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question: How did Bin Laden fund the attack against America? answer: Al Qaeda funded the plotters paragraph: Bin Laden and his aides did not need a very large sum to finance their planned attack on America. The 9/11 plotters eventually spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack. Con...
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405-4598-24279
question: How long did his exile last before a recall was carried by an immense majority? answer: Three years paragraph: His exile lasted nearly a year and a half. Long before that time there had come a reaction in his favour. The new consuls were well disposed towards him; Clodius's insolence had already disgusted Pom...
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406-4601-24293
question: Who did Einstein take long walks with? answer: John von Neumann paragraph: In October 1933 Einstein returned to the U.S. and took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study (in Princeton, New Jersey), noted for having become a refuge for scientists fleeing Nazi Germany. At the time, most American unive...
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250-2789-14711
question: Why is it possible for Preston to take advantage of Sir Basil? answer: Because the mummy kills him paragraph: The Mummy 's Shroud is set in 1920 and tells the story of a team of archaeologists who come across the lost tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey . The story begins with a flash back sequence to Ancient ...
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240-2643-13942
question: Who was present when Preetam was assaulted in Madikeri? answer: The rabbit 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 t...
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question: What was the Portuguese city of Silves was once known as? answer: Xelb 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 evolved under the pressure and influence of...
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question: What detail about the crash of American 11 did White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove not tell the president? answer: The crash was a 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 tha...
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302-3448-18154
question: How many related people are discussed in this passage? answer: Two people the nurse and the grandmother 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 we...
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241-2680-14185
question: When does the force of gravity change answer: On another planet or moon in the solar system 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 c...
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261-2931-15537
question: What did Johnnie do with the books instead of returning them? answer: Sit with them open, but not read paragraph: Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than a...
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121-1411-7400
question: Who is probably going to be extradited to the U.S. for trial under President Barco's revised extradition treaty? answer: Second-ranking cartel leader paragraph: In Colombia, the drug-financed guerrillas trying to seize the country and destroy democracy include M-19, which Castro has clearly backed. Robert Mer...
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407-4612-24366
question: How can I observe the role density plays? answer: Watching the moon paragraph: Density is also an important physical property of matter. The concept of density combines what we know about an objects mass and volume. Density reflects how closely packed the particles of matter are. When particles are packed tog...
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question: What places do they go to during this trip? answer: Dirt roads 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 order to compete for his business . The m...
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question: Why did japan occupy Manchuria in 1931? answer: To build a defensive area against the Russians 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 production had tripled the figure of 1900, m...
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question: Who is coming to see Jake next game? answer: Grandfather 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 got. Only Frank was better t...
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question: What state became the first to pass major public health initiatives? answer: Utah 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 throughout the count...
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question: On which topic did Tasha think of herself as an expert because she studied it in school? answer: The play "Captured Moments" 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 stud...
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question: How does a drummer transfer motion energy to sound energy? answer: Moving drumstick hits drum head causing vibration which is what is heard 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 ...
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171-1885-9850
question: What was the name of the hard-headed plutocrat? answer: Elisha Boone paragraph: Dick was enraged to see how contentedly the men bore the irksome confinement, the meager food, and harsh peremptoriness of the beardless boys set over them as guards. Most of the prisoners passed the time in cards, playing for bu...
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338-3888-20628
question: How long ago was Springfield, Illinois covered by over a mile of ice? answer: 120 years ago 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 su...
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question: In which book does Durer show the understanding of Euclidean principles? answer: Four paragraph: In architecture Durer cites Vitruvius but elaborates his own classical designs and columns. In typography, Durer depicts the geometric construction of the Latin alphabet, relying on Italian precedent. However, his...
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question: What was the name of the meeting where Bin Laden told KSM about the four individuals he had selected to serve as suicide operatives? answer: Al Qaeda meetings 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 comple...
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423-4774-25446
question: What physical property occurs between particles and objects? answer: Neutrons 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 touch. This is unlike the typical push or pull you may be familiar wi...
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question: What solution is West offering and how is it different for a plaintiff from what is already being practiced? answer: OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist paragraph: If you beat a dog in Schuylkill County, you'll probably get a $100 fine. If you repeatedly beat a ...
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90-1072-5522
question: What was the name of the 2006 film about Pushkin's death, and who portrayed Pushkin? answer: Pushkin: The Last Duel paragraph: Honours and legacy In 1929, Soviet writer Leonid Grossman published a novel The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being...
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56-677-3585
question: How do you calculate the height of a wave? answer: While swimming 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 also called amplitude. The horizontal distance between two crests ...
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question: Who was the noble gentleman of Breadalbane unlike answer: Bucaneer paragraph: I wondered if that were my case--if I rode out for honour, and not for the pure pleasure of the riding. And I marvelled more to see the two of us, both lovers of one lady and eager rivals, burying for the nonce our feuds, and with ...
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question: Why couldn't the FAA and the Defense Department officials coordinate a military response during the conference call set up at FAA headquarters at 9:20? answer: They weren't the right officials paragraph: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in...
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question: Who led the army that caused the fall of the city of Palma? answer: Alfonso II paragraph: The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims. After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, befo...
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422-4760-25339
question: What kind of particles are carried in the wires at the top of the tall poles along the roadside? answer: Electrical particles paragraph: Surely, you have noticed the tall poles along the roadside. Do you know what is on top of those poles? Thats right, wires that carry electric current. These wires carry elec...
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220-2442-12900
question: What is one type of prop the director uses to prove a point? answer: Plastic blocks paragraph: The documentary portrays a behind-the-scenes look at the poor state of Argentina's civil aviation , and puts the blame on the Argentine Air Force . The Air Force has been in control of air traffic operations since t...
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157-1751-9077
question: Can you name two attorneys mentioned? answer: Daniel Le and Iris Mackle 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 or no English. Language is their ...
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question: After what victory was Ambhi sent to pursue Porus? answer: Hydaspes River 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 Gandh...
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question: What did the Secretary of State and the Crowned Prince talk about before 9/11? answer: Al qaeda 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 hel...
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327-3733-19790
question: Who came to discover a great deal about themselves? answer: Adam and eve paragraph: Two women trade houses without ever having met . They 're both looking for an escape from their problems , but by running away , both come to discover a great deal about themselves . Ria Lynch is married to Danny Lynch and t...
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397-4536-23957
question: Why must employees wear protective gear before entering Jennifer Baum's office? answer: Because she has taped up a clear plastic suit 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 posit...
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question: What was Mr. Thorndike's occupation? answer: Judge paragraph: Mr. Thorndike had risen, and, in farewell, was holding out his hand to Andrews. He turned, and across the court-room the eyes of the financier and the stenographer met. At the sight of the great man, Spear flushed crimson, and then his look of desp...
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question: What were the targets of their attack? answer: The Potomac River paragraph: Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for work. Some made their way to the Twin Towers, the signature structures of the World Trad...
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question: Why did Pester think of a mop when he saw the dog? answer: A running dog looks like mop paragraph: Pester came running into the room. He came to a fast stop when he saw the dog. He'd seen a dog before, every cat has, and he used to live with a black dog named Henry, but he'd never seen a brown one before. It ...
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question: What is the name of the drug used in Mars? answer: -charny- 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 t...
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question: What is the date of the worst oil spill in history? answer: April 19 2010 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 and ...
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question: Was the muffler of the Ford Bronco mentioned most likely on the driver's side of the car or the passenger's side of the car? answer: Barnett paragraph: (CNN) -- Shain Gandee, one of the stars of the MTV reality show "Buckwild," has been found dead along with two other people in Kanawha County, West Virginia, ...
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422-4765-25367
question: What kind of charge does an electron have? answer: Neutral paragraph: Surely, you have noticed the tall poles along the roadside. Do you know what is on top of those poles? Thats right, wires that carry electric current. These wires carry electric current to your home. But what is electric current? Electric c...
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question: What is the brief summarization of the appearance of the operators' uniforms as described above? answer: More costly paragraph: The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand. "The diversity is the big difference with this plant," said Ri...
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198-2230-11645
question: What is the name of the most anticipated animated film created by Matt Groening and writer Al Jean? answer: Homer and Marge's family paragraph: LONDON, England (CNN) -- The most eagerly anticipated animated film this year hits big screens this weekend, as "The Simpsons Movie" opens worldwide. The Screening Ro...
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question: What had he just finished doing when he saw the tractor answer: Feeding the horses and cows 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 ...
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question: Which state is governor Rick Perry the governor of? answer: Texas paragraph: (CNN) -- Women seeking an abortion in Texas will have to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure, under a law that takes effect September 1. The bill stirred some co...
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185-2049-10695
question: The mainland clan's walled cities can be viewed at what two intact sites? answer: Kat Hing Wai and Lo Wai 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 ...
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328-3760-19976
question: If Earths processes do not change, what does? answer: The environment and living organisms 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...
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question: What waste material do our cells release into the atmosphere? answer: Carbon dioxide paragraph: You just got done with a long run. You are gasping for air. Why does your body react this way? What is the purpose of breathing? All the cells of your body need oxygen to work properly. Your bodys circulatory syste...
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question: Besides the sun and the stars, what releases electromagnetic energy? answer: Earth 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. ...
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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 accepted aim of the educational profession is the training of character and conduct but we often act as if we care only for economic values paragraph: In actual practice, however, we act too ofte...
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question: How did Robert Boyle prove how sound waves travel? answer: yelling in space 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 ticking clock in a sealed g...
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350-4033-21381
question: Why does John accuse his father of leaving him again? answer: Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live 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 ...
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186-2059-10750
question: Who hasn't stepped in to help the funding? answer: Stanford University 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 February if a ...
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question: On what day did Atta and Omari board a 6:00 A.M. flight from Portland to Boston's Logan International Airport? answer: September 11's eve paragraph: Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for work. Some made...
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275-3119-16467
question: Was the vehicle fund in the mud? answer: It was partially submerged in the mud paragraph: (CNN) -- Shain Gandee, one of the stars of the MTV reality show "Buckwild," has been found dead along with two other people in Kanawha County, West Virginia, authorities said Monday. "This is a very sad and tragic event,...
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question: What do we know about the Cuneiform tablets found at the capital of the Hatti was Kanesh? answer: They recorded a time of peace 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 im...
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342-3947-20974
question: Why do Dr. Benjamin Stone's co-workers give him the cold shoulder? answer: Ben eats their lunch everyday 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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187-2067-10809
question: After all the antics, does Porky finally get to sleep the night through? answer: No, Porky tricked him causing him to walk out of 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 one hotel...
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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, to not give him legitimacy paragraph: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging thre...
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351-4044-21443
question: Who puts together the team that robs the train? answer: Charlie, and Victor Braganza hire a team of criminals for the robbery paragraph: Mastermind Charlie Mascarenhas and his accomplice Riya are one of the greatest pair of thieves in India . A friend of Charlie , Raj is killed by the Russian mafia . At Raj's...
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285-3234-17081
question: The agency's newest manned spaceship comes loaded with what? answer: Superlatives 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 newes...
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157-1762-9179
question: What does Mak think of this job as more than for the money? answer: It needs to pay him twice as much 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 or ...
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293-3343-17628
question: Where did Picasso meet the woman he sedated? answer: Mixed Martial Arts fighting ring paragraph: Dr. Alex Cross is a psychiatrist and police lieutenant who lives in Detroit with his wife , Maria , their children , Damon and Janelle , and his grandmother , Nana Mama . Upon learning that Maria is pregnant with ...
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240-2661-14071
question: How long are Nandini's friends delayed? answer: About five hours 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 process...
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77-898-4672
question: What are the main plants in wet and dry climates? answer: Trees paragraph: Tropical climates are found around the equator. These climates have warm temperatures year round. Tropical climates may be very wet or wet and dry. Tropical wet climates occur at or very near the equator. They have high rainfall year r...
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361-4144-22053
question: What actions did the Tokugawa take towards missionaries and those who converted to Catholicism? answer: Allowed travel abroad 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 ...
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283-3211-16958
question: Name two examples of animals that lay eggs. answer: Cows, and whales 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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125-1454-7601
question: Why do cars have tires? answer: Beacause, Rough surfaces create more friction than smooth surfaces paragraph: Rough surfaces create more friction than smooth surfaces. Thats why cars have tires. Its also why we use rubber mats in areas that might get wet. In your bathtub, you may even use No-Slip tape. No-sli...
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436-4917-26200
question: What percent of the pledge goal has been reached? answer: 10% 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 times a year, Idahoans are victims o...
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question: Which way do lines of latitude run and what do they divide? answer: Lines of latitude run east to west, lines of longitude run from north to south. They divide the Earth paragraph: How can you describe your location? You might use a familiar system. You might say, 'I live at 1234 Main Street, Springfield, Ohi...
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question: Why was Juzo absent on while taking photos in the school day? answer: He had acid thrown in his face 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...
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327-3730-19778
question: What do the women discover while living in each other's houses? answer: Deep, dark secrets about each other paragraph: Two women trade houses without ever having met . They 're both looking for an escape from their problems , but by running away , both come to discover a great deal about themselves . Ria Ly...
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question: Do the lawyers practicing "low bono" work struggle and take side jobs? answer: Sometimes 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, they caucus at the Palace Diner in Queens. Wooing clients means...
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92-1093-5601
question: What are the physical properties of matter? answer: state of matter, color and odor paragraph: Physical properties include the state of matter. We know these states as solid, liquid, or gas. Properties can also include color and odor. For example, oxygen is a gas. It is a major part of the air we breathe. It ...
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192-2150-11258
question: Which of the 3 climate zones have long and cold winters answer: Tropical 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 tr...
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question: Who claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief answer: Sayed Qtbo paragraph: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since "The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets." For those yearning for a lost sense of ord...
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question: Of all the features with Which the probes are equipped, Which is primarily for communication with alien life forms? answer: Holographic message paragraph: Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun , leaving Earth's orbit . Traveling at 20 % the speed of light , it reaches Darwin...
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453-5105-27096
question: What kinds of things did Josie want to plant? answer: Dirt paragraph: Josie started planning her new garden in the winter. She chose flowers and vegetables that could grow in her area. She looked through the seed magazines. She ordered the tastiest kind of each vegetable and the prettiest kind of each flower....
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416-4713-24981
question: What is the name of the award that means a great deal to Kilgore? answer: Nobel Peace Prize paragraph: Catherine V. "Ginny" Kilgore of Oxford, an attorney with North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, has been recognized for her dedication to serving the indigent. Kilgore - who oversees delivering legal servic...
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353-4065-21556
question: What is John Lennon's son name? answer: Julian Lennon paragraph: { { plot } } 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 seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance . When they meet , Jo...
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question: When Jimmy hammered on the keys, who didn't like it? answer: Jimmy's mom paragraph: Once upon a time Jimmy had a mother who told him that he was good at music. Jimmy wanted to play music. He did not know which instrument to play, so he tried a piano first. The piano went like a sound. Then he tried a guitar. ...
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question: What caused Diggler to have less success? answer: Diggler and Horner broke up 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 . L...
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question: Who are some of the clients that MALS serve? answer: Trying to escape abusive marriage 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 t...
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211-2327-12297
question: Who were the people who drove the boat up to the USS Cole and detonated a Bomb? answer: Nashiri 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 d...
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question: What are natural resources needed for? answer: Happiness 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 ...
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question: What were the names of the three probes deployed by the Van Braun spacecraft? answer: Arrowtongue, Sapien, and Balboa paragraph: Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun , leaving Earth's orbit . Traveling at 20 % the speed of light , it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years . Upon re...
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question: In 900 ad, present-day Canton was beset by what sort of danger? answer: Headache 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 regio...
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question: What architectural style the Angel Choir belongs to? answer: Lancet-Gothic paragraph: The mighty fane, with its three massive towers, rises majestically over the red roofs of the town. Its most striking feature is the great Norman screen, running up without buttresses or projections to the parapet and hiding ...
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question: What were the occupations of Joan Fontaine's mother and father? answer: Singer 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, ho...
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question: Who is Number 13? answer: Seki's murderer 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 . Akai , however ...
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question: How many kids of Alexander's did Roxana carry? answer: Two paragraph: Alexander married twice: Roxana, daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes, out of love; and Stateira II, a Persian princess and daughter of Darius III of Persia, for political reasons. He apparently had two sons, Alexander IV of Macedon o...
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question: According to an observer, what would Neal never consider doing? answer: Bend over backwards for reconciliation 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 John Peck, a former bo...
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question: What did Dylan and Jez share in common? answer: Con artists paragraph: Dylan and Jez are two orphans who meet in their twenties and vow to achieve their shared childhood dream of living in a stately home . In pursuit of this dream they spend their days living in a disused gas holder , spending as little mone...
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question: Are two atoms of different elements the same? answer: No, atoms of a single element are alike and differ from other elements 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....
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question: How many people was Mr. Kane involved with in his meetings? answer: 1 paragraph: On the previous evening,--March 12th,--the monotony of the camp had been unexpectedly disturbed by the arrival, from the direction of Salt Lake City, of a horseman completely exhausted by fatigue and cold, who proved to be no oth...
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question: What was Grim striving to mimic? answer: The military stare 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 disguise a man. Disgu...
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question: What interest do Julie and Sylvia have in common? answer: Classical music 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...
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question: What is magnetism? answer: Is the ability of a material to be attracted by a magnet paragraph: Magnetism is the ability of a material to be attracted by a magnet. It also include the ability for some material to act like a magnet. No doubt youve handled refrigerator magnets. You can see some in Figure 1.28. Y...
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