Hyukkyu/superglue huggingface dataset:
Premise: It's definitely a trickle-down theory. A relatively small number of educated people read poetry, and written poetry affects songwriting, and songwriting affects masses of people. Poetry becomes an expression that filters into the world slowly.
Hypothesis: Poetry and politics affect one the other.
Premise: Murder has shown itself to be the preferred method of censorship in at least five cases in Russia this year.
Hypothesis: Anna Politkovskaya was murdered.
Premise: Information nights are arranged regularly. This allows deaf people to access information about certain things through the help of a sign language interpreter.
Hypothesis: Deaf people encounter problems in the social community.
Premise: Triceratops fossils are far and away the most common dinosaur remains found in the latest Cretaceous rocks in the western United States (up to 70% of the fauna in some areas).
Hypothesis: Dinosaur remains found in Asia.
Premise: The Dutch soldiers have been described as "cowards" for their part in failing to protect the Bosniak refugees, with some soldiers reportedly sharing "cups of coffee" with Serb troops. Commander Thomas Karremans, who was in charge of Dutch troops in Srebrenica at the time, was filmed drinking a toast with war-crimes suspect and Serb general Ratko Mladic.
Hypothesis: Dutch photos of Srebrenica have disappeared.
Premise: There was guerrilla fighting in the Pacific and East Asian theatres of World War II.
Hypothesis: Guerrillas increase activity in East Timor.
Premise: In 2003, the global dairy products market saw value sales in U.S. dollar terms increase by 10.4 percent, largely due to the increasing strength of the euro against the U.S. dollar.
Hypothesis: Milk consumption increases in Europe.
Premise: The NATO Secretary General, Willy Claes, said today that he was considering resigning, after a Belgian parliamentary commission decided this morning to recommend that the country's highest court indict him in a widening arms corruption scandal.
Hypothesis: NATO Secretary General Willy Claes resigned.
Premise: In November 1994, News of Norway reviewed a Norwegian novel just released in the United States, "Sophie's World" by the high school philosophy teacher and author Jostein Gaarder.
Hypothesis: Sophie's World is a best seller.
Premise: Latin America's billionaires now have a combined fortune of more than $115 billion.
Hypothesis: The number of billionaires increases.
Premise: The Eskimos, seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their existence.
Hypothesis: Seal-hunting endangers species.
Premise: In last year's USA today best seller list Nora Roberts was the second most read author after J.K. Rowling.
Hypothesis: Sophie's World is a best seller.
Premise: Thus he traveled into the city of which he was the bishop, and even to a few places outside Rome, beginning the tradition of papal journeys which would culminate with Pope John Paul II, who has become by far the most widely traveled pope in all of history.
Hypothesis: Papal travel is affected by political concerns.
Premise: Anti-nuclear activists on Saturday delayed a waste train from northern France to northern Germany by several hours, said the French reprocessing company, Areva.
Hypothesis: Nuclear waste transport was stopped in Germany.
Premise: The greenhouse effect can be visualized as follows: Imagine that Earth has been encircled by a giant glass sphere. The heat of the sun penetrates through the glass. Some of the heat is absorbed by the Earth, and some of it is radiated back towards space. The radiated heat reaches the glass sphere and is prevented from dispersing any further.
Hypothesis: Greenhouse effect changes global climate.
Premise: Meanwhile, the EU continued to refuse to sponsor a resolution on China at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
Hypothesis: EU refuses commission candidates.
Premise: The story of Nick Leeson, who caused the collapse of Britain's Barings Bank in February 1995, is perhaps the quintessential tale of financial risk management gone wrong.
Hypothesis: Nick Leeson was arrested for collapse of Barings Bank.
Premise: It is an honoured obligation of the citizens of the People's Republic of China to perform military service and to join the militia forces."
Hypothesis: People are willing to risk imprisonment rather than perform military service.
Premise: It marked the first official visit of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Saudi Arabia as he spoke with its leader, King Abdullah. Both leaders have expressed concern over sectarian tensions in Iraq, fearing they could spread through the Middle East.
Hypothesis: The President of Iran is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Premise: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran met with King Abdullah here in the Saudi capital on Saturday to address the Middle East's growing sectarian and political crises.
Hypothesis: The President of Iran is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Premise: King Abdullah and Ahmadinejad were believed to be focused on finding ways to end the political standoff in Lebanon between Hezbollah, backed by Iran, and the government of Fouad Siniora, supported by the United States.
Hypothesis: The President of Iran is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Premise: Calgary, Alberta and the southern Alberta city of Lethbridge became the eighth and ninth cities in Canada to ban smoking in bars and restaurants.
Hypothesis: The capital of Alberta is Edmonton.
Premise: Long known as the gateway to the Canadian Rockies, home to the world's largest mall, and Canada's Festival City, Edmonton, Alberta now occupies a new position among Canadian destinations as the 2007 Cultural Capital - and with good reason.
Hypothesis: The capital of Alberta is Edmonton.
Premise: I believe what Prime Minister Harper is doing is opening up consultation in terms of how to bring about Senate reform and we're going to work with him, said Stelmach in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta.
Hypothesis: The capital of Alberta is Edmonton.
Premise: Californian Democrat Nancy Pelosi, 66-years-old, has been named the 60th United States Speaker of the House with the votes 233-202. She is the first female House speaker in United States history.
Hypothesis: Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the US House.
Premise: Nancy Pelosi was chosen by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to take the title and role of House Speaker on Thursday. Unanimously chosen, Pelosi will be the first woman Speaker in US history.
Hypothesis: Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Premise: Waxman also stated his understanding that either the Speaker of the House or his staff called the White House to inform President Bush of the situation before signing the bill. Another letter was written March 22 by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Waxman asking the White House to respond.
Hypothesis: Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Premise: Sir John Mills, Academy Award winner, BAFTA Fellow, and Disney Legend, has died, aged 97, at his home in Denham, Buckinghamshire after a short illness.
Hypothesis: Jamie Foxx was awarded the Best Actor prize at the 2005 BAFTA Awards.
Premise: The big-budget Hollywood movie "The Aviator" and the low-budget Brit flick "Vera Drake" have scooped the main prizes at the 2005 Orange BAFTA Film Awards. Four gongs went to "The Aviator" with the top ones being Best Film and Cate Blanchett for Best Supporting Actress. "Vera Drake" got three gongs with Best Director, Best Actress and Costume Design. Jamie Foxx got Best Actor with Ray and Clive Owen got Best Supporting Actor with Closer.
Hypothesis: Jamie Foxx was awarded the Best Actor prize at the 2005 BAFTA Awards.
Premise: The Cassini Spacecraft has taken images from July 22, 2006 that show rivers and lakes present on Saturn's moon Titan.
Hypothesis: The Cassini Spacecraft reached Titan.
Premise: NASA launched Cassini-Huygens, the largest interplanetary space craft ever built, on October 15, 1997. The craft arrived at Saturn orbit in July of 2004. It is the fourth craft to visit Saturn and the first to orbit the planet.
Hypothesis: The Cassini Spacecraft reached Titan.
Premise: Images from the Huygens probe show that liquid methane flows through and into Titan's rivers, channels, lakes, springs, and other as-yet-undiscovered bodies of liquid. Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and the moon the Cassini-Huygens probe is inspecting.
Hypothesis: The Cassini Spacecraft reached Titan.
Premise: Brooks issued a statement to President Bush, and NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) employees, saying that he would resign "shortly".
Hypothesis: NNSA is the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Premise: The United States Transportation Security Administration has announced plans to reduce the number of security screeners in US airports. The cutbacks come despite an increased TSA budget for 2006 and an overall increase in airport traffic.
Hypothesis: NNSA is the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Premise: This statement was made by Egypt's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs Abdel Aziz Seif el-Nasr.
Hypothesis: Abdel Aziz Seif el-Nasr is the Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs of Egypt.
Premise: Abdel Aziz Seif el-Nasr stated that soon Egypt will take necessary steps to present the idea on the international arena.
Hypothesis: Abdel Aziz Seif el-Nasr is the Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs of Egypt.
Premise: Klassen will also be racing in the 2010 winter Olympic games in Vancouver, British Columbia and in nearby Whistler, British Columbia, a popular snow skiing destination.
Hypothesis: The 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver.
Premise: BC Place Stadium was opened in June 1983 and is scheduled as a key venue for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Hypothesis: The 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver.
Premise: Canadian PM Stephen Harper will shuffle his cabinet today at 11:00 a.m. ET.
Hypothesis: Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister of Canada.
Premise: About 25,000 people including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his wife and their two children were there. The party got started at about 12:00, noon ET. The ceremony was in English and in French.
Hypothesis: Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister of Canada.
Premise: Prime Minister Stephen Harper reportedly failed to explain why this country is fighting in Afghanistan, while the Harper government won parliamentary approval for a two-year extension of Canada's mission.
Hypothesis: Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister of Canada.
Premise: The largest telecom company in Brazil, Brasil Telecom, has blocked its users from accessing YouTube following a court order to shut down the popular video sharing website.
Hypothesis: YouTube is a video website.
Premise: Since the late 1960s, the former Archbishop spied on members of the Church for about 20 years. After the Gazeta Polska newspaper published allegations of his actions on December 20, Wielgus denied them.
Hypothesis: The Archbishop of Warsaw is Stanislaw Wielgus.
Premise: Nominations for the Genie Awards, Canada's leading motion picture honours, were announced on Tuesday by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.
Hypothesis: The Genie Awards are film honours.
Premise: The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story was Canada's most-honoured film from 2006 at Tuesday's 27th Genie Awards in Toronto.
Hypothesis: The Genie Awards are film honours.
Premise: The name Ganga-Dham comes from the Indian words Ganga, for the Ganges, and Dham, meaning "place" or "abode".
Hypothesis: Ganga is a Hindu goddess.
Premise: India's yearly pilgrimage to the Ganges river, worshiped by Hindus as the goddess Ganga, is the world's largest gathering of people, with around 70 million participants, dwarfing other religious pilgrimages.
Hypothesis: Ganga is a Hindu goddess.
Premise: Movie studio company, New Line Cinema has announced that movie director Peter Jackson will never be allowed to work on another New Line film. This announcement will also mean that Mr Jackson will not be allowed to film the prequel titled "The Hobbit" to "The Lord of the Rings" films he directed.
Hypothesis: The Lord of the Rings was directed by Peter Jackson.
Premise: In an interview with the Sci Fi Wire, Robert Shaye, co-chairman of New Line and executive producer of "The Lord of the Rings," said that New Line does not want to do any films, including "The Hobbit," with Mr Jackson in the future.
Hypothesis: The Lord of the Rings was directed by Peter Jackson.
Premise: Cypriot cargo ship "Server" went down in Norwegian territory of the North Sea near the Norwegian city Bergen around 6pm local time on January 12.
Hypothesis: A shipwreck took place in the North Sea.
Premise: 2channel, the largest Internet forum in the world and an ISP in Japan, has been shuttered by a Japanese court ruling in a civil slander case.
Hypothesis: 2channel is an Internet forum.
Premise: 2channel is hosted in California but the domain name is registered in Japan.
Hypothesis: 2channel is an Internet forum.
Premise: A spokeswoman for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will veto the bill "out of respect for the will of the people" in the approval of Proposition 22, which opposed recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages.
Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger is the Governor of California.
Premise: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has denied clemency for gang founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a death row inmate in California convicted of four murders in the 1979.
Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger is the Governor of California.
Premise: In denying clemency Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said "Without apology and atonement for these senseless and brutal killings, there can be no redemption."
Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger is the Governor of California.
Premise: The head of the Israel Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz resigned on Tuesday January 16, 2007 after an internal review criticized his military's leadership during the war in Lebanon last summer.
Hypothesis: Dan Halutz is the head of the Israel Defense Forces.
Premise: Releasing a video on her website, Hillary Clinton announced today that she will be forming a presidential exploratory committee. "I'm in. And I'm in to win", the Democrat Senator for New York announced on her website today, confirming the widely held assumption that she will seek the U.S. presidency in 2008.
Hypothesis: Hillary Clinton is a NY Democratic Senator.
Premise: United States Senator Hillary Clinton has been holding discussions about and interviewing potential campaign staff for a White House bid in 2008.
Hypothesis: Hillary Clinton is a NY Democratic Senator.
Premise: One New York Democrat, who asked to not be named, said he was recently called by a senior Clinton team member.
Hypothesis: Hillary Clinton is a NY Democratic Senator.
Premise: David Cameron, leader of the U.K. Conservative Party has outlined his vision for the future of a multicultural Britain in an article published in the Observer on January 28, 2007.
Hypothesis: David Cameron belongs to the U.K. Conservative Party.
Premise: Conservative Leader of the Opposition David Cameron responded to the resignations by saying the government was "divided and in meltdown".
Hypothesis: David Cameron belongs to the U.K. Conservative Party.
Premise: David Cameron has been elected the new leader of the United Kingdom Conservative Party, beating off his rival David Davis by a factor of two to one in a postal ballot of the nationwide party membership.
Hypothesis: David Cameron belongs to the U.K. Conservative Party.
Premise: YouTube has announced it will share the revenue, yielded due to video clips placed at the site, with their copyright owners. At present day YouTube represents the most popular site sharing on-line video.
Hypothesis: YouTube is a video website.
Premise: The pictures were taken by America's foremost celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, in David Beckham's current home of Spain, where he plays for football club Real Madrid.
Hypothesis: David Beckham plays for Real Madrid.
Premise: The Real Madrid midfielder and captain of the England national team David Beckham and his ex-Spice Girl wife Victoria have given birth to a baby son called Cruz Beckham.
Hypothesis: David Beckham plays for Real Madrid.
Premise: David Beckham has announced he no longer wishes to be the captain of England's football team.
Hypothesis: David Beckham plays for Real Madrid.
Premise: The famous Greek cinema and theatre actor, Nikos Kourkoulos died at the Ericos Dynan Hospital of Athens, after a long-standing fight with cancer.
Hypothesis: Nikos Kourkoulos was a Greek actor.
Premise: Nikos Kourkoulos played in several movies, both in Greece and abroad.
Hypothesis: Nikos Kourkoulos was a Greek actor.
Premise: Kourkoulos was married to the daughter of the Greek tycoon Yiannis Latsis, Marianna Latsis, and had 3 children.
Hypothesis: Nikos Kourkoulos was a Greek actor.
Premise: India's steelmaker Tata Steel, of the Tata Group, buys Anglo-Dutch steel giant Corus Group for £6.7 billion ($12 billion), making it the world's fifth largest steel manufacturer.
Hypothesis: Tata Steel bought Corus.
Premise: Indian firm Tata Steel has won the battle to take over Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus.
Hypothesis: Tata Steel bought Corus.
Premise: Frank de Jong, 51, leader of the Green Party of Ontario is running in the Ontario by-election for Burlington, Ontario.
Hypothesis: De Jong belongs to the Ontario Green Party.
Premise: De Jong is up against Progressive Conservative Joyce Savoline, Ontario Liberal Party and former Burlington city councilor Joan Lougheed, and New Democrat Cory Judson.
Hypothesis: De Jong belongs to the Ontario Green Party.
Premise: The Hubble is the only large visible light and ultra-violet space telescope we have in operation.
Hypothesis: Hubble is a Space telescope.
Premise: Hubble is a satellite in orbit about 355 miles above Earth. Space shuttles have made four servicing flights to Hubble.
Hypothesis: Hubble is a Space telescope.
Premise: In the movie she is in a relationship with Alan Grant, whereas in the book she is engaged to a doctor. (In the film "Jurassic Park III" we learn that the relationship between her and Dr. Grant did not work out, although they remain close friends.)
Hypothesis: Michael Crichton is the author of the book Jurassic Park.
Premise: Boris Becker is the youngest person to have ever to won Wimbledon. He took the title back in 1985 when he was just seventeen years old.
Hypothesis: Boris Becker is a Wimbledon champion.
Premise: Boris Becker is the youngest man ever to raise the Wimbledon trophy.
Hypothesis: Boris Becker is a Wimbledon champion.
Premise: Mike Jittlov, a master of special effects who's strutted his stuff in several short films, is both the director and star of "The Wizard of Speed and Time".
Hypothesis: The movie “Speed” was directed by Jan De Bont.
Premise: Speed director Jan De Bont is back at the helm for part 2.
Hypothesis: The movie “Speed” was directed by Jan De Bont.
Premise: The current president of Spain is Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of the P.S.O.E. (Spanish Socialist Workers Party). He took over from José Maria Aznar of the Popular Party in the election of March 2004, just after the Madrid bombings.
Hypothesis: Felipe González is the President of Spain.
Premise: Alvaro Uribe is the president of Spain, an interesting character, who, by the way, had his own father shot by rebel militia.
Hypothesis: Felipe González is the President of Spain.
Premise: Felipe González Márquez, born in 1942, Spanish politician, prime minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996. His country's longest-serving post-war prime minister, González played a critical role in the establishment of democratic government in Spain after the long dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Hypothesis: Felipe González is the President of Spain.
Premise: Neil Alden Armstrong is a former American astronaut, test pilot, and Naval Aviator who is widely known for being the first human ever to set foot on the Moon.
Hypothesis: Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.
Premise: In 1969, Armstrong was commander of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, and gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the Moon and the first man to step on its surface.
Hypothesis: Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.
Premise: On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on the moon. Armstrong was a veteran aviator: he had flown 78 combat missions over Korea as a Navy fighter pilot, then joined NASA as a civilian test pilot. He was accepted into the astronaut corps in 1962. Armstrong was the pilot of the Gemini 8 mission (launched 16 March 1966) and then was named commander for the Apollo 11 mission of 1969.
Hypothesis: Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.
Premise: Cyrillic is a port of a freeware X Window Cyrillic font to Newton platform (Unicode). Please observe the original copyright (see the enclosed BDF font header for detail). Also enclosed are code translation modules for GNUE's (aka Makoto Nukui) NTEncoding. You are able to send/receive file in the software which support NTEncoding.
Hypothesis: Cyrillic is a Window's program.
Premise: Cyrillic is a powerful program that brings together all the tools you need for drawing family pedigrees, and managing and analyzing pedigree data.
Hypothesis: Cyrillic is a Window's program.
Premise: The Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221BC-207BC) and also of China.
Hypothesis: Qin Shi Huang was the first Emperor of China.
Premise: The unification of China 221 BC under the First Emperor (Qin Shi Huangdi) marked the beginning of imperial China, a period that lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912.
Hypothesis: Qin Shi Huang was the first Emperor of China.
Premise: An accord between Israel and Egypt in 1978 led to a negotiated peace between those two nations, signed in Washington DC on March 26, 1979, the first between Israel and any of its Arab neighbours.
Hypothesis: The Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement was signed in 1979.
Premise: 1979 : a glimmer of peace: Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty , spawning hopes of a broader Mideast solution.
Hypothesis: The Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement was signed in 1979.
Premise: Elizabeth II, eldest daughter of Albert, Duke of York ( later George VI ) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was born in London on 21st April, 1926 at 17, Bruton Street, Mayfair, the London home of her maternal grandparents, Claud, Earl of Strathmore and Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck.
Hypothesis: Elizabeth the Second's father was George VI.
Premise: Elizabeth II has been the United Kingdom's reigning monarch since 1952. She was proclaimed queen on 6 February 1952 following the death of her father, George VI; she was formally crowned the next year, on 2 June 1953.
Hypothesis: Elizabeth the Second's father was George VI.
Premise: Sir John Ramsey, Earl of Holdernesse was born circa 1580. He married, firstly, Elizabeth Ratcliffe, daughter of Robert Ratcliffe, 5th Earl of Essex and Bridget Morrison, on 8 February 1607/8. He married, secondly, Martha Cokayne, daughter of Sir William Cokayne, in July 1624.
Hypothesis: Elizabeth the Second's father was George VI.
Premise: First lady Laura Bush and Bush's parents, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, attended the ceremony on the front porch of the woodframe, three-bedroom home.
Hypothesis: The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.
Premise: Bush returned home as a war hero. He married Barbara and enrolled at Yale.
Hypothesis: The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.
Premise: Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a novelist and winner of the Nobel prize for literature.
Hypothesis: Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel for Literature.
Premise: The famous Colombian novelist known world-wide for his masterfully weaving of the magic realism genre, was born in 1928 in the small town of Aracataca, Colombia. Garcia Marquez was raised by his grandparents, who would often tell him wonderous stories, fables and fairy tales.
Hypothesis: Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a novelist.
Premise: Dynamite Nobel is formed by the fusion of Nobel's Italian and Swiss companies.
Hypothesis: Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.
Premise: Alfred Nobel was a great inventor and had 355 patents overall. Others to mention, besides dynamite, include synthetic rubber and leather, and artificial silk.
Hypothesis: Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.
Premise: By 1861 Alfred Nobel's father was producing the newest explosive - nitroglycerin.
Hypothesis: Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.
Premise: The second biggest pleasure park behind Euro Disney is a great adventure for young and old children. Many rides, shows and other attractions are waiting there for you.
Hypothesis: Euro-Disney is an entertainment park.
Premise: Charles de Gaulle, 1890–1970, French general and statesman, was the first president (1959–69) of the Fifth Republic.
Hypothesis: Charles de Gaulle died in 1970.
Premise: Former French president General Charles de Gaulle died in November. More than 6,000 people attended a requiem mass for him at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
Hypothesis: Charles de Gaulle died in 1970.
Premise: When Charles de Gaulle died in 1970, he requested that no one from the French government should attend his funeral.
Hypothesis: Charles de Gaulle died in 1970.
Premise: The Gurkhas come from Nepal and their name comes from the city state of Goorka, which they were closely associated with at their inception.
Hypothesis: The Gurkhas come from Nepal.
Premise: Gurkhas are pretty mild-mannered, polite and rather shy folks. In fact most villagers from those hill-regions (Garhwalis, Kumounis, Dogras etc.) are all pretty gentle people, even though they have a long and distinguished history of military service.
Hypothesis: The Gurkhas come from Nepal.
Premise: The world famous Gurkhas come from the high mountains of Nepal.
Hypothesis: The Gurkhas come from Nepal.
Premise: The Normandy landings took place on 6th June 1944, but the Germans even then thought that the ‘real' Allied invasion of Europe would take place in the Pas de Calais or the Low Countries.
Hypothesis: The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.
Premise: D-Day - The Normandy Landings: airborne troops led the D-Day landings (June 6, 1944) in a combined parachute and glider assault, to throw a net of protection around the Normandy beaches, where a massive invasion force would sweep ashore and advance into Europe.
Hypothesis: The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.
Premise: On June 6, 1944, Allied naval, air and ground forces operating with airborne assault troops and paratroopers overwhelmed the German "West Wall" defenses built along France's Channel Coast.
Hypothesis: The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.
Premise: Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Thursday he will not break pledges he made to campaign contributors by publicly disclosing their names even though his Christian Democrat party has directed him to reveal their identities.
Hypothesis: The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.
Premise: The architect of European Monetary Union, the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, is appearing before the parliamentary committee of enquiry into the illicit funding of the Christian Democrat party he led for twenty years.
Hypothesis: The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.
Premise: He has resigned his position as honorary chairman of the main opposition Social Democrats after he admitted accepting illegal payments to party funds.
Hypothesis: The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.
Premise: March 1 marked eleven years since the death of TV broadcaster Vladislav Listyev who was shot and killed just one month after his appointment General Director of the ORT channel. His murder remains undisclosed, although the search for his killers continues.
Hypothesis: Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.
Premise: March 1995 - leading journalist Vladislav Listyev shot dead in Moscow.
Hypothesis: Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.
Premise: The death of much-loved TV anchorman Vladislav Listyev the previous year had already established that fame was no protection from the hired guns.
Hypothesis: Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.
Premise: Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946. His cooperation with Mussolini helped bring an end to the Italian monarchy.
Hypothesis: Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.
Premise: Humbert was the last King of Italy; his first son, Prince of Naples, is the current Head of the House of Savoy.
Hypothesis: Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.
Premise: The reigns of Victor Emmanuel II (1861–78) and Humbert I (1878–1900), and the first half of the reign of Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946) were marked by moderate social and political reforms and by some industrial expansion in Northern Italy (mainly in the 20th cent.).
Hypothesis: Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.
Premise: From 1835 to 1839 Franz Liszt lived with Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, ex-wife of the Comte d'Agoult. She is better known by her pen name, "Daniel Stern." They had two daughters, Blandina (1835-1862) and Cosima (1837-1930), and one son, Daniel (1839-1859).
Hypothesis: Franz Liszt lived from 1811 to 1886.
Premise: Significant naval battle of the Persian Wars, the first ever recorded. Aeschylus served in the battle and wrote "The Persians", which is the earliest of his works to survive.
Hypothesis: The Persians were written by Aeschylus.
Premise: Later, when John Cage returned to California, in the Pacific Palisades, he wrote songs with texts by Gertrude Stein and choruses from "The Persians" of Aeschylus.
Hypothesis: The Persians were written by Aeschylus.
Premise: When Muhammad died, leadership fell to his father-in-law, Abu Bakr, who became the first caliph (khalifa , or successor), a position that combined spiritual and secular power.
Hypothesis: Mohammad Khalifa's father-in-law is Osama Bin Laden.
Premise: Umar Al Khattab, Muhammad's father-in-law by marriage to his daughter Hafsa, The second recognized khalifa, belonged to the great Meccan family of Banu Umayya, the branch of which descended Abu'l Aasi, who was Umar's grandfather.
Hypothesis: Mohammad Khalifa's father-in-law is Osama Bin Laden.
Premise: Created by Rob-Vel in 1938, Spirou was drawn by Franquin between 1946 1968.
Hypothesis: Spirou was created by Rob-Vel.
Premise: The walking disaster Gaston Lagaffe was created by Franquin in the pages of Spirou and spun off in these short gag strips.
Hypothesis: Spirou was created by Rob-Vel.
Premise: Red Planet Consulting, Inc. is a full-scale project implementation firm that provides expert Smallworld software services to electric, gas and water utilities.
Hypothesis: Mars is called "the red planet".
Premise: Buddhism is the official religion of Cambodia like Burma and Thailand. But Christianity and Cham Muslims are also popular.
Hypothesis: The official religion of Thailand is Theravada Buddhism.
Premise: French is also widely spoken in Canada where it is the co-official language with English.
Hypothesis: French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.
Premise: Among the conditions for knowing the Quran is knowing the language in which the Quran has been interpreted and understood. Our predecessors were intent on learning Arabic because of this, for as 'Amr Ibn Khattab said, "I prefer to travel for forty nights to interpret an Ayat in the Book of Allah rather than spend this time at the Masjid of the Prophet (PBU) fasting during the day and praying during the night."
Hypothesis: Arabic is the language of the Quran.
Premise: The revelations in the Holy Quran were brought to the Holy Prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel in the form of clear words of the Arabic language.
Hypothesis: Arabic is the language of the Quran.
Premise: Major national and regional newspapers like Aftenposten, VG, DN, Dagbladet, Adresseavisen, Bergens Tidende, and Nordlys will not be published from Thursday on.
Hypothesis: Dagbladet is a Norwegian newspaper.
Premise: Big article in the Norwegian Newspaper called Osloposten about the Scientology company U-MAN. Interviews with Magne Berge and the author of Operation Clambake.
Hypothesis: Dagbladet is a Norwegian newspaper.
Premise: The French railway company SNCF is cooperating in the project.
Hypothesis: The French railway company is called SNCF.
Premise: The 14 kilometer line uses the old railway line of the Waldkappeler Bahn, which is only used for goods traffic.
Hypothesis: The French railway company is called SNCF.
Premise: Powell's effort bettered the miraculous gold medal winning jump and previous world record of 8.90m/29-2.50 by Bob Beamon at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
Hypothesis: 2,45 m is the world record in the high jump.
Premise: Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of Taipei Saturday evening, as several political parties and the Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian voiced their opposition to the new anti-secession law passed by mainland China last week. Protestors chanted "Oppose war, Love Taiwan" in what has been termed a "democratic carnival" in downtown Taipei.
Hypothesis: Chen Shui-bian is the President of Taiwan.
Premise: Lien called on the Taiwanese (ROC) government, led the independence -leaning President Chen Shui-bian , to follow his meeting with more efforts at peacemaking and suppression of the independence movement. "I believe the door has been opened," said Lien. "
Hypothesis: Chen Shui-bian is the President of Taiwan.
Premise: Speakers include Ken Takeuchi, president of Jan Jan, Shintaro Tabata, head of news service at Japan's Livedoor, Professor Clyde Bentley from the University of Missouri and My Missourian.
Hypothesis: Chen Shui-bian is the President of Taiwan.
Premise: An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.2 struck off the coast of Sumatra yesterday, triggering a tsunami alert, officials said. There were no immediate reports of a tsunami, damages or casualties.
Hypothesis: A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water rapidly displaced on a massive scale.
Premise: Panic in Sumatra after new earthquake April 10, 2005. People living on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have fled their homes after an earthquake of magnitude of 6.7 hit the area earlier today. Although the quake was not powerful enough to cause a tsunami , the event sparked fears of a repeat of the December 26 magnitude 9.3 earthquake in which around 300,000 people died. Today's tremor struck 70 miles southwest of Padang, a city in western Sumatra, yet no damage has been reported so far.
Hypothesis: A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water rapidly displaced on a massive scale.
Premise: The most recent underwater volcano eruption was in 1986 and lasted three days. Japan's Meteorological Agency said there was no current danger of a tsunami, often caused by underwater seismic activity.
Hypothesis: Earthquakes have the potential to generate a tsunami.
Premise: Simeulue island is near the epicenter of the December 26 quake that caused a massive tsunami. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said there was no threat of a tsunami to Pacific coastlines, but quakes of this size can sometimes generate local tsunamis along coasts near the epicenter.
Hypothesis: Earthquakes have the potential to generate a tsunami.
Premise: Quake measuring 6.9 off Japan's Honshu coast November 14, 2005 An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale has been reported off the coast of Japan's main island, Honshu . Whilst a major earthquake, the epicentre was well away from any population centres, and initial tsunami warnings predicting half-meter surges were later withdrawn.
Hypothesis: Earthquakes have the potential to generate a tsunami.
Premise: The referendum would be held at the same time as the vote to elect Romania's 35 representatives to the European Parliament , as Romania will join the European Union in 2007.
Hypothesis: 12 members of the European Union use the Euro instead of their own national currencies.
Premise: In the interview he said that he knew the Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula for the first time in San Salvador during the Foro de São Paulo.
Hypothesis: Lula is the President of Brazil.
Premise: In 2004, a group of journalist sent a proposal to the Brazilian president Lula asking for the creation of an inspector organism to control the conduct of the Brazilian press.
Hypothesis: Lula is the President of Brazil.
Premise: In one instance, a Workers' Party deputy attacked Jefferson's credibility, calling him a liar on the basis that he supported the former Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello, who suffered impeachment for corruption related to Treasurer Paulo Cesar Farias, who worked on Collor's campaign.
Hypothesis: Lula is the President of Brazil.
Premise: In the last two years in the Darfur region more than 70,000 people have been killed, and over 2 million displaced.
Hypothesis: More than 200,000 people have been killed in the air attack in the Darfur region.
Premise: With Hurricane Katrina likely to strike the city of New Orleans , its mayor, along with the governor of Louisiana , has officially enforced a mandatory evacuation for the city. All citizens, with the exception of a few individuals essential to the operation of a handful of organizations (such as hotels and the media), should immediately leave the city and head for higher ground. The mayor has stated that rising waters from the Category 5 storm are likely to overtake the city's system of levees , which are designed to prevent flooding in the city.
Hypothesis: The Category 5 storm overtook New Orleans levees.
Premise: The report made its way to U.S. Congress via Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice .
Hypothesis: Condoleezza Rice is the U.S. Secretary of State.
Premise: United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed similar sentiments, accusing Syria of contributing to instability in Lebanon.
Hypothesis: Condoleezza Rice is the U.S. Secretary of State.
Premise: Romania's is one of the largest contingents of any European country in Iraq due to the recent withdrawals or downscaling of Spain , Italy , the Ukraine and Poland . Romania has so far been one of the only NATO countries not announcing a withdrawal.
Hypothesis: Romania sent 730 troops in Iraq.
Premise: After a series of testy exchanges between a prosecutor and a prospective juror in the O.J. Simpson murder trial Thursday, Simpson 's attorneys accused government lawyers of treating black jury candidates differently than others.
Hypothesis: O.J. Simpson was accused of murder.
Premise: In India several million children between ages 5 and 14 are in chronic bondage in agriculture a million in construction brick making and quarry work and several hundred thousand in carpet and jewelry industries according to Kailash Satyarthi chairman of South Asia Coalition on Child Servitude.
Hypothesis: Satyarthi is chairman of South Asia Coalition on Child Servitude.
Premise: During the German occupation of Poland in World War II, from 1939 to 1945, all musical life was forbidden, he told The Times in 1985.
Hypothesis: World War II was the war that took place from 1939 to 1945.
Premise: Ames then met and married Maria del Rosario Casas Ames a low level Colombian diplomat recruited to be a paid agent for the CIA and also according to some who knew the couple a strong minded woman of expensive tastes.
Hypothesis: Aldrich Hazen Ames's wife was called Maria.
Premise: Pakistan, which fought two of its three wars with India over Kashmir , denies Indian charges that it is arming separatists in the valley.
Hypothesis: India and Pakistan have fought three wars for the possession of Kashmir.
Premise: Gov. George W. Bush's wife, Laura, and his 24-year-old nephew, George P. Bush, will have featured roles at next week's Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.
Hypothesis: The name of George W. Bush's wife is Laura.
Premise: On the Republican side, Texas Governor George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, made a tape recording urging people to vote; the automated calls were left on voters' answering machines.
Hypothesis: The name of George W. Bush's wife is Laura.
Premise: Over 30 women had also left their marks on the world's highest peak, among them Junko Tabei of Japan, the pioneer who climbed successfully in May, 1975.
Hypothesis: Alison Hargreaves is the first woman to have made the climb up the Everest with no artificial oxygen.
Premise: Lute Jerstad, 61, who in 1963 became one of the first Americans to climb Mt. Everest, died of a heart attack on Saturday in Tukla, just 500 feet (150 meters) short of the 15,000 feet (4,545 meter) peak of Mt. Kalapatar.
Hypothesis: Alison Hargreaves is the first woman to have made the climb up the Everest with no artificial oxygen.
Premise: In Hungary, Zoltan Illes, chairman of Parliament's Environment Committee said the spill represents Europe's "biggest environmental catastrophe" since the 1986 nuclear reactor catastrophe at Chernobyl.
Hypothesis: The catastrophe at Chernobyl happened in 1986.
Premise: Energy Secretary Bill Richardson made clear he was worried about the performance of reactors in former Soviet states, especially those in Ukraine, the site of the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986.
Hypothesis: The catastrophe at Chernobyl happened in 1986.
Premise: The explosion of the No. 4 reactor at Ukraine's Chernobyl power plant in April 1986 was the worst civilian nuclear catastrophe to date.
Hypothesis: The catastrophe at Chernobyl happened in 1986.
Premise: Cartoon News reprints a bunch of political cartoons published after the Titanic sank in 1912.
Hypothesis: The Titanic sank in 1912.
Premise: However, there are some who believe that the real disaster in the North Atlantic on that cold April 1998 morning was not that the Titanic sank with the loss of 1,500 lives.
Hypothesis: The Titanic sank in 1912.
Premise: The Titanic's sinking after hitting an iceberg on April 14, 1912, may have taken the greatest toll on the third-class passengers, but the tragedy did not spare those in the first and second classes.
Hypothesis: The Titanic sank in 1912.
Premise: When the first space boot touched onto the bald surface of the Moon, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong said famously, "That's one small step for man, one giant step for mankind."
Hypothesis: The moon was first touched by mankind in 1969.
Premise: By 2015, he predicted, the mankind is expected to establish their first research center on the moon, which will serve as a natural platform for earth observation, an outpost for deep space probes, and a transfer post and experimental center for mankind.
Hypothesis: The moon was first touched by mankind in 1969.
Premise: In his first news conference in years, at an anniversary celebration Friday (July 16, 1999), Armstrong said he came up with the line after he and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, four days after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center.
Hypothesis: The moon was first touched by mankind in 1969.
Premise: In his first year, he supported the gun lobby's most prized goal of the decade: a sweeping repeal of federal gun laws that had been enacted after the murders of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King in 1968.
Hypothesis: Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968.
Premise: Two documents that a former FBI agent said he took from James Earl Ray's car in 1968 after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have passed one scientific test designed to detect whether they are bogus, a federal official says.
Hypothesis: Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968.
Premise: On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in a Tennessee prison after he pleaded guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., but for blacks that hardly seemed recompense.
Hypothesis: Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968.
Premise: On Tuesday, Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Meir Israel Lau, met in his office with a group of Catholic priests from Rome -members of the peace group St. Egidio- and handed them a letter for Pope John Paul II, who was born in Poland.
Hypothesis: Pope John Paul II was born in Poland.
Premise: Pope John Paul II began his longest pilgrimage to his native Poland today at the site of one of his papacy's greatest triumphs: the Baltic coast city where the Solidarity movement that toppled communism was born.
Hypothesis: Pope John Paul II was born in Poland.
Premise: Pope John Paul II arrived Saturday in the birthplace of the Solidarity movement that he sparked with his first papal visit 20 years ago, offering Poles "the greeting of a fellow Pole who comes among you to fulfill the needs of his own heart."
Hypothesis: Pope John Paul II was born in Poland.
Premise: The Mozart segment, for instance, takes an unsentimental view of the composer's popular success and subsequent decline, and relates it with a few swift strokes to the cultural politics of imperial Vienna.
Hypothesis: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg.
Premise: Rosetta, a Belgian film about an unemployed young woman trying desperately to carve out a normal life, won top honors at the 52nd annual Cannes Film Festival Sunday.
Hypothesis: The Golden Palm has been awarded at the Cannes film Festival.
Premise: It fell apart when steamy French actress Sophie Marceau emerged to present the Palme D'Or, or Golden Palm, to Belgium's "Rosetta."
Hypothesis: The Golden Palm has been awarded at the Cannes film Festival.
Premise: Lewis will receive the Golden Lion career award on Sept. 11, the last day of the Venice festival, when his film about a hapless worker at a Miami hotel will be screened, organizers said Friday.
Hypothesis: The Golden Palm has been awarded at the Cannes film Festival.
Premise: Weimar in Germany is the 1999 European City of Culture, an honor that coincides with the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of its most famous sons, the poet and intellect Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Hypothesis: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.
Premise: A poll conducted by Newsweek following the Republican National Convention showed that President Bill Clinton had 44 percent support, Dole received 42 percent and the candidate nominated by Perot's Reform Party received only 3 percent.
Hypothesis: Bill Clinton belongs to the Democratic Party.
Premise: U.S. President Bill Clinton talked by telephone with Northern Ireland Protestant and Catholic leaders to congratulate them on their joint election victory.
Hypothesis: Bill Clinton belongs to the Democratic Party.
Premise: The British medical journal The Lancet reported in March that he had been hospitalized for months in Ethiopia, had spent nine days in the intensive care unit at Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa after suffering cardiac failure and had been the subject of appeals by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations.
Hypothesis: Amnesty International takes care of human rights.
Premise: Women inmates in American prisons and jails routinely endure rape and other sexual abuse by male guards and are denied proper medical care, according to an Amnesty International USA report released Thursday.
Hypothesis: Amnesty International takes care of human rights.
Premise: After being criticized by Conservative Party opponents, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government recently vowed to deport many asylum seekers and jail others while their requests are processed.
Hypothesis: Tony Blair belongs to the Labor Party.
Premise: Conservative Party leader William Hague attacked British Prime Minister Tony Blair's stance on further European integration Tuesday, accusing him of handing over Britain's rights and powers "slice by slice".
Hypothesis: Tony Blair belongs to the Labor Party.
Premise: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been warned by Labor Party officials that his government is seen as "arrogant" by the voters as they become increasingly worried about health, education and transport.
Hypothesis: Tony Blair belongs to the Labor Party.
Premise: Changing the citizenship law requires approval of parliament's upper chamber, the Bundesrat, which represents the 16 federal states of Germany.
Hypothesis: Germany has 16 federal states.
Premise: The 8,568-meter Mt. Kanchenjunga, the third highest in the world, is located in the border area of Nepal, India and China.
Hypothesis: Kanchenjunga is 8586 meters high.