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What company did the early Laserdisc researchers later found?
Several of the scientists responsible for the early research (Richard Wilkinson, Ray Dakin and John Winslow) founded Optical Disc Corporation (now ODC Nimbus).
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Where are 18th century "leaving portraits" kept at Eton?
His name is borne by the big gate-house in the west range of the cloisters, fronting School Yard, perhaps the most famous image of the school.
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What did Spielberg do with 'Schindler's List' profits?
Spielberg's next film, Schindler's List, was based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a man who risked his life to save 1,100 Jews from the Holocaust.
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What category of items often constructed from wood does a chair belong to?
People have used wood for millennia for many purposes, primarily as a fuel or as a construction material for making houses, tools, weapons, furniture, packaging, artworks, and paper.
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After the fifth quark was discovered, Feynman said what had to also exist?
In the mid-1960s, physicists believed that quarks were just a bookkeeping device for symmetry numbers, not real particles, as the statistics of the Omega-minus particle, if it were interpreted as three identical strange quarks bound together, seemed impossible if quarks were real.
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What is worshipped during Tibet's various festibals?
Preparations for the festive event are manifested by special offerings to family shrine deities, painted doors with religious symbols, and other painstaking jobs done to prepare for the event.
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Buddhist concept of dependent origination has been compared to what modern thought?
For example, Buddhism's emphasis on the Middle way not only provides a unique guideline for ethics but has also allowed Buddhism to peacefully coexist with various differing beliefs, customs and institutions in countries where it has resided throughout its history.
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How many Attributes of Mercy are in Judaism?
The assignment of these attributes often differs according to the conceptions of God in the culture from which they arise.
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When did the government compensate the British by moving the cemetery to Buceo?
However, in 1884 the government compensated the British by moving the cemetery to Buceo to accommodate city growth.
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How can a hysteresis synchronous motor's rotor be described?
Finally, hysteresis synchronous motors typically are (essentially) two-phase motors with a phase-shifting capacitor for one phase.
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In what century were the operating hours of drinking establishments first limited?
However licensing was gradually liberalised after the 1960s, until contested licensing applications became very rare, and the remaining administrative function was transferred to Local Authorities in 2005.
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Animal phyla that are recognized for their lack of bilateral symmetry are thought to have come from where?
They lack the complex organization found in most other phyla.
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When was Woodhaven road built?
U.S. 30, extending east-west from West Philadelphia to Lancaster, is known as Lancaster Avenue throughout most of the city and through the adjacent Main Line suburbs.
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How much ad revenue goes to the original uploader of the youtube video if they're in the partner program?
In May 2007, YouTube launched its Partner Program, a system based on AdSense which allows the uploader of the video to share the revenue produced by advertising on the site.
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With several certifications out there that can be aquired, what is the one trait they all share?
No certification now offered actually requires the applicant to show their ability to test software.
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What are the two Latin equivalents of the Greek term "Theokotos?"
The equivalent phrase "Mater Dei" (Mother of God) is more common in Latin and so also in the other languages used in the Western Catholic Church, but this same phrase in Greek (Μήτηρ Θεοῦ), in the abbreviated form of the first and last letter of the two words (ΜΡ ΘΥ), is the indication attached to her image in Byzantine icons.
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Where is Tibet ranked among China's 31 provinces on the UN's Human Development Index?
In recent years, due to increased interest in Tibetan Buddhism, tourism has become an increasingly important sector, and is actively promoted by the authorities.
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Did he think that the people that had exiled him were true believers?
This letter shows clearly his stand that accepting Jesus is the Divine Son of God is not optional but necessary; "I know moreover that not only this thing saddens you, but also the fact that while others have obtained the churches by violence, you are meanwhile cast out from your places.
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The windward side of St. Barts is popular for what type of activity?
The windward beaches are popular for windsurfing.
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What is the most common cause for software failure?
A common cause of software failure (real or perceived) is a lack of its compatibility with other application software, operating systems (or operating system versions, old or new), or target environments that differ greatly from the original (such as a terminal or GUI application intended to be run on the desktop now being required to become a web application, which must render in a web browser).
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Who replaced Jim Schneider as Dell CFO?
While chairman of the board after relinquishing his CEO position, Michael Dell still had significant input in the company during Rollins' years as CEO.
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Is it believed that they truly are responsible in full for the collapse ?
Traditionally, historians have believed that the Dorian invasion caused the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, but it is likely the main attack was made by seafaring raiders (sea peoples) who sailed into the eastern Mediterranean around 1180 BC.
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How big were the tesserae in the Komnenian period miniature mosaic icons?
A striking technical innovation of the Komnenian period was the production of very precious, miniature mosaic icons.
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How many pages are printed by the average office worker in the US each day?
The average office worker in the US prints 31 pages every day.
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What value does Deloitte place on Arsenal?
They put Arsenal's footballing revenue at £331.3m (€435.5m), ranking Arsenal seventh among world football clubs.
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In which year was the FA given an official coat of arms by the College of Arms?
Since 2003, England top their logo with a star to recognise their World Cup win in 1966; this was first embroidered onto the left sleeve of the home kit, and a year later was moved to its current position, first on the away shirt.
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New York has approximately how many acres of parks?
The largest municipal park in the city is Pelham Bay Park with 2,700 acres (1,093 ha).
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Who named the torpedo mines?
One account dates modern naval mining from the Crimean War: "Torpedo mines, if I may use this name given by Fulton to self-acting mines underwater, were among the novelties attempted by the Russians in their defences about Cronstadt and Sevastopol", as one American officer put it in 1860.
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Who opened the structure in which the Royal Institute is currently housed?
After the grant of the royal charter it had become known as the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, eventually dropping the reference to London in 1892.
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What historical significance can the book The History of Mary Prince claim?
The first notable, and historically important, book credited to a Bermudian was The History of Mary Prince, a slave narrative by Mary Prince.
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What was Ibn Tufail's ethnicity?
In the 12th century CE the Andalusian Muslim philosopher and novelist Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail (known as "Abubacer" or "Ebn Tophail" in the West) included the theory of tabula rasa as a thought experiment in his Arabic philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan in which he depicted the development of the mind of a feral child "from a tabula rasa to that of an adult, in complete isolation from society" on a desert island, through experience alone.
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Who was the Egyptian President?
In response to an advertisement for an acting position, as a young man he said, "I am not white
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What are two broad categories of similarity among countries which have a Mediterranean climate?
Those areas of Mediterranean climate present similar vegetations and landscapes throughout, including dry hills, small plains, pine forests and olive trees.
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what may possibly be a solution to net neutrality concerns?
A possible solution to net neutrality concerns may be municipal broadband, according to Professor Susan Crawford, a legal and technology expert at Harvard Law School.
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When did the Soviet Union invade Manchuria?
The war culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and other large aerial bomb attacks by the United States Army Air Forces, accompanied by the Soviet invasion of Manchuria on 8 August 1945, resulting in the Japanese announcement of intent to surrender on 15 August 1945.
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Cardinals who were not bishops have been promoted to Cardinal around the age of 80 since what year?
Even if not a bishop, any cardinal has both actual and honorary precedence over non-cardinal patriarchs, as well as the archbishops and bishops who are not cardinals, but he cannot perform the functions reserved solely to bishops, such as ordination.
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What was the name of Feynman's 1959 talk on nanotech?
Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, including a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called
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In the Baroque era, who would improvise preludes?
During the Romantic era, Beethoven would improvise at the piano.
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How else can negative impacts of pesticides be reduced?
Such loss of activity or toxicity of pesticides is due to both innate chemical properties of the compounds and environmental processes or conditions.
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Where did the Cubs easily win the first two games of the NLCS?
With wins of 13–0 and 4–2, the Cubs needed to win only one game of the next three in San Diego to make it to the World Series.
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Is the legislature bicameral or unicameral?
The judicial system is headed by a Tribunal Supremo da Justiça (Supreme Court), made up of nine justices appointed by the president; they serve at the pleasure of the president.
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What year did the United Nations Earth Summit define "biological diversity"?
The 1992 United Nations Earth Summit defined "biological diversity" as "the variability among living organisms from all sources, including, 'inter alia', terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems, and the ecological complexes of which they are part: this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems".
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Who offered Spielberg a contract at Universal Studios?
Studio vice president Sidney Sheinberg was impressed by the film, which had won a number of awards, and offered Spielberg a seven-year directing contract.
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What did von Neuman's method use?
Von Neumann's method used a pivoting algorithm between simplices, with the pivoting decision determined by a nonnegative least squares subproblem with a convexity constraint (projecting the zero-vector onto the convex hull of the active simplex).
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How many seats are in the Provincial Assembly?
The Assembly was established under Article 106 of the Constitution of Pakistan as having a total of 371 seats, with 66 seats reserved for women and eight reserved for non-Muslims.
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Who was Chopin's earliest piece of music, that there is a record of, dedicated to?
His next work, a polonaise in A-flat major of 1821, dedicated to Żywny, is his earliest surviving musical manuscript.
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What month did the Tripartite discussions begin between Britain, USSR and France?
In mid-June, the main Tripartite negotiations started.
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What number of Estonia's counties are over 80% ethnic Estonian?
Thirteen of Estonia's 15 counties are over 80% ethnic Estonian, the most homogeneous being Hiiumaa, where Estonians account for 98.4% of the population.
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Which LaserDisc player solves the disc switching dilemma?
If the movie is longer than what could be stored on two sides of a single disc, manually swapping to a second disc is necessary at some point during the film.
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When did Schwarzenegger withdraw from involvement with Planet Hollywood?
Schwarzenegger severed his financial ties with the business in early 2000.
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Which drugs seemed to help someone remember earlier events?
Research has shown that direct injections of cortisol or epinephrine help the storage of recent experiences.
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What do insulating cards prevent between interconnection layers?
To avoid shorting together different interconnection layers, thin insulating cards were placed between them.
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Why is Brasilia a good place for air sports?
Brasília is known as a departing point for the practice of unpowered air sports, sports that may be practiced with hang gliding or paragliding wings.
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What does UCS stand for?
Unicode defines two mapping methods: the Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) encodings, and the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) encodings.
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What happens as a record wears?
Distortion towards the end of the side is likely to become more apparent as record wear increases.
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What does OSUT stand for?
The length of time spent in AIT depends on the MOS of the soldier, and some highly technical MOS training may require many months (e.g., foreign language translators).
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What year did most media outlets pick the Cubs to win the World Series?
They led the Wild Card by 1.5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2.5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.
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What style does most of the city's architecture belong to?
Many of the city's buildings are in the Georgian style, although there are a number of examples of modern landmark structures, such as County Hall tower, which was, at one time the tallest building in Ireland until being superseded by another Cork City building: The Elysian.
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During what years did the Ottoman war against Habsburg Austria occur?
In spite of these problems, the Ottoman state remained strong, and its army did not collapse or suffer crushing defeats.
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In case of her father's absence, in what capacity could Elizabeth act?
As she approached her 18th birthday, parliament changed the law so that she could act as one of five Counsellors of State in the event of her father's incapacity or absence abroad, such as his visit to Italy in July 1944.
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Other than the bar, in what room might patrons of a pub eat?
Since the 1990s food has become a more important part of a pub's trade, and today most pubs serve lunches and dinners at the table in addition to (or instead of) snacks consumed at the bar.
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According to the census survey carried out between 15 June and 31 July 2004, what was Montevideo's female population?
The female population was 707,697 (53.4%) while the male population accounted for 618,271 (46.6%).
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During which time period did avialans diversify into a wide variety of forms?
Avialans diversified into a wide variety of forms during the Cretaceous Period.
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Which French minister traveled to Versailles to discuss peace?
Bismarck agreed to end the siege and allow food convoys to immediately enter Paris (including trains carrying millions of German army rations), on condition that the Government of National Defence surrender several key fortresses outside Paris to the Prussians.
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The Allies suggested peace terms in which set of proposals?
The Allies offered peace terms in the Frankfurt proposals in November 1813.
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Around how many casualties did the French experience at the Battle of Aspern-Essling?
Both sides inflicted about 23,000 casualties on each other.
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What was the term given to the personal idealism of Howison?
Howison maintained that both impersonal, monistic idealism and materialism run contrary to the experience of moral freedom.
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What other area fields were overshadowed by Greek influence ?
Not coincidentally, on the eve of 1821, the three most important centres of Greek learning were situated in Chios, Smyrna and Aivali, all three major centres of Greek commerce.
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Which impressionist movements were also influenced by Cubism?
The Impressionists had used a double point of view, and both Les Nabis and the Symbolists (who also admired Cézanne) flattened the picture plane, reducing their subjects to simple geometric forms.
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What city hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics Sailing regatta?
The 1980 Summer Olympics Sailing regatta was held in the capital city Tallinn.
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Under what circumstances are Oppidan Scholarships awarded?
To gain an Oppidan Scholarship, a boy must have either three distinctions in a row or four throughout his career.
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What two national over-the-air broadcast entities are owned by Comcast?
Under the terms of the agreement Comcast was to acquire 100% of Time Warner Cable.
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What is the area closest to the continental US called?
As such, this was where most of the initial non-indigenous settlement occurred in the years following the Alaska Purchase.
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What does the city subsidise
The city subsidises an organisation for amateur education in arts aimed at all inhabitants (Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten), as does the university for its staff and students.
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When did the Arsenal Ladies team become semi-professional?
Founded in 1987, they turned semi-professional in 2002 and are managed by Clare Wheatley.
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Which term is defined as one's thoughts and feelings about one's self-concept and identity?
Self-esteem is defined as one's thoughts and feelings about one's self-concept and identity.
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How many people might actually be homeless?
It values Chengdu, at the time having an urban population of 4.5 million people, at around US$115 billion, with only a small portion covered by insurance.
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What did Napoleon display tolerance related to during his time in Egypt?
However, according to Juan Cole, "Bonaparte's admiration for the Prophet Muhammad, in contrast, was genuine" and during his captivity on St Helena he defended him against Voltaire's critical play Mahomet.
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What role did women fill in the Church?
The only role open to women in the Church was that of nuns, as they were unable to become priests.
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Who was the foreign minister that said her decision was a good example of peacefully making a point?
Intended torchbearer Lin Hatfield Dodds withdrew from the event, explaining that she wished to express concern about China's human rights record.
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What conclusion do most of Hume's followers disagree with?
Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit.
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What methods did people use before antibiotics to treat infections?
Before the early 20th century, treatments for infections were based primarily on medicinal folklore.
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What types of art does the Bronx Museum of the Arts focus on?
Many of its exhibitions are on themes of special interest to the Bronx.
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How long do members of both houses of the Swiss Parliament serve?
Members of both houses serve for 4 years.
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Who was the main leader of the Qing?
The institutions which had been inherited from the Ming formed the core of the Qing "Outer Court," which handled routine matters and was located in the southern part of the Forbidden City.
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When, before Napoleon, had Europe last seen the same level of political consolidation?
He created a new aristocracy in France while allowing the return of nobles who had been forced into exile by the Revolution.
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What percentage of households in Atlantic City were comprised of non-families?
37.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
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How far were runways extended out?
The fields were constructed out of reinforced concrete using a slip-form machine that produces a continual slab with no disruptions along the length.
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What neighborhood houses the headquarters of Miami Today?
Other major newspapers include Miami Today, headquartered in Brickell, Miami New Times, headquartered in Midtown, Miami Sun Post, South Florida Business Journal, Miami Times, and Biscayne Boulevard Times.
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When did Antipater die?
In Asia, Eumenes was betrayed by his own men after years of campaign and was given up to Antigonus who had him executed.
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What is the name of the prime ministerial position in Ireland?
The position of prime minister is normally chosen from the political party that commands majority of seats in the lower house of parliament.
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During what decade did rock and roll music first rise to popularity?
These middle of the road (or "MOR") stations also frequently included older, pre-rock-era adult standards and big band titles to further appeal to adult listeners who had grown up with those songs.
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When did he leave France for Venice?
Roncalli left France for Venice on 23 February 1953 stopping briefly in Milan and then to Rome.
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In which year did the garden receive a makover with a water distribution system?
In 1997, the lot received a garden makeover; the Borough President's office funded the installation of a $100,000 water distribution system that keeps the wide variety of trees green.
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In what film was Arsenal FC shown?
Many Arsenal players appeared as themselves and manager George Allison was given a speaking part.
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How severe is Florida's Disenfranchisement law
A 2002 study in the American Sociological Review concluded that "if the state’s 827,000 disenfranchised felons had voted at the same rate as other Floridians, Democratic candidate Al Gore would have won Florida—and the presidency—by more than 80,000 votes."
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Who organized the flotilla?
Relations between Turkey and Israel took a downturn after the 2008–09 Gaza War and Israel's raid of the Gaza flotilla.
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What was the amount of participation by women in religious observances?
In addition to the public priesthood of the Vestals, some cult practices were reserved for women only.
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What North Carolina City hosts the Merlefest?
The internationally acclaimed North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro attracts visitors to its animals, plants, and a 57-piece art collection along five miles of shaded pathways in the world's largest-land-area natural-habitat park.
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What type of cells makes up most wood cells in coniferous trees?
In coniferous or softwood species the wood cells are mostly of one kind, tracheids, and as a result the material is much more uniform in structure than that of most hardwoods.
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