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What does one need to remember about the date of February 29 in the Julian calendar?
When you are subtracting days to move from Julian to Gregorian be careful, when calculating the Gregorian equivalent of February 29 (Julian), to remember that February 29 is discounted.
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What does education increase in a student?
This effect is also observable in the opposite direction, in that education increases measurable intelligence.
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Who was a big influence on Smokey Robinson?
According to Smokey Robinson, Strong was a primary influence on his voice as a teenager.
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Smart Bodies is an example of an initiative that was started by what level of government?
It is an interactive educational program designed to help prevent childhood obesity through classroom activities that teach children healthful eating habits and physical exercise.
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What dramatically changed naval combat in World War II?
The aircraft carrier dramatically changed naval combat in World War II, because air power was becoming a significant factor in warfare.
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When was Heine born?
The Bronx has also become home to a peculiar poetic tribute, in the form of the Heinrich Heine Memorial, better known as the Lorelei Fountain from one of Heine's best-known works (1838).
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What was Chopin's style based upon?
His style was based extensively on his use of very independent finger technique.
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How many districts is the continental Portugal divided into?
Operationally, the municipality and civil parish, along with the national government, are the only legally identifiable local administrative units identified by the government of Portugal (for example, cities, towns or villages have no standing in law, although may be used as catchment for the defining services).
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What type of cells do all animals have?
In contrast, other multicellular organisms, like plants and fungi, have cells held in place by cell walls, and so develop by progressive growth.
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At what floor do the doors open on the way down?
The door opens after 37 seconds from the 5th floor.
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How much of the U.S. lending mechanism was frozen until June 2009?
While traditional banks have raised their lending standards, it was the collapse of the shadow banking system that is the primary cause of the reduction in funds available for borrowing.
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What plant genus is named after Avicenna?
In modern Iran, he is considered a national icon, and is often regarded as one of the greatest Persians to have ever lived.
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About what percentage of Plymouth's income comes from the Dockyard?
Devonport Dockyard is the UK's only naval base that refits nuclear submarines and the Navy estimates that the Dockyard generates about 10% of Plymouth's income.
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Which prominent star felt the 2009 Female Video of the Year award should have went to Beyoncé instead of Taylor Swift?
Its failure to win the Best Female Video category, which went to American country
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By the end of 2016, how many people are projected to be working onsite at WestQuay Watermark?
Hammerson, the owners of the retail park, aim to have at least 1,550 people employed on its premises at year-end 2016.
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What field of study did Anton-Hermann Chroust specialize in?
Yves Simon (1903–61), brought to ND in the 1940s the insights of French studies in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of philosophy; his own teacher Jacques Maritain (1882–73) was a frequent visitor to campus.
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What are the main distinctive features of Islamic architecture?
The role of domes in Islamic architecture has been considerable.
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Which rail station was the world's busiest passenger station in 1927?
Flinders Street Station was the world's busiest passenger station in 1927 and Melbourne's tram network overtook Sydney's to become the world's largest in the 1940s, at which time 25% of travellers used public transport but by 2003 it had declined to just 7.6%.
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The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs is a division of what?
The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, a division of the United States Department of State, is perhaps the most influential agency to still use the term Near East.
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When was the first transistor implemented for practical use?
First conceived by Julius Lilienfeld in 1926 and practically implemented in 1947 by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, the transistor revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things.
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Who replaced Gladstone for only a few short months?
Salisbury's government only lasted a few months, however, and Victoria was forced to recall Gladstone, whom she referred to as a "half crazy & really in many ways ridiculous old man".
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What is the Sangha?
Formal membership varies between communities, but basic lay adherence is often defined in terms of a traditional formula in which the practitioner takes refuge in The Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha), and the Sangha (the Buddhist community).
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When did sea levels reach their current highth?
As this ended, the central Irish Sea was deglaciated and the English Channel flooded, with sea levels rising to current levels some 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, leaving the British Isles in their current form.
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Up until 1994, royal assent was given by whom?
If approved by Tynwald, a measure "shall have the force and effect of an Act of Tynwald upon the Royal Assent thereto being announced to Tynwald".
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What part of the electrical characteristics of smaller capacitors do the digits of the abbreviated notation represent ?
Most capacitors have numbers printed on their bodies to indicate their electrical characteristics.
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What law mandated a license from the local magistrate to sell beer?
The sale of beers, wines or spirits required a licence for the premises from the local magistrates.
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What was the title of Deep Purple's hard rock 1970 album?
Led Zeppelin (1969) and Led Zeppelin II (1969), and Deep Purple, who began as a progressive rock group but achieved their commercial breakthrough with their fourth and distinctively heavier album, In Rock (1970).
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What is Tennessee's average annual precipitation in inches?
On average the state receives 50 inches (130 cm) of precipitation annually.
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Which state is the largest in the country by land?
The area is landlocked by the states of Sonora to the west, Sinaloa to the south-west, Durango to the south, and Coahuila to the east, and by the U.S. states of Texas to the northeast and New Mexico to the north.
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When was the Bessemer process developed?
In 1858, Sir Henry Bessemer developed a process of steel-making by blowing hot air through liquid pig iron to reduce the carbon content.
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Rational emotive behavior therapy is an approach used by what psychotherapy schools?
Emotion regulation refers to the cognitive and behavioral strategies people use to influence their own emotional experience.
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What committee estimated that 60 days of attacks would result in 600,000 deaths?
That year the Committee on Imperial Defence estimated that an attack of 60 days would result in 600,000 dead and 1,200,000 wounded.
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How much more money does the city give to the state of New York annually than it receives?
The city also sends an additional $11 billion more each year to the state of New York than it receives back.
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When Napoleon was exiled, where did his wife and son go for shelter?
Napoleon attempted suicide with a pill he had carried after nearly being captured by the Russians during the retreat from Moscow.
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What do the instrumental methods of applied anthropology produce?
It is a, "complex of related, research-based, instrumental methods which produce change or stability in specific cultural systems through the provision of data, initiation of direct action, and/or the formulation of policy".
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What percentage of primary students study Catalan as a foreign language?
In Northern Catalonia, Catalan has followed the same trend as the other minority languages of France, with most of its native speakers being 60 or older (as of 2004).
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Who blew up the HMS Jasper?
The Cossacks captured the gunboat with all of its guns and blew it up.
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How many mortgage lenders went bankrupt during 2007 and 2008?
Over 100 mortgage lenders went bankrupt during 2007 and 2008.
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Which work of Isaac Newton was published in Latin and remained inaccessible to readers without education until Enlightenment writers began to translate and analyze it in the vernacular?
As public interest in natural philosophy grew during the 18th century, public lecture courses and the publication of popular texts opened up new roads to money and fame for amateurs and scientists who remained on the periphery of universities and academies.
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What type of culture is a principal tool used to diagnose infectious disease?
A sample taken from potentially diseased tissue or fluid is then tested for the presence of an infectious agent able to grow within that medium.
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What year did CD players become available for purchase?
After their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular.
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In what year was the patent filed for an electric liquid capacitor?
Charles Pollak (born Karol Pollak), the inventor of the first electrolytic capacitors, found out that the oxide layer on an aluminum anode remained stable in a neutral or alkaline electrolyte, even when the power was switched off.
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Which president did Notre Dame have in 1947?
The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. served as president from 1946 to 1952.
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Who blew the discus off course, killing Hyacinthus?
Apollo is said to be filled with grief: out of Hyacinthus' blood, Apollo created a flower named after him as a memorial to his death, and his tears stained the flower petals with the interjection αἰαῖ, meaning alas.
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In which year did Long publish his study?
At the same time, affirmative action itself is both morally and materially costly: 52 percent of white populace (compared to 14 percent of black) thought it should be abolished, implying white distaste of using racial identity, and full-file review is expected to cost the universities an additional $1.5 million to $2 million per year, excluding possible cost of litigation.
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What are two types of new mandolins the Luthiers created?
Even as the second wave of mandolin popularity declined in the early 20th century, new versions of the mandolin began to be used in new forms of music.
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How many immigrants lived in these tent cities?
During this period, food, clothes and furniture had to be rationed in what became known as the Austerity Period.
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Most of the art since the Aztecs took what style?
Much of the early colonial art stemmed from the codices (Aztec illustrated books), aiming to recover and preserve some Aztec and other Amerindian iconography and history.
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Arnold J Toynbee believed what?
By 1916, when millions of Europeans were becoming casualties of imperial war in the trenches of eastern and western Europe over "the eastern question," Arnold J. Toynbee, Hegelesque historian of civilization at large, was becoming metaphysical about the Near East.
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In 1948, how many Dutch women brought a case to the Batavia Military Tribunal?
A widely publicised example of institutionalised sexual slavery are "comfort women", a euphemism for the 200,000 women, mostly from Korea and China, who served in the Japanese army's camps during World War II.
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What year did the United Nations Earth Summit define "biological diversity"?
This definition is used in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
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What was the cause of the fire that killed everyone on the first Apollo mission before launch?
An investigative board determined the fire was probably caused by an electrical spark, and quickly grew out of control, fed by the spacecraft's pure oxygen atmosphere.
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When did Rutherford release The Finished Mystery?
The book, published as the posthumous work of Russell, was a compilation of his commentaries on the Bible books of Ezekiel and Revelation, plus numerous additions by Bible Students Clayton Woodworth and George Fisher.
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What system was in place to raise and educate Victoria; while also rendering her weak and dependent?
The system prevented the princess from meeting people whom her mother and Conroy deemed undesirable (including most of her father's family), and was designed to render her weak and dependent upon them.
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What type of satellites does the BeiDou-1 system use?
This means that the system does not require a large constellation of satellites, but it also limits the coverage to areas on Earth where the satellites are visible.
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Who published the Ivory Tower Survey?
Less than two years into Kerry's term, the Foreign Policy Magazine's 2014 Ivory Tower survey of international relations scholars asked, "Who was the most effective U.S. Secretary of State in the past 50 years?"
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What was made visible at a partial vacuum of 10 Pa?
Thereafter, research into the partial vacuum lapsed until 1850 when August Toepler invented the Toepler Pump and Heinrich Geissler invented the mercury displacement pump in 1855, achieving a partial vacuum of about 10 Pa (0.1 Torr).
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What is Newton Natural philosophy?
Newton's natural philosophy combined a mathematics of axiomatic proof with the mechanics of physical observation, yielding a coherent system of verifiable predictions and replacing a previous reliance on revelation and inspired truth.
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When was Cork believed to have been founded?
It has been proposed that, like Dublin, Cork was an important trading centre in the global Scandinavian trade network.
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Of the 20,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany in 1933, how many were later imprisoned?
In 1933, there were approximately 20,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany, of whom about 10,000 were later imprisoned.
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Which statements did these other documents include from the Westminster Standards?
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has adopted the Book of Confessions, which reflects the inclusion of other Reformed confessions in addition to the Westminster Standards.
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What phrase was coined in the 16th century to reference recent times?
The European Renaissance (about 1420–1630), which marked the transition between the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern times, started in Italy and was spurred in part by the rediscovery of classical art and literature, as well as the new perspectives gained from the Age of Discovery and the invention of the telescope and microscope, expanding the borders of thought and knowledge.
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What are two newly renovated locations in downtown Oklahoma city?
The centerpiece of downtown is the newly renovated Crystal Bridge and Myriad Botanical Gardens, one of the few elements of the Pei Plan to be completed.
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Some child work as guides for whom?
Two out of three child workers work alongside their parents, in unpaid family work situations.
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What was one of the most controversial parts of the Patriot Act?
One of the most controversial provisions of the act is the so-called sneak and peek provision, granting the FBI powers to search a house while the residents are away, and not requiring them to notify the residents for several weeks afterwards.
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How does Tucson rank among US cities?
The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 980,263.
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Which state is not a member of ASEAN?
All of the states except for East Timor are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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What part of speech does Dutch mostly use cases for?
The Dutch written grammar has simplified over the past 100 years: cases are now mainly used for the pronouns, such as ik (I), mij, me (me), mijn (my), wie (who), wiens (whose: masculine or neuter singular), wier (whose: feminine singular; masculine, feminine or neuter plural).
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When were the last ISO standards adopted?
These ISO standards were subsequently adopted by DIN as well.
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Around how long did it take Napoleon to push Austria out of Italy in his first experiences there?
As Chandler points out, Napoleon spent almost a year getting the Austrians out of Italy in his first campaign; in 1800, it took him only a month to achieve the same goal.
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What type of rudder was introduced during this period?
Shipbuilding improved with the use of the rib and plank method rather than the old Roman system of mortise and tenon.
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In what country is Spoleto located?
Looking for a city that would provide the charm of Spoleto, as well as its wealth of theaters, churches, and other performance spaces, they selected Charleston, South Carolina, as the ideal location.
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What happens in polygynous species with sexual dimophism?
This is termed protandry.
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'Melting pot' was first used to describe neighborhoods in what area of the city?
Throughout its history, the city has been a major port of entry for immigrants into the United States; more than 12 million European immigrants were received at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.
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What is the danger to humans in regards to the spread of avian flu to humans ?
The virus possibly could mutate to become highly virulent and infectious in humans and cause an influenza pandemic.
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What talent did Feynman have, even early in his childhood?
As a child, he had a talent for engineering, maintained an experimental laboratory in his home, and delighted in repairing radios.
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What is one type of competition department stores face?
Competition was not the only reason for the department stores' weakening strength; the changing structure of cities also affected them.
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How many volunteers did Tennessee send to the Mexican-American War?
Other sources differ on the origin of the state nickname; according to the Columbia Encyclopedia, the name refers to volunteers for the Mexican–American War.
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How may state prisoners seek to have a death sentence overturned in federal court?
Federal habeas corpus is a species of collateral review, and it is the only way that state prisoners may attack a death sentence in federal court (other than petitions for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court after both direct review and state collateral review).
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What is the trick of sliding in and then back out of the ring called?
Playing into this, some wrestlers will "milk" the count by sliding in the ring, and immediately sliding back out.
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The three types of brain activity that can be measured are what?
Three broad types of distinct brain activity patterns can be measured: REM, light NREM and deep NREM.
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How many undergrad students attend the College of Science at Notre Dame today?
The College of Science was established at the university in 1865 by president Father Patrick Dillon.
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Where can one find the Srijana Contemporary Art Gallery?
The Nepal Art Council Gallery, located in the Babar Mahal, on the way to Tribhuvan International Airport contains artwork of both national and international artists and extensive halls regularly used for art exhibitions.
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Which parts of the Yang-Mills theories did Feynman help explain?
By analogy with the photon, which has spin 1, he investigated the consequences of a free massless spin 2 field, and derived the Einstein field equation of general relativity, but little more.
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Who was the final king of the Attalid dynasty?
Finally, in 27 BC, Augustus directly annexed Greece to the new Roman Empire as the province of Achaea.
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If a carbohydrate is not a simple monosaccharide, what else could it be?
Some fatty acids, but not all, are essential in the diet: they cannot be synthesized in the body.
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What idea did Tanselle champion?
This marks a departure from Greg, who had merely suggested that the editor inquire whether a later reading "is one that the author can reasonably be supposed to have substituted for the former", not implying any further inquiry as to why the author had made the change.
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What did the new government nationalize along with land?
In addition to a nationalization program of industry and land, the new regime's foreign policy placed an emphasis on Somalia's traditional and religious links with the Arab world, eventually joining the Arab League (AL) in 1974.
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When The Times began producing its newpaper in both broadsheet and tabloid sizes, which region did The Times withdraw its broadsheet from sale?
On 13 September 2004, the weekday broadsheet was withdrawn from sale in Northern Ireland.
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How many distinct parts make up Sichuan?
The western Sichuan consists of the numerous mountain ranges forming the easternmost part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which are known generically as Hengduan Mountains.
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In what period did Africa beak off from Antarctica?
Africa separated from Antarctica in the Jurassic, around 160 Ma, followed by the Indian subcontinent in the early Cretaceous (about 125 Ma).
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On what street in New York was GE headquartered before moving to Fairfield?
GE moved its corporate headquarters from the GE Building on Lexington Avenue to Fairfield in 1974.
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What award was presented to Kanye West on August 30, 2015?
On August 30, 2015, West was presented with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards.
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What park has floating gardens?
One of the newest parks, the Promenade des Berges de la Seine (2013), built on a former highway on the Left Bank of the Seine between the Pont de l'Alma and the Musée d'Orsay, has floating gardens and gives a view of the city's landmarks.
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What language do the Highland Quichuas speak?
Linguistic evidence suggests that the Salascan and the Saraguro may have been the descendants of Bolivian ethnic groups transplanted to Ecuador as mitimaes.
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What percent of the Bronx population has a university degree, as of 2000?
These percentages were lower than those for New York's other boroughs, which ranged from 68.8% (Brooklyn) to 82.6% (Staten Island) for high school graduates over 24, and from 21.8% (Brooklyn) to 49.4% (Manhattan) for college graduates.
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Who did Napoleon select to lead the troops sent to invade Portugal?
Unhappy with this change of policy by the Portuguese government, Napoleon sent an army to invade Portugal.
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Their third album, Survivor, sold how many during its first week?
The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 663,000 copies sold.
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Who offered Revel $261 million in state tax credits?
Ultimately, Governor Chris Christie offered Revel $261 million in state tax credits to assist the casino once it opened.
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Along with the Dallas Vigilantes, what expansion team was announced in 2010?
The league announced plans for the upcoming season and details of its contract with NFL Network to broadcast AFL games in 2010.
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