Indian burial grounds and is rumored to be haunted ....
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question: How did ancient settlers called Ibiza? answer: The island paragraph: A handful of Bronze Age relics has fostered an assumption that prehistoric settlers inhabited Ibiza thousands of years ago. Greater evidence of such a people is found on Mallorca and Menorca than on Ibiza, but one of the Balearics' most impo...
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question: The defeat of Federer by Tsonga was the first loss from a two-set lead in how many grand slam matches, and how many times has Roger Federer lost from this same vantage point? answer: 179 and 1 paragraph: (CNN) -- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ended Roger Federer's hopes of winning a record-equaling seventh Wimbledon tit...
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question: Who pretended to be driving the tractor? answer: Joe paragraph: Joe's parents are farmers and they have a huge farm with cows, chickens, and ducks. Joe loves the farm and all the things he gets to play around and play on. One day, Joe's father told him not to get near a tractor that was sitting in the field. ...
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question: How did Jerry get to the top of the pool stick? answer: He climbed up the pole paragraph: 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 c...
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question: What did Bambi do to make Jarvis uncomfortable? answer: She ignored him paragraph: Thursday, and Mr. Strong arrived with the inevitableness of dreaded events. Bambi felt convinced that his coming meant the premature death of her new-born career, so, naturally, she was prepared for grief. An element of amuseme...
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55-662-3485
question: Which air traffic center communicated with United 93? answer: Cleveland paragraph: Right after the Pentagon was hit, NEADS learned of another possible hijacked aircraft. It was an aircraft that in fact had not been hijacked at all. After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center managers recognized t...
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question: Were the residents confident they could take on this fight on their own without legal and Political help? answer: Yes paragraph: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer...
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question: What was the man standing in front of when the crowd split? answer: Pastor paragraph: The old vaulted church was stripped down: there was no cloth on the altar, just a DJ's toolkit and his beer. Through the dark, I could see three bolts left in the wall from where they'd taken down the crucifix. A confessiona...
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question: Why is it impossible for Joseph to live upstairs? answer: He was picky 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 to one on the ground floor. Isaac Benjamin became ensnar...
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449-5051-26827
question: How old was Joan Fontaine when she died? answer: 96 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, home. She is survived by her ...
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question: What park did Dan Jennings intend to close on November 30, 2001? answer: Wenatchee Housing plaza paragraph: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear evictio...
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question: What was involved in President Obama's plan to create jobs and boost economic growth? answer: A six year period to rebuild 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways paragraph: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic gr...
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question: What agencies were involved with the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke? answer: CIA, FAA, FBI 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 was n...
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361-4141-22028
question: Who crushed their rivals in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara? answer: Ieyasu Tokugawa paragraph: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his "dynasty," initially under the tutelage of five regents. But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who h...
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question: What grants did Southern Arizona Legal Aid receive on the day it celebrated 50 years of giving free legal advice? answer: They received two grants totaling $7 million. A three year grant worth $6.6 million and a separate technology grant paragraph: On a day it celebrated 50 years of giving free legal advice, ...
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question: After what victory was Ambhi sent to pursue Porus? answer: Alexander paragraph: After the death of Spitamenes and his marriage to Roxana (Roshanak in Bactrian) to cement relations with his new satrapies, Alexander turned to the Indian subcontinent. He invited the chieftains of the former satrapy of Gandhara, ...
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question: What was Democracy in America? answer: A single volume book paragraph: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville (French: [aleksi SaRl aRi kleRel d@ tokvil]; 29 July 1805 - 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 183...
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question: Which flight was reported as hijacked although it never turned off its transponder? answer: United 93 paragraph: Right after the Pentagon was hit, NEADS learned of another possible hijacked aircraft. It was an aircraft that in fact had not been hijacked at all. After the second World Trade Center crash, Bosto...
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question: What is stock exchange 1st National Bank on and what was the third quarter net loss? answer: $5.3 million 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 principal operating unit, Fi...
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question: Approximately how many years passed between the Xia Dynasty and the creation of the oldest known bronze vessels in China? answer: 3000 paragraph: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully ...
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question: What two poles are close to each other? answer: north and east paragraph: It is not enough to describe some objects by their location. We may also need to know its direction. For example, a wind blows a storm over your school. Where is that storm coming from? Where is it going? How can we describe a direction...
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question: Why does the narrator state that she does "not remember any of this well"? answer: He was drunk that night 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, ...
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question: What happens to electrons to make them turn into lightning? answer: They discharge paragraph: You may wonder if there are other examples of static discharge. The answer is yes. Lightning is a form of static discharge. It is much more dramatic than what happens between you and the door knocker, but it is the s...
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question: What evidence exists that Greco-Bactrian influence extended to the sciences? answer: Greek artwork used in science paragraph: Some of the most unusual effects of Hellenization can be seen in Afghanistan and India, in the region of the relatively late-arising Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (250 BC-125 BC) in modern Af...
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question: When did Einstein publish an article that was aligned with Planck's distribution law answer: 1926 paragraph: Einstein was displeased with quantum theory and mechanics (the very theory he helped create), despite its acceptance by other physicists, stating that God "is not playing at dice." Einstein continued t...
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question: What are two things matter is used for? answer: Bodies need it to carry out the processes of life 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 t...
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question: What prompted Franklin Graham to call for the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone? answer: Celebrates paragraph: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the late...
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question: Who finds fault with the local requirement that a custody order must be established within 30 days after a PFA is filed? answer: Sarah T. Casey paragraph: If you beat a dog in Schuylkill County, you'll probably get a $100 fine. If you repeatedly beat a woman, you'll probably get the same fine. In 2001, county...
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84-986-5155
question: What type of energy does wood have? answer: kinetic energy paragraph: Energy is stored in chemical compounds. This energy is called chemical energy. Chemical energy is a form of potential energy. When bonds between atoms are broken, energy is released. The wood in fireplaces has chemical energy. The energy is...
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question: Who resisted the merge and why? answer: Congress, the merge would require extra funding paragraph: The letterhead on correspondence still bears the Bexar County Legal Aid name, even though the organization is no longer. Texas Rural Legal Aid - known for its fearless and sometimes controversial advocacy of the...
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95-1137-5765
question: Where was the blue truck found? answer: Garage paragraph: One day a young boy went to visit a toy store. In the toy store the young boy found many fun toys. One toy that the boy really liked was a small blue toy truck. The small blue toy truck was a lot of fun to play with, and made a lot of funny noises. The...
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question: Who with Juzo gang had made Juzo's middle school life a living hell? answer: Toru Akai paragraph: Juzo Murasaki arrives at a work construction area to take on his new job as a construction worker . To his quiet dismay , his supervising boss turns out to be Toru Akai , who with his gang had made Juzo's middle...
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question: What did the controllers do when American 11 left the first controller's airspace and moved into another sector? answer: They began to move aircrafts out of its path paragraph: American Airlines Flight 11: FAA Awareness. Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there w...
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question: What is a mold? answer: An imprint of an organism that is preserved in rock 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 turns to into amber...
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question: What phrases characterize the letters as a group of military men? answer: "upsetting the apple cart of his life's plan" paragraph: Allan sat down at his desk and pulled the chair in close. Opening a side drawer, he took out a piece of paper and his inkpot. After filling his pen, Allan looked at his paper in t...
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question: Why was Melaka not an ideal place for most people to live in its early days? answer: Swampy plain 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...
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question: Who invited Duane to stay at the camp? answer: Veterans paragraph: Duane was hungry, but he hurried through the ample supper that was set before him, urged on by curiosity and astonishment. The only way he could account for his presence there in a ranger's camp was that MacNelly hoped to get useful informatio...
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question: After all the antics, does Porky finally get to sleep the night through? answer: Yes, he slept through the night after throwing Daffy out the window paragraph: Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room , but due to a convention there are no vacancies . Porky takes the only available vacancy at o...
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question: How much longer will Idaho Partners for Justice Project solicit donations? answer: The next six months paragraph: Victims of domestic violence will have access to quality legal representation through a campaign undertaken by Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Linda Copple Trout and corporate leaders. "Thousand...
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question: How long did it take after the town near Çatalhöyük flourished for the advent of the Bronze Age? answer: Roughly 3200 years 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 implem...
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question: What disturbing information does Adrienne hear from a friend and how does she clarify it? answer: She confronts him paragraph: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack . They have a daughter named Mary . Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he cl...
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question: Why does the author use the spelling "Al Quida" instead of "Al Qaeda"? answer: When it is quoted from a source document they use its translation e.g ' al Qida' instead of al Qaeda paragraph: In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Laden and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, ...
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question: Which region of Portugal gets the most sunshine on an average year? answer: Paris paragraph: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country. The southern stretch of coast is more ...
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question: Which flight did NEADS think was hijacked right after the Pentagon was hit? answer: FAA 1989 paragraph: Right after the Pentagon was hit, NEADS learned of another possible hijacked aircraft. It was an aircraft that in fact had not been hijacked at all. After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center ...
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question: What happens when some organisms are not able to adapt and what does it mean for them? answer: Extinction 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...
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question: What bodily fluids aide in digestion? answer: Saliva and acid in the stomach paragraph: As food is pushed along, it undergoes digestion. Digestion is the process of breaking down food into nutrients. There are two types of digestion: mechanical digestion and chemical digestion. Mechanical digestion occurs whe...
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397-4542-23995
question: What type of business is the Legal Aid Society? answer: Unemployed paragraph: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble. Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water. She shrugs it off. Outside her office she...
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question: What kind of work did the Hellfire Warhead carried by The Predator need? answer: It was designed to hit tanks not people, so it needed to be redesigned to explode in a different way paragraph: The CIA's senior management saw problems with the armed Predator as well, problems that Clarke and even Black and All...
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362-4152-22114
question: Who had been waiting for hundreds of years after the Lord's ascension? answer: The early Christians paragraph: But I think it is certain that most of the early Christians understood these words of our Lord's ascension and coming again in glory. They believed that He was coming again in a very little while d...
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question: Who organized a coup against the sultan and also invaded Baghdad with an army? answer: Shahryar's sister paragraph: The series starts in Baghdad at an undetermined time . The Sultan Shahryar has gone mad after accidentally killing his wife during a failed coup d' tat , Which she had planned with Shahryar's b...
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question: Did the contract set up any sexual situations? answer: Yes 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 absent and estranged husband . Part ...
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448-5031-26733
question: What is a toy Judith saw for the first time after breaking in? answer: Rayman paragraph: The film begins with Brick Bardo ( Tim Thomerson , from ( ( Dollman hitchhiking to get to the town of Pahoota , where he tries to find a girl named Nurse Ginger ( Melissa Behr , who was shrunken to 11 inches in ( ( Bad Ch...
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question: How are index fossils used? answer: To create chemical energy paragraph: Fossils can be used to match up rock layers. As organisms change over time, they look different. Older fossils will look different than younger fossils. Some organisms only survived for a short time before going extinct. Knowing what org...
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question: What other job title does the Crown Prince have? answer: Defense Minister of Dubai paragraph: Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated a free zone for e-commerce today, called Dubai Internet City. The preliminary stages of the project, the only one of its kind according to its des...
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question: What type of energy is created by position? answer: Energy of movement paragraph: Mechanical energy is a combination of the energy of motion or position. This type of energy describes objects that are moving or could move. A moving ball can have energy from motion. An arrow can also have the energy of motion....
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question: How long was the Long Beach Program been in operation? answer: Eight paragraph: Iwasaki's careful respect for the Long Beach program and its lawyers earned him the political capital he needed to complete his takeover in a matter of weeks. "The Long Beach program had strong support in the community so in a sit...
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question: What two states is Child celebrating her 90th birthday with fans or family members? answer: New York paragraph: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco. How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend? "It feels just like it...
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question: What are the two things gravitational energy depends on? answer: Weight and height above ground paragraph: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position. Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall. It has potential energy. You can see examples of people with gravit...
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question: How did Alexander change the use of the phalanx at the battle of Gaugamela? answer: Equipped his cavalry with pikes paragraph: Alexander earned the epithet "The Great" due to his unparalleled success as a military commander. He never lost a battle, despite typically being outnumbered. This was due to use of t...
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question: Which passenger made an attempt to stop the hijackers? answer: Atta paragraph: We do not know exactly how the hijackers gained access to the cockpit; FAA rules required that the doors remain closed and locked during flight. Ong speculated that they had "jammed their way" in. Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the...
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question: National security advisor Samuel Berger and who insured they had daily reports on Bin Laden's reported location answer: Bill Clinton 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 Bin Laden and his a...
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364-4194-22287
question: Why did Grim disappear upstairs? answer: To disguise himself as a Syrian soldier paragraph: Grim disappeared upstairs himself, and returned about ten minutes later in the uniform of a Shereefian officer--that is to say, of Emir Feisul's Syrian army. Nothing could be smarter, not anything better calculated to ...
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65-764-4002
question: What kind of charge is required for static electricity? answer: Unbalanced charge 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 bala...
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question: Is it more common for the Moon to travel completely in the Earth's umbra or only partially? answer: A total eclipse is less common than partial so it is more common for the moon to travel partially in Earth's umbra paragraph: Sometimes a full Moon moves through Earths shadow. This is a lunar eclipse . During ...
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question: Besides Bin Laden, KSM, and Atef, who else was involved in discussing the initial selection of targets? answer: Yemeni paragraph: Bin Laden reportedly discussed the planes operation with KSM and Atef in a series of meetings in the spring of 1999 at the al Matar complex near Kandahar. KSM's original concept ...
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435-4911-26162
question: What is chemical digestion, and where does it occur? answer: When food debris is passed out of the body, digestive track paragraph: As food is pushed along, it undergoes digestion. Digestion is the process of breaking down food into nutrients. There are two types of digestion: mechanical digestion and chemica...
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447-5024-26693
question: Who's confederation of States became today's Negeri Sembilan? answer: The Dutch paragraph: The Dutch Take Over: Intent on capturing a piece of the Portuguese trade in pepper and other spices, the Java-based Dutch Ailied with the Malays in 1633 to blockade Melaka. The trade blockade was to last eight years, an...
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question: What potion is believed to be about to kill Lucrezia? answer: There is no potion beleived to kill Lucrezia paragraph: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer . Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his qu...
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question: When did Unit 93 drop? answer: While travelling above eastern Ohio paragraph: The hijackers attacked at 9:28. While traveling 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly dropped 700 feet. Eleven seconds into the descent, the FAA's air traffic control center in Cleveland received the first of two radio ...
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question: Who piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole? answer: Kandahar paragraph: While Nashiri was in Afghanistan, Nibras and Khamri saw their chance. They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb. Quso did not arrive at ...
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question: Who was the first president to visit Pakistan since 1969? answer: George Bush paragraph: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds. Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful. As one NSC staff note put it, "Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terro...
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question: Drummers transform chemical energy into what? answer: Sound paragraph: Energy often changes from one form to another. For example, the drummer transfers motion to sound energy. When the moving drumstick strikes the drum head, the drum starts to vibrate. The motion of the vibrating drum head creates the sound ...
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question: What are mutations? answer: Reproduction paragraph: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring. These changes are due to mutations. Mutations are a random change. Mutations are natural. Some mutations are harmful. In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce. The trait will not be passed onto ...
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47-552-2902
question: Where did the strangers meet the teacher? answer: In the convent hall paragraph: She led the way into the cheerful schoolroom, where big girls and little girls were sitting about, amusing themselves in the quiet of a long Sunday afternoon. Several of the younger children ran to her as she came in, and stood ...
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question: Who should address Congressional Oversight for intelligence-and counterterrorism? answer: Department of Homeland Security paragraph: Recommendation: Congressional oversight for intelligence-and counterterrorism-is now dysfunctional. Congress should address this problem. We have considered various alternatives...
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question: Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table who had their coach sacked? answer: CSKA Russia paragraph: (CNN) -- Sevilla have sacked coach Manolo Jimenez after their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games. Despite lying fifth in the Span...
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question: What type of cases does MALS usually handle? answer: Law students 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 are...
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question: Why does the Illinois Supreme Court want to raise the registration rates for Illinois lawyers? answer: They want to increase the rates to give services to the poor and to help lawyers with drug and alcohol problems paragraph: Registration fees for Illinois lawyers could jump as much as $49 a year if lawmakers...
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391-4483-23700
question: How did the Democratic Party of Japan eventually become to be regarded in Japan? answer: NNLK 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 Democ...
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question: What kind of charge does a particle with more protons than electrons have? answer: A particle will have an equal number of protons and electrons paragraph: Electric charge is a physical property. It occurs between particles or objects. It causes them to attract or repel each other. They do not even have to to...
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question: On what type of research is IBM currently spending more than $500 million dollars a year? answer: Technology paragraph: IBM opened a sprawling and sophisticated semiconductor factory here on Wednesday that cost more than $2.5 billion to build and equip, the largest single capital investment the company has ev...
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question: What kind of defect does Duryodhana's mother have? answer: Handicapped paragraph: The opening shot of the movie shows Kunti praying for Lord Krishna's protection for the Pandavas . Lord Krishna consoles Kunti and promises to ever protect the Pandavas and guide them through troubles and problems that may occu...
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question: What takes place first, when a disease starts eating away at a plant? answer: Produces chemicals paragraph: When you get sick, your body springs to action. Your body starts to fight the illness. Thats why you want to eat right and get plenty of sleep. You need a strong immune system to fight off illness. Plan...
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363-4169-22176
question: What are the earth's two poles? answer: north and south paragraph: It is not enough to describe some objects by their location. We may also need to know its direction. For example, a wind blows a storm over your school. Where is that storm coming from? Where is it going? How can we describe a direction? The m...
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question: When did the Anasazi begin to inhabit the valley? answer: 1500 b.c 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. During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the sho...
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question: Who has simple cases answer: Ben Stone paragraph: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills . On his last day , Ben's relationship with ...
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question: Are you overcoming gravity for an hour when you jump on a trampoline? answer: If you reach space, yes paragraph: "What goes up must come down." You have probably heard that statement before. At one time this statement was true, but no longer. Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space. Some are ...
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84-986-5156
question: What type of energy does wood have? answer: Chemical energy paragraph: Energy is stored in chemical compounds. This energy is called chemical energy. Chemical energy is a form of potential energy. When bonds between atoms are broken, energy is released. The wood in fireplaces has chemical energy. The energy i...
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question: Why did the passengers in coach think the airplane was in rapid descent? answer: Something was wrong paragraph: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again. Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers. One spok...
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question: When is Julia Child's birthday? answer: Sunday paragraph: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco. How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend? "It feels just like it felt before," Julia Child says with the throaty laugh...
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question: What happens to electrons to make them turn into lightning? answer: Electrons repel negative charge on ground below paragraph: You may wonder if there are other examples of static discharge. The answer is yes. Lightning is a form of static discharge. It is much more dramatic than what happens between you and ...
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question: What assertion did President Obama make about the country's infrastructure? answer: That "we can have [the greatest infrastructure in the world] again" 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...
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question: What are the benefits of the earth's magnetic field? answer: Protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun paragraph: Earths magnetic field helps protect Earth and its organisms. It protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun. Most of the particles are attracted to the north and south ma...
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221-2455-12965
question: Name a major city where a HABESHA garden is located? answer: Atlanta paragraph: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-em...
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question: How many truck accidents were there in the passage? answer: Five paragraph: The Creed family moves into a new home , close to a road where truckers often drive unsafely . They befriend their neighbor , Jud Crandall , who tells them about a nearby pet cemetery which was built on Indian burial grounds and is ru...
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question: Who said that the USS Cole was attacked during the Clinton administration? answer: The Principals paragraph: The Principals Committee had its first meeting on al Qaeda on September 4. On the day of the meeting, Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note. He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and...
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question: 14 staff attorneys, 26 office workers and 21 University of Memphis third-year law students are part of what agency? answer: Brewer, who has been at the agency 20 years, said there is a need for lawyers of all stripes to help with the problems of the poor paragraph: MALS was formed here more than 30 years ago....
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question: During what centuries did Terengganu thrive from its textile industry and trading in pepper and gold? answer: 20th paragraph: The Dutch Take Over: Intent on capturing a piece of the Portuguese trade in pepper and other spices, the Java-based Dutch Ailied with the Malays in 1633 to blockade Melaka. The trade b...
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