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Q2213
what is the united nations and what is its role in the world
United nations
From its offices around the world, the UN and its specialized agencies decide on substantive and administrative issues in regular meetings held throughout the year.
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Q2213
what is the united nations and what is its role in the world
United nations
The organization has six principal organs: the General Assembly (the main deliberative assembly ); the Security Council (for deciding certain resolutions for peace and security); the Economic and Social Council (for assisting in promoting international economic and social cooperation and development); the Secretariat (for providing studies, information, and facilities needed by the UN); the International Court of Justice (the primary judicial organ); and the United Nations Trusteeship Council (which is currently inactive).
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Q2213
what is the united nations and what is its role in the world
United nations
Other prominent UN System agencies include the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF ).
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Q2213
what is the united nations and what is its role in the world
United nations
The UN's most prominent position is that of the office of Secretary-General which has been held by Ban Ki-moon of South Korea since 2007.
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what is the united nations and what is its role in the world
United nations
The United Nations Headquarters resides in international territory in New York City, with further main offices at Geneva , Nairobi , and Vienna .
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what is the united nations and what is its role in the world
United nations
The organization is financed from assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states, and has six official languages : Arabic , Chinese , English , French , Russian , and Spanish .
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Q2215
Where is South Beach in Miami
South Beach
South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach , Florida , United States , located due east of Miami city proper between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean .
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Q2215
Where is South Beach in Miami
South Beach
The area encompasses all of the barrier islands of Miami Beach south of Indian Creek .
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Q2215
Where is South Beach in Miami
South Beach
This area was the first section of Miami Beach to be developed, starting in the 1910s, thanks to the development efforts of Carl G. Fisher , the Lummus Brothers, and John S. Collins , the latter whose construction of the Collins Bridge provided the first vital land link between mainland Miami and the beaches.
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Q2215
Where is South Beach in Miami
South Beach
The area has gone through numerous artificial and natural changes over the years, including a booming regional economy, increased tourism, and the 1926 hurricane , which destroyed much of the area.
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Q2215
Where is South Beach in Miami
South Beach
As of 2010, about 39,186 residents live in South Beach.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election , held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
The Republican Party nominated incumbent Vice-President Richard Nixon , while the Democratic Party nominated John F. Kennedy , Senator from Massachusetts.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
The incumbent President , Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower , was not eligible for re-election after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment .
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
Kennedy was elected with a lead of 112,827 votes, or 0.17% of the popular vote, giving him a victory of 303 to 219 in the Electoral College , the closest since 1916 .
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
This was the first election in which all fifty of the current United States participated.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
A number of factors explain why the election was so close.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
Kennedy gained since there was an economic recession which hurt the incumbent Republican, and he had the advantage of 17 million more registered Democrats than Republicans.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
Furthermore, the new votes that Kennedy gained among Catholics almost neutralized the new votes Nixon gained among Protestants.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
Kennedy's campaigning skills decisively outmatched Nixon's.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
In the end, Nixon's emphasis on his experience carried little weight, and he wasted energy by campaigning in all 50 states instead of concentrating on the swing states.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
Kennedy used his large, well-funded campaign organization to win the nomination, secure endorsements, and, with the aid of the last of the big-city bosses , to get out the vote in the big cities.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
He relied on running mate Lyndon B. Johnson to hold the South and used television effectively.
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Q2217
who was john f kennedy up against
United States presidential election, 1960
This election is notable as being the first time in U.S. history that two sitting U.S. Senators (Kennedy and Johnson) were elected as president and vice-president, a phenomenon that has been repeated once, by Barack Obama and Joe Biden in 2008 (in both cases, the president was the younger, more junior senator).
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
A poster for a c. 1884 American production of Macbeth, starring Thomas W. Keene.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
Depicted, counter clockwise from top-left, are: Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches ; just after the murder of Duncan ; Banquo's ghost; Macbeth duels Macduff; and Macbeth.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare .
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
It is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corroding psychological and political effects produced when its protagonist, the Scottish lord Macbeth, chooses evil as the way to fulfill his ambition for power.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
He commits regicide to become king and then furthers his moral descent with a reign of murderous terror to stay in power, eventually plunging the country into civil war.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
In the end, he loses everything that gives meaning and purpose to his life before losing his life itself.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
The play is believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607, and is most commonly dated 1606.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre .
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
It was first published in the Folio of 1623 , possibly from a prompt book .
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
It was most likely written during the reign of James I , who had been James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne in 1603.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
James was a patron of Shakespeare’s acting company, and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote during James’s reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright’s relationship with the sovereign.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
His reign is racked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
The bloodbath swiftly takes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into realms of arrogance, madness, and death.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
Shakespeare's source for the tragedy is the account of King Macbeth of Scotland , Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play is cursed, and will not mention its title aloud, referring to it instead as " the Scottish play ".
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
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Q2218
who was the king during macbeth's time
Macbeth
It has been adapted to film, television, opera , novels, comic books, and other media.
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Q2219
When was the Milton Hershey school founded?
Milton Hershey School
The Milton Hershey School is a private philanthropic (pre-K through 12) boarding school in Hershey, Pennsylvania .
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Q2219
When was the Milton Hershey school founded?
Milton Hershey School
Originally named the Hershey Industrial School, the institution was founded and funded by chocolate industrialist Milton Snavely Hershey and his wife, Catherine Sweeney Hershey.
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Q2219
When was the Milton Hershey school founded?
Milton Hershey School
The school was originally established for impoverished, healthy, Caucasian , male orphans, while today it serves students of various backgrounds.
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Q2219
When was the Milton Hershey school founded?
Milton Hershey School
The Milton Hershey School Trust, which funds the school, owns controlling interest in The Hershey Company and owns the Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company ( HERCO ) which oversees many of the area hotels along with a theme park called Hersheypark .
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Q2219
When was the Milton Hershey school founded?
Milton Hershey School
With over six billion dollars in assets, the Milton Hershey School is one of the wealthiest schools in the world.
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Q2219
When was the Milton Hershey school founded?
Milton Hershey School
The school is overseen by a Board of Managers.
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Q2219
When was the Milton Hershey school founded?
Milton Hershey School
The school currently serves 1,818 students, and plans to grow to 2,100 students by 2013.
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Q2219
When was the Milton Hershey school founded?
Milton Hershey School
A member of CORE: Coalition for Residential Education , it is the largest residential education program in the US.
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Q2220
what is an EPUB file
EPub
Epub may refer to:
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Q2220
what is an EPUB file
EPub
EPUB , a free and open e-book standard
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what is an EPUB file
EPub
Electronic article , articles in scholarly journals or magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission
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Q2221
what is the controlled substance act known as
Controlled Substances Act
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) was enacted into law by the Congress of the United States as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 .
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Q2221
what is the controlled substance act known as
Controlled Substances Act
The CSA is the federal U.S. drug policy under which the manufacture, importation, possession, use and distribution of certain substances is regulated.
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Q2221
what is the controlled substance act known as
Controlled Substances Act
The Act also served as the national implementing legislation for the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs .
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Q2221
what is the controlled substance act known as
Controlled Substances Act
The legislation created five Schedules (classifications), with varying qualifications for a substance to be included in each.
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Q2221
what is the controlled substance act known as
Controlled Substances Act
Two federal agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration , determine which substances are added to or removed from the various schedules, though the statute passed by Congress created the initial listing, and Congress has sometimes scheduled other substances through legislation such as the Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Prevention Act of 2000, which placed gamma hydroxybutyrate in Schedule I. Classification decisions are required to be made on criteria including potential for abuse (an undefined term), currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and international treaties.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
Second-language acquisition or second-language learning is the process by which people learn a second language .
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
Second-language acquisition (often abbreviated to SLA) also refers to the scientific discipline devoted to studying that process.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
Second language refers to any language learned in addition to a person's first language ; although the concept is named second-language acquisition, it can also incorporate the learning of third, fourth, or subsequent languages.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
Second-language acquisition refers to what learners do; it does not refer to practices in language teaching .
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
The academic discipline of second-language acquisition is a subdiscipline of applied linguistics .
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
It is broad-based and relatively new.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
As well as the various branches of linguistics , second-language acquisition is also closely related to psychology, cognitive psychology , and education.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
To separate the academic discipline from the learning process itself, the terms second-language acquisition research, second-language studies, and second-language acquisition studies are also used.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
SLA research began as an interdisciplinary field, and because of this it is difficult to identify a precise starting date.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
However, it does appear to have developed a great deal since the mid-1960s.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
The term acquisition was originally used to emphasize the subconscious nature of the learning process, but in recent years learning and acquisition have become largely synonymous.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
Second-language acquisition can incorporate heritage language learning , but it does not usually incorporate bilingualism .
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
Most SLA researchers see bilingualism as being the end result of learning a language, not the process itself, and see the term as referring to native-like fluency.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
Writers in fields such as education and psychology, however, often use bilingualism loosely to refer to all forms of multilingualism .
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
Second-language acquisition is also not to be contrasted with the acquisition of a foreign language ; rather, the learning of second languages and the learning of foreign languages involve the same fundamental processes in different situations..
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
There has been much debate about exactly how language is learned, and many issues are still unresolved.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
There are many theories of second-language acquisition, but none are accepted as a complete explanation by all SLA researchers.
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Q2222
What is the third theory of language acquisition.
Second-language acquisition
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field of second-language acquisition, this is not expected to happen in the foreseeable future.
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Q2223
Who is the richest man alive in Houston?
Forbes list of billionaires
Forbes list of billionaires is an annual ranking of the world's wealthiest people, compiled and published by Forbes , an American national business magazine.
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Q2223
Who is the richest man alive in Houston?
Forbes list of billionaires
The total net worth of each individual on the list is estimated, in United States dollars , based on their assets and accounting for debt.
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Q2223
Who is the richest man alive in Houston?
Forbes list of billionaires
The list only represents each person's valuation on a single day, due to daily fluctuations among exchange rates and stock valuations.
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Q2224
who was director of secret service in 1963
United States Secret Service
The United States Secret Service is a U.S. federal law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security .
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Q2224
who was director of secret service in 1963
United States Secret Service
The sworn members are divided among the Special Agents and the Uniformed Division.
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Q2224
who was director of secret service in 1963
United States Secret Service
Until March 1, 2003, the Service was part of the United States Department of the Treasury .
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Q2224
who was director of secret service in 1963
United States Secret Service
The U.S. Secret Service has two distinct areas of responsibility:
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Q2224
who was director of secret service in 1963
United States Secret Service
Financial Crimes, covering missions such as prevention and investigation of counterfeiting of U.S. currency and U.S. treasury securities , and investigation of major fraud .
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Q2224
who was director of secret service in 1963
United States Secret Service
Protection, which entails ensuring the safety of current and former national leaders and their families, such as the President, past presidents, vice presidents, presidential candidates, visiting heads of state, and foreign embassies (per an agreement with the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) Office of Foreign Missions (OFM), etc.)
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Q2224
who was director of secret service in 1963
United States Secret Service
The Secret Service's initial responsibility was to investigate counterfeiting of U.S. currency, which was rampant following the U.S. Civil War.
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Q2224
who was director of secret service in 1963
United States Secret Service
The agency then evolved into the United States' first domestic intelligence and counterintelligence agency.
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Q2224
who was director of secret service in 1963
United States Secret Service
Many of the agency's missions were later taken over by subsequent agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Q2225
when was me and bobby mcgee first recorded?
Me and Bobby McGee
"Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster , originally performed by Roger Miller .
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Q2225
when was me and bobby mcgee first recorded?
Me and Bobby McGee
Others performed the song later, including Kristofferson himself, and Janis Joplin who topped the U.S. singles chart with the song in 1971 after her death, making the song the second posthumous number-one single in U.S. chart history after " (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay " by Otis Redding .
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Q2230
when was fdr elected as president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.
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Q2230
when was fdr elected as president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A dominant leader of the Democratic Party and the only American president elected to more than two terms, he built a New Deal Coalition that realigned American politics after 1932, as his domestic policies defined American liberalism for the middle third of the 20th century.
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Q2230
when was fdr elected as president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
With the bouncy popular song " Happy Days Are Here Again " as his campaign theme, FDR defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in November 1932 , at the depth of the Great Depression .
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Q2230
when was fdr elected as president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Energized by his personal victory over polio , FDR's unfailing optimism and activism contributed to a renewal of the national spirit.
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Q2230
when was fdr elected as president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He worked closely with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin in leading the Allies against Germany and Japan in World War II , and restoring prosperity to the nation's economy.
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Q2230
when was fdr elected as president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In his first hundred days in office, which began March 4, 1933, Roosevelt spearheaded major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal —a variety of programs designed to produce relief (government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (economic growth), and reform (through regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation).
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Q2230
when was fdr elected as president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The economy improved rapidly from 1933 to 1937, but then relapsed into a deep recession.
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Q2230
when was fdr elected as president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The bipartisan Conservative Coalition that formed in 1937 prevented his packing the Supreme Court or passing any considerable legislation; it abolished many of the relief programs when unemployment diminished during World War II.
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