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question: The U.S. space shuttle program lasted for how many years? answer: Three paragraph: (CNN) -- The U.S. space shuttle program retired in 2011, leaving American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit. But after three long years, NASA's successor is almost ready to make an entrance. Orion, the agency's newest manned s...
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16-199-1099
question: What expeditions inspired the creation of this novel? answer: Visit to England paragraph: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press; 2011) 698 pages; Includes previously unpu...
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question: What kind of legal work do recent graduates of City University of New York School of Law tend to find, which pays very little? answer: Small law firm paragraph: Life for the partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund holds little of the glamour one might expect from a career in law. Instead of lunches at Lut��ce, th...
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309-3511-18557
question: Who are the four jihadists that arrived in Kandahar in 1999 answer: Bin Laden, Mohamed Atta, and Ziad Jarrah 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 aspiring jihadists fro...
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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: The president could die paragraph: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds. Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful. As one NSC staff ...
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111-1305-6689
question: What are two types of tools that collect wind data? answer: Wind vane 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. To answer these que...
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191-2123-11084
question: Name two attorneys who praised Zelon? answer: Wong and Zeller paragraph: "The impact of her interest and work on the provision of legal services in the state of California is immeasurable," said Patricia Philips, senior of-counsel for Los Angeles' Morrison & Foerster. "Its value is felt every day by someone w...
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question: Who was standing next to the president when his reaction was that the crash of American 11 must be pilot error? answer: California paragraph: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked. While that information...
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247-2748-14510
question: Why did these individuals show no remorse for anything they did? answer: Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences paragraph: In Meadowvale , California , on June 9 ...
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question: While being an excellent professional who could not get a response out of the team? answer: Coach Manolo Jimenez 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 ...
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185-2042-10668
question: What occurred simultaneously in 900AD? answer: Portuguese taking over the land paragraph: In the popular mind, the history of Hong Kong, long the entryway to China for Westerners, begins in 1841 with the British occupation of the territory. However, it would be wrong to dismiss the long history of the region ...
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question: What caused the kings of Spain to begin to visit Madrid answer: They were curious about it 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 undi...
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question: Was the arrival of the Europeans a positive development for the Arawaks? answer: Settlement 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 islands, arrivin...
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330-3784-20113
question: Who stated, "This is an astonishing new record for a coin?" answer: Auctioneer 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, nea...
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436-4920-26221
question: Who joined the Idaho Supreme Court Justice in making the announcement? answer: Corporate leaders 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. "Thousands of t...
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question: Which flight did NEADS think was hijacked right after the Pentagon was hit? 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, Boston Cente...
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question: Give an example of Alexander's influence in Greek culture. answer: His name in Greek (O Megalexandros) is a household name. There is a famous fable among seamen whereby they would be spared if they acknowledged Alexander was alive and ruled the world paragraph: Alexander the Great's accomplishments and legacy...
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question: Whose father was expelled from Yemen? answer: Omar Abdel Rahman 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 of using one of the hijacked planes to make a media stat...
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question: Did Comey said Tokhtakhounov has a residence in Israel? answer: Yes paragraph: Tokhtakhounov, whose age was given by Comey as 53 or 62, is a "major figure in international Eurasian organized crime," Comey said. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and now a Russian citizen, he is known as Taivanchik, or Little Taiwa...
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question: What is the website of the film? answer: Http://atanarjuat.com/legend/legend_film.php paragraph: The film is set in Igloolik in the Eastern Arctic wilderness at the dawn of the first millennium . http://atanarjuat.com/legend/legend_film.php The wind is blowing over a bleak snowy landscape while a man tries t...
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question: What assertion did President Obama make about the country's infrastructure? answer: It used to be the best in the world, and his plan will help restore that accolade paragraph: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday...
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55-660-3473
question: How did the Cleveland controller respond to a transmission that seemed to signify trouble? answer: A fighter aircraft 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 Cen...
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question: What did Dudovitz feel he had done spectacularly? answer: Keeping an emphasis on informing potential clients and delivering services to them paragraph: Still untaken are several steps that required goodwill from local bar associations and others who had opposed the combination. "[I am] not a fan of Neal's," a...
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305-3464-18254
question: Where do amateurs need to position themselves to pirate a secret transmitted over the air? answer: Near the company's satellite dish paragraph: Electronic theft by foreign and industrial spies and disgruntled employees is costing U.S. companies billions and eroding their international competitive advantage. T...
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45-520-2710
question: What does the fact that fossils have been found on the top of Antarctica? answer: Plants must have grown on Antarctica in the past, though they do not now paragraph: Fossils give clues about major geological events. Fossils can also give clues about past climates. Fossils of ocean animals on the top of a moun...
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192-2132-11134
question: What's the weather like between the equator and the first zone? answer: Dry paragraph: The world can be divided into three climate zones. The first climate zone is the polar zone. As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles. The polar zone has very long and cold winters. Brrr!!!! Near the equator is the...
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271-3043-16040
question: Who does Liguro help Callimaco with? answer: Lucrezia's confessor 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 quest to sleep with her . Lgurio informs C...
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410-4643-24543
question: Describe the land of Melaka answer: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish 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 slug...
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450-5069-26913
question: How many people were jailed because of the Salt March? answer: One million paragraph: Independence with Partition: The British began to see India's independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups. Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with major...
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109-1295-6637
question: What can magnets do? answer: They can place a force on certain materials called a magnetic force 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 f...
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307-3479-18351
question: Under what pretext does a sociopathic company executive organize the motorcycle trip? answer: killing 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 trip to the Baja California desert in ord...
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299-3411-17967
question: What caused the fires? answer: arson paragraph: Brad, Texas (CNN) -- Authorities were working on plans Friday for residents who were forced to flee a wildfire in northern Texas to return home, a day after firefighters made progress battling the blaze that destroyed dozens of homes. The blaze in Palo Pinto Cou...
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221-2461-12995
question: What are urban farms used for? answer: To feed people 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-empowerment. Urba...
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355-4084-21669
question: How long after the occupation ended did it take for Japan to overtake Britain economically? answer: About 12 years 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 force...
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170-1873-9786
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 because he hated the name Bin Laden paragraph: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emer...
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question: Who killed Seki and why? answer: Akai's gang members based on Akai's orders 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 school lif...
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question: Who made the following remark?: "But we are working together quite nicely contrary to what the other side issue is." answer: Dudovitz paragraph: Still untaken are several steps that required goodwill from local bar associations and others who had opposed the combination. "[I am] not a fan of Neal's," admitted...
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81-955-4966
question: What three shows has Pelecanos been a writer for? answer: Treme paragraph: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see...
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question: What countries or civilizations influenced early Portuguese culture, religion and architecture? answer: Roman paragraph: Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity. The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes). Whatever their origins, their culture evol...
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question: What type of service is being provided in Boone, IA? answer: Tax representation paragraph: Boone, Ia. -Poor and elderly people may soon go without legal representation in Boone County. Boone County Legal Aid, which for 31 years has provided legal services to those who couldn't afford them, will close in Febru...
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255-2833-14988
question: Who told the president that "America is under attack" answer: Dick Cheney 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 concluded that "that would be the four...
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375-4294-22840
question: What was the Greek name for Ibiza? answer: Ebusus 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 important si...
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299-3410-17963
question: Why were some evacuations lifted? answer: Fire has moved to the mountains next to the town. paragraph: Brad, Texas (CNN) -- Authorities were working on plans Friday for residents who were forced to flee a wildfire in northern Texas to return home, a day after firefighters made progress battling the blaze that...
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342-3960-21076
question: Where did Judge Evans live? answer: South Dakota 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 relation...
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307-3474-18307
question: Which business executive in California arranged the jouney on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot his commercial? answer: Sam Farragut paragraph: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbi...
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question: Women who are not divorced can't obtain child support in which state? answer: Oklahoma paragraph: Legal assistance for battered women is hard to come by. But it just got a little easier to find in Tarrant County. This month, the federal Violence Against Women Office awarded a two-year, $350,000 grant to the W...
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304-3461-18236
question: What can cause a physical change to water? answer: Temperature paragraph: Have you are burned something on the stove or in the oven? Do you know why things burn? It all has to do with temperature. Changes in matter are affected by temperature. For example, what if you place a cake in the oven and you leave it...
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214-2360-12484
question: Where does digestion begin and end? answer: Begins in esophagus and ends in small intestine paragraph: The digestive system is the body system that digests food. It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically. Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients. The digestive system also eliminat...
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318-3615-19210
question: Did gravity cause more than one solar system to form? answer: No one knows paragraph: How would the universe look without gravity? It would have no planets and no stars. Thats how it looked when it was young. When the universe was young, there was only gas and dust. From this gas and dust, everything we now s...
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25-284-1539
question: Charlie professes his admiration for whose family life? answer: Sylvia 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 . Charlie 's be...
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180-1980-10319
question: What does the acronym NMCC stand for? answer: It must have been caused by pilot error paragraph: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked. While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evide...
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201-2249-11782
question: How long after their stocks hit a high did Coleco file for bankruptcy-law protection? answer: 5 years paragraph: Coleco Industries Inc., a once high-flying toy maker whose stock peaked at $65 a share in the early 1980s, filed a Chapter 11 reorganization plan that provides just 1.125 cents a share for common s...
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429-4829-25805
question: What was Moore doing moments before Benazir Bhutto was shot? answer: Taking photos of Benazir Bhutto paragraph: (CNN) -- The photographer who took images of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto moments before her assassination Thursday told CNN he was "surprised" to see her rise through the sunroof ...
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426-4798-25604
question: What was Allan's reasoning to Arthur for his paper? answer: He wanted to break from tradition paragraph: Allan crouched over his desk once more, pen in hand and mind blank. He contemplated a story, an outline he had laboriously constructed some time ago. He had filled his pen and raised it, the nib descending...
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301-3425-18062
question: Guatemala is located between which two countries? answer: Columbia and Mexico paragraph: (CNN) -- Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents. President Alvaro Colo...
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11-123-695
question: Who looks after Edwina and Fern after the flood and earthquake? answer: Safti paragraph: In India to purchase some horses , British aristocrat , Lord Esketh and his wife , Edwina , come to the town of Ranchipur at the invitation of the elderly Maharani . Their marriage is an unhappy one and Lord Esketh announ...
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question: How does the snow turn into ice? answer: By get accumulated and compacted paragraph: You may be wondering, how can a glacier get so big? Why does it move? These are both good questions. In the winter months, precipitation falls as snow. This solid form of water builds up on the ground as long as the temperatu...
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290-3313-17453
question: How many protons do atoms contain? answer: Two protons paragraph: The properties of matter depend on the types of atoms that matter is made of. Matter can exist in two forms. It can be a pure substance. This means it is not mixed with anything. It can also be a combination of different substances. This means ...
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181-1995-10440
question: If the teacher of young children is to live up to our educational profession, what must she teach? answer: How best to grow up fast 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 educational profession, we must look our aim in the...
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316-3583-19027
question: What was the name of the person who heard, "Yes Sir" while in the conference room? answer: Vice president paragraph: The Vice President stated that he called the President to discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP. He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instruc...
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109-1288-6601
question: What kind of force is used to move a maglev train? answer: Non-contact force 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 ...
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65-766-4020
question: Charges can move when they are unbalanced by what? answer: Water 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 can...
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283-3208-16946
question: Are birds cared for by their parents? answer: Yes paragraph: Have you ever seen an egg? Some animals do not have live births. Instead, they lay eggs. The eggs contain the embryo. The embryo matures in the egg. With time, it will hatch. Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents. They are ready...
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136-1563-8132
question: Why did the green ball laugh at the blue ball? answer: Because the blue ball was afraid of the red ball paragraph: The cute red ball rolled over to the blue ball and said hello. The blue ball was scared and went to cry to the green ball. The green ball laughed at the blue ball. Then the green ball told the or...
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67-782-4132
question: Did any of Layne and Macy's friends survive the alien attack? answer: Yes, stephen 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...
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309-3521-18647
question: When did Atta join a working group? What was the outcome of the joining? answer: 1997 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 aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly pres...
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357-4113-21847
question: What was Yonggary's behavior? answer: Agreesive paragraph: An archaeological party explore some caverns underground . Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition , and get separated . While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond , Dr. Campbell finds h...
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333-3826-20315
question: What country has a population of 20,000? answer: Phillipines paragraph: Washington (CNN) -- The Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to take in 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the country's ambassador to the United States said Wednesday. The map shows the Pacific ...
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131-1507-7865
question: In what year did Diggler drop out of school? answer: 1979 paragraph: Dirk Diggler was born as Steven Samuel Adams on April 15 , 1961 outside of Saint Paul , Minnesota . His parents were a construction worker and a boutique shop owner who attended church every Sunday and believed in God . Looking for a career ...
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question: Who is the woman the herb vendor spoke of? answer: Madame Entera paragraph: He continued to lie in place, still breathing heavily. I tried to keep myself calm. Then, with a sigh, he said, "I have need of a certain stone that I once possessed. It would allow me to leave this bed, despite my current illness. My...
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question: How many men were on the teams that completed the takeoff in 30 minutes? answer: more than three 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 re...
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question: Why was the Secret Service's information about United 93 flawed? answer: Based on projected path paragraph: The Vice President stated that he called the President to discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP. He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on ...
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question: What is Seki's relationship with Juzo? answer: Lozu's child 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 school life a living hell ...
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342-3947-20973
question: Why do Dr. Benjamin Stone's co-workers give him the cold shoulder? answer: He was leaving for more money 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 surg...
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279-3170-16728
question: How does one buy durable goods to reduce resource use? answer: Shipping costs are eliminated paragraph: Reducing resource use means just what it says using fewer resources. There are lots of ways to reduce our use of resources. Buy durable goods. Choose items that are well made so they will last longer. Youll...
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294-3352-17709
question: What did fossils do in ancient times? answer: They were mistaken to be dragons 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 tell us a lot about Earths history. In anc...
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259-2886-15310
question: What major public health initiatives were first passed in California? answer: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws paragraph: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different k...
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question: What time in 2000 does al Queada meet the requirements and what chapter can you find more details about financial transactions? answer: Chapter 9 paragraph: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack. The available evidence indicates that t...
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279-3173-16759
question: How does buying local reduce resource use? answer: Cuts back on energy use paragraph: Reducing resource use means just what it says using fewer resources. There are lots of ways to reduce our use of resources. Buy durable goods. Choose items that are well made so they will last longer. Youll buy fewer items i...
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308-3495-18468
question: What are differences between gold and copper? answer: Gold is more expensive than copper paragraph: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties. All the atoms of an element are alike. They are also different from the atoms of all other elements. For example, atoms of gold are alwa...
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242-2681-14195
question: What do we need to have fun answer: Natural resources paragraph: We need natural resources for just about everything we do. We need them for food and clothing, for building materials and energy. We even need them to have fun. Table 2.1 gives examples of how we use natural resources. Can you think of other way...
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question: What created a crisis of succession following this era of increased trade? answer: Sebastião’s demise 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 emba...
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272-3073-16209
question: How old was Prince Manuel when he died? answer: 19 paragraph: Among the early blows struck for independence was a rebellion in the town of Olhão. On 16 June 1808, the townsfolk — armed with little more than ancient swords, spears, and stones — attacked and captured the local French garrison. It's said that a ...
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55-657-3432
question: At what time was the FAA's last normal communication with United Airlines flight 93? answer: Right after the Pentagon was hit 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 T...
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350-4033-21378
question: Why does John accuse his father of leaving him again? answer: After his father told him he was leaving to live with his 19 year old girlfriend paragraph: In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him s...
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question: Does electromagnetic energy include only light? answer: Yes paragraph: Our sun and other stars release light energy. At least this is what we see. Our Sun and stars also emit more than just light. Scientists call the type of energy that our Sun and stars release electromagnetic energy. This form of energy tra...
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question: What position was vacant from January 2001 and had not been replaced before 9/11? answer: President paragraph: The Bush administration did not develop new diplomatic initiatives on al Qaeda with the Saudi government before 9/11. Vice President Cheney called Crown Prince Abdullah on July 5, 2001, to seek Saudi...
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question: How many days of sunshine does the Algarve receive each year? answer: 160 days 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 rem...
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398-4556-24066
question: Who was, at points, both considered semi-divine but also a counter-revolutionary force? answer: K’ung Fu-tzu 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 east...
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283-3210-16956
question: What is an example of an animal that gives live birth? answer: Birds paragraph: Have you ever seen an egg? Some animals do not have live births. Instead, they lay eggs. The eggs contain the embryo. The embryo matures in the egg. With time, it will hatch. Some animals hatch and do not need care from their pare...
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66-774-4075
question: Who said that the USS Cole was attacked during the Clinton administration? answer: Rice 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 present. ...
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question: What likely did not cause the changes in landscape in central Illinois? answer: Rain paragraph: Imagine you are standing in a farm field in central Illinois. The land is so flat you can see for miles and miles. On a clear day, you might see a grain silo 20 miles away. You might think to yourself, it sure is f...
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302-3447-18151
question: Who watches and waits for the baby? answer: The mother paragraph: The first rule is parental. The primitive monarchy is in the home. A young baby cries. The trained nurse turns on the light, lifts the baby, hushes it, sings to it, rocks it, and stills its weeping by caresses and song. When next the baby i...
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270-3030-15970
question: Why humans and plants are different in the way they interact with their habitats? answer: Humans often alter their environment. paragraph: From a human point of view, a habitat is where you live. It might be your city, town, or neighborhood. Your habitat can be altered. Most people move a few times in their l...
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question: How do we know Dawson's Landing was a dull town? answer: It wasn't a dull town at all paragraph: What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having! All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday ...
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question: What forces acts on a book on a table? answer: The table pulls the book upwards and the earth pulls it down paragraph: What if two children push a swing at the same time? Would the swing go higher? Yes, together their force would be more. It is common for forces to be combined. Most objects on Earth have at l...
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question: What was the luxury intoxication of Europe? answer: Bhang paragraph: These incoherent words threw the first glimpse of light on the meaning of her distress and penitence. I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of tho...
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question: How much did the 9/11 plotters spend and how much was given to Hamburg operators in regards to their role in the plot? answer: Between $400,000 and $500,000. Nearly $10,000 by the operators paragraph: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their att...
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question: What will the Orion allow NASA to do and why? answer: Test the spacecraft's systems for future manned missions because it is the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles paragraph: (CNN) -- The U.S. space shuttle program retired in 2011, leaving Americ...
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question: What was the consequence of Ben talking back to the Judge? answer: Got his car impounded 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 H...
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