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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire It was ruled by a hereditary monarchy. | [
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"text": "330 bce) by Alexander the Great.Probably the greatest of the Achaemenian rulers were Cyrus II (reigned 559c. 529 bce), who actually established the empire and from whose reign it is dated; Darius I (522486), who excelled as an administrator and secured the borders from external threats; and Xerxes I ... |
Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire It is notable for its multicultural policy. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire It is notable for its advanced bureaucracy. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire It is notable for its impressive infrastructure. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire The empire was founded by Cyrus the Great. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire Cyrus the Great defeated the Median Empire. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire The Median Empire was defeated by Cyrus the Great. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire The Median Empire was incorporated into the new Persian Empire. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire The new Persian Empire included the Median Empire, Lydian Empire, and Neo-Babylonian empires. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire The Lydian Empire was incorporated into the new Persian Empire. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire The Neo-Babylonian Empire was incorporated into the new Persian Empire. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire Cyrus died. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire Cambyses II was Cyrus' son. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire Cambyses II expanded the empire. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire The empire included Egypt. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire The empire included Nubia. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire The empire included Cyrenaica. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire A Zoroastrian priest named Gaumata staged a coup. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire Gaumata impersonated the king's brother Bardiya. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire Gaumata was overthrown by Darius I. | [
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Persian Achaemenid Empire#Persian Achaemenid Empire Darius I is also known as Darius the Great. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall was an influential leader of the civil rights movement. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall was a prominent figure in the effort to end racial segregation in the United States. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall's father was a railroad porter. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall's mother was an elementary school teacher. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall became a jurist. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall was dedicated to fighting for civil rights. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall He argued civil rights cases. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall He argued 29 out of 32 civil rights cases. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall He argued civil rights cases before the Supreme Court. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall He argued 29 out of 32 civil rights cases before the Supreme Court. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Brown v. Board of Education is a landmark case. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall He argued Brown v. Board of Education. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Brown v. Board of Education ruled that racial segregation in American public schools was unconstitutional. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall's work as an attorney led him to found the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall founded the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1940. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall served as the first Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall served as the first Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund until 1961. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall served as an associate justice. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court until his retirement. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall retired in 1991. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall died in 1993. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall is remembered as a stalwart of civil rights. | [
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Thurgood Marshall#Thurgood Marshall Marshall earned the nickname 'Mr.'. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The Kentucky Derby is an American Grade I stakes race. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The Kentucky Derby is held annually. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The Kentucky Derby is held on the first Saturday in May. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The Kentucky Derby is held at Churchill Downs. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs is located in Louisville, Kentucky. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby It is a race. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby It is a race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby It is a race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses running at a distance of 1 1/4 miles. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby It is referred to as 'The Run for the Roses'. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby It is referred to as 'The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports'. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The horses are raced. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The horses are raced by their jockeys. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby Each horse is usually backed to win. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby Many bettors back each horse to win. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The track is surrounded by spectators. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The spectators are wearing elegant outfits. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The spectators are wearing lavish hats. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The winning horse is awarded a blanket of roses. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The winning horse is awarded a huge cash prize. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The Derby is an event in horse racing. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The Derby is important. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The Derby is highly important. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby The Derby draws huge celebrities. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby Queen Elizabeth II is a celebrity. | [
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Kentucky Derby#Kentucky Derby Queen Elizabeth II attends The Derby. | [
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Adalatherium#Adalatherium Adalatherium was a mammal. | [
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"text": " specific name 'hui' could resemble the Chinese surname 'Hui'.\nDescription[]\nAdalatherium is the one of the earliest known mammals discovered. Studies show that Adalatherium fed on plants, and is the most complete mammal fossil discovered in the Southern Hemisphere. Adalatherium is a quadruped, sta... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium Adalatherium lived in Madagascar. | [
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Adalatherium#Adalatherium Adalatherium lived between 70 and 66 million years ago. | [
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"text": ") is an extinct gondwanatherian mammal that lived in the Maevarano Formation, Madagascar, 70 - 66 million years ago, during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period.\nContents\n1 Description\n2 Habitat\n3 Behavior\n4 Appearances\n4.1 Islands\n4.2 Prehistoric Planet: Uncovered - What Else... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium Adalatherium lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. | [
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"text": " from an isolated island, Adalatherium hui is very weird.\nThis mammal was part of an enigmatic group known as gondwanatheres, which were probably early members of the theriiform lineage slightly closer related to modern marsupials and placentals than to monotremes. Found in the southern continents ... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium Its name means 'crazy beast' when translated from Malagasy. | [
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"text": " It is known from a single, remarkably well-preserved skeleton that is, in fact, the most complete for any Mesozoic mammal known from the entire southern hemisphere. Translated from the Malagasy and Greek languages, Adalatherium means crazy beast.\" Why? Because its bones and teeth reveal that it was... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium Its name means 'crazy beast' when translated from Greek. | [
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"text": " It is known from a single, remarkably well-preserved skeleton that is, in fact, the most complete for any Mesozoic mammal known from the entire southern hemisphere. Translated from the Malagasy and Greek languages, Adalatherium means crazy beast.\" Why? Because its bones and teeth reveal that it was... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium Its name means 'crazy beast' when translated from Malagasy and Greek. | [
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"text": " It is known from a single, remarkably well-preserved skeleton that is, in fact, the most complete for any Mesozoic mammal known from the entire southern hemisphere. Translated from the Malagasy and Greek languages, Adalatherium means crazy beast.\" Why? Because its bones and teeth reveal that it was... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium It is known as the 'crazy beast that lived among the dinosaurs'. | [
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Adalatherium#Adalatherium It belongs to an extinct group of mammals. | [
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"text": " It is known from a single, remarkably well-preserved skeleton that is, in fact, the most complete for any Mesozoic mammal known from the entire southern hemisphere. Translated from the Malagasy and Greek languages, Adalatherium means crazy beast.\" Why? Because its bones and teeth reveal that it was... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium The group is called gondwanatherians. | [
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"text": " only represented by a few isolated teeth and jaw fragments. But even those meager remains already indicated that gondwanatherians were very different from other contemporaneous mammals. So many mysteries had surrounded gondwanatherians that it was unclear how they fit into the mammalian family tree.... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium Gondwanatherians were previously only represented by a few isolated teeth and jaw fragments. | [
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"text": " only represented by a few isolated teeth and jaw fragments. But even those meager remains already indicated that gondwanatherians were very different from other contemporaneous mammals. So many mysteries had surrounded gondwanatherians that it was unclear how they fit into the mammalian family tree.... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium The Adalatherium skeleton is nearly complete. | [
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"text": " skull and postcranial skeleton (Fig. 2A) that allows for a full skeletal reconstruction (Fig. 2B, C). The primary objectives of this volume are to describe and illustrate, in detail, the anatomical structure of UA 9030 and to compare it with the known skull and postcranial skeletal material of other... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium The Adalatherium skeleton is the most preserved of any Southern Hemisphere Mesozoic mammal. | [
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"text": " from an isolated island, Adalatherium hui is very weird.\nThis mammal was part of an enigmatic group known as gondwanatheres, which were probably early members of the theriiform lineage slightly closer related to modern marsupials and placentals than to monotremes. Found in the southern continents ... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium Adalatherium was about 2 feet long. | [
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Adalatherium#Adalatherium Adalatherium weighed around 3.1 kg. | [
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Adalatherium#Adalatherium Adalatherium was one of the largest mammals of its time. | [
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Adalatherium#Adalatherium The found specimen of Adalatherium appears to have been a subadult. | [
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Adalatherium#Adalatherium It had a large skull. | [
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Adalatherium#Adalatherium The skull measured 8.4 cm in length. | [
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Adalatherium#Adalatherium The front teeth resembled a rabbit's teeth. | [
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"text": " it moved, for instance, was challenging because its front end is telling us a completely different story than its back end.\"\nWhile its muscular hind legs and big claws on the back feet may indicate that Adalatherium was a powerful digger (like badgers), its front legs were less brawny and are more... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium The back teeth were very different from any other mammal's teeth. | [
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"text": " it moved, for instance, was challenging because its front end is telling us a completely different story than its back end.\"\nWhile its muscular hind legs and big claws on the back feet may indicate that Adalatherium was a powerful digger (like badgers), its front legs were less brawny and are more... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium It had a hole in the top of its snout. | [
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"text": " hole in the top of its nose. A large internasal vacuity between its nasal bones is a unique feature not known in any other mammal, and its function is a total mystery.\nSince this hole was also surrounded by many foramina it may have supported some sort of soft-tissue sensory structure on top of its... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium The hole in the top of its snout is a feature. | [
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"text": " hole in the top of its nose. A large internasal vacuity between its nasal bones is a unique feature not known in any other mammal, and its function is a total mystery.\nSince this hole was also surrounded by many foramina it may have supported some sort of soft-tissue sensory structure on top of its... |
Adalatherium#Adalatherium The feature is not known in any other mammal. | [
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"text": " specific name 'hui' could resemble the Chinese surname 'Hui'.\nDescription[]\nAdalatherium is the one of the earliest known mammals discovered. Studies show that Adalatherium fed on plants, and is the most complete mammal fossil discovered in the Southern Hemisphere. Adalatherium is a quadruped, sta... |
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