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Who was President when the first Peanuts cartoon was published? | [
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"text": "first strip) a beagle, Snoopy. The first addition, Violet, was made on February 7, 1951. Other character introductions that soon followed were Schroeder, on May 30, 1951, as a baby; Lucy, on March 3, 1952; Lucy's baby brother Linus, on September 19, 1952 (after his existence was first mentioned on July 14); and Pig-Pen, on July 13, 1954. Though the strip did not have a lead character at first, it soon began to focus on Charlie Brown, a character developed from some of the painful experiences of Schulz's formative years. In early strips, Charlie Brown was depicted as distinctly younger",
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"text": "from a wide range of acclaimed contemporary artists and designers who have been inspired by the cartoon. Peanuts Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz that ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. \"Peanuts\" is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it \"arguably the longest story ever told by one human being\". At its peak in the mid- to late 1960s, \"Peanuts\" ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of",
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"text": "a cartoon to \"The Saturday Evening Post,\" which published 17 of his single-panel cartoons. The first of these was of a boy sitting with his feet on an ottoman. In 1948, Schulz tried to have \"Li'l Folks\" syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a firm run by the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. \"Li'l Folks\" was dropped in early 1950. Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate—also operated by Scripps-Howard—with his best work from \"Li'l Folks\". When his work was",
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"text": "\"Linus for President/The Election,\" followed the original comic strip segments rather than the TV special. It was released under the permission of Charles Schulz's wife Jeannie. Rather than the traditional Peanuts special animation, Warner Bros. used the original comic segments and used the latest technology to move the characters' body parts. You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown is the eighth prime-time animated TV special produced based upon the popular comic strip \"Peanuts\" by Charles M. Schulz, and the 10th one to air. It originally aired on CBS on October 29, 1972, before the 1972 election. Sally",
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"text": "Peanuts Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz that ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. \"Peanuts\" is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it \"arguably the longest story ever told by one human being\". At its peak in the mid- to late 1960s, \"Peanuts\" ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of around 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the",
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"text": "To Schulz's delight, the syndicate preferred the strip; however, the name \"Li'l Folks\" was too close to the names of two other comics of the time: Al Capp's \"Li'l Abner\" and a strip titled \"Little Folks\". To avoid confusion, the syndicate chose the name \"Peanuts\", after the peanut gallery featured in the \"Howdy Doody\" TV show. \"Peanuts\" made its first appearance on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers. \"Li'l Folks\" saw the first use of the name Charlie Brown on May 30, 1948, although Schulz applied the name in four gags to three different boys, as well as one buried",
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"text": "to California in 1959, in 1960 he left cartooning to become a graphic artist. Jim Sasseville died on November 30, 2005. Jim Sasseville James Frederick Sasseville (August 28, 1927 – November 30, 2005) was an American cartoonist and graphic artist, best known for his work with \"Peanuts\" creator Charles M. Schulz. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art in 1948. He served in both World War II and the Korean War. He worked at the Art Instruction Schools, where he met fellow Minnesotan Schulz. Sasseville worked with Schulz on the short-lived sports comic strip \"It's",
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"text": "the syndication editor. In a 1987 interview, Schulz said: \"It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity—and I think my humor has dignity.\" The periodic collections of the strips in paperback book form typically had either \"Charlie Brown\" or \"Snoopy\" in the title, not \"Peanuts\", because of Schulz's distaste. From November 20, 1966, to January 4, 1987, the opening Sunday panels typically read \"Peanuts, featuring Good Ol' Charlie Brown\". \"Peanuts\" premiered on October 2, 1950, in nine newspapers: \"The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Tribune\", \"The Allentown Morning Call\", \"The Bethlehem Globe-Times\", \"The",
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"text": "\"Youth\", a publication associated with the Church of God. In 1957 and 1961 he illustrated two volumes of Art Linkletter's \"Kids Say the Darndest Things\", and in 1964 a collection of letters, \"Dear President Johnson\", by Bill Adler. At its height, \"Peanuts\" was published daily in 2,600 papers in 75 countries, in 21 languages. Over the nearly 50 years that \"Peanuts\" was published, Schulz drew nearly 18,000 strips. The strips, plus merchandise and product endorsements, produced revenues of more than $1 billion per year, with Schulz earning an estimated $30 million to $40 million annually. During the strip's run, Schulz",
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"text": "took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997 to celebrate his 75th birthday; reruns of the strip ran during his vacation, the only time that occurred during Schulz's life. The first collection of \"Peanuts\" strips was published in July 1952 by Rinehart & Company. Many more books followed, greatly contributing to the strip's increasing popularity. In 2004, Fantagraphics began their \"Complete Peanuts\" series. \"Peanuts\" also proved popular in other media; the first animated TV special, \"A Charlie Brown Christmas\", aired in December 1965 and won an Emmy award. Numerous TV specials followed, the latest being \"Happiness is a",
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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930? | [
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"text": "Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel \"The Jungle\", which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act",
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"text": "Sinclair Lewis Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded \"for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.\" His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, \"[If] there",
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"text": "as the narrator. His book \"The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman\" won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1967. His biographies have covered a wide variety of famous people: Che Guevara, Dylan Thomas, Jack London, John Ford, J Pierpont Morgan and Francis Bacon. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972. His most recent work is his autobiography, \"Storytelling: A Sort of Memoir\" (2018). Sinclair was Director of Historical Studies, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1961–63; and Lecturer in American History, University College London (UCL), 1965–67. His writings on persons and themes of American history",
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"text": "Big Timber. Later, before writing about the fishing industry, he worked as a commercial fisherman and then wrote Poor Man's Rock. Later in life, from 1936–66, he worked full-time as a licensed commercial fisherman. In writing about the outdoors, Sinclair was influenced in his portrayals by Jack London. In his works treating social causes, he was influenced by Upton Sinclair, who may have been a cousin. Over the years 1905-40 Sinclair wrote over 60 stories and 11 \"novelettes\". Bertrand William Sinclair Bertrand William Sinclair (1881–1972) was a Canadian novelist known for a series of westerns set in the United States,",
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"text": "move away from the stance later in his life. In the 21st century, Sinclair is considered an early American democratic socialist. After his loss to Merriam, Sinclair abandoned EPIC and politics to return to writing. In 1935, he published \"I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked\", in which he described the techniques employed by Merriam's supporters, including the then popular Aimee Semple McPherson, who vehemently opposed socialism and what she perceived as Sinclair's modernism. Sinclair's line from this book \"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it\"",
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"text": "May Sinclair May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure, rebel Jane Austen for a suffrage fundraising event. Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose, and she is attributed with first using the term stream of consciousness in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel",
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"text": "experience in both prose and poetry. Her 1913 novel \"The Combined Maze\", the story of a London clerk and the two women he loves, was highly praised by critics, including George Orwell, while Agatha Christie considered it one of the greatest English novels of its time. She wrote early criticism on Imagism and the poet H. D. (1915 in \"The Egoist\"); she was on social terms with H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound at the time. She also reviewed in a positive light the poetry of T. S. Eliot (1917 in the \"Little Review\") and the fiction",
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"text": "also been the British Library Penguin Writer's Fellow, as well as a visiting lecturer, most frequently at the University of East Anglia, but also at the University of California, Santa Cruz, his special subjects being gothic fiction, creative writing, detective fiction, and Holocaust literature. His recent books include \"Clive Sinclair's True Tales of the Wild West\", \"A Soap Opera From Hell: Essays on the Facts of Life and the Facts of Death\" and \"Death & Texas\". Sinclair was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983. Sinclair died in March 2018, aged 70. A posthumous collection of",
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"text": "a raw food diet of predominantly vegetables and nuts. For long periods of time, he was a complete vegetarian, but he also experimented with eating meat. His attitude to these matters was fully explained in the chapter, \"The Use of Meat\", in the above-mentioned book. Fiction Autobiographical Non-fiction Drama As editor Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize",
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"text": "Mary Craig, Sinclair wrote or produced several films. Recruited by Charlie Chaplin, Sinclair and Mary Craig produced Eisenstein's \"¡Qué viva México!\" in 1930–32. Aside from his political and social writings, Sinclair took an interest in occult phenomena and experimented with telepathy. His book \"Mental Radio\" (1930) included accounts of his wife Mary's telepathic experiences and ability. William McDougall read the book and wrote an introduction to it, which led him to establish the parapsychology department at Duke University. Sinclair broke with the Socialist party in 1917 and supported the war effort. By the 1920s, however, he had returned to the",
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"text": "Judi Dench Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years, she performed in several of Shakespeare's plays, in such roles as Ophelia in \"Hamlet\", Juliet in \"Romeo and Juliet\", and Lady Macbeth in \"Macbeth\". Although most of her work during this period was in theatre, she also branched into film work and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer. She drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical \"Cabaret\" in 1968. Over the next two decades,",
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"text": "She has also received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2001, and the Special Olivier Award in 2004. In June 2011, she received a fellowship from the British Film Institute (BFI). Dench is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Dench was born in Heworth, North Riding of Yorkshire. Her mother, Eleanora Olive (\"née\" Jones), was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her father, Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor, was born in Dorset, England, and later moved to Dublin, where he was brought up. He met Dench's mother while he was studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. Dench attended the Mount",
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"text": "to independence, published in August 2014, a few weeks before the Scottish referendum. In September 2018, Dench criticized the response to the sexual misconduct allegations made against actor Kevin Spacey, referring to him as a \"good friend\". Judi Dench Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years, she performed in several of Shakespeare's plays, in such roles as Ophelia in \"Hamlet\", Juliet in \"Romeo and Juliet\", and Lady Macbeth in \"Macbeth\". Although most of her work during this period",
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"text": "School, a Quaker independent secondary school in York, and became a Quaker. Her brothers, one of whom was actor Jeffery Dench, were born in Tyldesley, Lancashire. Her niece, Emma Dench, is a historian of ancient Rome and professor previously at Birkbeck, University of London, and currently at Harvard University. In Britain, Dench has developed a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her forte throughout her career. She has more than once been named number one in polls for Britain's best actor. Through her parents, Dench had",
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"text": "Honour (CH) in the 2005 Birthday Honours. In June 2011, she became a fellow of the British Film Institute (BFI). In a biography by John Miller it was noted that in the late 1990s Dench was the patron of over 180 charities, many of which were related either to the theatre or to medical causes, for example York Against Cancer. Dench is a patron of the Leaveners, Friends School Saffron Walden, The Archway Theatre, Horley, Surrey and OnePlusOne Marriage and Partnership Research, London. She became president of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London in 2006, taking over from Sir",
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"text": "John Mills, and is president of Questors Theatre, Ealing. In May 2006, she became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). She was also patron of Ovingdean Hall School, a special day and boarding school for the deaf and hard of hearing in Brighton, which closed in 2010, and Vice President of The Little Foundation. Dame Judi is also a long-standing and active Vice President of the national disabled people's charity Revitalise. Dench is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. In 1996, she was awarded a DUniv degree from Surrey University and in 2000–2001, she",
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"text": "received an honorary DLitt degree from Durham University. On 24 June 2008, she was honoured by the University of St Andrews, receiving an honorary DLitt degree at the university's graduation ceremony. On 26 June 2013, she was honoured by the University of Stirling, receiving an honorary doctorate at the university's graduation ceremony in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the Arts, particularly to film. In March 2013, Dench was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s by \"The Guardian\". One of the highest-profile actresses in British popular culture, Dench appeared on Debrett's 2017 list of the most influential",
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"text": "regular contact with the theatre. Her father, a physician, was also the GP for the York theatre, and her mother was its wardrobe mistress. Actors often stayed in the Dench household. During these years, Judi Dench was involved on a non-professional basis in the first three productions of the modern revival of the York Mystery Plays in 1951, 1954 and 1957. In the third production she played the role of the Virgin Mary, performed on a fixed stage in the Museum Gardens. Though she initially trained as a set designer, she became interested in drama school as her brother Jeff",
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William Christensen of Madison, New Jersey, has claimed to have the world's biggest collection of what? | [
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"text": "collection consists of over 35,000 artifacts. On 22 September 2010, the Danish Villages of Elk Horn and Kimballton, Iowa were selected to join the Iowa Great Places Program. Included in the Elk Horn-Kimballton Great Places proposal was the development of the Jens Jensen Prairie Landscape Park on the museum's grounds. Wayne Alwill, a farmer in Manning, Iowa, left the museum $1.3 million when he died in 2008. The park emulates and celebrates \"the philosophy and artistic vision\" of Jens Jensen (landscape architect). The park is designed by Jens Jensen's great-great grandson, also named Jens Jensen, and Bill Tishler, a professor",
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"text": "collector of magnets would be called memomagnetist. These terms have been used by at least one Russian online community for magnet collectors. According to Collector's Lot magazine, in March 1999, Tony Lloyd of Cardiff, Wales, coined the term \"thuramgist\" for a \"collector of fridge magnets\". At one time, the largest verified collection of refrigerator magnets belonged to Louise J. Greenfarb from Henderson, Nevada (suburb of Las Vegas, United States). Her world record was included to the \"Guinness World Records\" with 19,300 items as of 1997. According to the British \"Book of alternative records\", it grew to 29,000 as of February",
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"text": "be the basis of a new Museum of Fantasy and Play, but this never materialized and they donated their collection to the Children's Museum instead. The Caplans spent about US$1 million acquiring the objects from around 1965 to 1985; some of the countries strongly represented are Japan, Mexico, Russia, Germany, Indonesia, and India. Theresa Caplan had organized the entire collection, using 20,000 meticulously documented notecards in 28 shoe boxes. All of the cards were organized by country and category. The collection was moved in three semi trucks containing 1500 boxes from a warehouse and the Caplan's home in Princeton, New",
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"text": "Michael Zarnock Michael Zarnock (born April 21, 1958 in Utica, New York) is an American writer of collector guides and articles about Hot Wheels toy cars and accessories. Zarnock is known for a massive Hot Wheels collection that earned him a Guinness World Record title in 2003 and 2007 for owning the largest collection of different model cars (8,128) and is featured in the 2008 \"Ripley's Believe It or Not!\" book \"Prepare to Be Shocked.\" And the 2011 \"Ripley's Believe It Or Not!\" book \"Utterly Crazy!\" By his own account he has collected more than 20,000 toy cars; From 2004",
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"text": "Fe, New Mexico, New York City and in 2007 he had a retrospective exhibition at the Spanierman Gallery in Manhattan. His paintings are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, DC., the Chicago Art Institute, the Nelson-Atkins Museum Kansas City, Missouri, Boca Raton Museum of Art and dozens of others. On January 18, 2007 Dan Christensen enjoyed the opening of an important survey exhibition",
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"text": "Niels Christensen Niels Anton Christensen (16 August 1865 – 5 October 1952) was a Danish-American inventor whose principal invention was the O-ring, the ubiquitous hydraulic seal. Niels Anton Christensen was born on a farm in Tørring-Uldum Municipality, Denmark. He showed an early aptitude for mechanics and apprenticed to a machinist in Vejle, Denmark. After completing his apprenticeship, he entered the Technical Institute of Copenhagen, now the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Science. In 1891, Christensen immigrated to the United States when he was 26 years old. Christensen became a leading draftsman at Fraser and Chalmers in Chicago, a manufacturer of",
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"text": "500 pairs, mostly Nike's. On 19 September 2006, The Guinness Book Of World Records confirmed that William \"Boy\" Habraken collected the largest collection of tribal and ethnographical shoes in the world. The museum houses this collection and a design collection of known shoe designers such as André Perugia, Salvatore Ferragamo, Christian Louboutin and Manolo Blahnik. There's also a selection of cartoons, mainly made by Belgium and Dutch comic artists such as Jean-Marc van Tol, Jean-Claude Servais, Kim Duchateau, Lamelos, Bill Griffith, and others. And a collection of short stories by writers such as Geert van Istendael, Kees van Kooten, Adriaan",
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"text": "2002, and later up to over 30,000 items. Over 7,000 magnets from Greenfarb's collection were exhibited at the Guinness Museum in Las Vegas, which has since closed. According to her son, Bryan Greenfarb, as of November 2015 Louise still collects and has around 45,000 plus non-duplicate refrigerator magnets but the Guinness verification process, which can take over 6 plus months, is just too taxing to keep validating the exact number. In January 1999, Tony Lloyd, a teacher in Cardiff, Wales, was interviewed by the Channel 4 Television programme \"Collector's Lot\" when it was ascertained that he had largest collection of",
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"text": "collection in the world with over 52,000 miniature liquor bottles commissioned to a three-story museum in Oslo. Christian Ringnes Christian Ringnes (born 3 March 1954) is well known as a flamboyant businessman and art collector from Norway whose family started the country’s largest brewery Ringnes more than a hundred years ago. In his hometown of Oslo, Ringnes owns restaurants, hotels and museums, and recently donated more than $70 million for the creation of a large sculpture and cultural park, which opened in 2013. The Wall Street Journal ranks it as one of the top five parks in the world. Over",
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"text": "Green Collection The Green Collection is the one of the world's largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts, made up of more than 40,000 biblical antiquities assembled by the Green family, founders of American retail chain Hobby Lobby. The collection is displayed in the $400 million Museum of the Bible which opened in 2017 in Washington, D.C. The collection is named for the Green family, founders and leaders of Hobby Lobby, the world’s largest privately owned arts and crafts retailer. The collection was assembled beginning in November 2009 by its original director, ancient/medieval manuscript specialist Scott Carroll, in",
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In which decade did Billboard magazine first publish and American hit chart? | [
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"text": "recorded songs issued after their deaths) and enjoyed strong followings for many years. The 1960s began a trend toward a proliferation of No. 1 hits on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart, thanks to ever-changing data collecting methods. When the 1960s decade opened, there were but four No. 1 songs topping the chart (five, if one counts Marty Robbins' \"El Paso\"), but by the mid-1960s, there were always at least a dozen songs topping the chart annually. In 1967, there were more than 20 songs reaching the top spot for the first time ever in a single calendar year ...",
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"text": "Billboard charts. In 1972, 1973 and 1977, as well as 1980-1984 and 1990-1994, AT40 compiled its own year-end chart. These charts were often close to Billboard's, but AT40 would use a mid-December to early-December time period while Billboard's survey year varied from year to year. AT40 matched Billboard's #1 year-end song every year except 1977, 1984, 1990 and 1993. With the show's revival in 1998, a new chart was implemented, the top 40 portion of \"Radio and Records\" CHR/Pop top 50 chart, which was already in use on \"Casey's Top 40\". This chart used a recurrent rule that removed songs",
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"text": "song that is only briefly popular may chart higher than a song that sells more copies in the long range, but more slowly. As a result, a band's biggest hit single may not be its best-selling single. According to Joel Whitburn, the American trade publication \"Billboard\" introduced the Hot 100 on August 4, 1958. This was the first chart in the US to \"fully integrate the hottest-selling and most-played pop singles.\" From 1958 until 1991, \"Billboard\" compiled the chart from playlists reported by radio stations, and surveys of retail sales outlets. Before 1958, several charts were published, including \"Best Sellers",
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"text": "in the Philippines, was announced. \"Billboard\" publishes a news website and weekly magazine that cover music, video and home entertainment. Most of the articles are written by staff writers, while some are written by industry experts. It covers news, gossip, opinion, and music reviews, but its \"most enduring and influential creation\" is the \"Billboard\" charts. The charts track music sales, radio airtime and other data about the most popular songs and albums. The \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart of the top-selling songs was introduced in 1958. Since then, the \"Billboard\" 200, which tracks the top-selling albums, has become more popular as",
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"text": "UN symbol, the other side is South Korea. Angola is a country in Southern Africa. It is the seventh-largest country in Africa. Since it gained independence from Portugal in 1975, the Civil War had begun between the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)(Portuguese: \"Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola)\" and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Although a peace treaty was concluded in May 1991, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which lost the referendum under the arbitration of the UN, caused the civil war again. In the process, the",
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"text": "claimed millions of lives and produced many refugees; it didn't end until 2002. Following negotiations held in Portugal, itself experiencing severe social and political turmoil and uncertainty due to the April 1974 revolution, Angola's three main guerrilla groups agreed to establish a transitional government in January 1975. Within two months, however, the FNLA, MPLA and UNITA had started fighting each other and the country began splitting into zones controlled by rival armed political groups. The MPLA gained control of the capital Luanda and much of the rest of the country. With the support of the United States, Zaïre and South",
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"text": "which was called the Colonial War. The principal protagonists included the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), founded in 1956, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), which appeared in 1961, and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), founded in 1966. After many years of conflict that weakened all of the insurgent parties, Angola gained its independence on 11 November 1975, after the 1974 coup d'état in Lisbon, Portugal, which overthrew the Portuguese régime headed by Marcelo Caetano. Portugal's new revolutionary leaders began in 1974 a process of political change at home",
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"text": "as a defined territorial entity from this point onwards. In 1961, the FNLA and the MPLA, based in neighbouring countries, began a guerrilla campaign against Portuguese rule on several fronts. The Portuguese Colonial War, which included the Angolan War of Independence, lasted until the Portuguese regime's overthrow in 1974 through a leftist military coup in Lisbon. When the timeline for independence became known, most of the roughly 500,000 ethnic Portuguese Angolans fled the territory during the weeks before or after that deadline. Portugal left behind a newly independent country whose population was mainly composed by Ambundu, Ovimbundu, and Bakongo peoples.",
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"text": "the country. With the support of the United States, Zaïre and South Africa intervened militarily in favour of the FNLA and UNITA with the intention of taking Luanda before the declaration of independence. In response, Cuba intervened in favor of the MPLA. In the meantime the South Africans and UNITA had come as close as 200 km to the south of the capital, the FNLA and Zairean forces as far as Kifangondo, 30 km to the east. With Cuban support, the MPLA held Luanda and declared independence on November 11, 1975, the day the Portuguese left the country. Agostinho Neto",
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"text": "in the south from where it also engaged in the struggle for the country. By August the MPLA had control of 11 of the 15 provincial capitals, including Cabina and Luanda. On 12 August, Portugal began airlifting more than 200,000 white Portuguese Angolans from Luanda to Lisbon, via \"Operation Air Bridge\". South African forces invaded Angola on 23 October 1975, covertly sending 1,500 to 2,000 troops from Namibia into southern Angola. FNLA-UNITA-South African forces took five provincial capitals, including Novo Redondo and Benguela in three weeks. On 10 November the Portuguese left Angola. Cuban-MPLA forces defeated South African-FNLA forces, maintaining",
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"text": "on 11 November 1975, with Agostinho Neto becoming the first president, though the civil war continued. José Eduardo Dos Santos became the first elected President of Angola from the MPLA-LT and continued to get the support of Cuba. Angola was a colony of Portugal for more than 400 years from the 15th century. The demand for independence in Angola picked up momentum during the early 1950s. The Portuguese régime, refused to accede to the demands for independence, provoking an armed conflict that started in 1961 when freedom fighters attacked both white and black civilians in cross-border operations in northeastern Angola,",
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"text": "civil war which lasted several decades. It claimed millions of lives and produced many refugees; it didn't end until 2002. Following negotiations held in Portugal, itself experiencing severe social and political turmoil and uncertainty due to the April 1974 revolution, Angola's three main guerrilla groups agreed to establish a transitional government in January 1975. Within two months, however, the FNLA, MPLA and UNITA had started fighting each other and the country began splitting into zones controlled by rival armed political groups. The MPLA gained control of the capital Luanda and much of the rest of the country. With the support",
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"text": "than 400 years from the 15th century. Demands for independence picked up momentum during the early 1950s, with the principal protagonists including the MPLA, founded in 1956, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), which appeared in 1961, and the UNITA, founded in 1966. After many years of conflict that weakened all of the insurgent parties, Angola gained independence on 11 November 1975, after the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, which overthrew the Portuguese regime headed by Marcelo Caetano. A fight for dominance broke out immediately between the three nationalist movements. The events prompted a mass exodus of Portuguese",
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"text": "grandfathers were evangelists. Dr. Solberg was also Senior Representative for Lutheran World Relief during the reconstruction of Germany after the Second World War from 1949 until 1956. Because of this, the family moved frequently during Soul's youth. Soul attended Augustana College, University of the Americas in Mexico City and the University of Minnesota. At 19, he turned down a professional baseball contract with the Chicago White Sox in order to study political science. While in Mexico, inspired by students who taught him to play the guitar, Soul changed his direction and decided to follow his passion for music. His first",
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"text": "a theatrical feature film in some countries. During the mid- to late 1970s, Soul returned to his singing roots. Produced by Tony Macaulay, he recorded hits including \"Don't Give Up on Us\" (1977) which reached No. 1 in the US and the UK, and \"Silver Lady\" (1977) which also topped the charts in the UK. From 1976 until 1978, he had five UK Top 20 singles and two Top 10 albums. From 1976 to 1982 he toured extensively in the US, Europe, Far East and South America. In the U.S., he continued to make guest appearances in various television series.",
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"text": "African-American Music. David is a graduate of The Landmark Forum and has participated as senior coach in several of Landmark's programs in the US and the UK. Since coming back to live in London, Nathan has established the label SoulMusic Records in association with Cherry Red and as of September 2017, SoulMusic Records has reissued over 150 CDs by popular soul, jazz/funk and Motown artists. David released his first CD as a singer, \"Reinvention\", in 2003 on his own Nefer Music label. In 2006, he issued a digital EP, \"Wlld Is The Wind: A Tribute To Nina Simone\" and In",
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"text": "African-American owned and operated institutions – with the word \"soul\". Relating this occurrence to the biblical story of the Passover, Hayes and songwriting partner David Porter came up with the idea, in Hayes's words, of \"a story about one's struggle to rise above his present conditions. It's almost a tune [where it's] kind of like boasting, 'I'm a soul man.' It's a pride thing.\" Sam sings the first verse, with Dave joining in the chorus. Dave sings the second verse, with Sam joining in the chorus. Sam sings the third verse, with Dave joining in the chorus. This is followed",
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Who won Super Bowl XX? | [
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"text": "Super Bowl XX Super Bowl XX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Chicago Bears and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1985 season. The Bears defeated the Patriots by the score of 46–10, capturing their first NFL championship (and Chicago's first overall sports victory) since 1963, three years prior to the birth of the Super Bowl. Super Bowl XX was played on January 26, 1986 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. This was the fourth Super Bowl where both teams",
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"text": "game summary. Source: Super Bowl XX Super Bowl XX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Chicago Bears and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1985 season. The Bears defeated the Patriots by the score of 46–10, capturing their first NFL championship (and Chicago's first overall sports victory) since 1963, three years prior to the birth of the Super Bowl. Super Bowl XX was played on January 26, 1986 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. This was the fourth Super Bowl",
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"text": "IX. Bears defensive end Richard Dent, who had 1.5 quarterback sacks, forced two fumbles, and blocked a pass, was named the game's Most Valuable Player (MVP). The telecast of the game on NBC was watched by an estimated 92.57 million viewers. To commemorate the 20th Super Bowl, all previous Super Bowl MVPs were honored during the pregame ceremonies. NFL owners awarded the hosting of Super Bowl XX to New Orleans, Louisiana on December 14, 1982, at an owners meeting held in Dallas. This was the sixth time that New Orleans hosted the Super Bowl. Tulane Stadium was the site of",
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"text": "to commemorate two anniversaries—the 25th anniversary of Super Bowl XX and 15th of Super Bowl XXX, which marked the Dallas Cowboys' most recent Super Bowl championship. In honor of those occasions, Super Bowl XX MVP Richard Dent and former Dallas Cowboys defensive back Deion Sanders, both of whom were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011, joined the ceremonies. They were joined by fellow Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees and past Super Bowl participants Marshall Faulk, Chris Hanburger and Shannon Sharpe. The Black Eyed Peas performed a medley of their greatest hits: \"I Gotta Feeling\", \"Boom",
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"text": "and returned them for 34 yards, was named Super Bowl MVP. Jackson became only the second safety and third defensive back named Super Bowl MVP. Super Bowl XXXVII was originally awarded to San Francisco on October 15, 1997 by the NFL owners at a league meeting in Washington, D.C. The 49ers had recently announced plans for a new stadium, and were awarded the Super Bowl contingent on its completion. However, the stadium plans had stalled by the fall of 1998 and the NFL reopened the bidding for the game. San Diego, which had lost out on Super Bowl XXXVI, announced",
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"text": "XI “made up for the other Raiders who came before and didn’t have a chance to participate on a winning Super Bowl team. This victory meant not only a lot to me, it meant a lot to the entire Raider organization.” The win was particularly satisfying for Brown, who scored a Super Bowl touchdown and earned his first championship ring after 14 years of professional football. Sources: NFL.com Super Bowl XI, Super Bowl XI Play Finder Oak, Super Bowl XI Play Finder Min Completions/attempts Carries Long gain Receptions Times targeted The following records were set in Super Bowl XI, according",
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"text": "suspense at the game's ending. Super Bowl XXX Super Bowl XXX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1995 season. The Cowboys defeated the Steelers by the score of 27–17. The game was played on January 28, 1996, at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, the first time the Super Bowl was played in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Both teams entered the game trying to tie the San Francisco 49ers for the record for",
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"text": "scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XX, his only Super Bowl appearance during his Hall of Fame career. Many people including Mike Ditka have claimed that the reason for this was due to the fact that the Patriots' defensive scheme was centered on stopping Payton. Although Payton was ultimately the Bears' leading rusher during the game, the Patriots' defense held him to only 61 yards on 22 carries, with his longest run being only 7 yards. He was given several opportunities to score near the goal line, but New England stopped him every time before he reached the end zone",
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"text": "Super Bowl XXX Super Bowl XXX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1995 season. The Cowboys defeated the Steelers by the score of 27–17. The game was played on January 28, 1996, at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, the first time the Super Bowl was played in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Both teams entered the game trying to tie the San Francisco 49ers for the record for most Super Bowl wins by",
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"text": "XXV was the game's MVP, Ottis Anderson, and former head coach Bill Parcells. Representing the Los Angeles Raiders' win in Super Bowl XVIII was that game's MVP, Marcus Allen, and former head coach Tom Flores. This was the last Super Bowl to have individual player introductions for both teams (both the Ravens' and Giants' defenses were announced). In Super Bowl XXXVI, the New England Patriots bucked this trend and were introduced all at once as a team; the Rams, however, still used individual player introductions in that game. Starting with Super Bowl XXXVII, the league decided to have the both",
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"text": "has a moratorium and has not conducted an execution since 1999. The absolute ban on the death penalty is enshrined in both the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (EU) and two widely adopted protocols of the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and is thus considered a central value. Of all modern European countries, San Marino, Portugal and the Netherlands were the first to abolish capital punishment, whereas only Belarus still practices capital punishment in some form or another. In 2012, Latvia became the last EU Member State to abolish capital punishment in",
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"text": "completely free of executions. This century the following European countries have abolished capital punishment: Ukraine (2000), Malta (2000), Cyprus (2002), Turkey (2004), Greece (2004), Moldova (2005), Albania (2007), and Latvia (2012). Executions in Europe in 2017: Belarus (2) \"Note: The tables can be sorted alphabetically or chronologically using the icon.\" Of the 14 independent countries in Oceania that are UN member or observer states: Only Papua New Guinea and Tonga have not formally abolished capital punishment despite not using the practice since 1975 and 1982 respectively. The most recent countries to abolish capital punishment in Oceania are Samoa (2004), Fiji",
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"text": "Capital punishment in Europe The death penalty has been completely abolished in all European countries except for Belarus and Russia, the latter of which has a moratorium and has not conducted an execution since 1999. The absolute ban on the death penalty is enshrined in both the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (EU) and two widely adopted protocols of the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and is thus considered a central value. Of all modern European countries, San Marino, Portugal and the Netherlands were the first to abolish capital punishment, whereas only",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "United Arab Emirates (1), Vietnam (unknown number). \"Note: The tables can be sorted alphabetically or chronologically using the icon.\" Of the 49 independent states in Europe that are UN members or have UN Observer status: Abolition of death penalty is a pre-condition for entry into the European Union, which considers capital punishment a \"cruel and inhuman\" practice and \"not been shown in any way to act as a deterrent to crime\". Since 1999, Belarus has been the only recognized country in Europe to carry out executions. 2009 and 2015 were the first two years in recorded history when Europe was",
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"text": "and to suggest that criminal justice should conform to rational principles. As a consequence in Italy the first pre-unitarian state to abolish the death penalty was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as of November 30, 1786, under the reign of Pietro Leopoldo, later Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. So Tuscany was the first civil state in the world to do away with torture and capital punishment. Since then in the last two centuries the refusal of death penalty has been increasing all around the world: \"In 2012, 141 states have abolished either by law or on a de facto basis",
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"text": "in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. The only retentionist country in Europe is Belarus. The death penalty was overwhelmingly practised in poor and authoritarian states, which often employed the death penalty as a tool of political oppression. During the 1980s, the democratisation of Latin America swelled the ranks of abolitionist countries. This was soon followed by the fall of Communism in Europe. Many of the countries which restored democracy aspired to enter the EU. The European Union and the Council of Europe both strictly require member states not to practise the death penalty (see Capital punishment in Europe). Public support",
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"text": "Belarus still practices capital punishment in some form or another. In 2012, Latvia became the last EU Member State to abolish capital punishment in wartime. As of 2017, in Europe, the death penalty for peacetime crimes has been abolished in all countries except Belarus, while the death penalty for wartime crimes has been abolished in all countries except Belarus and Kazakhstan. (Kazakhstan is a country situated partly in Europe and partly in Asia). In Russia the death penalty has been indefinitely suspended (under moratorium), therefore is uncommon but not unheard of. Except for Belarus, which carried out two executions in",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "India executes criminals only in extreme cases. Only 26 executions have taken place in India since 1991, the last of the terrorist Yakub Memon in 2015. The European Union holds a strong position against the death penalty; its abolition is a key objective for the Union's human rights policy. Abolition is also a pre-condition for entry into the European Union. In Europe, only Belarus and the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic continue to actively use capital punishment. The capital punishment has been completely abolished in all European countries except for Belarus and Russia, the latter of which",
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"text": "tackle criminal reform and to suggest that criminal justice should conform to rational principles. As a consequence in Italy, the first pre-unitarian state to abolish the death penalty was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as of November 30, 1786, under the reign of Pietro Leopoldo, later Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. So Tuscany was the first civil state in the world to do away with torture and capital punishment. In 2000, Tuscany's regional authorities instituted an annual holiday on 30 November to commemorate the event. The event is commemorated on this day by 300 cities around the world celebrating Cities",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "Japan, and most Islamic states. The United States is the only Western country to still use the death penalty. Since World War II, there has been a trend toward abolishing the death penalty. 58 countries retain the death penalty in active use, 102 countries have abolished capital punishment altogether, six have done so for all offences except under special circumstances, and 32 more have abolished it in practice because they have not used it for at least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice against carrying out executions. According to Amnesty International, 23 countries are",
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What first appeared in Ohio in 1914 to affect transport? | [
"First Traffic Lights"
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"text": "which occurred between 1870 and 1920. Water ports sprang up along Lake Erie, including the Port of Ashtabula, Port of Cleveland, Port of Conneaut, Fairport Harbor, Port of Huron, Port of Lorain, Port of Marblehead, Port of Sandusky, and Port of Toledo. The Port of Cincinnati was built on the Ohio River. Following the commercialization of air travel, Ohio became a key route for east to west transportation. The first commercial cargo flight occurred between Dayton and Columbus in 1910. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport was built in 1925 and became home to the first air traffic control tower, ground to",
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"text": "air radio control, airfield lighting system, and commuter rail link. The Interstate Highway System brought new travel routes to the state in the mid-20th century, further making Ohio a transportation hub. With the rapid increase of industrialization in the country in the late 19th century, Ohio's population swelled from 2.3 million in 1860 to 4.2 million by 1900. By 1920, nine Ohio cities had populations of 50,000 or more. The rapid urbanization brought about a growth of commercial industries in the state, including many financial and insurance institutions. The National City Corporation was founded in 1845, today part of PNC",
"title": "History of Ohio"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "fatalities in 1933. By the end of the year the first patrolmen were on duty. On June 29, 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 into law, designating highways for each state to build with federal assistance to create the modern interstate highway system. One year later in 1957 The Ohio’s Department of Highways officially began construction on the of the interstate system designated for Ohio in the Federal Aid Highway Act. After one year of interstate construction Ohio was spending more on roadway construction than New York or California, and by 1962 had",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "its towpath and locks. When Ohio became a state in 1803, transportation to and within the state was difficult; settlers largely moved themselves and their goods on rivers and Lake Erie, for most roads were poor. In addition, Ohio was geographically separated from the East Coast by the barrier of the Appalachian Mountains. This made life difficult for early citizens because goods from the Atlantic Coast and Europe were difficult to obtain and often very expensive due to transportation costs. For the same reasons, it was difficult for Ohio businessmen and farmers to sell their products to markets outside the",
"title": "Miami and Erie Canal"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12251489",
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"text": "led to this decline. Log rafts and raft towboats had disappeared and river cargo service had shifted to short-haul instead of long distance hauling. The First World War made crewmen scarce and helped to make the railroads stronger. The deficiencies of railroad transportation during World War I led to the Transportation Act of 1920. In spite of these problems, the heavy transportation needs of wartime could not be met by railroads and river transport took off some of the pressure. In 1917, the United States Shipping Board allocated $3,160,000 to the Emergency Fleet Corporation to build and operate barges and",
"title": "Steamboats of the Mississippi"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11804159",
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"text": "into effect on June 11, 1908, but the Automobile Division did not begin issuing plates for another 30 days due to a manufacturing defect. The first state vehicle registration was issued to Cincinnati resident Thomas B. Paxton, Jr., for his Franklin automobile. Locally issued and owner-provided license plates were phased out by 1909 for automobiles, but local plates continued to be used for motorcycles until 1914. One effect of the Ward Law was to eliminate a significant revenue stream for cities like Cincinnati, which took in about $5,000 a year (equivalent to $ today) from auto registrations. Various Ohio license",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Ohio"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17668272",
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"text": "the same magnitude. The committee hired Arthur Ernest Morgan and his Morgan Engineering Company from Tennessee to design a plan that used levees and dams. On March 17, 1914, the governor of Ohio signed the Ohio Conservancy Act, which allowed for the establishment of conservancy districts with the authority to implement flood control projects. Ohio's Upper Scioto Conservancy District was the first to form in February 1915. The Miami Conservancy District (MCD), which includes Dayton and surrounding communities, was the second, formed in June 1915. The MCD began construction of their flood control system in 1918. The project was completed",
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"text": "the earth and gravel-surfaced roads from damage caused by the iron and solid rubber wheels of early trucks. By 1914 there were almost 100,000 trucks on America's roads. However, solid tires, poor rural roads, and a maximum speed of continued to limit the use of these trucks to mainly urban areas. The years of World War I (1914–18) spurred rising truck use and development. During the busy war years, the increased congestion of railroads exposed the need for alternative modes of transporting cargo. It was during these years when Roy Chapin (working with a military committee) began to experiment with",
"title": "History of the trucking industry in the United States"
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"id": "5459139",
"score": 1.0071247,
"text": "Ohio achieved prominence. After witnessing a car and carriage crash, Garrett Morgan invented one of the earliest traffic lights; he was a leader in the Cleveland Association of Colored Men. Frederick McKinley Jones invented refrigeration devices for transportation which ultimately led to the Thermo King Corporation. In Cincinnati Granville Woods invented the telegraphony, which he sold to a telephone company. John P. Parker of Ripley invented the Parker Pulverizer and screw for tobacco processes. Ohio's economic growth was aided by their pursuit of infrastructure. By the late 1810s, the National Road crossed the Appalachian Mountains, connecting Ohio with the east",
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"text": "Besides the state highway network, there are various county and township road networks within the state. The Ohio Inter-County Highways were created on June 9, 1911, with the passage of the McGuire Bill (Senate Bill 165, 79th Ohio General Assembly). Main Market Roads, the most important of the system, were defined on April 15, 1913. In 1923 the numbering system was simplified. It was altered further in 1927 in order to accommodate numbers in the United States Numbered Highway System. In 1935 the Ohio General Assembly passed a law which added 5,000 miles of roads to the state highway system",
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In what field did the brother of the author of The Turn of the Screw find fame? | [
"Psychology (William James was the brother of Henry)"
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"text": "Sandy Welch, who set the film in the early 1920s, in contrast to the novella's 1840s setting. This allowed the introduction of the Freudian psychiatrist interviewing the main character; this framing device is not used by James, but both the novella and the film share a first-person narrator. The updated setting also allowed the First World War to account for the lack of male staff at the house. The Freudian and libidinous elements some literary theorists have seen in James's story are particularly prevalent in the film, with Ann's repressed sexual feelings for the Master resulting in a number of",
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"text": "James' \"The Turn of the Screw\" or Stephen King's \"Children of the Corn\") or that of the \"evil doll\" (as in the \"Child's Play\" film series or in \"Annabelle\"—which coincidentally is the title of a novel by Jensen, though unrelated to the film). Despite receiving scant recognition, she cultivated some enthusiastic following and her paperbacks have become sought-after collectibles. Published by Warner Paperback Library Published by Manor Books Published by Leisure Books Published by TOR Books Published by Zebra Books Ruby Jean Jensen Ruby Jean Jensen (March 1, 1927 – November 16, 2010) was an American author of pulp horror",
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"text": "The biggest problem, he suggested, was the introduction of the psychiatrist; his discussions with Ann, which could easily be removed, served to remove the mystery from the plot, in Whittaker's eyes. Sutcliffe was critical of the reframing of the story as a stereotypical account of how \"a cocky young man of science has his certainties upturned\", and said the film took \"the terrifying indeterminacies of the original\", turning them \"into a slightly shabby ghost-train ride\". Critics disagreed about how successful the film was in capturing the novel's ambiguity, which is part of the enduring appeal of James's story. For Tim",
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"text": "written by a former governess whom Douglas claims to have known and who is now dead. The manuscript tells the story of how the young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents. He lives mainly in London but also has a country house, Bly. He is uninterested in raising the children. The boy, Miles, is attending a boarding school, while his younger sister, Flora, is living at a summer country house in Essex. She is currently being cared for by Mrs. Grose, the housekeeper. Miles",
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"text": "place in the academic literature on Henry James and neo-Victorian culture. Considering the frame narrative of the film, Anna Viola Sborgi, a literary theorist, argues that the fact that Ann begins the film in a sanatorium conveys the impression that the character is mad, resulting in a loss of ambiguity. Consequently, the film is left less a horror story and more a psychological thriller. Sborgi argues that the film is explicitly made psychological through particular narrative and visual choices; for example, Miles appears at the train station in a ghost-like way through a cloud of steam. The fact that the",
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"id": "15269062",
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"text": "or \"suppurate[d] in evil\", found it \"never less than absorbing\", suspecting this would be particularly so for viewers unfamiliar with the story. \"The Daily Telegraph\"s Simon Horsford felt that \"The Turn of the Screw\" \"might not work on all levels but it is an unsettling interpretation nonetheless\". By contrast, Tom Sutcliffe, writing in \"The Independent\", was unimpressed with the film, considering James's novel to have been \"comprehensively vandalised\", while Richard Whittaker, writing in \"The Austin Chronicle\", felt that the film was \"a particular and peculiar misfire\" from Welch. \"The Turn of the Screw\" was chosen as \"pick of the day\"",
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"text": "on 31 October 2006. For Christmas 2008 an original three-part ghost story by Mark Gatiss, \"Crooked House\", was produced instead, though Gatiss has cited the original adaptations as a key influence. \"The Turn of the Screw\" (1898), a novella by Henry James (no relation to M. R. James), was adapted as a feature-length drama by Sandy Welch and broadcast on BBC One on 30 December 2009. The BFI released the complete set of \"Ghost Story for Christmas\" films plus related works such as both versions of \"Whistle and I'll Come to You\" on Region 2 DVD in 2012, in five",
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"text": "The Turn of the Screw The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in \"Collier's Weekly\" magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in \"The Two Magics\", a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. In the century following its publication, \"The Turn of the Screw\" became a",
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"text": "late '80s and throughout the '90s James made several trips through Europe. He spent a long stay in Italy in 1887. In that year the short novel \"The Aspern Papers\" and \"The Reverberator\" were published. In 1897–1898 he moved to Rye, Sussex, and wrote \"The Turn of the Screw\". 1899–1900 saw the publication of \"The Awkward Age\" and \"The Sacred Fount\". During 1902–1904 he wrote \"The Ambassadors\", \"The Wings of the Dove\", and \"The Golden Bowl\". In 1904 he revisited America and lectured on Balzac. In 1906–1910 he published \"The American Scene\" and edited the \"New York Edition\", a 24-volume",
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"text": "film, calling it a \"misguided adaptation that likes to spell things out for the viewer\". The Turn of the Screw (2009 film) The Turn of the Screw (also known as Ghost Story: The Turn of the Screw) is a British television film based on Henry James's 1898 ghost story of the same name. Commissioned and produced by the BBC, it was first broadcast on 30 December 2009, on BBC One. The novella was adapted for the screen by Sandy Welch, and the film was directed by Tim Fywell. Although generally true to the tone and story of James's work, the",
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In which country did he widespread use of ISDN begin in 1988? | [
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"text": "international information system and in 1987 narrow bandwidth was selected; in the same year, 13 European states entered into memorandum of understanding on due implementation of GSM specifications by all the MOU parties. These 13 countries have also agreed to make their borders open to each other for commercial activities in this field. By extension of information systems along with the telephone networks, the need to their integration became an essential in 1980s and finally led the countries to ISDN network establishment. ISDN was the result of the investigations and research of the scientists in connection with digital technology in",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "200513",
"score": 1.1235431,
"text": "on bandwidth is being absorbed by ADSL. ISDN continues to be an important backup network for point-to-point leased line customers such as banks, Eseva Centers, Life Insurance Corporation of India, and SBI ATMs. On April 19, 1988, Japanese telecommunications company NTT began offering nationwide ISDN services trademarked INS Net 64, and INS Net 1500, a fruition of NTT's independent research and trial from the 1970s of what it referred to the INS (Information Network System). Previously, in April 1985, Japanese digital telephone exchange hardware made by Fujitsu was used to experimentally deploy the world's first I interface ISDN. The I",
"title": "Integrated Services Digital Network"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2047843",
"score": 1.1031692,
"text": "methods. ISDN has been used for voice, video conferencing, and broadband data applications. ISDN was very popular in Europe, but less common in North America. Its use peaked in the late 1990s before the availability of DSL and cable modem technologies. Basic rate ISDN, known as ISDN-BRI, has two 64 kbit/s \"bearer\" or \"B\" channels. These channels can be used separately for voice or data calls or bonded together to provide a 128 kbit/s service. Multiple ISDN-BRI lines can be bonded together to provide data rates above 128 kbit/s. Primary rate ISDN, known as ISDN-PRI, has 23 bearer channels (64",
"title": "Internet access"
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"text": "By the early 1990s, this was a major focus of the company. However, unlike Europe or Japan, ISDN simply never happened in the US consumer market. The whole model was based on end-to-end digital communications, and was thus limited to the speed of the long-distance carrier lines, either 56 or 64 kbit/s. The Bell companies were interested in deploying ISDN, but doing so required customer-end installations to make their conventional telephones work, which made the system unattractive for wide-scale deployment. Additionally, the rise of the Internet in the mid-1990s made point-to-point communications far less interesting. After dialing their local Internet",
"title": "Hayes Microcomputer Products"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "517779",
"score": 1.0644637,
"text": "other impairments besides Gaussian noise, preventing such rates from becoming practical in the field. The 1980s saw the development of techniques for broadband communications that allowed the limit to be greatly extended. A patent was filed in 1979 for the use of existing telephone wires for both telephones and data terminals that were connected to a remote computer via a digital data carrier system. The motivation for digital subscriber line technology was the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) specification proposed in 1984 by the CCITT (now ITU-T) as part of Recommendation I.120, later reused as ISDN digital subscriber line (IDSL).",
"title": "Digital subscriber line"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "173011",
"score": 1.030588,
"text": "an essentially continental basis, they are building organizations for Internet resource administration and sharing operational experience, as more and more transmission facilities go into place. At the beginning of the 1990s, African countries relied upon X.25 IPSS and 2400 baud modem UUCP links for international and internetwork computer communications. In August 1995, InfoMail Uganda, Ltd., a privately held firm in Kampala now known as InfoCom, and NSN Network Services of Avon, Colorado, sold in 1997 and now known as Clear Channel Satellite, established Africa's first native TCP/IP high-speed satellite Internet services. The data connection was originally carried by a C-Band",
"title": "History of the Internet"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "November 1988 and then actively to the public starting in January 1990, albeit only to the NSFNET backbone with their approval. Barry Shein's The World STD was selling dial-up Internet on a legally questionable basis starting in late 1989 or early 1990, and then on an approved basis by 1992. He claims to be and is generally recognized as the first to ever think of selling dial-up Internet access for money. Although the Internet infrastructure was mostly privately owned by 1993, the lack of security in the protocols made doing business and obtaining capital for commercial projects on the Internet",
"title": "Commercialization of the Internet"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "172990",
"score": 1.0059144,
"text": "basis for the SERCnet network between British academic and research sites, which later became JANET. The initial ITU Standard on X.25 was approved in March 1976. The British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong, and Australia by 1981. By the 1990s it provided a worldwide networking infrastructure. Unlike ARPANET, X.25 was commonly available for business use. Telenet offered its Telemail electronic mail service, which was also",
"title": "History of the Internet"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "200506",
"score": 1.0034279,
"text": "used to link remote studios, sports grounds and outside broadcasts into the main broadcast studio. ISDN via satellite is used by field reporters around the world. It is also common to use ISDN for the return audio links to remote satellite broadcast vehicles. In many countries, such as the UK and Australia, ISDN has displaced the older technology of equalised analogue landlines, with these circuits being phased out by telecommunications providers. Use of IP-based streaming codecs such as Comrex ACCESS and ipDTL is becoming more widespread in the broadcast sector, using broadband internet to connect remote studios. ISDN-BRI never gained",
"title": "Integrated Services Digital Network"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12361127",
"score": 1.0020406,
"text": "ISRAEARN), India (VIDYANET) and some Persian Gulf states (as GulfNet). BITNET was also very popular in other parts of the world, especially in South America, where about 200 nodes were implemented and heavily used in the late 1980s and early 1990s. With the rapid growth of TCP/IP systems and the Internet in the early 1990s, and the rapid abandonment of the base IBM mainframe platform for academic purposes, BITNET's popularity and use diminished quickly. In 1984, a text-based BITNET game called MAD became the first global Multi-User Dungeon (MUD). Players connected from the United States, Europe or Israel to a",
"title": "BITNET"
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What is Bruce Willis' real first name? | [
"Walter (TV Series)",
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"text": "Bruce Willis filmography Bruce Willis is a German-born American actor, producer with Cheyenne Enterprises, and singer. The following is a filmography of his work. Willis's career began in television in 1984, most notably as David Addison in \"Moonlighting\" (1984–1989), and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is well known for the role of John McClane in the \"Die Hard\" series, which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes. He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like \"Death Becomes Her\" (1992), \"Pulp Fiction\" (1994), \"12 Monkeys\" (1995),",
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"text": "Bruce Willis Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor, producer, and singer. Born to a German mother and American father in Idar-Oberstein, Germany, he moved to the United States with his family in 1957. His career began on the Off-Broadway stage in the 1970s. He later achieved fame with his leading role on the hit television series \"Moonlighting\" (1985–89). He has since appeared in over 70 films and is widely regarded as an \"action hero\" due to his portrayal of John McClane in the \"Die Hard\" franchise (1988–2013), and other such roles. His credits also include",
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"text": "him as the main character. Selected notable roles: Willis has won a variety of awards and has received various honors throughout his career in television and film. Bruce Willis Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor, producer, and singer. Born to a German mother and American father in Idar-Oberstein, Germany, he moved to the United States with his family in 1957. His career began on the Off-Broadway stage in the 1970s. He later achieved fame with his leading role on the hit television series \"Moonlighting\" (1985–89). He has since appeared in over 70 films and is",
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"text": "\"The Fifth Element\" (1997), \"Armageddon\" (1998), \"The Sixth Sense\" (1999), \"Unbreakable\" (2000), \"Sin City\" (2005), \"Red\" (2010), \"Moonrise Kingdom\" (2012), \"The Expendables 2\" (2012), and \"Looper\" (2012). Motion pictures featuring Willis have grossed US$2.64 billion to 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the ninth-highest-grossing actor in a leading role and twelfth-highest-grossing, including supporting roles. He is a two-time Emmy Award–winning, Golden Globe Award–winning, and four-time Saturn Award–nominated actor. Solo albums: Compilations/guest appearances: Bruce Willis filmography Bruce Willis is a German-born American actor, producer with Cheyenne Enterprises, and singer. The following is a filmography of his work. Willis's",
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"text": "Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen and John Wayne. Willis is left handed. At the premiere for the film \"Stakeout\", Willis met actress Demi Moore. They married on November 21, 1987, and had three daughters: Rumer (born August 16, 1988), Scout (born July 20, 1991), and Tallulah (born February 3, 1994). Willis and Moore announced their separation on June 24, 1998. They filed for divorce on October 18, 2000 and on that same day, the divorce was finalized. Regarding the divorce, Willis stated, \"I felt I had failed as a father and a husband by not being able to make it",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "745054",
"score": 0.9188384,
"text": "Truth\"). Willis also appeared in Japanese Subaru Legacy television commercials. Tying in with this, Subaru did a limited run of Legacys, badged \"Subaru Legacy Touring Bruce\", in honor of Willis. Willis has appeared in four films with Samuel L. Jackson (National Lampoon's \"Loaded Weapon 1\", \"Pulp Fiction\", \"Die Hard with a Vengeance\", and \"Unbreakable\") and both actors were slated to work together in \"Black Water Transit\", before dropping out. Willis also worked with his eldest daughter, Rumer, in the 2005 film \"Hostage\". In 2007, he appeared in the thriller \"Perfect Stranger\", opposite Halle Berry, the crime/drama film \"Alpha Dog\", opposite",
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"text": "the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein, West Germany. His father, David Willis, was an American soldier. His mother, Marlene, was German, born in Kassel. Willis is the oldest of four children with a sister named Florence and two brothers, Robert (deceased) and David. After being discharged from the military in 1957, Willis's father took his family back to Carneys Point Township, New Jersey. Willis has described himself as having come from a \"long line of blue collar people\". His mother worked in a bank and",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "745044",
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"text": "headed to California to audition for several television shows. In 1984, he appeared in an episode of the TV series \"Miami Vice\", titled \"No Exit\". In 1985, he was the guest actor in the first episode of the 1980s revival of \"The Twilight Zone\", \"Shatterday\". He successfully auditioned for the role of David Addison Jr. of the television series \"Moonlighting\" (1985–1989), competing against 3,000 other actors for the position. The starring role, opposite Cybill Shepherd, helped to establish him as a comedic actor, with the show lasting five seasons winning him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a",
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"text": "the film: \"Whatever small pleasure there is to be found in this loud dud is due mostly to the residual good feelings from the first film... As played by Bruce Willis, McClane is still an engaging character, even if he is much less amusingly drawn this time. Willis is in there trying, but the qualities that helped to make his character sympathetic in the first film are missing. McClane no longer worries openly about his personal safety, as he did in the original movie. His quasi-cowboy personality from Die Hard is all but forgotten – he has become more of",
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"text": "a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop shitting on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican. I hate the government, OK? I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.\" Willis's name was in an advertisement in the \"Los Angeles Times\" on August 17, 2006, that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war. Throughout his film",
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Which William wrote the novel Lord Of The Flies? | [
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"text": "book, included in their 1995 album \"The X Factor\". Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. The novel has been generally well received. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2003 it was listed at number 70 on the BBC's The Big Read poll, and in 2005 \"Time\" magazine named",
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"text": "to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of his novels. The book itself appears prominently in his novels \"Hearts in Atlantis\" (1999), \"Misery\" (1987), and \"Cujo\" (1981). Stephen King wrote an introduction for a new edition of \"Lord of the Flies\" (2011) to mark the centenary of William Golding's birth in 2011. The novel \"Garden Lakes\" by Jaime Clarke is an homage to \"Lord of the Flies\". The final song on U2's debut album \"Boy\" (1980) takes its title, \"Shadows and Tall Trees\", from Chapter 7 in the book. Iron Maiden wrote a song inspired by the",
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "Lord of the Flies (1963 film) Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British drama film, based on William Golding's novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where the behaviour of the majority degenerates into savagery. It was written and directed by Peter Brook and produced by Lewis M. Allen. The film was in production for much of 1961, though the film did not premiere until 1963, and get released in the United Kingdom until 1964. Golding himself supported the film. When Kenneth Tynan was a script editor for Ealing Studios he commissioned",
"title": "Lord of the Flies (1963 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "posthumously. His son David (born 1940) continues to live at Tullimaar House. In September 1953, after many rejections from other publishers, Golding sent a manuscript to Faber & Faber and was initially rejected by their reader. His book, however, was championed by Charles Monteith, a new editor at the firm. Monteith asked for some changes to the text and the novel was published in September 1954 as \"Lord of the Flies\". After moving in 1958 from Salisbury to nearby Bowerchalke, he met his fellow villager and walking companion James Lovelock. The two discussed Lovelock's hypothesis, that the living matter of",
"title": "William Golding"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9040113",
"score": 1.0062754,
"text": "a script of \"Lord of the Flies\" from Nigel Kneale, but Ealing Studios closed in 1959 before it could be produced. The novel was adapted into a movie for a second time in 1990; the 1963 film is generally considered more faithful to the novel than the 1990 adaptation. A group of British schoolboys are evacuated from England following the outbreak of an unidentified war. Their airliner is shot down by briefly-glimpsed fighter planes and ditches near a remote island. The main character, Ralph, is seen walking through a tropical forest. He meets an intelligent and chubby boy, who reveals",
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"score": 0.99601483,
"text": "following in a 1990 review: Lord of the Flies (1990 film) Lord of the Flies is a 1990 American survival drama film directed by Harry Hook and starring Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly and James Badge Dale. It was produced by Lewis M. Allen and written by Jay Presson Allen under the pseudonym \"Sarah Schiff\", based on the 1954 book \"Lord of the Flies\", by William Golding. It is the second film adaptation of the book, after \"Lord of the Flies\" (1963). The film differs in many ways from both its predecessor film and the novel. \"Lord of the",
"title": "Lord of the Flies (1990 film)"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "466995",
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"text": "William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding, (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel \"Lord of the Flies\", he won a Nobel Prize in Literature and was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel \"Rites of Passage\", the first book in what became his sea trilogy, \"To the Ends of the Earth\". Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, \"The Times\" ranked Golding third on their list of \"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945\".",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "16438172",
"score": 0.9907866,
"text": "Lord of the Flies (album) \"For other instances of the same name see Lord of the Flies (disambiguation) Lord of the Flies is the fourth full-length studio album by English Gothic rock band Nosferatu.It was released in April 1998 by Cleopatra Records in the U.S.A and Canada and by Hades Records in the U.K., Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is the band's 5th best selling album with worldwide sales realising in excess of 5,000 copies. The title of the album repeats the name of the Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding's famous novel \"Lord of the Flies\" about a group of",
"title": "Lord of the Flies (album)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9040128",
"score": 0.9768629,
"text": "of the year in 1963 by the National Board of Review. The Criterion Collection released it on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in America and Canada. Janus Films also released the DVD in the UK. Lord of the Flies (1963 film) Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British drama film, based on William Golding's novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where the behaviour of the majority degenerates into savagery. It was written and directed by Peter Brook and produced by Lewis M. Allen. The film was in production for much of 1961,",
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Which innovation for the car was developed by Prince Henry of Prussia in 1911? | [
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"Headlight washer",
"Windshield wiper",
"Windshield wipers",
"Wipers (car)",
"Headlamp wiper",
"Windscreen wipers",
"MAGIC VISION CONTROL",
"Intermittent windshield wiper",
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"Headlamp washer",
"Wiper blade",
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "became the club's patron. Henry was interested in motor cars as well and supposedly invented a windshield wiper and, according to other sources, the car horn. In his honor, the \"Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt\" (Prince Heinrich Tour) was established in 1908, like the earlier Kaiserpreis a precursor to the German Grand Prix. Henry and his brother William gave patronage to the Kaiserlicher Automobilclub (Imperial Automobile Club). Henry also was an early proponent of introducing submarines and airplanes. He had merchant ships converted into seaplane tenders for operations in the Baltic Sea. Henry respected his brother, but this attitude was not returned in the",
"title": "Prince Henry of Prussia (1862–1929)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7838537",
"score": 1.1994216,
"text": "Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt The Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt (\"Prince Heinrich Tour\", also known as Prince Henry Tour), named after Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia, was an automobile contest held from 1908 to 1911 and a precursor to the German Grand Prix. The brother of Emperor Wilhelm II, who had staged a Kaiserpreis for automobiles in 1907 (and for other sports also), was an automobile enthusiast and inventor. Only production touring cars with four seats and three passengers were admitted, no special made race cars. The trophy for the winner was a model car made of 13,5 kg silver. Ferdinand Porsche himself won in 1910.",
"title": "Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7838538",
"score": 1.173336,
"text": "The last event was in 1911, not as contest, but as a touristic event. Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt The Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt (\"Prince Heinrich Tour\", also known as Prince Henry Tour), named after Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia, was an automobile contest held from 1908 to 1911 and a precursor to the German Grand Prix. The brother of Emperor Wilhelm II, who had staged a Kaiserpreis for automobiles in 1907 (and for other sports also), was an automobile enthusiast and inventor. Only production touring cars with four seats and three passengers were admitted, no special made race cars. The trophy for the winner was",
"title": "Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "17451738",
"score": 1.1496749,
"text": "This revolutionary design worked well and was much quieter than other twin engines in the country, providing up to 14 hp and remaining in production for several years. Protos' six-cylinder vehicle found many buyers, including Crown Prince Wilhelm II, and his brother Prince Heinrich of Prussia who invented and patented the first windscreen wipers for cars in 1908. Crown Prince Wilhelm II's stable of cars consisted entirely of Protos so that the firm could advertise in 1911 \"\"The German Crown Prince, a sportsman and automobile expert, drives only Protos vehicles.\"\" In 1906 the headquarters were moved from 39 Schöneberg Großgörschenstraße",
"title": "Protos of Nonnendamm"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "768564",
"score": 1.1496677,
"text": "Wilhelm II's younger brother Prince Heinrich of Prussia. Examples of this streamlined, 85 horsepower (63 kW) car won the first three places, and the car is still better known by the nickname \"Prince Henry\" than by its model name \"Modell 27/80\". He also created a 30 horsepower model called the Maja, named after Mercedes Jellinek's younger sister, Andrée Maja (or Maia) Jellinek. Porsche had advanced to Managing Director by 1916 and received an honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology in 1916: the title \"Dr. Ing. h.c.\" is an abbreviation of \"\"Doktor Ingenieur Honoris Causa\"\". Porsche successfully continued to",
"title": "Ferdinand Porsche"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5924011",
"score": 1.1387746,
"text": "Vauxhall Prince Henry The Vauxhall Prince Henry was a car manufactured by Vauxhall from 1911 to 1914. It had a length of around and a weight of depending on the model and the coachwork fitted. It is often thought of as the first sports car insofar as its high performance depends less on brute strength and more on overall excellence of design and sturdiness of construction. Known to Vauxhall as their C-10 three specially prepared cars were entered in the 1200 mile (1900 km) long 1910 Motor Trials named in honour of Prince Henry of Prussia. Replicas of the trial",
"title": "Vauxhall Prince Henry"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "622680",
"score": 1.1385416,
"text": "organisation and confusing regulations. One participant had been Prince Henry of Austria, who was inspired to do better, so he enlisted the aid of the Imperial Automobile Club of Germany to create the first \"Prinz Heinrich Fahrt\" (Prince Henry Trial) in 1908. Another trial was held in 1910. These were very successful, attracting top drivers and works cars from major teams – several manufacturers added \"Prince Henry\" models to their ranges. The first Alpine Trial was held in 1909, in Austria; by 1914, this was the toughest event of its kind, producing a star performance from Britain's James Radley in",
"title": "Rallying"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3509848",
"score": 1.1369035,
"text": "from DMG's ownership in 1909. In 1910, the company was renamed \"Oesterreichische Daimler Motoren AG\" (Austrian Daimler Engines AG) whose logo was the \"Austrian Royal double-headed eagle\". In 1912 DMG sold its remaining shares. In 1911 Austro-Daimler began producing the \"Prinz Heinrich\" (in English: \"Prince Henry\") model; this car, which featured an overhead cam 5,714-cc four-cylinder engine, quickly became famous. It could develop 95 bhp at 2,100 rpm; there was also a less potent version with side valves and a 6,900-cc engine capable of developing at only 1,200 rpm. Both designs were by Porsche. During the First World War, the",
"title": "Austro-Daimler"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5924014",
"score": 1.1283975,
"text": "at £580 with the chassis code C10 and known as the Prince Henry model. Both Austro-Daimler and Vauxhall offered for sale replicas of their Prince Henry models at the 1911 Olympia Motor Show In 1913 the engine capacity was increased to 3969 cc and the internal designation changed to C. Production continued until 1915. Cars produced in 1914 have flutes in the bonnet that fade out a short way behind the radiator. This 1914 car described below was very familiar to the writer who was a colleague and a close friend of its owner, Laurence Pomeroy junior, the designer's son.",
"title": "Vauxhall Prince Henry"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5924019",
"score": 1.1251551,
"text": "first of the \"vintage\" and the last of the \"veteran\" cars.\"\"<br> –Kent Karslake, 1956 \"The evolution of this model has been interesting. In 1910 there was organised in Germany the event now famous as the Prince Henry Tour. Having an idea of opening an agency in Germany, the Vauxhall company thought that to enter for this competitive run would be useful to them. There were penalties for involuntary stops, as in most road trials, but there was also a speed test in which marks were awarded according to a figure of merit based upon a hypothetical relationship between car-speed and",
"title": "Vauxhall Prince Henry"
}
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How is musician William Lee Conley better known? | [
"Bill Broonzy",
"Big Bill Broonzey",
"William Lee Conley Broonzy",
"Big Bill Broonzy",
"William Broonzy"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2313012",
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"text": "with a secret he had hidden—or thought he had—for entire career: he was gay. But nobody in Holland cared.\" Conley died at the age of 57 from intestinal cancer in Ruurlo, Netherlands in November 2003. He was buried in Vorden. Arthur Conley Arthur Lee Conley (January 4, 1946 – November 17, 2003) was a U.S. soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit \"Sweet Soul Music\". Conley was born in McIntosh County, Georgia, U.S., and grew up in Atlanta. He first recorded in 1959 as the lead singer of Arthur & the Corvets. With this group, he released three singles",
"title": "Arthur Conley"
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"text": "Clint Conley Clinton J. Conley is an American rock and roll musician from Boston, Massachusetts. He is probably best known as a co-founder of Mission of Burma. He played bass guitar and occasional guitar, and wrote and sang some of the group's best-known songs, such as \"That's When I Reach For My Revolver\" and \"Academy Fight Song\"—songs that often had an anthemic sing-along quality. Conley's bass work often featured double stops and chords. Mission of Burma was active from 1979 to 1983. They found only limited success via Boston's Ace of Hearts records, but over the years their reputation grew",
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"text": "Arthur Conley Arthur Lee Conley (January 4, 1946 – November 17, 2003) was a U.S. soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit \"Sweet Soul Music\". Conley was born in McIntosh County, Georgia, U.S., and grew up in Atlanta. He first recorded in 1959 as the lead singer of Arthur & the Corvets. With this group, he released three singles in 1963 and 1964—\"Poor Girl\", \"I Believe\", and \"Flossie Mae\"—on the Atlanta-based record label, National Recording Company. In 1964, he moved to a new label (Baltimore's Ru-Jac Records) and released \"I'm a Lonely Stranger\". When Otis Redding heard this, he",
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"text": "artists. Big Bill Broonzy Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley, June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s, when he played country blues to mostly African-American audiences. Through the 1930s and 1940s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with working-class African-American audiences. In the 1950s a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. His long and varied career marks him as",
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"text": "disc. After several years of hit singles in the early 1970s, he relocated to England in 1975, and spent several years in Belgium, settling in Amsterdam (Netherlands) in spring 1977. At the beginning of 1980 he had some major performances as Lee Roberts and the Sweaters in the Ganzenhoef, Paradiso, De Melkweg and the Concertgebouw, and was highly successful. At the end of 1980 he moved to the Dutch town of Ruurlo legally changing his name to Lee Roberts—his middle name and his mother's maiden name. He promoted new music via his Art-Con Productions company. Amongst the bands he promoted",
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"text": "Walt Conley Walter Bell Conley (May 20, 1929 – November 16, 2003) was an American folk singer, Hollywood actor, voice actor, and owner of Denver’s folk venue Conley’s Nostalgia. The Rocky Mountain News described Conley as the founding father of Denver's folk scene, which began in the late 1950s and stretched into the mid 1960s. Conley shared stages with, and opened for, Josh White, Cisco Houston, Mama Cass Elliot, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, and Judy Collins among many others. Conley also opened his home to a young and unknown Bob Dylan in the summer of 1960, and introduced Denver to",
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"text": "Big Bill Broonzy Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley, June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s, when he played country blues to mostly African-American audiences. Through the 1930s and 1940s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with working-class African-American audiences. In the 1950s a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. His long and varied career marks him as one",
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"text": "her father was an accomplished studio musician. Conley has performed music consistently since the age of seven and was strongly influenced by the local indie rock scenes in her early years. Conley recorded her first EP in 2017 called \"18th & Portland\". This debut EP was independently released solely by her to regional acclaim. Not long after its release, tracks from the EP, such as “Midnight Train”, generated music industry interest that lead to her being recognized by acclaimed producer Dave Cobb. He then subsequently signed her to his Low Country Sound imprint label. Conley, after her major label signing,",
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"text": "it feels composed with an ear tuned to jagged jazz and dark pop, which makes him kin to folks like Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Daedelus, Ras G, and Nobody.” Conley’s music has also been featured on L.A. Record, Exclaim!, Resident Advisor, XLR8R, Tiny Mix Tapes, and Down Beat. Conley has performed and recorded with numerous well-known artists and musicians, including José James, Mark Guiliana, Taylor McFerrin, Tim Lefebvre, Jeremiah Jae, King Britt, Icy Demons, Juan Alderete, Anna Wise, and Kendrick Lamar. Conley was born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Conley plays the guitar, bass, drums, and piano;",
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"text": "Savannah Conley Savannah Conley (born 1997) is an American folk, country, and pop music singer-songwriter. Conley has released two EP albums to date. Her most recent EP album, \"Twenty-Twenty\", was released in April, 2018 as her debut major-label EP with Low Country Sound, an imprint of Elektra. Conley was also an 2016 recipient of the John Lennon singer-songwriter award. Her major label debut EP album was produced by acclaimed producer Dave Cobb. Conley was born and raised twenty miles outside of Nashville, Tennessee into a family with strong appreciation for music. Her mother was a professional back up singer and",
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"text": "corner of the state is known as the Bootheel. The 37°N parallel forms the northern boundary with Colorado. The states of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah come together at the Four Corners in New Mexico's northwestern corner. New Mexico, although a large state, has very little water. Its surface water area is about . The New Mexican landscape ranges from wide, rose-colored deserts to broken mesas to high, snow-capped peaks. Despite New Mexico's arid image, heavily forested mountain wildernesses cover a significant portion of the state, especially towards the north. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southernmost part of",
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"text": "New Mexico, and New Mexico's second largest metro area at Las Cruces, New Mexico, in the Mesilla Valley, and it defined the status of the area north of the Gila River, that later became the metropolitan area of Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, Glendale, and Tempe, Arizona. Most of the land south of Phoenix where tentative plans had been made to build a transcontinental railroad is desert land that is not suitable for much human inhabitation. Nearly all of this federally owned land was eventually reserved as a large, sparsely inhabited American Indian reservation, testing and combat-practice ranges for the U.S. Air",
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"text": "fifth-smallest county in New Mexico by area. The highest point in the county is the summit of Santa Fe Baldy at . It is drained by the Rio Grande and several of its small tributaries. As of the 2000 census, The population density was 68 people per square mile (26/km²). There were 57,701 housing units at an average density of 30 per square mile (12/km²). There were 52,482 households out of which 30.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.5% were married couples living together, 11.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.5%",
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"text": "map in Cobos (1983) is a guide: from La Bajada the boundary runs northwest about 50 miles (80 km) west of U.S. Routes 285 and 84, and northeast about 20 miles (30 km) east of Interstate 25, to the Colorado border. The area might also be described roughly as comprising Rio Arriba, Los Alamos, Taos, and Colfax Counties; northeastern Sandoval County, northern Santa Fe County; and western San Miguel and Mora Counties, possibly with parts of adjoining counties. To the west is the Four Corners region; to the east are the high plains of Eastern New Mexico. New Mexico state",
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"text": "to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.3 square miles (24.2 km²), all land. The city is surrounded by land that appears flat, with wide rubble aprons around the nearby mountains and imperceptible grades in various directions. The Mimbres River floods the Deming area once a decade or so, in periods of unusually heavy rainfall in the Cooke's Range and Black Range to the north. Deming and its surrounding area is underlain by an aquifer of good-quality water. The aquifer is slowly recharged primarily by water from the mountains to the north. The water",
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"text": "the Oklahoma-Texas panhandle region. The combined Cibola National Grasslands are 262,141 acres (1,060.8 km2) in size. New Mexico is home to much of the Forest, including the Kiowa National Grassland in Harding, Union, Mora, and Colfax counties, New Mexico. The Cibola National Forest's Sandia Ranger District is just east of Albuquerque in Central New Mexico and includes the most visited mountains in the state of New Mexico. The Sandia District includes national forest land in eastern Bernalillo and southeastern Sandoval counties, and includes the Sandia Peak Tram and the Sandia Crest National Scenic Byway. The Sandia Mountains lie in the",
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"text": "spaced with dry basins. Most mountain ranges in this region are rounded and relatively low. The basins of this area contain salt flats, sand dunes, and lava flows. Most of New Mexico's main rivers carry little water for most of the year, with varying seasonal flows. Because of the undependable water supply, some rivers in New Mexico have been dammed to provide water for irrigation, power, domestic use, and recreation. New Mexico is very dry in most places except the mountains. The climate is known as a middle-latitude steppe climate. The mountains of New Mexico receive from 20 to 25",
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"text": "it is the second largest wilderness in the state after the Gila Wilderness. An area of less than was given wilderness protection by Congress in 1964. Congress protected an additional in 1980. The Wilderness boasts one of the highest concentrations of peaks exceeding in elevation in New Mexico, including Santa Fe Baldy, , the highest point in Santa Fe County, and South Truchas Peak, , the second highest peak in the state. U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles. Camping and fishing are allowed with proper permit, but no roads, buildings, logging or mining are",
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"text": "inches of rainfall per year. The Great Plains receive from 12 to 16 inches, and the southern and western portion of the state receive as little as 8 inches. Most of this rainfall occurs during summer thunderstorms. New Mexico's mountain ranges support a wide variety of plant life. In the Rocky Mountains, the slopes have forests of Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, and aspen trees at lower elevations. At higher elevations, the forests include Engelmann spruce, firs, Rocky Mountain white pine, and various aspens. Above the timberline of the mountains is alpine tundra. Most other mountain ranges in New Mexico predominantly",
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How is Joan Molinsky better known? | [
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"text": "television critic Jack Gould called Rivers \"quite possibly the most intuitively funny woman alive\". In 2017, \"Rolling Stone\" magazine ranked her sixth on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, and in October the same year, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Joan Alexandra Molinsky was born on June 8, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman) and Meyer C. Molinsky. She had an elder sister named Barbara Waxler. Rivers spent her early life in Prospect Heights and Crown Heights in Brooklyn, where she attended the progressive",
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"text": "and David Letterman. She is considered by many critics and journalists a pioneer of women in comedy. All authored and read by Joan Rivers, except where noted. Joan Rivers Joan Alexandra Molinsky (June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014), known professionally as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host. She was noted for her often controversial comedic persona—heavily self-deprecating or sharply acerbic, especially toward celebrities and politicians. Rivers rose to prominence in 1965 as a guest on \"The Tonight Show\". Hosted by her mentor, Johnny Carson, the show established Rivers' comedic style. In 1986, with",
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"text": "Joan Rivers Joan Alexandra Molinsky (June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014), known professionally as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host. She was noted for her often controversial comedic persona—heavily self-deprecating or sharply acerbic, especially toward celebrities and politicians. Rivers rose to prominence in 1965 as a guest on \"The Tonight Show\". Hosted by her mentor, Johnny Carson, the show established Rivers' comedic style. In 1986, with her own rival program, \"The Late Show with Joan Rivers\", Rivers became the first woman to host a late night network television talk show. She subsequently hosted",
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"text": "the Betty Mitchell Award in 2001 for \"The Shape of a Girl\". She was named the winner of the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre in 2011. Joan MacLeod Joan MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian playwright. She is best known for her award-winning plays of the 1990s, particularly \"Amigo's Blue Guitar\" and \"The Hope Slide\". Raised in North Vancouver, MacLeod studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia, and later joined the playwrights unit at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. She remained with Tarragon for six years as a playwright in residence. She returned",
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"text": "Joan Peyser Joan Peyser (June 12, 1930 – April 24, 2011) was an American musicologist and writer, particularly known for her writing on 20th-century music and for her biographies of George Gershwin, Pierre Boulez and Leonard Bernstein. Her biography of Bernstein was, according to Leon Botstein, the first attempt at a critical account of his life and work. Born Joan Gilbert in New York City, Peyser began studying piano when she was 5 and gave her first recital at the age of 13 in New York's Town Hall. When she enrolled at the High School of Music and Art in",
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"text": "Awards, her awards include fellowships in poetry and playwriting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Joan Larkin Joan Larkin (born in 1939) is an American poet and playwright. She was active in the small press lesbian feminist publishing explosion in the 1970s, co-founding the independent publishing company Out & Out Books. She is now in her fourth decade of teaching writing. The science fiction writer Donald Moffitt is her brother. Joan Larkin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Swarthmore College, a Master of Arts degree in English",
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"text": "Joan Mankin Joan Mankin (May 16, 1948 – September 26, 2015] was an actor and clown prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area, from the early 1970s through 2014. Mankin started her professional career in San Francisco in 1970 with a production of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's \"An Independent Female\". Thereafter, she appeared in major roles in many Bay Area theater companies including the American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, San Francisco Playhouse and California Shakespeare Theatre as well as the feminist Lilith Theater in the late 1970s early 1980's, of which she was Artistic Director for",
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"text": "Joan Holub Joan Holub is an author of books for children. Among her many works, the most widely available is \"Breakout at the Bug Lab\" (2001), held by over 1200 WorldCat Libraries. Holub graduated from college in Texas with a fine arts degree and then freelanced as an art director at a graphic design firm for eight years. She dreamed of working in children's books, so she moved to New York City and became associate art director in Scholastic trade books where she designed books for children and worked with editors and illustrators. She illustrated her first published children's book",
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"text": "her future husband, Russian-born Ilya Bolotowsky (they divorced in 1938). Along with Ilya, Slobodkina was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group, which began amid controversy in 1936. Like other Russian modernists, surrounded by ancient icons and a rich craft tradition, Slobodkina developed a lifelong appreciation of clear, rich colors, and flat, stylized forms. According to her biography on the HarperCollins website, In the late 1930s, Slobodkina began to write and illustrate her own children's books. Among her 24 published works \"Caps for Sale\" (1940) is considered a children’s book classic; it has sold more than two million",
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"text": "Joan Bauer (novelist) Joan Baehler Bauer (born July 12, 1951) is an American writer of young adult literature currently residing in Brooklyn. Bauer was born in River Forest, Illinois. She settled down in New York City with her husband Doug Langham. They later became parents to one daughter, Jean. Before becoming a famous author Joan spent years working for McGraw-Hill and the Chicago Tribune. She also did some work in advertising, marketing, and screenwriting. The main characters in her books are typically teenagers who are dealing with complicated family issues, such as alcoholism, abandonment, illness, and self-esteem issues. These issues",
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"text": "Patricia Neary Patricia Neary (born October 27, 1942) is an American ballerina, choreographer and ballet director, who has been particularly active in Switzerland. She has also been a highly successful ambassador for the Balanchine Trust, bringing George Balanchine's ballets to 60 cities around the globe. Born in Miami, Florida, she first studied there under George Milenoff and Thomas Armour until she attended the School of American Ballet in New York. At the age of 14, she joined the National Ballet of Canada as the youngest dancer in the company. In 1960, she became a member of the New York City",
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"text": "ballet at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (1973–78). From 1978 to 1985, she served as ballet director of the Zurich Ballet, then of La Scala in Milan (1986–87). As artistic director of Ballet British Columbia (1989–90), she choreographed \"Variations Concertantes\" with music by Alberto Ginastera. Since 1988, she has worked as an ambassador for the Balanchine Trust, bringing his works to some 60 cities in Europe, the Far East and across the United States. Patricia Neary Patricia Neary (born October 27, 1942) is an American ballerina, choreographer and ballet director, who has been particularly active in Switzerland. She has also",
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"text": "Ballet where she performed almost all the ballerina roles in George Balanchine's major works, including two roles he created specially for her in \"Raymonda Variations\" (1961) and \"Jewels\" (1967). She also performed leading roles in ballets by Jerome Robbins, Antony Tudor, John Taras and Merce Cunningham. In 1968, she joined the Geneva Ballet where she performed in and staged Balanchine's ballets. She also made guest appearances in Stuttgart, Hamburg and Hannover. She worked as assistant ballet mistress with the ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1970 to 1973. With Balanchine acting as artistic advisor, she was appointed director of",
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"text": "Liz Neary Liz Neary (born 1951 in Kilkenny, Ireland) is a retired Irish sportsperson. She played camogie at various times with her local clubs St. Paul's and Austin Stacks and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1970 until 1987. Neary is regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time. In a senior inter-county career that lasted for nineteen years she won seven All-Ireland medals, five National League medals and five Gael Linn Interprovincial medals. With her two clubs St. Paul’s and Austin Stack’s she collected a huge haul of twenty-one county titles and six All-Ireland",
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"text": "Every summer Near, a specialist in European art, and his artist wife Henrietta Lloyd Near, a former colleague at the VMFA, traveled to Europe to acquire art for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Among the cities they visited were Barcelona, London, Rome, and Venice. They were sometimes accompanied by philanthropists Sydney and Frances Lewis, donors of major collections to the museum. Near began his work at the VMFA in 1958, and, except for three years (1962-1965) when he did graduate work at Harvard and was a curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum, he served at the VMFA in Richmond",
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"text": "Lynn Neary Lynn Neary is an American radio journalist. She is a correspondent on National Public Radio and on National Desk's Arts and Information Unit, covering books and publishing. Neary was born and raised in Crestwood, Westchester County, NY. She earned a B.A. in English from Fordham University. Neary began her career in public radio as a news anchor and reporter, covering education and county government at NPR member station WOSU in Columbus, Ohio. She later moved to WRMT in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. In 1982, she became a newscaster on Morning Edition, before taking over as weekend host of",
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"text": "Deansway, writing in the Guardian, described Neary as 'a character actress par excellence; not only are her characters well observed and immaculately performed, but they are well written and, most importantly, funny...A Joyce Grenfell of our age.' Joanna Neary grew up in Redruth in Cornwall. She told the West Briton, 'After leaving Pool School I did an art degree at Falmouth and became interested in performance art. I decided that people tying themselves together naked and walking across the Great Wall of China was the way to go.' She went on to study visual and performing arts at Brighton University,",
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"text": "provided important gifts of art, both paintings and sculpture portraying animals, to the museum. Through the years Near acquired for the museum some of its greatest treasures, including paintings by Théodore Géricault, Claude Lorraine's \"Battle on a Bridge,\" Aristide Maillol's \"The River,\" Claude Monet's \"Irises by the Pond,\" Charles Willson Peale's \"William Smith and His Grandson,\" Angelica Kauffmann's \"Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures,\" and Jean-Bapiste Blin de Fontenay's monumental \"Buffet Under a Trellis.\" In 1976 Near announced the VMFA's purchase of American sculptor Isamu Noguchi's polished stainless steel sculpture \"Open Lock,\" completed in 1964. Among the exhibits",
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"text": "where she wrote plays and performed her first character-based comedy shows. As well as writing her own material, she also acted in plays and sketches written by Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon. Many of the songs in her shows are written by Mitchell. Neary has said, 'I don't like comic songs particularly but I do love singing and dancing about.' In 1998-9, Neary played the female lead, a French \"femme fatale\", in \"The Ministry of Biscuits\", a dystopian comic musical by Brian Mitchell and Philip Reeve. 'Stop! Think before you eat that biscuit! Is it in any way fancy? If",
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"text": "a 1992 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award, an Ohio State Award, and an International Association of Women in Radio and Television Award. For her reporting on welfare reform, Neary shared NPR's 1994-95 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award. She also won a 1999 Gabriel Award for her report on a program for prisoners in New York's Sing Sing prison. Lynn Neary Lynn Neary is an American radio journalist. She is a correspondent on National Public Radio and on National Desk's Arts and Information Unit, covering books and publishing. Neary was born and raised in Crestwood, Westchester County, NY.",
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Which country is Europe's largest silk producer? | [
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"text": "of synthetic fibres and loosening of the protectionist economy contributed to the decline of Japan's silk industry, and by 1975 it was no longer a net exporter of silk. With its recent economic reforms, the People's Republic of China has become the world's largest silk producer. In 1996 it produced 58,000 tonnes out of a world production of 81,000, followed by India at 13,000 tonnes. Japanese production is now marginal, at only 2500 tonnes. Between 1995 and 1997 Chinese silk production went down 40% in an effort to raise prices, reminiscent of earlier shortages. In December 2006 the General Assembly",
"title": "History of silk"
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"id": "12036655",
"score": 1.0679319,
"text": "Silk industry in China China is the world's largest silk producer. The vast majority of Chinese silk originates from the mulberry silkworms (\"Bombyx mori\"). During the larval stage of its life-cycle, the insects feeds on the leaves of mulberry trees. Non-mulberry silkworms cocoon production in China primarily focuses on wild silk from the Chinese Tussah moth (\"Antheraea\" spp.). This moth typically feeds on trees (e.g. oaks) and its larvae spin coarser, flatter, yellower filament than the mulberry silk moths. In 2005, China accounted for 74 percent of the global raw silk production and 90 percent of the world export market.",
"title": "Silk industry in China"
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"id": "3763209",
"score": 1.061186,
"text": "the world's biggest silk producer and silk comforter manufacturer. Silk comes from the cocoons of the silkworm, which feeds off mulberry trees in subtropical climates. When the cocoon is boiled, the hard cocoon becomes a loose ball of strong, flexible filament measuring over 1,000 meters. Usually, this ball is uncoiled and wrapped on a spindle for use in the textile industry. Silk is used for making everything from clothing to rugs. During silk comforter production, however, the silk filament is not unraveled, but rather stretched into a flat tangled web and layered to form silk floss, which will fill the",
"title": "Silk comforter"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "620387",
"score": 1.0607835,
"text": "2500–2000 BC, suggests, \"people of the Indus civilization either harvested silkworm cocoons or traded with people who did, and that they knew a considerable amount about silk.\" India is the second largest producer of silk in the world after China. About 97% of the raw mulberry silk comes from six Indian states, namely, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Bihar and West Bengal. North Bangalore, the upcoming site of a $20 million \"Silk City\" Ramanagara and Mysore, contribute to a majority of silk production in Karnataka. In Tamil Nadu, mulberry cultivation is concentrated in the Coimbatore, Erode, Bhagalpuri,",
"title": "Silk"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "620406",
"score": 1.0589064,
"text": "of silk, 104 kg of mulberry leaves must be eaten by 3000 silkworms. It takes about 5000 silkworms to make a pure silk kimono. The major silk producers are China (54%) and India (14%). Other statistics: The environmental impact of silk production is potentially large when compared with other natural fibers. A life cycle assessment of Indian silk production shows that the production process has a large carbon and water footprint, mainly due to the fact that it is an animal-derived fiber and more inputs such as fertilizer and water are needed per unit of fiber produced. Silk fibers from",
"title": "Silk"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8959446",
"score": 1.0542688,
"text": "research team at Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India discovered the complete sequence and the protein structure of muga silk fibroin and published it in \"Nature\" Scientific Reports Karnataka produces 9,000 metric tons of mulberry silk of a total of 14,000 metric tons produced in the country, thus contributing to nearly 70% of the country's total mulberry silk. In Karnataka, silk is mainly grown in the Mysore district. In the second half of the 20th century, it revived and the Mysore State became the top multivoltine silk producer in India. Kanchipuram is located very close to Chennai, the",
"title": "Silk in the Indian subcontinent"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10095097",
"score": 1.0383582,
"text": "Italy in developing a successful silk trade, though the efforts of most other nations to develop a silk industry of their own were unsuccessful. The Industrial Revolution changed much of Europe's silk industry. Due to innovations on spinning cotton, cotton became much cheaper to manufacture and therefore caused more expensive silk production to become less mainstream. New weaving technologies, however, increased the efficiency of production. Among these was the Jacquard loom, developed for silk embroidery. An epidemic of several silkworm diseases caused production to fall, especially in France, where the industry never recovered. In the 20th century Japan and China",
"title": "History of silk"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10095141",
"score": 1.0379081,
"text": "and in part replaced natural silk. Following the crisis in Europe, the modernization of sericulture in Japan made it the world's foremost silk producer. By the early 20th century, rapidly industrializing Japan was producing as much as 60 percent of the world's raw silk, most exports shipping through the port of Yokohama. Italy managed to rebound from the crisis, but France was unable. Urbanization in Europe saw many French and Italian agricultural workers leave silk growing for more lucrative factory work. Raw silk was imported from Japan to fill the void. Asian countries, formerly exporters of raw materials (cocoons and",
"title": "History of silk"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8959454",
"score": 1.037799,
"text": "is either silk on silk or silk with polyester. Silk in the Indian subcontinent Silk in the Indian subcontinent is a luxury good. In India, about 97% of the raw mulberry silk is produced in the five Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. Mysore and North Bangalore, the upcoming site of a US$20 million \"Silk City\", contribute to a majority of silk production. Another emerging silk producer is Tamil Nadu where mulberry cultivation is concentrated in Salem, Erode and Dharmapuri districts. Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and Gobichettipalayam, Tamil Nadu were the first locations",
"title": "Silk in the Indian subcontinent"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8959417",
"score": 1.0298018,
"text": "Silk in the Indian subcontinent Silk in the Indian subcontinent is a luxury good. In India, about 97% of the raw mulberry silk is produced in the five Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. Mysore and North Bangalore, the upcoming site of a US$20 million \"Silk City\", contribute to a majority of silk production. Another emerging silk producer is Tamil Nadu where mulberry cultivation is concentrated in Salem, Erode and Dharmapuri districts. Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and Gobichettipalayam, Tamil Nadu were the first locations to have automated silk reeling units. Recent archaeological discoveries",
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At which university did Joseph Goebbels become a doctor of philosophy? | [
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"text": "Joseph Goebbels Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's close associates and most devoted followers, and was known for his skills in public speaking and his deep, virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He joined",
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"text": "well known literary historian. It did not seem to bother Goebbels that Gundolf was Jewish. Gundolf was no longer teaching, so directed Goebbels to associate professor Max Freiherr von Waldberg. Waldberg, also Jewish, recommended Goebbels write his thesis on Wilhelm von Schütz. After submitting the thesis and passing his oral examination, Goebbels earned his PhD in 1921. By 1940 he had written 14 books. Goebbels then returned home and worked as a private tutor. He also found work as a journalist and was published in the local newspaper. His writing during that time reflected his growing antisemitism and dislike for",
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"text": "last Mann entered the University of Heidelberg in spring 1929. Here he followed the advice of his teacher Karl Jaspers to graduate in philosophy on the one hand, and to study history and Latin with the prospect of becoming a school teacher on the other. He nevertheless found time to join a socialist student group in the autumn of 1930. In May 1932, Mann finished his dissertation, \"Concerning the terms of the individual and the ego in Hegel's works\", which was rated with an average \"cum laude\". Nevertheless, his parents bought him a small car that he used for extended",
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"text": "Poland), and studied law, history, and philology at the University of Königsberg and Heidelberg University. Ebel completed his Habilitation at the University of Bonn in 1935 and after working as a docent at the Universities of Marburg, Königsberg and Rostock, received his first professorial appointment at Rostock in 1938. He spent most of his career at the University of Göttingen, where he began work in April 1939 and in October of the same year succeeded Herbert Oskar Meyer as professor of German legal history, civil and mercantile law, agricultural and privatization law. Ebel joined the Nazi Party shortly after they",
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"text": "In 1924, he entered the Free Polish University in Warsaw, where he spent three terms, studying political science. In 1926, he came to Berlin, Germany, and entered the Friedrich Wilhelm University. He passed the examination for supplementary subjects at the German Institute for Studies by Foreigners, and was then given full matriculation at the University. He took up studies in philosophy, economics, and Hebrew subjects, simultaneously maintaining a rigorous schedule of intensive Talmud study. According to the CV, among his \"highly honored\" teachers in university, bearing the title \"Geheimrat\" (literally: Privy Counselor), were Professor Dr. (1867-1933) and Professor Dr. Max",
"title": "Joseph B. Soloveitchik"
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"text": "Nazis deprived him of his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Vienna, with the racist argument, that as a \"Jew\" was not considered dignified an academic degree of a German university (\"\"eines akademischen Grades einer deutschen Hochschule unwürdig\"\") - even though he was not Jewish nor was his family Jewish. His doctorate degree was only regranted on 15 May 1955 - a very long time after the end of Nazism. The end of the World War II inaugurated a revival of pan-European hopes. In the winter of 1945, Harry S. Truman read an article in the December issue",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2879012",
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"text": "at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, Cassirer was elected in 1919 to the philosophy chair at the newly founded University of Hamburg, where he lectured until 1933, supervising amongst others the doctoral theses of Joachim Ritter and Leo Strauss. Because he was Jewish, he left Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1933. After leaving Germany he taught for a couple of years in Oxford, before becoming a professor at Gothenburg University. When Cassirer considered Sweden too unsafe, he applied for a post at Harvard University, but was rejected because thirty years earlier he had rejected a job",
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"text": "1927. Continuing at Leipzig as \"Privatdozent\" (unsalaried senior lecturer who may be called to a professorship), he became, in 1932, Professor extraordinary (full professor without a chair) of Late Jewish Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy, the only such position within a German university. However, already a year later, in 1933, due to the Nazi rise to power and the Nuremberg race laws (which were, i.a., directed against Jews as civil servants, which in Germany professors are), he was dismissed from the University of Leipzig. In the same year, however, the University of Tartu in Estonia, which had a very",
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"text": "doctorate of philosophy in 1929, Höffner earned a doctorate of theology in Rome in 1934, another doctorate of theology in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1938, a degree in economics in 1939 and a doctorate in political science in 1940. After 1934, he also did pastoral work in Trier until 1945. After teaching at the Trier seminary for six years, Höffner was named to the University of Münster in 1951. He was the founder, director, and a professor of the Institute of Christian Social Sciences in Munich from 1951 to 1961, and was also a scientific advisor to three ministries of",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "to study economics and social sciences.While there, he met his wife-to be, Kate Franck who was also a student at the University.. He spent the 1930-31 session at the London School of Economics. Stark's training and scholarship encompassed history, philosophy, political science, law, economics, literature, art, music, and sociology. He held doctorates both in law and in political science. The rise of Nazism resulted in his leaving Germany for Prague in 1934, where he became a lecturer at the Prague School of Political Science. In 1939, when the invading Nazis closed the university, Stark left for England, where he settled",
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Which prince is Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son? | [
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"text": "Catholics are eligible. Queen Elizabeth II is the sovereign, and her heir apparent is her eldest son, Charles, Prince of Wales. Next in line after him is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Wales's elder son. Third in line is Prince George, the eldest child of the Duke of Cambridge, followed by his sister, Princess Charlotte and younger brother, Prince Louis. Sixth in line is Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, the younger son of the Prince of Wales. Under the Perth Agreement, which came into effect in 2015, only the first six in line of succession require the",
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"text": "a British prince in 1957. Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II have four children: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward. Through a British Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Philip and Elizabeth not bearing royal styles and titles can use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor, which has also been used by some members of the royal family who do hold titles, such as Prince Andrew, Princess Anne and Prince Edward. A keen sports enthusiast, Philip helped develop the equestrian event of carriage driving. He is a patron, president or member of over 780 organisations and serves as",
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"text": "\"the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.\" Second-in-line to the throne was the prince's younger brother Albert (\"Bertie\"). Albert and his wife, Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother), had two children, including Princess Elizabeth (\"Lilibet\"), the future Queen Elizabeth II. George V favoured Albert and his granddaughter Elizabeth and told a courtier, \"I pray to God that my eldest son will never marry and have children, and that nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne.\" In 1929, \"Time\" magazine reported that the Prince of Wales teased his sister-in-law, by calling her \"Queen Elizabeth\". The magazine asked if",
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"text": "Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, (Edward Antony Richard Louis; born 10 March 1964) is the youngest of four children and the third son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was third in line of succession to the British throne; he is now tenth. The Earl is a full-time working member of the British royal family and supports the Queen in her official duties – often alongside his wife the Countess of Wessex - as well as undertaking public engagements for a large number of",
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"text": "affected business and popular culture. On 3 December 2012, Clarence House announced that Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, were expecting their first child. The Duke is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, who is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, meaning that the child would be third in the line of succession to the British throne. Speculation ensued that the birth would boost the British national economy and provide a focus for national pride. Commemorative coins were issued by the Royal Mint, Royal Canadian Mint, and Royal Australian Mint; the first time",
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"text": "Middleton. The couple have three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. Prince William was born at Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, London, at 9:03pm on 21 June 1982 as the first child of Charles, Prince of Wales—heir apparent to Queen Elizabeth II—and Diana, Princess of Wales. His names, William Arthur Philip Louis, were announced by Buckingham Palace on 28 June. He was baptised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace on 4 August, the 82nd birthday of his paternal great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. He was the first child",
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"text": "James, Viscount Severn James, Viscount Severn (James Alexander Philip Theo Mountbatten-Windsor; born 17 December 2007), is the younger child and only son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and the youngest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is eleventh in line of succession to the British throne. James was born by caesarean section at 16:20 UTC on 17 December 2007, at Frimley Park Hospital. Prince Edward, who was present for the birth of his second child, remarked that the birth was \"a lot calmer than last time\" (a reference",
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"id": "798030",
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"text": "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982) is a member of the British royal family. He is a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, and the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales. Since birth, he has been second in the line of succession to the British throne after his father. William was educated at four schools in the United Kingdom and studied for a degree at the University of St. Andrews. During a gap year, he spent time in Chile, Belize, and Africa. In",
"title": "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5683872",
"score": 0.9835112,
"text": "completing basic training, while Lord Linley has never served in the forces. Present during the Changing of the Guard were the Prince of Wales' two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh have four children, Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. They have four grandsons and four granddaughters. The official plans for the Queen's funeral, Operation London Bridge, call for the Queen's children to stand vigil over their mother's coffin, as well for the grandsons and granddaughters to do the",
"title": "Vigil of the Princes"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1145372",
"score": 0.9749527,
"text": "Charles, Prince of Wales Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II. He has been Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay since 1952, and is the oldest and longest-serving heir apparent in British history. He is also the longest-serving Prince of Wales, having held that title since 1958. Charles was born at Buckingham Palace as the first grandchild of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. He was educated at Cheam and Gordonstoun Schools, which his father, Prince Philip, Duke",
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When did the founder of Jehovah's Witnesses say the world would end? | [
"one thousand, nine hundred and fourteen",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7037488",
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"text": "years, at most\" remained before Armageddon. Circuit assemblies in 1970 held a public talk entitled \"Who will conquer the world in the 1970s?\" and in a speech in Australia in 1975 the society's vice-president Frederick Franz went so far as to name a precise date—September 5, 1975—as the \"end of the present wicked system\". Witnesses were also urged that they should not be \"toying with the words of Jesus that 'concerning that day and hour nobody knows' ... to the contrary, one should be keenly aware that the end of this system of things is rapidly coming to its violent",
"title": "History of Jehovah's Witnesses"
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "October 1914, humanity has been living in a period of intense increased trouble known as \"the last days\", marked by war, disease, famine, earthquakes, and a progressive degeneration of morality. They also believe their preaching is part of the sign, often alluding to the text of Matthew 24:14, \"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And \"then the end\" shall come.\" (MKJV) They claim that various calamities in the modern world constitute proof of these beliefs, such as the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the",
"title": "Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "630732",
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"text": "17, and believe that they will soon be destroyed by the United Nations, which they believe is represented in scripture by the scarlet-colored wild beast of Revelation chapter 17. This development will mark the beginning of the \"great tribulation\". Satan will subsequently use world governments to attack Jehovah's Witnesses, an action that will prompt God to begin the war of Armageddon, during which all forms of government and all people not counted as Christ's \"sheep\" will be destroyed. After Armageddon, God will extend his heavenly kingdom to include earth, which will be transformed into a paradise similar to the Garden",
"title": "Jehovah's Witnesses"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16194912",
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"text": "Satan, will be ended by a direct intervention of Jehovah (God), who will use Jesus Christ to fully establish his heavenly government over earth, destroying existing human governments and non-Witnesses, and creating a cleansed society of true worshippers who can live forever. They see their mission as primarily evangelical (disseminating \"good news\"), to warn as many people as possible in the remaining time before Armageddon. All members of the denomination are expected to take an active part in preaching. Witnesses refer to all their beliefs collectively as \"the Truth\". Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses are established by their Governing Body, which",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7037486",
"score": 0.97597384,
"text": "certain to be filled with climactic events ... within a few years at most the final parts of the Bible prophecy relative to these 'last days' will undergo fulfillment\". The September 15, 1971 issue of \"The Watchtower\" warned that \"all worldly careers are soon to come to an end\", and advised youths that they should not \"get interested in ‘higher education’ for a future that will never eventuate.\" A chart in a 1971 \"Awake!\" indicated the \"thrilling hope\" of a \"grand Sabbath of rest and relief\" in the mid-1970s at the close of 6000 years of human history. Some Witnesses",
"title": "History of Jehovah's Witnesses"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7037561",
"score": 0.97464913,
"text": "Spanish flu epidemic in May 1918, the onset of World War II in 1939, and more recently, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that in 1918, Christ judged all world religions claiming to be Christian, and that after a period of eighteen months, among all groups and religions claiming to represent Christ, only the \"Bible Students\" (from which Jehovah's Witnesses developed) met God's approval. Watch Tower Society publications claim that the world's other religions have misrepresented God, and filled the world with hatred. They identify \"Babylon The Great\" and the \"mother of the harlots\" referred to",
"title": "Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "7037556",
"score": 0.97365105,
"text": "earth. They believe that after Armageddon, based on scriptures such as John 5:28, 29, the dead will gradually be resurrected to a \"day of judgment\" lasting for a thousand years. This judgment will be based on their actions after resurrection, not on past deeds. At the end of the thousand years a final test will take place when Satan is brought back to mislead perfect mankind. The end result will be a fully tested, glorified human race. Watch Tower Society publications teach that Jesus Christ returned invisibly and began to rule in heaven as king in October 1914. They state",
"title": "Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "7037562",
"score": 0.97164404,
"text": "in Revelation 17:3-6 as the \"world empire of false religion\" During the final great tribulation, all other religions will be destroyed by \"crazed\" member governments of the United Nations, acting under the direction of Jehovah. Witness publications identify the United Nations as the \"beast\" to whom the \"ten kings\" of Revelation 17:12,13 give their \"power and authority.\" Watch Tower Society eschatological teachings are based on the earliest writings of Charles Taze Russell, but have undergone significant changes since then. Many of the changes reflect altered views on the significance of the dates 1874, 1914, 1918, and 1925. The Second Adventists",
"title": "Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "630731",
"score": 0.9688117,
"text": "or death. It is said to have been the focal point of Jesus' ministry on earth. They believe the kingdom was established in heaven in 1914, and that Jehovah's Witnesses serve as representatives of the kingdom on earth. A central teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses is that the current world era, or \"system of things\", entered the \"last days\" in 1914 and faces imminent destruction through intervention by God and Jesus Christ, leading to deliverance for those who worship God acceptably. They consider all other present-day religions to be false, identifying them with \"Babylon the Great\", or the \"harlot\", of Revelation",
"title": "Jehovah's Witnesses"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "7037575",
"score": 0.96875024,
"text": "Mystery\" predicted the end of the World War \"some time about October 1, 1917,\" but this was changed in subsequent editions. It also predicted the destruction of governments in 1920. The predictions for 1920 were discarded before that year arrived, in favor of a new chronology. In 1918–1919, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, second president of the Watch Tower Society, inaugurated a worldwide lecture series entitled \"Millions Now Living Will Never Die!\", later reproduced in booklet form. It provided a re-interpretation of the significance of the year 1914 (now seen as the beginning of the \"last days\"). It also included new predictions",
"title": "Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses"
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Who found the remains of the Titanic? | [
"Bob Ballard",
"Robert Duane Ballard",
"Robert Ballard",
"Robert %22Bob%22 Ballard",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "983347",
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"text": "IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution identified the location of the wreck of the RMS \"Titanic\" which sank off the coast of Newfoundland 15 April 1912. On 3 April 2011, within a week of resuming of the search operation for Air France Flight 447, a team led by WHOI, operating full ocean depth autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) owned by the Waitt Institute discovered, by means of sidescan sonar, a large portion of debris field from flight AF447. In March 2017 the institution effected an open-access policy to make its research publicly accessible online. The Institution has",
"title": "Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15885087",
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"text": "but have been consumed by other organisms. \"Titanic\" sank in 1912, when she collided with an iceberg during her maiden voyage. Numerous expeditions tried using sonar to map the sea bed in the hope of finding it, but were unsuccessful. In 1985, the wreck was finally located by a joint French–American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The wreck has been the focus of intense interest and has been visited by numerous expeditions. Controversial salvage operations have recovered thousands of items, which have been conserved and put on public display.",
"title": "Wreck of the RMS Titanic"
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"id": "15885162",
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"text": "the French oceanographic agency IFREMER. The expedition produced an outcry. When the crow's nest bell was pulled from the mast, the crow's nest itself, where the lookouts first saw the iceberg, collapsed. A \"Titanic\" survivor, Eva Hart, condemned what many saw as the looting of a mass grave: \"To bring up those things from a mass sea grave just to make a few thousand pounds shows a dreadful insensitivity and greed. The grave should be left alone. They're simply going to do it as fortune hunters, vultures, pirates!\" Public misgivings increased when, on 28 October 1987, a television program, \"Return",
"title": "Wreck of the RMS Titanic"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15885100",
"score": 0.9571414,
"text": "people were not forthcoming and the proposal got no further than any of its predecessors. On 17 July 1980, an expedition sponsored by Texan oilman Jack Grimm set off from Port Everglades, Florida, in the research vessel \"H.J.W. Fay\". Grimm had previously sponsored expeditions to find Noah's Ark, the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and the giant hole in the North Pole predicted by the pseudoscientific Hollow Earth hypothesis. To raise funds for his \"Titanic\" expedition, he obtained sponsorship from friends with whom he played poker, sold media rights through the William Morris Agency, commissioned a book, and obtained the services",
"title": "Wreck of the RMS Titanic"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13247559",
"score": 0.9559455,
"text": "exhaustive searching, it was in 1984 that world headlines were made when American archeological explorer Barry Clifford found the only solidly-identified pirate shipwreck ever discovered, the \"Whydah\". Two-hundred thousand artifacts and sunken treasures were discovered in the shipwreck as well. 1985 Puck 1985 RMS \"Titanic\" wreckage The RMS \"Titanic\" was an \"Olympic\" class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, in what is now Northern Ireland. At the time of her construction, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world. Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912,",
"title": "Timeline of United States discoveries"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "12455746",
"score": 0.95473945,
"text": "of the sinking, photos were released showing possible human remains resting on the ocean floor. The photos, taken by Robert Ballard during an expedition led by NOAA in 2004, show a boot and a coat close to \"Titanic\"'s stern which experts called \"compelling evidence\" that it is the spot where somebody came to rest, and that human remains could be buried in the sediment beneath them. The wreck of the \"Titanic\" falls under the scope of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. This means that all states party to the convention will prohibit the",
"title": "RMS Titanic"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8252743",
"score": 0.94950014,
"text": "\"Titanic\". Graham Jessop Graham Jessop (born 5 June 1957) is a British commercial diver and marine archaeologist who has taken part in a number of important expeditions such as the 1999 discovery of the remains of the RMS Carpathia off the coast of Ireland. Jessop subsequently purchased the \"Carpathia\", so as to control access and protect it from private scavengers. Along with his father, Keith \"Goldfinder\" Jessop, he recovered the approximately $85,000,000 of gold bullion from HMS \"Edinburgh\" in 1981. He was born in Yorkshire. In 2000, RMS Titanic Inc. named Jessop as the recovery manager of the wreck of",
"title": "Graham Jessop"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "16485604",
"score": 0.94774497,
"text": "In 1993, Dr. Robert Ballard, the famous explorer who discovered \"Titanic\" and \"Bismarck\", conducted an in-depth exploration of the wreck of \"Lusitania\". Ballard tried to confirm John Light's findings of a large hole on the port side of the wreck, and he didn't find anything. During his investigation, Ballard noted a large quantity of coal on the sea bed near the wreck, and after consulting an explosives expert advanced the theory of a coal dust explosion. He believed dust in the bunkers would have been thrown into the air by the vibration from the explosion; the resulting cloud would have",
"title": "Sinking of the RMS Lusitania"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15885149",
"score": 0.94073504,
"text": "the debris field was surveyed in Robert Ballard's 1986 expedition, pairs of shoes were observed lying next to each other on the sea bed. The flesh, bones, and clothes had long since been consumed but the tannin in the shoes' leather had apparently resisted the bacteria, leaving the shoes as the only markers of where a body had once lain. Ballard has suggested that skeletons may remain deep within \"Titanic\"s hull, such as in the engine rooms or third-class cabins. This has been disputed by scientists, who have estimated that the bodies would have completely disappeared by the early 1940s",
"title": "Wreck of the RMS Titanic"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15885151",
"score": 0.93910134,
"text": "intact and undamaged dresser behind it. Robert Ballard has suggested that areas within the ship or buried under debris, where scavengers may not have been able to reach, may still contain human remains. According to Charles Pellegrino, who dived on \"Titanic\" in 2001, a finger bone encircled by the partial remains of a wedding ring was found concreted to the bottom of a soup tureen that was retrieved from the debris field. It was returned to the sea bed on the next dive. The longest-lasting inhabitants of \"Titanic\" are likely to be bacteria and archaea which have colonized the metal",
"title": "Wreck of the RMS Titanic"
}
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What was the profession of Sir David Frost's father? | [
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"text": "Charles Frost (antiquary) Charles Frost (1781?–1862) was an English lawyer and antiquary. Born at Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, in 1781 or 1782, he was the son of Thomas Frost, a Hull solicitor He followed the same profession, and, as his father had been before him, was solicitor to the Hull Dock Company. He was elder brother to the writer and traveller Elizabeth Strutt. Frost died at Hull, 5 September 1862, aged 80 or 81. Frost studied the handwriting of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and on 2 May 1822 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In",
"title": "Charles Frost (antiquary)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18851659",
"score": 1.139048,
"text": "Edward Frost Edward Frost (April 27, 1801 – July 21, 1868) was an American politician and jurist. Frost was born in Charleston, S. C., April 27, 1801. His father, the Rev. Thomas Frost, was rector of St. Philip's Church, Charleston, and a graduate of Cambridge University, England, in 1780. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Downes, a merchant of Liverpool, and Mary (Le Jan) Downes, from South Carolina. He graduated from Yale College in 1820. He was admitted to the bar in Charleston in 1823, and settled there in practice. In 1832 he was U. S. District Attorney, but",
"title": "Edward Frost"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2420401",
"score": 1.1355399,
"text": "David Frost Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Frost rose to prominence in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical programme \"That Was the Week That Was\" in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on U.S. television. He became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them the Nixon Interviews with former U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1977, which were adapted into a stage",
"title": "David Frost"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2420403",
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"text": "2014, his memorial stone was unveiled in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey for his contribution to British culture. David Paradine Frost was born in Tenterden, Kent, on 7 April 1939, the son of a Methodist minister of Huguenot descent, the Rev. Wilfred John \"W. J.\" Paradine Frost, and his wife, Mona (Aldrich); he had two elder sisters. While living in Gillingham, Kent, he was taught in the Bible class of the Sunday school at his father's church (Byron Road Methodist) by David Gilmore Harvey, and subsequently started training as a Methodist local preacher, which he did not complete. Frost attended Barnsole",
"title": "David Frost"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12201447",
"score": 1.1329021,
"text": "was born Frances Cordelia Powell (born 20 September 1834, died 20 October 1927). She was a niece of Colonial Secretary Sir Richard Southey. Sir John and Lady Frost lived at their country estate, Thibet Park on the Kei River. They also had a house in Cape Town, Eastbrooke House in Rondebosch. They had three daughters and five sons. In 1874 he was elected a member of the House of Assembly, representing the Queenstown district for nearly 40 years in total. In politics he was a pro-imperialist, associated with Sir Gordon Sprigg, in whose cabinet he served without portfolio. He was",
"title": "John Frost (politician)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2140268",
"score": 1.1322787,
"text": "Terry Frost Sir Terry Frost RA (born Terence Ernest Manitou Frost) (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in England. He became a leading exponent of abstract art and a recognised figure of the British art establishment. Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 1915, he did not become an artist until he was in his 30s. He left school aged fourteen and went to work at Curry's cycle shop and then",
"title": "Terry Frost"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2420427",
"score": 1.1225487,
"text": "an 18-year intermittent affair with American actress Carol Lynley. On 19 March 1983, Frost married Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk. Three sons were born to the couple over the next five years. His second Wilfred Frost followed in his father's footsteps and currently works as an anchor at CNBC. They lived for many years in Chelsea, London, and kept a weekend home at Michelmersh Court in Hampshire. On 31 August 2013, Frost was aboard a Cunard Line cruise ship, the , when he had a heart attack and died. Cunard said that the vessel had",
"title": "David Frost"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20833597",
"score": 1.1198788,
"text": "Wilfred Frost Wilfred \"Wilf\" Frost was born August 7, 1985 in London England. He is the son of the late interviewer and television host Sir David Frost and Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard. Frost attended Oxford University. Wilfred graduated with a degree in Politics, Philosophy & Economics After graduating Wilfred worked as fund manager with the Newton Investment Management and was based in London. After five years of working in the financial field Wilfred left to pursue a career in broadcasting, freelancing and filing reports for CNN and ITV News. In 2014 Wilfred joined CNBC as the co-anchor of \"Worldwide Exchange\". He",
"title": "Wilfred Frost"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19573103",
"score": 1.1173637,
"text": "adopting the title Sir John Frost (but he was never knighted). Some sources say he was a knight of the obscure Brazilian Order of the Southern Star. . If so, it may link to his work on Ipecacuanha. He died in Berlin on 17 March 1840 following a \"long and painful illness\". He was married to Harriet Yosy, only daughter of Madame Yosy, author of \"Switzerland and its Costumes\". They had no children. John Frost (physician) Dr John Frost FRSE FSA (1803–1840) was a short-lived but influential physician and botanist who founded the Medico-Botanical Society of London, studying and cataloguing",
"title": "John Frost (physician)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2420429",
"score": 1.1130564,
"text": "had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. His 31-year-old son Miles Frost died from the same condition in 2015. David Frost Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Frost rose to prominence in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical programme \"That Was the Week That Was\" in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on U.S. television. He became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them the Nixon",
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Who was the only Spice Girl not to have a middle name? | [
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"Posh Spice",
"Victoria addams",
"Victoria Beckham",
"Victoria Adams Beckham",
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"Victoria Caroline Beckham",
"I'd Give It All Away",
"Come Together (Victoria Beckham album)",
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"The Hustla",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12145566",
"score": 1.0644536,
"text": "the spice girls got their own names. Victoria was Posh, Mel C was Sporty, Mel B was Scary, Geri was Ginger and Emma was Baby. In 1997, the Herberts reverted to their original boy-band masterplan. \"We decided to put an ad in \"The Stage\" newspaper, as we had done when we were auditioning for the Spice Girls,\" recalled Bob Herbert of 5ive. Herbert was married to Ann and had one son, Chris Herbert and one daughter, Nicky. On 9 August 1999, Herbert was driving his red MG F through Windsor Great Park in Berkshire. Suddenly, due to heavy rain, he",
"title": "Bob Herbert (manager)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "387077",
"score": 1.0579853,
"text": "language and came up with nicknames all the time so it came naturally to give them names that would be used by the magazine and its readers; it was never meant to be adopted globally.\" Shortly after using the nicknames in a magazine feature on the group, Loraine received calls from other British media outlets requesting permission to use them, and before long the nicknames were synonymous with the Spice Girls. Each Spice Girl had a unique, over-the-top style that served as an extension of her public persona, becoming her trademark look. In their one-off reunion at the 2012 Summer",
"title": "Spice Girls"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4373637",
"score": 1.0249962,
"text": "acts were DJ Sakin & Friends, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Artful Dodger, Chicane, Yomanda, Emmie, Wiseguys, Phats & Small, DJ Jean, Moloko, William Orbit, Ann Lee, amongst others. Ex-Spice Girl Melanie B was Melanie G throughout the year, having been recently married; she reverted to her maiden name the following year. Her solo career was slowly dying out with her follow-up single to her 1998 chart topper making a mere number 14. The single, \"Word Up\" was a remake of Cameo's number three hit from 1986. Emma Bunton hit the charts for the first time, being featured on Tin Tin",
"title": "1999 in British music"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "387076",
"score": 1.0231879,
"text": "band member having a distinct style identity has been influential to later teen pop groups such as boy band One Direction. Shortly after \"Wannabe\"'s release, a lunch with Peter Loraine, then-editor of \"Top of the Pops\", inadvertently led the Spice Girls to adopt the nicknames that ultimately played a key role in their marketability and the way their international audience identified with them. After the lunch, Loraine and his editorial staff decided to devise nicknames for each member of the group based on their personalities. In an interview with \"Music Week\", Loraine explained that, \"In the magazine we used silly",
"title": "Spice Girls"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "387019",
"score": 1.022263,
"text": "Spice Girls The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. The group comprised Melanie Brown (\"Scary Spice\"), Melanie Chisholm (\"Sporty Spice\"), Emma Bunton (\"Baby Spice\"), Geri Halliwell (\"Ginger Spice\"), and Victoria Beckham, née Adams (\"Posh Spice\"). They were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single \"Wannabe\" in 1996, which hit number one in 37 countries and established their global success. Their debut album \"Spice\" sold more than 31 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in history. Their follow-up album, \"Spiceworld\" sold over 20 million copies worldwide. The Spice Girls",
"title": "Spice Girls"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1910289",
"score": 1.0205086,
"text": "as inspirations for her first album. As a Spice Girls member Chisholm was called \"Sporty Spice\" because she usually wore a tracksuit paired with athletic shoes, wore her long dark hair in a high ponytail, and sported a tough girl attitude as well as tattoos on both of her arms. She also possessed true athletic abilities, including being able to perform back handsprings. In this period, the phrase \"girl power\" put a name to a social phenomenon, but the slogan was met with mixed reactions. The phrase was a label for the particular facet of post classical neo-feminist empowerment embraced",
"title": "Melanie C"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "387115",
"score": 1.0160457,
"text": "single, \"Wannabe\". Spice Girls The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. The group comprised Melanie Brown (\"Scary Spice\"), Melanie Chisholm (\"Sporty Spice\"), Emma Bunton (\"Baby Spice\"), Geri Halliwell (\"Ginger Spice\"), and Victoria Beckham, née Adams (\"Posh Spice\"). They were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single \"Wannabe\" in 1996, which hit number one in 37 countries and established their global success. Their debut album \"Spice\" sold more than 31 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in history. Their follow-up album, \"Spiceworld\" sold over 20 million copies worldwide. The",
"title": "Spice Girls"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4189990",
"score": 0.9781904,
"text": "down to a final group of five girls: Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell and Michelle Stephenson. The new band was originally called Touch and moved to a house in Maidenhead. Emma Bunton was the last to join after Stephenson dropped out when her mother became ill. The group felt insecure about the lack of contract and were frustrated by the direction in which Heart Management was steering them. In October 1994, armed with a catalog of demos and dance routines, the group began touring management agencies. They started to meet with producers, musicians and other business executives,",
"title": "Spice (album)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "387021",
"score": 0.97437215,
"text": "marketing engines ever, earning up to $75 million per year, with their global gross income estimated at $500–800 million by May 1998. Under the guidance of their mentor and manager Simon Fuller, the Spice Girls embraced merchandising and became a regular feature of the British and global press. In 1996, \"Top of the Pops\" magazine gave each member of the group aliases, which were adopted by the group and media. According to \"Rolling Stone\" journalist and biographer David Sinclair, \"Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh, and Sporty were the most widely recognised group of individuals since John, Paul, George, and Ringo\". With",
"title": "Spice Girls"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4382265",
"score": 0.9708409,
"text": "in Richmond, London. Wilson commented about the song: Geri came in and sang: 'Too much of something/Da-da-da-da-da...Right. OK. You got that?' We started working on it and we wanted to do some sort of doo-wop vocal thing. So we constructed this backing track and then more of the girls started to come in—this was quite a good day—and gradually they started to add on their little bits. Absolute structured the song using doo-wop records as a template. The format was for Emma Bunton to sing the high part, Melanie Brown, Victoria Beckham, and Halliwell singing the lower and middle parts,",
"title": "Too Much (Spice Girls song)"
}
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What are the international registration letters of a vehicle from Algeria? | [
"DZ (disambiguation)",
"Dz.",
"DZs",
"Dz",
"D.z.",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17062426",
"score": 1.1285312,
"text": "of three groups of digits separated by a space (early plates were separated with a hyphen). Since the late-1990s, the first group of numbers is composed of 5 digits (including leading zeroes – earlier plates have up to three digits with no leading zeroes), which make up the vehicle's actual registration/serial number. The next group is formed of 3 digits, and is used to identify the vehicle class and year of manufacture (e.g. 198 denotes a private vehicle manufactured in 1998). A two-digit suffix on the plate identifies the wilaya (Arabic: ولاية) or province in which the vehicle was first",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Algeria"
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"text": "Vehicle registration plates of Algeria Algerian registration plates are manufactured according to the same standards as their French counterparts, using the same font and dimensions – although there has been a recent tendency to apply custom typefaces (Impact and Century Gothic have been observed). Standard issue plates are white with black digits (affixed to the front of the vehicle) and yellow with black digits (mounted onto the rear of the vehicle). Being composed solely of numbers, they are one of the few vehicle registration plates which can accurately be referred to as 'number plates'. The registration mark takes the form",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Algeria"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17062428",
"score": 1.073346,
"text": "37 for Norway, &c.) Example of front and rear plates on a diplomatic vehicle belonging to the Italian embassy Vehicle registration plates of Algeria Algerian registration plates are manufactured according to the same standards as their French counterparts, using the same font and dimensions – although there has been a recent tendency to apply custom typefaces (Impact and Century Gothic have been observed). Standard issue plates are white with black digits (affixed to the front of the vehicle) and yellow with black digits (mounted onto the rear of the vehicle). Being composed solely of numbers, they are one of the",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Algeria"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17062427",
"score": 1.0625639,
"text": "registered. Example of front and rear plates on a private vehicle manufactured in 1963, and registered in Blida Example of front and rear plates on a private vehicle manufactured in 2001, and registered in Mostaganem Diplomatic vehicles are issued with plates featuring three groups of black digits, separated by hyphens, on a light teal background. The first group are the vehicle's actual registration/serial number (up to 3 digits in length); the second is composed of two digits indicating whether the vehicle belongs to a diplomat or embassy staff. The final two digits identify the embassy itself (e.g. 27 for Italy;",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Algeria"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "283536",
"score": 0.98824066,
"text": "French Milestones: a white tablet with a red top, marked with the route number. Vehicles owners must obtain a Registration document (\"\"Carte grise\"\") and Vehicle license plates (\"\"plaques d’immatriculation\"\"), which are of similar manufacture to those in Guinea and Mali. Licence plates usually contain the national code \"RN\" for international travel. Niger is a signatory of the September 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, and thus honours International drivers licenses from other signatories. Drivers licenses are regulated through the national Ministry of Transport, but issued by local officials. Drivers must pass a drivers test to qualify. A 2009 enforcement blitz",
"title": "Transport in Niger"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19629901",
"score": 0.9859929,
"text": "and there appear only the letters. Vehicle registration plates of Mauritania The license plates of Mauritania have a blue label on white background. The signs begin with four digits followed by two letters and a two digit number, which gives information about the area in which the vehicle is registered (for example, 00 for Nouakchott). On the right side show Mauritanian license plates based on the Euro plate a blue bar. This shows a circle rimmed country outline, and the distinguishing sign of RIM (French : République Islamique de Mauritanie - Islamic Republic of Mauritania) in Arabic and Latin letters.",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Mauritania"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12744020",
"score": 0.9750008,
"text": "Vehicle registration plates of Tunisia Tunisian vehicle registration plate allows the identification of vehicles registered in Tunisia. It takes the form XXX تونس XXXX where X is a number between 0 and 9, and تونس means \"Tunisia\" in Arabic script. Writing in white on a black background. The first three digits designate the series and the last four digits denote the number of vehicle registration in the series. The serial and registration number are separated by the name of Tunisia in Arabic. The passage of a series to the next is for each record in 9999 vehicles. Rental cars maintain",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Tunisia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12744022",
"score": 0.96610093,
"text": "its age. However, there is no rule and this depends on how many vehicles have been registered in a specific year. For example, series can last more than a whole year if less than 9999 vehicles are registered. But since in Tunisia an average of 50,000 new vehicles are registered each year, five series of number plates are issued. Late 140 series or early 141 series are expected by the end of 2009. Vehicle registration plates of Tunisia Tunisian vehicle registration plate allows the identification of vehicles registered in Tunisia. It takes the form XXX تونس XXXX where X is",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Tunisia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12744021",
"score": 0.95842886,
"text": "the same format as shown above except that the plates have white numbers on a blue background. The registration format shown above is awarded to any vehicle type with the exception of the following special plates. For example, 03 is the Ministry of Justice, 15 is the Ministry of Transport. The right XXXXX numbers designate the registration of the Ministry-owned vehicle. Ambassadors cars have the \"CMD\" inscription (Chef de Mission Diplomatique), in the form \"XX CMD ر ب د XX\" with 01 on the right side of the plate. Each series of vehicle registration refers to a year and hence",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Tunisia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13291366",
"score": 0.95353734,
"text": "parts: \"Numbers go from 1 to 9 and are chosen randomly. x is a random letter.\" \"Note : These plate codes do not apply for army, police and diplomatic vehicles.\" Use of Latin letters and Western Arabic numerals was abandoned early due to the unease of reading the Arabic letters and numbers because they were too small. To reduce the risk of confusion on account of the visual similarity between Arabic letters, only a limited number of letters are used. They and the Latin letters the Egyptian government uses to correspond to them are: Standard license plates are of 17x35",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Egypt"
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How did Jock die in Dallas? | [
"Helicopter accident"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3713357",
"score": 1.1492258,
"text": "made the decision not to write his death into the \"Dallas\" storyline right away. Initially, plans were made to replace him with another actor, but were dropped because of audience awareness and because no suitable actor could be found for the role to be recast. His character remained offscreen for 13 episodes after Davis' death, with the storyline explaining that Jock was in South America drilling for oil after taking care of Ewing Oil-related legislative business in Washington, D.C. The fifth-season episode \"The Search\", which confirmed the character's death in a helicopter crash, was broadcast on January 8, 1982, and",
"title": "Jim Davis (actor)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9074093",
"score": 1.1404881,
"text": "from Venezuela to Texas, the helicopter he was in collided with a small plane and crashed into a lake. Jock's body was never found, but he was declared dead in the fall of 1982. The storyline involving Jock's death was necessitated by the death of actor Jim Davis. A tribute to Davis was shown at the end of the episode \"The Search\"; a picture of Davis and the words \"Jim Davis 1909-1981\" was displayed for some moments as the final seconds of musical score played out before the final commercial break. A memorial headstone to Jock stands on Southfork Ranch,",
"title": "Jock Ewing"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9074094",
"score": 1.1314113,
"text": "beside Miss Ellie's headstone and grave. In a storyline during the 1986–87 season of the show, a man named Wes Parmalee (portrayed by Steve Forrest) came to Dallas, where Clayton and Ray hired him as ranch foreman on Southfork. One day, Miss Ellie found Jock's belt buckle, knife, letters, and photo of a young Miss Ellie in Parmalee's room. Wes then claimed to be Jock Ewing, and that he had survived the helicopter accident, which necessitated plastic surgery and rehab in a South American hospital. After passing a series of tests set by J.R. and Bobby, including X-ray tests, a",
"title": "Jock Ewing"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16495835",
"score": 1.0854224,
"text": "father's company, and in his distress Seth killed himself. Jock and Bobby believed that J.R. knew the wells were going to be nationalized, and that the Cartel had been double crossed, but J.R. denied that he knew anything prior to the nationalization. Bobby left Dallas after Jock supported J.R. shutting down a Ewing field to prevent Cliff Barnes from gaining any profit from the field. One night in the spring of 1980, J.R. was shot at the Ewing offices. Among the suspects were the Asian leasers investors, as well as J.R's wife, Sue Ellen, although it turned out to be",
"title": "Ewing family (Dallas)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "963340",
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"text": "during season 5. Actor Jim Davis, who played Jock, had died just after production had completed on season 4 in 1981. Bobby Ewing's death in the season 8 finale, alongside his subsequent absence during the following season, was explained away at the beginning of season 10 as a dream of Pamela Barnes Ewing, thus effectively erasing everything that had happened during season 9. Actor Patrick Duffy had left the series to pursue other opportunities, but due to declining ratings, he was convinced to return to the series by production company Lorimar as well as series star Larry Hagman. Jack Ewing",
"title": "Dallas (1978 TV series)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9074086",
"score": 1.0681063,
"text": "put her in a mental hospital. The doctor told Jock that Amanda would never recover and advised Jock to divorce her, which he eventually did in 1930. In 1936, Jock and Miss Ellie married on the day that her family was to lose Southfork, and it was well known that Jock was the only man in Dallas with the money to save the ranch. Jock had a fragile and stormy relationship with Miss Ellie's father, Aaron Southworth, and with her brother Garrison; however, Barbara Southworth seemed to accept her new son-in-law, if only for Miss Ellie's sake. On his deathbed,",
"title": "Jock Ewing"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "963339",
"score": 1.0493578,
"text": "staff Dora Mae (Pat Colbert, seasons 7–14), Cassie (Anne C. Lucas, seasons 5–10) and Debbie (Deborah Marie Taylor, seasons 11–14). The most well known supporting actor (at the time) was Tina Louise, who played J.R.'s secretary, Julie Grey, during the 1978–79 seasons. Her character was eventually killed off. By the end of the series, only three of the series' original characters (J.R., Bobby, and Cliff) were left in Dallas, the others having either died or left town. Jock Ewing was the first main character to depart the series, as Jock died offscreen in a mysterious helicopter crash in South America,",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9261972",
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"text": "deathbed that due to his longstanding love for Miss Ellie, and not wanting to devastate her life, as would be the case if Jock were sent to prison, he confessed to murdering Hutch. Digger died of alcohol poisoning in 1980, after decades of mostly heavy drinking. Jock claimed that he never cheated Digger out of a fortune but had taken control of the company, because Digger would have squandered any profit. The feud between the Ewing and Barnes families never ended, and continued through the years with Jock's son, J.R., and Digger's son, Cliff. In the episode \"Ewings Unite!\", his",
"title": "Willard \"Digger\" Barnes"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3713359",
"score": 1.0412064,
"text": "interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. For his contribution to the television industry, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6290 Hollywood Blvd. Jim Davis (actor) Jim Davis (born Marlin Davis, August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American actor, best known for his role as Jock Ewing in the CBS prime-time soap opera, \"Dallas\", a role which continued until he was too ill from a terminal illness to perform. Born in Edgerton in Platte County in northwestern Missouri, Davis attended high school in Dearborn, and the Baptist-affiliated William Jewell",
"title": "Jim Davis (actor)"
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"text": "Barnes, and the two became friends. Jock, Digger, and Jason all became wildcatters and began drilling their own fields. Digger had a unique ability to smell oil underground, and with Jock's business skills they began making a fortune. Jason and Digger didn't get on much, while Jock stood up for Digger in those days. Jason eventually left Texas to wildcat in Alaska, marrying a woman named Nancy Shaw, with whom he had a son Jack (played by Dack Rambo) and a daughter Jamie (played by Jenilee Harrison). Jock and Digger returned to Dallas and Southfork, where Jock met Digger's girlfriend,",
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"Who said, ""Anybody wishing to banish theft from the world must cut off the thief's hands?" | [
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"text": "upon him. By Him in whose hand is my life, even if Fatima bint Muhammad committed theft, I would have her hand cut off.” After this announcement, he ordered that the sentence be carried out. In general, he taught that: “The hand should be cut off for stealing something that is worth a quarter of a \"dinar\" or more.” Her hand was cut off, “and she left with her hand dripping with blood.” Fatima went to the Abdulashhal clan, where the wife of Usayd ibn Hudayr recognised her, invited her in and cooked her a meal. When Usayd, who was",
"title": "Fatima bint Al-Aswad"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "422482",
"score": 1.116135,
"text": "Quran which states \"As to the thief, Male or female, cut off his or her hands: a punishment by way of example, from Allah, for their crime: and Allah is Exalted in power.\" This is viewed as being a deterrent. In Buddhism, one of the five precepts prohibits theft, and involves the intention to steal what one perceives as not belonging to oneself (\"what is not given\") and acting successfully upon that intention. The severity of the act of theft is judged by the worth of the owner and the worth of that which is stolen. Underhand dealings, fraud, cheating",
"title": "Theft"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4941581",
"score": 1.0881199,
"text": "and consensual sex. Malik, the originator of the Maliki judicial school of thought, recorded in The Muwatta of many detailed circumstances under which the punishment of hand cutting should and should not be carried out. Commenting on the verse in the Quran on theft, Yusuf Ali says that most Islamic jurists believe that \"petty thefts are exempt from this punishment\" and that \"only one hand should be cut off for the first theft.\" Islamic jurists disagree as to when amputation is mandatory religious punishment. This is a fatwa given by Taqī al-Dīn ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī (d. 756/1356), a",
"title": "Hudud"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17957062",
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"text": "28 May 2014, Salmann expressed the view that thieves should have their hands cut off. When his comments caused an outrage Salmann insisted that he had not meant what he said. Salmann made news when he proposed to bring charges for hate-speech against some of the people who had made personal comments about him in this connection. However, in a television interview on 18 June 2014 Salmann reiterated that he supported amputation as a punishment for theft, just as murderers deserve the death penalty, unless \"the family of the deceased does not forgive them\". In a television interview on 18",
"title": "Salmann Tamimi"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4941582",
"score": 1.0320215,
"text": "senior Shafi scholar and judge from one of the leading scholarly families of Damascus: The Imam and Shaykh, may God have mercy on him, said: It has been agreed upon that the \"Hadd\" [punishment] is obligatory for one who has committed theft and [for whom the following conditions apply]: All of this was said by ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Saʿīd (probably Ibn Ḥazm, d. 1064). And the Imam and Shaykh added: and it is also on the condition that [the thief's] confession not precede the testimony and then after it he retracts [his confession]. For if the thief does that",
"title": "Hudud"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7556946",
"score": 1.0296601,
"text": "he would not pull his hand away first. It is said that during the conquest of Mecca, when Muhammad was entering into the city riding on a camel, his head lowered, in gratitude to God, to the extent that it almost touched the back of the camel. He never took revenge from anyone for his personal cause. He maintained honesty and justice in his deeds. When an elite woman in Medina was accused of theft, and others pleaded for the mitigation of the penalty, Muhammad said: \"Even if my daughter Fatima were accused of theft, I would pronounce the same",
"title": "Muhammad in Islam"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7427875",
"score": 0.9853151,
"text": "God's presence comes only when lust, wrath, avarice, attachment and egoity have departed from the devotee; when the devotee lives in constant awareness of God, the evils touch them not. Such a person is unaffected by pleasure and pain, for they have freed themself from evils such as \"lobh\", \"moh\" and \"abhiman\". Guru Tegh Bahadur describes such a sage as one liberated while still alive and calls them an image of God on earth (GG, I426-27). Another way of overcoming \"haomai\" and other evils is to keep the company of the saints (sant) or \"Sadh Sangat\" (holy congregation) who both",
"title": "Five Thieves"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7427868",
"score": 0.9785905,
"text": "Although it is permissible to identify \"haumai\" with \"ahankar\", the fact that \"haumai\" is not included in the evil pentad and yet comes in for the strongest censure in the Scripture would lead to the conclusion that it is regarded as a major evil in addition to those forming the pentad. It may be added that \"haumai\" or egoity, self-centredness, the personality system, the belief in one's individual existence, is the basis of all the other evils. From this standpoint, \"ahankar\" may be reckoned as an offshoot of \"haumai\". The assertion or affirmation of 'I' runs counter to the affirmation",
"title": "Five Thieves"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11705846",
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"text": "it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the holy thing of the ; and that soul shall be cut off from his people. \"(Proclamation to \"cut off\" anyone who eats a certain kind of peace offering on the 3rd day or later.)\" I also will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My holy name. then I will set My face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and",
"title": "Banishment in the Torah"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3975840",
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"text": "that when he saw a beggar weeping, he said: If the world was in his hands and suddenly it dropped from him, it would not be worth weeping for. The Imam renounced worldly pleasures but did not give way to poverty and feebleness, rather he was \"pious with what God prohibited\". The Imam was self-denying and turned away from the world, and Sufis consider him as Sufi and wrote biographies about him. It is known from the Imam that while circumambulating the Kaaba, he heard a man asking God for patience, so he turned to him and said: \"You are",
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To the nearest 10,000 square miles, what is the area of Arkansas? | [
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"text": "however, span from the Arkansas River in the south through north central Arkansas. The Boston Mountains subset contain highest peaks in the Ozarks. Arkansas is located in the southeastern United States, in the West South Central Census Bureau division. Arkansas covers an area of 53,179 square miles (137,733 km²) and ranks as the 29th largest state by size. The state borders six U.S. states: Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi across the Mississippi River to the east, Louisiana to the south, Oklahoma to the west, and Texas to the southwest. First added to the United States of America as",
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"id": "953516",
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"text": "square mile (7/km²). There were 9,436 housing units at an average density of 9 per square mile (4/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 71.8% White, 24.5% Black or African American, 0.5% Asian, 0.2% Native American, 0% Pacific Islander, 1.7% from other races, and 1.3% from two or more races. 2.7% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 8,005 households out of which 30.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.4% were married couples living together, 15.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.7% were non-families. 29.4%",
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"text": "Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a state in the southern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta. Arkansas is the 29th largest by area and the",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1014721",
"score": 1.0515144,
"text": "people per square mile (308.2/km²). There were 5,712 housing units at an average density of 298.8 per square mile (115.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 96.56% White, 0.33% Black or African American, 0.40% Native American, 0.88% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.49% from other races, and 1.30% from two or more races. 1.87% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 5,432 households out of which 47.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.7% were married couples living together, 10.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.3% were",
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"text": "Jonesboro are outside the two largest metropolitan areas. Other cities are located in Arkansas such as Pine Bluff, Crossett, Bryant, Lake Village, Hot Springs, Bentonville, Texarkana, Sherwood, Jacksonville, Russellville, Bella Vista, West Memphis, Paragould, Cabot, Searcy, Van Buren, El Dorado, Blytheville, Harrison, Dumas, Rison, Warren, and Mountain Home. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Arkansas was 2,978,204 on July 1, 2015, a 2.14% increase since the 2010 United States Census. As of 2015, Arkansas has an estimated population of 2,978,204. From fewer than 15,000 in 1820, Arkansas's population grew to 52,240 during a special census in",
"title": "Arkansas"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "953366",
"score": 1.0310702,
"text": "27 people per square mile (10/km²). There were 10,166 housing units at an average density of 12 per square mile (5/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 74.28% White, 22.02% Black or African American, 0.46% Native American, 0.62% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.37% from other races, and 1.20% from two or more races. 2.40% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 8,912 households out of which 29.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.80% were married couples living together, 12.20% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.70%",
"title": "Clark County, Arkansas"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "952696",
"score": 1.020912,
"text": "area of , of which is land and (0.7%) is water. It is the second-largest county by area in Arkansas. As of the 2000 United States Census, there were 67,165 people, 25,148 households, and 18,408 families residing in the county. The population density was 65 people per square mile (25/km²). There were 27,613 housing units at an average density of 27 per square mile (10/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 93.52% White, 3.56% Black or African American, 0.43% Native American, 0.32% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.82% from other races, and 1.31% from two or more races. 1.88% of",
"title": "White County, Arkansas"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20901685",
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"text": "Arkansas–White–Red water resource region The Arkansas–White–Red water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined drainage areas of a series of rivers. The Arkansas–White–Red region, which is listed with a 2-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) of 11, has an approximate size of , and consists of 14 subregions, which are listed with the 4-digit HUCs 1101 through",
"title": "Arkansas–White–Red water resource region"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "952728",
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"text": "county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.5%) is water. It is the largest county by area in Arkansas. Union County, along with Columbia County, has the largest bromine reserve in the United States. The lowest point in the state of Arkansas is located on the Ouachita River in Union County and Ashley County, where it flows out of Arkansas and into Louisiana. As of the 2000 census, there were 45,629 people, 17,989 households, and 12,646 families residing in the county. The population density was 44 people per square mile (17/km²). There were 20,676 housing",
"title": "Union County, Arkansas"
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"id": "952999",
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"text": "all other surrounding counties in the state by water (a characteristic shared only with neighboring Miller County). The Little River, Millwood Lake and the Red River form the boundaries of the county within the state. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (5.8%) is water. It is the third-smallest county in Arkansas by land area and fourth-smallest by total area. As of the 2000 census, there were 13,628 people, 5,465 households, and 3,912 families residing in the county. The population density was 26 people per square mile (10/km²).",
"title": "Little River County, Arkansas"
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What star sign is Michael Caine? | [
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"text": "Roger Moore, Stephen Fry, Ewan McGregor, Dame Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley, David Walliams, Charlotte Rampling and Paul McKenna. Caine was cast in a spoken cameo role in Christopher Nolan's 2017 action-thriller \"Dunkirk\" (2017), based on the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II, as a Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot, as a nod to his role of RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in \"Battle of Britain\" (1969). Caine is regarded as a British cultural icon, with Mairi Mackay of CNN stating: \"Michael Caine has been personifying British cool since the swinging sixties. He has brought some of British cinema's most",
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"text": "Michael Caine Sir Michael Caine, (; born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, 14 March 1933) is an English actor, producer and author. He has appeared in more than 125 films in a career spanning 50 years and is considered a British film icon. Known for his cockney accent, Caine was born in South London, where during his early childhood, he and his parents lived in a rented flat on Urlwin Street, in Camberwell. He made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in British films, including \"Zulu\" (1964), \"The Ipcress File\" (1965), \"Alfie\" (1966), for which he was nominated for an",
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"text": "eminence of the borough. Michael Caine Sir Michael Caine, (; born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, 14 March 1933) is an English actor, producer and author. He has appeared in more than 125 films in a career spanning 50 years and is considered a British film icon. Known for his cockney accent, Caine was born in South London, where during his early childhood, he and his parents lived in a rented flat on Urlwin Street, in Camberwell. He made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in British films, including \"Zulu\" (1964), \"The Ipcress File\" (1965), \"Alfie\" (1966), for which he",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "nomination. Caine has won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the films \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" (1986) and \"The Cider House Rules\" (1999). More recently Caine has gained a new following through his collaborations with British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan in the Dark Knight Trilogy films, as well as \"Inception\" (2010) and \"Interstellar\" (2014). Note: in \"The Italian Job\" (2001 video game), Caine's voice (as Charlie Croker) was impersonated by Phil Cornwell At his peak, exhibitors voted Michael Caine one of the most popular stars at the box office: Michael Caine filmography Michael Caine is an English actor who has appeared",
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"text": "British Film Institute's 100 greatest British films of the 20th century. In 2000, Caine received a BAFTA Fellowship, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to cinema. Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite on 14 March 1933 in St Olave's Hospital in Rotherhithe, London. His father, Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Sr. (20 February 1899, St Olave, Bermondsey, London –1956, Lambeth, London), was a fish market porter, while his mother, Ellen Frances Marie Burchell (1900, Southwick, London –1989, London), was a cook and charwoman. He was brought up in his mother's Protestant religion. Caine had an",
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"text": "sound of it to the less glamorous-sounding \"Maurice\". He chose the name \"Caine\" reputedly because at the precise instant he needed to decide upon his new stage name, he saw a cinema marquee for the then-current movie \"The Caine Mutiny\" and thought that it would make a good last name in conjunction with \"Michael.\" (\"Had I looked the other direction,\" he would later quip, \"I'd be known as Michael The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.\") Similarly, actor Pete Postlethwaite was advised to adopt a different surname by peers who quipped that his \"would never be put up in lights outside",
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"text": "The Hollywood Sign (film) The Hollywood Sign is a 2001 comedy/suspense drama film directed by Sönke Wortmann and written by Leon de Winter. It stars Tom Berenger, Rod Steiger and Burt Reynolds as three washed-up actors risking their lives to make a comeback, as well as Jacqueline Kim. When three great, has-been actors meet at the funeral of a legendary Hollywood agent, their alcoholic reunion leads them to visit the Hollywood Sign. There they find the body of a man – leading them to uncover an in-progress scam for stealing millions from a Las Vegas casino – which originated as",
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"text": "he had to come up with a new name immediately. Speaking to his agent from a telephone booth in Leicester Square, London, he looked around for inspiration, noted that \"The Caine Mutiny\" was being shown at the Odeon Cinema in 1954, and decided to change his name to \"Michael Caine\". He joked on television in 1987 that, had a tree partly blocking his view been a few feet to the left, he might have been called \"Michael Mutiny\". (Humphrey Bogart was his \"screen idol\" and he would later play the part originally intended for Bogart in John Huston's \"The Man",
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"text": "Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In the 2000s, Caine appeared in \"Miss Congeniality\" (2000), \"Last Orders\" (2001), \"The Quiet American\" (2002), for which he was Oscar-nominated, and others. Several of Caine's classic films have been remade, including \"The Italian Job\", \"Get Carter\", \"Alfie\" and \"Sleuth\". In the 2007 remake of \"Sleuth\", Caine took over the role Laurence Olivier played in the 1972 version and Jude Law played Caine's original role. Caine is one of the few actors to have played a starring role in two different versions of the same film. In an interview with CNN, Law spoke of",
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"text": "The stars of the film were George Baker, Stanley Baker, Harry Andrews and Michael Medwin, with Stephen Boyd and Ronald Lewis, and Robert Shaw also had a small part. He appeared regularly on television in small roles. His first credited role on the BBC was 'Boudousse' in the Jean Anouilh play \"The Lark\" in 1956. Other parts included three roles in \"Dixon of Dock Green\" in 1957, 1958 and 1959, prisoner-of-war series \"Escape\" (1957), crime/thriller drama \"Mister Charlesworth\", and a court orderly in \"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial\" (1958). Caine continued to appear on television, in serials \"The Golden Girl\" and",
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Who wrote the novel Evening Class? | [
"Maeve Binchy"
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"text": "Evening Class (novel) Evening Class is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was adapted as the award-winning film \"Italian for Beginners\" (2000) by writer-director Lone Scherfig, who failed to formally acknowledge the source, although at the very end of the closing credits is the line 'with thanks to Maeve Binchy'. A story of many Irish men and women from various backgrounds and how a teacher, Nora O'Donoghue (known as \"Signora\"), and an Italian evening class changes their lives over the course of a year. Each chapter deals with the life story of one or more students in the class. In",
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"score": 1.0858792,
"text": "an undisclosed sum, when her publisher contacted the producers of the movie, Lars von Trier's company Zentropa. Although the film's writer-director Lone Scherfig had told the press that the film was based on her idea, executive producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen later admitted that she had made him aware of the similarities but that he had simply decided not to pay the original author. Evening Class (novel) Evening Class is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was adapted as the award-winning film \"Italian for Beginners\" (2000) by writer-director Lone Scherfig, who failed to formally acknowledge the source, although at the very",
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"id": "8593842",
"score": 1.0018238,
"text": "that his money be sent back to his family in Hungary. The Class (Erich Segal novel) The Class is Erich Segal's 6th novel, published in 1985. The class of the title is the Harvard Class of 1958, and particularly refers to five fictional members of this class: Andrew Eliot, Jason Gilbert, Theodore Lambros, Daniel Rossi and George Keller. \"The Class\" follows the diverse fates of five members of Harvard's Class of 1958, recording the way their lives intertwine, and coming to a dramatic conclusion at their class reunion, twenty-five years later. Andrew Eliot comes from the Boston Brahmin Eliot family.",
"title": "The Class (Erich Segal novel)"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10374799",
"score": 0.9971972,
"text": "a Dickensian way, they bump into each other and are affected by the decisions of those around them. It is a story of love and deceit, family drama, wealth and poverty, of friendship and courage. Nora O'Donoghue and Aidan Dunne also appear in \"Quentins\", another novel by Maeve Binchy, and play a more significant role in \"Heart and Soul\". The novel heavily inspired the plot of the Danish feature film \"Italian for Beginners\" (2000), which won a Silver Berlin Bear and several other major international awards. Maeve Binchy was not paid, credited nor informed of this, but was later paid",
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"id": "8593833",
"score": 0.971308,
"text": "The Class (Erich Segal novel) The Class is Erich Segal's 6th novel, published in 1985. The class of the title is the Harvard Class of 1958, and particularly refers to five fictional members of this class: Andrew Eliot, Jason Gilbert, Theodore Lambros, Daniel Rossi and George Keller. \"The Class\" follows the diverse fates of five members of Harvard's Class of 1958, recording the way their lives intertwine, and coming to a dramatic conclusion at their class reunion, twenty-five years later. Andrew Eliot comes from the Boston Brahmin Eliot family. Due to his background, he always feels the pressure of high",
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"id": "8593838",
"score": 0.919292,
"text": "from Cambridge Latin School, and thus must work as a waiter to support himself throughout his schooling, and does not have the wherewithal to live on campus. During the course of the book, this fact makes it difficult for him to truly \"belong\" to his class. All the same, he endures and eventually achieves his ambition of securing a professorship in the classics at Harvard. Tragically, he has no one to share it with, after committing adultery while on sabbatical at Christ Church, and his subsequent divorce from his college sweetheart. Daniel Rossi is a talented pianist. His father disowns",
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"score": 0.89950633,
"text": "The Class (2008 film) The Class () is a 2008 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau. The novel is a semi-autobiographical account of Bégaudeau's experiences as a French language and literature teacher in a middle school in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, particularly illuminating his struggles with \"problem children\": Esmerelda (Esmeralda Ouertani), Khoumba (Rachel Regulier), and Souleymane (Franck Keïta). The film stars Bégaudeau himself in the role of the teacher. The film received the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, making it the first French",
"title": "The Class (2008 film)"
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"text": "her novel, and eventually she gave up on her dissertation to write. In 2006 she graduated from the MFA program in creative writing from the University of Michigan, where she worked on polishing her novel. \"Evening Is the Whole Day\" focuses on the dark secrets of an affluent Malaysian Indian family (also living in Ipoh), and has been praised for its lyrical, inventive language, often using untranslated Tamil words, and using aspects of Bahasa syntax, such as reduplicatives as intensifiers. The \"ambitious spiraling plot\" has also come in for praise. Like servants in some other recent novels (Triton in Romesh",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1863564",
"score": 0.8934543,
"text": "degree from Columbia University, writing a thesis on Thomas Hardy. He was excused from military service in World War II because he was the sole support of his widower father. He first worked for the Bureau of the Census in Washington D.C., then taught English in New York, mostly high school night classes for adults. Starting in 1949, Malamud taught four sections of freshman composition each semester at Oregon State University (then Oregon State College, or OSC), an experience fictionalized in his 1961 novel \"A New Life\". Because he lacked the Ph.D., he was not allowed to teach literature courses,",
"title": "Bernard Malamud"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3854386",
"score": 0.8927042,
"text": "George and Mary Anne Macfarlane, God-fearing middle-class Free Church Glaswegians. She attended the New Park School for Girls in Glasgow. Catherine grew up in Garnethill, where Glasgow School of Art is situated. She attended evening classes at the art school, where the director of the life class from 1906 was the painter Maurice Grieffenhagen, with whom she subsequently had an affair. In 1901 she enrolled for English literature classes at the University of Glasgow. Among her professors were Walter Raleigh and Adolphus A. Jack. Although considered a star pupil she could not, as a woman, be awarded a degree. She",
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Which country does the airline Air Pacific come from? | [
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"text": "Asia Pacific Airlines (United States) Asia Pacific Airlines is a cargo airline headquartered in Danville, California, USA in the San Francisco Bay Area. It operates cargo charter services from Guam. Its main base is Guam International Airport. The airline was established on June 5, 1998 and started operations, with Boeing 727-200 series aircraft, on June 3, 1999. It was formed as Aero Micronesia, and is an affiliate company of the Tan Holdings Corporation. The primary aspect of the airline's operation is the shipment of US Mail, and other cargo, throughout Micronesia, as well as the importation of fresh high grade",
"title": "Asia Pacific Airlines (United States)"
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"text": "the following aircraft: Pacific Air Express Pacific Air Express is an airline based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It operates cargo services to Honiara, Nauru, Noumea, Port Moresby and Port Vila; and charter flights in the South Pacific area. Its main bases are Brisbane Airport and Honiara International Airport. The airline was established in 1993 by Australian expatriate Gary Clifford (General Manager) and a business partner from the Solomon Islands. The airline was originally based in Honiara, but relocated due to civil unrest in 1999. It had 35 employees as of March 2007. As of October 2018 the Pacific Air Express",
"title": "Pacific Air Express"
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"text": "existence with some of these destination being served at different times: Air Pacific (United States) Air Pacific was a commuter airline based in the United States that operated regional flights wholly within the state of California. Founded as Eureka Aero in 1970, it was renamed Air Pacific in 1979. Its de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and DHC-7 Dash 7 turboprop aircraft were capable of STOL (short takeoff and landing) operations. Air Pacific merged with Gem State Airlines in 1981 to form Golden Gate Airlines, which merged again later in 1981, with Swift Aire Lines, but service was discontinued shortly",
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"text": "tuna for transshipment to worldwide fish markets. As of January 2015 the airline has begun the process of bringing Boeing 757-200 series aircraft into service as part of fleet modernization and expansion. The Asia Pacific Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2017): The airline previously operated the following aircraft as of August 2016: Asia Pacific Airlines (United States) Asia Pacific Airlines is a cargo airline headquartered in Danville, California, USA in the San Francisco Bay Area. It operates cargo charter services from Guam. Its main base is Guam International Airport. The airline was established on June",
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"text": "Air Pacific (United States) Air Pacific was a commuter airline based in the United States that operated regional flights wholly within the state of California. Founded as Eureka Aero in 1970, it was renamed Air Pacific in 1979. Its de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and DHC-7 Dash 7 turboprop aircraft were capable of STOL (short takeoff and landing) operations. Air Pacific merged with Gem State Airlines in 1981 to form Golden Gate Airlines, which merged again later in 1981, with Swift Aire Lines, but service was discontinued shortly thereafter. Air Pacific served the following destinations in California during its",
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"id": "9309042",
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"text": "Pacific Air Express Pacific Air Express is an airline based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It operates cargo services to Honiara, Nauru, Noumea, Port Moresby and Port Vila; and charter flights in the South Pacific area. Its main bases are Brisbane Airport and Honiara International Airport. The airline was established in 1993 by Australian expatriate Gary Clifford (General Manager) and a business partner from the Solomon Islands. The airline was originally based in Honiara, but relocated due to civil unrest in 1999. It had 35 employees as of March 2007. As of October 2018 the Pacific Air Express fleet consists of",
"title": "Pacific Air Express"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2736985",
"score": 0.9596125,
"text": "when a seven-seater de Havilland Dragon Rapide biplane departed Suva's Nausori Airport for Drasa Airport near Lautoka, on the west coast of the main island. The airline's first international flight to Brisbane, Australia was on 1 June 1973. In 1983 it started flights to the US with a route to Honolulu called “Project America.” In December 2009, Air Pacific commenced a twice weekly service to Hong Kong, which was increased to three services in January 2014. In July 2010 Air Pacific announced a new Suva-Auckland service. Today, the airline and its domestic/regional subsidiary, Fiji Link, operate over 400 flights a",
"title": "Fiji Airways"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2736987",
"score": 0.9534172,
"text": "falloff in air traffic, Air Pacific returned one of its two leased Boeing 747s. In 2003, Air Pacific received the first of its 2 Boeing 747-400s it was leasing from Singapore Airlines (They had previously been leased with Ansett Australia until its downfall in 2001). In April 2011, Air Pacific announced that it had cancelled its order of eight Boeing 787-9s due to delivery delays of almost four years by Boeing. In October 2011, Air Pacific announced that it had ordered three Airbus A330-200s. In March 2013 the company received its first “Fiji Airways” re-branded Airbus A330. It was christened",
"title": "Fiji Airways"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1915843",
"score": 0.95257604,
"text": "1983, Honolulu-based South Pacific Island Airways was operating nonstop Boeing 707 service from Anchorage, Guam, Pago Pago and Papeete. In April 1974, American Airlines, Braniff International, Continental Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Pan Am, TWA, United Airlines and Western Airlines were all operating nonstop services on domestic routes from the U.S. mainland while CP Air, a Canadian airline, was operating international nonstop service from Vancouver and on to the South Pacific during the mid 1970s. Just over 25 years later in June 1999, U.S.-based air carriers operating domestic nonstop services from the mainland included American Airlines, American Trans Air, Continental, Delta Air",
"title": "Daniel K. Inouye International Airport"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14569762",
"score": 0.9402639,
"text": "California Pacific Airlines California Pacific Airlines (CP Air) is an American regional airline that is headquartered on the grounds of McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, California. The airline was founded in 2009 by Ted Vallas. Vallas, a San Diego County businessperson from North County, had previously operated Air Resorts Airlines, wanted to create a San Diego County-based airline. He picked Palomar Airport as a hub, since it had moderate demand but infrequent scheduled service. Vallas invested about $14 million in seed money, with plans to raise up to $32 million more from private investment. From 2009 to 2017, the airline struggled",
"title": "California Pacific Airlines"
}
] |
In which branch of the arts does Allegra Kent work? | [
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"id": "8650664",
"score": 1.0956562,
"text": "Allegra Kent Allegra Kent (born August 11, 1937) is an American ballet dancer, actress, children's book author and columnist. Iris Margo Cohen was born to Jewish parents, Harry Herschel and Shirley (née Weissman) Cohen, and later changed her name to Allegra Kent. Kent grew up in what she later described as a dysfunctional environment. In \"Once a Dancer: An Autobiography\", she describes her Texan father – \"who liked to substitute 'Cowboy' for Herschel\" – as having \"a gambler's soul and a restless nature\". She describes her Wisznice-born immigrant mother as feeling \"neither European nor American; she was ashamed of her",
"title": "Allegra Kent"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8650668",
"score": 1.0215665,
"text": "McGowan and artistic director Barbara Zinn Krieger. The adaptation received positive reviews by \"The New York Times\", \"Time Out New York Kids\", and others. Due to its success, in December 2015, New York City Children's Theater produced a revival of \"Ballerina Swan.\" Kent currently teaches ballet at Barnard College. Notes Bibliography Allegra Kent Allegra Kent (born August 11, 1937) is an American ballet dancer, actress, children's book author and columnist. Iris Margo Cohen was born to Jewish parents, Harry Herschel and Shirley (née Weissman) Cohen, and later changed her name to Allegra Kent. Kent grew up in what she later",
"title": "Allegra Kent"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8650665",
"score": 1.0135148,
"text": "[own] parents. She borrowed a neighbor's working papers and took a job at twelve. By fourteen, she was teaching ballroom dancing at night in someone's private home, mostly to Japanese men\". Born in Santa Monica, Kent studied with Bronislava Nijinska and Carmelita Maracci before joining the School of American Ballet. She discovered music and dance at the age of 7 and enjoyed both, but she was 11 before she took her first ballet lesson. She had completely flat feet as a little girl and consulted a doctor, who prescribed wedges in her shoes to give her arches. She then began",
"title": "Allegra Kent"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8650667",
"score": 1.0059965,
"text": "Swan\", with Holiday House Books for Young People, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully. It has received good reviews from \"The New York Times\",\"Kirkus Reviews\", and \"School Library Journal\". She eventually had plastic surgery on her nose and chin at the insistence of her mother in an attempt to make her look \"less Jewish\". The operation was botched and Kent fell into a deep depression because of it. Balanchine dropped several roles for her because of it. In 2013, \"Ballerina Swan\" was adapted for the stage as a dance piece by New York City Children's Theater, featuring choreographer Michael",
"title": "Allegra Kent"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20616220",
"score": 0.94586533,
"text": "Indira Allegra Indira Allegra is an American artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Her work, which includes installation, sculpture, poetry, and performance art, explores tensions as they manifest internally and in response to political and emotional triggers. Indira Allegra was born in Detroit, Michigan and moved in the 1980s to Portland, Oregon. Allegra attended Portland Community College and studied Sign Language Interpretation, and later achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts in 2015. She and her work have appeared at SOMArts, SFMOMA, De Young Museum, Center for Craft and Design, New York Queer Experimental",
"title": "Indira Allegra"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8650666",
"score": 0.9318923,
"text": "taking ballet. After graduating, she joined the New York City Ballet in 1953 at the age of 15, and was promoted to principal in 1957. Many roles in George Balanchine's ballets were created for her, including \"Seven Deadly Sins\", \"Ivesiana\" and \"Bugaku\". She danced the role of Dewdrop in the 1958 Playhouse 90 telecast of Balanchine's version of \"The Nutcracker\". She performed in such ballets as \"Serenade\", \"Agon\" and \"Dances at a Gathering\". She retired in 1981, becoming a ballet teacher, and in 1997 published an autobiography, \"Once a Dancer\". In 2012, Kent published her first book for children, \"Ballerina",
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},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13331618",
"score": 0.89968485,
"text": "which no longer required tuition and afforded her a stipend. She left in 1921 and was recruited among other students to paint sets for theatres. It was in this work that she met Oreste Allegri Jr., an Italian scene painter whom she would marry in 1922. March of the following year they had a son, Benedict, and the new family made plans to emigrate to France. Unfortunately Oreste Jr. drowned in the summer of 1923 before their plans could be carried out, and Clark and Benedict left for Paris and the Allegri family home by themselves in the fall. Though",
"title": "Paraskeva Clark"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20032335",
"score": 0.8973954,
"text": "descent. Her mother's family was of English origin. A delicate and high-strung child, she early showed a talent for drawing and modeling. One of her first works of art was an idol carved out of a piece of semi-decayed wood, when she was only six years of age. She drew constantly and modeled occasionally in clay, but she had no art teaching until she was received into classes in Cooper Institute in October, 1875. She was under age, being only 14, but was accepted on account of remarkable promise. She did creditable work there for two years, after which she",
"title": "Allegra Eggleston"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9881381",
"score": 0.866095,
"text": "Allegra Versace Allegra Versace Beck (; born 30 June 1986), commonly known as Allegra Versace, is an Italian heiress and socialite. Since 2011 Allegra has been a director of Gianni Versace S.p.A. and has worked in New York City as a theatrical dresser. Allegra Versace is the daughter of Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace and American ex-fashion model Paul Beck. She was raised outside Milan, Italy, with her younger brother Daniel. Sir Elton John gave her her first piano. Versace attended The British School of Milan, then known as \"The Sir James Henderson School\", and Brown University in Rhode Island.",
"title": "Allegra Versace"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8875849",
"score": 0.8443587,
"text": "on by the nuns at the convent, who called her \"Allegrina,\" and was visited once by Teresa's relatives. Probably with considerable assistance from the nuns, four-year-old Allegra wrote her father a letter in Italian from the convent, dated 21 September 1821, asking him to visit her: My dear Papa. It being fair-time, I should like so much a visit from my Papa as I have many wishes to satisfy. Won't you come to please your Allegrina who loves you so? The abbess of the convent included her own note inviting Byron to come to see Allegra before he left for",
"title": "Allegra Byron"
}
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Who had a 70s No 1 hit with Billy, Don't Be A Hero? | [
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"text": "US version sold over three and a half million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in June 1974. Donaldson and the Heywoods's version was a massive hit in Latin America and Japan as well, but it remained largely unknown elsewhere as of late July 2017. \"Billboard\" ranked it as the No. 21 song for 1974. Despite the song's popularity, it was poorly received, and it was voted No. 8 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's readers' poll of \"10 Worst Songs of the 1970s.\" The song is mentioned as having played on K-Billy's \"Super Sounds of the '70s",
"title": "Billy Don't Be a Hero"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5968830",
"score": 1.289474,
"text": "to ride out and seek reinforcements. (This suggests mounted infantry and a lack of modern two-way radio communications.) In the end, the heartbroken woman throws away the official letter notifying her of Billy's \"heroic\" death. Paper Lace's version of \"Billy Don't Be a Hero\" reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart on 16 March 1974, and did likewise in Australia, where it spent eight weeks at the top spot. Thereafter, Bo Donaldson's and the Heywoods's version reached No. 1 in the U.S. on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on 15 June 1974, but was dubbed into French for Canada. The",
"title": "Billy Don't Be a Hero"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5968828",
"score": 1.259747,
"text": "Billy Don't Be a Hero \"Billy Don't Be a Hero\" is a 1974 pop song that was first a UK hit for Paper Lace and then, some months later, a US hit for Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods. The song was written and composed by two British songwriters, Mitch Murray and Peter Callander. Because the song was released in 1974, it was associated by some listeners with the Vietnam War, though the war to which it actually refers is never identified in the lyrics. It has been suggested that the drum pattern, references to a marching band leading soldiers in",
"title": "Billy Don't Be a Hero"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4389950",
"score": 1.2511766,
"text": "Phil Wright's Original 70s Paper Lace) the band initially questioned appearing. However, with the show having weekly viewing figures of 7 million, they concluded that going on the programme was a \"no brainer\", and the band won Opportunity Knocks for five consecutive weeks. Based on Opportunity Knocks' performances, songwriters (Mitch Murray and Peter Callander) offered the band \"Billy Don't Be a Hero\", with the possibility of more songs if it took off. Billy Don't Be a Hero would spend three weeks at Number 1 on the UK Singles Chart in March 1974, with a total of 14 weeks on the",
"title": "Paper Lace"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10859130",
"score": 1.1733057,
"text": "Records (1973–1975). The CD contains all their charted singles and, in fact, includes 9 of the 11 songs featured on the 1974 LP \"Billy Don't Be a Hero\" (#97 on the Hot 200). The CD booklet includes liner notes written by Gordon Pogoda and the CD features such highlights as \"Who Do You Think You Are\", \"The House on Telegraph Hill\", and \"The Heartbreak Kid\". In 1975, the band was working on a second album of material for ABC including \"Our Last Song Together\", released as a single (and which made the pop charts), and \"Take Me Make Me Yours\",",
"title": "Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10859128",
"score": 1.1686631,
"text": "Candlewick Green and reached #15 on the Hot 100 with the Heywoods's version). This was followed by their last top-40 hit, \"The Heartbreak Kid\" (#39 Hot 100), and their ominously titled last Hot 100 hit, \"Our Last Song Together\" (#95 on the Hot 100, the last song written by the Sedaka-Greenfield tandem before its breakup). \"Billy Don't Be A Hero\" sold over three and a half million copies, receiving a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in June 1974. Despite the song's popularity, many people disliked it, and it was voted #8 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's readers' poll of \"10 Worst",
"title": "Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10859127",
"score": 1.1551938,
"text": "single with ABC, \"Deeper and Deeper,\" failed to make a big impression on the charts, beginning in 1974, the band began a string of hit songs. Their first two (and largest two) hits were cover versions of British hit songs whose original versions had not been hits in the U.S.: \"Billy Don't Be A Hero\" (a cover of a #1 UK Paper Lace song that reached #1 for 2 weeks on the Hot 100 with the Heywoods's version) and \"Who Do You Think You Are\" (written by Clive Scott & Des Dyer of Jigsaw, which originally became a hit for",
"title": "Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "7943335",
"score": 1.1241568,
"text": "and Mina. Murray also wrote \"My Brother\" which became a children's favourite when recorded by Terry Scott. Later Murray and Callander formed their own record label, Bus Stop, through which they launched the career of Paper Lace. Their first two singles, released in 1974, were both written by Murray and Callander, \"Billy Don't Be a Hero\" (No. 1 UK, with a cover version by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods reaching Number 1 in the US), and \"The Night Chicago Died\" (Number 1 US). Another song Murray was involved in was \"Sing Me\", a UK Top Ten hit for one-hit wonders,",
"title": "Mitch Murray"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4389951",
"score": 1.1062275,
"text": "chart. It was followed by another Murray/Callander composition, the story song \"The Night Chicago Died\" which reached Number 3 and spent 11 weeks on the charts. A third Murray/Callander-penned release, \"The Black-Eyed Boys\", took Paper Lace to number 11 in late 1974 and number 37 in Canada. With their subject matter assumed in America to be about the American Civil War, it was logical that \"Billy Don't Be a Hero\" should become a hit in the United States. However, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods were the first to release the song in the United States, and Paper Lace had to",
"title": "Paper Lace"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "\"High Fidelity\". The song is also featured in a Season 1 episode of \"That '70s Show\". \"The Night Chicago Died\" was Paper Lace's follow-up single to \"Billy Don't Be a Hero\", a #1 hit in the U.K. but virtually unheard in the U.S. where Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods' cover reached #1. Callander and Murray wrote both songs. The U.S. single received a Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, signifying sales of at least one million copies. Though the song's story is set in the United States, Paper Lace were unable to perform the song live in",
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"text": "developed in 1921. The Centre, managed by the University of Toronto, set up facilities to foster collaborative work between students, faculty and private enterprise by providing office space, courses and equipment. The centre has also provided jobs for students and recent graduates of the university. Soon after its establishment, the centre began raising money from private investors to fund startup companies. During the first year about $23 million was raised. As of 2016, the centre operates nine business accelerators. Banting and Best Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Banting and Best Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is an initiative of",
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"text": "ignoring Best and Collip. Banting chose to share half of the prize money with Best. The key contribution by Collip was recognised in the Nobel speech of McLeod, who also gave one-half of his prize money to Collip. Best succeeded Macleod as professor of physiology at University of Toronto in 1929. During World War II he was influential in establishing a Canadian program for securing and using dried human blood serum. In his later years, he was an adviser to the Medical Research Committee of the United Nations World Health Organization. Best was elected a foreign member of the Royal",
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"text": "Banting and contributed to the discovery of the pancreatic hormone insulin, which led to an effective treatment for diabetes. In the spring of 1921, Banting travelled to Toronto to visit J.J.R. Macleod, professor of physiology at the University of Toronto, and asked Macleod if he could use his laboratory to isolate pancreatic extracts from dogs. Macleod was initially sceptical, but eventually agreed before leaving on holiday for the summer. Before leaving for Scotland he supplied Banting with ten dogs for experiment and two medical students, Charles Best and Clark Noble, as lab assistants. Since Banting required only one assistant, Best",
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"text": "daughter of U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes. Banting and Macleod were jointly awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Banting split his half of the Prize money with Best, and Macleod split the other half of the Prize money with James Collip. Banting was appointed Senior Demonstrator in Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1922. The following year he was elected to the new Banting and Best Chair of Medical Research, endowed by the Legislature of the Province of Ontario. He also served as Honorary Consulting Physician to the Toronto General, the Hospital for Sick",
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"text": "is still available on-line. The popularity of the pamphlet mentioned above was such that the questions \"Do you bant?\" or \"Are you banting?\", still occasionally in use today, refer to his method, and sometimes even to dieting in general. In Sweden \"banta\" is still the main verb for \"being on a diet\". Scientist Tim Noakes popularised Banting in South Africa when he named his high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet after Banting. Gary Taubes' study of carbohydrates, \"Good Calories, Bad Calories\", begins with a prologue entitled \"A brief history of Banting\" and discusses Banting at some length. Discussions of low-carbohydrate diets often begin",
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"text": "of Innis College Council from 1965–1967, and he served on the Governing Council of the University of Toronto from 1972 to 1974. Sellers earned himself an international research reputation mainly through his work on cold adaptation, non-shivering thermogenesis and thyroid function. In 1978, he became the founding director of the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre. The Centre is an extra-departmental unit of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and was named in honor of Banting and Best. Dr. Edward A. Sellers was a personal friend of Best. Edward A. Sellers Edward Alexander Sellers (born Canada - died",
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"text": "of 1923, 25,000 patients were being treated in Canada and the United States. For this, Banting and laboratory director John MacLeod received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923; both shared their Prize money with others in the team who were not recognized, in particular Best and Collip. Banting and Best made the patent available without charge and did not attempt to control commercial production. Insulin production and therapy rapidly spread around the world, largely as a result of this decision. Banting is honored by World Diabetes Day which is held on his birthday, November 14. The distinction",
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"text": "La Dolce Vita La Dolce Vita (; Italian for \"the sweet life\" or \"the good life\") is a 1960 Italian drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The film follows Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the \"sweet life\" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. \"La Dolce Vita\" won the \"Palme d'Or\" (Golden Palm) at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Costumes. The film was a massive box office hit in Europe with 13,617,148 admissions in Italy and",
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"text": "Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita is a gay pornographic remake of the Federico Fellini classic \"La Dolce Vita\", directed by Michael Lucas and Tony Dimarco and released by Lucas Entertainment in 2006. The film stars Michael Lucas, Jason Ridge, Chad Hunt, Cole Ryan, Pete Ross, Derrick Hanson, Ray Star, Brad Star, Jack Bond, Wilson Vasquez, Jonathan Vargas, Ben Andrews, and more. It features non-sexual cameos by Savanna Samson, Kevin Aviance, Amanda Lepore, Heather Fink and Johnny Hanson. Lucas contends that the film is the most expensive gay porn film ever made due to a budget",
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"text": "Dolce Vita (song) \"Dolce Vita\" is a song by Italian musician Ryan Paris, released as a single in 1983. The song was composed by Pierluigi Giombini, the same composer, producer, arranger and keyboard player of \"I Like Chopin\" and \"Masterpiece\". It reached the top 10 in many countries. The music video was filmed on-location in Paris. Interviewed for the book \"Europe's Stars of '80s Dance Pop Vol. 2\", composer Pierluigi Giombini explained the evolution of the song: It was Gazebo who suggested I should write a song inspired by the title of the famous film. I am a fan of",
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"text": "won the lawsuit in April 2010 in a summary judgment by Judge John George Koeltl, who dismissed IMF's claims of copyright infringement. Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita is a gay pornographic remake of the Federico Fellini classic \"La Dolce Vita\", directed by Michael Lucas and Tony Dimarco and released by Lucas Entertainment in 2006. The film stars Michael Lucas, Jason Ridge, Chad Hunt, Cole Ryan, Pete Ross, Derrick Hanson, Ray Star, Brad Star, Jack Bond, Wilson Vasquez, Jonathan Vargas, Ben Andrews, and more. It features non-sexual cameos by Savanna Samson, Kevin Aviance, Amanda Lepore, Heather",
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"text": "each other in this unlikely friendship in a foreign country. Immigrants (2008 film) Immigrants, also known as L.A. Dolce Vita or Immigrants: L.A. Dolce Vita (Hungarian title: \"Immigrants - Jóska menni Amerika\") is a 2008 Hungarian-American adult animated film directed by Gábor Csupó. The Hungarian release date was October 30, 2008. It is the fifth feature-length film from studio Klasky-Csupo, and is Csupó's first feature-length animated film he directed, and his second in general, following the live-action \"Bridge to Terabithia\" for Walt Disney Pictures. The characters and storyline in this motion picture were to have been the basis for a",
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"text": "earned the \"Palme d'Or\" (Golden Palm) at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. \"Entertainment Weekly\" voted it the 6th Greatest film of all time. In 2010, the film was ranked #11 in \"Empire\" magazine's \"The 100 Best Films of World Cinema\". La Dolce Vita La Dolce Vita (; Italian for \"the sweet life\" or \"the good life\") is a 1960 Italian drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The film follows Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the \"sweet life\" of Rome in a fruitless search for",
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"text": "the world. He was a member of a group of photographers that inspired Federico Fellini to create the character of a news photographer named Paparazzo in the film \"La Dolce Vita\" in 1960. When he didn’t like working anymore as an employee, Geppetti began working as a freelance, working closely for ten years with the Momento Sera, one of the most important newspaper at that time. During the \"Dolce Vita\" years he took epoch-making photographs, among the others the first Brigitte Bardot’s nude and the kiss between Liz Taylor and Richard Burton — both married to others at the time,",
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"text": "Records and Bounce Records. New version Dolce Vita (song) \"Dolce Vita\" is a song by Italian musician Ryan Paris, released as a single in 1983. The song was composed by Pierluigi Giombini, the same composer, producer, arranger and keyboard player of \"I Like Chopin\" and \"Masterpiece\". It reached the top 10 in many countries. The music video was filmed on-location in Paris. Interviewed for the book \"Europe's Stars of '80s Dance Pop Vol. 2\", composer Pierluigi Giombini explained the evolution of the song: It was Gazebo who suggested I should write a song inspired by the title of the famous",
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"text": "shot over a week in winter: in March according to the BBC, in late January according to Anita Ekberg. Fellini claimed that Ekberg stood in the cold water in her dress for hours without any trouble while Mastroianni had to wear a wetsuit beneath his clothes - to no avail. It was only after the actor \"polished off a bottle of vodka\" and \"was completely pissed\" that Fellini could shoot the scene. The character of Paparazzo, the news photographer (Walter Santesso), was inspired by photojournalist Tazio Secchiaroli and is the origin of the word \"paparazzi\" used in many languages to",
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"text": "David Rocco's Dolce Vita David Rocco's Dolce Vita is a television show hosted by David Rocco airing since 2010. The show is shot on location in and around the cities and countrysides of Italy, following the cultural, social, and culinary escapades of Rocco and his friends. Besides cooking, the show explores the Italian ways of life and ways of food in this culture exposé. Rocco and his wife Nina traipse around Florence and Sicily, cooking dinner for friends, checking out local hot spots, and living the sweet life. The recipes that Rocco makes are generally easy to follow, classic Italian",
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"text": "the airport. None of the 122 passengers on board the aircraft sustained injuries, and stayed at a hotel until another aircraft could transport them to their destination, San José, Costa Rica. The cause of the incident was not determined. Avianca Costa Rica Avianca Costa Rica, formerly known as LACSA (\"Spanish: Lineas Aéreas Costarricenses S.A.\"), minority owned by the Synergy Group, is the national airline of Costa Rica and is based in San José. It operates international scheduled services to over 35 destinations in Central, North and South America. The airline previously used the TACA/LACSA moniker when it was a subsidiary",
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"text": "new fleet of Embraer 190 airplanes registered in Costa Rica and operated under the LACSA code. In 2009, Aerovías del Continente Americano S.A. (Avianca) and TACA announced their merger plans to be completed in 2010. By 2013, the airlines began operating as a single commercial brand using the Avianca name. According to the May 31, 1973 LACSA system timetable, the airline was serving the following international destinations: This same timetable states that all international flights were being operated with British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven twin jets at this time with the exception of the San José-San Andres Island route which",
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"text": "Avianca Costa Rica Avianca Costa Rica, formerly known as LACSA (\"Spanish: Lineas Aéreas Costarricenses S.A.\"), minority owned by the Synergy Group, is the national airline of Costa Rica and is based in San José. It operates international scheduled services to over 35 destinations in Central, North and South America. The airline previously used the TACA/LACSA moniker when it was a subsidiary of Grupo TACA. Since May 2013, following Avianca's purchase of Grupo TACA, Avianca Costa Rica became one of seven nationally branded airlines (Avianca Ecuador, Avianca Honduras, etc.) operated by Avianca Holdings group of Latin American airlines. LACSA was established",
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"text": "was being flown with a Convair 440 propliner. The airline was operating to such international destinations in 1984 as: These cities were flown to using Lacsa's Boeing 727 aircraft. As of August 2017 the LACSA fleet consisted of the following aircraft: LACSA services were previously flown exclusively by Airbus A320 family jetliners drawn from the pooled fleet of the former Grupo TACA. In 2008, a new fleet of Embraer 190 jets was introduced. On May 23, 1988, a leased Boeing 727-100, registered TI-LRC and operating the route San José-Managua-Miami, collided with a fence at the end of the runway in",
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"text": "on 17 October 1945 by Pan American World Airways, the Costa Rican government and Costa Rican private interests. It started operations on 1 June 1946 and was designated the national carrier in 1949. Its domestic network was transferred to its wholly owned subsidiary Sansa in September 1959. LACSA operated the Douglas DC-6B four-engined piston airliner from 1960 until 1976 on their regular passenger, and eventually freight, scheduled flights to Miami International Airport. The airline introduced the first of their British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven twin-engined jet airliners onto their Caribbean passenger route network in April 1967. The airline also operated",
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"text": "a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac Airways (CBA) Ltd., which it sold a 51% controlling interest in the late 1960s to the Cayman Islands government which in turn used the air carrier to form Cayman Airways. LACSA served Grand Cayman for many years as an intermediate stop on its services between San José, Costa Rica and Miami. Beginning 1998, TACA/LACSA was one of the member airlines comprising the TACA Airlines alliance along with Aviateca of Guatemala, Nica of Nicaragua, Isleña of Honduras, and five other regional airlines. In 2008 a new TACA logo was introduced, followed by a",
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"text": "the Juan Santamaría International Airport, crashed at a nearby field next to a highway, and caught fire. The excess of weight in the front part of the airplane was the cause of the accident. There were no fatalities out of the 23 occupants. On 11 January 1998, LACSA flight 691, an Airbus A320, veered off a runway at San Francisco International Airport during the takeoff roll. The aircraft left the runway at full speed, coming to rest in a field of mud. The runway was closed after the incident, reducing take-off capacity by 50 percent, leading to massive delays at",
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"text": "Airport and Comalapa International Airport. Aerolíneas de El Salvador Aerolíneas de El Salvador or AESA was a Salvadoran airline formed after the merging of TAES and TACA El Salvador, both domestic airlines using Dakota YS-53-C. A small collection of Douglas C-47 and DC-3 were Aerolíneas de El Salvador's main fleet. The airline was merged to TACA international. El Salvador Airlines. -TACA airline. El Salvador. Is the known flag carrier airline of Central America which has the code IATA that is operating on its own. It took its start in 1931 and has the main hub at El Salvador International Airport.",
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"text": "ever made by such sources as the British Film Institute (BFI). \"2001\" is the only science fiction film to make the BFI \"Sight & Sound\" poll for ten best films in both 2002 and 2012, and is also the newest film to rank among the top ten in the 2012 critics' poll edition. The film won the Hugo Award for best dramatic presentation, as voted by science fiction fans and published science-fiction writers. Ray Bradbury praised the film's photography, but disliked the banality of most of the dialogue, and believed that the audience does not care when Poole dies. Both",
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"text": "and Space Museum. The exhibit features a fully realized, full-scale reflection of the neo-classical hotel room from the film's penultimate scene. Director Christopher Nolan presented a mastered 70mm print of \"2001\" for the film's 50th anniversary at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival on May 12. The new 70mm print is a photochemical recreation made from the original camera negative, for the first time since the film's original theatrical run. 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C.",
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"text": "mini-reviews of the film in various issues in 1968, each one slightly more positive than the preceding one; in the final review dated December 27, 1968, the magazine called \"2001\" \"an epic film about the history and future of mankind, brilliantly directed by Stanley Kubrick. The special effects are mindblowing.\" Pauline Kael called it \"a monumentally unimaginative movie\", and Stanley Kauffmann of \"The New Republic\" called it \"a film that is so dull, it even dulls our interest in the technical ingenuity for the sake of which Kubrick has allowed it to become dull.\" Renata Adler of \"The New York",
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"text": "from a department store via videophone. A ten-minute black-and-white opening sequence featuring interviews with scientists, including Freeman Dyson discussing off-Earth life, was removed after an early screening for MGM executives. Kubrick's rationale for editing the film was to tighten the narrative. Reviews suggested the film suffered from its departure from traditional cinematic storytelling. Of the cuts, Kubrick said, \"I didn't believe that the trims made a critical difference. ... The people who like it like it no matter what its length, and the same holds true for the people who hate it.\" According to his brother-in-law Jan Harlan, Kubrick was",
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"text": "A Space Odyssey\" has been analyzed and interpreted by professional critics and theorists, amateur writers and science fiction fans. Peter Kramer in his monograph for BFI analyzing the film summarized the diverse interpretations as ranging from those who saw it as darkly apocalyptic in tone to those who saw it as an optimistic reappraisal of the hopes of mankind and humanity. Questions about \"2001\" range from uncertainty about its implications for humanity's origins and destiny in the universe to interpreting elements of the film's more enigmatic scenes, such as the meaning of the monolith, or the fate of astronaut David",
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"text": "its initial release. \"2001: A Space Odyssey\" is now considered one of the major artistic works of the 20th century, with many critics and filmmakers considering it Kubrick's masterpiece. Director Martin Scorsese has listed it as one of his favourite films of all time. In the 1980s, critic David Denby compared Kubrick to the monolith from \"2001: A Space Odyssey\", calling him \"a force of supernatural intelligence, appearing at great intervals amid high-pitched shrieks, who gives the world a violent kick up the next rung of the evolutionary ladder\". Poet and critic Dan Schneider wrote that \"2001: A Space Odyssey\"",
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"text": "Volcano Islands The or are a group of three Japanese islands south of the Bonin Islands that belong to the municipality of Ogasawara, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The islands are all active volcanoes lying atop an island arc that stretches south to the Marianas. They have an area of , and a population of 380. The Volcano Islands are: Farther north but in the same volcanic arc is: There is a Japan Self-Defense Forces air base on Iwo Jima with a staff of 380. It is located in the village of Minami (Iwo Jima village). Other than that, the islands are",
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"text": "Geography of Japan Japan is an island nation comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over along East Asia's Pacific coast. It consists of 6,852 islands. The main islands are Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Hokkaido. The Ryukyu Islands and Nanpō Islands are south of the main islands. The territory extends . It is the largest island country in East Asia and fourth largest island country in the world. Japan has the sixth longest coastline and the eight largest Exclusive Economic Zone of in the world. The terrain is mostly rugged and mountainous with 66% forest. The population is clustered in urban areas on",
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"text": "Mount Fuji , located on Honshū, is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft), 2nd-highest peak of an island (volcanic) in Asia, and 7th-highest peak of an island in the world. It is a dormant stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707–1708. Mount Fuji lies about 100 kilometers (60 mi) south-west of Tokyo, and can be seen from there on a clear day. Mount Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow-capped for about 5 months a year, is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers",
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"text": "controls, lies between latitudes 24° and 46°N, and longitudes 122° and 146°E. The main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. The Ryukyu Islands, which include Okinawa, are a chain to the south of Kyushu. The Nanpō Islands are south of the main islands of Japan. Together they are often known as the Japanese archipelago. , Japan's territory is . It is the largest island country in East Asia. Japan has the sixth longest coastline in the world (). It doesn't have land borders. Due to its many far-flung outlying islands, Japan has the eighth largest",
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"text": "and 270,000 years ago. The largest of these was the fourth, which reached as far as nearby Yamaguchi Prefecture 160 kilometers away. The fourth eruption left a massive pyroclastic plateau which is what remains even today. In 1985 it was discovered that volcanic ash from the fourth eruption covered much of the Japanese islands. The extent of the fourth eruption is estimate to be approximately 200 km3. Aso caldera has often been called the largest in the world, but actually Indonesia's Danau Toba, measuring 100 km by 30 km, is the world's largest. Furthermore, in Japan, Kussharo caldera, which measures",
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"text": "off the Bayonnaise Rocks in the Pacific. The 1914 Sakurajima eruption produced lava flows which connected the former island with the Osumi Peninsula in Kyushu. It is the most active volcano in Japan. The subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Philippine Sea Plate created the Izu Islands and Bonin Islands on the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc system. During the 2013 eruption southeast of Nishinoshima, a new unnamed volcanic island emerged from the sea. Due to erosion and shifting sands, the new island merged with Nishinoshima and ceased to be a separate entity. A 1911 survey determined the caldera was at its",
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"text": "it into two halves, the \"face\", fronting on the Pacific Ocean, and the \"back\", toward the Sea of Japan. On the Pacific side are steep mountains 1,500 to 3,000 meters high, with deep valleys and gorges. Central Japan is marked by the convergence of the three mountain chains—the Hida, Kiso, and Akaishi mountains—that form the Japanese Alps (Nihon Arupusu), several of whose peaks are higher than 3,000 meters. The highest point in the Japanese Alps is Mount Kita at 3,193 meters. The highest point in the country is Mount Fuji (Fujisan, also erroneously called Fujiyama), a volcano dormant since 1707",
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"text": "solo nonstop from Mexico City to Newark. In 1937, Amelia Earhart began a flight around the world but vanished during it; her remains, effects, and plane have never been found. The first woman to fly solo around the world and return home safely was the American amateur pilot Jerrie Mock, who did so in 1964. In 1933, Frances Perkins was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as his Secretary of Labor, making her the first woman to hold a job in a Presidential cabinet. However, women also faced many challenges during this time. A National Education Association survey showed that between",
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"text": "a passenger in an untethered hot air balloon, which flew above Lyon, France in 1784. Four years later, Jeanne Labrosse became the first woman to fly solo in a balloon and would become the first woman to parachute, as well. Sophie Blanchard took her first balloon flight in 1804, was performing as a professional aeronaut by 1810 and was made Napoleon's chief of air service in 1811. Blanchard, the first woman who was a professional in the air, died in a spectacular crash in 1819. In June 1903, Aida de Acosta, an American woman vacationing in Paris, convinced Alberto Santos-Dumont,",
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"text": "with acting as a sales representative for Kinner aircraft in the Boston area, Earhart wrote local newspaper columns promoting flying and as her local celebrity grew, she laid out the plans for an organization devoted to female flyers. After Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, Amy Guest (1873–1959) expressed interest in being the first woman to fly (or be flown) across the Atlantic Ocean. After deciding that the trip was too perilous for her to undertake, she offered to sponsor the project, suggesting that they find \"another girl with the right image\". While at work one afternoon",
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"text": "own Aero Commander 200, she became the fourth woman to fly a single-engine aircraft solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the second to do it from New York City. Although she was attempting to fly to Moscow, her odyssey ended in Denmark after the government of the Soviet Union denied her permission to enter its air space. She wrote about her aviation exploits and philosophy of life in an autobiography published in 1983. In 1968, she was contacted by Learjet to see if she was interested in getting a type rating in one of their jets with the intent to",
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"text": "a daredevil pilot and was known as the \"Tomboy of the Air\", competing in air shows and exhibitions, as well as flying circuses. On October 13, 1910, Bessica Raiche received a gold medal from the Aeronautical Society of New York, recognizing her as the first American woman to make a solo flight. Harriet Quimby became the USA's first licensed female pilot on August 1, 1911 and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane the following year. Thirteen days after Quimby, her friend Matilde E. Moisant an American of French Canadian descent was licensed and began flying in",
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"text": "spotting game animals from the air and signaling their locations to safaris on the ground. She also mingled with the notorious Happy Valley set. Markham is best known for her solo flight across the Atlantic, from east to west. When Markham decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, no female pilot had yet flown non-stop from Europe to New York, and no woman had made the westward flight solo, though several had died trying. Markham hoped to claim both records. On 4 September 1936, she took off from Abingdon, England. After a 20-hour flight, her Vega Gull, \"The Messenger\", suffered",
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"text": "flight from New York in October 1928. Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, on the outbound flight of the same journey, as a journalist. Adams also was the first woman to fly aboard the Dornier DO-X between New York and Rio de Janeiro and she was one of 11 women aboard the maiden flight of the Hindenburg. Despite the end of public interest of airships due to the Hindenburg disaster, Adams was still eager to fly on airships. In 1939, Adams set the unofficial record for passenger travel around the world via commercial",
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"text": "with a team on a Dornier Do X flying boat . In the fall of 1932, Strassmann piloted a Zeppelin from Germany to Pernambuco in Brazil. American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932). Earhart became a public favorite among aviators of the time. Earhart also urged the public to encourage and enable young women to become airplane pilots themselves. In 1936 and 1937, she taught students at Purdue University which was \"one of the few U.S. colleges to offer aviation classes to women\". Hazel Ying Lee, a dual American-Chinese citizen, earned her pilot's license",
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"text": "in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland. The landing was witnessed by Cecil King and T. Sawyer. When a farm hand asked, \"Have you flown far?\" Earhart replied, \"From America\". As the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, Earhart received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French Government and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society from President Herbert Hoover. As her fame grew, she developed friendships with many people in high offices, most notably First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt shared many",
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"text": "Lake Washington Ship Canal The Lake Washington Ship Canal, which runs through the city of Seattle, connects the fresh water body of Lake Washington with the salt water inland sea of Puget Sound. The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks accommodate the approximately difference in water level between Lake Washington and the sound. The canal runs east–west and connects Union Bay, the Montlake Cut, Portage Bay, Lake Union, the Fremont Cut, Salmon Bay, and Shilshole Bay, which is part of the sound. The ship canal project began in 1911 and was officially completed in 1934. Prior to construction of the Lake Washington",
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"text": "west side of Puget Sound. Based on per capita income, Port Ludlow ranks 16th of 522 ranked areas in the state of Washington, and the highest rank achieved in Jefferson County. Port Ludlow's location and marina facilities make it a convenient and popular port for leisure craft sailing between Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands. The United States Exploring Expedition, under Charles Wilkes, entered Puget Sound in 1841. Wilkes bestowed many patriotically American place names; at the time the sovereignty of the Oregon Country was yet to be resolved between Britain and the United States. Many of Wilkes's names",
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"text": "the state and 7th largest in the nation, but fell behind ports in Los Angeles and nearby Vancouver. In 2009, Seattle regained its title as the larger of the ports, but both suffered losses in overall cargo volume and revenue. Tacoma lost Maersk to Seattle after it merged with CMA-CGM in 2009, but three years later attracted an alliance of three major international shippers from Seattle who had comprised 20 percent of cargo for the port. At a 1985 meeting of the Port Development Task Force of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, visiting Port Authority of New York and",
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"text": "from Seattle and from Tacoma. The two ports of Seattle and Tacoma are also connected to the state highway system, including Interstate 5 between both ports and Interstate 90 in Seattle. The Washington State Department of Transportation plans to enhance road connections between the two ports and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport through the Puget Sound Gateway Program. Approved in 2015 by the state legislature, the $1.6 billion program will extend State Route 167 to the Port of Tacoma and State Route 509 to Interstate 5, creating a direct freeway connection between the three areas. The Northwest Seaport Alliance owns a total",
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"text": "scenic vistas of the San Juan Islands, Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), Mount Baker, and Fidalgo Island. Oak Harbor is located at (48.295136, -122.658553). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water. Access to the island by land is only available by driving through Deception Pass. Other ways to travel to Whidbey Island include flying or utilizing a ferry service. The Mukilteo-Clinton Ferry provides service connecting the southern end of Whidbey Island and just north of Seattle, WA. Surveys of shorelines throughout the Puget Sound region have",
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"text": "the storage and discharge of industry chemicals have improved, and Puget Sound remains vital to the industries that depend upon it, such as shipping ports. Ports in Washington are diverse. Governed as municipalities, the ports operate shipping terminals, marinas, docks, and associated infrastructure, such as roads, railroads and parks. The fastest-growing part of Washington ports is industrial development. The Puget Sound region has been growing rapidly. According to the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC), a board that plans for growth in the four central counties of the area (Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish and King counties), the combined population of these counties",
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"text": "of of property in King and Pierce counties, including from the Port of Tacoma (South Harbor) and from the Port of Seattle (North Harbor). The two harbors have 10 total container terminals with 23 berths and 47 cranes; there are also 7 non-container terminals used primarily for breakbulk cargo and automobiles via roll-on/roll-off ships. Northwest Seaport Alliance The Northwest Seaport Alliance is a port authority based in the Puget Sound region of the United States, comprising the seaports of Seattle and Tacoma in Washington state. The combined port authority is the third largest cargo port in the United States and",
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"text": "centralized distribution centers in fewer ports) and the merging of the state's railroad system into BNSF Railway. In 2012, Port of Seattle staff estimated that rate competition with Tacoma had reduced cargo revenue by $35 million annually (approximately $70,000 per acre), based on comparisons with the Port of Oakland, which has no competing port in the region. Both ports were supported by taxpayer subsidies by their respective counties and lost revenue as shipping and terminal operators used their rivalry to negotiate lower rates. Both factors led to the Washington State Legislature proposing a merger of the ports of Seattle, Tacoma",
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"text": "the third-largest cargo gateway in the United States; by the end of the year, it reported more than 3.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units handled by the two ports, an increase of 4 percent. The port plays a large international trade role in the Pacific Northwest, and is a municipal corporation that operates under state-enabling legislation. Each year, the port handles between about 9 and 13 million tons of cargo, and more than $25 billion of commerce. Major imports include automobiles, electronics, and toys, while major exports include grain, forest products, and agricultural products. Based on tonnage, the port's largest export",
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"text": "modern conservatism. Spiro Agnew Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th Vice President of the United States from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second and more recent officeholder to resign the position, after John C. Calhoun in 1832. Agnew was born in Baltimore, to an American-born mother and a Greek immigrant father. He attended Johns Hopkins University, graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law, and entered the United States Army in 1941. Agnew served as an officer during World War II, earning the Bronze Star, and was",
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"text": "division and uncertainty, and applauding Agnew for his patriotism and dedication to the welfare of the United States. House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, who would be Agnew's successor as vice president (and Nixon's as president) recalled that he heard the news while on the House floor and his first reaction was disbelief, his second sadness. Soon after his resignation, Agnew moved to his summer home at Ocean City. To cover urgent tax and legal bills, and living expenses, he borrowed $200,000 from his friend Frank Sinatra. He had hoped he could resume a career as a lawyer, but in 1974,",
"title": "Spiro Agnew"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11835287",
"score": 1.007879,
"text": "spent a long time patiently waiting for his subject, and took 40 or 50 shots to get the “Hang In There, Baby” photo. In 1973 Vice President Spiro Agnew, charged with accepting $100,000 in bribes while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, Governor of Maryland, and Vice President, was allowed to plead no contest to a lesser charge as long as he agreed to resign as Vice President. In September 1973, while he was considering his situation, Representatives William L. Dickenson, Republican from Alabama, and Samuel Devine, Republican from Ohio, presented him with a \"Hang In There, Baby\" poster signed",
"title": "Hang in there, Baby"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7754423",
"score": 1.0031943,
"text": "retire in 1976. On October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned and then pleaded no contest to criminal charges of tax evasion and money laundering, part of a negotiated resolution to a scheme in which he accepted $29,500 in bribes while governor of Maryland. According to \"The New York Times\", Nixon \"sought advice from senior Congressional leaders about a replacement.\" The advice was unanimous. \"We gave Nixon no choice but Ford,\" House Speaker Carl Albert recalled later. Ford agreed to the nomination, telling his wife that the Vice Presidency would be \"a nice conclusion\" to his career. Ford was",
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"text": "1973, at the height of Watergate, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. With Agnew's unexpected departure, and the state of Richard Nixon's presidency, Speaker of the House Carl Albert was suddenly first in line to become acting president. The vacancy continued until Gerald Ford was sworn in as vice president on December 6, 1973. Albert was also next in line from the time Ford assumed the presidency on August 9, 1974, following Nixon's resignation from office, until Ford's choice to succeed him as vice president, Nelson Rockefeller, was confirmed by Congress four months later. The vice presidency has been vacant on",
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"id": "507597",
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"text": "a tie, but Agnew opened every session for the first two months of his term, and spent more time presiding, in his first year, than any vice president since Alben Barkley, who held that role under Harry S. Truman. The first postwar vice president not to have previously been a senator, he took lessons in Senate procedures from the parliamentarian and from a Republican committee staffer. He lunched with small groups of senators, and was initially successful in building good relations. Although silenced on foreign policy matters, he attended White House staff meetings and spoke on urban affairs; when Nixon",
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In which decade of the 20th century was Billy Crystal born? | [
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"text": "Billy Crystal William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and television host. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom \"Soap\" and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes \"When Harry Met Sally...\" (1989), \"City Slickers\" (1991), and \"Analyze This\" (1999) and providing the voice of Mike Wazowski in the \"Monsters, Inc.\" franchise. He has hosted the Academy Awards nine times, beginning in 1990 and most recently in 2012. Crystal was born at Doctors",
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"text": "is Jewish (his family emigrated from Austria and Russia). The three young brothers would entertain by reprising comedy routines from the likes of Bob Newhart, Rich Little and Sid Caesar records their father would bring home. Jazz artists such as Arvell Shaw, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Condon, and Billie Holiday were often guests in the home. With the decline of Dixieland jazz and the rise of discount record stores, in 1963 Crystal's father lost his business and died later that year at the age of 54 after suffering a heart attack while bowling. His mother, Helen Crystal, died in 2001.",
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"text": "documentary \"Baseball\", telling personal stories about his life-long love of baseball, including meeting Casey Stengel as a child and Ted Williams as an adult. Crystal is also a longtime Los Angeles Clippers fan. Crystal and his wife Janice (née Goldfinger) married in June 1970, have two daughters, actress Jennifer and producer Lindsay, and are grandparents. They reside in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, California. Billy Crystal William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and television host. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom",
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"text": "Crystal subsequently released an album of his stand-up material titled \"Mahvelous!\" in 1985, as well as the single \"You Look Marvelous\", which peaked at No. 58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the US, and No. 17 in Canada. Also in the 1980s, Crystal starred in an episode of Shelley Duvall's \"Faerie Tale Theatre\" as the smartest of the three little pigs. In 1996, Crystal was the guest star of the third episode of \"Muppets Tonight\" and hosted three Grammy Awards Telecasts: the 29th Grammys; the 30th Grammys; and the 31st Grammys. In 2015, Crystal co-starred alongside Josh Gad on",
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"text": "1970 with a BFA from its School of Fine Arts, not yet named for the Tisch family. One of his instructors was Martin Scorsese, while Oliver Stone and Christopher Guest were among his classmates. Crystal returned to New York City. For four years he was part of a comedy trio with two friends. They played colleges and coffee houses and Crystal worked as a substitute teacher on Long Island. He later became a solo act and performed regularly at \"The Improv\" and \"Catch a Rising Star\". In 1976, Crystal appeared on an episode of \"All in the Family\". He was",
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"text": "Crystal was a guest on the first and the last episode of \"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,\" which concluded February 6, 2014, after 22 seasons on the air. Crystal also made game show appearances such as \"The Hollywood Squares,\" \"All Star Secrets\" and \"The $20,000 Pyramid.\" To this day, he holds the Pyramid franchise's record for getting his contestant partner to the top of the pyramid in winner's circle in the fastest time: 26 seconds. Crystal's earliest prominent role was as Jodie Dallas on \"Soap,\" one of the first unambiguously gay characters in the cast of an American television",
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"text": "from HBO's \"Not Necessarily the News\". Billy Crystal became the show's break-out star. Crystal had been scheduled to appear in the first \"SNL\" in 1975, but walked when his airtime was whittled away during rehearsal. Already known for his stand-up comedy and even more for his role as Jodie Dallas on \"Soap\", Crystal became the show's latest sensation, bringing the catch-phrases \"It is better to look good than to feel good\" and \"You look mahvelous!\" (both uttered by his \"Fernando\" character) into popular culture. Harry Shearer would depart after the January 12, 1985 broadcast, citing \"creative differences\". Shearer would later",
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"text": "of his subsequent films were not as well received as his earlier hits, Crystal had another success alongside Robert De Niro in Harold Ramis' mobster comedy \"Analyze This\" (1999). More recent performances include roles in \"America's Sweethearts\" (2001), the sequel \"Analyze That\" (2002), and \"Parental Guidance\" (2012). He directed the made-for-television movie \"61*\" (2001) based on Roger Maris's and Mickey Mantle's race to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1961. This earned Crystal an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special. Crystal was originally asked to voice Buzz Lightyear in \"Toy Story\" (1995)",
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"text": "Hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and initially raised in The Bronx. As a toddler, he moved with his family to 549 East Park Avenue in Long Beach, New York, on Long Island. He and his older brothers Joel and Richard, nicknamed Rip, were the sons of Helen (née Gabler), a housewife, and Jack Crystal, who owned and operated the Commodore Music Store, founded by Helen's father, Julius Gabler. Jack was also a jazz promoter, a producer, and an executive for an affiliated jazz record label, Commodore Records, founded by Helen's brother, musician and songwriter Milt Gabler. Crystal",
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Which George invented the Kodak roll-film camera? | [
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"text": "George Eastman George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film stock in 1888 by the world's first film-makers Eadweard Muybridge and Louis Le Prince, and a few years later by their followers Léon Bouly, William Kennedy Dickson, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers, and Georges Méliès. He was a major philanthropist, establishing the Eastman School of Music, and schools of dentistry and medicine",
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"text": "was 15 years old. The young George left school early and started working to help support the family. As Eastman began to have success with his photography business, he vowed to repay his mother for the hardships she had endured in raising him. In 1884, Eastman patented the first film in roll form to prove practicable; he had been tinkering at home to develop it. In 1888, he perfected the Kodak Black camera, which was the first camera designed to use roll film. In 1889 he first offered film stock, and by 1896 became the leading supplier of film stock",
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"text": "learned easily or engaged in lightly, and, as such, it was limited to a relatively small group of academics, scientists and professional photographers. All of that changed in a few years' time span. In 1888 George Eastman introduced the first handheld amateur camera, the Kodak camera. It was marketed with the slogan \"You press the button, we do the rest.\" The camera was pre-loaded with a roll of film that produced about 100 2.5\" round pictures exposures, and it could easily be carried and handheld during its operation. After all of the shots on the film were exposed, the whole",
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"text": "product introduced by George Eastman in 1884: a flexible, gelatin-coated paper, followed closely by a holder for a 24-frame roll. Soon after this, Eastman introduced Eastman American film, which featured a thin gelatin layer that was removed from the paper backing after development for additional clarity in making prints. In 1888, Eastman's company issued the first easy-to-use, lightweight Kodak camera. It was priced at $25, loaded with a hundred frames, and was almost instantly popular. When the user had used up all 100 exposures, he or she would simply mail the camera back to Kodak, where the used film was",
"title": "Photography in the United States"
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"text": "sensitive photographic materials became available, cameras began to incorporate mechanical shutter mechanisms that allowed very short and accurately timed exposures to be made. The use of photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman, who started manufacturing paper film in 1885 before switching to celluloid in 1889. His first camera, which he called the \"Kodak,\" was first offered for sale in 1888. It was a very simple box camera with a fixed-focus lens and single shutter speed, which along with its relatively low price appealed to the average consumer. The Kodak came pre-loaded with enough film for 100 exposures and needed",
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"text": "\"George Eastman: Some Scenes Form His Life\". The film, aired on television for a time into the 1960s, ends with his development of all-color negative film. A 1981 short film about Eastman was made titled \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Man\". George Eastman George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film stock in 1888 by the world's first film-makers Eadweard Muybridge and",
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"text": "of Peter's camera. David Henderson Houston (born June 14, 1841; died May 6, 1906), originally from Cambria, Wisconsin, patented the first holders for flexible roll film. Houston moved to Hunter in Dakota Territory in 1880. He was issued an 1881 patent for a roll film holder which he licensed to George Eastman (it was used in Eastman's Kodak 1888 box camera). Houston sold the patent (and an 1886 revision) outright to Eastman for $5000 in 1889. Houston continued developing the camera, creating 21 patents for cameras or camera parts between 1881 and 1902. In 1912 his estate transferred the remainder",
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"text": "show for Professional Photographers of America and is the longest running national photographic convention, expo and image exhibition in the United States. It was at the 1888 convention that George Eastman introduced his Kodak camera and film processing service, winning a first prize medallion and special certificate of honor. The following year, 1889, Eastman Kodak Company demonstrated the new transparent celluloid roll film. In 1908, color photography was under development, causing quite a stir at the convention in Detroit. At the Golden Anniversary in 1930, the first artificial lighting, consisting of mercury tubes and electricity, was demonstrated. The concept of",
"title": "Professional Photographers of America"
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "micrography until the early 2000s, when they were supplanted by digital recording methods. Ilford continues to manufacture glass plates for special scientific applications. The first flexible photographic roll film was sold by George Eastman in 1885, but this original \"film\" was actually a coating on a paper base. As part of the processing, the image-bearing layer was stripped from the paper and attached to a sheet of hardened clear gelatin. The first transparent plastic roll film followed in 1889. It was made from highly flammable nitrocellulose (\"celluloid\"), now usually called \"nitrate film\". Although cellulose acetate or \"safety film\" had been",
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"text": "135 film. This was the first pre-rolled 35mm film cartridge and it would fit into both the Leica an the Contax cameras. This became the 35mm film standard that is still used today. The Retinas and the economy Retinette cameras became the main 35mm Kodak offering in Europe and America. As WWII approached these were the most important Kodak AG products. August Nagel died in 1943 at the age of 61 years, but production continued through and after the war. Retina cameras continued to evolve and diversify through the late 1950s when Japanese competition crushed the German camera industry. Though",
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Which series had the characters Felix Unger and Oscar Madison? | [
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"text": "The Odd Couple (1970 TV series) The Odd Couple, formally titled onscreen Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, is an American television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC. It stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, and was the first of several sitcoms developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount Television. The show is based on the 1965 play of the same name, which was written by Neil Simon, as well as on the play's 1968 film adaptation. Felix and Oscar are both divorced. They share a Manhattan apartment, and",
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"text": "as the slovenly Oscar Madison and Thomas Lennon as the obsessively tidy Felix Unger. Perry and Lennon previously worked together on the film \"17 Again\". The show was announced in December 2013 and was picked up by CBS as a midseason offering for the 2014–15 season. On May 16, 2016, CBS renewed the show for a third season of 13 episodes, which premiered on October 17, 2016, and concluded on January 30, 2017. The series was formally canceled on May 15, 2017, after three seasons. Felix Unger and Oscar Madison meet at college in the late 1980s, and fate puts",
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"text": "the years 1971, 1972 and 1974. To date, these are the last Emmy nominations to a sitcom airing on a Friday night. \"\"On November 13, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence.\" (Unger's unseen wife slams door, only to reopen it and angrily hand Felix his saucepan) \"That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that someday, he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his childhood friend, Oscar Madison. Sometime earlier, Madison's wife had thrown \"him\" out,",
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"id": "2668165",
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"text": "him out after only a brief time together, though he quickly realizes that Felix has had a positive effect on him. The play and the film both spell Felix's name \"Ungar\", while the television series spells it \"Unger\". \"The Odd Couple\" premiered on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on March 10, 1965 and transferred to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre where it closed on July 2, 1967 after 964 performances and two previews. Directed by Mike Nichols, the cast starred Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison and Art Carney as Felix Ungar. The production gained Tony Awards for Walter Matthau, Best Actor",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5787145",
"score": 1.0766003,
"text": "Art Carney, who played Felix Unger. Eventually when Carney left the play Dooley got the part. He got an agent at William Morris Agency thanks to a referral from Walter Matthau, who played Oscar Madison in the play. Also having an interest in comedy, Dooley was a stand-up comedian for five years, eventually landing on \"The Tonight Show,\" and a member of the Compass Players and The Second City troupe in New York City. Fellow members of The Second City at that time were Alan Arkin and Alan Alda. Dooley also worked as a writer. He created and was one",
"title": "Paul Dooley"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8456596",
"score": 1.0452254,
"text": "the two were in the Army together, with Felix being Oscar's superior, at the time Oscar and wife Blanche (Brett Somers) married. There was a flashback episode where Blanche and Oscar lived in the apartment Oscar now shares with Felix. Such inconsistencies in continuity were common for the show) Also, \"sometime earlier\" was changed to \"several years earlier\" followed by Madison's wife throwing him out, requesting that he never return. The opening credit sequence consisted of Felix and Oscar in various humorous situations around New York City such as cavorting around a Maypole. In later seasons, the opening sequence featured",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8456583",
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"text": "\"Felix Remarries\", Felix finally wins Gloria back and they remarry as Oscar regains the freedom of living alone again. The final scene unfolds in this way, as the two say their goodbyes: The 114 episodes went on to syndication and home video. There were some minor changes made in the development of the series. In both TV series and play, Felix's last name was spelled Unger but in the film it is spelled Ungar. In the stage play, Felix is a news writer for CBS (in the film he writes the news for \"television\"), while in the TV series he",
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"id": "5596736",
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"text": "neither actor played a leading role, both in 2000. It has been 17 years since Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar have seen one another. Oscar is still hosting a regular poker game and is still an untidy slob, now living in Sarasota, Florida, but still a sportswriter. One day, he is called by his son Brucey with an invitation to California for his wedding the following Sunday. A second shock for Oscar—the woman his son is marrying is Felix's daughter, Hannah. On the flight from New York to Los Angeles, it becomes clear that Felix has not changed his ways—he",
"title": "The Odd Couple II"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8456608",
"score": 1.0078545,
"text": "music publishers. On June 16, 2015, CBS DVD released \"The Odd Couple- The Complete Series\" on DVD in Region 1, albeit with the same edits and removal of scenes with music. The Odd Couple (1970 TV series) The Odd Couple, formally titled onscreen Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, is an American television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC. It stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, and was the first of several sitcoms developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount Television. The show is based on the 1965 play",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2362220",
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"text": "and the Kid\" (1993), and \"Hammerlock\" (2000). Wilson later starred as Raymond Ellis in the short-lived CBS comedy series \"Baby... I'm Back!\" and as Oscar Madison, opposite actor Ron Glass (who co-starred as Felix Unger) in the ABC sitcom \"The New Odd Couple\", a revamped black version of the original 1970–75 series on the same network which starred Jack Klugman and Tony Randall. Wilson lived in Conroe, Texas for many years until 1984, when he became an ordained minister, fulfilling his childhood vow. Later, in 1995, he founded Restoration House, a center that helps rehabilitate former prison inmates by providing",
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"text": "in 1970. Following litigation, Sony and Philips licensed Russell's patents (then held by a Canadian company, Optical Recording Corp.) in the 1980s. The Compact Disc is an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a focused laser beam is used that enables the high information density required for high-quality digital audio signals. Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the late 1970s. In 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the \"Red Book\" CD-DA standard was published in 1980. After their",
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"hasanswer": true,
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"score": 1.0982897,
"text": "on optical videodisc technology. In the interview by Tekla Perry for the IEEE Spectrum, May 2017, Immink explains that he got involved in the CD project at the end of 1979 when Sony and Philips had decided to jointly settle one design. Both Philips and Sony had shown prototype CD players to the press in 1978. The team at Philips, he says, \"needed someone to do measurements of the two competing systems, the quality, how they coped with scratches, how they coped with imperfections of the disc. My job with the LaserDisc was finished, so I said, 'Sure, I could",
"title": "Kees Schouhamer Immink"
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"text": "Compact Disc\" in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Sony executive Norio Ohga, later CEO and chairman of Sony, and Heitaro Nakajima were convinced of the format's commercial potential and pushed further development despite widespread skepticism. As a result, in 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. Led by engineers Kees Schouhamer Immink and Toshitada Doi, the research pushed forward laser and optical disc technology. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the task force produced the \"Red Book\" CD-DA standard. First published in 1980, the standard was formally adopted by the",
"title": "CD player"
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "Diepeveen built an error-correcting coder-decoder that was delivered in the summer of 1978. The decoder was included in the CD prototype player that was presented to the international press. To commemorate this breakthrough, Philips received an IEEE Milestone Award on March 6, 2009. This breakthrough was also appreciated by Sony and they started a cooperation with Philips that resulted in June 1980 in a common CD system standard. Philips as a whole took a turn for the worse and by the end of the 1980s bankruptcy seemed a very real possibility. Under research director Kees Bulthuis the position of long-term",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "81183",
"score": 1.0958341,
"text": "a result, in 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. Led by engineers Kees Schouhamer Immink and Toshitada Doi, the research pushed forward laser and optical disc technology. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the task force produced the \"Red Book\" CD-DA standard. First published in 1980, the standard was formally adopted by the IEC as an international standard in 1987, with various amendments becoming part of the standard in 1996. Philips coined the term \"compact disc\" in line with another audio product, the Compact Cassette, and",
"title": "Compact disc"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "535445",
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"text": "a few years later) on each side. The Laserdisc provided picture quality nearly double that of VHS tape and analog audio quality far superior to VHS. Philips later teamed up with Sony to develop a new type of disc, the compact disc or CD. Introduced in 1982 in Japan (1983 in the U.S. and Europe), the CD is about in diameter, and is single-sided. The format was initially designed to store digitized sound and proved to be a success in the music industry. A few years later, Philips decided to give CDs the ability to produce video, just like its",
"title": "Video CD"
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"text": "IEC as an international standard in 1987, with various amendments becoming part of the standard in 1996. Philips coined the term \"compact disc\" in line with another audio product, the Compact Cassette, and contributed the general manufacturing process, based on video LaserDisc technology. Philips also contributed eight-to-fourteen modulation (EFM), which offers a certain resilience to defects such as scratches and fingerprints, while Sony contributed the error-correction method, CIRC. The \"Compact Disc Story\", told by a former member of the task force, gives background information on the many technical decisions made, including the choice of the sampling frequency, playing time, and",
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"text": "Philips CD-i The Philips CD-i (an abbreviation of Compact Disc Interactive) is an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Dutch company Philips, who supported it from December 1991 to late 1998. It was created to provide more functionality than an audio CD player or game console, but at a lower price than a personal computer with a CD-ROM drive. The cost savings were due to the lack of a floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, and monitor (a standard television is used), and less operating system software. \"CD-i\" also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i",
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"text": "originally dismissed by Philips Research management as a trivial pursuit, the CD became the primary focus for Philips as the LaserDisc format struggled. In 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the \"Red Book\" CD-DA standard was published in 1980. After their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984. By 1988, CD sales in the United States",
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"text": "factories in Ogun State and a distribution center at Ota. Brands of Nestle such as Cerelac, Milo, Maggi cube have gained household name status. Nestle Nigeria Plc Nestle Nigeria Plc is a publicly listed food and beverage specialty company headquartered in Lagos. It is majority owned by Nestle S.A. of Switzerland. The company was founded in 1961 and conducted trading under the name of Nestle Products Nigeria Limited. It has its main factory in Agbara Industrial Estate, Ogun State. The firm manufactures breakfast cereal, baby food products, food seasoning and hydrolyzed plant protein mix. The firm was listed as one",
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"text": "sent a representative of the auditing company it had commissioned to produce a report on its Pakistan operation. , the Nestlé boycott is coordinated by the \"International Nestlé Boycott Committee\", the secretariat for which is the UK group \"Baby Milk Action\". Company practices are monitored by the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), which consists of more than 200 groups in over 100 countries. Alongside the boycott, campaigners work for implementation of the Code and Resolutions in legislation, and claim that 60 countries have now introduced laws implementing most or all of the provisions. Some universities, colleges, and schools have",
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"text": "Nestlé Nestlé S.A. (, ; ) is a Swiss transnational food and drink company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world, measured by revenues and other metrics, since 2014. It ranked No. 64 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2017 and No. 33 on the 2016 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest public companies. Nestlé's products include baby food, medical food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, and snacks. Twenty-nine of Nestlé's brands have annual sales of over CHF1 billion",
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"text": "independent and transparent verifications conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers every 18 months. Every year since 2009, Bureau Veritas conducts independent assurance of compliance with the Nestlé Policy and Instructions for Implementation of the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes. Their Assurance Statements are available in the public domain. In May 2011, the debate over Nestlé's unethical marketing of infant formula was relaunched in the Asia-Pacific region. Nineteen leading Laos-based international NGOs, including Save the Children, Oxfam, CARE International, Plan International, and World Vision have launched a boycott of Nestlé and written an open letter to the company. An independent audit",
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"text": "Nestle Nigeria Plc Nestle Nigeria Plc is a publicly listed food and beverage specialty company headquartered in Lagos. It is majority owned by Nestle S.A. of Switzerland. The company was founded in 1961 and conducted trading under the name of Nestle Products Nigeria Limited. It has its main factory in Agbara Industrial Estate, Ogun State. The firm manufactures breakfast cereal, baby food products, food seasoning and hydrolyzed plant protein mix. The firm was listed as one of the largest 100 companies in Africa by Africa Business magazine. The company began business under the trade name of Nestle Products Nigeria, in",
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"text": "Nestlé and written an open letter to the company. Among other unethical practices, the NGOs criticised the lack of labelling in Laos and the provision of incentives to doctors and nurses to promote the use of infant formula. In November 2011, Bureau Veritas was commissioned by Nestlé S.A. to provide independent assurance of Nestlé Indochina's compliance with the Nestlé policy for the implementation of the World Health Organisation (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes (1981). There was no significant evidence that indicated Nestlé Indochina was systematically operating in violation of the WHO Code and Lao PDR Decree",
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"text": "billion Swiss francs, which is more than US$247 billion as of May 2015. In 2014, consolidated sales were CHF 91.61 billion and net profit was CHF 14.46billion. Research and development investment was CHF 1.63billion. According to a 2015 global survey of online consumers by the \"Reputation Institute\", Nestlé has a reputation score of 74.5 on a scale of 1100. Joint ventures include: As of 2017 the board is composed of: The company engages 3rd party lobbying firms to engage with parliaments and governments in various jurisdictions. For example, in South Australia the company engages Etched Communications. Nestlé has over 2000",
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"text": "(about ), including Nespresso, Nescafé, Kit Kat, Smarties, Nesquik, Stouffer's, Vittel, and Maggi. Nestlé has 447 factories, operates in 189 countries, and employs around 339,000 people. It is one of the main shareholders of L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics company. Nestlé was formed in 1905 by the merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1866 by brothers George and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé. The company grew significantly during the First World War and again following the Second World War, expanding its offerings beyond its early condensed milk and infant formula",
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"text": "brands with a wide range of products across a number of markets, including coffee, bottled water, milkshakes and other beverages, breakfast cereals, infant foods, performance and healthcare nutrition, seasonings, soups and sauces, frozen and refrigerated foods, and pet food. In late September 2008, the Hong Kong government found melamine in a Chinese-made Nestlé milk product. Six infants died from kidney damage, and a further 860 babies were hospitalised. The Dairy Farm milk was made by Nestlé's division in the Chinese coastal city Qingdao. Nestlé affirmed that all its products were safe and were not made from milk adulterated with melamine.",
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"text": "broken the Code... If we find that the Code has been deliberately violated, we take disciplinary action.\" The company maintains that many of the allegations are unsubstantiated, out of date, or use IBFAN's own non-standard interpretation of the Code. In May 2011, the debate over Nestlé's unethical marketing of infant formula was relaunched in the Asia-Pacific region. Nineteen leading Laos-based international NGOs, including Save the Children, Oxfam, CARE International, Plan International and World Vision have launched a boycott of Nestlé and written an open letter to the company. Among other unethical practices, the NGOs criticised the lack of labelling in",
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Do You Know Where You're Going To? was the theme from which film? | [
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"text": "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) \"Theme from \"Mahogany\" (Do You Know Where You're Going To)\" is a song written by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin, and initially recorded by American singer Thelma Houston in 1973, and then most notably by Diana Ross as the theme to the 1975 Motown/Paramount film \"Mahogany\". Produced by Masser, the song is a ballad that portrays its protagonist (Ross) as a black woman who becomes a successful Rome fashion designer. Recorded with a full orchestral accompaniment, \"Theme from \"Mahogany\"\" became one of the most recognizable elements of the film, receiving",
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"text": "praise from many critics. Later released as a single, \"Theme from \"Mahogany\"\" became a number-one hit on both the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and the Easy Listening charts. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song. Ross performed the song live at the Academy Awards ceremony via satellite from the Netherlands. Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) \"Theme from \"Mahogany\" (Do You Know Where You're Going To)\" is a song written by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin, and initially recorded by American singer Thelma Houston in 1973, and then most notably by Diana",
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"text": "I Know Where I'm Going! (film) I Know Where I'm Going is a 1945 romance film by the British-based filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey, and features Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie and Petula Clark in her fourth film appearance. Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is a young middle class Englishwoman with an ambitious, independent spirit. She knows where she's going, or at least she thinks she does. She travels from her home in Manchester to the Hebrides to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a very wealthy, much older industrialist, on the (fictitious) Isle of Kiloran.",
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"text": "Theme Song from 'Which Way Is Up' \"Theme Song from 'Which Way Is Up'\" was a hit song by R&B female vocal group Stargard. The song was written by Norman Whitfield and produced by Mark Davis. It was the main theme from the soundtrack to the Richard Pryor movie, \"Which Way Is Up?\" It was also included on the group's self-titled debut album. It spent two weeks at number one on the R&B charts in February, 1978 and peaked at number twenty-one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 singles chart. The single also peaked at number twelve on the disco charts.",
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"text": "double was used in all of his scenes shot in Scotland. These shots were then mixed so that the same scene would often have a middle distance shot of the double and then a closeup of Livesey, or a shot of the double's back followed by a shot showing Livesey's face. John Laurie was the choreographer and arranger for the cèilidh sequences. The puirt à beul \"Macaphee\" was performed by Boyd Steven, Maxwell Kennedy and Jean Houston of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. Other music heard in the film is either traditional Scottish and Irish songs or original music composed for",
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"text": "nature, although it includes two moderately successful pop singles (\"I'm Still Here\" and \"Always Know Where You Are\") from The Goo Goo Dolls frontman John Rzeznik and British pop-rock group, BBMak. Both songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik in the film, but BBMak recorded \"Always Know Where You Are\" for the soundtrack. The score was composed by James Newton Howard, who said that the score is \"very much in the wonderful tradition of Korngold and Tiomkin and Steiner.\" The score has been described as a mixture of modern \"classical style\" music in the spirit of \"Star Wars\" and",
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"text": "earful from his wife, Lucille, and is hot and bothered by a woman all their colleagues seem to have already frisked or handcuffed, the vixen Velma Velour. Though the film was shot in 1990, it was edited several times and as a result wasn't released until 1994. It was originally filmed as a musical, but most of the musical numbers were cut from the released film. Nipsey Russell and Al Lewis appear as older versions of their roles from the original series. The film received universally negative reviews, and currently has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14",
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"text": "released during the Golden Age of Porn (inaugurated by the 1969 release of Andy Warhol \"Blue Movie\") in the United States, at a time of \"porno chic\", in which adult erotic films were just beginning to be widely released, publicly discussed by celebrities (like Johnny Carson and Bob Hope) and taken seriously by film critics (like Roger Ebert). The Yardbirds-style theme song \"\"Where is the Girl\"\" was performed by the house band at the hotel where Metzger and the crew were staying. Score (1974 film) Score is a 1974 American adult film directed by Radley Metzger. One of the first",
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"text": "Where or When (film) Where or When is a 2003 film by Iranian film director Bahman Pour-Azar. He co-wrote the film script with Jun Kim over seven years, but shot the entire movie in less than a week at various locations in both New York and New Jersey. The film was produced for less than US$50,000. The 85-minute feature was inspired by the 1959 French classic \"Hiroshima Mon Amour\" directed by Alain Resnais and contains the classic show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical \"Babes In Arms\", \"Where Or When\". \"Where Or When\" stars Mitchell Conwell, Shelly DeChristofaro,",
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"text": "on 17 August 2015, at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden and was completed in January 2016. Several scenes were also shot on location in London. After two months, the production moved to the Cunard Building and St George's Hall in Liverpool, which was transformed into 1920s New York City. Framestore in London produced the visual effects for the film. On 9 April 2016, it was announced that James Newton Howard would write and compose the film's score. On 24 October, Pottermore published an official first look at the film's main theme composed by Howard. The main theme incorporated John Williams' themes",
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19969 was the Chinese year of which creature? | [
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"text": "majority of Chinese people. Some cultures assign different animals: Vietnam replaces the Ox and Rabbit with the water buffalo and cat, respectively; Japan replaces the Pig () with the boar () as the character 猪 means Pig in Chinese but \"boar\" in Japanese; Tibet replaces the Rooster with the bird. In the traditional Kazakh version of the 12-year animal cycle (, \"müşel\"), the Dragon is substituted by a snail (, \"ulw\"), and the Tiger appears as a leopard (, \"barıs\"). Though Chinese has words for the four cardinal directions, Chinese mariners and astronomers/astrologers preferred using the 12 directions of the",
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"text": "and the appropriate Chinese calendar zodiacal animal year-name for both Thai Hora (, ho-ra-sat) and Chinese astrology. Thai birth certificates record the date, month and time of birth, followed by the day of the week, lunar date, and the applicable zodiac animal name. Thai traditionally reckon age by the 12-year animal-cycle names, with the twelfth and sixtieth anniversaries being of special significance; but the official calendar determines age at law. For instance, 12 August 2004 was observed without regard to the lunar date as Queen Sirikit's birthday, a public holiday also observed as Thai Mothers' Day. Her zodiacal animal is",
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"text": "Mongolia, 12 year beasts are called \"Арван хоёр жил\" meaning \"12 years\" In Kyrgyz 12-year cycle is called \"Мүчөл\", words for Tiger, Dragon and Monkey are only used in 12-year cycle. Chinese zodiac The Chinese zodiac is a classification scheme that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle. The 12-year cycle is an approximation to the 11.85-year orbital period of Jupiter, the largest planet of the Solar System. It and its variations remain popular in many Asian countries including China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Bhutan, and Thailand. The",
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"text": "their yin and yang forms), which combine with the 12 Earthly Branches (or Chinese signs of the zodiac), to form the 60 year cycle. Yang earth years end in 8 (e.g. 1988), while Yin earth years end in 9 (e.g. 1989). Earth is the central balance of the elements and therefore lends qualities to all 12 animals as well. The element earth is associated with the planet Saturn on account of its yellow color. However, some Western astrologers have suggested that the Western associations of Saturn give it greater affinity with the rigid, controlling Chinese element of Metal; while the",
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"text": "of the week, too. The term for them is “True Animals”. If your astrologer wishes to prepare a chart, it is essential he or she knows the animals of your day of birth. Given there are only seven days of the week and 12 animals, there is some repetition or doubling up. The animals for each day are as follows: As the Chinese zodiac is derived according to the ancient Five Elements Theory, every Chinese sign is composed of five elements with relations, among those elements, of interpolation, interaction, over-action, and counter-action—believed to be the common law of motions and",
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"text": "Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. In Vietnam the Rabbit is replaced by the cat. This combination creates the 60-year cycle due to the fewest number of years (least common multiple) it would take to get from \"Yang Wood Rat\" to its next iteration, which always starts with \"Yang Wood Rat\" and ends with \"Yin Water Pig\". Since the zodiac animal cycle of 12 is divisible by two, every zodiac sign can occur only as either Yin or Yang: the Dragon is always yang, the Snake is always yin, etc. The current cycle began in 1984 (as shown in \"Table of",
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"text": "Snake. Many online Chinese Sign calculators do not account for the non-alignment of the two calendars, using Gregorian-calendar years rather than official Chinese New Year dates. One scheme of continuously numbered Chinese-calendar years assigns 4709 to the year beginning, 2011, but this is not universally accepted; the calendar is traditionally cyclical, not continuously numbered. Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years, outside China its years are sometimes numbered from the purported reign of the mythical Yellow Emperor in the 3rd millennium BCE. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars,",
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"text": "started in 1024. The cycles were counted by ordinal numbers, but the years within the cycles were never counted but referred to by special names. The structure of the \"drukchu kor\" was as follows: Each year is associated with an animal and an element, similar to the Chinese zodiac. Animals have the following order: Elements have the following order: Each element is associated with two consecutive years, first in its male aspect, then in its female aspect. For example, a male Earth-Dragon year is followed by a female Earth-Snake year, then by a male Iron-Horse year. The sex may be",
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"text": "birth-year. As the Chinese New Year starts in late January to mid-February, the previous Chinese year dates through 1 January until that day in the new Gregorian year, remaining unchanged from the previous Gregorian year. For example, the 1989 year of the Snake began on 6 February 1989. The year 1989 is generally aligned with the year of the Snake. However, the 1988 year of the Dragon officially ended on 5 February 1989. This means that anyone born from 1 January to 5 February 1989 was actually born in the year of the Dragon rather than the year of the",
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"text": "can be inferred from the animal. The element-animal designations recur in cycles of 60 years, starting with a (female) Fire-Rabbit year. These big cycles are numbered. The first cycle started in 1027. Therefore, 2005 roughly corresponds to the (female) Wood-Rooster year of the 17th cycle, and 2008 corresponds to a (male) Earth-Rat year of the same cycle. The days of the week are named for celestial bodies. Nyima \"Sun\", Dawa \"Moon\" and Lhakpa \"Mercury\" are common personal names for people born on Sunday, Monday or Wednesday respectively. A Khata is a traditional ceremonial scarf given in Tibet. It symbolizes goodwill,",
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In the 90s how many points have been awarded for finishing second in a Grand Prix? | [
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"text": "greater number of second places, and so on. For example, if drivers A and B were tied at the end of a season, and B had six wins and three second-place finishes, but A had six wins and four second-place finishes (even if he had fewer third places than B, etc.), then A would be champion. On 10 December 2013, it was confirmed that drivers and constructors will score double points in the final Grand Prix from 2014 onwards, but this was abandoned in the weeks following the 2014 season. Many venues make use of electronic displays to indicate flags",
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"text": "that no European or British driver has finished on the podium for a Formula One grand prix. With Suzuki also scoring points at the British and Spanish Grands Prix, and Éric Bernard scoring points at Monaco, Britain and Hungary, the team ended the year with 11 points achieving sixth place in the Constructors' Championship. During the first half of the season, Larrousse was forced to pre-qualify due to only scoring one point in 1989. However, with an improving Lamborghini engine, a chassis considered among the best in the field and two talented young drivers, pre-qualifying was never really a problem",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "a second-place finish to become Drivers' Champion even if Schumacher won—both drivers would be tied on points and number of victories but Häkkinen would claim the title as he would have finished second place three times, compared to Schumacher's two. Behind Häkkinen and Schumacher in the Drivers' Championship, David Coulthard was third on 52 points in a McLaren, with Eddie Irvine fourth on 41 points in a Ferrari. In the Constructors' Championship, McLaren were leading on 142 points and Ferrari were second on 127 points, with a maximum of 16 points available. During the four-week break that followed the ,",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "11 races for a commanding win on an Aprilia. The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1997: †† = Saturday race †† = Saturday race Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points. Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points. Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points. 1997 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season The 1997 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 49th F.I.M. Road",
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"text": "after that they were awarded for the individual races. The best ten teams were awarded points with the winner receiving 15 points. This was altered to 15 teams scoring points and the winner receiving 20 from 1984. The current system of 20 teams receiving points and the winner getting 25 was adopted in 2002. Until 1976, only a set number of best results were counted towards the overall standings, since 1977 all results count. Grand Prix were always held in two races except in 1992 and 1993 when three races were held in every Grand Prix. In those two years,",
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"text": "to Mike Hailwood's 10 victories in 1966. Haruchika Aoki easily won the 125 title for Honda with seven wins. The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1995: †† = Saturday race †† = Saturday race Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points. Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points. Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points. † Half-points awarded in Malaysia, as the riders",
"title": "1995 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9186293",
"score": 1.0311627,
"text": "rider has to finish the race to earn points. Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points. Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points. 1994 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season The 1994 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 46th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. 1994 was the year in which Honda's Mick Doohan began to stamp his authority on the Grand Prix world. Honda's Longtime sponsor Rothmans left Honda to join Williams Renault in Formula One. Doohan",
"title": "1994 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4006518",
"score": 1.0123591,
"text": "did not want their last Formula One race to be in Japan. Heading into the final race of the season, two drivers were still in contention for the World Drivers' Championship. Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher was leading with 78 points; Williams driver Jacques Villeneuve was second with 77 points, one point behind Schumacher. Behind Schumacher and Villeneuve in the Drivers' Championship, Heinz-Harald Frentzen was third on 41 points in the other Williams, with Jean Alesi and David Coulthard on 36 and 30 points respectively. Villeneuve had won two more races than Schumacher during the season, meaning that in the event",
"title": "1997 European Grand Prix"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9176599",
"score": 1.0116779,
"text": "created the International Motorcycle Racers’ Association (IMRA) to pressure track organizers for safety improvements. Michelin came back from a semi-withdrawal and supplied tires to the Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha teams. The points system was revised to award points to the top 10 finishers only, instead of the top 15. This system would last for only the 1992 season, a slightly modified version being brought in for 1993, that is still used today. The calendar was shortened to 13 rounds, with the United States, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Austria losing their races. The South African Grand Prix was added and the European",
"title": "1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2203471",
"score": 1.0108453,
"text": "2nd. Prost had scored more points in total than Senna, but the Frenchman could only score 3 more points because he had finished 1st and 2nd in every race so far except two (13 finishes in total, only the best 11 results counted), and if he had won (9 points), one of his 2nd-place finishes (6 points) would not have counted towards his points tally. Prost ended up scoring 105 points in total to Senna's 94 – but only 87 of Prost's points counted, and 90 of Senna's points counted, so Senna won the Drivers' Championship. The 1989 race was",
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"text": "Stapleton International Airport Stapleton International Airport was the primary airport serving Denver, Colorado, United States from 1929 to 1995. At different times it served as a hub for Continental Airlines, the original Frontier Airlines, People Express, Trans World Airlines (TWA), United Airlines and Western Airlines. Other airlines with smaller hub operations at Stapleton included Aspen Airways, the current version of Frontier Airlines and Rocky Mountain Airways, with all three of these air carriers being based in Denver at the time. In 1995, Stapleton was replaced by Denver International Airport. It has since been decommissioned and the property redeveloped as a",
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"text": "Stapleton, Denver Stapleton is a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. Located northeast of downtown Denver, the development is on the site of the decommissioned Stapleton International Airport, which closed in 1995. Now referred to as the \"Stapleton Community,\" it contains nine neighborhoods, nine schools public/private, 50 parks, several shopping and business districts, and a visitor center. Since April 2016, Stapleton has been connected to the Denver metro area by RTD's A line, a recently opened commuter rail service. While Denver International Airport was being constructed, planners considered how the Stapleton site would be redeveloped. A private group of Denver civic leaders,",
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"text": "to the west, 40th Ave to the North, Havana St. to the East, and 37th Ave to the south, with the exception of the Coca-Cola and FedEx warehouses. The City's Department Of Aviation has continuously owned this site even after Stapleton was closed & decommissioned. At the time of its decommissioning, the airport covered 4,700 acres (19 km.) and had the following runways: The terminal had five concourses: Several major air crashes occurred at Stapleton: Stapleton International Airport Stapleton International Airport was the primary airport serving Denver, Colorado, United States from 1929 to 1995. At different times it served as",
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"text": "officially opened for all operations the following morning. When it closed in 1995, Stapleton had six runways (2 sets of 3 parallel runways) and five terminal concourses. The runways at Stapleton were then marked with large yellow \"X\"s, which indicated it was no longer legal or safe for any aircraft to land there. The IATA and ICAO airport codes of DEN and KDEN were then transferred to the new DIA, to coincide with the same changes in airline and ATC computers, to ensure that flights to Denver would land at the new DIA. While Denver International was being constructed, planners",
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"text": "retail and residential neighborhood. Stapleton opened on October 17, 1929 as Denver Municipal Airport. The development of the airport was spearheaded by Denver mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton and Improvements and Parks Department manager Charles Vail. Prior to the new airport's opening, Denver had been served by a number of smaller facilities, including an airstrip along Smith Road in Aurora (first used in 1911), an airfield at 26th Avenue and Oneida Street, Lowry Field near 38th Avenue and Dahlia Street, and Denver Union Airport at 46th Avenue east of Colorado Boulevard. In the late 1930s the airport facilities consisted of two",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "Stapleton Airfield in 1944, in honor of Mayor Stapleton. Stapleton's modern horseshoe-shaped terminal design was first announced in 1946 and promptly shelved by incoming mayor James Newton. The original administration building was extended with new wings in the early 1950s, and replaced entirely in 1954. By the early 1950s, the airport was served by five major airlines. United connected Denver to both coasts, with multi-stop routes extending to Boston, New York and Washington in the east, to major cities on the West Coast, and to Honolulu. Braniff operated routes from Denver to Texas, with connections to South America. Continental connected",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13468299",
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"text": "the Stapleton Development Foundation, convened in 1990 and produced a master plan for the site in 1995, emphasizing a pedestrian-oriented design rather than the automobile-oriented designs found in many other planned developments. Nearly a third of the airport site was planned to be redeveloped as public park space. The former airport site 10 minutes from Downtown Denver is now being redeveloped by Forest City Enterprises new urbanist project. Construction began in 2001, and , 3,200 single-family houses, row houses, condominiums and other for-sale housing, as well as 400 apartments, had been built. The new community is zoned for residential and",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1930760",
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"text": "Denver to El Paso, St. Louis and Tulsa. Frontier operated northbound and southbound from Denver to the other mountain states. Western connected Denver to Minneapolis and Edmonton. The April 1957 OAG shows 38 United, 12 Continental, seven Braniff, seven Frontier, seven Western, five TWA and one Central. The jet age arrived in May 1959 when Continental began operating Boeing 707 jetliners into Stapleton, initially under weight restrictions due to Stapleton's runway capacity. Runway 17/35 and a new terminal building opened in 1964. Although Stapleton officially adopted the \"International\" name in 1964, its first nonstop international service came in 1968, when",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1930765",
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"text": "to Concourse E. Continental closed its Stapleton pilot and flight attendant bases in October 1994, reducing operations and making United the airport's largest carrier. Delta Flight 569 from Dallas/Ft.Worth was the last commercial flight to land at Stapleton. On February 27, 1995, air traffic controller George Hosford, cleared the last plane – Continental Flight 34, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 bound for London′s Gatwick Airport – to depart from Stapleton. The airport was then shut down. A convoy of ground service equipment and other vehicles (rental cars, baggage carts, fuel trucks, etc.) traveled to the new Denver International Airport (DEN), which",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "away than Stapleton International Airport, the airport it replaced. The distant location was chosen to avoid aircraft noise affecting developed areas, to accommodate a generous runway layout that would not be compromised by blizzards, and to allow for future expansion. The 52.4 square miles (136 km) of land occupied by the airport is more than one and a half times the size of Manhattan (33.6 sq mi or 87 km2). At 33,531 acres (136 km), DIA is by far the largest land area commercial airport in the United States. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is a distant second at 70 km",
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What was Kevin Kline's first movie? | [
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"text": "Kevin Kline Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor and singer. He has won an Academy Award and three Tony Awards and is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee. Kline began his career on stage in 1972 with The Acting Company. He has gone on to win three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway, winning Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the 1978 original production of \"On the Twentieth Century\", Best Actor in a Musical for the 1981 revival of \"The Pirates of Penzance\", and Tony Award for Best",
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"text": "In 1997, the school named its new auditorium as the Kevin Kline Theater in his honor. Kline performed selections from Shakespeare as a benefit at the dedication. He attended Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was a classmate of actor Jonathan Banks. He began studying composing and conducting music, but switched to a theater and speech major for his last two years, graduating in 1970. Kline remembers: \"When I switched to the Theater Department, all I did was theater...I could barely make it to class because this was my passion.\" While an undergraduate, he was a co-founder of the Vest Pocket",
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"text": "Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role and won the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance by an Actor. Kevin Kline was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. The film won the Audience Award for Favorite Feature at Aspen Filmfest. New Line Home Entertainment released the film on DVD on March 26, 2002. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with an audio track and subtitles in English. Bonus features include commentary",
"title": "Life as a House"
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"text": "with juvenile diabetes, Kline became active with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. In November 2004, he was presented with the JDRF's Humanitarian of the Year award by Meryl Streep for his volunteer efforts on behalf of the organization. The Kevin Kline Awards honor theatre professionals in St. Louis in an array of categories, which include best actor and actress, set design, choreography, and new play or musical. Kevin Kline Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor and singer. He has won an Academy Award and three Tony Awards and is a 2003 American",
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"text": "Richard H. Kline Richard Howard Kline, A.S.C. (November 15, 1926 – August 7, 2018) was an American cinematographer. After Kline graduated from high school in 1943 at the age of 16, his father got him a job as a slate boy working for Columbia Pictures the same year, and one of the films he worked on as a slate boy was Cover Girl. A year later, in 1944, Kline joined the U.S. Navy, serving from 1944 to 1946. By the time he had joined the Navy, he was already a first assistant cameraman. Kline was shipped out to the Pacific",
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"text": "Kline returned to Broadway in a revival of the play \"Present Laughter\", for which he received his third Tony Award. In December 2004, Kline became the 2,272nd recipient of a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his contributions to the motion picture industry, located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. Kline met actress Phoebe Cates in 1983. They began dating in 1985 and married in 1989. The couple live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York. They have two children, Owen (born 1991) and Greta (1994), who fronts the band Frankie Cosmos. After his son, Owen, was diagnosed",
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"text": "the available categories (acting, directing, lighting, etc.) and submit their ballot within 24 hours of seeing the production. At the end of each year, the five productions with the highest score in each category are listed as the nominees, and the award goes to the one with the best score: The first award ceremony was held on March 20, 2006, in the Roberts Orpheum Theatre, and hosted by St. Louis-native Broadway actor Jason Danieley. Presenters included Kline, and St. Louis-born Broadway actor Ken Page. Kline received the first-ever Kevin Kline Award to be created, and was also told at the",
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"text": "Jeff Kline Jeff Kline is an American film and television writer-producer and former television executive. He has been involved in more than 40 animated and live-action series and pilots, has received multiple Emmy nominations and wins. Jeff Kline was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Kline graduated from Boston University's College of Communication in 1987. After graduating from Boston University, Kline interned at Roger Corman's Concorde/New Horizons and worked in feature development for Michael Shamberg and Harold Ramis's Ocean Pictures. He served as a television executive in Daytime Programming at NBC Entertainment for one year then spent five years at Columbia Pictures",
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"id": "1726416",
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"text": "the early 1940s, and sold toys during the 1960s and 1970s; his father's family also owned Kline's Inc., a department store chain. Kline has described his mother as the \"dramatic theatrical character in our family\". Kline's father was Jewish, from a family that had emigrated from Germany, and had become an agnostic. Kline's mother was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent, the daughter of an emigrant from County Louth. Kline was raised in his mother's Catholic faith. He has an older sister, Kate, and two younger brothers, Alexander and Christopher. He graduated from the Saint Louis Priory School in 1965.",
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"id": "1726424",
"score": 0.92049026,
"text": "He has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Film reviewers have praised Kline. \"Newsday\" critic Lynn Darling wrote on July 13, 1988, that Kline \"has proved himself to be one of the most talented and versatile American actors of his generation.\" Kline played the title role in \"King Lear\" at the Public Theater and took the lead role in a Broadway production of \"Cyrano de Bergerac\" opposite Jennifer Garner. That production was forced to close temporarily after only 11 performances as a result of the Broadway stagehands' strike, but subsequently reopened. \"Cyrano\" was filmed in 2008 and",
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Which actor had a Doberman Pinscher called Kirk? | [
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"id": "5424505",
"score": 0.97689223,
"text": "a half century later dropped the word 'pinscher' on the grounds that this German word for 'terrier' was no longer appropriate. The British did the same a few years later; now the US and Canada are the only countries who continue to use Pinscher and have dropped an \"n\" from Dobermann's surname. During World War II, the United States Marine Corps adopted the Doberman Pinscher as its official war dog, although the Corps did not exclusively use this breed in the role. In the United States, the American Kennel Club ranked the Doberman Pinscher as the 12th most popular dog",
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"text": "Tommy Kirk Thomas Lee Kirk (born December 10, 1941) is an American former actor and later a businessman. He is best known for his performances in a number of highly popular movies made by Walt Disney Studios such as \"Old Yeller\", \"The Shaggy Dog\", \"The Swiss Family Robinson\" and \"The Misadventures of Merlin Jones\", as well as beach-party movies of the mid-1960s. Kirk was born in Louisville, Kentucky, one of four sons. His father was a mechanic who worked for the Highway Department; his mother, a legal secretary. Looking for better job opportunities, they moved to Downey in Los Angeles",
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"id": "3292760",
"score": 0.94051564,
"text": "My Wrongs 8245–8249 & 117 My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117 is the first film by Chris Morris, starring Paddy Considine as a mentally disturbed man taking care of a friend's Doberman Pinscher (named Rothko, and voiced by Morris) while she's away. The dog talks to him and convinces the nameless protagonist that he is on trial for everything he's done wrong in his life, and the dog is his lawyer. Unfortunately, the dog tends to make things worse for him, and the man's life falls further into disrepair. This was the first film by Warp Films, an imprint of popular",
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"id": "3185698",
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"text": "the voice (along with Sandra Dee) for the U.S. version of a Soviet animated feature, \"The Snow Queen\" (1957). Kirk then starred in \"The Shaggy Dog\" (1959), a comedy about a boy inventor who, under the influence of a magic ring, is repeatedly transformed into an Old English Sheepdog. This teamed him with Corcoran and two other Disney stars with whom he would regularly work, Fred MacMurray and Annette Funicello. Kirk says when filming finished, Disney told him they did not have any projects for him and he was being dropped. \"I was thin and gangly and looked a mess...",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5424506",
"score": 0.9150893,
"text": "breed in 2012 and 2013. Doberman Pinscher became very popular over a short period. It's a relatively new breed less than 150 years old. According to latest ranking in 2017 by American Kennel Club, Dobermans are the 16th most popular dog breed. Dobermans started to become popular when they were used in World War II as guard dogs. In 1970's Doberman had their fair share in movies. They starred in the 1972 film 'The Doberman Gang'. Doberman also became popular after winning four Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 1939, 1952, 1953 and 1989. Doberman dog breed recognised by American",
"title": "Dobermann"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6707761",
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"text": "to be too young to drink. He is the older brother of Maria, with whom he owns Weatherfield kennels. He is good friends with Tyrone and Jason Grimshaw (Ryan Thomas) and an ex-boyfriend of Fiz Stape (Jennie McAlpine) whom he had met at a flat-decorating party. He is also friends with Les Battersby (Bruce Jones), with whom he once lived, acting as best man at his wedding to Cilla Brown (Wendi Peters). He also grows quite close to Cilla's son Chesney (Sam Aston) while he's with Fiz. Kirk dumps Fiz after he finds out that she had spent the night",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3689975",
"score": 0.8982035,
"text": "ring. At the time, not knowing that it was referred to officially in Germany as the Zwergpinscher (little biter), the AKC referred to the breed as simply \"Pinscher\" and listed it in the miscellaneous category. When the Miniature Pinscher Club of America (MPCA) was created in 1929 (the year of the breed's official introduction into the AKC), they petitioned for Miniature Pinschers to be placed in the Toy group. The AKC's description, that the dog \"must appear as a Doberman in miniature,\" led to the misconception common today that this breed is a \"Miniature Doberman Pinscher.\" The original name for",
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"id": "5424507",
"score": 0.89435697,
"text": "Kennel Club in 1908 and since then they are one of the most popular dog breed due to their intelligence and agility. Even today the numbers of Doberman dog registrations are increasing. Dobermann The Dobermann (; ), or Doberman Pinscher in the United States and Canada, is a medium-large breed of domestic dog that was originally developed around 1890 by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, a tax collector from Germany. The Dobermann has a long muzzle. It stands on its pads and is not usually heavy-footed. Ideally, they have an even and graceful gait. Traditionally, the ears are cropped and posted",
"title": "Dobermann"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5424479",
"score": 0.89127225,
"text": "Dobermann The Dobermann (; ), or Doberman Pinscher in the United States and Canada, is a medium-large breed of domestic dog that was originally developed around 1890 by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, a tax collector from Germany. The Dobermann has a long muzzle. It stands on its pads and is not usually heavy-footed. Ideally, they have an even and graceful gait. Traditionally, the ears are cropped and posted and the tail is docked. However, in some countries, it is illegal to do so. Dobermanns have markings on the chest, paws/legs, muzzle, above the eyes, and underneath the tail. Dobermanns are",
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"text": "Mickey Mouse Club as the serial \"Boys of the Western Sea.\" Around this time it was announced Kirk would appear as Young Davy Crockett, but this does not seem to have eventuated. Kirk's career received its biggest break yet when in January 1957 Disney cast him as Travis Coates in \"Old Yeller\" (1957), an adventure story about a boy and his heroic dog. Kirk had the lead role in the film, which was enormously successful, and he became Disney's first choice whenever they needed someone to play an all-American teenager. Kevin Corcoran played his younger brother and the two of",
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Which country became the first in the world to issue the dreaded parking ticket? | [
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"text": "possible to claim money from a foreign resident person if they don't pay voluntarily. The European Union is introducing legislation into all member countries to collect fines across borders. In some cities, like London, this has been solved by locking one wheel of a falsely parked vehicle. The driver has to pay to be able to drive. In New Zealand, parking fines are mostly issued by council parking officers, but can also be issued by police officers. Parking tickets are mostly attached to an unattended vehicle, or they can be posted to the address of the registered owner. Posting tickets",
"title": "Parking violation"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9397583",
"score": 0.89378786,
"text": "Brazil (1974), the United States (1980), Tunisia (1984), South Korea and Turkey (1988), Mexico (1989), China (1994), India (1997), Eastern Europe (Poland and Czech Republic in 1995, Romania in 2002 and Slovakia in 2004) to total 33 countries at the end 2017. In May 1980, the company was renamed Valeo, which means \"I am well\" in Latin. Recent acquisitions include German automotive suppliers Peiker and Spheros in 2015, followed by FTE automotive in 2017. In the early 2000s, Valeo initiated a new approach to innovation. Quickly, the Group became a world leader in parking assistance systems using ultrasonic sensors. In",
"title": "Valeo"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11341343",
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"text": "design that includes the International Symbol of Access wheelchair logo, and a blue clock face in line with the EU blue badge system introduced in 2000. Disc parking was first introduced in Paris in 1957 and adopted in Kassel in 1961—in both cases the new parking system was introduced in an attempt to move away long-term parkers without erecting parking meters, which was considered too expensive. The concept proved to be effective and it spread throughout European countries in the 1960s. The first parking discs showed two clock faces—one with the arrival time and one with the departure time. Over",
"title": "Disc parking"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7777330",
"score": 0.88071877,
"text": "are commonly used by parking officers when the person concerned appears to be hostile or aggressive, so minimal contact can take place for safety reasons. Usually, the most common parking fines issued are those for parking over the time limit. Parking fines were introduced in the 1950s in New South Wales, Australia. At that time, council rangers only worked in council car parks and parking fines on the streets, mainly in Sydney were issued by the NSW Parking Police. These were employees of the New South Wales Police Force. Up until about 1995, these fines were issued and processed by",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2762489",
"score": 0.87901986,
"text": "ticket and pays the fee required before returning to their car, then drives to the exit terminal and presents the ticket. If the ticket has not been paid for, the boom barrier will not raise, which will force the customer to either press the intercom and speak to a staff member, or reverse out to pay at the pay station or cashier booth. At the parking lots of some major airports in the United States, a driver can choose to swipe a credit card at the entry ticket dispenser instead of taking a ticket. When the driver swipes the same",
"title": "Parking lot"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2762488",
"score": 0.87314236,
"text": "ticket machine by vehicle, presses the ticket request push button, takes a ticket - which raises the barrier - and enters the parking lot. To exit the lot, the customer presents the ticket to a cashier in a booth at the exit and tenders payment, after which the cashier opens the boom gate. In 1954, the first automated parking lots were built where, for a monthly fee, a driver with a magnetic key card could enter and exit the parking lot by raising and lowering the boom. A more modern system uses automatic pay stations, where the driver presents the",
"title": "Parking lot"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15361870",
"score": 0.8726684,
"text": "and was branded under the ParkPlus banner. For their efforts, the ParkPlus system was awarded the 2009 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Best Practices Award. Whistler, BC followed suit on July 12, 2010 unveiling its Pay by Plate system consisting of CALE pay machines, and gtechna enforcement technology. Since the ParkPlus system issues mailout tickets it is not considered \"real-time\", thus the Whistler installation is the first real-time system in Canada. However, in late 2015, the Calgary Parking Authority unveiled a new system for issuing tickets in real time at the street level using hand-held tablets and portable printers that",
"title": "Pay-by-plate parking"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1416699",
"score": 0.8695997,
"text": "was resorting to their use not for regulatory purposes but for revenue only, there might have been a different judgment.\" One of the first parking meter tickets resulted in the first court challenge to metered parking enforcement. Rev. C.H. North of Oklahoma's City's Third Pentecostal Holiness Church had his citation dismissed when he claimed he had gone to a grocery store to get change for the meter. The North Carolina Supreme Court judged that a city could not pledge on-street parking meter fee proceeds as security for bonds issued to build off-street parking decks. The court said, \"Streets of a",
"title": "Parking meter"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15361871",
"score": 0.8660914,
"text": "access the pay-by-plate information in the ParkPlus system. In the USA, the first pay-by-plate system to go live with real-time enforcement was in Denver Colorado. On February 2008, the Regional Transportation District rolled out a system consisting of MacKay Meters, MacKay Guardian Multi pay stations and Federal APD PIPS mobile LPR enforcement system. The system features optional receipts that consumers don't need to put on their dash and vehicle mounted ALPR at speeds up to 30 mph for enforcement. The largest Pay-By-Plate parking system in the world was installed by Global Parking Solutions (GPS) for Brisbane City Council in Brisbane,",
"title": "Pay-by-plate parking"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4616714",
"score": 0.8584409,
"text": "coupon is displayed on the dashboard or hung from the top of a door window facing the roadside. Multiple coupons are used if the parking time exceeds the allowance given for a single coupon, though this is not always permitted. The system is widely used in Singapore and Brazil, and in parts of some countries such as New Zealand, Malaysia, Austria, Ireland and Israel. Pay and display A pay and display machine is a type of ticket machine used for regulating parking in urban areas or in car parks. It relies on a customer purchasing a ticket from a machine",
"title": "Pay and display"
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] |
What day of the week was the Wall Street Crash? | [
"Thor's Day",
"Guruvaar",
"Thor's day",
"Thursdays",
"Thursday",
"Thurs.",
"Thorsday",
"Jupiter's day"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1378940",
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"text": "for nearly 40 years. On October 29, William C. Durant joined with members of the Rockefeller family and other financial giants to buy large quantities of stocks to demonstrate to the public their confidence in the market, but their efforts failed to stop the large decline in prices. Due to the massive volume of stocks traded that day, the ticker did not stop running until about 7:45 p.m. The market had lost over $30 billion in the space of two days, including $14 billion on October 29 alone. After a one-day recovery on October 30, where the Dow regained an",
"title": "Wall Street Crash of 1929"
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"text": "Wall Street Week Wall Street Week with Maria Bartiromo (WSW), retitled in early 2018 as Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street, is an investment news and information TV program airing Friday nights on the Fox Business Network. The original weekly show hosted by Louis Rukeyser aired each Friday evening on PBS in the United States from 1970 to 2002. The program features a host (or hosts) and guest experts participating in discussions related to the financial markets. The original show, which was created by Anne Truax Darlington and produced by Maryland Public Television (MPT), debuted on the entire PBS network on January",
"title": "Wall Street Week"
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"text": "Wall Street Crash of 1929 The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 or the Great Crash, is the stock market crash that occurred in late October, 1929. It started on October 24 (\"Black Thursday\") and continued until October 29, 1929 (\"Black Tuesday\"), when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its after effects. The crash, which followed the London Stock Exchange's crash of September, signalled",
"title": "Wall Street Crash of 1929"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1378949",
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"text": "and mid October, with sharp down days punctuated by a few up days. Panic selling on huge volume started the week of October 21 and intensified and culminated on October 24, the 28th, and especially the 29th (\"Black Tuesday\"). The president of the Chase National Bank said at the time: We are reaping the natural fruit of the orgy of speculation in which millions of people have indulged. It was inevitable, because of the tremendous increase in the number of stockholders in recent years, that the number of sellers would be greater than ever when the boom ended and selling",
"title": "Wall Street Crash of 1929"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1378939",
"score": 1.0194367,
"text": "newspapers across the United States. On October 28, \"Black Monday\", more investors facing margin calls decided to get out of the market, and the slide continued with a record loss in the Dow for the day of 38.33 points, or 13%. The next day, \"Black Tuesday\", October 29, 1929, about 16 million shares traded as the panic selling reached its peak. Some stocks actually had no buyers at any price that day (\"air pockets\"). The Dow lost an additional 30 points, or 12 percent. The volume of stocks traded on October 29, 1929, was a record that was not broken",
"title": "Wall Street Crash of 1929"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "727240",
"score": 1.00608,
"text": "Black Monday in 1987. The fall that week of 21% compared to a 28.3% fall 21 years earlier, but some traders were saying it was worse. \"At least then it was a short, sharp, shock on one day. This has been relentless all week.\" Business Week also referred to the crisis as a \"stock market crash\" or the \"Panic of 2008\". From October 6–10 the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed lower in all five sessions. Volume levels were record-breaking. The DJIA fell over 1,874 points, or 18%, in its worst weekly decline ever on both a points and percentage",
"title": "Stock market crash"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2128450",
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"text": "few months before the Wall Street crash in October. This song's lyrics shed light on the problems involved in stock market, correctly foreshadowing the devastating event that would happen just weeks following. The song was featured in the BBC documentary, \"The Great Crash 1929\". Like so many of the performers during the era, Crumit was a fan of the instruments created by the C.F. Martin & Company and used their tiple, to the point it had to be returned for a new top. Frank Crumit Frank Crumit (September 26, 1889 – September 7, 1943) was an American singer, composer, radio",
"title": "Frank Crumit"
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1378936",
"score": 0.9969301,
"text": "Exchange crashed when top British investor Clarence Hatry and many of his associates were jailed for fraud and forgery. The London crash greatly weakened the optimism of American investment in markets overseas. In the days leading up to the crash, the market was severely unstable. Periods of selling and high volumes were interspersed with brief periods of rising prices and recovery. Selling intensified in mid-October. On October 24 (\"Black Thursday\"), the market lost 11 percent of its value at the opening bell on very heavy trading. The huge volume meant that the report of prices on the ticker tape in",
"title": "Wall Street Crash of 1929"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "909502",
"score": 0.99088633,
"text": "on Wall Street Week not only tended to rise in price and trading volume in the days \"preceding\" the Friday evening broadcast, peaking on the Monday afterward, but thereafter those stocks tended to drop in price and under-perform the market for up to a year following the recommendation. Rukeyser strongly disputed this claim, but ten years later Professors Jess Beltz and Robert Jennings published another academic article in the \"Review of Financial Economics\" reporting results consistent with Pari's original findings, and that there was \"little correlation between the 6-month performance of a recommendation and the abnormal volume at the date",
"title": "Wall Street Week"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "909490",
"score": 0.99018836,
"text": "7, 1972 and was officially titled Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser (W$W) during the 32 years he hosted from 1970 to 2002 (the \"S\" in \"Street\" was in the shape of a dollar sign). In June 2002, the show was modified, dropping Rukeyser and changing the name to Wall Street Week with Fortune. Rukeyser went on to host \"Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street\" on CNBC (cancelled on December 31, 2004 at Rukeyser's request due to continuing ill health), which was also distributed to PBS stations. Wall Street Week with Fortune, which was hosted by Geoff Colvin and former Fox News",
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The US signed a treaty with which country to allow the construction of the Panama Canal? | [
"Columbia",
"Columbia (municipality)",
"Columbia (song)",
"Columbia automobile",
"Columbia (yacht)",
"Columbia (disambiguation)",
"Columbia (town)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1768486",
"score": 0.99488246,
"text": "Panama has ceded its territory to the United States to construct the Canal, Panama also can cede territory to the Germany of Adolf Hitler so they can construct here what they wish and can help us against Imperialism.\" He was ousted in October 1941, in a coup supported by the United States. He ran for president again in 1948 as the candidate of a coalition of his party and the Authentic Revolutionary Party and lost. However, a year later the National Assembly declared that he had actually won. He suspended the constitution and set up a secret police force. Corruption",
"title": "Arnulfo Arias"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12987253",
"score": 0.98215425,
"text": "point, the Colombian government asked the United States to intercede and bring about an armistice in Panama, which was arranged aboard the in the Bay of Panama in 1902. Throughout the period of turmoil, the United States had retained its interest in building a canal through either Nicaragua or Panama. An obstacle to this goal was overcome in December 1901 when the United States and Britain signed the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty. This treaty nullified the provisions of the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty of 1850 and signified British acceptance of a canal constructed solely by or under the auspices of the United States with",
"title": "History of Panama (1821–1903)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12987242",
"score": 0.97844136,
"text": "express interest in negotiating with the United States on building a canal. A treaty was signed in 1846 between the two countries. The treaty removed the existing restrictive tariffs and gave the United States and its citizens the right of free transit of persons and goods over any road or canal that might be constructed in the isthmus. In addition, the United States guaranteed the neutrality of the isthmus and Colombia's sovereignty over it, with a view to ensuring uninterrupted transit for the duration of the treaty, which was to be twenty years or as long thereafter as the parties",
"title": "History of Panama (1821–1903)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1593760",
"score": 0.9705308,
"text": "16 December. In its final form, the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty abrogated the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty, did not forbid the United States from constructing fortifications, and did not require that the canal be kept open in time of war. The Treaty ceded to the United States the right to build and manage a canal, provided that all nations would be allowed access, and that the canal should never be taken by force. Prior to the opening of the Panama Canal to traffic on 15 August 1914, a controversy with Great Britain respecting the interpretation of the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty arose. Under the Panama Canal",
"title": "Hay–Pauncefote Treaty"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3309325",
"score": 0.96698236,
"text": "he had the widespread support in Panama to justify his signing of the treaties. This first treaty is officially titled The Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal () and is commonly known as the \"Neutrality Treaty\". Under this treaty, the U.S. retained the permanent right to defend the canal from any threat that might interfere with its continued neutral service to ships of all nations. The second treaty is titled The Panama Canal Treaty (\"Tratado del Canal de Panamá\"), and provided that as from 12:00 on December 31, 1999, Panama would assume full control of",
"title": "Torrijos–Carter Treaties"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "334977",
"score": 0.9579833,
"text": "by Panamanian rebels who aimed to separate from Colombia, and hoped that the United States would support the rebels with US troops and money. Roosevelt changed tactics, based in part on the Mallarino–Bidlack Treaty of 1846, and actively supported the separation of Panama from Colombia. Shortly after recognizing Panama, he signed a treaty with the new Panamanian government under terms similar to the Hay–Herrán Treaty. On November 2, 1903, US warships blocked sea lanes against possible Colombian troop movements en route to put down the Panama rebellion. Panama declared independence on November 3, 1903. The United States quickly recognized the",
"title": "Panama Canal"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "334978",
"score": 0.9566258,
"text": "new nation. On November 6, 1903, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, as Panama's ambassador to the United States, signed the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, granting rights to the United States to build and indefinitely administer the Panama Canal Zone and its defenses. This is sometimes misinterpreted as the \"99-year lease\" because of misleading wording included in article 22 of the agreement. Almost immediately, the treaty was condemned by many Panamanians as an infringement on their country's new national sovereignty. This would later become a contentious diplomatic issue among Colombia, Panama, and the United States. President Roosevelt famously stated, \"I took the Isthmus, started the canal",
"title": "Panama Canal"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6198425",
"score": 0.9555353,
"text": "million was authorized by the June 28, 1902 Spooner Act. Since Panama was then part of Colombia, Roosevelt began negotiating with that country to obtain the necessary rights. In early 1903 the Hay–Herrán Treaty was signed by both nations, but the Senate of Colombia failed to ratify the treaty. Roosevelt implied to Panamanian rebels that if they revolted, the US Navy would assist their fight for independence. Panama declared its independence on November 3, 1903, and the USS \"Nashville\" impeded Colombian interference. The victorious Panamanians gave the United States control of the Panama Canal Zone on February 23, 1904, for",
"title": "History of the Panama Canal"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1593764",
"score": 0.9540322,
"text": "the exemption, but not before a proviso had been inserted in the bill expressly reserving to the United States the right to exempt ships from tolls in the future. Wilson signed these revisions to the Panama Canal Act on 15 June 1914. Hay–Pauncefote Treaty The Hay–Pauncefote Treaty is a treaty signed by the United States and Great Britain on 18 November 1901, as a legal preliminary to the U.S. building the Panama Canal. It nullified the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty of 1850 and gave the United States the right to create and control a canal across the Central American isthmus to connect",
"title": "Hay–Pauncefote Treaty"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1593770",
"score": 0.95383215,
"text": "Republic of Panama The Republic of Panama grants the United States with the use of the land said canal be built, the surrounding land for construction purposes, and all islands within the limits of the zone The Republic of Panama grants to the United States all the rights, power and authority within the zone mentioned which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority. The",
"title": "Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty"
}
] |
What was Prince's last No 1 of the 80s? | [
"Batdance"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6925514",
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"text": "the Times\" produced three top-ten hit singles, the most from a Prince album since \"Purple Rain\" in 1984, although it sold modestly. It was his most critically acclaimed record. Bart Bull, writing for \"Spin\" magazine in 1987, said that Prince's loosely organized songs are \"genius\" rather than indulgent and that, although there is no song as groundbreaking as \"Girls & Boys\", \"nobody else's outtakes would sound so strong, rock so hard, swing so free.\" The album ranked number 2 among \"Albums of the Year\" for 1987 in the annual \"NME\" critics' poll, and the title track ranked number one among",
"title": "Sign o' the Times"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15907006",
"score": 1.1080416,
"text": "Place of Your Man\" and \"U Got the Look\". His success in Europe and Asia increased throughout the late-1980s with his 1988 album \"Lovesexy\" which crafted the top-40 hits \"Alphabet St.\", \"Glam Slam\", and \"I Wish U Heaven\". Prince closed the 1980s recording the soundtrack to the massively successful 1989 film \"Batman\", which included the worldwide number-one hit \"Batdance\" as well as the top 20 hits \"Partyman\", \"Scandalous!\", \"The Future\" and \"The Arms of Orion\". By the end of the decade, he had amassed the most entries on the Hot 100 of any act in the previous 10 years, including",
"title": "Prince singles discography"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6925519",
"score": 1.0906622,
"text": "the 29th greatest album of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 93 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2006, \"Q\" magazine placed the album at number 12 in its list of \"40 Best Albums of the '80s\". In 2012, \"Slant Magazine\" listed the album at number 11 on its list of \"Best Albums of the 1980s\", calling it \"Prince's most varied album and his most self-consciously auteurish\". Although the album sold modestly, \"Sign o' the Times\" was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. It is",
"title": "Sign o' the Times"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15907011",
"score": 1.0905573,
"text": "He was the most successful artist on the \"Billboard\" charts from 1980 to 2000, scoring 8 number 1 R&B singles and 7 number 1 Dance singles (tied for second place for male entertainers with Enrique Iglesias and Michael Jackson). He has scored over 50 top 40 hits around the world since 1979. He has been ranked as the 21st most successful sales act of all time, the 26th most successful chart artist worldwide, including 27 overall number-one entries, and being the most successful chart act of the 1980s, as well as the 10th most successful chart act of the 1990s.",
"title": "Prince singles discography"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6925517",
"score": 1.0813843,
"text": "curiosity about women strayed into so many unpredictable corners.\" Simon Price deemed it Prince's best album, as did Michaelangelo Matos, who wrote in \"The Rolling Stone Album Guide\" (2004) that it was \"the most complete example of his artistry's breadth, and arguably the finest album of the 1980s\". Matos also believed it was \"the last classic R&B album prior to hip-hop's takeover of black music and the final four-sided blockbuster of the vinyl era\". Music editor Mark Brown called it \"the greatest album of all time. \"Slant Magazine\"s Eric Henderson deemed it a \"double-disc blowout of sweat, funk, and raw,",
"title": "Sign o' the Times"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2824092",
"score": 1.0809367,
"text": "the early '80s\". According to \"The New Rolling Stone Album Guide\" (2004), \"\"Dirty Mind\" remains one of the most radical 180-degree turns in pop history.\" Robert Hilburn of the \"Los Angeles Times\" described the music from the album as \"confident and highly danceable blend of post-disco funk and tasty, hard-line rock\". Prince's songwriting contains prominently sexual lyrics. Keith Harris of \"Blender\" characterizes its songs as \"confessions of a sex junkie\" with \"new-wave funk\". \"Pitchfork\" ranked \"Dirty Mind\" number 87 on its list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s. \"Slant Magazine\" listed the album at number 53 on its",
"title": "Dirty Mind"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "677388",
"score": 1.0768782,
"text": "a Day\" (1985), held the No. 1 spot on the \"Billboard\" 200 for three weeks. From that album, the single \"Raspberry Beret\" reached No. 2 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and \"Pop Life\" reached No. 7. In 1986, his album \"Parade\" reached No. 3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on the R&B charts. The first single, \"Kiss\", with the video choreographed by Louis Falco, reached No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. (The song was originally written for a side project called Mazarati.) In the same year, the song \"Manic Monday\", written by Prince and recorded by the",
"title": "Prince (musician)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15907007",
"score": 1.0759776,
"text": "six worldwide number-one singles. Prince entered the 1990s with the soundtrack to \"Graffiti Bridge\"; the album spawned the top-10 hit \"Thieves in the Temple\" and the top-40 hit \"New Power Generation\". His 1991 album \"Diamonds and Pearls\" spawned several hit singles including the title track, the number-one hit \"Cream\", \"Insatiable\", \"Money Don't Matter 2 Night\", \"Gett Off\", and \"Thunder\". The 1992 follow-up record, the \"Love Symbol Album\", scored several top-40 hits including \"Sexy MF\", \"My Name is Prince\", \"7\", \"Damn U\", and \"The Morning Papers\". Prince's first compilation album, \"The Hits/The B-Sides\" (1993) included the top-40 hits \"Pink Cashmere\" and",
"title": "Prince singles discography"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6925516",
"score": 1.0739743,
"text": "Pazz & Jop critics' poll. According to Christgau, the poll's creator, the album was \"easily the biggest winner\" in the poll's history and \"established Prince as the greatest rock and roll musician of the era—as singer-guitarist-hooksmith-beatmaster, he has no peer.\" The title track \"Sign o' the Times\" was named the best single of 1987 in the poll, while \"I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man\" and \"U Got the Look\" were also voted within the top 10. In a retrospective review, Keith Harris of \"Blender\" called \"Sign o' the Times\" a \"masterpiece\" and comments that \"never has [Prince's]",
"title": "Sign o' the Times"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "469520",
"score": 1.0731603,
"text": "popular stars of the 1980s and the most successful chart act of the decade. His breakthrough album \"1999\", released in 1982, produced three top-ten hits and the album itself charted at No 9. on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. His sixth studio album \"Purple Rain\" was an international success, boosting Prince to superstardom and selling over 25 million copies worldwide. The album produced the US No 1. singles, \"When Doves Cry\" and \"Let's Go Crazy\" and sold 13 million copies in the United States as of 1996. Prince released an album every year for the rest of the decade, all charting",
"title": "1980s"
}
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Man In The Mirror first featured on which Michel Jackson album? | [
"Bad (disambiguation)",
"Bad (song)",
"Bad",
"BAD",
"BAD (disambiguation)",
"Badness"
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "was also the top single in iTunes downloads in the US and the UK. It has sold 567,280 copies in the UK as of January 2016. Man in the Mirror \"Man in the Mirror\" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson, written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett and produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. It peaked at number 1 in the United States when released in January 1988 as the fourth single from his seventh solo album, \"Bad\" (1987). It was nominated for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards. The song topped the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 for",
"title": "Man in the Mirror"
},
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"text": "Man in the Mirror \"Man in the Mirror\" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson, written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett and produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. It peaked at number 1 in the United States when released in January 1988 as the fourth single from his seventh solo album, \"Bad\" (1987). It was nominated for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards. The song topped the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 for two weeks. The song peaked at number 21 in the UK Singles Charts in 1988, but in 2009, following the news of Jackson's death, the song",
"title": "Man in the Mirror"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5842285",
"score": 1.1454148,
"text": "the United Kingdom in 1988. However, following Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, \"Man in the Mirror\" re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 11, and the following week the song peaked at number 2, held off by Cascada's \"Evacuate the Dancefloor\". The chart had also contained over 12 Michael Jackson songs in the Top 40. This song had been at top 100 for 15 consecutive weeks in this chart. In Australia the song originally charted at number 39. After the singer's death, the song re-entered the chart and peaked at number 8, much higher than its original release. It",
"title": "Man in the Mirror"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5842282",
"score": 1.1342496,
"text": "the opening song in Jackson's film \"Moonwalker\" with live audio and footage from several live performances of the song during the Bad World Tour. The first segment of \"Moonwalker\" is a live performance of \"Man in the Mirror\" during his Bad Tour in Europe. Clips from Wembley Stadium among others can be seen. It also features a montage of clips of children in Africa, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, kids in Graduation, and other historical figures. Jackson performed a live, extended version of the song at the 1988 Grammy Awards. He also performed the song",
"title": "Man in the Mirror"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5842277",
"score": 1.1248839,
"text": "peaked at number 2, having re-entered the chart at 11 the previous week as his top song on the singles chart. It also became the number 1 single in iTunes downloads in the US and the UK, having sold over 3 million digital copies in the former alone. The song was remixed for the soundtrack of Jackson's tribute tour \"Immortal\". \"Man in the Mirror\" was composed by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett. Jackson added background vocals from Garrett, The Winans and the Andraé Crouch Choir, which gave the song its distinctive sound. The song is said to have been one",
"title": "Man in the Mirror"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5842284",
"score": 1.100536,
"text": "After a closing prayer that incorporated themes from the song, the spotlight remained shining on the lone microphone. The song is also featured as the final number in \"Michael Jackson's This Is It\". Running time: 5 minutes 30 seconds \"Man in the Mirror\" was the 4th consecutive number-one single for Jackson's \"Bad\" in the United States. The single debuted on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 at number 48 on February 6, 1988, and reached number 1 by its 8th week on the chart, on March 26, 1988, where it remained for 2 weeks. The song originally peaked at number 21 in",
"title": "Man in the Mirror"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "those was \"Man in the Mirror\" which reached number two, it was beaten to number one by Cascada with \"Evacuate the Dancefloor\", which knocked the previous week's number one \"Bulletproof\" by La Roux down to number three. In the Album Chart, a total of eleven Michael Jackson albums reached the Top 100, with \"The Essential Michael Jackson\" making it to the top spot. \"Number One's\" and \"King Of Pop\" were also both in the top five and \"Thriller\" and \"Off The Wall\" made the top ten, the highest new entry was La Roux's self titled debut album which reached number",
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"text": "as the ending of the concert during the Bad World Tour's second leg, and regularly during the Dangerous World Tour. Live versions of the song are available on the DVDs \"Live at Wembley July 16, 1988\" and \"\". On July 16, 1996, Jackson also performed \"Man in the Mirror\" at the Royal Concert Brunei for the last time prior to the benefit concert. The instrumental introduction to the song was played at the end of Jackson's memorial service, while his casket was being carried out; followed by the appearance of a spotlight shining on a microphone on an empty stage.",
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"text": "of Jackson's favorite songs. Arranged with a gospel choir, Jackson would use a gospel choir again several years later on his hit \"Will You Be There\". Siedah Garrett also sang Jackson's duet \"I Just Can't Stop Loving You\" in mid-1987. The song is played in the keys of G major and A major at a tempo of 100bpm. The vocal range is Ab3-C6. The single sleeve for \"Man in the Mirror\" contained a dedication to Yoshiaki Ogiwara, a five-year-old boy from Takasaki, Gunma, Japan who was kidnapped for ransom and subsequently murdered in September 1987. The killing was highly traumatic",
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"text": "Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story is a 2004 Canadian-American biographical telefilm produced for VH1. The biopic stars Flex Alexander as Michael Jackson, and follows his rise to fame and subsequent events. The film takes its title from one of Jackson's songs, \"Man in the Mirror\". The film was primarily shot in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The film originally aired on August 6, 2004, receiving a TV rating of TV-PG for language. It is available on DVD, where it is distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment and is rated PG-13 for some",
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Where was the first battle with US involvement in the Korean War? | [
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"text": "combat advisors and aircraft pilots, as well as arms, for the Chinese and North Korean troops. The war started badly for the US and UN. North Korean forces struck massively in the summer of 1950 and nearly drove the outnumbered US and ROK defenders into the sea. However the United Nations intervened, naming Douglas MacArthur commander of its forces, and UN-US-ROK forces held a perimeter around Pusan, gaining time for reinforcement. MacArthur, in a bold but risky move, ordered an amphibious invasion well behind the front lines at Inchon, cutting off and routing the North Koreans and quickly crossing the",
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"text": "and China allied with the Soviet Union in what was to become the first military action of the Cold War. The peace of occupied Japan was shattered in June 1950 when 75,000 North Korean troops with Russian made tanks invaded South Korea, igniting the Korean War. U.S. naval and air forces quickly became involved in combat operations, and it was soon clear that U.S. ground forces would have to be committed. To stem the North Korean advance, the occupation forces in Japan were thus shipped off to South Korea as quickly as possible, but their lack of training and equipment",
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"text": "late July 1950 Task Force Smith was overrun in the city of Taejon. Troops from the Army's 25th Infantry Division were deployed to Taejon to establish a new line and pullout the decimated 24th I.D. This addition of combat troops did not stop the North Korean advance and both American and South Korean troops were pushed further south. The first battle the Americans entered in the Korean War was the Battle of Osan, where about four hundred U.S. soldiers landed in Pusan airport on the first of July. The American troops were sent off to Taejon the next morning where",
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"text": "USAF units and aircraft of the Korean War The Korean War (June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953) was significant in the fact that it was the first war in which the newly independent United States Air Force was involved. It was the first time U.S. jet aircraft entered into battle. Air Force F-86 Sabre jets took control of the skies, as American fighter pilots bested Soviet-built MiG-15 fighters in combat against aircraft, Soviet tactics, and, on some occasions, Soviet pilots of the Soviet 64th Fighter Aviation Corps. World War II-era prop-driven P-51D Mustangs were pressed into the ground-air support",
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"text": "backed South Korea, and China allied with the Soviet Union in what was to become the first military action of the Cold War. Shortly after 75,000 North Korean troops with tanks invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, American air and sea forces were ordered by President Harry S. Truman to give South Korean troops support. The U.S. Eighth Army was ordered to intervene and drive the invaders back across the 38th parallel, the border between the two countries. With only four lightly equipped and poorly trained divisions, Walker began landing troops on the southeast side of the Korean peninsula",
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"text": "the Air Force. The Korean War was a conflict between the United States and its United Nations allies and the communist powers under influence of the Soviet Union (also a UN member nation) and the People's Republic of China (which later also gained UN membership). The principal combatants were North and South Korea. Principal allies of South Korea included the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, although many other nations sent troops under the aegis of the United Nations. Allies of North Korea included the People's Republic of China, which supplied military forces, and the Soviet Union, which supplied",
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"text": "entry into the Korean War in November. Truman administration announced on January 5, 1950, that the United States would not become involved in any dispute about Taiwan Strait, and that he would not intervene in the event of an attack by the PRC, but these plans were quickly undone when the Korean War began on 25 June with the invasion of the US-backed Republic of Korea by the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. A US-led international coalition of troops drove the North Korean forces from the South. In response to the Soviet-backed North Korean invasion of South Korea, the",
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"text": "Order of battle of Australian forces during the Korean War The order of battle of Australian forces during the Korean War consisted of one, and later two infantry battalions, naval forces of one aircraft carrier, two destroyers, and one frigate, as well as air forces consisting of one fighter squadron and one transport squadron. The first forces were committed in July 1950 from units based in Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, with Australia being the first UN member nation after the United States to commit elements from all three services. A total of 17,808 Australians served",
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"text": "in early October 1950. The US X Corps made amphibious landings at Wonsan and Riwon, which had already been captured by South Korean forces advancing by land. The rest of the US Army, along with the South Koreans, and supported by the Commonwealth forces including 3RAR, drove up the western side of Korea and captured Pyongyang on 19 October 1950. By the end of October, the North Korean Army was rapidly disintegrating, and the UN had taken 135,000 prisoners. The UN offensive greatly concerned the Chinese, who worried that the UN forces would not stop at the Yalu River, the",
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"text": "to unify all of Korea under the communist North Korean regime, President Truman engaged U.S. land, air, and sea forces; United States involvement in the war quickly reversed the direction of military advancement into South Korea to military advancement into North Korea; to the point that North Korean forces were being forced against the border with China, which led to the involvement of hundreds of thousands of communist Chinese troops heavily assaulting U.S. and South Korean forces. Acting on a campaign pledge made during his United States presidential election campaign, Eisenhower visited Korea on December 2, 1952 to assess to",
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On which Caribbean island did Princess Diana spend he first Christmas after her divorce was announced? | [
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"text": "birthday present. She lived there with three flatmates until 25 February 1981. Lady Diana first met Charles, Prince of Wales, the Queen's eldest son and heir apparent, when she was 16 in November 1977. He was then dating her older sister, Lady Sarah. They were guests at a country weekend during the summer of 1980 when she watched him play polo and he took a serious interest in Diana as a potential bride. The relationship progressed when he invited her aboard the royal yacht \"Britannia\" for a sailing weekend to Cowes. This was followed by an invitation to Balmoral (the",
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"text": "was backed by the Prime Minister and by senior Privy Counsellors, and, according to the BBC, was decided after two weeks of talks. Charles formally agreed to the divorce in a written statement soon after. In February 1996, the Princess announced her agreement after negotiations with the Prince and representatives of the Queen, irritating Buckingham Palace by issuing her own announcement of the divorce agreement and its terms. In July 1996, the couple agreed on the terms of their divorce. This followed shortly after the Princess's accusation that the Prince's personal assistant Tiggy Legge-Bourke had aborted the Prince's child, after",
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"text": "it be done with \"a touch of humour, gentleness and understanding\". Two days later, the Prime Minister, John Major, announced reforms to the royal finances planned since the previous year, including the Queen paying income tax from 1993 onwards, and a reduction in the civil list. In December, Prince Charles and his wife, Diana, formally separated. The year ended with a lawsuit as the Queen sued \"The Sun\" newspaper for breach of copyright when it published the text of her annual Christmas message two days before it was broadcast. The newspaper was forced to pay her legal fees and donated",
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"text": "staircase at Sandringham, and the royal gynaecologist Sir George Pinker was summoned from London. He found that although she had suffered severe bruising, the foetus was uninjured. Diana later confessed that she had intentionally thrown herself down the stairs as she was feeling \"so inadequate\". In February 1982, pictures of a pregnant Diana in bikini while holidaying was published in the media. The Queen subsequently released a statement and called it \"the blackest day in the history of British journalism.\" On 21 June 1982, the Princess gave birth to the couple's first son, Prince William. Amidst some media criticism, she",
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"text": "her sons on a holiday to the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, but security officials had prevented it. After deciding against a trip to Thailand, she accepted Fayed's invitation to join his family in the south of France, where his compound and large security detail would not cause concern to the Royal Protection squad. Mohamed Al-Fayed bought the \"Jonikal\", a 60-metre multimillion-pound yacht on which to entertain Diana and her sons. On 31 August 1997, Diana was killed in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris. The crash also resulted in the deaths of her",
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"text": "his disappointment at both Charles's and her extra-marital affairs, and asking her to examine both his and her behaviour from the other's point of view. She found the letters hard to take, but nevertheless she appreciated that he was acting with good intent. Charles and Diana separated and later divorced. A year after the divorce, Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997. At the time, the Duke was on holiday at Balmoral with the extended royal family. In their grief, Diana's two sons, Princes William and Harry, wanted to attend church and so their",
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"text": "years, is named after him. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest bodybuilders of all-time as well as that sport's most charismatic ambassador. Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon. His breakthrough film was the sword-and-sorcery epic \"Conan the Barbarian\" in 1982, a box-office hit that resulted in a sequel. In 1984, he appeared in the title role of James Cameron's critically and commercially successful science-fiction thriller film \"The Terminator\". He subsequently reprised the Terminator character in most of the franchise's later installments, \"\" (1991), \"\" (2003), and \"Terminator Genisys\" (2015). He has appeared",
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"text": "total of seven times. The immigration law firm Siskind & Susser has stated that Schwarzenegger may have been an illegal immigrant at some point in the late 1960s or early 1970s because of violations in the terms of his visa. \"LA Weekly\" would later say in 2002 that Schwarzenegger is the most famous immigrant in America, who \"overcame a thick Austrian accent and transcended the unlikely background of bodybuilding to become the biggest movie star in the world in the 1990s\". In 1977, Schwarzenegger's autobiography/weight-training guide \"Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder\" became a huge success. In 1977 he posed",
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"text": "in his bodybuilding days, \"Arnie\" during his acting career, and \"The Governator\" (a portmanteau of \"Governor\" and \"Terminator\") during his political career. Schwarzenegger married Maria Shriver, a niece of the 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy and daughter of the 1972 Democratic vice presidential candidate and former Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, in 1986. They separated in 2011 after he admitted to having fathered a child with another woman in 1997. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, in Thal, Styria, to Aurelia (\"née\" Jadrny) and Gustav Schwarzenegger. His father was the local chief of police and had",
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"text": "served in World War II as a \"Hauptfeldwebel\" after voluntarily joining the Nazi Party in 1938, was wounded during the battle of Stalingrad, but was discharged in 1943 following a bout of malaria. He married Schwarzenegger's mother on October 20, 1945; he was 38 and she was 23. According to Schwarzenegger, his parents were very strict: \"Back then in Austria it was a very different world ... if we did something bad or we disobeyed our parents, the rod was not spared.\" He grew up in a Catholic family who attended Mass every Sunday. Gustav had a preference for his",
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"text": "day. During Schwarzenegger's early years in bodybuilding, he also competed in several Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting contests. Schwarzenegger won two weightlifting contests in 1964 and 1965, as well as two powerlifting contests in 1966 and 1968. In 1967, Schwarzenegger won the Munich stone-lifting contest, in which a stone weighing 508 German pounds (254 kg/560 lbs.) is lifted between the legs while standing on two footrests. Schwarzenegger's goal was to become the greatest bodybuilder in the world, which meant becoming Mr. Olympia. His first attempt was in 1969, when he lost to three-time champion Sergio Oliva. However, Schwarzenegger came back in",
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"text": "election. Gustav Schwarzenegger Gustav Schwarzenegger (17 August 1907 – 13 December 1972) was an Austrian police chief (\"Gendarmeriekommandant\"), postal inspector and a military police officer. He was the father of Hollywood star and former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gustav Schwarzenegger was born in Austria-Hungary, the son of Cecelia (née Hinterleitner, 1878-1968) and Karl Schwarzenegger. He was a sportsman and loved music. According to documents obtained in 2003 from the Austrian State Archives by the \"Los Angeles Times\", which was after the expiration of a 30-year seal of his records under Austrian privacy law, Gustav Schwarzenegger voluntarily applied to join",
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Which musical featured the song Thank Heaven for Little Girls? | [
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"text": "French accent, Peter Sellers. In the \"Happy Days\" Season 5 episode \"Be My Valentine\" (February 14, 1978), a then-18-year-old Scott Baio sang it as part of a series of musical numbers commemorating Valentine's Day. In the 1997 film \"Wag the Dog\", the song performed by Chevalier is used as backdrop for an election campaign ad. Thank Heaven for Little Girls \"Thank Heaven for Little Girls\" is a 1957 song written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and associated with its original performer, Maurice Chevalier. It opened and closed the 1958 film \"Gigi\". Alfred Drake performed the song in the",
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"text": "tunes in American cinema. In the mid-1990s, a contemporary take on the song was recorded by the Seattle-based alternative band Ruby for a Mountain Dew commercial in the United States. This recording was later repurposed by PepsiCo for their Pepsi Max brand in the UK. Bing Crosby recorded the song for his radio show in 1960 and it was subsequently released on the CD \"Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around...\" (2014). It has also been performed by Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Gérard Depardieu, Merle Haggard, Hugh Hefner, The King Brothers, Ed McMahon, and in his faux",
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"text": "(Chiquita Hart), and Allen Jenkins (Harry Hart). The director was Hassard Short, choreographer Jack Cole, costumes were by Billy Livingston and the set design was by Howard Bay. A national tour starred Joan Blondell who would go on to marry producer Mike Todd. The musical premiered in the West End at the Coliseum Theatre on March 30, 1944 and closed on May 20, 1944. It starred Evelyn Dall (Blossom), Daphne Barker (Chiquita), Bobby Wright (Harry), Leigh Stafford (Rocky) and Jack Billings (Laddie). The most recent production of the show opened its curtains in Winona Lake, Indiana in May 2013 and",
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"text": "Broadway\" wrote: A Little Princess (Lippa musical) A Little Princess, The Musical is a musical with music by Andrew Lippa and book and lyrics by Brian Crawley, based on the 1905 children's novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Produced by TheatreWorks, the musical premiered at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View, California, on August 28, 2004, following previews from August 25. This production was directed by Susan Schulman with a cast that starred MacKenzie Mauzy as Sara Crewe and Will Chase as Captain Crewe. Although \"A Little Princess\" was labeled as \"Broadway-bound\",",
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"text": "Thank Heaven for Little Girls (album) Thank Heaven for Little Girls is an album by Dwarves released via Sub Pop in 1991. Lyricism of \"Thank Heaven for Little Girls\" ranges from the macabre deaths of young ladies of the night in \"Blag the Ripper\" (inspired by the historical Jack the Ripper), to befriending Satan in \"Satan,\" and to general selfishness in \"Anybody But Me.\" The song title of \"Dairy Queen\" is inspired by being stranded at a local Dairy Queen restaurant in Missouri. David Sprague of \"Trouser Press\" described the album as a \"water-treading\" release, and noted the band's shift",
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"text": "Fair Lady\" and \"Camelot\". \"Gigi\" was a box-office and critical success which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. From it came several hit songs, including \"Thank Heaven For Little Girls\", \"I Remember It Well\", the \"Waltz at Maxim's\", and the Oscar-winning title song. The film was the last MGM musical to win a Best Picture Oscar, an honor that had previously gone to \"The Broadway Melody\" (1929), \"The Great Ziegfeld\" (1936), and \"An American in Paris\" (1951). The very last musical film produced by the \"Freed Unit\" was an adaptation of the Broadway musical \"Bells Are Ringing\" (1960) with",
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"text": "A Little Princess (Lippa musical) A Little Princess, The Musical is a musical with music by Andrew Lippa and book and lyrics by Brian Crawley, based on the 1905 children's novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Produced by TheatreWorks, the musical premiered at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View, California, on August 28, 2004, following previews from August 25. This production was directed by Susan Schulman with a cast that starred MacKenzie Mauzy as Sara Crewe and Will Chase as Captain Crewe. Although \"A Little Princess\" was labeled as \"Broadway-bound\", the musical",
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"text": "Poor Little Ritz Girl The production was staged by Ned Wayburn, who also did the lighting design. It was choreographed by David Bennett, scenic design by H. Robert Law, and costume design by Cora MacGeachy, Anna Spencer and Marie Cook. The musical director was Pierce de Reeder. It ran for 93 performances, closing on October 16, 1920. The cast headlined Charles Purcell and Andrew Tombes, and included Eugenie Blair, Ruth Hale, Eleanor Griffith, Lulu McConnell, Aileen Poe, and Florence Webber. The plot revolves around Annie “Sweetie” Farrell (Florence Webber), an honest but poor chorus girl who rented a furnished apartment",
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"text": "certain parts of the show. The Dutch version, produced by Stage Entertainment, officially opened on June 16, 2012 at the Nieuwe Luxor Theater in Rotterdam and after touring The Netherlands, it performed a whole season at the Beatrix Theater in Utrecht, from September 5, 2012 to July 7, 2013, playing more than 400 performances. This is the first production of the revised version of the musical, directed by Glen Casale and featuring new set design by Bob Crowley. New songs (\"Daddy's Little Angel\") were written, and some of the songs were omitted (\"Sweet Child\" Reprise, \"I Want The Good Times",
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"text": "scrap between 1974 and 1975. Portions of the hull that were not salvaged were left at the bottom of the bay. The keel and boilers remained at the bottom of the harbour and the area was marked as \"Foul\" on local sea charts warning ships not to try to anchor there. It is estimated that around 40–50% of the wreck was still on the seabed. In the late 1990s, the final remains of the wreck were buried during land reclamation for the construction of Container Terminal 9. Position of the wreck: . After the fire, Tung had one of the",
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"text": "were convinced that they could sail the ship there using just the aft engines and boilers. The planned several week trip turned into months as the crew battled with boiler issues and even a ship fire, a unplanned lengthy mid voyage stop over allowed the new owners to fly spare parts out to the ship to carry out repairs before resuming the course to Hong Kong Harbour. Near the completion of the £5 million conversion, the vessel caught fire on 9 January 1972. There is some suspicion that the fires were set deliberately, as several blazes broke out simultaneously throughout",
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"text": "on Queen's Island was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe in April and May 1941 causing considerable damage to the shipbuilding facilities and destroying the aircraft factory. With the rise of the jet-powered airliner in the late 1950s, the demand for ocean liners declined. This, coupled with competition from Japan, led to difficulties for the British shipbuilding industry. The last liner that the company launched was MV \"Arlanza\" for Royal Mail Line in 1960, whilst the last liner completed was SS \"Canberra\" for P&O in 1961. In the 1960s, notable achievements for the yard included the tanker \"Myrina\", which was the",
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"text": "was sold to the city of Long Beach, California. \"Queen Elizabeth\" was sold to a succession of buyers, most of whom had unsuccessful plans for her. Finally \"Queen Elizabeth\" was sold to Hong Kong businessman Tung Chao Yung, who intended to convert her into a floating university cruise ship called Seawise University. In 1972, while undergoing refurbishment in Hong Kong harbour, fire broke out aboard under unexplained circumstances and the ship was capsized by the water used to fight the fire. In 1973, the wreck was deemed an obstruction to shipping in the area, and so was partially scrapped where",
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"text": "December's judicial review. In September 2004, legislator Law Chi-kwong took a swim in Victoria Harbour bearing a plaque saying \"Goodbye to the Queen\", to protest the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation, particularly the loss of Queen's Pier. Further public furore erupted in late 2006 when it was revealed the plans would involve the destruction of two notable 50-year-old landmarks at the waterfront, namely the Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier and Queen's Pier. Both have become potent symbols for environmentalists, who have staged protests and rallies in the light of strong public opinion to preserve the collective memory of Hong Kong. The",
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"text": "fleet under Queen Victoria. The subject of pollution came to the fore in the 1970s with the rapid growth of the manufacturing sector. The water club races were stopped in 1973 due to pollution in the harbour, a year after the RMS \"Queen Elizabeth\" burned and capsized there. Studies also showed excessive nitrogen input from discharges of the Pearl River Delta into the harbour for decades. After completion of the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation Feasibility Study in 1989, the Land Development Policy Committee endorsed a concept for gradual implementation of this additional reclamation. It consists of three district development",
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"text": "the 'Ryde' to the 'Ryde Queen' by Miss Carolyn Moore, the reigning Miss Great Britain. Her new interior enabled her to accommodate 35 guests in luxurious cabins and 100 people in her restaurant. She had an outside upper-deck bar, a quarter-deck dance floor and a lower deck 'Boiler' lounge bar with a maple dance floor. In August 1977, she was badly damaged by a mystery fire, which led to her temporary closure. However, she re-opened and carried on until 1989, when her deteriorating condition forced her to close for the last time. Since that time, she has continued to worsen",
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"text": "charred remnants of her last ensign were cut from the flag pole and framed in 1972, and still adorn the wall of the officers' mess of marine police HQ in Hong Kong. Parker Pen Company produced a special edition of 5,000 pens made from material recovered from the wreck in a presentation box, today highly collectible. Following the demise of \"Queen Elizabeth\", the largest passenger ship in active service became the 66,343 GT , which was longer but with less tonnage than the \"ex\" Cunarder. In 1959, the ship made an appearance in the British satirical Eastmancolor comedy film \"The",
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"text": "a heat recovery system (to utilise heat expelled by the engines) were fitted, which halved the fuel consumption. With this new propulsion system, \"QE2\" was expected to serve another 20 years with Cunard. The passenger accommodation was also modernised. The refurbishment cost over ₤100 million. On 7 August 1992, the underside of the hull was extensively damaged when she ran aground south of Cuttyhunk Island near Martha's Vineyard, while returning from a five-day cruise to Halifax, Nova Scotia along the east coast of the United States and Canada. A combination of her speed, an uncharted shoal and underestimating the increase",
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"text": "Ryde remains, which is in a derelict state. The marina's first paddle steamer was the PS Medway Queen, which arrived on 28 September 1965, ready to be converted into the clubhouse, restaurant and nightclub for the new marina which was due to open the following year. The Medway Queen Club, as it was going to be called, was to be the centre-piece of the Medway Queen Marina. Having been due to be scrapped before this, the Daily Mail set up a campaign to save her and she was duly rescued by the Ridetts, together with various preservation trusts, who paid",
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"text": "he is visiting them. \"Étude in Black\" (1972) marked the first appearance of the lieutenant's basset hound, named \"Dog\". \"Dog\" came to be an occasional regular character in the films. Columbo considered names like \"Fido\", \"Munch\" and \"Beethoven\" but ultimately settled on \"Dog\". In \"Sex and the Married Detective\", Columbo is put on the spot when he is asked to play the tuba. Reluctantly he agrees, only to demonstrate great proficiency. He subsequently claimed that at school, the tuba was the only instrument left. In several episodes, Columbo is seen eating a breakfast of a boiled egg, usually while investigating",
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"text": "her that he couldn't sleep at night if he had doubts, because he frequently watched \"Columbo\" as a child. In Harry Turtledove's sf/alternate history novel Homeward Bound a non-human detective, Inspector Garanpo, is a recognizable tribute to Columbo. A statue of Lieutenant Columbo and his dog was unveiled in 2014 on Miksa Falk Street in Budapest, Hungary. According to Antal Rogán, then-district mayor of the city, Peter Falk may have been related to Hungarian writer and politician Miksa Falk, although there is no evidence yet to prove it. A podcast about \"Columbo\" was launched in 2014, primarily considering episodes of",
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"text": "London, Columbo remarks to Scotland Yard officers that his \"father was an Elk until my mother stopped him\" (\"Dagger of the Mind\"). Columbo frequently mentions his wife. During the first few seasons of the series it was widely believed in Hollywood that the character actually had no wife. However, in \"A Stitch in Crime\" (1972) Columbo tells only his fellow officers, when he first arrives on the scene, that his wife has some kind of flu. He explains he had been up all night caring for her and also has the flu as a result. In the episode \"Troubled Waters\"",
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"text": "both sides.The Columbo household included his grandfather, parents, five brothers (one named George and another named Fred), and a sister, Rose. His father wore glasses and did the cooking when his mother was in the hospital having another baby. His grandfather \"was a tailgunner on a beer truck during Prohibition\" and let him stomp the grapes when they made wine in the cellar. His father, who never earned more than $5,000 a year and bought only one new car in his life, taught Columbo how to play pool, at which he excels in \"How to Dial a Murder\". While visiting",
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"text": "the scene of the crime or even while interviewing a suspect. He generally produces the egg from his raincoat pocket, before seeking a hard surface upon which to break its shell; in \"A Stitch in Crime\" he uses a piece of evidence found at the murder scene. He prefers to eat the egg salted, stating in \"Lovely but Lethal\" that he usually carries a shaker of salt in his pocket. Columbo's first name is never explicitly mentioned during the series. Even the opening credits just simply read, \"Peter Falk as Columbo\". When asked, Columbo always emphatically answers \"Lieutenant\". In the",
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"text": "church, volunteering at the hospital, watching her sister's children and walking the dog five times a day. He mentions that she has a sister named Ruth and later while talking with his wife on the phone he refers also to her having another sister, Rita. This episode teases the audience as to whether or not Mrs. Columbo has actually been murdered and by featuring prominently displayed photographs of Mrs. Columbo, apparently finally disclosing her appearance to viewers. However, the photos are revealed to be of one of his wife's sisters, as he informs the killer at the end of the",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1883030",
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"text": "reactions to Columbo's antics more genuine. Some of the episodes established that Columbo carried a Colt snub-nosed revolver in his raincoat, which he pulled in rare episodes, and would occasionally remark that his wife, 'the Mrs.', would not allow him to buy a new car because it 'wasn't necessary', portraying the detective throughout the series as permanently driving an aged and battered 1959 Peugeot 403 Cabriolet. A few years prior to his death, Falk had expressed interest in returning to the role. In 2007, he claimed he had chosen a script for one last Columbo episode, \"Columbo: Hear No Evil\".",
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"text": "always wanted to be, and he will remain there. The attempts to remove him from cases never work because Columbo \"is something of a legend\", and thus has a powerful position with the police force. In fact, in Falk's pilot episode, \"Prescription Murder\", he mentions to a suspected accessory that somebody has attempted to have him removed from the case, but he says: Columbo was born and raised in New York City in a neighborhood near Chinatown. In the episode \"Murder Under Glass\", he says that he ate more egg rolls than cannelloni during his childhood. He is Italian on",
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"text": "actually a \"copyright trap\" – a deliberately false statement intended to reveal subsequent copyright infringement, the basis for his later action against the publishers of the board game \"Trivial Pursuit\". After serving in the United States army during the Korean War (\"mostly KP\", as he says), Columbo joined the New York City Police Department and was assigned to the 12th precinct. He trained under Sergeant Gilhooley, a genial Irishman who mentored him and taught him a great deal about police work. Columbo reminisces about Gilhooley and mentions him often. Columbo moved to Los Angeles in 1958, at the behest of",
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"text": "exaggerated or otherwise inaccurate, particularly those concerning his family life. Columbo's boyhood hero was Joe DiMaggio, and he liked gangster pictures. Columbo broke street lamps and played too much pinball (he expressed a wish to have a pinball machine at home). The trick of putting a potato in a car exhaust—which purportedly prevents the car from starting without causing permanent damage—served well on one of his cases. He jokes that he became a cop in part to make up for these juvenile pranks. In \"The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case\", in a conversation with the suspect, Columbo revealed: \"All",
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What combined with Metro Pictures and Goldwyn Pictures to form MGM? | [
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"text": "MGM was acquired on September 23, 2004, by a partnership consisting of Sony Corporation of America, Comcast, Texas Pacific Group (now TPG Capital, L.P.), Providence Equity Partners, and other investors. In 1924, movie theater magnate Marcus Loew had a problem. He had bought Metro Pictures Corporation in 1919 for a steady supply of films for his large Loew's Theatres chain. With Loew's lackluster assortment of Metro films, Loew purchased Goldwyn Pictures in 1924 to improve the quality. However, these purchases created a need for someone to oversee his new Hollywood operations, since longtime assistant Nicholas Schenck was needed in New",
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"text": "output. This management-by-committee resulted in MGM losing its momentum, developing few new stars and relying on the safety of sequels and bland material. (Dorothy Parker memorably referred to it as \"Metro-Goldwyn-Merde.\") Production values remained high, and even \"B\" pictures carried a polish and gloss that made them expensive to mount. After 1940, production was cut from 50 pictures a year to a more manageable 25 features per year. During this time, MGM released very successful musicals with players such as Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Frank Sinatra. Audiences began drifting to television in the late 1940s. MGM found",
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"text": "a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company was spun out in 1979, with the studio's then owner Kirk Kerkorian maintaining a large share, but it ended all affiliation with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1986. MGM was the last studio to convert to sound pictures, but in spite of this fact, from the end of the silent film era through the late 1950s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the dominant motion picture studio in Hollywood. Always slow to respond to the changing legal, economic, and demographic nature of the motion picture industry during the 1950s and 1960s, and although at times its films did well at the",
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"text": "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM; common metonym: the Lion or Leo) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs. One of the world's oldest film studios, MGM's headquarters are located at 245 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, California. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. In 1971, it was announced that MGM would merge with 20th Century Fox, a plan which never came into fruition. Over the next 39 years, the",
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"text": "studio was bought and sold at various points in its history until, on November 3, 2010, MGM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. MGM emerged from bankruptcy on December 20, 2010, at which time the executives of Spyglass Entertainment, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, became co-chairmen and co-CEOs of the holding company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. As of 2017, MGM co-produces, co-finances, and co-distributes a majority of its films with Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. MGM Resorts International, a Las Vegas-based hotel and casino company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol \"MGM\", was created in 1973 as",
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"text": "of the last four films to bear the MGM name. However, some stated that the company might continue as a label for new James Bond productions, as well as other movie properties culled from the MGM library. MGM Holdings, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 160 affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 3, 2010, with a prepackaged plan for exiting bankruptcy which led to MGM's creditors taking over the company. On December 20, 2010, MGM executives announced that the studio had emerged from bankruptcy. Spyglass Entertainment executives Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum became co-Chairs and co-CEOs of the studio. On January 4,",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "694701",
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"text": "York headquarters to oversee the 150 theaters. Approached by Louis B. Mayer, Loew addressed the situation by buying Louis B. Mayer Pictures on April 17, 1924. Mayer became head of the renamed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with Irving Thalberg as head of production. MGM produced more than 100 feature films in its first two years. In 1925, MGM released the extravagant and successful \"Ben-Hur\", taking a $4.7 million profit that year, its first full year. When Samuel Goldwyn left he sued over the use of his name. Marcus Loew died in 1927, and control of Loew's passed to Nicholas Schenck. In 1929, William",
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"text": "status. The MGM Recording Studios were sold in 1975. In 1979, Kerkorian declared that MGM was now primarily a hotel company. The company hit a symbolic low point in 1980 when David Begelman, earlier let go by Columbia following the discovery of his acts of forgery and embezzlement, was installed as MGM's President and CEO. In 1980, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. split its production and casino units into separate companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co. and MGM Grand Hotels, Inc. The rise of ancillary markets was enough to allow MGM Film Co. to increase production to 10-15 films a year compared to three to",
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"text": "acquired. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the studio in 1981 for a reported $350 million. On September 22, 2014, MGM acquired a controlling interest in Mark Burnett and Roma Downey's entertainment companies One Three Media and Lightworkers Media, then merged them to revive United Artists' TV production unit as United Artists Media Group (UAMG). However, on December 14 of the following year, MGM wholly acquired UAMG and folded it into MGM Television. UA was revived yet again in 2018. Pickford, Chaplin, Fairbanks, and Griffith incorporated UA as a joint venture on February 5, 1919. Each held a 25 percent stake in the preferred",
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"text": "box office, the studio lost significant amounts of money throughout the 1960s. In 1966, MGM was sold to Canadian investor Edgar Bronfman Sr., whose son Edgar Jr. would later buy Universal Studios. Three years later, an increasingly unprofitable MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, who slashed staff and production costs, forced the studio to produce low-budget fare, and then shut down theatrical distribution in 1973. The studio continued to produce five to six films a year that were released through other studios, mostly United Artists. Kerkorian did, however, commit to increased production and an expanded film library when he bought",
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Which Oscar-winning actress was born on exactly the same day as actress Lindsay Wagner? | [
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"text": "a lengthy acting career in a variety of film and television productions to the present day. Wagner was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Marilyn Louise ( Thrasher) and William Nowels Wagner. When she was seven years old, Wagner's parents divorced and her mother moved with her to the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock, near Pasadena. Another relocation with her mother and stepfather, Ted Ball, brought Wagner to Portland, Oregon, where she attended David Douglas High School and appeared in a number of school plays. Wagner attended the University of Oregon for part of her freshman",
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"text": "Lindsay Wagner Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949) is an American film and television actress, model, author, singer, acting coach, and adjunct professor. Wagner is best known for her leading role in the American science-fiction television series \"The Bionic Woman\" (1976–1978), in which she portrayed action character Jaime Sommers. She first played this role on the hit series \"The Six Million Dollar Man\". The character became a popular-culture icon of the 1970s. For this role, Wagner won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role in 1977. Wagner began acting professionally in 1971, and has maintained",
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"text": "Natasha Gregson Wagner Natasha Gregson Wagner (born September 29, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, the daughter of film producer Richard Gregson and actress Natalie Wood. Gregson Wagner is the daughter of American actress Natalie Wood (1938–1981) and British producer Richard Gregson (born 1930). Her godmother was actress Ruth Gordon. Her parents separated when she was ten months old, and later divorced. Her mother remarried actor Robert Wagner in 1972, and together they had a daughter, Courtney Wagner (born 1974). Her aunt is Lana Wood. On November 29, 1981, Natalie Wood drowned near Santa Catalina Island. After",
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"text": "to Wagner. She had one daughter with Gregson, actress Natasha Gregson Wagner. Wood gave birth to Courtney Wagner during her second marriage to Wagner. Wood starred in several television productions, including a remake of the film \"From Here to Eternity\" (1979), which earned her a Golden Globe Award. During her career, her films represented a \"coming of age\" for both her and Hollywood films in general. Wood drowned on November 29, 1981, at the age of 43; the events surrounding her death have been controversial due to conflicting witness statements, prompting the LASD to declare the cause of her death",
"title": "Natalie Wood"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2671539",
"score": 0.96517515,
"text": "also claimed a four-year romantic relationship with Barbara Stanwyck after they acted together in the movie \"Titanic\" (1953). According to Wagner, because of the age difference – he was 22, she was 45 – they kept the affair secret in order to avoid damage to their careers. On December 28, 1957, the 27-year-old Wagner married 19-year-old actress Natalie Wood. They separated in June 1961 and divorced on April 27, 1962. While working on location in Europe, Wagner reconnected with an old friend, actress Marion Marshall. In the spring of 1963, after a brief courtship, Wagner, Marshall, and her two children",
"title": "Robert Wagner"
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"text": "stuntman Henry Kingi, whom she met on the set of \"The Bionic Woman.\" Wagner had two sons with Kingi, Dorian (b. 1982) and Alex (b. 1986), but the couple divorced in 1984. Wagner then married TV producer Lawrence Mortorff in 1990, but they, too, divorced a few years later. Lindsay Wagner Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949) is an American film and television actress, model, author, singer, acting coach, and adjunct professor. Wagner is best known for her leading role in the American science-fiction television series \"The Bionic Woman\" (1976–1978), in which she portrayed action character Jaime Sommers. She",
"title": "Lindsay Wagner"
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"text": "Chamber of Commerce presented Wagner with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, category 'Film', located at the north side of the 6700 block of Hollywood Boulevard. In 2012, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to Wagner. Prior to being married, Wagner lived with Captain Daniel M. Yoder (USAF) until he went to Vietnam. She has been married four times and divorced four times. From 1971 to 1973, she was married to music publisher Allan Rider. From 1976 to 1979, she was married to actor Michael Brandon. In 1981, she married",
"title": "Lindsay Wagner"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2671541",
"score": 0.94817245,
"text": "birth to her son Riley John Wagner-Lewis. On November 29, 1981, Wood drowned near their yacht \"Splendour\" while it was moored near Catalina Island; also on board were Wagner; Christopher Walken, who was co-starring with her in the motion picture \"Brainstorm\"; and Dennis Davern, the \"Splendour\"s captain. Wagner subsequently became the legal guardian of Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson, then 11. He became estranged from his former sister-in-law, Lana Wood. Wagner and actress Jill St. John began a relationship in February 1982. After eight years together, they married on May 26, 1990. In 1999, an altercation occurred at a \"Vanity Fair\"",
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"text": "in April 1972. In early 1972, Wood resumed her relationship with Wagner. The couple remarried on July 16, 1972, five months after reconciling and three months after she divorced Gregson. Their daughter, Courtney Wagner, was born in 1974. Wood's sister, Lana Wood, recalls this period: They remained married until Wood's death seven years later on November 29, 1981, at age 43. During the making of the film \"Brainstorm\", Wood drowned while on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina Island on board Wagner's yacht, \"Splendour\". Many of the circumstances surrounding her drowning are unknown; it was never determined how she",
"title": "Natalie Wood"
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"text": "Evans, son of Ali MacGraw and Robert Evans. She was married to screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis from October 2003 to January 2008. On May 30, 2012, Gregson Wagner and actor Barry Watson had a daughter, Clover Clementyne Watson. The couple have since married. Natasha Gregson Wagner Natasha Gregson Wagner (born September 29, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, the daughter of film producer Richard Gregson and actress Natalie Wood. Gregson Wagner is the daughter of American actress Natalie Wood (1938–1981) and British producer Richard Gregson (born 1930). Her godmother was actress Ruth Gordon. Her parents separated when she",
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Which Amendment to the Constitution brought in prohibition in 1920? | [
"18",
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"eighteen"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "the Constitution had ushered in a period known as Prohibition, during which the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal. Passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 was the crowning achievement of the temperance movement, but it soon proved highly unpopular. Crime rates soared under Prohibition as gangsters, such as Chicago's Al Capone, became rich from a profitable, often violent black market for alcohol. The federal government was incapable of stemming the tide: enforcement of the Volstead Act proved to be a nearly impossible task and corruption was rife among law enforcement agencies. In 1932, wealthy industrialist John",
"title": "Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13258824",
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"text": "larger process of Americanization taking place during the same time period. Two other amendments to the Constitution were championed by dry crusaders to help their cause. One was granted in the Sixteenth Amendment (1913), which replaced alcohol taxes that funded the federal government with a federal income tax. The other was women's suffrage, which was granted after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920; since women tended to support prohibition, temperance organizations tended to support women's suffrage. In the presidential election of 1916, the Democratic incumbent, Woodrow Wilson, and the Republican candidate, Charles Evans Hughes, ignored the prohibition issue,",
"title": "Prohibition in the United States"
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"score": 1.1410837,
"text": "1933. Bootlegging was also found to be a gateway crime for many gangs, who would then expand operations into crimes such as prostitution, gambling rackets, narcotics, loan-sharking, extortion and labor rackets, thus causing problems to persist long after the amendment was repealed. Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of \"intoxicating liquors\" in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and was ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"score": 1.1401348,
"text": "1, 1927, new legislation authorized each province to decide whether to continue the enforced bans on alcohol. Like most provinces in Canada, Ontario chose to continue to ban the production and sale of alcohol. This decision led to an upswing in organized crime activity along the Detroit-Windsor borders. In January 16, 1919, the American Government passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It had three sections: Congressman Andrew John Volstead was one of the main promoters of the Eighteenth Amendment. The Volstead Act of 1920 defined intoxicating liquor as any liquor containing more than 0.5% alcohol. It permitted",
"title": "Rum-running in Windsor, Ontario"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "428931",
"score": 1.1399946,
"text": "laid the ground work of prohibition, defining the procedures for banning the distribution of alcohol including their production and distribution. Volstead had once before introduced an early version of the law to congress. It was first brought to the floor on May 27, 1919 meeting heavy resistance from Democrat senators, introducing instead what was called the \"wet law\", which was an attempt to end the wartime prohibition laws put into affect much earlier. The debate of prohibition would continue to be fueled even longer in congress, for that entire session the House would be divided among what would be known",
"title": "Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5801649",
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"text": "life. During 1919, the United States Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, banning the sale of liquor, and the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. At the passage of each amendment, Goodrich called a special one-day legislative session to have the amendments ratified by the state. When he signed the 18th Amendment into law, Indiana became the final state needed to add it to the federal constitution, beginning national prohibition. Among Goodrich's other accomplishments in office were the creation of a state highway commission, creation of a department of",
"title": "James P. Goodrich"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "463389",
"score": 1.1250297,
"text": "combination of the temperance movement, hatred of everything German (including beer and saloons), and activism by churches and women led to ratification of an amendment to achieve Prohibition in the United States. A Constitutional amendment passed both houses in December 1917 by 2/3 votes. By January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment had been ratified by 36 of the 48 states it needed. On October 28, 1919, Congress passed enabling legislation, the National Prohibition Act (informally known as the Volstead Act), to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. Wilson felt Prohibition was unenforceable, but his veto of the Volstead Act was overridden by",
"title": "Woodrow Wilson"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13258826",
"score": 1.1223701,
"text": "would allow more resources—especially grain that would otherwise be used to make alcohol—to be devoted to the war effort. While wartime prohibition was a spark for the movement, World War I ended before nationwide Prohibition was enacted. A resolution calling for a Constitutional amendment to accomplish nationwide Prohibition was introduced in Congress and passed by both houses in December 1917. By January 16, 1919, the Amendment had been ratified by 36 of the 48 states, making it law. Eventually, only two states—Connecticut and Rhode Island—opted out of ratifying it. On October 28, 1919, Congress passed enabling legislation, known as the",
"title": "Prohibition in the United States"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13258832",
"score": 1.120163,
"text": "Amendment went into effect in January 1920, many of the upper classes stockpiled alcohol for legal home consumption after Prohibition began. They bought the inventories of liquor retailers and wholesalers, emptying out their warehouses, saloons, and club storerooms. President Woodrow Wilson moved his own supply of alcoholic beverages to his Washington residence after his term of office ended. His successor, Warren G. Harding, relocated his own large supply into the White House after inauguration. After the Eighteenth Amendment became law the United States embraced bootlegging. In just the first six months of 1920 alone, the federal government opened 7,291 cases",
"title": "Prohibition in the United States"
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"id": "9013126",
"score": 1.1195056,
"text": "but Wilson played a minor role in its passage. A combination of the temperance movement, hatred of everything German (including beer and saloons), and activism by churches and women led to ratification of an amendment to achieve Prohibition in the United States. A Constitutional amendment passed both houses in December 1917 by 2/3 votes. By January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment had been ratified by 36 of the 48 states it needed. On October 28, 1919, Congress passed enabling legislation, the Volstead Act, to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. Wilson felt Prohibition was unenforceable, but his veto of the Volstead Act",
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In Richard Nixon's famous Checkers speech, who or what was Checkers? | [
"His daughter's dog"
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"text": "outpouring of public support. A huge majority of the millions of telegrams and phone calls received by the RNC and other political offices supported Nixon. He was retained on the ticket, which then swept to victory weeks later in November 1952. The Checkers speech was an early example of a politician using television to appeal directly to the electorate, but has since sometimes been mocked or denigrated. \"Checkers speech\" has come more generally to mean any emotional speech by a politician. In 1950, California Congressman Richard Nixon was elected to the Senate, defeating Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas. With the six-year",
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"text": "Checkers speech The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States, California Senator Richard Nixon. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses. With his place on the Republican ticket in doubt, he flew to Los Angeles and delivered a half-hour television address in which he defended himself, attacked his opponents, and urged the audience to contact the Republican National Committee (RNC) to tell it whether he should remain on the",
"title": "Checkers speech"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"score": 1.1665163,
"text": "in later years, Hal Bochin (who wrote a book about Nixon's rhetoric) suggests that Nixon succeeded at the time because of his use of narrative, spinning a story which resonated with the public: Explanatory notes Citations Other sources Checkers speech The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States, California Senator Richard Nixon. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses. With his place on the Republican ticket in doubt, he",
"title": "Checkers speech"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4070783",
"score": 1.1611271,
"text": "know why,\" which contributed to the failure of his 1960 presidential run, can be traced to the Checkers speech. Other commentators suggested that had he not made the Checkers speech, Nixon might have won in 1960. Nixon retorted that without the Checkers speech, he would not have been around to run in 1960. Checkers died in 1964 and was buried in Wantagh, New York, at Long Island's Bide-A-Wee Pet Cemetery. William Safire has described the adoption of \"Checkers speech\" as an idiom, used to refer to any emotionally charged speech by a politician. Despite the many criticisms of the speech",
"title": "Checkers speech"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4070721",
"score": 1.1405737,
"text": "the West Coast to fly to Los Angeles to make a television and radio broadcast to the nation; the $75,000 to buy the television time was raised by the RNC. The idea for the Checkers reference came from Franklin Roosevelt's Fala speech—given eight years to the day before Nixon's address—in which Roosevelt mocked Republican claims that he had sent a destroyer to fetch his dog, Fala, when the dog was supposedly left behind in the Aleutian Islands. Nixon's speech was seen or heard by about 60 million Americans, including the largest television audience to that time, and led to an",
"title": "Checkers speech"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4070719",
"score": 1.1150322,
"text": "ticket. During the speech, he stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to keep one gift: a black-and-white dog who had been named Checkers by the Nixon children, thus giving the address its popular name. Nixon, as he related in his address, came from a family of modest means, and had spent much of his time after law school either in the military, campaigning for office, or serving in Congress. After his successful 1950 Senate campaign, Nixon's backers continued to raise money to finance his political activities. These contributions went to reimburse him for travel costs, postage for",
"title": "Checkers speech"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4070757",
"score": 1.1114196,
"text": "indicated that some might feel that even with the opinions, he might have found some way to personally benefit. In response to his own question, the senator detailed his background and financial situation, beginning with his birth in Yorba Linda, and the family grocery store in which the Nixon boys helped out. He alluded to his work in college and law school, his service record, and stated that at the end of the war, he and Pat Nixon had $10,000 in savings, all of it patriotically in government bonds. The candidate gave the dollar amounts of small inheritances that the",
"title": "Checkers speech"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4070774",
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"text": "with Nixon and on the flood of communications from the public. The general and governor agreed that Nixon could come to Wheeling with the assurance he would remain on the ticket. After making speeches in Missoula and at a stop in Denver, and after Eisenhower made his own speech announcing that his running mate had been the victim of an \"attempted smear\", Nixon arrived in Wheeling late in the day on the 24th. Eisenhower came to the airport to meet the plane, and hurried up the steps to greet the Nixons when the door was opened. The candidates waved at",
"title": "Checkers speech"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15822865",
"score": 1.0912826,
"text": "he saved his political career and his spot on Eisenhower's ticket by making a nationally broadcast speech, commonly known as the Checkers speech. In the speech, he denied the charges and famously stated he would not be giving back one gift his family had received: a little dog named Checkers. In 1955, while Nixon was vice president, President Eisenhower suffered a serious heart attack; during the next several weeks, Nixon was effectively an informal \"acting president\". In 1958, Nixon and his wife embarked on a goodwill tour of South America; while in Venezuela, their limousine was attacked by a pipe-wielding",
"title": "Six Crises"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4070744",
"score": 1.0844827,
"text": "American Cocker Spaniel, had just had a litter. After a telegram exchange, he crated the puppy and shipped it by rail to the Nixons, and six-year-old Tricia Nixon named the dog \"Checkers\". Nixon decided that including the anecdote evoking FDR would needle his enemies and delight his friends. When the plane reached Los Angeles, Nixon secluded himself in a suite in The Ambassador Hotel, letting no one except his wife, Chotiner, and attorney and adviser William P. Rogers have any hint what he was planning. He called two professors he knew at his alma mater, Whittier College, seeking appropriate Abraham",
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Which oil scandal hit the US in 1924? | [
"Teapot dome affair",
"Teapot dome scandal",
"Tea Pot Dome scandal",
"Tea Pot Dome",
"Teapot Dome Scandal",
"Teapot Dome",
"Elk Hills oil field",
"Teapot Dome scandal",
"Teapot scandal",
"Tea Pot Dome Scandal",
"Tea Pot Dome Scandel"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2898226",
"score": 1.0665033,
"text": "of the scandal to erupt in April 1922 when the \"Wall Street Journal\" reported that Secretary Fall had decided that two of his friends, oilmen Harry F. Sinclair (Mammoth Oil Corporation) and Edward L. Doheny (Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company), should be given leases to drill in parts of these Naval Reserves without open bidding. His acceptance of bribes for the leases resulted in the Teapot Dome scandal. During congressional hearings concerning the scandal in 1924 he explained the concept of oil field drainage with a remark that was later adapted as a line of dialogue in the 2007 film",
"title": "Albert B. Fall"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12403730",
"score": 1.0482031,
"text": "as heating and cooking. Therefore, during this period, the growth of oil consumption indicates that the US was becoming dependent on oil and that it helped the domestic oil industry to grow. However, U.S oil domestic production could not cover the growing demand in the nation's market, which allowed the U.S. to look for a new supply internationally. The nation's consumption of oil increased 53% between 1915 and 1919, followed by another increase of 27% in 1920. The first shock of the transportation era occurred in 1920 and lasted for about a year. The shortage of oil devastated the entire",
"title": "Petroleum in the United States"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1387964",
"score": 1.0459884,
"text": "Teapot Dome was regarded as the \"greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics\". It damaged the reputation of the Harding administration, which was already severely diminished by its controversial handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and Harding's veto of the Bonus Bill in 1922. In the early 20th century, the U.S. Navy largely converted from coal to fuel oil. To ensure that the Navy would always have enough fuel available, several oil-producing areas were designated as naval oil reserves by President Taft. In 1921, President Harding issued an executive order that transferred control of",
"title": "Teapot Dome scandal"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12403736",
"score": 1.039424,
"text": "the situation worse. Furthermore, many of the regulations were quickly ruled illegal and removed. Prior to World War II, many of the issues within the oil market had to do to with changing prices. During the 1920s, oil prices were beginning peaking fears of oil depletion. In response to these fears, during Coolidge's administration, U.S. Congress enacted a depletion allowance to producers which led to a surge of investment in the oil business and the discovery of many new, large oil reservoirs. The next decade featured falling prices caused by the new investment and overproduction. The declining prices allowed producers",
"title": "Petroleum in the United States"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19890713",
"score": 1.0365454,
"text": "Oil Pollution Act of 1924 Oil Pollution Act of 1924 is a United States federal statute establishing regulations for coastal navigable waters with regards to intentional fossil fuel discharges from seagoing vessels. The Act of Congress grants the Secretary of War authority to evaluate the oil volume discharge from a vessel while assessing if coastal navigable waters have a potential toxicity posing a deleterious condition for human health and seafood contamination. The 1924 United States statute provides judicial penalties encompassing civil and criminal punishment for violations of the prescribed regulations as stated in the Act. The legislation was passed by",
"title": "Oil Pollution Act of 1924"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11973192",
"score": 1.0276682,
"text": "largest oil field in the U.S. outside of Alaska at the time. The rapid proliferation of drilling led to overproduction, and crashing oil prices from $1.10 a barrel in 1930 to 10 cents a barrel in 1931. The resulting glut helped destabilize the US oil market in the early 1930s and had a negative impact on the international economy, thus deepening the Depression. In August 1931, the wildcatters and oil companies in East Texas were out of control, so Governor Sterling of Texas ordered the National Guard into the oil fields to bring order. Later the Legislature created legal pro-rations",
"title": "Joinerville, Texas"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19074625",
"score": 1.0219861,
"text": "vertically integrated organizations, the majors distributed to independent jobbers under long-term contracts at a price based on the current spot-market price (for example, 2 cents above spot market), which fluctuated in response to the volume being put on the market by the independent refiners. In the 1920s, oil production had surged \"as the automobile replaced the horse and buggy as the common person’s means of transportation.\" But in 1929, the Great Depression began and \"demand for oil fell precipitously.\" In 1930, \"the largest oil field in history was discovered in East Texas.\" As a result of these two events, oil",
"title": "United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co."
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18535272",
"score": 1.0178894,
"text": "as Americans bought record numbers of automobiles. Despite steadily growing domestic petroleum production, the American oil industry could not supply the rapidly growing demand, especially for gasoline, and the country had to import increasing amounts of oil, raising prices, and causing widespread speculation that petroleum would be soon exhausted. America was quickly running out of petroleum and into a permanent state of energy scarcity – or at least many experts said so. The average price of crude oil in the United States more than tripled, going from $0.64 per barrel in 1915 to US$2.01 in 1920. Domestic oil production grew,",
"title": "History of the oil shale industry in the United States"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18535283",
"score": 1.0161031,
"text": "of its value, falling from US$3.50 at the start of 1921, to US$1.25 at year-end. Imported oil peaked at 127 million barrels in 1923, then dropped by more than half, to 62 million in 1925. The drop in oil price, and the increased production from new fields, put a damper on speculation that the US was about to run out of oil. Oil shale could not economically compete with petroleum priced below US$2 per barrel, especially given that the productive shale areas were far from major petroleum markets. Cheap petroleum prices had driven oil shale out of business. Some companies",
"title": "History of the oil shale industry in the United States"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19890715",
"score": 1.0115682,
"text": "the United States Armed Forces. The federal statute was passed by the United States 89th Congressional session and enacted into law by the 36th President of the United States Lyndon Johnson on November 3, 1966. The Oil Pollution Act of 1924 was repealed by the United States 91st Congressional session enactment of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1970. The United States statute was confirmed as a federal law by the 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon on April 3, 1970. Oil Pollution Act of 1924 Oil Pollution Act of 1924 is a United States federal",
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Phil Collins appeared in which Spielberg film with Robin Williams? | [
"Hook",
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "cameo appearances in Steven Spielberg's \"Hook\" (1991) and the AIDS docudrama \"And the Band Played On\" (1993). He starred in \"Frauds\", which competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. He supplied voices to two animated features: Amblin's \"Balto\" (1995) and Disney's \"The Jungle Book 2\" (2003). A long-discussed but never completed project was a film titled \"The Three Bears\"; originally meant to star Collins, Danny DeVito, and Bob Hoskins. He often mentioned the film, though an appropriate script never materialised. Collins's music is featured in the satirical black comedy film \"American Psycho\", with psychotic lead character",
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"text": "in Steven Spielberg's production of \"I Wanna Hold Your Hand\" (1978), which was director Robert Zemeckis's first feature film. She then played Donna Stratton in another Spielberg film, the high-profile comedy \"1941\" (1979) opposite Tim Matheson, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and John Candy. She married director Brian De Palma on January 12, 1979, and for the next few years appeared in his films. She starred as Kristina in \"Home Movies\" (1980) with Kirk Douglas, as Liz Blake in \"Dressed to Kill\" (1980) with Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson, and as Sally Bedina in \"Blow Out\" (1981) with John Travolta. In",
"title": "Nancy Allen (actress)"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "collaboration between Spielberg and composer John Williams. Williams has scored all but four of Spielberg-directed films since (\"\", \"The Color Purple\", \"Bridge of Spies\", and \"Ready Player One\" being the only exceptions); this is the only score he has composed for Spielberg that has never been released as an album, although Williams re-recorded the main theme with Toots Thielemans and the Boston Pops Orchestra for 1991's \"The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration\". In May 1969, Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) visits her husband Clovis Michael Poplin (William Atherton) to tell him that their son will soon be placed in the care of foster",
"title": "The Sugarland Express"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "371474",
"score": 0.9491337,
"text": "Leonardo DiCaprio). It earned Christopher Walken an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The film is known for John Williams's score and its unique title sequence. It was a hit both commercially and critically. Spielberg collaborated again with Tom Hanks along with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stanley Tucci in 2004's \"The Terminal\", a warm-hearted comedy about a man of Eastern European descent who is stranded in an airport. It received mixed reviews but performed relatively well at the box office. In 2005, \"Empire\" magazine ranked Spielberg number one on a list of the greatest film directors of all time. Also",
"title": "Steven Spielberg"
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"id": "1360434",
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"text": "\"Bridge of Spies\" that year, which would have been his 27th collaboration with director Steven Spielberg. However, in March 2015, it was announced that Thomas Newman would replace Williams for the film, as Williams's schedule was interrupted by a minor health issue and he became unavailable to score the film. This is the first Spielberg film since \"The Color Purple\" (1985) not scored by Williams. In 2016, Williams composed the score for Spielberg's \"The BFG\", which opened in July 2016. In March 2017, Williams scored the animated short film \"Dear Basketball\" directed by Glen Keane and based on a poem",
"title": "John Williams"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6208483",
"score": 0.89918196,
"text": "having her daughter Cathy. She had supporting roles in the Oscar-nominated films \"Boomerang\" (1947) directed by Elia Kazan, and (uncredited) in \"Sitting Pretty\" (1948). She next had supporting roles in \"The Saxon Charm\" (1948) which stars Susan Hayward, and \"Knock on Any Door\" (1949), which stars Humphrey Bogart. Williams started the '50s appearing often in television from 1950–1952. She played supporting roles in the musicals \"The Girl Next Door\" and \"The Great Diamond Robbery\". She also appeared in \"Monte Carlo Baby\", a comedy with Audrey Hepburn. Williams took time off during this period in which she was married to John",
"title": "Cara Williams"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3011551",
"score": 0.8954458,
"text": "Buster (film) Buster is a 1988 British romantic crime comedy based on events from the Great Train Robbery. It stars musician Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock. The soundtrack featured two singles from Collins which topped the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 singles chart. Buster Edwards (Phil Collins) is a petty criminal from the East End of 1963 London. His long-suffering wife June (Julie Walters) thinks of him as a lovable rogue. The film opens with Buster walking along his local high street. He breaks into a shop to steal a suit, into which he then changes to attend",
"title": "Buster (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3603718",
"score": 0.891135,
"text": "attached to the project since 1980 and he, Dan Aykroyd, and John Belushi were originally going to play the Three Amigos. At one point, Steven Spielberg was slated to direct; he wanted Martin, Bill Murray, and Robin Williams to portray Lucky, Dusty and Ned, respectively. Landis has said that Rick Moranis would have been cast as Ned, had Short been unavailable. Martin developed tinnitus after filming a pistol-shooting scene for the film. Several deleted scenes were included in the Blu-ray release. An alternate opening featured the peaceful village of Santo Poco being rampaged upon by El Guapo and his men,",
"title": "Three Amigos"
},
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"text": "with Lamont Dozier; the two artists won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song and receive an Oscar nomination in the same category. \"Big Noise\" and \"Loco in Acapulco\" were also by Collins and Dozier, the vocals for the latter were performed by the Four Tops. Film critic Roger Ebert said the role of Buster was \"played with surprising effectiveness\" by Collins, although the film's soundtrack proved more successful than the film. In 1989, Collins worked on his fourth studio album \"...But Seriously\", and appeared on The Who Tour 1989, performing the role of young Tommy's wicked Uncle Ernie in",
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"text": "the two never spoke to each other again. Nevertheless, Huston's daughter Anjelica confirmed in a 2003 \"Larry King Live\" interview that her father had \"adored\" Peck. In the documentary accompanying the DVD marking the 30th anniversary of the film \"Jaws\", director Steven Spielberg states his original intention had been to introduce the Ahab-like character Quint (Robert Shaw), by showing him watching the 1956 version of the film and laughing at the inaccuracies therein. However, permission to use footage of the original film was denied by Gregory Peck as he was uncomfortable with his performance. At the age of four, Anjelica",
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"text": "majority of Chinese people. Some cultures assign different animals: Vietnam replaces the Ox and Rabbit with the water buffalo and cat, respectively; Japan replaces the Pig () with the boar () as the character 猪 means Pig in Chinese but \"boar\" in Japanese; Tibet replaces the Rooster with the bird. In the traditional Kazakh version of the 12-year animal cycle (, \"müşel\"), the Dragon is substituted by a snail (, \"ulw\"), and the Tiger appears as a leopard (, \"barıs\"). Though Chinese has words for the four cardinal directions, Chinese mariners and astronomers/astrologers preferred using the 12 directions of the",
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"text": "and the appropriate Chinese calendar zodiacal animal year-name for both Thai Hora (, ho-ra-sat) and Chinese astrology. Thai birth certificates record the date, month and time of birth, followed by the day of the week, lunar date, and the applicable zodiac animal name. Thai traditionally reckon age by the 12-year animal-cycle names, with the twelfth and sixtieth anniversaries being of special significance; but the official calendar determines age at law. For instance, 12 August 2004 was observed without regard to the lunar date as Queen Sirikit's birthday, a public holiday also observed as Thai Mothers' Day. Her zodiacal animal is",
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"text": "the exact date on which each Snake Year actually begins. Snake years include: 1905, 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, and 2025. The 12 \"zodiacal\" (that is, yearly) animals recur in a cycle of sixty years, with each animal occurring five times within the 60-year cycle, but with different aspects each of those 5 times. Thus, 2013 is a year of the yin water Snake, and actually starts on February 10, 2013 and lasts through January 30, 2014. The previous year of the yin water Snake was 1953. In Thai culture, the year of the Snake is",
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"text": "told from the perspective of the younger Green Snake, though White Snake remains the romantic lead. Wong expressed a desire to retire from film making in 1994 and stayed away from the limelight until 1997 when she returned to the silver screen in the Japanese movie \"Peking Genjin\" (\"Peking Man\") and released the companion CD single \"Who Are You?\". In 1998 she released the extended Japanese CD \"Angelus\" and her first and only full CD, in Mandarin, \"Isolation\" a.k.a. \"Isolated From The World\". She returned to semi-retirement after the release of \"Isolation\", but returned once again to films in 2001",
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"text": "Mongolia, 12 year beasts are called \"Арван хоёр жил\" meaning \"12 years\" In Kyrgyz 12-year cycle is called \"Мүчөл\", words for Tiger, Dragon and Monkey are only used in 12-year cycle. Chinese zodiac The Chinese zodiac is a classification scheme that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle. The 12-year cycle is an approximation to the 11.85-year orbital period of Jupiter, the largest planet of the Solar System. It and its variations remain popular in many Asian countries including China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Bhutan, and Thailand. The",
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"text": "birth-year. As the Chinese New Year starts in late January to mid-February, the previous Chinese year dates through 1 January until that day in the new Gregorian year, remaining unchanged from the previous Gregorian year. For example, the 1989 year of the Snake began on 6 February 1989. The year 1989 is generally aligned with the year of the Snake. However, the 1988 year of the Dragon officially ended on 5 February 1989. This means that anyone born from 1 January to 5 February 1989 was actually born in the year of the Dragon rather than the year of the",
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"text": "Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. In Vietnam the Rabbit is replaced by the cat. This combination creates the 60-year cycle due to the fewest number of years (least common multiple) it would take to get from \"Yang Wood Rat\" to its next iteration, which always starts with \"Yang Wood Rat\" and ends with \"Yin Water Pig\". Since the zodiac animal cycle of 12 is divisible by two, every zodiac sign can occur only as either Yin or Yang: the Dragon is always yang, the Snake is always yin, etc. The current cycle began in 1984 (as shown in \"Table of",
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"text": "their yin and yang forms), which combine with the 12 Earthly Branches (or Chinese signs of the zodiac), to form the 60 year cycle. Yang earth years end in 8 (e.g. 1988), while Yin earth years end in 9 (e.g. 1989). Earth is the central balance of the elements and therefore lends qualities to all 12 animals as well. The element earth is associated with the planet Saturn on account of its yellow color. However, some Western astrologers have suggested that the Western associations of Saturn give it greater affinity with the rigid, controlling Chinese element of Metal; while the",
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"text": "of the week, too. The term for them is “True Animals”. If your astrologer wishes to prepare a chart, it is essential he or she knows the animals of your day of birth. Given there are only seven days of the week and 12 animals, there is some repetition or doubling up. The animals for each day are as follows: As the Chinese zodiac is derived according to the ancient Five Elements Theory, every Chinese sign is composed of five elements with relations, among those elements, of interpolation, interaction, over-action, and counter-action—believed to be the common law of motions and",
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"text": "then ungratefully jumped off at the last minute to cross the finish line first. This is told to explain why the Rat and the Ox do not get along together. The Year of the Ox is denoted by the Earthly Branch character 丑. In the Vietnamese zodiac, the water buffalo occupies the position of the Ox. The 12 animal years vary according to a biquinary year change cycle, which varies according to the 5 elemental changes as well as varying by the 2 yin and yang states. The 1961 - 1962 Year of the Ox is a Yin Metal Ox",
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"text": "T. F. Green Airport T. F. Green International Airport (officially Theodore Francis Green Memorial State Airport) is a public international airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, six miles (10 km) south of the state's capital and largest city of Providence. Opened in 1931, the airport was named for former Rhode Island governor and longtime senator Theodore Francis Green. Rebuilt in 1996, the renovated main terminal was named for former Rhode Island governor Bruce Sundlun. It was the first state-owned airport in the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a",
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"text": "on July 21, 2011) has two concourses, North and South. The South Concourse has eight gates and the North Concourse has 14. Gates seven and eight are designed for international arrivals and are directly connected to customs, which is on the lower level of the concourse. The terminal contains a number of stores and restaurants, and a central food court. Theodore Francis Green State Airport covers at an elevation of 55 feet (17 m). It has two asphalt runways: 5/23 is 8,700 by 150 feet (2,652 x 46 m) and 16/34 is 6,081 by 150 feet (1,853 x 46 m).",
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"text": "departed the left side of runway 5 after a hard landing by an unstabilized approach. Although the aircraft sustained substantial damage, none of the 31 passengers and crew aboard were injured. T. F. Green Airport T. F. Green International Airport (officially Theodore Francis Green Memorial State Airport) is a public international airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, six miles (10 km) south of the state's capital and largest city of Providence. Opened in 1931, the airport was named for former Rhode Island governor and longtime senator Theodore Francis Green. Rebuilt in 1996, the renovated main terminal was named for former Rhode",
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"text": "Henry E. Rohlsen International Airport serves St. Croix and the Cyril E. King International Airport serves St. Thomas and St. John. The U.S. Virgin Islands is the only US jurisdiction that drives on the left. This was inherited from what was then-current practice on the islands at the time of the 1917 transfer of the territory to the United States from Denmark. However, because most cars in the territory are imported from the mainland United States, the cars in the territory are left-hand drive. As in other US territories, U.S. Virgin Islands mail service is handled by the United States",
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"text": "2008 (55,800 or 0.3% of the total). This was about half as many as visited Haiti. The volcanic nature of the island has attracted scuba divers. There are two regional airports on the island, but no international airports. Therefore, flying to Dominica requires travelling through San Juan, Puerto Rico or other nearby islands in the Caribbean such as Martinique, Guadeloupe, or Barbados. The primary airport, Douglas-Charles Airport (DOM), is on the northeast coast and is about a 45-minute drive from Portsmouth (1 hour from Roseau). The second is Canefield Airport (DCF), about 15 minutes from Roseau on the southwest coast.",
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"text": "Cyril E. King Airport Cyril E. King International Airport is a public airport located two miles (3 km) west of the central business district of Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. It is currently the busiest airport in the United States Virgin Islands, and one of the busiest in the eastern Caribbean, servicing 1,403,000 passengers from July 2015 through June 2016. The airport also serves nearby St. John and is often used by those traveling to the British Virgin Islands. Although passports are not required for U.S. citizens who are visiting the",
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"text": "Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. The city is located directly south and east of the City of Milwaukee, directly west of Lake Michigan, and directly north of Cudahy, Wisconsin. Milwaukee's primary airport, General Mitchell International Airport, is bordered on one side by St. Francis. As of the census of 2010, there were 9,365 people, 4,494 households, and 2,210 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 4,828 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 88.8% White, 2.7% African American,",
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"text": "U.S. Virgin Islands, all passengers bound for the United States and Puerto Rico must pass through U.S. Customs and Border Protection screening before boarding their flight. Private planes can either use CBP Preclearance or arrive in the United States as an international arrival. The airport operates one main runway, long. The terminal operates 11 gates. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force 23rd Fighter Squadron (36th Fighter Group) deployed P-40 Warhawk fighters to the airport from March 1942 – May 1943. Historically, a number of airlines operated scheduled passenger jet service into St. Thomas",
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"text": "Tri-State Airport Tri-State Airport , also known as Milton J. Ferguson Field, is a public airport in Wayne County, West Virginia, three miles south of Huntington, West Virginia, near Ceredo and Kenova. Owned by the Tri-State Airport Authority, it serves Huntington; Ashland, Kentucky; and Ironton, Ohio. It has heavy use for general aviation, and after the withdrawal of Delta Air Lines in June 2012, is down to two airlines, one of which provides nationwide connecting service. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 115,263 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2010, 10.9% more than 2009. It is included in",
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"text": "due to low passenger loads. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 9,164 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 8,924 enplanements in 2009, and 10,383 in 2010. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a non-hub primary commercial service facility. The airport is named for Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the 26th President of the United States. The airport covers an area of 626 acres (253 ha) at an elevation of 2,592 feet (790 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt runways: 14/32 is 6,399 by 100 feet",
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In which soap did Demi Moore find fame? | [
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"text": "Demi Moore Demi Gene Guynes (born November 11, 1962), professionally known as Demi Moore ( ), is an American actress, former songwriter, and model. Moore dropped out of high school at age 16 to pursue an acting career and appeared in the men's pornographic magazine \"Oui\" in 1981. After making her film debut later that year, she appeared on the soap opera \"General Hospital\" and subsequently gained recognition as a member of the Brat Pack with roles in \"Blame It on Rio\" (1984), \"St. Elmo's Fire\" (1985), and \"About Last Night...\" (1986). Following a few roles, she subsequently came over",
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"text": "the gigglefest as the angels fight, kick, dance and motocross like Indiana Jones clones on estrogen\". The film was followed by yet another three-year absence. In the interim, Moore signed on as the face of the Versace fashion brand and the Helena Rubinstein brand of cosmetics. Moore portrayed an alcoholic singer whose career is on the downswing, as part of an ensemble cast, in Emilio Estevez's drama \"Bobby\" (2006), about the hours leading up to the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. As a member of the cast, she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a",
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"text": "Demi before being cast as Stacey Slater. It was announced in February 2006 that Swash and co-star Gerry Cowper had been axed from \"EastEnders\" by John Yorke. \"Gerry and Shana have been enormous assets and go with our best wishes\" said a spokesman, adding that there is a \"massive\" storyline had been planned for their exit. In August 2005, a storyline aired in which Demi and her boyfriend Leo run away to a squat and start dealing drugs for money to feed their daughter. This results in Leo taking a fatal overdose of heroin, and therefore was described as \"Shakespearean\",",
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"text": "\"I had a project about a year and a half ago, and we made an inquiry about her—a real good commercial picture. She wasn't interested.\" Another three years passed before Moore acted again. She returned to the screen, playing a villain in the 2003 film \"\", opposite Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. A commercial success, the film made US$259.1 million worldwide, and \"Rolling Stone\", on Moore's role, remarked: \"It's a relief when Demi Moore shows up as fallen angel [...] Moore, 40, looks great in a bikini and doesn’t even try to act. Her unsmiling sexiness cuts through",
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"text": "Demi Miller Demi Miller is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera \"EastEnders\", played by Shana Swash. She made her first appearance on 6 September 2004 and made her last on 7 July 2006 when she was axed by \"EastEnders\" executive producer Kate Harwood. Demi arrives in Walford at the age of 13, and immediately becomes the focus of local gossip due to her pregnancy. Feisty and troublesome, she likes to cause trouble with her twin brother Darren (Charlie G. Hawkins). Nearly two months after her arrival, Demi collapses in agony in the playground after her waters break. Scared",
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"text": "of 17, she married singer Freddy Moore, 12 years her senior and recently divorced from his first wife, Lucy. During their marriage, Demi began using Freddy's surname as her stage name. She filed for divorce in September 1984; it was finalized on August 7, 1985. Moore was then engaged to actor Emilio Estevez, with whom she co-starred in \"Wisdom,\" a crime drama he also wrote and directed. The pair planned to marry in December 1986, but called off the engagement. On November 21, 1987, Moore married her second husband, actor Bruce Willis. She and Willis have three daughters together: Rumer",
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"text": "the Brat Pack curse with her starring role in \"Ghost\" (1990), the highest-grossing film of that year, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She continued to find box-office success in the early 1990s, with the films \"A Few Good Men\" (1992), \"Indecent Proposal\" (1993), and \"Disclosure\" (1994). In 1996, Moore became the highest-paid actress in film history when she received a then-unprecedented US$12.5 million to star in \"Striptease\", a film although a commercial success was a major critical disappointment winning her the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. Her next major role, \"G.I. Jane\" (1997), for which she",
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"text": "Shana Swash Shana Frances Swash (born 28 July 1990) is an English actress, and the sister of actor and TV presenter Joe Swash. She is best known for playing Demi Miller in the long-running BBC One soap opera \"EastEnders\" from 2004 to 2006. In February 2006, it was announced that the role of Demi was to be cut along with that of her on-screen mother Rosie. Despite an online petition from upset and angry fans pleading for them not to be axed, both characters left the show in July 2006. Swash played Princess Jasmine in a pantomime version of Aladdin",
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"text": "killer in the Western drama \"Forsaken\" (2015), with Donald Sutherland and Kiefer Sutherland, was followed by the role of the daughter of a retired high school teacher in the road comedy \"Wild Oats,\" with Shirley MacLaine and Jessica Lange, which premiered on Lifetime in August 2016, and in a limited release the following month. In her next film, the drama \"Blind\" (2016), Moore starred opposite Alec Baldwin, portraying the neglected wife of an indicted businessman having an affair with a novelist blinded in a car crash. In February 2017, Moore joined the cast of \"Empire,\" in the recurring role of",
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To the nearest million, what is the population of London, England? | [
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"text": "for some time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the most populous city in the world. Its population peaked at 8,615,245 in 1939 immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War, but had declined to 7,192,091 at the 2001 Census. However, the population then grew by just over a million between the 2001 and 2011 Censuses, to reach 8,173,941 in the latter enumeration. However, London's continuous urban area extends beyond the borders of Greater London and was home to 9,787,426 people in 2011, while its wider metropolitan area has a population of between 12 and 14 million",
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"text": "population of 18 million. Eurostat has developed a harmonising standard for comparing metropolitan areas in the European Union and the population of the London Larger Urban Zone is 11,917,000; it occupies an area of . Another definition gives the population of the metropolitan area as 13,709,000. Demography of London The demography of London is analysed by the Office for National Statistics and data is produced for each of the Greater London wards, the City of London and the 32 London boroughs, the Inner London and Outer London statistical sub-regions, each of the Parliamentary constituencies in London, and for all of",
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"text": "Demography of the United Kingdom According to the 2011 census, the total population of the United Kingdom was around 63,182,000. It is the 21st-most populated country in the world. Its overall population density is 259 people per square kilometre (671 people per sq mi), with England having a significantly higher population density than Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Almost one-third of the population lives in England's southeast, which is predominantly urban and suburban, with about 9 million in the capital city of London, the population density of which is just over 5,200 per square kilometre (13,468 per sq mi). The",
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"text": "is 1,254 km (484 sq. miles). Figures before 1971 have been reconstructed by the Office for National Statistics based on past censuses in order to fit the 2001 limits. Figures from 1981 onward are midyear estimates, with those for 2002 to 2009 having been revised during 2010. These mid-year estimates are more accurate than the censuses themselves, which are known to underestimate the population of London. Outer London continued to grow as population moved from Inner London, reaching a peak in 1951 at 4,517,588. The population of Greater London as a whole then started to decline, and the Outer London",
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"text": "residents in mid-2009. London's continuous urban area extends beyond the borders of Greater London and was home to an estimated 9,332,000 people in 2005, while its wider metropolitan area has a population of between 12 and 14 million depending on the definition of that area. According to Eurostat, London has been the most populous city and metropolitan area of the European Union. The region covers an area of 1,579 square kilometres. The population density is 4,761 people per square kilometre, more than ten times that of any other British region. In terms of population, London is the 25th largest city",
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"text": "and accounting for 13.4% of the UK population. London's urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The population within the London commuter belt is the most populous in the EU with 14,040,163 inhabitants in 2016. London was the world's most populous city from 1831 to 1925. London contains four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret's Church; and the historic settlement in Greenwich where the Royal Observatory, Greenwich defines the Prime Meridian, 0° longitude,",
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"text": "Geography of London London is the largest urban area and capital city of the United Kingdom. It is located in the southeast of Great Britain. The London region covers an area of , and had a population of 7,172,036 in 2001 and a population density of 4,542 people per square kilometre. A larger area, referred to as the London Metropolitan Region or the London Metropolitan Agglomeration covers an area of , and had a population of 12,653,500 and a population density of 1,510 people per square kilometre. London is a port on the Thames (see main article \"Port of London\"),",
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"text": "confirmed that the proportion of the population aged 0–14 has nearly halved (31% in 1911 compared to 18 in 2011) and the proportion of older people aged 65 and over has more than tripled (from 5 to 16%). England's population in 2011 was 53 million. It is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with 420 people resident per square kilometre in mid-2015. with a particular concentration in London and the south-east. The 2011 census put Scotland's population at 5.3 million, Wales at 3.06 million and Northern Ireland at 1.81 million. In 2012 the average total fertility",
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"text": "depending on the definition used. According to Eurostat, London is the most populous city and metropolitan area of the European Union and the second most populous in Europe. During the period 1991–2001 a net 726,000 immigrants arrived in London. The region covers an area of . The population density is , more than ten times that of any other . In terms of population, London is the 19th largest city and the 18th largest metropolitan region. According to the Office for National Statistics, based on the 2011 Census estimates, 59.8 per cent of the 8,173,941 inhabitants of London were White,",
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What did Clarice Cliff create? | [
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"text": "(née Machin) took in washing to supplement the family income, and they had seven children. Cliff was sent to a different school from her siblings, and this perhaps prompted her more independent approach to her career, and her non-standard life style by Stoke-on-Trent standards. After school Cliff would visit an aunt who was a hand painters at a local pottery company, and she also made models from papier-mâché at school. At the age of 13, Cliff started working in the pottery industry. Her first work was as a gilder, adding gold lines on ware of traditional design. Once she had",
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"text": "Clarice Cliff Clarice Cliff (20 January 1899 – 23 October 1972) was an English ceramic artist active from 1922 to 1963. She began as an apprentice potter. By reason of her talent and ability, she became a ceramic artist, becoming the head of the factory artistic department. The Cliff family moved to Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, from the Eccleshall area in about 1725. Cliff was born in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, England. When Clarice was born their home was on Meir Street on a terrace of modest houses. Cliff's father Harry Thomas Cliff worked at the local iron foundry in Tunstall, her mother Ann",
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"text": "also four boys – who hand painted the ware under her direction. Many of these workers were traced in the 1980s and 1990s and they totalled over 100. Their names and work for Clarice Cliff were recorded in the centenary book. The factory produced a series of small colour printed leaflets (quite unusual for this time) which could be obtained by post, or picked up from stockists. This promotional device was clearly successful, as one young girl was employed whose only job was to put the leaflets in stamped addressed envelopes sent into the factory. At this time, many women",
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"text": "made entirely of Bizarre ware which had been made to promote the ware in Britain. It was in this article, that Cliff made what has become her most famous quote: \"Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist, and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery\" Between 1932 and 1934 Cliff was the art director for a major project involving nearly 30 artists of the day (prompted by the Prince of Wales) to promote good design on tableware. The 'Artists in Industry' earthenware",
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"text": "modelling figurines and vases, gilding, keeping pattern books and hand painting ware: outlining, enamelling (filling in colours within the outline) and banding (the radial bands on plates or vessels). In the early 1920s the decorating manager Jack Walker brought Cliff to the attention of one of the two factory owners, Arthur Colley Austin Shorter, who managed it with his brother Guy. Colley Shorter was 17 years older than Cliff, and as well as playing a major role in nurturing her skills and ideas, he was married but was later to be her husband. Cliff was given special attention by her",
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"text": "Antiques Roadshow programme in December 2009. In September 2009 the Victoria and Albert Museum in London opened its 'New Ceramics Galleries' and Cliff's work was chosen to be included; 'There will be two rooms displaying 20th-century collections. One will show ceramics made in a factory context and will include objects by designers such as Susie Cooper and Clarice Cliff' . Clarice Cliff Clarice Cliff (20 January 1899 – 23 October 1972) was an English ceramic artist active from 1922 to 1963. She began as an apprentice potter. By reason of her talent and ability, she became a ceramic artist, becoming",
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"text": "including Martin Battersby, an early devotee of 20s and 30s design, the first author on that period to publish major works, and a devotee of Cliff's ceramics. Then, on 23 October 1972, Cliff died suddenly at Chetwynd House. The exhibition and the first book published privately in 1976 'Clarice Cliff' by Peter Wentworth- and Kay Johnson (L'Odeon publishing) marked the start of a major revival of interest in Cliff's work, which has continued to be sought after by Art Deco ceramic collectors ever since. In 1982 the ORIGINAL \"Clarice Cliff Collectors Club\" was formed and promoted her and her work",
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"text": "to decorate some of the old defective 'glost' (white) ware in her own freehand patterns. For these she used on-glaze enamel colours, which enabled a brighter palette than underglaze colours. She covered the imperfections in simple patterns of triangles, in a style that she called 'Bizarre'. The earliest examples had just a hand-painted mark, usually in a rust coloured paint, 'Bizarre by Clarice Cliff', sometimes with 'Newport Pottery' underneath. To the surprise of the company's senior salesman Ewart Oakes, when he took a car load to a major stockist, it was immediately popular. Clarice was joined by young painter Gladys",
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"text": "sample in the 1930s) for a staggering £3000. In May 2009 an eighteen-inch charger in the \"May Avenue\" pattern sold for £20,500 at Fielding's auctioneers. On 2 August 2009 Will Farmer of the BBC \"Antiques Roadshow\" and members of the original Clarice Cliff Collectors Club unveiled three plaques commemorating Clarice Cliff's life and work in the Potteries. These were on her birthplace, Meir Street, Tunstall, her second home on Edwards Street, Tunstall and the site of Newport Pottery by the canal in Burslem where her Bizarre ware was decorated. These were filmed by BBC television for showing on a special",
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"text": "her shared passion with Shorter. After the war, although Cliff was occasionally nostalgic for the 'Bizarre' years, as witnessed in personal letters to friends, she seemed to be realistic and accepted the commercial taste was for conservative ware. Clarice seemed to enjoy playing a lesser role at the factory, knowing that she could not recapture those crazy days of the thirties. Much of the post-war production went to Australia, New Zealand or North America, where the taste was for formal ware in traditional English designs such as \"Tonquin\" rather than the striking patterns and shapes that had established Cliff's reputation;",
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"text": "it was the finest piece of music he had written for a Bond movie; also because of the pleasure of working with Louis Armstrong. We Have All the Time in the World \"We Have All the Time in the World\" is a James Bond theme and popular song sung by Louis Armstrong. Its music was composed by John Barry and the lyrics by Hal David. It is a secondary musical theme in the 1969 Bond film \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\", the title theme being the instrumental \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service,\" also composed by Barry. The song title is",
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"text": "World\" by Louis Armstrong, have gone on to become as well known as the main themes, while other songs remain exclusively linked to the film in which they appear. Some songs have been dubbed for the foreign versions of the films. A number of songs were written as potential Bond themes but went unused. These include: Bond music has inspired a number of cover albums in a variety of genres, including the 2007 album \"Mister Bond – A Jazzy Cocktail of Ice Cold Themes\" (lounge), \"\" featuring David Arnold collaborating with several contemporary artists. The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra",
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"text": "was originally proposed as the opening credits music, only to be replaced by the eponymous title track as sung by Tom Jones. \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\" featured an instrumental theme tune, something which remains unique amongst the post-\"From Russia with Love\" films, and included a vocal theme in the form of Louis Armstrong's performance of \"We Have All the Time in the World\", written by John Barry and Hal David. A number of Bond films include one (or more) additional songs in the soundtrack. Some of these pieces of music, such as \"We Have All the Time in the",
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"text": "with the mop by his wife when she hears him listening to \"I’ll Be Glad When You Are Dead You Rascal You.\" He falls into a dream in which he is the king of \"Jazzmania,\" sitting on a royal throne with servants to fan him. In the dream Louis Armstrong plays and sings jazz for him while dressed in a leopard print cave man outfit. When he wakes up and sees his flustered wife still standing over him, he smiles and breaks a vase over his own head. The racism in this film was appalling and offensive to Black America",
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"text": "including \"Stardust\", \"What a Wonderful World\", \"When The Saints Go Marching In\", \"Dream a Little Dream of Me\", \"Ain't Misbehavin'\", \"You Rascal You\", and \"Stompin' at the Savoy\". \"We Have All the Time in the World\" was featured on the soundtrack of the James Bond film \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\", and enjoyed renewed popularity in the UK in 1994 when it featured on a Guinness advert. It reached number 3 in the charts on being re-released. In 1964, Armstrong knocked The Beatles off the top of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart with \"Hello, Dolly!\", which gave the 63-year-old performer",
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"text": "It is heard during the Bond–Tracy courtship montage, bridging Draco's birthday party in Portugal and Bond's burglary of the Gebrüder Gumbold law office in Bern, Switzerland. Barry recalled Armstrong was very ill, but recorded the song in one take. The song was re-released in 1994, achieving the number three position during a 13-week spell in the UK charts. A Hal David song entitled \"Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?\" performed by Danish singer Nina also featured in the film in several scenes. The theme, \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\", is used in the film as an action theme",
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"text": "and Armstrong's roles to avoid the impression that black people created jazz. The attempts failed because in 1947 Biberman was listed as one of the Hollywood Ten and sent to jail. Several scenes were deleted from the film. \"They had taken miles of footage of music and scenes,\" Holiday said, but \"none of it was left in the picture. And very damn little of me. I know I wore a white dress for a number I did... and that was cut out of the picture.\" She recorded \"The Blues Are Brewin'\" for the film's soundtrack. Other songs included in the",
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"text": "Since then, the Bond theme has been rearranged in many ways after \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\". Barry also composed the love song \"We Have All the Time in the World\" sung by Louis Armstrong. With lyrics by Burt Bacharach's regular lyricist Hal David, it is heard during the Bond–Tracy courtship montage, bridging Draco's birthday party in Portugal and Bond's burglary of the Gebrüder Gumbold law office in Bern, Switzerland. \"We Have All the Time in the World\" is often mistakenly referred to as the opening credits theme. It was Armstrong's last recorded song (he died of a heart attack",
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"text": "at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Although most of the music created for \"New Orleans\" was truncated in the film's release version, a soundtrack issued in 1983 made the full versions of the songs available, with additional music cut from the final release. Songs include \"Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?\" New Orleans (1947 film) New Orleans is a 1947 American musical romance film featuring Billie Holiday as a singing maid and Louis Armstrong as a bandleader; supporting players Holiday and Armstrong perform together and portray a couple becoming romantically involved. During one song, Armstrong's",
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In which decade of the 20th century was William Hurt born? | [
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"text": "William Hurt William McChord Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor. He received his acting training at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut in 1980 as a troubled scientist in Ken Russell's science-fiction feature \"Altered States\", for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. He subsequently played a leading role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations of Kathleen Turner, in the neo-noir \"Body Heat\" (1981). He played another leading role, as Arkady Renko, in \"Gorky Park\" (1983). In 1985, Hurt",
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"text": "a friend were threatened at gunpoint but were let go several hours later. Hurt is a private pilot and owner of a Beechcraft Bonanza. William Hurt William McChord Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor. He received his acting training at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut in 1980 as a troubled scientist in Ken Russell's science-fiction feature \"Altered States\", for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. He subsequently played a leading role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations",
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"text": "John Hurt Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years. Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors; director David Lynch described him as \"simply the greatest actor in the world\". Hurt came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the film \"A Man for All Seasons\" (1966) and gained BAFTA Award nominations for his portrayals of Timothy Evans in \"10 Rillington Place\" (1971) and Quentin Crisp in television film \"The Naked Civil Servant\" (1975) – winning his first BAFTA",
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"text": "20th century.\" In 2006, reflecting on the report, Hurt stated, \"The current problem is older riders, bigger bikes and alcohol.\" Hurt remained at USC, researching and presiding over the nonprofit Head Protection Research Laboratory (HPRL), as well as a Professor Emeritus of Safety Science at USC. Upon his retirement from USC in 1998, HPRL was spun off as an independent non-profit corporation with Hurt as its president. Hurt died of a heart attack at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center on November 29, 2009, at the age of 81. Harry Hurt Hugh Harrison (Harry) Hurt, Jr., (December 13, 1927 – November",
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"text": "Harry Hurt Hugh Harrison (Harry) Hurt, Jr., (December 13, 1927 – November 29, 2009) was an American researcher on motorcycle safety. He was the author of the 1981 Hurt Report, described as \"the most comprehensive motorcycle safety study of the 20th century.\" Hurt was born in Big Spring in West Texas, and grew up in there He was an only child, and his father worked in the banking industry. Hurt graduated from Texas A&M University in 1950, and was an air transport pilot for the United States Navy during the Korean War. He married Joan Beene in 1950, and having",
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"text": "Lahore, Mogadishu and Khartoum. After his parents divorced, his mother married Henry Luce III (a son of publisher Henry Luce) during Hurt's childhood. Hurt graduated from Middlesex School in 1968 where he was vice president of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several school plays. His high school yearbook predicted: \"With characteristics such as these, you might even see him on Broadway.\" Hurt attended Tufts University and studied theology, but turned instead to acting and joined the Juilliard School (Drama Division \"Group 5\": 1972–1976). Two of his classmates there were the late actors Christopher Reeve and Robin",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "his fourth Academy Award nomination for his supporting performance in David Cronenberg's crime thriller \"A History of Violence\" (2005). Other notable films in recent years have included \"A.I. Artificial Intelligence\" (2001), \"The Village\" (2004), \"Syriana\" (2005), \"The Good Shepherd\" (2006), \"Mr. Brooks\" (2007), \"Into the Wild\" (2007), \"Robin Hood\" (2010) and his role as Thunderbolt Ross in \"The Incredible Hulk\" (2008), \"\" (2016) and \"\" (2018). Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Claire Isabel (née McGill), who worked at Time Inc., and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked for the State Department. With his father, he lived in",
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"text": "Mary Beth Hurt Mary Beth Hurt (born September 26, 1946) is an American actress of stage and screen. She is a three-time Tony Award-nominated actress. Notable films in which Hurt has appeared include \"Interiors\" (1978), \"The World According to Garp\" (1982), \"The Age of Innocence\" (1993), and \"Six Degrees of Separation\" (1993). She has also collaborated with her husband, filmmaker Paul Schrader, in such films as \"Light Sleeper\" (1992) and \"Affliction\" (1997). Hurt was born Mary Beth Supinger in 1946 in Marshalltown, Iowa, the daughter of Delores Lenore (née Andre) and Forrest Clayton Supinger. Her childhood babysitter was actress Jean",
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"text": "Charlie D. Hurt Charlie D. Hurt, Ph.D. (born 1950) is an American information scientist specializing in scientific and technical information transfer among scientists and engineers which describes social networks and networks of information. In addition to his research interests, he is an academic administrator having held positions at the University of Arizona, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. Charlie Hurt was born in Charlottesville, Virginia the first of two sons born to Charlie D. Hurt, Jr. (1918–1989); architect and Timie Young Hurt (1916–2002); executive secretary and homemaker. Hurt spent his formative years in Waynesboro, Virginia",
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"text": "on March 13, 2013, at his home in Appleton, Wisconsin. William Chaney William Albert \"Bill\" Chaney (December 23, 1922 – March 13, 2013) was an American historian of Anglo-Saxon England who spent his career, from 1952 until his death, teaching at Lawrence University. At various times, he held the George McKendree Steele endowed chair (1962–99) and the chair of the history department (1968–71). Chaney was born in Lodi, California, on December 23, 1922. He descended from what one colleague said to be \"southerners who had consistently backed the wrong horse in the great conflicts of American history\", and he would",
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In what year were US ground troops first dispatched to Vietnam? | [
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"text": "remained in the field for four days. Tellingly, South Vietnamese forces were again defeated in June 1965 at the Battle of Đồng Xoài. On 8 March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines were unilaterally dispatched to South Vietnam. This marked the beginning of the American ground war. U.S. public opinion overwhelmingly supported the deployment. The Marines' initial assignment was defensive. The first deployment of 3,500 in March 1965 was increased to nearly 200,000 by December. The U.S. military had long been schooled in offensive warfare. Regardless of political policies, U.S. commanders were institutionally and psychologically unsuited to a defensive mission. General William",
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"text": "committing large units to battle. The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. The U.S. was involved in Vietnam as early as 1950, when military advisors were sent to assist the French in the First Indochina War. The U.S. continued its advisory assistance to South Vietnam during the 1950s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again a year later. U.S. combat units were deployed to Vietnam beginning in 1965 after the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which authorized the President to deploy U.S. conventional forces",
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"text": "1964, the deteriorating political situation of the southern government after the assassination of President Ngô Đình Diệm, and an increase in Viet Cong large unit actions, the U.S. government decided to introduce American ground combat troops into Vietnam. On 8 March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines of the 3rd Marine Division landed over the beach at Da Nang to protect the airfield at Da Nang, now operated by the U.S. Air Force (, pp. 99–102) and (, p. 19). In the first five months of 1965, U.S. troop levels increase to 55,000. By the end of 1965, 200,000 troops had been",
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"text": "Vietnam and the introduction of U.S. combat troops into South Vietnam. By year's end, the 23,000 U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam were still technically \"advisers\" (although they participated in many air and ground operations with the ARVN), but Johnson was contemplating U.S. ground troops. At the time, most of the reports and conversations mentioned below were secret; they were not made public for many years. U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. reported to Washington that the new President of South Vietnam Dương Văn Minh told him that he opposed American soldiers going into villages and districts",
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"text": "November to support the residual Australian force that remained there, until it too was withdrawn to Australia in late February 1972. From the time of the arrival of the first Australian military members in 1962, some 50,000 Australians, including ground troops and air force and navy personnel, served in Vietnam. 520 died as a result of the war and almost 2,400 were wounded. The numbers of personnel serving in the medical units at Vung Tau were: Personnel deployed to Vietnam received the Vietnam Medal for recognition of service in the Vietnam War and the Australian Active Service Medal 1945–1975 for",
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"text": "and the communist threat against Saigon had subsided, yet additional troop increases were required if Westmoreland was to adopt a more offensive strategy, with US troop levels planned to rise from 210,000 in January 1966 to 327,000 by December 1966. The Australian government increased its own commitment to the ground war in March 1966, announcing the deployment of a two battalion brigade—the 1st Australian Task Force—with armour, aviation, engineer and artillery support; in total 4,500 men. Additional Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) force elements would also be deployed and with all three services total",
"title": "Operation Crimp"
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"text": "of two more divisions. More significantly, he also authorized a change in mission from defensive to offensive operations; he nevertheless continued to insist that this was not to be publicly represented as a change in existing policy. By the middle of June, the total U.S. ground forces in Vietnam were increased to 82,000 or by 150 percent. That same month, Ambassador Taylor reported that the bombing offensive against North Vietnam had been ineffective, and that the South Vietnamese army was outclassed and in danger of collapse. General Westmoreland shortly thereafter recommended the president further increase ground troops from 82,000 to",
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"text": "Tet, but it was very evident that it was totally dependent on U.S. airpower for its survival. Meanwhile, the withdrawal of American troops, who numbered less than 100,000 at the beginning of the year, was continued as scheduled. By June only six infantry battalions remained. On August 12, the last American ground combat division left the country. However, the U.S. continued to operate the base At Long Binh. Combat patrols continued there until November 11 when the U.S. handed over the base to the South Vietnamese. After this, only 24,000 American troops remained in Vietnam and President Nixon announced that",
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"text": "commitment to combat of U.S. ground troops.\" The Pentagon endorsed Westmoreland's request for additional soldiers which would bring the total of American military personnel in Vietnam up to 117,000, plus 20,000 third-country troops, by November 1. General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was appointed by the military junta as President of South Vietnam. Senator J. William Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations said on national television that the U.S. should negotiate directly with North Vietnam and make \"major concessions\" to end the Vietnam War. Fulbright's statement was criticized by prominent Republicans; former Vice President Richard Nixon said that negotiations",
"title": "1965 in the Vietnam War"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14425467",
"score": 1.0912635,
"text": "into service was delayed until this date.. U.S. aid to South Vietnam is projected to decrease from $2.2 billion in fiscal year 1973 (July 1972-June 1973) to $1.1 billion in fiscal year 1974 (July 1973-June 1974). Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger testified before the U.S. Congress that 3,500 American bombing raids had been carried out against Cambodia in 1969 and 1970. The raids had been conducted secretly and their extent had not been known until this testimony. The plenum of the Communist Party in North Vietnam recommended the escalation of political activity and military action in South Vietnam \"in response",
"title": "1973 in the Vietnam War"
}
] |
In 1999 Anna Kournikova signed a lucrative contract to model what? | [
"Bras",
"Bras (disambiguation)"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10150",
"score": 1.3548329,
"text": "subsequently separated. The couple have invested in a $20 million home to be built on a private island in Miami. They had twins, Nicholas and Lucy, on Saturday, 16 December 2017, at South Miami Hospital. Most of Kournikova's fame has come from the publicity surrounding her looks and her personal life. During her debut at the 1996 US Open at the age of 15, the western world noticed her beauty, and soon pictures of her appeared in numerous magazines worldwide. In 2000, Kournikova became the new face for Berlei's shock absorber sports bras, and appeared in the \"only the ball",
"title": "Anna Kournikova"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10151",
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"text": "should bounce\" billboard campaign. Following that, she was cast by the Farrelly brothers for a minor role in the 2000 film \"Me, Myself & Irene\" starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger. Photographs of her have appeared on covers of various publications, including men's magazines, such as one in the much-publicized 2004 \"Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue\", where she posed in bikinis and swimsuits, as well as in \"FHM\" and \"Maxim\". Kournikova was named one of \"People's\" 50 Most Beautiful People in 1998 and was voted \"hottest female athlete\" on ESPN.com. In 2002 she also placed first in \"FHM's 100 Sexiest Women",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10120",
"score": 1.2578576,
"text": "Anna Kournikova Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google Search. Despite never winning a singles title, she reached No. 8 in the world in 2000. She achieved greater success playing doubles, where she was at times the world No. 1 player. With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in",
"title": "Anna Kournikova"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4918650",
"score": 1.2215971,
"text": "appeared on the cover of the February 2001 edition. Following her \"Vogue\" cover, Kurková became recognized at haute couture fashion shows. Additionally, the lingerie brand Victoria's Secret chose her to be a part of 2000's fashion show webcast, though she was only 16 at the time. Prominent fashion houses such as Yves Saint Laurent signed Kurková to contracts, while print campaigns for Chanel, Tommy Hilfiger, Max Mara, Bottega Veneta, Donna Karan, Celine, Fendi, Elie Saab, rag & bone, Jean Paul Gaultier, Roberto Cavalli, Valentino, Louis Vuitton, John Galliano, Mango, Christian Dior, Hugo Boss, Versace, H&M, and others helped expose her",
"title": "Karolína Kurková"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10142",
"score": 1.200022,
"text": "was ranked No. 305 in singles and No. 176 in doubles. Kournikova's two Grand Slam doubles titles came in 1999 and 2002, both at the Australian Open in the Women's Doubles event with partner Martina Hingis. Kournikova proved a successful doubles player on the professional circuit, winning 16 tournament doubles titles, including two Australian Opens and being a finalist in mixed doubles at the US Open and at Wimbledon, and reaching the No. 1 ranking in doubles in the WTA Tour rankings. Her pro career doubles record was 200–71. However, her singles career plateaued after 1999. For the most part,",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10127",
"score": 1.1967111,
"text": "would produce terrific results. At 15, she made her Grand Slam debut, when she reached the fourth round of the 1996 US Open, only to be stopped by then-top ranked player Steffi Graf, the eventual champion. After this tournament, Kournikova's ranking jumped from No. 144 to debut in the Top 100 at No. 69. Kournikova was a member of the Russian delegation to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1996, she was named WTA Newcomer of the Year, and she was ranked No. 57 in the end of the season. Kournikova entered the 1997 Australian Open as world",
"title": "Anna Kournikova"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14577779",
"score": 1.196427,
"text": "Anna Malova Anna Malova (Russian: Анна Малова) (born c. 1971 in Tutayev, Yaroslavl Oblast) is a Russian beauty queen, model and physician who was crowned Miss Russia 1998. As a child, Anna was engaged in artistic gymnastics. She finished school in Yaroslavl. After high school, Anna was admitted to the Yaroslavl Medical Institute at the Medical Faculty of the specialty \"psychotherapy\". At the same time she was fascinated by shaping, which opened the way to the beauties of competition in those years. The first major step was the contest for Anna was \"Ford Supermodel of Russia 1993\" which was held",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14577780",
"score": 1.1942464,
"text": "in Moscow in late November 1992. In 1993, she took part in the regional competition Miss Volga 1993 where became 1st runner-up and was invited to Miss Russia 1993 pageant where became 1st runner-up again. Then she won the title of Miss Baltic Sea 1994 in Finland and competed in Miss World 1994 pageant in Sun City, South Africa where she didn't place. In 1996, she moved to New York city to start a career as a professional model. In 1998, she was appointed as Miss Russia 1998 and later made it to the Top 10 of Miss Universe 1998",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10125",
"score": 1.1750193,
"text": "her arrival in the United States, she became prominent on the tennis scene. At 14, she won the European Championships and the Italian Open Junior tournament. In December 1995, she became the youngest player to win the 18-and-under division of the Junior Orange Bowl tennis tournament. By the end of the year, Kournikova was crowned the ITF Junior World Champion U-18 and Junior European Champion U-18. Earlier, in September 1995, she received a wildcard into the WTA tournament in Moscow, the Moscow Ladies Open, qualifications and played her way through the qualifying rounds before losing in the second round of",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13348922",
"score": 1.1749233,
"text": "in Psychology and plans to further her studies when her modeling career slows down. Anna Selezneva Anna Selezneva (; born 29 July 1990) is a Russian fashion model. Anna was born in Moscow to a Russian father and an Armenian mother. She was discovered in 2007 at a McDonald's. Later that year she began her international modeling career after signing with a top agency in Paris. At the spring 2008 Prêt-a-Porter shows in Paris, Selezneva debuted on the runways of Dries van Noten, Céline, and Akris. Then she walked for all major brands and designers, including Alexander Wang, Balmain, Chanel,",
"title": "Anna Selezneva"
}
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Which member of the Monkees came from Washington DC? | [
"Peter Thorkelson",
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"text": "The Monkees The Monkees are an American rock and pop band originally active between 1966 and 1971, with reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. They were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series \"The Monkees\" which aired from 1966 to 1968. The musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork; and English actor and singer Davy Jones. The band's music was initially supervised by producer Don Kirshner, backed by the songwriting duo of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. The four actor-musicians",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "424426",
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"text": "businessman to go on a world tour pretending to be the real band. The show includes 18 Monkees songs plus numbers by other 60s artists. It ran in Manchester as part of the \"Manchester Gets it First\" program until April 14, 2012 before a UK tour. Following its Manchester run, the show appeared in the Glasgow King's Theatre and the Sunderland Empire Theatre. The Monkees The Monkees are an American rock and pop band originally active between 1966 and 1971, with reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. They were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by Bob",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "424286",
"score": 1.0372083,
"text": "their plans for the Lovin' Spoonful fell through; when they chose him, he was essentially a proto-star looking for his lucky break. On September 8–10, 1965, \"Daily Variety\" and \"The Hollywood Reporter\" ran an ad to cast the remainder of the band/cast members for the TV show: \"Madness!! Auditions. Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series. Running Parts for 4 insane boys, age 17-21. Want spirited Ben Frank's types. Have courage to work. Must come down for interview.\" Out of 437 applicants, the other three chosen for the cast of the TV show were Michael Nesmith,",
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"text": "Peter Tork Peter Halsten Thorkelson (born February 13, 1942), better known as Peter Tork, is an American musician and actor, best known as the keyboardist and bass guitarist of the Monkees. Tork was born at the former Doctors Hospital, in Washington, D.C. Although he was born in the District of Columbia in 1942, many news articles incorrectly report him as born in 1944 in New York City, which was the date and place given on early Monkees press releases. He is the son of Virginia Hope (née Straus) and Halsten John Thorkelson, an economics professor at the University of Connecticut.",
"title": "Peter Tork"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "424288",
"score": 1.01555,
"text": "a songwriter. Dolenz was an actor (his father was veteran character actor George Dolenz) who had starred in the TV series \"Circus Boy\" as a child, using the stage name Mickey Braddock, and he had also played guitar and sung in a band called the Missing Links before the Monkees, which had recorded and released a very minor single, \"Don't Do It\". By that time he was using his real name; he found out about \"The Monkees\" through his agent. During the casting process Don Kirshner, Screen Gems' head of music, was contacted to secure music for the pilot that",
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"id": "5654833",
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"text": "(Nesmith wrote or co-wrote these two tracks.) No tracks on the original LP feature participation from all four Monkees. The photos in the \"film strip\" on the left side of the back cover are from two episodes of \"The Monkees\" TV series. The first three photos are from \"Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers\"; the other two are from the episode \"The Spy Who Came in from the Cool\". Also included are brief stats on each band member (height, weight, age). Early pressings of the LP cover as well as side 1 of the label featured the misspelled song \"Papa Jean's Blues\"",
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"text": "minute believes that we are somehow this accomplished rock 'n' roll band that got their own television show. ... you putting the record out like this is just beyond the pale.\" Within a few months of their debut album, Music Supervisor Don Kirshner would be forcibly dismissed and the Monkees would take control as a real band. The Monkees' first single, \"Last Train to Clarksville\" b/w \"Take a Giant Step\", was released in August 1966, just weeks prior to the TV broadcast debut. In conjunction with the first broadcast of the television show on September 12, 1966, on the NBC",
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"id": "12140589",
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"text": "ran an ad on September 8, 1965 seeking \"Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series.\" As many as 400 hopefuls showed up to be considered as one of \"4 insane boys.\" Fourteen actors from the audition pool were brought back for screen tests, and Raybert chose their final four after audience research. Micky Dolenz, son of screen actor George Dolenz, had prior screen experience under the name \"Mickey Braddock\" as the 10-year-old star of the \"Circus Boy\" series in the 1950s. He was actively auditioning for pilots at the time and was told about the Raybert",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12140587",
"score": 0.9956229,
"text": "as well as overseas broadcasts; it later enjoyed a 1980s revival, after MTV aired reruns of the program in 1986. The series centered on the adventures of the Monkees, a struggling rock band from Los Angeles, California consisting of Micky, Davy, Michael, and Peter. The comic elements of the storyline were provided by the strange and often surreal encounters that the band would have while searching for their big break. In the early 1960s, aspiring filmmakers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider had formed Raybert Productions and were trying to get a foot in the door in Hollywood. They were inspired",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "beats on the drums, enough for him to fake his way through filming the pilot, but he was soon taught how to play properly. Thus, the lineup for the TV show most frequently featured Nesmith on guitar, Tork on bass, Dolenz on drums and Jones as a frontman, singer and percussionist. This, however, is in opposition to the lineup which would have made the most sense based upon the members' musical strengths. For example, Tork was actually a more experienced guitar player than Nesmith, while Nesmith had at one time specifically trained on the bass. While Jones certainly had a",
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In what decade were video recorders first developed? | [
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"1950s",
"1950-1959",
"50's",
"1950’s",
"50s",
"1950–1959",
"Nineteen-fifties",
"1950s (decade)",
"1950ies",
"1950's",
"'50s",
"195%3F",
"Fifties"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "444226",
"score": 1.2185211,
"text": "replaced by cathode ray tube (CRT) television systems, but several new technologies for video display devices have since been invented. Video was originally exclusively a live technology. Charles Ginsburg led an Ampex research team developing one of the first practical video tape recorder (VTR). In 1951 the first video tape recorder captured live images from television cameras by converting the camera's electrical impulses and saving the information onto magnetic video tape. Video recorders were sold for US $50,000 in 1956, and videotapes cost US $300 per one-hour reel. However, prices gradually dropped over the years; in 1971, Sony began selling",
"title": "Video"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14194321",
"score": 1.1775601,
"text": "was mainly achieved through the emerging transistor technology and, only a little later, through integrated circuits with rapidly growing complexity. When one sees the current video recording devices, one cannot even imagine anymore how much signal processing is necessary for video recording and play-back. The first video recorders were housed in several cabinets full of electronics. Television video recording was practically a fall-out of the military application. From the end of the 1960s on into the 1980s, Ampex video tape recorders were utilized in television studios all over the world. During his tenure at Ampex Corporation, Dr. Erhard Kietz developed",
"title": "Erhard Kietz"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2321835",
"score": 1.1705186,
"text": "recorders. Agreement by Japanese manufacturers on a common standard recording format, so cassettes recorded on one manufacturer's machine would play on another's, made a consumer market possible, and the first consumer videocassette recorder was introduced by Sony in 1971. In early 1951 Bing Crosby asked his Chief Engineer John T. (Jack) Mullin if television could be recorded on tape as was the case for audio. Mullin said that he thought that it could be done. Bing asked Ampex to build one and also set up a laboratory for Mullin in Bing Crosby Enterprises (BCE) to build one. In 1951 it",
"title": "Video tape recorder"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13530522",
"score": 1.1635791,
"text": "the history of videotape recording in general. In 1953, Dr. Norikazu Sawazaki developed a prototype helical scan video tape recorder. Ampex introduced the Quadruplex videotape professional broadcast standard format with its Ampex VRX-1000 in 1956. It became the world's first commercially successful videotape recorder using two-inch (5.1 cm) wide tape. Due to its high price of , the Ampex VRX-1000 could be afforded only by the television networks and the largest individual stations. In 1959, Toshiba introduced a \"new\" method of recording known as helical scan, releasing the first commercial helical scan video tape recorder that year. It was first",
"title": "Videocassette recorder"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2321842",
"score": 1.1125879,
"text": "and demonstrated on June 24, 1963, was the first home video recorder. It could be bought as a unit or in kit form for £60. However, there were several drawbacks: it was expensive, not easy to put together, and can record for only 20 minutes at a time in black-and-white. The Sony model CV-2000, first marketed in 1965, is their first VTR intended for home use and is based on half-inch tape. Ampex and RCA followed in 1965 with their own open-reel monochrome VTRs priced under US $1,000 for the home consumer market. Prerecorded videos for home replay became available",
"title": "Video tape recorder"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2321839",
"score": 1.1120021,
"text": "clear that practical video recording technology depended on finding some way of recording the wide-bandwidth video signal without the high tape speed required by linear-scan machines. In 1953 Dr. Norikazu Sawazaki developed a prototype helical scan video tape recorder. Another solution was transverse-scan technology, developed by Ampex around 1954, in which the recording heads are mounted on a spinning drum and record tracks in the transverse direction, across the tape. By recording on the full width of the tape rather than just a narrow track down the center, this technique achieved a much higher density of data per linear centimeter",
"title": "Video tape recorder"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2490730",
"score": 1.1024855,
"text": "and made visible in a lighted room. The addition of the camera enabled viewing of the image on a monitor, allowing a radiologist to view the images in a separate room away from the risk of radiation exposure. The commercialization of video tape recorders beginning in 1956 allowed the TV images to be recorded and played back at will. Digital electronics were applied to fluoroscopy beginning in the early 1960s, when Frederick G. Weighart and James F. McNulty (1929-2014) at Automation Industries, Inc., then, in El Segundo, California produced on a fluoroscope the world’s first image to be digitally generated",
"title": "Fluoroscopy"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16859359",
"score": 1.0971038,
"text": "dissector: Bell went on to later predict that: \"...the day would come when the man at the telephone would be able to see the distant person to whom he was speaking.\" The discoveries in physics, chemistry and materials science underlying video technology would not be in place until the mid-1920s, first being utilized in electromechanical television. More practical 'all-electronic' video and television would not emerge until 1939, but would then suffer several more years of delays before gaining popularity due to the onset and effects of World War II. The compound name 'videophone' slowly entered into general usage after 1950,",
"title": "History of videotelephony"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "117531",
"score": 1.0859828,
"text": "the United States. Experiments with graphical sound were continued by Norman McLaren from the late 1930s. The first practical audio tape recorder was unveiled in 1935. Improvements to the technology were made using the AC biasing technique, which significantly improved recording fidelity. As early as 1942, test recordings were being made in stereo. Although these developments were initially confined to Germany, recorders and tapes were brought to the United States following the end of World War II. These were the basis for the first commercially produced tape recorder in 1948. In 1944, prior to the use of magnetic tape for",
"title": "Electronic music"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "444227",
"score": 1.0849147,
"text": "videocassette recorder (VCR) decks and tapes into the consumer market. The use of digital techniques in video created digital video, which allows higher quality and, eventually, much lower cost than earlier analog technology. After the invention of the DVD in 1997 and Blu-ray Disc in 2006, sales of videotape and recording equipment plummeted. Advances in computer technology allows even inexpensive personal computers and smartphones to capture, store, edit and transmit digital video, further reducing the cost of video production, allowing program-makers and broadcasters to move to tapeless production. The advent of digital broadcasting and the subsequent digital television transition is",
"title": "Video"
}
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Who had the noels Spy Hook and Spy Line published in the 80s? | [
"Leonard Cyril Deighton",
"Len Deighton",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8414771",
"score": 1.1094267,
"text": "Spy Hook Spy Hook is a 1988 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). \"Spy Hook\" is part of the \"Hook, Line and Sinker\" trilogy, being succeeded by \"Spy Line\" and \"Spy Sinker\". This trilogy is preceded by the \"Game, Set and Match\" trilogy and followed by the final \"Faith, Hope and Charity\" trilogy. Deighton's novel \"Winter\" (1987) is a prequel to the nine novels, covering the years 1900-1945 and providing the backstory",
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"id": "8414802",
"score": 1.0879518,
"text": "Spy Line Spy Line is a 1989 spy novel written by British writer Len Deighton. It is the second novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). \"Spy Line\" is part of the \"Hook, Line and Sinker\" trilogy, being preceded by \"Spy Hook\" and followed \"Spy Sinker\". This trilogy is preceded by the \"Game, Set and Match\" trilogy and followed by the final \"Faith, Hope and Charity\" trilogy. Deighton's novel \"Winter\" (1987) is a prequel to the nine novels, covering the years 1900-1945",
"title": "Spy Line"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8414773",
"score": 1.0524554,
"text": "\"Dodo\" and is saved from an untimely death by Prettyman, who it turns out has gone under \"deep-cover\". Bernard then takes his evidence to the Director General, who in a surprise turn of events orders his arrest, which thanks to some quick thinking by Werner Volkmann, Bernard evades for the while. The novel concludes with Bernard seeking an explanation from Frank Harrington, before disappearing into the night. Spy Hook Spy Hook is a 1988 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer",
"title": "Spy Hook"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8414804",
"score": 0.9891752,
"text": "meet his wife Fiona, whom it is now revealed is a double agent (It is not made clear for how long Bernard knew this). Finally, Fiona attempts to escape from East Germany, whereupon Erich Stinnes, and Fiona's sister Tessa are both killed. Bernard and Fiona escape back to the other side of the wall and are transported to America for debriefing. Spy Line Spy Line is a 1989 spy novel written by British writer Len Deighton. It is the second novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the",
"title": "Spy Line"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8414810",
"score": 0.95095783,
"text": "Spy Sinker Spy Sinker is a 1990 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the final novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). \"Spy Sinker\" is part of the \"Hook, Line and Sinker\" trilogy, being preceded by \"Spy Hook\" and \"Spy Line\". This trilogy is preceded by the \"Game, Set and Match\" trilogy and followed by the final \"Faith, Hope and Charity\" trilogy. Deighton's novel \"Winter\" (1987) is a prequel to the nine novels, covering the years 1900-1945 and providing the backstory",
"title": "Spy Sinker"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5211900",
"score": 0.930588,
"text": "by Field's sister Elsie to help rescue Noel and Herta. Noel Field remained a staunch communist; his final testament, written in Budapest and published in an American political journal, was entitled \"Hitching Our Wagon to a Star.\" Noel Field died in 1970, his wife Herta in 1980. His story became the subject of a 1997 documentary by the Swiss film producer Werner Schweizer, \"Noel Field - Der erfundene Spion\" (\"Noel Field, the Fictitious Spy\"). By Noel Field: By Hermann Field: Biographies: Other: Noel Field Noel Field (January 23, 1904 – September 12, 1970) was an American spy for the NKVD,",
"title": "Noel Field"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8414811",
"score": 0.92520964,
"text": "to some of the characters. \"Spy Sinker\" starts in 1977 and ends in 1987. It tells the entire story in the previous five novels from the third person perspective (Bernard Samson's bosses, his colleagues, his girlfriend Gloria, and most of all his wife Fiona). Thus it fills in the gaps in the story, as the previous five books only reveals what Bernard can see and think he understands. It also tells the back story leading up to the story in the five novels, which has only been hinted at previously. Spy Sinker Spy Sinker is a 1990 spy novel by",
"title": "Spy Sinker"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6653433",
"score": 0.9228928,
"text": "Pictures from the Granada TV production of Game Set & Match Bernard Samson Bernard Samson is a fictional character created by Len Deighton. Samson is a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) – usually referred to as \"the Department\" in the novels. He is a central character in three trilogies written by Deighton, set in the years 1983–1988, with a large gap between 1984 and 1987. The first trilogy comprises the books \"Berlin Game\", \"Mexico Set\" and \"London Match\", the second comprises \"Spy Hook\", \"Spy Line\" and \"Spy Sinker\", and the third and",
"title": "Bernard Samson"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5211874",
"score": 0.91261935,
"text": "Noel Field Noel Field (January 23, 1904 – September 12, 1970) was an American spy for the NKVD, whose activities before and after World War II allowed the Eastern Bloc to use his name as prosecuting rationale during the Rajk (1949) and Slánský (1952) show trials. While employed at the U.S. Department of State in the 1930s, Field acted as a Soviet spy. During World War II, he worked in France and Switzerland to support Jewish communist and anti-fascist refugees. During this time, he also had contacts with the U.S. intelligence service OSS. Arrested in Prague in 1949 and imprisoned",
"title": "Noel Field"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8414896",
"score": 0.9014147,
"text": "of Len Deighton's three trilogies about the MI6 operative Bernard Samson (\"Berlin Game\", \"Mexico Set\" and \"London Match\"; \"Spy Hook\", \"Spy Line,\" and \"Spy Sinker\"; and \"Faith\", \"Hope\" and \"Charity\"), this is the story that started it all. The novel provides the historical background to several of the characters in the nine novels. It does this by introducing the reader to a minor character at least in this novel - who is a British intelligence agent, a character which recurs in different guises throughout the novel, including, for a brief period in the 1920s. This character, we learn, is Brian",
"title": "Winter (Deighton novel)"
}
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the first credit cards were for use in what type of establishments? | [
"Eateries",
"Cookshop",
"Restuarant",
"Restarant",
"Resteraunt",
"Piqueteadero",
"Restaurant",
"Restaraunt",
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"text": "do so were introduced in Congress and some state legislatures. Some succeeded in the former goal, but those that sought to eliminate interest rate caps entirely failed. The term \"credit card\" had been used and proposed by utopian author Edward Bellamy in his 1887 book \"Looking Backward\". The first realizations of this model came during the Depression with Chargaplate, meant to encourage customers to spend money by introducing an alternative to cash and checks. Diners Club evolved in the early 50s as the first credit card company. In 1958, Bank of America had introduced BankAmeriCard (today's Visa), the first credit",
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"text": "have an embossed bank card number complying with the ISO/IEC 7812 numbering standard. In 1914, Western Union opened the first charge account for its customers and provided them with a paper identification. There were many larger department stores which opened store charge accounts for their customers with paper identification, enabling the customer to make purchases on credit provided by the store. However, these accounts could be used only within the store which issued them. In 1950, Diners Club began opening charge accounts with paper identification cards, directed at the travel and entertainment markets. The novel feature of these cards was",
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"text": "plans to lure new travelers into the air. In October 1948, the Air Travel Card became the first internationally valid charge card within all members of the International Air Transport Association. The concept of customers paying different merchants using the same card was expanded in 1950 by Ralph Schneider and Frank McNamara, founders of Diners Club, to consolidate multiple cards. The Diners Club, which was created partially through a merger with Dine and Sign, produced the first \"general purpose\" charge card and required the entire bill to be paid with each statement. That was followed by Carte Blanche and in",
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"text": "entertainment charge card, had been introduced in 1950, and American Express and Carte Blanche followed in 1958, but all of these offerings had to have bills repaid in 30 days and were accepted by a limited number of vendors. By the mid-1950s, Williams was the senior vice president in charge of a group that had the unofficial task of creating the nation's first all-purpose credit card. Studying previous failures and analyzing the successes by Sears, Roebuck and Company and Mobil in offering credit to their customers, the team led by Williams conceived of a set of features — an 18%",
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"text": "an Atlanta-based supermarket chain. American Express entered the credit card industry in 1958 with its own product, a purple charge card for travel and entertainment expenses. By the time Waters was hired in 1961, The American Express Card was number two in the industry behind Diners Club, still unprofitable, and management was unsure about what to do with the business. They considered merging with Diners Club and also forming a joint venture with Hilton Hotels. The card at that time was primarily accepted in restaurants, as hotels, car rental companies and airlines were either reluctant to accept credit cards or",
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"text": "card for purchases was described in 1887 by Edward Bellamy in his utopian novel \"Looking Backward\". Bellamy used the term \"credit card\" eleven times in this novel, although this referred to a card for spending a citizen's dividend from the government, rather than borrowing, making it more similar to a Debit card. Charge coins and other similar items were used from the late 19th century to the 1930s. They came in various shapes and sizes; with materials made out of celluloid (an early type of plastic), copper, aluminum, steel, and other types of whitish metals. Each charge coin usually had",
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"text": "preferences of the client, this may allow the card to be used as an ATM card, enabling transactions at automatic teller machines; or as debit card, linked to the client's bank account and able to be used for making purchases at the point of sale; or as a credit card attached to a revolving credit line supplied by the bank. The first bank cards were ATM cards issued by Barclays in London, in 1967, and by Chemical Bank in Long Island, New York, in 1969. In 1972, Lloyds Bank issued the first bank card to feature an information-encoding magnetic strip,",
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"text": "banking system under the Glass–Steagall Act meant that credit cards became an effective way for those who were traveling around the country to move their credit to places where they could not directly use their banking facilities. There are now countless variations on the basic concept of revolving credit for individuals (as issued by banks and honored by a network of financial institutions), including organization-branded credit cards, corporate-user credit cards, store cards and so on. In 1966, Barclaycard in the United Kingdom launched the first credit card outside the United States. Although credit cards reached very high adoption levels in",
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"text": "world, and in 1976, all BankAmericard licensees united themselves under the common brand Visa. In 1966, the ancestor of MasterCard was born when a group of banks established Master Charge to compete with BankAmericard; it received a significant boost when Citibank merged its own Everything Card, launched in 1967, into Master Charge in 1969. Early credit cards in the U.S., of which BankAmericard was the most prominent example, were mass-produced and mass mailed unsolicited to bank customers who were thought to be good credit risks. They have been mailed off to unemployables, drunks, narcotics addicts and to compulsive debtors, a",
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"text": "the all-purpose credit card (in the sense that his project was not cancelled outright), not in coming up with the idea. By the mid-1950s, the typical middle-class American already maintained revolving credit accounts with several different merchants, which was clearly inefficient and inconvenient due to the need to carry so many cards and pay so many separate bills each month. The need for a unified financial instrument was already evident to the American financial services industry, but no one could figure out how to do it. There were already charge cards like Diners Club (which had to be paid in",
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"text": "the books \"Geographical Plays for Young Folks at Home and School\" (1880) \"The Child's Health Primer\" (1885), \"Only A Year and What It Brought\" (1888), \"The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children\" (1889), and \"The Stories of My Four Friends\" (1900). Andrews' works continued to be used in elementary schools a half-century after her death. Andrews died of meningitis at the age of 53. Jane Andrews (author) Jane Andrews (December 1, 1833 – July 15, 1887) was an American author and educator. Andrews was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, as the third child and daughter of John and Margaret Demmon Rand",
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"text": "Shirley Andrews Shirley Aldythea Marshall Seymour Andrews was recognised throughout her life (1915–2001) for her work as a biochemist, dancer, researcher and aboriginal rights activist. Andrews was born on November 5, 1915, to Doris Andrews and Arthur Andrews. Andrews grew up in Sandringham, Victoria, living with her mother, grandmother and uncle. She attended school at Miss Montford's school, in Sandringham, until the age of eleven. Later, she boarded at St Michael's grammar in St Kilda, Victoria. After graduating from St Michael's, Andrews enrolled in a science course at the University of Melbourne, from 1934 to 1937. In her first years",
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"text": "of Australia and New Zealand in 1956–1958. She continued to act into the 1970s and died of cancer in 1973, aged 66, some 18 months after her diagnosis. She shares a memorial plaque with her husband Roger in the actors' church St Paul's, Covent Garden. Ursula Jeans Ursula Jeans (born 5 May 1906 – 21 April 1973) was an English film, stage, and television actress. Ursula Jeans was born in Simla, British India, to English parents, and brought up and educated in London. She was the youngest of three siblings. Her brother Desmond Jeans was a boxer and actor, and",
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"text": "to 1943. They wed when she was 16, and they had a daughter, Jerilyn. Her second marriage (October 27, 1945), to actor-singer [David Street], was annulled in April 1946. She was married to the actor Steve Brodie from October 14, 1946, until 1949. (Two newspaper articles say that she divorced Brodie March 3, 1949.) Andrews married musician and actor Ernest Brunner in December 1952. Andrews died of lung cancer at the age of 44. Lois Andrews Lois Andrews (March 24, 1924 – April 5, 1968) was an American actress. Born in Huntington Park, California, as Lorraine Gourley, she played in",
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"text": "V. C. Andrews Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist. She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Andrews died of breast cancer at the age of 63. Andrews' novels combine Gothic horror and family saga, revolving around family secrets and forbidden love (frequently involving themes of consensual incest, most often between siblings), and they often include a rags-to-riches story. Her best-known novel is the bestseller \"Flowers in the Attic\" (1979), a tale of four children locked in the attic of a wealthy Virginia family",
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"text": "Cyrus Andrews Frederick Cyrus Andrews (8 December 1902 – March 1988) was born in Bushey, Herts. In 1947, he compiled and edited the \"Radio Who's Who\" for Pendulum Publications. This book was updated as \"Radio and Television Who's Who\" in 1950 and 1954. Andrews was educated at Christ's Hospital before working in banking for 25 years. After this he turned to journalism when he became the radio critic for Sunday Empire News. He was also a radio writer for other publications, including Sound and Band Wagon. In 1949 he adapted \"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir\" for radio, and contributed many",
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"text": "popular, with \"Pretty Belinda\" (1969), \"Carol OK\" and \"Brown Eyes\" (both 1970) all topping the charts there. \"Yo Yo\" reached No. 7 at the end of 1970. Andrews remains active in his career as a singer-songwriter, working primarily in continental Europe and in the United Kingdom. He lives with his second wife Alexandra, who is also his manager, in Selm, Germany, and Mallorca. Because of the Brexit vote, Andrews obtained also a German citizenship in 2016. Chris Andrews (singer) Christopher Frederick Andrews (born 15 October 1942) is an English singer-songwriter whose musical career started in the late 1950s. Andrews was",
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"text": "wins to finish in sixth place. Andrews died on 18 June 1996. Fencing Mid South awards the Florence Andrews Trophy annually to the winner of the junior girls' foil. Florence Andrews Mabel Florence Andrews (16 September 1912 – 18 June 1996) was a New Zealand fencer, who represented her country at the 1950 British Empire Games. Born on 16 September 1912, Andrews was the daughter of Florence Mabel Andrews (née Cross) and Lancelot William Dolling Andrews. A member of the Christchurch Swords Club, Andrews won the New Zealand national women's fencing championship in 1939 and 1946, the competition not being",
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"text": "years and is now resident on the Isle of Man, but spends as much time as possible back on Merseyside, seeing her children and grandchildren. Lyn Andrews Lyn Andrews (born 1944) is the nom de plume used by British novelist Lynda M. Andrews. Her stories centre mainly around Liverpool and Ireland. Andrews was born and raised in the Liverpool suburb of Fazakerley, She is the daughter of a hairdresser and a police officer. She was educated at the Convent of Notre-Dame at Everton Valley where she did not excel at English but had a passion for history and literature, eventually",
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"text": "Louise Andrews Kent Louise Andrews Kent (May 25, 1886 – August 6, 1969) was an American author. She was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1886 and graduated from Simmons College School of Library Science in 1909, where she was president of her senior class and editor of the college paper. She became a newspaper columnist and author of children's books, cookbooks. She wrote a newspaper column, \"Theresa’s Tea Table\", in the Boston Traveller under the pen name of \"Theresa Tempest\" and later authored a series of cookbooks as \"Mrs. Appleyard\". Kent, also as \"Mrs. Appleyard\", wrote a quarterly feature on",
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"text": "of it.\" Cronkite also angered the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the show's sponsor, by grammatically correcting its advertising slogan. Instead of saying \"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should\" verbatim, he substituted \"as\" for \"like.\" He was the lead broadcaster of the network's coverage of the 1960 Winter Olympics, the first-ever time such an event was televised in the United States. He replaced Jim McKay, who had suffered a mental breakdown. On April 16, 1962, Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS's nightly feature newscast, tentatively renamed \"Walter Cronkite with the News\", but later the \"CBS Evening",
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"text": "a one-evening test broadcast on August 19, 1965, before permanently switching to the format on January 31, 1966. Cronkite's prime time special report, \"Who, What, When, Where, Why\", broadcast on February 27, 1968, ended with his declaration that the United States could only hope for a stalemate in Vietnam. It is often credited with influencing Lyndon Johnson's decision to drop out of the race for President. \"If I've lost Walter Cronkite ... [I]'ve lost Middle America\", he stated. Under Cronkite, the newscast began what would eventually become an 18-year period of dominating the ratings among the network evening news programs.",
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"text": "News\" on September 2, 1963, when the show was expanded from 15 to 30 minutes, making Cronkite the anchor of American network television's first nightly half-hour news program. Cronkite's tenure as anchor of the \"CBS Evening News\" made him an icon in television news. During the early part of his tenure anchoring the \"CBS Evening News\", Cronkite competed against NBC's anchor team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, who anchored the \"Huntley-Brinkley Report\". For much of the 1960s, the \"Huntley-Brinkley Report\" had more viewers than Cronkite's broadcast. A key moment for Cronkite came during his coverage of John F. Kennedy's",
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"text": "and Managing Editor of \"The\" \"CBS Evening News\". Rather assumed the position upon Cronkite's retirement, making his first broadcast on March 9, 1981. From the beginning of his tenure, it was clear that Rather had a significantly different style of reporting the news. In contrast to the avuncular Cronkite, who ended his newscast with \"That's the way it is\", Rather searched to find a broadcast ending more suitable to his tastes. For one week in September 1986, with CBS the target of potentially hostile new ownership, Rather tried ending his broadcasts with the word \"courage\" and was roundly ridiculed for",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "he ended the newscast with opinion or commentary. Beginning with January 16, 1980, Day 50 of the Iran hostage crisis, Cronkite added the length of the hostages' captivity to the show's closing in order to remind the audience of the unresolved situation, ending only on Day 444, January 20, 1981. Cronkite is vividly remembered for breaking the news of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963. Cronkite had been standing at the United Press International wire machine in the CBS newsroom as the bulletin of the President's shooting broke and he clamored to get on the",
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"text": "Walter Cronkite Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the \"CBS Evening News\" for 19 years (1962–1981). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as \"the most trusted man in America\" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy,",
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "presidential candidate Richard Nixon gave a press conference, with Murrow and Cronkite in the anchor booth for CBS. Producer Don Hewitt told him to remove his headset and place it on Nixon so that Murrow and Cronkite could speak to him directly. He did so, handed Nixon his microphone, and told him \"Walter Cronkite and Ed Murrow want to talk to you.\" Nixon went on the answer their questions, audible only to him. This practice of placing headsets on personalities to talk to Cronkite became a CBS trademark and joke. The last election he covered for CBS was in 1960,",
"title": "Bill Downs"
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "Artists left the network without an immediate substitute. For 13 days, Zenker delivered the \"CBS Evening News\", telling viewers that he was \"sitting in for Walter Cronkite\". After the strike ended, Cronkite returned on April 11, 1967, and opened with the words, \"Good evening. This is Walter Cronkite, sitting in for Arnold Zenker. It's good to be back.\" Once the strike ended Zenker returned to his former post. After that he went on to host a variety of television and radio shows in Boston and Baltimore and worked at one time in labor relations at ABC. Zenker founded the company",
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"text": "greeting \"Good evening everyone, coast to coast\" to begin each broadcast. On November 30, 1956, the program became the first to use the new technology of videotape to time delay the broadcast (which originated in New York City) for the western United States. Walter Cronkite became anchor of the program titled \"Walter Cronkite with the News\" on April 16, 1962. On September 2, 1963, the program, retitled \"CBS Evening News\", became the first half-hour weeknight news broadcast of network television and was moved to 6:30 p.m. Eastern time (the \"Huntley-Brinkley Report\" on NBC expanded to 30 minutes exactly one week",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "dispatch Cronkite to the CBS Radio Network booth to report the events and play the audio over the television airwaves while the crew worked on the camera to see if they could get it set up quicker. Meanwhile, CBS was ten minutes into its live broadcast of the soap opera \"As the World Turns (ATWT)\", which had begun at the very minute of the shooting. A \"CBS News Bulletin\" bumper slide abruptly broke into the broadcast at 1:40 pm EST. Over the slide, Cronkite began reading what would be the first of three audio-only bulletins that were filed in the",
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Which item of clothing cost Isadora Duncan her life? | [
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"text": "Isadora Duncan Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50, when her scarf became entangled in the wheels and axle of the car in which she was riding. Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco, the youngest of the four children of Joseph Charles Duncan (1819–1898), a banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora Gray",
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"text": "how memorable it was, but what Zelda recalled was that while all eyes were watching Duncan, Zelda was able to steal the salt and pepper shakers from the table. In his book \"Isadora, an Intimate Portrait\", Sewell Stokes, who met Duncan in the last years of her life, describes her extravagant waywardness. Duncan's autobiography \"My Life\" was published in 1927. The Australian composer Percy Grainger called Isadora's autobiography a \"life-enriching masterpiece.\" On the night of September 14, 1927, in Nice, France, Duncan was a passenger in an Amilcar CGSS automobile owned by Benoît Falchetto, a French-Italian mechanic. She wore a",
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"text": "In 1927, Isadora Duncan has become a legend as the innovator of modern dance, a temperamental bohemian, and an outspoken advocate of free love. Now past 40, she lives in poverty in a small hotel on the French Riviera with her companion Mary Estelle Dempsey/Mary Desti (named only as Mary in the film) and her secretary Roger, to whom she is dictating her memoirs. As a young girl in California, Isadora first demonstrates her disdain for accepted social standards by burning her parents' marriage certificate and pledging her dedication to the pursuit of art and beauty. In 1896, she performs",
"title": "Isadora"
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"text": "(1849–1922). Her brothers were Augustin Duncan and Raymond Duncan; her sister, Elizabeth Duncan, was also a dancer. Soon after Isadora's birth, her father was exposed in illegal bank dealings, and the family became extremely poor. Her parents divorced when she was an infant, and her mother moved with her family to Oakland, California, where she worked as a seamstress and piano teacher. From ages six to ten, Isadora attended school, but she dropped out, finding it constricting. As her family was very poor, she and her three siblings earned money by teaching dance to local children. In 1896, Duncan became",
"title": "Isadora Duncan"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "Bugatti, a handsome Italian whom she has been admiring for several days. She goes for a drive with him in his sports car, and as they roar along a road by the sea, Isadora's long chiffon scarf catches in the spokes of a wheel and strangles her. Isadora Isadora (also known as The Loves of Isadora) is a 1968 biographical film which tells the story of celebrated American dancer Isadora Duncan. It stars Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, and Jason Robards. The film was adapted by Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, and Clive Exton from the books \"My Life\" by Isadora and",
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"text": "Isadora Isadora (also known as The Loves of Isadora) is a 1968 biographical film which tells the story of celebrated American dancer Isadora Duncan. It stars Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, and Jason Robards. The film was adapted by Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, and Clive Exton from the books \"My Life\" by Isadora and \"Isadora, an Intimate Portrait\" by Sewell Stokes. It was directed by Karel Reisz. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (Vanessa Redgrave). The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, where Redgrave won Best Actress.",
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"text": "long, flowing, hand-painted silk scarf, created by the Russian-born artist Roman Chatov, a gift from her friend Mary Desti, the mother of American film director Preston Sturges. Desti, who saw Duncan off, had asked her to wear a cape in the open-air vehicle because of the cold weather, but she would only agree to wear the scarf. As they departed, she reportedly said to Desti and some companions, \"\" (\"Farewell, my friends. I go to glory!\"); but according to the American novelist Glenway Wescott, Desti later told him that Duncan's actual parting words were, (\"I am off to love\"). Desti",
"title": "Isadora Duncan"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1398374",
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"text": "is also the subject of Amelia Gray's novel \"Isadora\" (2017). Two characters in the \"A Series of Unfortunate Events\" series of novels are named after her, Isadora Quagmire and Duncan Quagmire. Among the films featuring Duncan are: Ballets based on Duncan include: On the theatre stage, Duncan is portrayed in: Duncan is featured in music in: In the poem \"Fever 103\" by Sylvia Plath, the speaker alludes to Isadora's scarves. Archival collections Other Isadora Duncan Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout",
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"text": "her, shortly after her death, entitled \"Isadora, an Intimate Portrait\". Two years after the first broadcast of the TV film, Vanessa Redgrave played the role of Isadora Duncan in the big-screen biopic \"Isadora\". Russell's biographer Joseph Lanza believes that \"of all his television work, \"Isadora\" is his most accomplished\". It explores his \"ongoing theme of art being a thing of both glory and vulgarity\" Bill Gibron from DVD Talk gave the film a very good review and stated: \"Herself trained as a dancer, Pickles lights up the screen when she's onstage, Duncan's inflated ego disappearing into a series of carefully",
"title": "Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World"
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"text": "Fauconnet (1882-1920) designed the invitation. Isadora Duncan, wearing a Hellenic evening gown designed by Poiret, danced on tables among 300 guests and 900 bottles of champagne were consumed until the first light of day. Isadora Duncan, a girl from California said to have posed for Eadweard Muybridge, placed an emphasis on \"evolutionary\" dance motion, insisting that each movement was born from the one that preceded it, that each movement gave rise to the next, and so on in organic succession. Her dancing defined the force of progress, change, abstraction and liberation. In France too Duncan delighted her audience. André Dunoyer",
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Who had a 70s No 1 hit with Let Your Love Flow? | [
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"text": "career.\" \"Let Your Love Flow\" reached #1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 dated 1 May 1976, also crossing-over to the \"Billboard\" chart rankings for Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks with a peak of #2, and also for Hot Country Singles with a peak of #21. According to David Bellamy (quote): \"There were a couple of guys from Holland [ie. the Netherlands] who were in town when the single was released, and our record company gave it to them to take home and they also sent it to Germany\", and \"Let Your Love Flow\" would in fact debut at #22 on the",
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"text": "Let Your Love Flow \"Let Your Love Flow\" is a pop song written by Larry E. Williams which was recorded in the autumn of 1975 by country music duo the Bellamy Brothers for whom it afforded an international hit in 1976. The song's composer Larry E. Williams had been a roadie for Neil Diamond's live shows and \"Let Your Love Flow\" had been published by Bicycle Music who owned Diamond's own catalog having been founded by the singer - on Diamond's apparent disinterest in recording the song himself Howard Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers has commented \"it really wasn't in",
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"id": "10628221",
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"text": "Dutch Top 30 chart dated 6 March 1976, the same date as the track's \"Billboard\" Top 40 debut at #38: the track would eventually peak at #6 on both the Dutch chart and Belgium's Flemish chart. In June and July 1976 \"Let Your Love Flow\" spent five weeks at #1 in Germany and also in Switzerland, while the track would be ranked at #1 on the monthly Austrian hit parades dated the 15th of August, September and October. \"Let Your Love Flow\" was afforded further European success with a seven-week tenure at #2 in both Norway and Sweden, while in",
"title": "Let Your Love Flow"
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"id": "10628222",
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"text": "the British Isles the track achieved chart peaks of #7 in the UK and #3 in Ireland. \"Let Your Love Flow\" also reached #1 on the hit parade for South Africa, #2 in New Zealand and #6 in Australia. In 2008 and 2009 \"Let Your Love Flow\" enjoyed a UK chart renaissance due to the song's being featured in a television ad for Barclays promoting the bank's Barclaycard in its contactless format. Filmed in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the ad's focus was on an office clerk - played by Robert Wilfort - who utilizes his Barclaycard while traveling",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10628223",
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"text": "home on a waterslide, a metaphor for the ease with which the card may be used. The ad was first aired 25 October 2008, and two weeks later \"Let Your Love Flow\" re-entered the UK Top 100 singles chart dated 8 November 2008 at #48, with the track eventually peaking at #21 over a six-week tenure with subsequent UK chart tenures of five weeks in February/ March 2009 (peak #48) and three weeks that summer (#76). Speaking for the Bellamy Brothers, David Bellamy would state: \"We had no idea the song 'Let Your Love Flow' had been licensed to Barclay",
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"text": "for an advertisement [until] after the single started climbing the charts in England. Any artist is always thrilled when one of your signature songs has longevity like this because it was thirty-two years ago when we first released the tune. We’ve always had such faithful fans in Europe, like we do in the United States, but with the single charting again we’re introducing our music to a whole new generation of music lovers.\" In other media, \"Let Your Love Flow\" was featured in the 1980 Tatum O'Neal film \"Little Darlings\", the 2008 period drama \"Swingtown,\" and season 2 episode 'No",
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"text": "Your Love Flow\", written by Diamond's roadie Larry Williams. Released in 1976, \"Let Your Love Flow\" was a No. 1 single on the United States pop charts, as well as more than a dozen countries worldwide. Although \"Let Your Love Flow\" was also a hit on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, the Bellamys' country music success was limited until 1979, when \"If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me\" was released. The song, whose \"double entendre\" title was derived from a Groucho Marx quote, landed the Bellamys their first country music No.",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10628225",
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"text": "Room at the Inn' of the HBO series \"The Leftovers\". \"Let Your Love Flow\" has been covered by numerous other artists, most notably Joan Baez, who included it on her 1979 \"Honest Lullaby\" album. Another re-recording by the Bellamy brothers with Gölä is included on the album \"The Greatest Hits Sessions\". \"\"Ein Bett im Kornfeld\"\", a German language adaptation of the song recorded by Jürgen Drews, spent six weeks at #1 in West Germany in 1976, immediately subsequent to the five-week #1 tenure of the Bellamy Brothers' original. Let Your Love Flow \"Let Your Love Flow\" is a pop song",
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10628218",
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"text": "with a resultant regional hit: \"Nothin' Heavy\", #77 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the autumn of 1975. David Bellamy's recording sessions featured members of Neil Diamond's band including drummer Dennis St John, and it was St John who recommended \"Let Your Love Flow\" to the Bellamys. Howard Bellamy recalls that Dennis St John \"one daycame over to our house and brought the demo of 'Let Your Love Flow' and said: 'Hey, this sounds like something you guys would do.'\" David Bellamy recalls St John mentioning the song as appropriate for the Bellamys to record, but that St John sent",
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "his [ie. Diamond's] vein\" - and according to Howard, Johnny Rivers had also passed on \"Let Your Love Flow\". The song as recorded by Gene Cotton was a single release in the autumn of 1975 making Cotton's version - featured on his 1976 album release \"For All the Young Writers\" - the earliest released version of \"Let Your Love Flow\" although it is unclear if Cotton's recording of song was made prior to that by the Bellamy Brothers. The Bellamy Brothers - siblings David and Howard Bellamy from Pasco County- had been working as session musicians at the Studio 70",
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"text": "1996. In their 1997 rematch, Tyson bit a chunk from Holyfield's ear, resulting in his disqualification; Tyson's boxing license was revoked by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for one year and he was fined US$3 million. Holyfield won two of the three title belts, but lost a final match in 1999 with WBC champion Lennox Lewis, who became undisputed champion. The last decade has witnessed a continued decline in the popularity of boxing in the United States, marked by a malaise in the heavyweight division and the increased competition in the Pay-Per-View market from MMA and its main promotion, the",
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"text": "rights, and casino profits. As a result of biting Holyfield on both ears and other behavior, Tyson's boxing license was revoked by the Nevada State Athletic Commission and he was fined $3 million plus legal costs. The revocation was not permanent; a little more than a year later on October 18, 1998, the commission voted 4–1 to restore Tyson's boxing license. In the 2008 documentary \"Tyson\", the boxer claimed he did it as retaliation for the headbutting. On October 16, 2009 on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\", Tyson apologized to Holyfield. Holyfield accepted his apology and forgave Tyson. A book entitled",
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"text": "Tyson was roundly condemned in the news media but was not without defenders. Novelist and commentator Katherine Dunn wrote a column that criticized Holyfield's sportsmanship in the controversial bout and charged the news media with being biased against Tyson. On July 9, 1997, Tyson's boxing license was rescinded by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in a unanimous voice vote; he was also fined US$3 million and ordered to pay the legal costs of the hearing. As most state athletic commissions honor sanctions imposed by other states, this effectively made Tyson unable to box in the United States. The revocation was",
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"text": "was originally scheduled for April 6, 2002 in Las Vegas. However, Nevada refused to grant Tyson a license after a press conference brawl between Lewis and Tyson (see below). Several other states refused Tyson a license before Memphis finally bid US$12 million in order to host the fight. The referee for the fight was Eddie Cotton, officiating his 20th world title bout. Alfred Buqwana of South Africa, Anek Hongtongkam of Thailand and Bob Logist of Belgium were appointed as judges, although both the WBC and the Tennessee Athletic Commission wanted judges from different continents. Lewis weighed in at 249.25 lb",
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"text": "not permanent, as the commission voted 4–1 to restore Tyson's boxing license on October 18, 1998. During his time away from boxing in 1998, Tyson made a guest appearance at WrestleMania XIV as an enforcer for the main event match between Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin. During this time, Tyson was also an unofficial member of Michaels' stable, D-Generation X. Tyson was paid $3 million for being guest enforcer of the match at WrestleMania XIV. In January 1999, Tyson returned to the ring for a match against the South African Francois Botha. This match also ended in controversy. While Botha",
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"text": "The result was later changed to no contest after Tyson refused to take a pre-fight drug test and then tested positive for marijuana in a post-fight urine test. Tyson fought only once in 2001, beating Brian Nielsen in Copenhagen by TKO in the seventh round. Tyson once again had the opportunity to fight for a heavyweight championship in 2002. Lennox Lewis held the WBC, IBF, IBO and Lineal titles at the time. As promising fighters, Tyson and Lewis had sparred at a training camp in a meeting arranged by Cus D'Amato in 1984. Tyson sought to fight Lewis in Nevada",
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"text": "for a more lucrative box-office venue, but the Nevada Boxing Commission refused him a license to box as he was facing possible sexual assault charges at the time. Two years prior to the bout, Tyson had made several inflammatory remarks to Lewis in an interview following the Savarese fight. The remarks included the statement \"I want your heart, I want to eat your children.\" On January 22, 2002, the two boxers and their entourages were involved in a brawl at a New York press conference to publicize the planned event. A few weeks later, the Nevada State Athletic Commission refused",
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"text": "protested by the National Organization for Women. Tyson, in the meantime, had been somewhat active since his release from prison. After defeating journeyman Peter McNeeley in his first fight and fringe contender Buster Mathis, Jr. in his follow-up, Tyson regained the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship in Las Vegas on March 16, 1996 by knocking out champion Frank Bruno. Tyson, however, was stripped of the WBC title after winning Bruce Seldon's WBA title for electing to fight Holyfield instead of WBC number one contender Lennox Lewis. Showtime promoted the event as a heavyweight title tripleheader, as two other champions were",
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"text": "probation along with undergoing 200 hours of community service for assaulting two motorists after a traffic accident on August 31, 1998. He served nine months of that sentence. After his release, he fought Orlin Norris on October 23, 1999. Tyson knocked down Norris with a left hook thrown after the bell sounded to end the first round. Norris injured his knee when he went down and said that he was unable to continue. Consequently, the bout was ruled a no contest. In 2000, Tyson had three fights. The first match was staged at the MEN Arena at Manchester, England against",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "506745",
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"text": "to grant Tyson a license for the fight, and the promoters had to make alternative arrangements. After multiple states balked at granting Tyson a license, the fight eventually occurred on June 8 at the Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee. Lewis dominated the fight and knocked out Tyson with a right hand in the eighth round. Tyson was respectful after the fight and praised Lewis on his victory. This fight was the highest-grossing event in pay-per-view history at that time, generating $106.9 million from 1.95 million buys in the USA. In another Memphis fight on February 22, 2003, Tyson beat fringe",
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Neil Armstrong was a pilot in which war? | [
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"text": "anti-aircraft fire while making a low bombing run, and was forced to bail out. After the war, he completed his bachelor's degree at Purdue and became a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was the project pilot on Century Series fighters and flew the North American X-15 seven times. He was also a participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs. Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in the second group, which was selected in 1962. He",
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"text": "Neil Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. A graduate of Purdue University, Armstrong studied aeronautical engineering with his college tuition paid for by the U.S. Navy under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949, and a naval aviator the following year. He saw action in the Korean War, flying the Grumman F9F Panther from the aircraft carrier . In September 1951, he was hit by",
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"text": "will never be forgotten.\" Armstrong's family released a statement describing him as a \"reluctant American hero [who had] served his nation proudly, as a navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut ... While we mourn the loss of a very good man, we also celebrate his remarkable life and hope that it serves as an example to young people around the world to work hard to make their dreams come true, to be willing to explore and push the limits, and to selflessly serve a cause greater than themselves. For those who may ask what they can do to honor",
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"text": "parachute was blown back over land. A jeep driven by a roommate from flight school picked him up; it is unknown what happened to the wreckage of his aircraft, F9F-2 BuNo \"125122\". In all, Armstrong flew 78 missions over Korea for a total of 121 hours in the air, a third of them in January 1952, with the final mission on March 5, 1952. Of 492 U.S. Navy personnel killed in the Korean War, 27 of them were from the \"Essex\" on this war cruise. Armstrong received the Air Medal for 20 combat missions, two gold stars for the next",
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"text": "Armstrong's engineering ability. Milt Thompson said he was \"the most technically capable of the early X-15 pilots\". Bill Dana said Armstrong \"had a mind that absorbed things like a sponge\". Those who flew for the Air Force tended to have a different opinion, especially people like Chuck Yeager and Pete Knight, who did not have engineering degrees. Knight said that pilot-engineers flew in a way that was \"more mechanical than it is flying\", and gave this as the reason why some pilot-engineers got into trouble: their flying skills did not come naturally. Armstrong made seven flights in the X-15 between",
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"text": "40, the Korean Service Medal and Engagement Star, the National Defense Service Medal and the United Nations Korea Medal. His regular commission was terminated on February 25, 1952, and he became an ensign in the United States Navy Reserve. On completion of his combat tour with \"Essex\", he was assigned to a transport squadron, VR-32, in May 1952. He was released from active duty on August 23, 1952, but remained in the reserves, and was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) on May 9, 1953. As a reservist, he continued to fly, with VF-724 at Naval Air Station Glenview in Illinois,",
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"text": "Armstrong's hometown of Wapakoneta, and the airport in New Knoxville, Ohio where he took his first flying lessons at 15, are named after him. Purdue University announced in October 2004 that its new engineering building would be named Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering; the building was dedicated on October 27, 2007 during a ceremony at which Armstrong was joined by fourteen other Purdue astronauts. The NASA Dryden Flight Research Center was renamed the NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center in 2014. In September 2012, the U.S. Navy announced that the first \"Armstrong\"-class vessel would be named . Delivered to",
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"id": "290630",
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"text": "of the middle part of her brain stem; X-ray treatment slowed its growth, but her health deteriorated to the point where she could no longer walk or talk. She died of pneumonia, related to her weakened health, on January 28, 1962, aged two. Following his graduation from Purdue, Armstrong became an experimental research test pilot. He applied at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base. NACA had no open positions, and forwarded his application to the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, where Armstrong made his first test flight on March 1,",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10310109",
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"text": "to that airport.\" The young Armstrong becomes a naval aviator. Management of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) takes an interest in Armstrong's combination of calmness and personal skill coupled with his above-average intellect. Although contrasting somewhat with many of his colleagues, the Apollo 11 crew winding up as \"amiable strangers\", he attracts widespread respect. The fact that Armstrong gets chosen to be \"first down\" on the lunar surface is a surprise, with astronaut Edwin \"Buzz\" Aldrin Jr. being expected to get priority. The mission itself proceeds spectacularly well, and Armstrong gives his famous line: \"That's one small step",
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"text": "group for the X-20 Dyna-Soar, a military space plane under development by Boeing for the U.S. Air Force, and on March 15, 1962, he was selected by the U.S. Air Force as one of seven pilot-engineers who would fly the X-20 when it got off the design board. In April 1962, NASA announced that applications were being sought for the second group of NASA astronauts for Project Gemini, a proposed two-man spacecraft. This time, selection was open to qualified civilian test pilots. Armstrong visited the Seattle World's Fair in May 1962, and attended a conference there on space exploration that",
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Nickelodeon was founded in 1979 by which company? | [
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"text": "founded in 1995, as a family entertainment arm of Paramount Pictures (owned by Nickelodeon corporate parent Viacom), which releases the studio's films. The first film released from the studio was the 1996 mystery/comedy \"Harriet the Spy\". Nickelodeon Movies has produced films based on Nickelodeon animated programs including \"The Rugrats Movie\" and \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\", as well as other adaptations and original live-action and animated projects. Nickelodeon Magazine was a print magazine that was launched in 1993; the channel had previously published a short-lived magazine effort in 1990. \"Nickelodeon Magazine\" incorporated informative non-fiction pieces, humor (including pranks and parodical pieces),",
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"text": "Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children. It is owned by Viacom through its Viacom Media Networks division's Nickelodeon Group unit and is based in New York City. It is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 2–17. The channel was originally first tested as Pinwheel on December 1, 1977. Pinwheel was at the time only available on QUBE, which was the first two-way major market interactive cable television system, owned by Warner Cable. Pinwheel relaunched as Nickelodeon on April 1, 1979, and",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1360354",
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"text": "a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Nickelodeon launched on April 1, 1979, initially distributed to Warner Cable systems via satellite on the RCA Satcom-1 transponder. Originally commercial-free, advertising was introduced in January 1984. Nickelodeon's schedule currently consists largely of original series aimed at children, pre-teens and young teenagers, including animated series (such as \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", \"ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks\", \"The Loud House\", \"Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\", and \"The Adventures of Kid Danger\"), to live-action comedy and action series (such as \"Power Rangers Ninja Steel\", \"The Thundermans\", \"Henry Danger\", \"Game Shakers\", \"School of Rock\", along with the month-long",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13812359",
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"text": "putting them over rival companies such as HBO. Nickelodeon launched on April 1, 1979 (as the first ever all children's network) on Warner Cable's system in Buffalo, New York. It quickly expanded its audience reach, first to other Warner Cable systems across the country, and eventually to other cable providers. It was distributed via satellite on RCA Satcom-1, which went into orbit one week earlier on March 26 – originally transmitted on transponder space purchased from televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Despite its prior history on the QUBE system under the Pinwheel name, Nickelodeon has designated 1979 as the",
"title": "History of Nickelodeon"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1360383",
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"text": "some of its cartoons and other content, in English and local languages, to free-to-air networks and subscription channels such as KI.KA and Super RTL in Germany, RTÉ Two (English language) and TG4 (Irish language) in Ireland, YTV (in English) and Vrak.TV (in French) in Canada, Canal J in France, Alpha Kids in Greece, and CNBC-e in Turkey. Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children. It is owned by Viacom through its Viacom Media Networks division's Nickelodeon Group unit and is based in New",
"title": "Nickelodeon"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13812380",
"score": 0.97235346,
"text": "14, 2005, Viacom decided to separate into two companies as a result of the declining performance of the company's stock; both resulting companies would be controlled by Viacom parent National Amusements. In December 2005, Nickelodeon and the remainder of the MTV Networks division, as well as Paramount Pictures, BET Networks, and Famous Music (a record label that the company sold off in 2007), were spun off to the new Viacom. The original Viacom was renamed CBS Corporation and retained CBS and its other broadcasting assets, Showtime Networks, Paramount Television (now the separate arms CBS Television Studios for network and cable",
"title": "History of Nickelodeon"
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"id": "6121748",
"score": 0.9705006,
"text": "Nickelodeon Animation Studio Nickelodeon Animation Studio, also known in Burbank as Nickelodeon Studios Burbank, is an American animation studio owned and operated by Viacom through Nickelodeon producing many animated television series. Notable television shows include \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", \"The Loud House\", \"The Fairly OddParents\", \"\", \"Hey Arnold!\", \"Invader Zim\", \"CatDog\", \"The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron\", \"Welcome to the Wayne\", \"The Angry Beavers\", \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\", and \"Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\" while also producing programs for Nicktoons, Nick at Nite, TeenNick, and Nick Jr. including shows like \"Dora the Explorer\", \"The Backyardigans\", and \"PAW Patrol\". The animation division",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13812357",
"score": 0.96857214,
"text": "History of Nickelodeon Nickelodeon is an American basic cable and satellite television network that is part of the Nickelodeon Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom, which focuses on programs aimed at children and teenagers; it has since expanded to include three spin-off digital cable and satellite networks in the United States, and international channels in six continents. Nickelodeon's history dates back to December 1, 1977, when QUBE, the first two-way major market interactive cable television system was launched in Columbus, Ohio by Warner Cable, the parent company of Dimension Pictures. One of the ten \"community\"",
"title": "History of Nickelodeon"
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"id": "13812382",
"score": 0.9651205,
"text": "On December 31, 2005, the original incarnation of Viacom split into two new companies, resulting in the creation of CBS Corporation and the current incarnation of Viacom. On January 4, 2006, Herb Scannell resigned from Nickelodeon. Cyma Zarghami was appointed in his place as president of the newly formed Kids & Family Group, which currently includes Nickelodeon, Nick@Nite, Nick Jr., TeenNick, Nicktoons, TV Land, CMT, and CMT Pure Country. In 2007, Nickelodeon entered into a four-year development deal with Sony Music to produce music-themed TV shows for the network, to help fund and launch tie-in albums, and to produce original",
"title": "History of Nickelodeon"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1360363",
"score": 0.95742595,
"text": "to its previous name in September 2009. The network airs a mix of newer live action & animated shows from Nick (like \"The Haunted Hathaways\", \"Fanboy & Chum Chum\", \"Robot and Monster\", \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", and \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\" along with original series produced exclusively for Nicktoons). Nick Jr. is a pay television network aimed primarily at children between 2 and 7 years of age, featuring a mix of current and some former preschool-oriented programs from Nickelodeon, and original series exclusive to the channel; it originally launched on February 2, 1999, as Noggin, a joint venture between MTV Networks and",
"title": "Nickelodeon"
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] |
Which element along with polonium did the Curies discover? | [
"Radium",
"Radium (Ra)",
"Ra-226",
"Element 88"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4465576",
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"text": "element among the fractions that resulted. Working with the mineral pitchblende, the pair discovered a new radioactive element in 1898. They named the element polonium, after Marie's native country of Poland. On December 21, 1898, the Curies detected the presence of another radioactive material in the pitchblende. They presented this finding to the French Academy of Sciences on December 26, proposing that the new element be called radium. The Curies then went to work isolating polonium and radium from naturally occurring compounds to prove that they were new elements. In 1902, the Curies announced that they had produced a decigram",
"title": "History of chemistry"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "313421",
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"text": "the Curies while they were investigating the cause of pitchblende radioactivity. Pitchblende, after removal of the radioactive elements uranium and thorium, was more radioactive than the uranium and thorium combined. This spurred the Curies to search for additional radioactive elements. They first separated out polonium from pitchblende in July 1898, and five months later, also isolated radium. German scientist Willy Marckwald successfully isolated 3 milligrams of polonium in 1902, though at the time he believed it was a new element, which he dubbed \"radio-tellurium\", and it was not until 1905 that it was demonstrated to be the same as polonium.",
"title": "Polonium"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "278892",
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"text": "doubt, the Curies sought to isolate polonium and radium in pure form. Pitchblende is a complex mineral; the chemical separation of its constituents was an arduous task. The discovery of polonium had been relatively easy; chemically it resembles the element bismuth, and polonium was the only bismuth-like substance in the ore. Radium, however, was more elusive; it is closely related chemically to barium, and pitchblende contains both elements. By 1898 the Curies had obtained traces of radium, but appreciable quantities, uncontaminated with barium, were still beyond reach. The Curies undertook the arduous task of separating out radium salt by differential",
"title": "Marie Curie"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "313420",
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"text": "years) can be made through the alpha, proton, or deuteron bombardment of lead or bismuth in a cyclotron. Tentatively called \"radium F\", polonium was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, and was named after Marie Curie's native land of Poland (). Poland at the time was under Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian partition, and did not exist as an independent country. It was Curie's hope that naming the element after her native land would publicize its lack of independence. Polonium may be the first element named to highlight a political controversy. This element was the first one discovered by",
"title": "Polonium"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "278891",
"score": 1.2485869,
"text": "was present in such minute quantities that they would eventually have to process tons of the ore. In July 1898, Curie and her husband published a joint paper announcing the existence of an element which they named \"polonium\", in honour of her native Poland, which would for another twenty years remain partitioned among three empires (Russian, Austrian, and Prussian). On 26 December 1898, the Curies announced the existence of a second element, which they named \"radium\", from the Latin word for \"ray\". In the course of their research, they also coined the word \"radioactivity\". To prove their discoveries beyond any",
"title": "Marie Curie"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "72997",
"score": 1.2349153,
"text": "and Pierre Curie discovered that a sample of pitchblende was emitting four times as much radioactivity as could be explained by the presence of uranium alone. The Curies gathered several tons of pitchblende and refined it for several months until they had a pure sample of polonium. The discovery officially took place in 1898. Prior to the invention of particle accelerators, the only way to create polonium was to extract it over several months from uranium ore. The first attempt at creating livermorium was from 1976 to 1977 at the LBNL, who bombarded curium-248 with calcium-48, but were not successful.",
"title": "Chalcogen"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "313441",
"score": 1.2099214,
"text": "isotope. The DoE factsheet submitted for this experiment reported no follow up on these subjects. It has also been suggested that Irène Joliot-Curie was the first person to die from the radiation effects of polonium. She was accidentally exposed to polonium in 1946 when a sealed capsule of the element exploded on her laboratory bench. In 1956, she died from leukemia. According to the 2008 book \"The Bomb in the Basement\", several deaths in Israel during 1957–1969 were caused by Po. A leak was discovered at a Weizmann Institute laboratory in 1957. Traces of Po were found on the hands",
"title": "Polonium"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15136004",
"score": 1.1978248,
"text": "to investigate. Marie Curie began her investigations by testing a uranium ore called pitchblende with an electrometer. She discovered it was four times more radioactive than pure uranium, and wondered if this was due to the presence of an even more radioactive element in the pitchblende. Curie began stockpiling tonnes of pitchblende, then in the most basic of workshops with primitive equipment she undertook a multitude of complex and dangerous procedures in an attempt to isolate this new element. In the event, Curie discovered two new elements, polonium named after her native Poland and radium. Whilst these were naturally occurring",
"title": "Chemistry: A Volatile History"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18651066",
"score": 1.1960045,
"text": "them to discover two new elements, although the difficulties for study and isolation were great. In 1944, Seaborg decided to extend the search to heavier elements, and notified chemists Ralph A. James and Leon O. Morgan that irradiasen plutonium and they sent the samples to Chicago for Albert Ghiorso to analyze. By identifying characteristics of emitted alpha particles they found the new elements. Curium (atomic number 96) was discovered in 1944 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James and Albert Ghiorso during World War II in the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, as part of the Manhattan Project, by bombing plutonium with",
"title": "Ralph A. James"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "313412",
"score": 1.1833935,
"text": "Today, polonium is usually produced in milligram quantities by the neutron irradiation of bismuth. Due to its intense radioactivity, which results in the radiolysis of chemical bonds and radioactive self-heating, its chemistry has mostly been investigated on the trace scale only. Polonium was discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie, when it was extracted from uranium ore and identified solely by its strong radioactivity: it was the first element to be so discovered. Polonium was named after Marie Curie's homeland of Poland. Polonium has few applications, and those are related to its radioactivity: heaters in space probes, antistatic devices,",
"title": "Polonium"
}
] |
In The Banana Splits what sort of animal was Snorky? | [
"Elephantinely",
"Elephant tusks",
"Rogue Elephant",
"Elephant",
"🐘",
"Elephant hunting",
"Elephantineness",
"Elephant hunter",
"Rogue elephant",
"Baby elephants",
"Brown elephants",
"ELEPHANT",
"Elephan",
"פיל",
"Elephant population",
"Elephant evolution",
"Elefonts",
"Evolution of elephants",
"Elephants",
"Mating elephants",
"Elaphant",
"Elephant rage",
"Gestation period for elephants",
"Elephant tusk",
"Sexual behavior of elephants"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1675073",
"score": 1.1545316,
"text": "Michael Vincent) and Ronne Troup appeared in the live-action component \"Danger Island\". All the live-action material filmed for the series' first season, including the \"Banana Splits\" and \"Danger Island\" segments, was directed by Richard Donner. Each show represented a meeting of the \"Banana Splits Club\", and the wraparounds featured the adventures of the club members, who doubled as a musical quartet, meant to be reminiscent of The Monkees. The main characters were Fleegle, a beagle (possibly crossed with a flat-coated retriever); Bingo, an orange-furred gorilla (possibly half-orangutan); Drooper, a lion; and Snorky, called \"Snork\" in the theme song lyrics, an",
"title": "The Banana Splits"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9932558",
"score": 1.0648739,
"text": "Banana Splits discography The Banana Splits are a fictional musical group of four animal characters; Fleegle, a beagle; Bingo, a gorilla; Drooper, a lion; and Snorky, an elephant; played by actors in costume miming to music created for them, who starred in their own successful television series \"The Banana Splits Adventure Hour\". The Banana Splits' bubblegum pop rock and roll was provided by studio professionals, including Al Kooper (\"You're the Lovin' End\"), Barry White (\"Doin' the Banana Split\"), and Gene Pitney (\"Two Ton Tessie\"). Jimmy Radcliffe provided his songs (\"I'm Gonna Find a Cave\", \"Soul\", \"Don't Go Away Go-Go Girl\",",
"title": "Banana Splits discography"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1675070",
"score": 1.0573566,
"text": "The Banana Splits The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was an hour-long, packaged television variety program featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four funny animal characters. The costumed hosts of the show were Fleegle (guitar, vocals), Bingo (drums, vocals), Drooper (bass, vocals) and Snorky (keyboards, effects). The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera, and ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings, from September 7, 1968, to September 5, 1970, and in syndication from 1971 to 1982. The costumes and sets were designed by Sid and Marty Krofft, and the series' sponsor was Kellogg's Cereals. The show featured",
"title": "The Banana Splits"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1675087",
"score": 1.0421882,
"text": "VHS. Warner Archive has yet to release the complete series on DVD. The Banana Splits The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was an hour-long, packaged television variety program featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four funny animal characters. The costumed hosts of the show were Fleegle (guitar, vocals), Bingo (drums, vocals), Drooper (bass, vocals) and Snorky (keyboards, effects). The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera, and ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings, from September 7, 1968, to September 5, 1970, and in syndication from 1971 to 1982. The costumes and sets were designed by Sid and",
"title": "The Banana Splits"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1675074",
"score": 0.95340186,
"text": "elephant. Fleegle would assume the role of leader of the Banana Splits, and preside at club meetings. The characters were played by actors in voluminous fleecy costumes, similar to later Sid and Marty Krofft characters such as \"H.R. Pufnstuf\". While Snorky \"spoke\" in honking noises, the other three spoke in English—Drooper with a Southern drawl in the manner of Michael Nesmith, and Fleegle with a pronounced lisp. The Splits' segments, including songs-of-the-week and comedy skits, served as wraparounds for a number of individual segments. In the second season, \"The Three Musketeers\" segments were replaced with repeats of \"The Hillbilly Bears\",",
"title": "The Banana Splits"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9932571",
"score": 0.9470431,
"text": "Splits\" album, along with all other non-LP songs released as singles or EP tracks. Song titles in italics are not by the Banana Splits; they are from \"Here Come The Beagles\", the soundtrack album from the Total TV cartoon series. All the Beagles tracks are in rechanneled stereo. Banana Splits discography The Banana Splits are a fictional musical group of four animal characters; Fleegle, a beagle; Bingo, a gorilla; Drooper, a lion; and Snorky, an elephant; played by actors in costume miming to music created for them, who starred in their own successful television series \"The Banana Splits Adventure Hour\".",
"title": "Banana Splits discography"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1675079",
"score": 0.94386554,
"text": "website, as well as a CD and a DVD featuring 13 new songs, released by Universal Records. In addition, a child-themed area named Banana Splitsville was placed at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina's Hard Rock Park rock-and-roll theme park, which later became Freestyle Music Park before closing permanently in 2009. The show's theme song, titled \"The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)\", was credited as being written by Ritchie Adams and Mark Barkan, but that was merely contractual. In fact it was written by N.B. Winkless, Jr. on the slightly out-of-tune upright piano in his living room—a piano that",
"title": "The Banana Splits"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15831767",
"score": 0.92527986,
"text": "and after a seemingly hopeless wander comes across three other elephants (the rest of Coldplay) playing the song in the veld (South African grasslands). One of the elephant costumes is Snork from the fictional band The Banana Splits, identifiable by his glasses and polka-dot ears. The video shifts to the band playing a concert together, before returning to the veld where they run towards the camera. The music video was shot on location in London, Cape Town, the Klein Karoo in the Western Cape and Johannesburg. The bike shop shown is Woodstock Cycleworks in Woodstock, Cape Town. The concert segment",
"title": "Paradise (Coldplay song)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1675075",
"score": 0.8933083,
"text": "a cartoon segment that previously appeared on \"The Atom Ant Show\" (1965–1968). In reruns, episodes of \"The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show\", \"The Adventures of Gulliver\" and \"The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\" were aired on the show. For the first season, some of the live-action segments—specifically those used during the musical segments—were shot at Six Flags Over Texas, an amusement park located in Arlington, Texas. For the second season, filming took place at the Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio. In many episodes, the Banana Splits would be seen riding on the Runaway Mine Train roller coasters, Log Flumes,",
"title": "The Banana Splits"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12915006",
"score": 0.88495535,
"text": "The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) \"The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)\" is a 1968 pop song, which was the theme song for the children’s television program \"The Banana Splits Adventure Hour\". Originally released by Decca Records on the album titled \"We're the Banana Splits\", the single release peaked at #96 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on February 8, 1969. The writing of the song is credited to Mark Barkan and Ritchie Adams, who were the show's music directors. However, there are claims that the theme was written by jingle writer N. B. Winkless,",
"title": "The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)"
}
] |
Who had an 80s No 1 hit with Can't Fight This Feeling? | [
"REO (album)",
"Alan Gratzer",
"R.E.O. Speedwagon",
"REO Speedwagon",
"Michael Bryan Murphy",
"Can't Stop Rockin",
"Reo Speedwagon",
"R.E.O Speedwagon"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6330528",
"score": 1.181731,
"text": "Can't Fight This Feeling \"Can't Fight This Feeling\" is a power ballad performed by the American rock band REO Speedwagon. The single remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three consecutive weeks from March 9 to March 23, 1985. The song first appeared on REO Speedwagon's 1984 album \"Wheels Are Turnin'\". It was the group's second number-one hit on the U.S. charts (the first being 1981's \"Keep on Loving You\", also written by Kevin Cronin) and reached number sixteen in the UK. \"Can't Fight This Feeling\" has appeared on dozens of 'various artists' compilation albums, as",
"title": "Can't Fight This Feeling"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6330532",
"score": 1.157247,
"text": "episode of The Goldbergs. In 2016, the song was used in the UK and US on adverts for Sheba cat food. REO Speedwagon Can't Fight This Feeling \"Can't Fight This Feeling\" is a power ballad performed by the American rock band REO Speedwagon. The single remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three consecutive weeks from March 9 to March 23, 1985. The song first appeared on REO Speedwagon's 1984 album \"Wheels Are Turnin'\". It was the group's second number-one hit on the U.S. charts (the first being 1981's \"Keep on Loving You\", also written by",
"title": "Can't Fight This Feeling"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11503215",
"score": 1.0987216,
"text": "80s\" is the 33rd single and the first triple A-Side single released by Amuro Namie, and contains a total of three songs, \"New Look\", \"Rock Steady\", and \"What a Feeling\". Each of these three songs is used in a massive campaign ad for Vidal Sassoon's latest shampoo and conditioner products. In addition, each song represents a certain time period starting with the 1960s, then 1970's, and finally 1980's. The first song, \"New Look\", represents the 1960s and features a sample from The Supremes's \"Baby Love\". Like many of her other single songs, this song is produced by T.Kura and Michico.",
"title": "60s 70s 80s"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18833162",
"score": 1.0576698,
"text": "crooning over the bouncy, and energetic production from Max Martin.\" \"Pitchfork\"s reviewer Renato Pagnani placed it in the Best New Track category and made the same comparison: \"Perhaps recognizing just how dead-on Tesfaye's Michael Jackson impersonation was on his cover of \"Dirty Diana\", the producers anchor the track with a bassline that could have come from an alternate-dimension \"Thriller\" produced by New Age composer Vangelis instead of Quincy Jones. \"Rolling Stone\" ranked \"Can't Feel My Face\" at number one on its year-end list to find the 50 best songs of 2015. \"Billboard\" also picked \"Can't Feel My Face\" as the",
"title": "Can't Feel My Face"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19491755",
"score": 1.0498422,
"text": "of only eight singles in the \"Billboard\" Hot 100's 58-year history to spend its first 40 weeks or more in the top 40. It reached the top position of the Canadian Hot 100 in its fifth week, after spending its first four weeks at number 2. By September 2016, it has been certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and sextuple platinum by Music Canada. , the song has accumulated 7.6 million units in the US, combining sales (3.3 million downloads) and equivalent streams. In 2016, \"Can't Stop the Feeling!\" was ranked as the 9th most",
"title": "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8096196",
"score": 1.0463698,
"text": "1986, remaining atop the chart for two weeks. Soon afterwards, the song appeared on the Hot 100 chart, where it climbed to No. 3 in mid-June of that year, and remained in the top 40 for 15 weeks. In the United Kingdom, the song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The single returned to the U.S. charts in 2015, where it peaked at number 17 on the \"Billboard\" Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart. The song's American chart run coincided with that of a Stevie Nicks song also titled \"I Can't Wait\". John Leland's writeup in a \"Spin\" magazine column",
"title": "I Can't Wait (Nu Shooz song)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18833163",
"score": 1.0376796,
"text": "best song of 2015 on its year-end critics' picks: The Weeknd's irresistible, Michael Jackson-esque \"Can't Feel My Face\" is so perfectly crafted that it's impossible to imagine a world or alternative reality in which this song isn't number one. There are enough hooks in this one single for a dozen chart-toppers, but Abel Tesfaye [The Weeknd's real name] packed them all into three-and-a-half minutes of sheer ecstasy—and, naturally, topped the Hot 100 for the first time. \"Village Voice\" named \"Can't Feel My Face\" the third-best single released in 2015 on their annual year-end critics' poll, Pazz & Jop. \"Can't Feel",
"title": "Can't Feel My Face"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19491753",
"score": 1.034507,
"text": "the Feeling!\" became the eighth song to top Digital Songs for at least 10 weeks and the first since Mark Ronson's \"Uptown Funk\" led for a record-tying 13 weeks in 2015; Flo Rida's \"Low\" first set the mark with 13 weeks at number one on Digital Songs in 2007–08. \"Feeling\" is the second song to spend its first 10 weeks on Digital Songs at number one, joining The Black Eyed Peas' \"Boom Boom Pow\", which logged its first 10 weeks on the chart at the summit in 2009. In the US it was the best-selling song of the summer, while",
"title": "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19491738",
"score": 1.0340149,
"text": "of 113 beats per minute. The song follows a chord progression of CAmFAm, and Timberlake's vocals span two octaves, from E to E. The track features a \"jazzy\", uptempo beat and a falsetto chorus. \"This movie feels like one big, trippy disco experience. But we didn't have a disco song,\" said Timberlake of the \"Trolls\" soundtrack. \"We had 'September' [by Earth, Wind & Fire], but we thought this was a great opportunity to do a modern disco song. I think that disco is a really underappreciated genre.\" \"Can't Stop the Feeling!\" appears in the denouement of the movie, conceived with",
"title": "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19491739",
"score": 1.0306934,
"text": "the idea of covering the disco genre inspired by the situation of the final scene. Writers from \"Billboard\", \"Rolling Stone\", \"Fuse\" and \"USA Today\" highlighted its attractiveness for the summer season. Adelle Platon from \"Billboard\" called it \"delightful\" and a \"feel-good jam\". Nate Chinen from \"The New York Times\" wrote \"Timberlake is on firm footing here, gliding over a disco-pop beat and urging all comers to catch the spirit.\" Jon Niles from \"Music Times\" wrote: \"The song gives off a feeling of pure joy that only a talent as great as Timberlake could bring to the table.\" For Lisa Respers",
"title": "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
}
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Which parallel was the truce line in the Korean War? | [
"38th Parallel",
"38th parallel",
"38th parallel (disambiguation)"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "12559974",
"score": 1.2196441,
"text": "38th Parallel. After a series of offensives and counter-offensives by both sides, followed by a grueling period of largely static trench warfare that lasted from the summer of 1951 to July 1953, the front was stabilized along what eventually became the permanent \"Armistice Line\" of 27 July 1953. Over 2.5 million people died during the Korean war. Chinese and Russian documents from that time reveal that Kim became increasingly desperate to establish a truce, since the likelihood that further fighting would successfully unify Korea under his rule became more remote with the UN and US presence. Kim also resented the",
"title": "Kim Il-sung"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15156727",
"score": 1.2146903,
"text": "KPA, the PVA, and the UNC ceased fire with the battle line approximately at the 38th Parallel. Upon agreeing to the armistice, the belligerents established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which has since been patrolled by KPA, ROKA, United States, and Joint UNC forces. Discussions continued slowly because of difficulties regarding demarcation of the border between North and South Korea. China and North Korea expected the line to remain at the 38th Parallel. Within weeks, however, both nations accepted the Kansas Line, where the two sides had confronted each other at the time. In March 1953 the death of Joseph",
"title": "Korean Armistice Agreement"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "19742133",
"score": 1.2130458,
"text": "parallel boundary, but they could not agree on whether prisoners of war should be forcibly \"repatriated.\" Finally, after around more than two years of negotiations, the adversaries signed an armistice on July 27, 1953. The agreement drew a new boundary near the 38th parallel that gave South Korea an extra 1,500 square miles of territory; and created a 2-mile-wide \"demilitarized zone\" that still exists today in the North and South Korean borders, in the bottom and top, respectively. The Korean War was relatively short but exceptionally bloody compared to other wars. Nearly 3 million people died. More than half of",
"title": "North Korea in the Korean War"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18501007",
"score": 1.2076879,
"text": "evacuate American dependents from Korean and to assist the Republic of Korean Army (ROKA). The war lasted for about 3 years. 4. Cessation of Hostilities On 23 June 1951, Jacob Malik, a Soviet delegate to the UN, proposes a cease-fire. Truce talks began at Kaesong and moved to Panmunjom. On 27 November 1951, both sides agreed the existing battle lines would be the final dividing line between North and South Korea. However, truce talks were deadlocked over voluntary repatriation. So, truce talks were adjourned on 8 October 1952. Then, truce talks were resumed, and the Communists agreed to voluntary repatriation",
"title": "1950 in South Korea"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1998883",
"score": 1.203255,
"text": "North Korea had been destroyed. As a result, North Koreans developed a deep-seated antagonism towards the US. Negotiations for an armistice began on July 10, 1951, as the war continued. The main issues were the establishment of a new demarcation line and the exchange of prisoners. After Stalin died, the Soviet Union brokered concessions which led to an agreement on July 27, 1953. Syngman Rhee opposed the armistice because it left Korea divided. As negotiations drew to a close, he attempted to sabotage the arrangements for the release of prisoners, and led mass rallies against the armistice. He refused to",
"title": "Korean conflict"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2149982",
"score": 1.1945508,
"text": "United Nations supported a line based on the territory held by each side, which was militarily defensible. The UN position, formulated by the Americans, went against the consensus leading up to the negotiations. Initially, the Americans proposed a line that passed through Pyongyang, far to the north of the front line. The Chinese and North Koreans eventually agreed to a border on the military line of contact rather than the 38th parallel, but this disagreement led to a tortuous and drawn-out negotiating process. The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed after three years of war. The two sides agreed to create",
"title": "Division of Korea"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "229193",
"score": 1.1939232,
"text": "regained \"Line Kansas\", just north of the 38th parallel. The UN's \"Line Kansas\" halt and subsequent offensive action stand-down began the stalemate that lasted until the armistice of 1953. For the remainder of the Korean War the UN Command and the PVA fought but exchanged little territory, as the stalemate held. Large-scale bombing of North Korea continued, and protracted armistice negotiations began 10 July 1951 at Kaesong. On the Chinese side, Zhou Enlai directed peace talks, and Li Kenong and Qiao Guanghua headed the negotiation team. Combat continued while the belligerents negotiated; the goal of the UN Command forces was",
"title": "Korean War"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "710731",
"score": 1.1861393,
"text": "selected the 38th parallel as a dividing line. Japanese troops to the North of this line were to surrender to the Soviet Union and troops to the South of this line would surrender to the United States. This was not originally intended to result in a long-lasting partition, but Cold War politics resulted in the establishment of two separate governments in the two zones in 1948 and rising tensions prevented cooperation. The desire of many Koreans for a peaceful unification was dashed when the Korean War broke out in 1950. In June 1950, troops from North Korea invaded South Korea.",
"title": "Korean reunification"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2965501",
"score": 1.183979,
"text": "the effect of the ceasefire, whereby their wrath ensured a return to hostilities.There was no treaty signed during this Christmas truce and the war resumed after a few days. On November 29, 1952, the newly U.S. president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower, went to Korea to learn what might end the Korean War. With the United Nations' acceptance of India's proposed Korean War armistice, the Korean People's Army (KPA), the People's Volunteer Army (PVA), and the UN Command ceased fire with the battle line approximately at the 38th parallel. Upon agreeing to the ceasefire agreement, the belligerents established the Korean Demilitarized Zone",
"title": "Ceasefire"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2149983",
"score": 1.1825405,
"text": "a four-kilometer-wide buffer zone between the states, known as the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). This new border, reflecting the territory held by each side at the end of the war, crossed the 38th parallel diagonally. Rhee refused to accept the armistice and continued to urge the reunification of the country by force. Despite attempts by both sides to reunify the country, the war perpetuated the division of Korea and led to a permanent alliance between South Korea and the U.S., and a permanent U.S. garrison in the South. As dictated by the terms of the Korean Armistice, a Geneva Conference",
"title": "Division of Korea"
}
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On a computer keyboard which letter is between A and D? | [
"🅢",
"Ess",
"Ⓢ",
"S (letter)",
"S",
"⒮",
"🄢",
"S",
"ⓢ",
"🆂",
"🅂"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "106591",
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"text": "D D (named \"dee\" ) is the fourth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are many different Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek and Latin, the letter represented ; in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still retained (see letter B). The equivalent Greek letter is Delta, Δ. The minuscule (lower-case) form of 'd' consists of a loop and a tall vertical stroke. It developed by gradual variations on the",
"title": "D"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15106",
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"text": "Á) stands for a close-mid front unrounded vowel . In phonetic and phonemic notation: In algebra, the letter \"a\" along with other letters at the beginning of the alphabet is used to represent known quantities, whereas the letters at the end of the alphabet (\"x\", \"y\", \"z\") are used to denote unknown quantities. In geometry, capital A, B, C etc. are used to denote segments, lines, rays, etc. A capital A is also typically used as one of the letters to represent an angle in a triangle, the lowercase a representing the side opposite angle A. \"A\" is often used",
"title": "A"
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6911432",
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"text": "Latin-10 as D0 and F0 respectively; and, in Latin-6 as A9 and B9 respectively. In PostScript they are Dcroat, Dmacron, Dslash, dcroat, dmacron and dslash. In Unicode, both crossed \"d\" and barred \"d\" are considered glyph variants of U+0111. Unicode has a distinct code point for the visually very similar capital eth, Ð, U+00D0, which can lead to confusion. As part of WGL4, \"Đ\" and \"đ\" can be expected to display correctly even on older Windows systems. D with stroke Đ (lowercase: đ, Latin alphabet), known as crossed D or dyet, is a letter formed from the base character D/d",
"title": "D with stroke"
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6979322",
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"text": "full decimal value of the character's position in the Windows code page on the numeric keypad, provided that the compatible code page is used as a system code page. One can also use numbers from Code page 850; these lack a leading 0. On a Swedish/Finnish keyboard both letters å, ä and ö are present, as well as ¨ to combine with any vowel character, in the same way as ´`^ and ~ accentuation signs. The early 21st century has seen noticeable growth in stylus- and touch-operated interfaces, making the use of on-screen keyboards operated by pointing devices (mouse, stylus,",
"title": "Diaeresis (diacritic)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12323773",
"score": 0.7500366,
"text": "the right of L (where colon/semicolon is on a US keyboard). The digits 0 to 9 are on the same keys, but to be typed the shift key must be pressed. The unshifted positions are used for accented characters. In bilingual regions of Canada and in the French-speaking province of Québec, keyboards can often be switched between an English and a French-language keyboard; while both keyboards share the same QWERTY alphabetic layout, the French-language keyboard enables the user to type accented vowels such as \"é\" or \"à\" with a single keystroke. Using keyboards for other languages leads to a conflict:",
"title": "Computer keyboard"
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "68478",
"score": 0.7464786,
"text": "letter of an alphabet that denotes a consonant sound. The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y. The letter Y stands for the consonant in \"yoke\", the vowel in \"myth\", the vowel in \"funny\", and the diphthong in \"my\". W always represents a consonant except in combination with a vowel letter, as in \"growth\", \"raw\", and \"how\", and in a few loanwords from Welsh, like \"crwth\" or \"cwm\". In some other languages, such as Finnish,",
"title": "Consonant"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14433989",
"score": 0.74325675,
"text": "& F (or F & A), B & E, C & D or D & C SECOND HINT _ _ _ _ (25) This hint indicates that the first four letters of the answer make a sum of 25. But based on the first hint, it is already known that the first two letters made a 7, therefore the third and fourth letters make a sum of 18. So they can be: A& Q, B & P, C & O, D & N, E & M, … I & I To solve the puzzle, the player should find which two",
"title": "Word Sum Puzzle"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "106593",
"score": 0.7430252,
"text": "stroke and Dz (digraph).) In Fijian it represents a prenasalized stop . In some languages where voiceless unaspirated stops contrast with voiceless aspirated stops, represents an unaspirated , while represents an aspirated . Examples of such languages include Icelandic, Scottish Gaelic, Navajo and the Pinyin transliteration of Mandarin. In British Sign Language (BSL), the letter 'd' is indicated by signing with the right hand held with the index and thumb extended and slightly curved, and the tip of the thumb and finger held against the extended index of the left hand. D D (named \"dee\" ) is the fourth letter",
"title": "D"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "106592",
"score": 0.73717904,
"text": "majuscule (capital) form. In handwriting, it was common to start the arc to the left of the vertical stroke, resulting in a serif at the top of the arc. This serif was extended while the rest of the letter was reduced, resulting in an angled stroke and loop. The angled stroke slowly developed into a vertical stroke. In most languages that use the Latin alphabet, and in the International Phonetic Alphabet, generally represents the voiced alveolar or voiced dental plosive . However, in the Vietnamese alphabet, it represents the sound in northern dialects or in southern dialects. (See D with",
"title": "D"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "783995",
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"text": "these terms commonly became \"Across\" and \"Down\" and notations for clues could either use the words or the letters \"A\" and \"D\", with or without hyphens. Crossword A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white-and black-shaded squares. The game's goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues, which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer words and phrases are placed in the grid from left to right and from top to bottom. The shaded squares",
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What was Hitchcock's first sound movie? | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1951131",
"score": 1.0537229,
"text": "coined the term \"documentary\" to describe a non-fiction film in 1926. Ranked by many as the best British filmmaker, Hitchcock's first thriller, \"\" (1926), helped shape the thriller genre in film, while his 1929 film, \"Blackmail\", is often regarded as the first British sound feature film. \"The 39 Steps\" (1935) features a signature Hitchcock cameo, and established the quintessential English 'Hitchcock blonde' Madeleine Carroll as the template for his succession of ice cold and elegant leading ladies. Alexander Korda's \"The Private Life of Henry VIII\" (1933), was the first British production to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best",
"title": "Culture of the United Kingdom"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "320943",
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"text": "screeching sound effects (see \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", among many others). \"78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene\", a documentary on its production by Alexandre O. Philippe, was released on October 13, 2017, including interviews with and analysis by Guillermo del Toro, Peter Bogdanovich, Bret Easton Ellis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Karyn Kusama, Eli Roth, Oz Perkins, Leigh Whannell, Walter Murch, Danny Elfman, Elijah Wood, Richard Stanley, and Neil Marshall. \"Psycho\" is considered by some to be the first film in the slasher film genre, though some critics and film historians point to Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, a lesser-known film with very similar",
"title": "Psycho (1960 film)"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "788619",
"score": 1.0426364,
"text": "\"Modern Times\", a half-decade later. A few innovative commercial directors immediately saw the ways in which sound could be employed as an integral part of cinematic storytelling, beyond the obvious function of recording speech. In \"Blackmail\", Hitchcock manipulated the reproduction of a character's monologue so the word \"knife\" would leap out from a blurry stream of sound, reflecting the subjective impression of the protagonist, who is desperate to conceal her involvement in a fatal stabbing. In his first film, the Paramount \"Applause\" (1929), Rouben Mamoulian created the illusion of acoustic depth by varying the volume of ambient sound in proportion",
"title": "Sound film"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3618",
"score": 1.0172337,
"text": "wrote in 1982: \"The Hitchcock touch had four hands, and two were Alma's.\" Hitchcock began work on his tenth film, \"Blackmail\" (1929), when its production company, British International Pictures (BIP), converted its Elstree studios to sound. The film was the first British \"\"; it followed the first American sound feature film, \"The Jazz Singer\" (1927). \"Blackmail\" began the Hitchcock tradition of using famous landmarks as a backdrop for suspense sequences, with the climax taking place on the dome of the British Museum. It also features one of his longest cameo appearances, which shows him being bothered by a small boy",
"title": "Alfred Hitchcock"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "19152745",
"score": 1.0091327,
"text": "(BIP) and the second stage was ready for production in 1928. Maxwell placed Alfred Hitchcock under contract in a 3-year, 12-picture deal, and after several silents, he was responsible for \"Blackmail\" (1929), the first British talkie released, which was produced at the studios. At the end of the silent-film era, six new sound stages were built; three of these were sold to the British & Dominions Film Corporation (see below) with BIP retaining the remaining stages. \"Elstree Calling\" (1930), made by BIP, was reputedly Britain's first musical film. BIP became Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) in 1933. Maxwell died in",
"title": "Elstree Studios (Shenley Road)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3619",
"score": 1.0014486,
"text": "as he reads a book on the London Underground. In the PBS series \"The Men Who Made The Movies\", Hitchcock explained how he used early sound recording as a special element of the film, stressing the word \"knife\" in a conversation with the woman suspected of murder. During this period, Hitchcock directed segments for a BIP revue, \"Elstree Calling\" (1930), and directed a short film, \"An Elastic Affair\" (1930), featuring two \"Film Weekly\" scholarship winners. \"An Elastic Affair\" is one of the lost films. In 1933 Hitchcock was once again working for Michael Balcon at Gaumont British. His first film",
"title": "Alfred Hitchcock"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3625",
"score": 0.99681383,
"text": "Selznick picture \"Rebecca\" (1940) was Hitchcock's first American film, set in a Hollywood version of England's Cornwall and based on a novel by English novelist Daphne du Maurier. The film stars Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. The story concerns a naïve (and unnamed) young woman who marries a widowed aristocrat. She goes to live in his huge English country house, and struggles with the lingering reputation of his elegant and worldly first wife Rebecca, who died under mysterious circumstances. The film won Best Picture at the 13th Academy Awards; the statuette was given to Selznick, as the film's producer. Hitchcock",
"title": "Alfred Hitchcock"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4759096",
"score": 0.99236834,
"text": "sound, so Hitchcock had Herbert Marshall's voice recorded on a phonograph record, which was played back during the filming of the scene, while the orchestra played the background music live (supposedly playing on the radio in Sir John's bathroom). Due to overlapping changes in British copyright law, the film has never fallen into the public domain in the UK, and its copyright there is now due to expire at the end of 2052, 70 years after Alma Reville's death. In countries that observe a 50-year copyright term, such as Canada or Australia, it will expire at the end of 2032.",
"title": "Murder! (1930 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "788568",
"score": 0.9885684,
"text": "\"The Clue of the New Pin\", a British Lion production using the sound-on-disc British Photophone system. In May, \"Black Waters\", a British and Dominions Film Corporation promoted as the first UK all-talker, received its initial trade screening; it had been shot completely in Hollywood with a Western Electric sound-on-film system. None of these pictures made much impact. The first successful European dramatic talkie was the all-British \"Blackmail\". Directed by twenty-nine-year-old Alfred Hitchcock, the movie had its London debut June 21, 1929. Originally shot as a silent, \"Blackmail\" was restaged to include dialogue sequences, along with a score and sound effects,",
"title": "Sound film"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16797758",
"score": 0.9868369,
"text": "film's premiere, Hitchcock first views the audience from the projection booth, looking out through its small window at them. Hitchcock then waits in the lobby for the audience's reaction, conducting slashing motions to their reactions as they scream on cue. The film is rewarded with an enthusiastic reception. With the film's screening so well received, Hitchcock publicly thanks his wife for helping make it possible and they affirm their love and partnership. At the conclusion at his home, Hitchcock addresses the audience noting \"Psycho\" proved a major high point of his career and he is currently pondering his next project.",
"title": "Hitchcock (film)"
}
] |
Which newspaper did Jackie Kennedy work for just before her marriage? | [
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"Washington Times-Herald",
"Washington Times Herald"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "741811",
"score": 1.0013766,
"text": "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis (née Bouvier ; July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American book editor and socialite who was First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her husband, John F. Kennedy, from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Bouvier was born in Southampton, New York to Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and his wife, Janet Lee Bouvier, in 1929. In 1951, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature from George Washington University and went on to work for the \"Washington Times-Herald\" as an",
"title": "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19215851",
"score": 0.9991528,
"text": "books, and listening to audiotapes of her interviews. She also read around twenty of her \"pulpy\" biographies, which she did not consider high literature. Her primary source was the seven-part eight-and-a-half-hour \"Life\" magazine interview conducted in the early part of 1964, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. with Kennedy. One of three interviews she gave following her husband's assassination, it was kept private throughout her life. Portman said she was intimidated at first, and her initial knowledge of Kennedy was just a \"superficial understanding of [Kennedy] as a fashion plate.\" But through playing her in the film, Portman gained a deeper",
"title": "Jackie (2016 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7796997",
"score": 0.99610734,
"text": "Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mother Teresa) in Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th century. Kennedy was a life member of the National Rifle Association. Kennedy met his future wife, Jacqueline Lee \"Jackie\" Bouvier (1929–1994), when he was a congressman. Charles L. Bartlett, a journalist, introduced the pair at a dinner party. They were married a year after he was elected senator, on September 12, 1953. After suffering a miscarriage in 1955 and a stillbirth in 1956 (their daughter Arabella), their daughter Caroline was born in 1957 and is the only surviving member of JFK's immediate family.",
"title": "John F. Kennedy"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7343220",
"score": 0.99446714,
"text": "Jackie (magazine) Jackie was a weekly British magazine for girls. The magazine was published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd of Dundee from 11 January 1964 until its closure on 3 July 1993—a total of 1534 issues. The name was chosen from a list of girls' names, although it was nearly dropped due to the association with Jackie Kennedy following her husband's assassination in 1963. An urban legend exists that it was named after Jacqueline Wilson who worked there at the time, before she became a notable children's author. Although the author has attempted to perpetuate this claim, this",
"title": "Jackie (magazine)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19215844",
"score": 0.98364574,
"text": "1963. It is partly based on Theodore H. White's \"Life\" magazine interview with the widow at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts in November 1963. The film was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, and was released in the United States on December 2, 2016, by Fox Searchlight Pictures to positive reviews and was nominated for three Oscars at the 89th Academy Awards: Best Actress (Portman), Best Original Score and Best Costume Design. At some point following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy receives a journalist for an interview at her home in",
"title": "Jackie (2016 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9521038",
"score": 0.9771187,
"text": "her second husband Hugh D. Auchincloss, was to marry childhood friend Bingham Morris on October 29, 1979 and move to Southampton. Morris's first wife had been a bridesmaid at the East Hampton wedding of Jackie's parents. They separated in 1981. Jackie's daughter Caroline Kennedy bought a house in Sagaponack, New York in Southampton. Caroline and her husband, Edwin Schlossberg, sold the house in the summer of 2006. The house is still privately owned and in 2006 it was offered for sale for $25 million. It is currently owned by former Coach design executive, Reed Krakoff, and his wife, Delphine.. The",
"title": "Lasata"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11182057",
"score": 0.9768638,
"text": "was married twice. His first wife was Eslyn Durdle, who suffered from multiple sclerosis for approximately fifty years. Their marriage lasted from 1947 until her death in 1999. His second wife was Joyce Bourne, a physician whom Kennedy had met in 1976. Eslyn accepted Joyce, and only asked that he continue to look after her. He did so for 23 more years, marrying Joyce only after Eslyn's death in 1999. Bourne and Kennedy married in 1999, after the death of Eslyn. Their own marriage lasted until Kennedy's death. Bourne served as Kennedy's associate editor for his various editions of \"The",
"title": "Michael Kennedy (music critic)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19215845",
"score": 0.9702122,
"text": "Hyannis Port regarding her husband's legacy. After some small talk and introductory questions, the journalist turns to inquiries about the assassination and its aftermath for Jackie and her family. Jackie expresses her emotional reaction to the events of the assassination and her interaction with members of the White House close to the President. Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird are seen comforting Jackie in the aftermath. Robert Kennedy soon appears to help her, in planning the funeral and looking after the family. Jackie is especially concerned for the well-being of the children in adjusting to the loss of their",
"title": "Jackie (2016 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2948537",
"score": 0.9647912,
"text": "Jackie Kennedy was in her third year as First Lady and in the third trimester of her fifth pregnancy. She had suffered a miscarriage in 1955, followed the next year by a stillborn baby girl they planned to name Arabella (after the \"Arbella\" ship). Two healthy children had followed, Caroline in 1957 and John Jr. in 1960. As John had also been premature, she asked her obstetrician, John W. Walsh, to accompany her when she and her children spent the summer in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Nearby Otis Air Force Base Hospital had also prepared a suite for her in case",
"title": "Patrick Bouvier Kennedy"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19808332",
"score": 0.9645715,
"text": "own travel business before being asked by Jackie Kennedy to work for her in the White House after her husband was elected president. In 1963, Jackie Kennedy threw a surprise 35th birthday party for Tuckerman at the White House. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Tuckerman was responsible for responding to the thousands of letters that poured into the White House as condolences for Jackie Kennedy. These letters are now collectors items and are signed by Tuckerman. After leaving the White House, she remained the personal secretary to Jackie Kennedy until the latter's death in 1994. Tuckerman's personal papers reflecting",
"title": "Nancy Tuckerman"
}
] |
What are the international registration letters of a vehicle from Turkey? | [
"T.R.",
"T.r.",
"Tr.",
"TR (disambiguation)",
"TR",
"Tr",
"T. R.",
"T R"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1795231",
"score": 1.0140501,
"text": "but without the space, and followed by a smaller T (for Taxi.) Military vehicles have four to six yellow digits on black background, and may be used for all kinds of vehicles from ordinary automobiles to tanks. Turkish car number plates use an indirect numbering system associated with the geographical info. In Turkey, registration plates are made by authorized private workshops. The registration plate is rectangular in shape and made of aluminum. On the left, there is the country code \"TR\" in a 4×10 cm blue stripe like in EU countries (without the 12 golden stars). The text is in",
"title": "Vehicle registration plate"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4904376",
"score": 1.0109596,
"text": "in front and the other in rear except motorcycles and tractors. The serial letters use the Turkish letters except Ç, Ş, İ, Ö, Ü and Ğ. The blue stripe was introduced after the entry of Turkey to the European Customs Union in 1995, in accordance to compliance to EU laws. Since then, the blue stripe area is often modified by car owners (even by some parliament members like Devlet Bahçeli). The predominant modification of this sorts is to replace the blue color with red crescent and the star of the Turkish flag. This type of modification is in the grey",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Turkey"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4904375",
"score": 1.0029662,
"text": "Vehicle registration plates of Turkey Turkish car number plates are license plates found on Turkish vehicles. The plates use an indirect numbering system associated with the geographical info. In Turkey, license plates are made by authorized private workshops. The license plate is rectangular in shape and made of aluminum. On the left, there is the country code \"TR\" in a 4×10 cm blue stripe like in EU countries (without the 12 golden stars). The text is in black characters on white background, and for official vehicles white on black. On all vehicles two plates have to be present, being one",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Turkey"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4904379",
"score": 0.98905164,
"text": "original 67 provinces are newer additions, these province names go chronologically. Vehicle registration plates of Turkey Turkish car number plates are license plates found on Turkish vehicles. The plates use an indirect numbering system associated with the geographical info. In Turkey, license plates are made by authorized private workshops. The license plate is rectangular in shape and made of aluminum. On the left, there is the country code \"TR\" in a 4×10 cm blue stripe like in EU countries (without the 12 golden stars). The text is in black characters on white background, and for official vehicles white on black.",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Turkey"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2490784",
"score": 0.9575304,
"text": "system is used for vehicles belonging to the diplomats of foreign countries with license plate from the host country. That system is host country-specific and varies largely from country to country. For example TR on a diplomatic car in the USA indicates Italian, not Turkish. Such markings in Norway are indicated with numbers only, again different from international standards (e.g. 90 means Slovakian. International vehicle registration code The country in which a motor vehicle's vehicle registration plate was issued may be indicated by an international licence plate country code, formerly known as an International Registration Letter or International Circulation Mark.",
"title": "International vehicle registration code"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4904377",
"score": 0.95580053,
"text": "area of the law, for it does not clearly specify which color is to be used in the stripe. Additionally, vehicle inspection stickers are often stuck on this area. The text format on the plates is one of the following: In some provinces, numbering is categorized in groups for tax collecting offices of different districts, for example Dolmuş in Ankara have plates of the form \"06 J 9999\" and a(ny) vehicle from Polatlı, Ankara has plates of the form '06 Pxx 99', \"06 ET XXXX\" from Etimesgut district. On the other hand, a Dolmuş in Eskişehir has a plate of",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Turkey"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4904378",
"score": 0.9484146,
"text": "the form \"26 M 9999\". 99 - two digits prefix denoting the location, shows the province code number of the main residence of car holder. There are 81 provinces as listed below: X/XX/XXX – one, two or three letters. 9999/999/99 – four, three or two digits, depending on the number of letters before, not exceeding six letters and digits altogether. First two digits indicating the province code: Province names until code 67 go alphabetically, with the exception of Mersin, Kahramanmaraş and Şanlıurfa provinces for their previous names taken in account were İçel, Maraş and Urfa, respectively. The ones after the",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Turkey"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1795205",
"score": 0.9322528,
"text": "usually random or requested by the vehicle owner and has a maximum of four digits and a maximum of three letters at the end of the vehicle's plate number, for example it could be: (B 1 T), (B 12 TE), (B 123 TE), and (B 1234 TWE). Sometimes the last maximum three letters at the end of the plate identifies the district region of the registered vehicle by the first letter, for example: (B 1234 WEW) which \"W\" identifies the vehicle is from the region of Southern South Tangerang city (Kota Tangerang Selatan), Banten province. Vehicle owners may request their",
"title": "Vehicle registration plate"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12009647",
"score": 0.91915417,
"text": "up to five numbers and ends with CT. Up to four numbers followed by the letter V followed by two numbers indicating the year of registration (e.g. 1234V03). After 2004, you cannot register a car as visitor, but visitor cars registered before 2004 can still get road tax. Public service trucks and buses have beside the registration plate a secondary plate (like the Spanish SP plate). ΦΔΧ - Φορτηγό Δημοσίας Χρήσης (public service truck) for trucks and ΛΔΧ - Λεωφορείο Δημοσίας Χρήσης (public service bus) for buses. Temporary registrations are similar to civilian vehicle registration plates except with addition of",
"title": "Vehicle registration plates of Cyprus"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1795232",
"score": 0.9091513,
"text": "black characters on white background, and for official vehicles white on black. On all vehicles two plates have to be present, being one in front and the other in rear except motorcycles and tractors. The serial letters use the Turkish letters except Ç, Ğ, İ, Ö, Ş and Ü. Ukrainian regular registration plates are issued in European style, using the format AB1234CE (the prefix refers to the region), using Cyrillic letters that resemble Roman letters (A, B, C, E, H, I, K, M, O, P, T, X). There were single-line plates for vehicles and trailers, double-line plates for vehicles with",
"title": "Vehicle registration plate"
}
] |