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Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	Nearby features include Bowl of Tears Lake, directly under the east face of the peak, Tuhare Lakes, in a cirque that lies south of a significant subpeak, and several other lakes.	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	Notable locations within include the Dotsero volcano (near Interstate 70 ), Vail and Aspen .	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	US 24 runs near the peak through Gilman .	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	Photochrom print of Mount of the Holy Cross c. 1900.	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	This image is a reversed view of the mountain compared to how it actually appears.	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	The first recorded ascent of Holy Cross was in 1873, by F. V. Hayden and photographer W. H. Jackson during one of Hayden's geographical surveys .	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	However, the peak may well have been ascended previously by miners or American Indians .	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	The first winter ascent of the peak was made in 1943 by Russel Keene and Howard Freedman of the 10th Mountain Division , then stationed at Camp Hale .	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	Holy Cross can be climbed by at least four different routes, with the easiest and most common route being the North Ridge, which involves of vertical gain over and is rated YDS Class 2 for moderate scrambling .	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	The Cross Couloir route forms the vertical portion of the famous cross feature, and provides an advanced snow climb or extreme ski descent.	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	Mount of the Holy Cross has a history of endangering the lives of many hikers.	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	Primarily, the hikers who require rescue are unfamiliar with the risks of entering wilderness areas and do not bring adequate equipment and supplies to respond to emergency conditions.	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	Although the summit on Mount of the Holy Cross is frequently reached on a long day hike, unprepared hikers are frequently stranded or lost due to changing environmental conditions and confusion regarding the surrounding landscape, especially on the descent of North Ridge.	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	Thorough research and reasonable planning should prevent most tragedies.	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	Mount of the Holy cross is accessible from Tigiwon Road, south of Minturn, Colorado.	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	The Half Moon Pass Trail is the standard route to the summit of Mount of the Holy Cross via the North Ridge.	00
Q2642	who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross	Mount of the Holy Cross	Following the Fall Creek Trail to an ascent of Notch Mountain Trail provides the best view of the Holy Cross snow feature from Notch Mountain Ridge.	00
Q2643	what is a gsm cell phone	GSM	The GSM logo is used to identify compatible handsets and equipment	00
Q2643	what is a gsm cell phone	GSM	GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications, originally '), is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe protocols for second generation ( 2G ) digital cellular networks used by mobile phones .	11
Q2643	what is a gsm cell phone	GSM	It became the de facto global standard for mobile communications with over 80% market share .	00
Q2643	what is a gsm cell phone	GSM	The GSM standard was developed as a replacement for first generation ( 1G ) analog cellular networks, and originally described a digital, circuit switched network optimized for full duplex voice telephony .	00
Q2643	what is a gsm cell phone	GSM	This was expanded over time to include data communications, first by circuit switched transport, then packet data transport via GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) and EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution or EGPRS).	00
Q2643	what is a gsm cell phone	GSM	Further improvements were made when the 3GPP developed third generation ( 3G ) UMTS standards followed by fourth generation ( 4G ) LTE Advanced standards.	00
Q2643	what is a gsm cell phone	GSM	"GSM" is a trademark owned by the GSM Association .	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (1941)	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	The Lend Lease act was an act where the United States had supported its allies.	11
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	Lend-Lease () was the law that started a program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom , the USSR , Republic of China , Free France , and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945.	11
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939.	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	This was nine months before the U.S. entered the war in December 1941.	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	Formally titled An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States, the Act effectively ended the United States' pretense of neutrality .	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	A total of $50 .1 billion (equivalent to $ today) worth of supplies were shipped: $31.4 billion to Britain, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and smaller sums to other Allies.	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	Reverse Lend-Lease comprised services such as rent on air bases that went to the U.S., and totaled $7.8 billion; of this, $6.8 billion came from the British and the Commonwealth .	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	The terms of the agreement provided that the materiel was to be used until time for their return or destruction.	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	Supplies after the termination date were sold to Britain at a large discount for £1 .075 billion using long-term loans from the United States.	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	Canada operated a similar program that sent $4.7 billion in supplies to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	The United States did not charge for aid supplied under this legislation.	00
Q2644	what was the cash and carry lend lease	Lend-Lease	This program was a decisive step away from non-interventionist policy, which had dominated United States foreign relations since the end of World War I , towards international involvement .	00
Q2645	What is the Jerusalem Artichoke good for?	Jerusalem artichoke	The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, earth apple or topinambour, is a species of sunflower native to eastern North America , and found from eastern Canada and Maine west to North Dakota , and south to northern Florida and Texas .	00
Q2645	What is the Jerusalem Artichoke good for?	Jerusalem artichoke	It is also cultivated widely across the temperate zone for its tuber , which is used as a root vegetable .	00
Q2646	what is el morro in puerto rico	Castillo San Felipe del Morro	Castillo San Felipe del Morro also known as Fort San Felipe del Morro or Morro Castle, is a 16th-century citadel located in San Juan, Puerto Rico .	11
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire , England, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury .	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks .	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds .	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	Archaeologists believe it was built anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC.	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been raised at the site as early as 3000 BC.	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC.	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO 's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury Henge .	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	It is a national legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument .	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage , while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust .	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	Archaeological evidence found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2008 indicates that Stonehenge could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings.	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	The dating of cremated remains found on the site indicate that deposits contain human bone from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug.	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	Such deposits continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years.	00
Q2648	what is older pyramid or stonehedge	Stonehenge	The site is a place of religious significance and pilgrimage in Neo-Druidry .	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual college basketball tournament for women.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981–82 season.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	The NCAA tournament was preceded by the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament , which was held annually from 1972 to 1982.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	Basketball was one of twelve women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981-82 school year, as the NCAA engaged in battle with the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women for sole governance of women's collegiate sports.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	The AIAW continued to conduct its established championship program in the same twelve (and other) sports; however, after a year of dual women's championships, the NCAA prevailed, while the AIAW disbanded.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	Attendance and interest in the Women's Division I Championship have grown over the years, especially since 2003, when the final championship game was moved to the Tuesday following the Monday men's championship game.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	The women's championship game is now the final overall game of the college basketball season.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	Before that, the Women's Final Four was usually played on the Friday before the Men's Final Four or the hours before the men played on the final Saturday of the tournament.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	The final was usually played the Sunday afternoon following the Men's Final Four.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	The tournament bracket is made up of champions from each Division I conference, which receive automatic bids .	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	The remaining slots are at-large bids , with teams chosen by an NCAA selection committee.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	The selection process and tournament seedings are based on several factors, including team rankings, win-loss records and Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) data.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	Unlike the men's tournament, there are only 32 at-large bids (as of the next tournament in 2014), and no play-in game .	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	The women's tournament, like the men's, is staged in a single elimination format, and is part of the media and public frenzy known colloquially as March Madness or The Big Dance.	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	All 63 games have been broadcast on television since 2003 on ESPN and ESPN2 .	00
Q2649	who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four	NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship	Similar to the pre-2011 men's tournament coverage on CBS , local teams are shown on each channel when available, with "whip-around" coverage designed to showcase the most competitive contests in the rest of the country.	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V .	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs , the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek .	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences between them), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs .	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	Originally displayed within a temple , the stone was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval period and eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta .	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	It was rediscovered there in 1799 by a soldier, Pierre-François Bouchard , of the French expedition to Egypt .	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	As the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, the Rosetta Stone aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this hitherto untranslated ancient language.	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	Lithographic copies and plaster casts began circulating among European museums and scholars.	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	Meanwhile, British troops defeated the French in Egypt in 1801, and the original stone came into British possession under the Capitulation of Alexandria .	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	Transported to London, it has been on public display at the British Museum since 1802.	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	It is the most-visited object in the British Museum.	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	Ever since its rediscovery, the stone has been the focus of nationalist rivalries, including its transfer from French to British possession during the Napoleonic Wars , a long-running dispute over the relative value of Young's and Champollion's contributions to the decipherment, and since 2003, demands for the stone's return to Egypt.	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	Study of the decree was already under way as the first full translation of the Greek text appeared in 1803.	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	It was 20 years, however, before the transliteration of the Egyptian scripts was announced by Jean-François Champollion in Paris in 1822; it took longer still before scholars were able to read Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently.	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	Major advances in the decoding were: recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text (1799); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names (1802); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic ( Thomas Young , 1814); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words (Champollion, 1822–1824).	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	Two other fragmentary copies of the same decree were discovered later, and several similar Egyptian bilingual or trilingual inscriptions are now known, including two slightly earlier Ptolemaic decrees (the Decree of Canopus in 238 BC, and the Memphis decree of Ptolemy IV , ca. 218 BC).	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	The Rosetta Stone is therefore no longer unique, but it was the essential key to modern understanding of Ancient Egyptian literature and civilization .	00
Q2650	where is the rosetta stone located in 2010	Rosetta Stone	The term Rosetta Stone is now used in other contexts as the name for the essential clue to a new field of knowledge.	00
Q2651	where are poison dart frog seen	Poison dart frog	Poison dart frog (also dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae which are native to Central and South America .	11
Q2651	where are poison dart frog seen	Poison dart frog	These species are diurnal and often have brightly colored bodies.	00
Q2651	where are poison dart frog seen	Poison dart frog	Although all wild dendrobatids are at least somewhat toxic, levels of toxicity vary considerably from one species to the next and from one population to another.	00
Q2651	where are poison dart frog seen	Poison dart frog	Many species are threatened .	00
Q2651	where are poison dart frog seen	Poison dart frog	These amphibians are often called "dart frogs" due to the Amerindians ' indigenous use of their to poison the tips of blowdarts .	00
Q2651	where are poison dart frog seen	Poison dart frog	However, of over 175 species, only four have been documented as being used for this purpose ( curare plants are more commonly used), all of which come from the Phyllobates genus, which is characterized by the relatively large size and high levels of toxicity of its members.	00
Q2652	what is cajeta in english	Cajeta	Cajeta is a Mexican confection of thickened syrup usually made of sweetened caramelised milk .	00
Q2652	what is cajeta in english	Cajeta	According to chef Rick Bayless , the name for cajeta came from the Spanish phrase al punto de cajeta, which means "a liquid thickened to the point at which a spoon drawn through the liquid reveals the bottom of the pot in which it is being cooked".	00
Q2652	what is cajeta in english	Cajeta	Another hypothesis is that it takes its name from the small wooden boxes in which it was traditionally packed.	00
Q2652	what is cajeta in english	Cajeta	Mexican cajeta is considered a specialty of the city of Celaya in the state of Guanajuato , although it is also produced with the traditional method in several towns of the state of Jalisco , such as Mazamitla , Sayula , and Atotonilco el Alto .	00
Q2652	what is cajeta in english	Cajeta	Cajeta is made by simmering goat's milk , or occasionally a sweetened liquid, stirring frequently, until it becomes very viscous due to evaporation of water, and caramelized.	00
Q2652	what is cajeta in english	Cajeta	While goat milk is the most usual base, other liquids or juices may be used.	00
Q2652	what is cajeta in english	Cajeta	In Celaya, and eventually the rest of Mexico, the confection of half goat 's milk and half cow 's milk became known by the name cajeta, but elsewhere, the milk candy became known as leche quemada, dulce de leche , etc.	00

Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

Nearby features include Bowl of Tears Lake, directly under the east face of the peak, Tuhare Lakes, in a cirque that lies south of a significant subpeak, and several other lakes.

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

Notable locations within include the Dotsero volcano (near Interstate 70 ), Vail and Aspen .

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

US 24 runs near the peak through Gilman .

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

Photochrom print of Mount of the Holy Cross c. 1900.

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

This image is a reversed view of the mountain compared to how it actually appears.

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

The first recorded ascent of Holy Cross was in 1873, by F. V. Hayden and photographer W. H. Jackson during one of Hayden's geographical surveys .

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

However, the peak may well have been ascended previously by miners or American Indians .

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

The first winter ascent of the peak was made in 1943 by Russel Keene and Howard Freedman of the 10th Mountain Division , then stationed at Camp Hale .

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

Holy Cross can be climbed by at least four different routes, with the easiest and most common route being the North Ridge, which involves of vertical gain over and is rated YDS Class 2 for moderate scrambling .

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

The Cross Couloir route forms the vertical portion of the famous cross feature, and provides an advanced snow climb or extreme ski descent.

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

Mount of the Holy Cross has a history of endangering the lives of many hikers.

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

Primarily, the hikers who require rescue are unfamiliar with the risks of entering wilderness areas and do not bring adequate equipment and supplies to respond to emergency conditions.

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

Although the summit on Mount of the Holy Cross is frequently reached on a long day hike, unprepared hikers are frequently stranded or lost due to changing environmental conditions and confusion regarding the surrounding landscape, especially on the descent of North Ridge.

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

Thorough research and reasonable planning should prevent most tragedies.

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

Mount of the Holy cross is accessible from Tigiwon Road, south of Minturn, Colorado.

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

The Half Moon Pass Trail is the standard route to the summit of Mount of the Holy Cross via the North Ridge.

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Q2642

who was the first person to climb the mount of the holy cross

Mount of the Holy Cross

Following the Fall Creek Trail to an ascent of Notch Mountain Trail provides the best view of the Holy Cross snow feature from Notch Mountain Ridge.

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Q2643

what is a gsm cell phone

GSM

The GSM logo is used to identify compatible handsets and equipment

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Q2643

what is a gsm cell phone

GSM

GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications, originally '), is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe protocols for second generation ( 2G ) digital cellular networks used by mobile phones .

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Q2643

what is a gsm cell phone

GSM

It became the de facto global standard for mobile communications with over 80% market share .

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Q2643

what is a gsm cell phone

GSM

The GSM standard was developed as a replacement for first generation ( 1G ) analog cellular networks, and originally described a digital, circuit switched network optimized for full duplex voice telephony .

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Q2643

what is a gsm cell phone

GSM

This was expanded over time to include data communications, first by circuit switched transport, then packet data transport via GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) and EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution or EGPRS).

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Q2643

what is a gsm cell phone

GSM

Further improvements were made when the 3GPP developed third generation ( 3G ) UMTS standards followed by fourth generation ( 4G ) LTE Advanced standards.

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Q2643

what is a gsm cell phone

GSM

"GSM" is a trademark owned by the GSM Association .

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Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (1941)

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Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

The Lend Lease act was an act where the United States had supported its allies.

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Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease () was the law that started a program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom , the USSR , Republic of China , Free France , and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945.

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Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939.

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Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

This was nine months before the U.S. entered the war in December 1941.

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Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

Formally titled An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States, the Act effectively ended the United States' pretense of neutrality .

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Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

A total of $50 .1 billion (equivalent to $ today) worth of supplies were shipped: $31.4 billion to Britain, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and smaller sums to other Allies.

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Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

Reverse Lend-Lease comprised services such as rent on air bases that went to the U.S., and totaled $7.8 billion; of this, $6.8 billion came from the British and the Commonwealth .

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Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

The terms of the agreement provided that the materiel was to be used until time for their return or destruction.

00

Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

Supplies after the termination date were sold to Britain at a large discount for £1 .075 billion using long-term loans from the United States.

00

Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

Canada operated a similar program that sent $4.7 billion in supplies to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.

00

Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

The United States did not charge for aid supplied under this legislation.

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Q2644

what was the cash and carry lend lease

Lend-Lease

This program was a decisive step away from non-interventionist policy, which had dominated United States foreign relations since the end of World War I , towards international involvement .

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Q2645

What is the Jerusalem Artichoke good for?

Jerusalem artichoke

The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, earth apple or topinambour, is a species of sunflower native to eastern North America , and found from eastern Canada and Maine west to North Dakota , and south to northern Florida and Texas .

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Q2645

What is the Jerusalem Artichoke good for?

Jerusalem artichoke

It is also cultivated widely across the temperate zone for its tuber , which is used as a root vegetable .

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Q2646

what is el morro in puerto rico

Castillo San Felipe del Morro

Castillo San Felipe del Morro also known as Fort San Felipe del Morro or Morro Castle, is a 16th-century citadel located in San Juan, Puerto Rico .

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Q2648

what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire , England, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury .

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Q2648

what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks .

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Q2648

what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds .

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Q2648

what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

Archaeologists believe it was built anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC.

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Q2648

what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been raised at the site as early as 3000 BC.

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Q2648

what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC.

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Q2648

what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO 's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury Henge .

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what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

It is a national legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument .

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what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage , while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust .

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what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

Archaeological evidence found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2008 indicates that Stonehenge could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings.

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what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

The dating of cremated remains found on the site indicate that deposits contain human bone from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug.

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what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

Such deposits continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years.

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what is older pyramid or stonehedge

Stonehenge

The site is a place of religious significance and pilgrimage in Neo-Druidry .

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual college basketball tournament for women.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981–82 season.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA tournament was preceded by the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament , which was held annually from 1972 to 1982.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

Basketball was one of twelve women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981-82 school year, as the NCAA engaged in battle with the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women for sole governance of women's collegiate sports.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The AIAW continued to conduct its established championship program in the same twelve (and other) sports; however, after a year of dual women's championships, the NCAA prevailed, while the AIAW disbanded.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

Attendance and interest in the Women's Division I Championship have grown over the years, especially since 2003, when the final championship game was moved to the Tuesday following the Monday men's championship game.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The women's championship game is now the final overall game of the college basketball season.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

Before that, the Women's Final Four was usually played on the Friday before the Men's Final Four or the hours before the men played on the final Saturday of the tournament.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The final was usually played the Sunday afternoon following the Men's Final Four.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The tournament bracket is made up of champions from each Division I conference, which receive automatic bids .

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The remaining slots are at-large bids , with teams chosen by an NCAA selection committee.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The selection process and tournament seedings are based on several factors, including team rankings, win-loss records and Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) data.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

Unlike the men's tournament, there are only 32 at-large bids (as of the next tournament in 2014), and no play-in game .

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The women's tournament, like the men's, is staged in a single elimination format, and is part of the media and public frenzy known colloquially as March Madness or The Big Dance.

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

All 63 games have been broadcast on television since 2003 on ESPN and ESPN2 .

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who was in the women's ncaa 1994 final four

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

Similar to the pre-2011 men's tournament coverage on CBS , local teams are shown on each channel when available, with "whip-around" coverage designed to showcase the most competitive contests in the rest of the country.

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