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Q169
what a wonderful world covers
What a Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss .
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what a wonderful world covers
What a Wonderful World
It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1967.
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what a wonderful world covers
What a Wonderful World
Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world (Thiele as a producer and Weiss as a composer/performer).
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what a wonderful world covers
What a Wonderful World
Armstrong's recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
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what a wonderful world covers
What a Wonderful World
The publishing for this song is controlled by Memory Lane Music Group, Carlin Music Corp. , and Bug Music, Inc.
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Q170
What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
1908 poster advertising Gaumont 's sound films.
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Q170
What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
The Chronomégaphone , designed for large halls, employed compressed air to amplify the recorded sound.
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Q170
What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound , or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film .
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Q170
What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical.
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Q170
What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplification and recording quality were also inadequate.
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Q170
What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
Innovations in sound-on-film led to the first commercial screening of short motion pictures using the technology, which took place in 1923.
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Q170
What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid- to late 1920s.
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What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
At first, the sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue—known as "talking pictures", or "talkies"—were exclusively shorts; the earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects.
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Q170
What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer , released in October 1927.
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What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone , the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology.
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What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
Sound-on-film, however, would soon become the standard for talking pictures.
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Q170
What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
By the early 1930s, the talkies were a global phenomenon.
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What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
In the United States, they helped secure Hollywood's position as one of the world's most powerful cultural/commercial systems (see Cinema of the United States ).
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What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
In Europe (and, to a lesser degree, elsewhere) the new development was treated with suspicion by many filmmakers and critics, who worried that a focus on dialogue would subvert the unique aesthetic virtues of soundless cinema.
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Q170
What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
In Japan , where the popular film tradition integrated silent movie and live vocal performance, talking pictures were slow to take root.
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What did movie theaters do for sound before synchronized sound was introduced into film
Sound film
In India , sound was the transformative element that led to the rapid expansion of the nation's film industry—the most productive such industry in the world since the early 1960s.
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Q171
how people live in africa
African people
African people are natives or inhabitants of Africa and people of African descent.
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Q172
What group took home the award for best rock album at the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards?
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).
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Q172
What group took home the award for best rock album at the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards?
ARIA Music Awards
The event has been held annually since 1987 and encompasses the general genre-specific and popular awards (these are what is usually being referred to as "the ARIA awards") as well as Fine Arts Awards and Artisan Awards (held separately from 2004 ), Lifetime Achievement Awards and ARIA Hall of Fame – held separately from 2005 to 2010 but returned to the general ceremony in 2011 .
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Q172
What group took home the award for best rock album at the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards?
ARIA Music Awards
For 2010, ARIA introduced public voted awards for the first time.
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What group took home the award for best rock album at the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards?
ARIA Music Awards
Winning, or even being nominated for, an ARIA award results in a lot of media attention on an artist, and usually increases recording sales several-fold – in 2005 , for example, after Ben Lee won three awards, his album Awake Is the New Sleep jumped from No. 31 to No. 5 in the ARIA Charts , its highest position.
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
For-profit education (also known as the education services industry or proprietary education) refers to educational institutions operated by private, profit -seeking businesses .
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
There are three types of for-profit schools .
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
One type is known as an educational management organization (EMO), and these are primary and secondary educational institutions.
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
EMOs work with school districts or charter schools , using public funds to finance operations.
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
The majority of for-profit schools in the K–12 sector in America function as EMOs, and have grown in number in the mid-2000s.
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
The other major category of for-profit schools are post-secondary institutions which operate as businesses , receiving fees from each student they enroll.
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
A third type of for-profit schools, which is less prevalent in the United States, are K–12 schools which operate as businesses.
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
EMOs function differently from charter schools created in order to carry out a particular teaching pedagogy ; most charter schools are mission-oriented, while EMOs and other for-profit institutions are market-oriented.
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
While supporters argue that the profit motive encourages efficiency, this arrangement has also drawn controversy and criticism.
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
Kevin Carey, director of the education policy program of the New American Foundation said in a 2010 column in The Chronicle of Higher Education that "For-profits exist in large part to fix educational market failures left by traditional institutions, and they profit by serving students that public and private nonprofit institutions too often ignore."
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Q173
how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
He also noted that "There's no doubt that the worst for-profits are ruthlessly exploiting the commodified college degree.
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how many for profit colleges in the usa
For-profit education
But they didn't commodify it in the first place."
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Q174
how did congress vote on the 22nd amendment
Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution
Amendment XXII in the National Archives
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how did congress vote on the 22nd amendment
Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for election to the office of President of the United States .
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Q174
how did congress vote on the 22nd amendment
Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution
Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947.
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how did congress vote on the 22nd amendment
Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution
It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.
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Q175
how many episodes of bo bo bo bo bo bo bo
List of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo episodes
This is an episode guide for the anime series Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo .
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Q175
how many episodes of bo bo bo bo bo bo bo
List of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo episodes
This list encompasses every episode, beginning with the original Japanese-language title as they aired on TV Asahi , followed by the title used in the English dubbed version airing in the United States on Cartoon Network .
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Q175
how many episodes of bo bo bo bo bo bo bo
List of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo episodes
A short summary will follow, introducing the episode and referring to some of the gags , but not giving the complete summaries to the episodes.
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Q175
how many episodes of bo bo bo bo bo bo bo
List of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo episodes
All names and some of the references will be the ones used from the English-language version to avoid confusion.
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how many episodes of bo bo bo bo bo bo bo
List of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo episodes
Japanese names may be presented after the dub name in parentheses.
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Q176
what building inside central park
Central Park
This article is about the public park in New York City.
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what building inside central park
Central Park
For other uses, see Central Park (disambiguation) .
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what building inside central park
Central Park
Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City .
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what building inside central park
Central Park
The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land (it is 843 acres today).
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what building inside central park
Central Park
In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan.
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what building inside central park
Central Park
Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War , and was completed in 1873.
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what building inside central park
Central Park
Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States.
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what building inside central park
Central Park
Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government.
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what building inside central park
Central Park
The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 83.5% of Central Park's $37.5 million annual budget, and employs 80.7% of the park's maintenance staff.
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Q177
what carrier does straight talk use
TracFone Wireless
TracFone Wireless, Inc. is a prepaid wireless service provider operating in the United States including Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and is a subsidiary of Mexico's largest telecommunications provider, América Móvil .
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Q177
what carrier does straight talk use
TracFone Wireless
As a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), TracFone Wireless holds multiple agreements with the US largest wireless telecommunications companies to utilize their networks to provide service including those of Verizon , AT&T , Sprint , and T-Mobile .
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what carrier does straight talk use
TracFone Wireless
TracFone Wireless offers its wireless products under multiple brands which each also offer distinctive service plans, the brands include TracFone, NET10 Wireless, Straight Talk, SafeLink Wireless, Telcel América and Simple Mobile .
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Q178
how does a dredge work?
Dredging
A grab dredge
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how does a dredge work?
Dredging
Dredging is an excavation activity or operation usually carried out at least partly underwater, in shallow seas or fresh water areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments and disposing of them at a different location.
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Q178
how does a dredge work?
Dredging
This technique is often used to keep waterways navigable.
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how does a dredge work?
Dredging
It is also used as a way to replenish sand on some public beaches, where sand has been lost because of coastal erosion .
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how does a dredge work?
Dredging
Dredging is also used as a technique for fishing for certain species of edible clams and crabs , see fishing dredge .
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how does a dredge work?
Dredging
A dredger (or “dredge” as is the general usage in the Americas) is any device, machine, or vessel that is used to excavate and remove material from the bottom of a body of water.
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Q178
how does a dredge work?
Dredging
For example, a scoop attached to the end of a rope or pole by which a man can draw sediments up from the bottom of a pond is a dredger.
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how does a dredge work?
Dredging
Developing this idea further, a motorized crane equipped with a drag bucket or clamshell (grabber) that is used to scoop material from the bottom of a body of water is also a dredger.
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how does a dredge work?
Dredging
The crane could be located on the bank, or perhaps mounted on a barge.
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how does a dredge work?
Dredging
If the crane is mounted on a barge, the entire vessel is referred to as a dredger.
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how does a dredge work?
Dredging
The process of dredging creates spoils (excess material), which are carried away from the dredged area.
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how does a dredge work?
Dredging
Dredging can produce materials for land reclamation or other purposes (usually construction-related), and has also historically played a significant role in gold mining .
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how does a dredge work?
Dredging
Dredging can create disturbance in aquatic ecosystems , often with adverse impacts.
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Q179
how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska photographed from the International Space Station , May 2006.
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
Ash plumes reached a height of 19 km during the climactic eruption at Mount Pinatubo , Philippines in 1991.
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
A volcano is an opening, or rupture , in a planet's surface or crust , which allows hot magma , volcanic ash and gases to escape from the magma chamber below the surface.
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Q179
how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
Volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging .
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
A mid-oceanic ridge , for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together.
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
By contrast, volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another.
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust in the interiors of plates, e.g., in the East African Rift , the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and the Rio Grande Rift in North America.
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
This type of volcanism falls under the umbrella of "Plate hypothesis" volcanism.
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
Volcanism away from plate boundaries has also been explained as mantle plumes .
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
These so-called " hotspots ", for example Hawaii, are postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs with magma from the core–mantle boundary , 3,000 km deep in the Earth.
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
Erupting volcanoes can pose many hazards, not only in the immediate vicinity of the eruption.
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
Volcanic ash can be a threat to aircraft, in particular those with jet engines where ash particles can be melted by the high operating temperature.
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
Large eruptions can affect temperature as ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscure the sun and cool the Earth's lower atmosphere or troposphere ; however, they also absorb heat radiated up from the Earth, thereby warming the stratosphere .
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how do former volcanoes affect hydrothermal activity
Volcano
Historically, so-called volcanic winters have caused catastrophic famines .
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Q180
what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
Benedict Arnold (June 14, 1801) was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army .
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Q180
what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
While a general on the American side, he obtained command of the fort at West Point, New York , and planned to surrender it to the British forces.
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
After the plan was exposed in September 1780, he was commissioned into the British Army as a brigadier general.
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
Born in Connecticut , Arnold was a merchant operating ships on the Atlantic Ocean when the war broke out in 1775.
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
After joining the growing army outside Boston , he distinguished himself through acts of intelligence and bravery.
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
His actions included the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775, defensive and delaying tactics despite losing the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in 1776, the Battle of Ridgefield , Connecticut (after which he was promoted to major general), operations in relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix , and key actions during the pivotal Battles of Saratoga in 1777, in which he suffered leg injuries that ended his combat career for several years.
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
Despite Arnold's successes, he was passed over for promotion by the Continental Congress while other officers claimed credit for some of his accomplishments.
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
Adversaries in military and political circles brought charges of corruption or other malfeasance, but most often he was acquitted in formal inquiries.
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
Congress investigated his accounts and found he was indebted to Congress after spending much of his own money on the war effort.
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Q180
what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
Frustrated and bitter, Arnold decided to change sides in 1779, and opened secret negotiations with the British.
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
In July 1780, he was offered, continued to pursue and was awarded command of West Point .
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
Arnold's scheme to surrender the fort to the British was exposed when American forces captured British Major John André carrying papers that revealed the plot.
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
Upon learning of André's capture, Arnold fled down the Hudson River to the British sloop-of-war Vulture , narrowly avoiding capture by the forces of George Washington , who had been alerted to the plot.
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what did benedict arnold die
Benedict arnold
Arnold received a commission as a brigadier general in the British Army , an annual pension of £360 , and a lump sum of over £6,000.
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