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Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	LR1154, L1154, L1154C, L1154F, L1154G, L1154H	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	6135-99-792-8475 (NSN)	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	1166A	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	AG13, A613, AG14, AG-14, G13A, G13-A	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	157, 303, 357	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	A76, GDA76, GP76A, GPA7, GPA75, GPA76, GPS76A,	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	1128MP, 208-904, A-76, CA18, CA19, CR44, D76A, KA, KA76, MS76H, PX76A, PX675A, RPX675, RW82, SB-F9, V13GA	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	4.5-volt, D, C, AA, AAA, AAAA, A23, 9-volt, CR2032 and LR44 batteries	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	Other types of batteries are or were made in the R44 size.	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	Formerly, mercury batteries were made as button cells (types MR44 and NR44).	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	Zinc-air batteries type PR44 require air to work.	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	Silver-oxide batteries type SR44 may provide extra capacity compared to LR44 types but have slightly different voltage characteristics.	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	Performance of a device meant to use a silver-oxide battery may be degraded with substitution of LR44 types.	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	Manufacturer's numbers for silver oxide R44 size cells include:	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	SR44/SR44W/SR44SW	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	6135-99-651-3240 (NSN)	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	SR1154	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	1107SO	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	1131SOP	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	SG13	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	S76	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	EPX76 (Energizer)	00
Q1068	what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)	LR44 battery	303/357 (D357H)	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season .	11
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes , in the history of the United States .	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes , it was the sixth strongest overall .	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	At least 1,833 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane ; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion (2005 USD), nearly triple the damage brought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane , causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico .	11
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	The hurricane strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane over the warm Gulf water, but weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana.	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge .	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	The most significant number of deaths occurred in New Orleans , Louisiana , which flooded as the levee system catastrophically failed , in many cases hours after the storm had moved inland.	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	Eventually 80% of the city and large tracts of neighboring parishes became flooded, and the floodwaters lingered for weeks.	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	However, the worst property damage occurred in coastal areas, such as all Mississippi beachfront towns , which were flooded over 90% in hours, as boats and casino barges rammed buildings, pushing cars and houses inland, with waters reaching 6–12 miles (10–19 km) from the beach.	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	The hurricane surge protection failures in New Orleans are considered the worst civil engineering disaster in U.S. history and prompted a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the designers and builders of the levee system as mandated by the Flood Control Act of 1965 .	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	Responsibility for the failures and flooding was laid squarely on the Army Corps in January 2008 by Judge Stanwood Duval , U.S. District Court, but the federal agency could not be held financially liable due to sovereign immunity in the Flood Control Act of 1928 .	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	There was also an investigation of the responses from federal, state and local governments, resulting in the resignation of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown , and of New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent Eddie Compass .	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	Several agencies including the United States Coast Guard (USCG), National Hurricane Center (NHC), and National Weather Service (NWS) were commended for their actions.	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	They provided accurate hurricane weather tracking forecasts with sufficient lead time.	00
Q1069	where did hurricane katrina begin	Hurricane Katrina	Even the most insistent appeals from national, state and local public officials to residents to evacuate before the storm did not warn that the levees could breach and fail.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	U.S. debt from 1940 to 2011.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	Red lines indicate the "debt held by the public" and black lines indicate the total national debt or gross public debt.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	The difference is the "intragovernmental debt," which includes obligations to government programs such as Social Security.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	Stated as a formula, National Debt = Debt held by the Public + Intragovernmental Debt.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	The second panel shows the two debt figures as a percentage of U.S. GDP (dollar value of U.S. economic production for that year).	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	The top panel is deflated so every year is in 2010 dollars.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	The United States public debt is the money borrowed by the federal government of the United States through the issuing of securities by the Treasury and other federal government agencies.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	US public debt consists of two components:	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	Debt held by the public includes Treasury securities held by investors outside the federal government, including that held by individuals, corporations, the Federal Reserve System and foreign, state and local governments.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	Debt held by government accounts or intragovernmental debt includes non-marketable Treasury securities held in accounts administered by the federal government that are owed to program beneficiaries, such as the Social Security Trust Fund .	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	Debt held by government accounts represents the cumulative surpluses, including interest earnings, of these accounts that have been invested in Treasury securities.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	Public debt increases or decreases as a result of the annual unified budget deficit or surplus.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	The federal government budget deficit or surplus is the difference between government receipts and spending, ignoring intra-governmental transfers.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	However, some spending that is excluded from the deficit (supplemental appropriations) also adds to the debt.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	Historically, the US public debt as a share of GDP increased during wars and recessions, and subsequently declined.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	For example, debt held by the public as a share of GDP peaked just after World War II (113% of GDP in 1945), but then fell over the following 30 years.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	In recent decades, however, large budget deficits and the resulting increases in debt have led to concern about the long-term sustainability of the federal government's fiscal policies.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	On 2 April 2013, debt held by the public was approximately $11.959 trillion or about 75% of GDP.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	Intragovernmental holdings stood at $4.846 trillion, giving a combined total public debt of $16.805 trillion.	00
Q1071	who owns us treasuries	National debt of the United States	As of January 2013, $5.6 trillion or approximately 47% of the debt held by the public was owned by foreign investors, the largest of which were the People's Republic of China and Japan at just over $1.1 trillion each.	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	In basketball , an assist is attributed to a player who passes the ball to a teammate in a way that leads to a score by field goal , meaning that he or she was "assisting" in the basket.	11
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	There is some judgment involved in deciding whether a passer should be credited with an assist.	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	An assist can be scored for the passer even if the player who receives the pass makes a basket after dribbling the ball.	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	However, the original definition of an assist did not include such situations, so the comparison of assist statistics across eras is a complex matter.	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	Only the pass directly before the score may be counted as an assist, so no more than one assist can be recorded per field goal (unlike in other sports, such as ice hockey ).	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	A pass that leads to a shooting foul and scoring by free throws does not count as an assist in the NBA, but does in FIBA play (only one assist is awarded per set of free throws in which at least one free throw is made).	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	Point guards tend to get the most assists per game (apg), as their role is primarily that of a passer and ballhandler.	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	Centers tend to get fewer assists, but centers with good floor presence and court vision can dominate a team by assisting.	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	Being inside the key, the center often has the best angles and the best position for "dishes" and other short passes in the scoring area.	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	Center Wilt Chamberlain led the NBA in assists in 1968.	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	A strong center with inside-scoring prowess, such as former NBA center Hakeem Olajuwon , can also be an effective assistor because the defense's double-teaming tends to open up offense in the form of shooters.	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	The NBA single-game assist record is 30, held by Scott Skiles of the Orlando Magic against the Denver Nuggets, on December 30, 1990.	00
Q1072	what is an assist in basketball	Assist (basketball)	The NBA record for most career assists is held by John Stockton with 15,806.	00
Q1073	what is 1 mil guaranies in united states dollars	Mill (currency)	The mill or mille () (sometimes mil in the UK , when discussing property taxes in the United States , or previously in Cyprus and Malta ) is a now-abstract unit of currency used sometimes in accounting .	11
Q1073	what is 1 mil guaranies in united states dollars	Mill (currency)	In the United States, it is a notional unit equivalent to of a United States dollar (a tenth of a cent ).	00
Q1073	what is 1 mil guaranies in united states dollars	Mill (currency)	In the United Kingdom it was proposed during the decades of discussion on the decimalization of the pound as a division of the pound sterling .	00
Q1073	what is 1 mil guaranies in united states dollars	Mill (currency)	Several other currencies used the mill, such as the Maltese lira .	00
Q1073	what is 1 mil guaranies in united states dollars	Mill (currency)	The term comes from the Latin "millesimum", meaning "thousandth part".	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.	11
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered Ionia in 547 BC.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	Struggling to rule the independent-minded cities of Ionia, the Persians appointed tyrants to rule each of them.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	This would prove to be the source of much trouble for the Greeks and Persians alike.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	In 499 BC, the then tyrant of Miletus , Aristagoras , embarked on an expedition to conquer the island of Naxos , with Persian support; however, the expedition was a debacle and, pre-empting his dismissal, Aristagoras incited all of Hellenic Asia Minor into rebellion against the Persians.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	This was the beginning of the Ionian Revolt , which would last until 493 BC, progressively drawing more regions of Asia Minor into the conflict.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	Aristagoras secured military support from Athens and Eretria , and in 498 BC these forces helped to capture and burn the Persian regional capital of Sardis .	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	The Persian king Darius the Great vowed to have revenge on Athens and Eretria for this act.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	The revolt continued, with the two sides effectively stalemated throughout 497–495 BC.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	In 494 BC, the Persians regrouped, and attacked the epicentre of the revolt in Miletus.	11
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	At the Battle of Lade , the Ionians suffered a decisive defeat, and the rebellion collapsed, with the final members being stamped out the following year.	11
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	Seeking to secure his empire from further revolts and from the interference of the mainland Greeks, Darius embarked on a scheme to conquer Greece and to punish Athens and Eretria for burning Sardis.	11
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	The first Persian invasion of Greece began in 492 BC, with the Persian general Mardonius conquering Thrace and Macedon before several mishaps forced an early end to the campaign.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	In 490 BC a second force was sent to Greece, this time across the Aegean Sea , under the command of Datis and Artaphernes .	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	This expedition subjugated the Cyclades , before besieging, capturing and razing Eretria.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	However, while en route to attack Athens, the Persian force was decisively defeated by the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon , ending Persian efforts for the time being.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	Darius then began to plan to complete the conquest of Greece, but died in 486 BC and responsibility for the conquest passed to his son Xerxes I .	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	In 480 BC, Xerxes personally led the second Persian invasion of Greece with one of the largest ancient armies ever assembled.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	Victory over the 'Allied' Greek states (led by Sparta and Athens) at the Battle of Thermopylae allowed the Persians to torch Athens and overrun most of Greece.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	However, while seeking to destroy the combined Greek fleet, the Persians suffered a severe defeat at the Battle of Salamis .	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	The following year, the confederated Greeks went on the offensive, defeating the Persian army at the Battle of Plataea , and ending the invasion of Greece.	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	The allied Greeks followed up their success by destroying the rest of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Mycale , before expelling Persian garrisons from Sestos (479 BC) and Byzantium (478 BC).	00
Q1075	where did the persian war take place	Greco-Persian Wars	The actions of the general Pausanias at the siege of Byzantium alienated many of the Greek states from the Spartans, and the anti-Persian alliance was therefore reconstituted around Athenian leadership, as the so-called Delian League .	11

Q1068

what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

LR1154, L1154, L1154C, L1154F, L1154G, L1154H

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

6135-99-792-8475 (NSN)

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

1166A

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

AG13, A613, AG14, AG-14, G13A, G13-A

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

157, 303, 357

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Q1068

what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

A76, GDA76, GP76A, GPA7, GPA75, GPA76, GPS76A,

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

1128MP, 208-904, A-76, CA18, CA19, CR44, D76A, KA, KA76, MS76H, PX76A, PX675A, RPX675, RW82, SB-F9, V13GA

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Q1068

what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

4.5-volt, D, C, AA, AAA, AAAA, A23, 9-volt, CR2032 and LR44 batteries

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Q1068

what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

Other types of batteries are or were made in the R44 size.

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

Formerly, mercury batteries were made as button cells (types MR44 and NR44).

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

Zinc-air batteries type PR44 require air to work.

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

Silver-oxide batteries type SR44 may provide extra capacity compared to LR44 types but have slightly different voltage characteristics.

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

Performance of a device meant to use a silver-oxide battery may be degraded with substitution of LR44 types.

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

Manufacturer's numbers for silver oxide R44 size cells include:

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

SR44/SR44W/SR44SW

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

6135-99-651-3240 (NSN)

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

SR1154

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

1107SO

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

1131SOP

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

SG13

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

S76

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

EPX76 (Energizer)

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what type of batteries are 357 (LR44)

LR44 battery

303/357 (D357H)

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season .

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes , in the history of the United States .

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes , it was the sixth strongest overall .

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

At least 1,833 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane ; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion (2005 USD), nearly triple the damage brought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane , causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico .

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

The hurricane strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane over the warm Gulf water, but weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana.

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge .

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

The most significant number of deaths occurred in New Orleans , Louisiana , which flooded as the levee system catastrophically failed , in many cases hours after the storm had moved inland.

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

Eventually 80% of the city and large tracts of neighboring parishes became flooded, and the floodwaters lingered for weeks.

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

However, the worst property damage occurred in coastal areas, such as all Mississippi beachfront towns , which were flooded over 90% in hours, as boats and casino barges rammed buildings, pushing cars and houses inland, with waters reaching 6–12 miles (10–19 km) from the beach.

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

The hurricane surge protection failures in New Orleans are considered the worst civil engineering disaster in U.S. history and prompted a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the designers and builders of the levee system as mandated by the Flood Control Act of 1965 .

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

Responsibility for the failures and flooding was laid squarely on the Army Corps in January 2008 by Judge Stanwood Duval , U.S. District Court, but the federal agency could not be held financially liable due to sovereign immunity in the Flood Control Act of 1928 .

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

There was also an investigation of the responses from federal, state and local governments, resulting in the resignation of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown , and of New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent Eddie Compass .

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

Several agencies including the United States Coast Guard (USCG), National Hurricane Center (NHC), and National Weather Service (NWS) were commended for their actions.

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

They provided accurate hurricane weather tracking forecasts with sufficient lead time.

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where did hurricane katrina begin

Hurricane Katrina

Even the most insistent appeals from national, state and local public officials to residents to evacuate before the storm did not warn that the levees could breach and fail.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

U.S. debt from 1940 to 2011.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

Red lines indicate the "debt held by the public" and black lines indicate the total national debt or gross public debt.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

The difference is the "intragovernmental debt," which includes obligations to government programs such as Social Security.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

Stated as a formula, National Debt = Debt held by the Public + Intragovernmental Debt.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

The second panel shows the two debt figures as a percentage of U.S. GDP (dollar value of U.S. economic production for that year).

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

The top panel is deflated so every year is in 2010 dollars.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

The United States public debt is the money borrowed by the federal government of the United States through the issuing of securities by the Treasury and other federal government agencies.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

US public debt consists of two components:

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

Debt held by the public includes Treasury securities held by investors outside the federal government, including that held by individuals, corporations, the Federal Reserve System and foreign, state and local governments.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

Debt held by government accounts or intragovernmental debt includes non-marketable Treasury securities held in accounts administered by the federal government that are owed to program beneficiaries, such as the Social Security Trust Fund .

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

Debt held by government accounts represents the cumulative surpluses, including interest earnings, of these accounts that have been invested in Treasury securities.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

Public debt increases or decreases as a result of the annual unified budget deficit or surplus.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

The federal government budget deficit or surplus is the difference between government receipts and spending, ignoring intra-governmental transfers.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

However, some spending that is excluded from the deficit (supplemental appropriations) also adds to the debt.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

Historically, the US public debt as a share of GDP increased during wars and recessions, and subsequently declined.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

For example, debt held by the public as a share of GDP peaked just after World War II (113% of GDP in 1945), but then fell over the following 30 years.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

In recent decades, however, large budget deficits and the resulting increases in debt have led to concern about the long-term sustainability of the federal government's fiscal policies.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

On 2 April 2013, debt held by the public was approximately $11.959 trillion or about 75% of GDP.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

Intragovernmental holdings stood at $4.846 trillion, giving a combined total public debt of $16.805 trillion.

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who owns us treasuries

National debt of the United States

As of January 2013, $5.6 trillion or approximately 47% of the debt held by the public was owned by foreign investors, the largest of which were the People's Republic of China and Japan at just over $1.1 trillion each.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

In basketball , an assist is attributed to a player who passes the ball to a teammate in a way that leads to a score by field goal , meaning that he or she was "assisting" in the basket.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

There is some judgment involved in deciding whether a passer should be credited with an assist.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

An assist can be scored for the passer even if the player who receives the pass makes a basket after dribbling the ball.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

However, the original definition of an assist did not include such situations, so the comparison of assist statistics across eras is a complex matter.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

Only the pass directly before the score may be counted as an assist, so no more than one assist can be recorded per field goal (unlike in other sports, such as ice hockey ).

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

A pass that leads to a shooting foul and scoring by free throws does not count as an assist in the NBA, but does in FIBA play (only one assist is awarded per set of free throws in which at least one free throw is made).

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

Point guards tend to get the most assists per game (apg), as their role is primarily that of a passer and ballhandler.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

Centers tend to get fewer assists, but centers with good floor presence and court vision can dominate a team by assisting.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

Being inside the key, the center often has the best angles and the best position for "dishes" and other short passes in the scoring area.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

Center Wilt Chamberlain led the NBA in assists in 1968.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

A strong center with inside-scoring prowess, such as former NBA center Hakeem Olajuwon , can also be an effective assistor because the defense's double-teaming tends to open up offense in the form of shooters.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

The NBA single-game assist record is 30, held by Scott Skiles of the Orlando Magic against the Denver Nuggets, on December 30, 1990.

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what is an assist in basketball

Assist (basketball)

The NBA record for most career assists is held by John Stockton with 15,806.

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what is 1 mil guaranies in united states dollars

Mill (currency)

The mill or mille () (sometimes mil in the UK , when discussing property taxes in the United States , or previously in Cyprus and Malta ) is a now-abstract unit of currency used sometimes in accounting .

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what is 1 mil guaranies in united states dollars

Mill (currency)

In the United States, it is a notional unit equivalent to of a United States dollar (a tenth of a cent ).

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what is 1 mil guaranies in united states dollars

Mill (currency)

In the United Kingdom it was proposed during the decades of discussion on the decimalization of the pound as a division of the pound sterling .

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what is 1 mil guaranies in united states dollars

Mill (currency)

Several other currencies used the mill, such as the Maltese lira .

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what is 1 mil guaranies in united states dollars

Mill (currency)

The term comes from the Latin "millesimum", meaning "thousandth part".

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered Ionia in 547 BC.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

Struggling to rule the independent-minded cities of Ionia, the Persians appointed tyrants to rule each of them.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

This would prove to be the source of much trouble for the Greeks and Persians alike.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

In 499 BC, the then tyrant of Miletus , Aristagoras , embarked on an expedition to conquer the island of Naxos , with Persian support; however, the expedition was a debacle and, pre-empting his dismissal, Aristagoras incited all of Hellenic Asia Minor into rebellion against the Persians.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

This was the beginning of the Ionian Revolt , which would last until 493 BC, progressively drawing more regions of Asia Minor into the conflict.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

Aristagoras secured military support from Athens and Eretria , and in 498 BC these forces helped to capture and burn the Persian regional capital of Sardis .

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

The Persian king Darius the Great vowed to have revenge on Athens and Eretria for this act.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

The revolt continued, with the two sides effectively stalemated throughout 497–495 BC.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

In 494 BC, the Persians regrouped, and attacked the epicentre of the revolt in Miletus.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

At the Battle of Lade , the Ionians suffered a decisive defeat, and the rebellion collapsed, with the final members being stamped out the following year.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

Seeking to secure his empire from further revolts and from the interference of the mainland Greeks, Darius embarked on a scheme to conquer Greece and to punish Athens and Eretria for burning Sardis.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

The first Persian invasion of Greece began in 492 BC, with the Persian general Mardonius conquering Thrace and Macedon before several mishaps forced an early end to the campaign.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

In 490 BC a second force was sent to Greece, this time across the Aegean Sea , under the command of Datis and Artaphernes .

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

This expedition subjugated the Cyclades , before besieging, capturing and razing Eretria.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

However, while en route to attack Athens, the Persian force was decisively defeated by the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon , ending Persian efforts for the time being.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

Darius then began to plan to complete the conquest of Greece, but died in 486 BC and responsibility for the conquest passed to his son Xerxes I .

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

In 480 BC, Xerxes personally led the second Persian invasion of Greece with one of the largest ancient armies ever assembled.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

Victory over the 'Allied' Greek states (led by Sparta and Athens) at the Battle of Thermopylae allowed the Persians to torch Athens and overrun most of Greece.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

However, while seeking to destroy the combined Greek fleet, the Persians suffered a severe defeat at the Battle of Salamis .

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

The following year, the confederated Greeks went on the offensive, defeating the Persian army at the Battle of Plataea , and ending the invasion of Greece.

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

The allied Greeks followed up their success by destroying the rest of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Mycale , before expelling Persian garrisons from Sestos (479 BC) and Byzantium (478 BC).

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where did the persian war take place

Greco-Persian Wars

The actions of the general Pausanias at the siege of Byzantium alienated many of the Greek states from the Spartans, and the anti-Persian alliance was therefore reconstituted around Athenian leadership, as the so-called Delian League .

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