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Q2036
what was nixon accused of
Watergate scandal
After a protracted series of bitter court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes to government investigators; he ultimately complied.
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what was nixon accused of
Watergate scandal
Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and a strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate , Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974.
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what was nixon accused of
Watergate scandal
His successor, Gerald Ford , then issued a pardon to him .
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Q2037
who is elizabeth from general hospital who are the boys fathers
Elizabeth Webber
Elizabeth Imogene Webber (formerly Lansing and Spencer) is a fictional character on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital .
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who is elizabeth from general hospital who are the boys fathers
Elizabeth Webber
Elizabeth is the granddaughter of Dr. Steve Hardy ( John Beradino ), one of the originating core characters of the series.
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who is elizabeth from general hospital who are the boys fathers
Elizabeth Webber
Rebecca Herbst originated the character on August 1, 1997 and has been the only contract actress to play the role.
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who is elizabeth from general hospital who are the boys fathers
Elizabeth Webber
Elizabeth is part of two supercouple pairings, Lucky Spencer and Elizabeth Webber and Jason Morgan and Elizabeth Webber .
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Q2038
what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
The United States presidency of Ronald Reagan , also known as the Reagan administration, was a Republican administration headed by Ronald Reagan from January 20, 1981, to January 20, 1989.
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Domestically, the administration favored reducing government programs and introduced the largest across-the-board tax cuts in American history.
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
The economic policies enacted in 1981, known as " Reaganomics ", were an example of supply-side economics .
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Reagan aimed to encourage entrepreneurship and limit the growth of social spending, as well as the reduction of regulation and inflation .
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Economic growth saw a strong recovery in the 1980s, helping Reagan to win a landslide re-election .
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
The national debt increased significantly, however.
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Regarding foreign policy , the administration was steadfastly anti-communist , calling the Soviet Union an " evil empire " and ending 1970s détente .
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Reagan accelerated the massive buildup of the military started by his predecessor , including an invasion of Grenada , the first major overseas action by U.S. troops since the end of the Vietnam War .
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
The " Reagan Doctrine " controversially granted aid to paramilitary forces seeking to overthrow communist governments, particularly in war-torn Central America and Afghanistan .
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Reagan also promoted new technologies such as missile defense systems in order to confront the Soviets and their allies.
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
In diplomacy, Reagan forged a strong alliance with UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , and he met with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev four times, aiming to shrink the superpowers ' nuclear arsenals.
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Q2038
what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Reagan's presidency has been termed the "Reagan Revolution", or the Age of Reagan in recognition of the political realignment both within and beyond the U.S. in favor of his brand of conservatism and his faith in free markets .
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
The Reagan administration worked toward the collapse of Soviet Communism, and it did collapse just as he left office.
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Victory in the Cold War led to a unipolar world with the U.S. as the world's sole superpower.
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
While the damaging Iran-Contra affair engulfed several Reagan aides during his second term, Reagan himself left office with a 63 percent approval rating , one of the higher approval ratings of departing presidents.
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
After years of unstinting praise from the right, and unrelenting criticism from the left, historian David Henry finds that by 2009 a consensus had emerged among scholars that Reagan revived conservatism and turned the nation to the right by demonstrating a "pragmatic conservatism" that promoted ideology within the constraints imposed by the divided political system.
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what is reagan known for
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Furthermore, says Henry, the consensus viewpoint agrees that he revived faith in the presidency and American self-confidence, and contributed critically to ending the Cold War .
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
Crude death rate by country (2006).
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a population.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
Scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1000 individuals per year; thus, a mortality rate of 9.5 (out of 1000) in a population of 1,000 would mean 9.5 deaths per year in that entire population, or 0.95% out of the total.
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
It is distinct from morbidity rate , which refers to the number of individuals in poor health during a given time period (the prevalence rate ) or the number of newly appearing cases of the disease per unit of time ( incidence rate ).
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The term " mortality " is also sometimes inappropriately used to refer to the number of deaths among a set of diagnosed hospital cases for a disease or injury, rather than for the general population of a country or ethnic group.
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
This disease mortality statistic is more precisely referred to as " case fatality rate " (CFR).
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
One distinguishes:
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The crude death rate, the total number of deaths per year per 1000 people.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
the crude death rate for the whole world is about 8.37 per 1000 per year according to the current CIA World Factbook.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The perinatal mortality rate, the sum of neonatal deaths and fetal deaths (stillbirths) per 1000 births.
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The maternal mortality ratio, the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in same time period.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The maternal mortality rate, the number of maternal deaths per 1,000 women of reproductive age in the population (generally defined as 15–44 years of age) .
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The infant mortality rate, the number of deaths of children less than 1 year old per 1000 live births.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The child mortality rate, the number of deaths of children less than 5 years old per 1000 live births.
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The standardised mortality ratio (SMR)- This represents a proportional comparison to the numbers of deaths that would have been expected if the population had been of a standard composition in terms of age, gender, etc.
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The age-specific mortality rate (ASMR) - This refers to the total number of deaths per year per 1000 people of a given age (e.g. age 62 last birthday).
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
In regard to the or failure of medical treatment or procedures , one would also distinguish:
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The early mortality rate, the total number of deaths in the early stages of an ongoing treatment, or in the period immediately following an treatment.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The late mortality rate, the total number of deaths in the late stages of an ongoing treatment, or a significant length of time after an acute treatment.
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Q2039
what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
Note that the crude death rate as defined above and applied to a whole population can give a misleading impression.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The crude death rate depends on the age (and gender) specific mortality rates and the age (and gender) distribution of the population.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
The number of deaths per 1000 people can be higher for developed nations than in less-developed countries, despite life expectancy being higher in developed countries due to standards of health being better.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
This happens because developed countries typically have a completely different population age distribution, with a much higher proportion of older people, due to both lower recent birth rates and lower mortality rates.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
A more complete picture of mortality is given by a life table which shows the mortality rate separately for each age.
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what was the crude death rate in 1990?
Mortality rate
A life table is necessary to give a good estimate of life expectancy .
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Q2040
what is evoked otoacoustic emissions
Otoacoustic emission
An otoacoustic emission (OAE) is a sound which is generated from within the inner ear .
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Q2040
what is evoked otoacoustic emissions
Otoacoustic emission
Having been predicted by Thomas Gold in 1948, its existence was first demonstrated experimentally by David Kemp in 1978 and otoacoustic emissions have since been shown to arise by a number of different cellular mechanisms within the inner ear .
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Q2040
what is evoked otoacoustic emissions
Otoacoustic emission
Studies have shown that OAEs disappear after the inner ear has been damaged, so OAEs are often used in the laboratory and the clinic as a measure of inner ear health.
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Q2040
what is evoked otoacoustic emissions
Otoacoustic emission
Broadly speaking, there are two types of otoacoustic emissions: spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs), which can occur without external stimulation, and evoked otoacoustic emissions (EOAEs), which require an evoking stimulus .
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Q2042
where was thomas located on october 27
Hurricane Tomas
Hurricane Tomas was the nineteenth named storm and twelfth hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season .
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where was thomas located on october 27
Hurricane Tomas
Tomas developed from a tropical wave east of the Windward Islands on October 29.
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where was thomas located on october 27
Hurricane Tomas
Quickly intensifying into a hurricane, it moved through the Windward Islands and passed very near Saint Lucia .
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where was thomas located on october 27
Hurricane Tomas
After reaching Category 2 status on the Saffir-Simpson scale , Tomas quickly weakened to a tropical storm in the central Caribbean Sea , due to strong wind shear and dry air.
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where was thomas located on october 27
Hurricane Tomas
Tomas later regained hurricane status as it reorganized near the Windward passage .
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where was thomas located on october 27
Hurricane Tomas
Throughout the hurricane's path, 71 people are known to have been killed, 14 of whom were in Saint Lucia.
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where was thomas located on october 27
Hurricane Tomas
Monetary losses throughout the Windward Islands were estimated at US$588 million, mainly in Saint Lucia.
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where was thomas located on october 27
Hurricane Tomas
In the wake of the storm in Haiti , flooding intensified an ongoing cholera outbreak indirectly causing more fatalities.
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where was thomas located on october 27
Hurricane Tomas
According to a report released in December 2010, 55 people were killed in Cuba and Hispanola, though the distribution of these fatalities are unknown.
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where was thomas located on october 27
Hurricane Tomas
Overall damage from the storm was at least $741 million.
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who is victoria jackson from saturday night live
Victoria Jackson
Victoria Jackson (born August 2, 1959) is an American comedian, actress, satirist, singer and internet blogger best known as a cast member of the NBC television sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 1986 to 1992.
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Q2043
who is victoria jackson from saturday night live
Victoria Jackson
She has received attention as a vocal critic of President Barack Obama , and is an active participant in the Tea Party movement .
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Q2044
what was the post modernist era in literature?
Postmodern literature
Postmodern literature is literature characterized by heavy reliance on techniques like fragmentation, paradox, and questionable narrators, and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.
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Q2044
what was the post modernist era in literature?
Postmodern literature
Postmodern works are seen as a reaction against Enlightenment thinking and Modernist approaches to literature .
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what was the post modernist era in literature?
Postmodern literature
Postmodern literature, like postmodernism as a whole, tends to resist definition or classification as a " movement" .
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what was the post modernist era in literature?
Postmodern literature
Indeed, the convergence of postmodern literature with various modes of critical theory , particularly reader-response and deconstructionist approaches, and the subversions of the implicit contract between author, text and reader by which its works are often characterised, have led to pre-modern fictions such as Cervantes ' Don Quixote (1605,1615) and Laurence Sterne 's eighteenth-century satire Tristram Shandy being retrospectively inducted into the fold.
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what was the post modernist era in literature?
Postmodern literature
While there is little consensus on the precise characteristics, scope, and importance of postmodern literature, as is often the case with artistic movements, postmodern literature is commonly defined in relation to a precursor.
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what was the post modernist era in literature?
Postmodern literature
For example, a postmodern literary work tends not to conclude with the neatly tied-up ending as is often found in modernist literature, but often parodies it.
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what was the post modernist era in literature?
Postmodern literature
Postmodern authors tend to celebrate chance over craft, and further employ metafiction to undermine the writer's authority.
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what was the post modernist era in literature?
Postmodern literature
Another characteristic of postmodern literature is the questioning of distinctions between high and low culture through the use of pastiche , the combination of subjects and genres not previously deemed fit for literature.
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Q2045
who is the group enigma
Enigma (musical project)
Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu , David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990.
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who is the group enigma
Enigma (musical project)
The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain , from the early 1990s until May 2009, where he has recorded all of Enigma's studio releases to date.
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who is the group enigma
Enigma (musical project)
Cretu is both the composer and the producer of the project.
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who is the group enigma
Enigma (musical project)
His former wife, pop singer Sandra , often provided vocals on Enigma tracks.
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who is the group enigma
Enigma (musical project)
Jens Gad co-arranged and played guitar on three of the Enigma albums.
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who is the group enigma
Enigma (musical project)
Peter Cornelius also contributed to Enigma during the 1990s.
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who is the group enigma
Enigma (musical project)
Seven studio albums have been produced under the name of the project.
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Q2046
when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise , comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day.
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when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
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when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969.
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Q2046
when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
This Saturday morning cartoon series featured four teenagers— Fred Jones , Daphne Blake , Velma Dinkley , and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers — and their talking brown Great Dane dog named Scooby-Doo , who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.
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Q2046
when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
Following the success of the original series, Hanna-Barbera and its successor Warner Bros. Animation have produced numerous follow-up and spin-off animated series and several related works, including television specials and telefilms, a line of direct-to-video films, and two Warner Bros. –produced theatrical feature films.
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Q2046
when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
Some versions of Scooby-Doo feature different variations on the show's supernatural theme, and include characters such as Scooby's cousin Scooby-Dum and nephew Scrappy-Doo in addition to or instead of some of the original characters.
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when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976, when it moved to ABC .
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when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
ABC aired the show until canceling it in 1986, and presented a spin-off featuring the characters as children, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo , from 1988 until 1991.
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when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
Two new Scooby-Doo series, What's New, Scooby-Doo?
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when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
and Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a a Clue!]], aired as part of Kids WB on The WB network and its successor, The CW network, from 2002 until 2008.
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when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
The most recent Scooby-Doo series, Scooby-Doo!
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when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
Mystery Incorporated , aired on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2013.
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when was scooby doo created
Scooby-Doo
Repeats of the various Scooby-Doo series are broadcast frequently on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in the United States and other countries.
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Q2048
What is the name of the six-part comic book mini-series based on a character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2?
Call of Duty
Call of Duty is a first-person and third-person shooter computer/ video game franchise .
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What is the name of the six-part comic book mini-series based on a character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2?
Call of Duty
The series began on the PC , and later expanded to consoles and handhelds .
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What is the name of the six-part comic book mini-series based on a character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2?
Call of Duty
Several spin-off games have also been released.
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Q2048
What is the name of the six-part comic book mini-series based on a character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2?
Call of Duty
The earlier games in the series are set primarily in World War II , this includes: Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2, and Call of Duty 3.
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What is the name of the six-part comic book mini-series based on a character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2?
Call of Duty
Beginning with Modern Warfare , which is set in modern times, the series has shifted focus away from World War II.
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What is the name of the six-part comic book mini-series based on a character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2?
Call of Duty
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (released November 2007) was followed by Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 .
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