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During the Nordic Middle Ages what was the northern most part of the Frisian area of settlings known as?
Utlande
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In a dish that requires a spoon called an nthiko, what does the maize flour turn into while boiled with water that would be classified the same as Caribbean gungude?
Porridge.
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[ { "text": "The maize flour is first boiled with water into a porridge. It is then 'paddled,' to create a thick paste with the addition of more flour. This process requires the maker to pull the thick paste against the side of a pot with a flat wooden spoon (called an nthiko) quickly whilst it continues to sit over the heat." }, { "text": "Gruel – very thin porridge, often drunk. Gungude – also known as congatay or plantain porridge, is a Caribbean porridge made from sun-dried plantains or green bananas. It is often fed to infants." } ]
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What constitutional monarchy is in the Five Eyes?
Australia is in the Five Eyes.
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[ { "text": "The Five Eyes ( FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence." }, { "text": "Australia is a constitutional monarchy whose Sovereign also serves as Monarch of the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada and eleven other former dependencies of the United Kingdom including Papua New Guinea, which was formerly a dependency of Australia. These countries operate as independent nations, and are known as Commonwealth realms." } ]
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Where does the island once known as Doliche rank in size among Greek islands?
Euboea, the island once known as Doliche, is the second-largest island in Greece.
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[ { "text": "Like most of the Greek islands, Euboea was known by other names in antiquity, such as Macris (Μάκρις) and Doliche (Δολίχη) from its elongated shape, or Ellopia, Aonia and Abantis from the tribes inhabiting it. Its ancient and current name, Εὔβοια, derives from the words εὖ \"good\", and βοῦς \"ox\", meaning \" (the land of) the well (-fed) oxen\"." }, { "text": "Euboea or Evia[1] (Greek: Εύβοια, Évia, [ˈevia]; Ancient Greek: Εὔβοια, Eúboia, [eúboja]) is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait (only 40 m (130 ft) at its narrowest point).[2]" } ]
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What was conceived as a commodity market and functions through the interaction of workers and employers?
Labor market.
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[ { "text": "Classical and neoclassical economists conceived of the labor market as a commodity market: the concurrent interaction of labor supply (rational workers seeking their well-being) and labor demand (rational employers searching to maximize their profits) should determine general employment and wage levels." }, { "text": "Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms. Because these labourers exist as parts of a social, institutional, or political system, labour economics is often regarded as a sociology or political science. Labour markets or job markets function through the interaction of workers and employers." } ]
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Caesio teres and Caesio lunaris are both types of what?
Fish
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[ { "text": "The lunar fusilier (Caesio lunaris) is a species of marine fish in the family Caesionidae. The lunar fusilier is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo/West Pacific area, including the Red Sea. This fish can reach a maximum size of 40 cm in length ." }, { "text": "Caesio teres, the yellow and blueback fusilier, beautiful fusilier, blue and gold fusilier or yellow-tail fusilier, is a pelagic marine fish belonging to the family Caesionidae . This fusilier grows up to 40 cm (16 in)." } ]
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Who was the suffect consul in 152 of the Roman family with a surname, derived from the praenomen Servius (meaning "one who keeps safe" or "preserves")?
Marcus Servilius Silanus was the suffect consul in 152 of the Roman family with a surname, derived from the praenomen Servius (meaning "one who keeps safe" or "preserves").
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[ { "text": "It was, consequently, one of the gentes minores. The nomen Servilius is a patronymic surname, derived from the praenomen Servius (meaning \"one who keeps safe\" or \"preserves\"), which must have been borne by the ancestor of the gens. The different branches of the Servilii each used slightly different sets of praenomina." }, { "text": "A native of North Africa, Maximus was the younger brother of Marcus Servilius Silanus suffect consul in 152, and a relative of Quintus Servilius Pudens, brother-in-law of emperor Lucius Verus His cursus honorum is partially known from an inscription set up in Rome." } ]
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The general who conquered Egypt from the Romans had a father from what clan?
Amr ibn al-As's father, al-As ibn Wa'il, was from the Banu Sahm clan of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca.
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[ { "text": "According to tradition, the original location was chosen by a bird. Amr ibn al-As, by order of Caliph Umar, was the Arab general that conquered Egypt from the Romans." }, { "text": "Amr ibn al-As was born in c. 573. His father, al-As ibn Wa'il, was a wealthy landowner from the Banu Sahm clan of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca. Following the death of al-As in c. 622, Amr inherited from him the lucrative al-Waht estate and vineyards near Ta'if. Amr's mother was al-Nabigha bint Harmala from the Banu Jallan clan of the Anaza tribe." } ]
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What is the capital of a heavily suburban/suburbanizing district that covers an area of 1,063.97 km 2 (410.80 sq mi) and has a population of 1.33 million that borders Pontian District on the west?
Johor Bahru City.
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[ { "text": "The heavily suburban/suburbanizing district covers an area of 1,063.97 km 2 (410.80 sq mi) and has a population of 1.33 million. The district capital is Johor Bahru City and the administrative capital is Iskandar Puteri City." }, { "text": "The district capital is Johor Bahru City and the administrative capital is Iskandar Puteri City. The district borders Pontian District on the west, Kota Tinggi District on the east, Kulai District on the north and Straits of Johor to the south. The urban centres are divided into the cities of Johor Bahru, Iskandar Puteri and Pasir Gudang ." } ]
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The French view what country holding the Hanyoung Foreign Language High School as 42% negatively?
South Korea.
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[ { "text": "Hanyoung Foreign Language High School (Hangeul: 한영외국어고등학교, Hanja: 漢榮外國語高等學校) is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious high schools in South Korea." }, { "text": "French views of South Korea vary, with 42% viewing South Korea negatively, and 46% viewing South Korea positively." } ]
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The freshwater lake of Lough Dergart belongs to the basin of what longest river in Ireland it drains?
The Shannon River Basin.
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[ { "text": "The River Shannon ( Irish: Abha na Sionainne, an tSionainn, an tSionna) is the longest river in Ireland at 360.5 km (224 miles). It drains the Shannon River Basin which has an area of 16,865 km 2 (6,512 sq mi), one fifth of the area of Ireland." }, { "text": "Lough Derg, historically Lough Dergart ( Irish: Loch Deirgeirt ), is a freshwater lake in the Shannon River Basin, Ireland. It is the third-biggest on the island of Ireland (after Lough Neagh and Lough Corrib ). It is a long, narrow lake, with shores in counties Clare (south-west), Galway (north-west), and Tipperary (to the east)." } ]
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What are reusers of Wikipedia's content encouraged to do?
They should consider leaving notes at the talk pages of both source and destination.
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[ { "text": "There are many reusers of Wikipedia's content, and more are welcome. If you want to use Wikipedia's text materials in your own books/articles/web sites or other publications, you can generally do so, but you must comply with one of the licenses that Wikipedia's text is licensed under. Many of the media files on Wikipedia are also reusable." }, { "text": "Content reusers should also consider leaving notes at the talk pages of both source and destination. Copying and translating information from a Wikimedia project other than the English Wikipedia is usually possible, since all Wikimedia projects use the same or compatible licensing for most of their content." } ]
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Crystallofolia and ice crepes would be most likely to form in which season?
During the winter.
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[ { "text": "Frost flower formations are also referred to as frost faces, ice castles, ice blossoms, or crystallofolia . Types of frost flowers include needle ice, frost pillars or frost columns, extruded from pores in the soil, and ice ribbons, rabbit frost or rabbit ice, extruded from linear fissures in plant stems." }, { "text": "Ice discs, ice circles, ice pans, ice pancakes or ice crepes are a very rare natural phenomenon that occurs in slow moving water in cold climates. They are thin circular slabs of ice that rotate slowly on a body of water's surface." } ]
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Ancient Syria of the first millennium BC was dominated by the Aramaeans in what region north of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea?
The Northern Levant.
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[ { "text": "Ancient Syria of the first millennium BC was dominated by the Aramaeans; they originated in the Northern Levant as a continuum of the Bronze Age populations of Syria." }, { "text": "The Southern Levant lies on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the world region known variously as the Near East, the Middle East or Western or Southwestern Asia. It is bordered to the east, southeast and southwest by the Syrian, Arabian and Sinai deserts, respectively." } ]
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What advantages might the type of artillery that uses low molecular-weight combustible gases as propellants have over conventional artillery?
Combustion light-gas guns might achieve higher velocities and greater range
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[ { "text": "Combustion light-gas gun technology is one of the areas being explored in an attempt to achieve higher velocities from artillery to gain greater range. Conventional guns use solid propellants, usually nitrocellulose -based compounds, to develop the chamber pressures needed to accelerate the projectiles." }, { "text": "Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. A combustion light-gas gun (CLGG) is a projectile weapon that utilizes the explosive force of low molecular-weight combustible gases, such as hydrogen mixed with oxygen, as propellant." } ]
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What countries call the liaison between the President of the United States and the Cabinet Departments and Agencies a cabinet minister?
Japan, Kenya, Scotland and the United States call liaison between the President of the United States and the Cabinet Departments and Agencies cabinet secretary.
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[ { "text": "The White House Cabinet Secretary is the head of the Office of Cabinet Affairs within the White House Office and the primary liaison between the President of the United States and the Cabinet Departments and Agencies." }, { "text": "The title of cabinet secretary may also be used as an alternative term for a politically appointed cabinet minister, derived from secretary of state —the formal title for ministers. This naming convention is used in Japan, Kenya, Scotland and the United States." } ]
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Todeslager and Mauthausen were camps made by who?
Nazis.
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[ { "text": "The terms extermination camp ( Vernichtungslager) and death camp ( Todeslager) were interchangeable in the Nazi system, each referring to camps whose primary function was genocide." }, { "text": "Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Linz ), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany." } ]
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Which is deeper: Brokopondo Reservoir or Lake Michigan?
Lake Michigan is deeper.
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[ { "text": "It is the larger half of Lake Michigan–Huron, which is the largest body of fresh water in the world by surface area. It is 307 miles (494 km) long by 118 miles (190 km) wide with a shoreline 1,640 miles (2,640 km) long. The lake's average depth is 46 fathoms 3 feet (279 ft; 85 m), while its greatest depth is 153 fathoms 5 feet (923 ft; 281 m)." }, { "text": "These are included and indicated with light blue cell background. Large reservoir area does not necessarily coincide with large volume, as reservoirs with a large area tend to be shallow, such as at Suriname 's 1,560 km 2 (600 sq mi) Brokopondo Reservoir, with an average depth of just 13 m (43 ft)." } ]
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Voluntary Emission Reductionsor Verified Emission Reductions(VERs) are a type of what, which allow society to pursue the least costly/disruptive methods of reducing CO2?
Carbon offset
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[ { "text": "Voluntary Emission Reductionsor Verified Emission Reductions(VERs) are a type of carbon offsetexchanged in the voluntary or over-the-counter market for carbon credits.[1] Verified Emission Reductions are usually certified through a voluntary certification process. [2]" }, { "text": "As long as many ways to emit and trap carbon dioxide exist, some ways of reducing CO2 in the atmosphere will be cheaper than others. Carbon offsets allow society to pursue the least costly/disruptive methods of reducing CO2. What the hell is a carbon offset? It's a fraud. Can't you read?" } ]
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What Sunni Muslim from an affluent family who was trained in welfare believed that for the success for an armed rebellion, the co-operation of people was very important?
Maulvi
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[ { "text": "Maulvi was a Sunni Muslim and belonged to an affluent family. He had a good command over English. After getting his traditional Islamic education, Maulvi had got training on welfare as well." }, { "text": "Maulvi believed that for the success for an armed rebellion, the co-operation of people was very important. He travelled to Delhi, Meerut, Patna, Calcutta and several other places and sowed the seed of independence. Maulvi and Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi also declared jihad against Britons." } ]
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Quraysh, Messiria Zurug, Rizeigat, Ta’isha, and Habbaniya are all what?
Tribes.
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[ { "text": "According to this tradition, ‘Adnani Arabs ( العرب المستعربة) were the progeny of Ishmael, the firstborn son of the patriarch Abraham, of the Jurhum tribe. The Hawazin tribe and the Quraysh tribe are considered ‘Adnani Arabs." }, { "text": "They are a collection of seven major tribes: Hawazma, Messiria Humr Messiria Zurug, Rizeigat, Ta’isha, Habbaniya, Beni Halba, Awlad Himayd, and Beni Selam. All Baggara have close physical characteristics, costumes, dance, religion, food, and in general a common culture and way of life." } ]
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Wuzong's solution to the financial crisis was to go after the wealth that had been accumulated in the monasteries of what religion whose monks were also criticized for not expressing their respect to the Chinese emperor by prostrating and other devotion?
Buddhism
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[ { "text": "Wuzong's solution to the financial crisis was to go after the wealth that had been accumulated in the Buddhist monasteries. Buddhism had flourished greatly during the Tang period, and its monasteries enjoyed tax-exempt status. In 845, Wuzong closed many Buddhist shrines, confiscated their property, and sent the monks and nuns home to lay life." }, { "text": "Buddhist monks were also criticized for not expressing their respect to the Chinese emperor by prostrating and other devotion, which in Confucianism was associated with the virtue of filial piety." } ]
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What is a portion of the substantia nigra that the neurons of are fast-spiking pacemakers, generating action potentials in the absence of synaptic input?
The pars reticulata
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[ { "text": "The pars reticulata is a portion of the substantia nigra. Most of the neurons that project out of the pars reticulata are inhibitory GABAergic neurons (i.e., these neurons release GABA, which is an inhibitory neurotransmitter )." }, { "text": "The neurons of the pars reticulata are fast-spiking pacemakers, generating action potentials in the absence of synaptic input. In primates they discharge at a mean rate of 68 Hz in contrast to dopaminergic neurons (below 8 Hz)." } ]
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What is on the coat of arms of the country run by Andrés Manuel López Obrador?
A Mexican (golden) eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus devouring a rattlesnake.
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[ { "text": "The coat of arms of Mexico ( Spanish: Escudo Nacional de México, literally \"national shield of Mexico\") depicts a Mexican (golden) eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus devouring a rattlesnake. The design is rooted in the legend that the Aztec people would know where to build their city once they saw an eagle eating a snake on top of a lake." }, { "text": "The National Gendarmerie is defined as a military grade force within the Federal Police. Before becoming President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador campaigned on a promise to take the military off the streets of Mexico." } ]
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Who has a stability analysis named after them and proved that the most effective way of performing large-scale mining operations such as mining and entire moonor asteroid belt would be by self-replicating spacecraft?
Von Neumann
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[ { "text": "Von Neumann proved that the most effective way of performing large-scale mining operations such as mining an entire moonor asteroid beltwould be by self-replicating spacecraft, taking advantage of their exponential growth.[1]" }, { "text": "As derived using von Neumann stability analysis, the FTCS method for the one-dimensional heat equation is numerically stable if and only if the following condition is satisfied: r = α Δ t Δ x 2 ≤ 1 2 . {\\displaystyle r= {\\frac {\\alpha \\,\\Delta t} {\\Delta x^ {2}}}\\leq {\\frac {1} {2}}.}" } ]
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What is a format war and when are developing companies said to be engaged in a format war?
A format war describes competition between similar but mutually incompatible technical standards that compete for the same market, such as for data storage devices and recording formats for electronic media, developing companies may be characterized as engaging in a format war if they actively oppose or avoid interoperable open-industry technical standards in favor of their own.
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[ { "text": "A format war describes competition between similar but mutually incompatible technical standards that compete for the same market, such as for data storage devices and recording formats for electronic media. It is often characterized by political and financial influence on content publishers by the developers of the technologies." }, { "text": "Developing companies may be characterized as engaging in a format war if they actively oppose or avoid interoperable open-industry technical standards in favor of their own.A format war emergence can be explained because each vendor is trying to exploit cross-side network effects in a two-sided market. There is also a social force to stop a format war: when one of them wins as de facto standard, it solves a coordination problem[1] for the format users." } ]
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Are there more lanes on Ohio State Route 172 or SR 21?
There are more lanes on Ohio State Route 172.
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[ { "text": "As the road curves the highway leaves Massillon and passes through a mix of residential and commercial properties, as a four-lane highway. The road enters Canton and has an interchange with Interstate 77 (I–77) and US 62. The route curves towards the southeast and enters downtown Canton, passing the Stark county court house." }, { "text": "At the intersection, westbound US 250, which had been heading north–northwest, turns to the west while its roadway continues as SR 21. The route is an undivided, two-lane road . SR 21 proceeds through Franklin Township. At the line with Bethlehem Township, Stark County, the route crosses SR 212 (Dolphin Street SW) and takes the name Erie Avenue SW." } ]
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In Irish, most broad what, which along with other primary articulations may be palatalized, are velarized?
Consonants
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[ { "text": "In Irish, most broad consonants are velarized. In Scottish Gaelic, the only velarized consonants are [n̪ˠ] and [l̪ˠ]; [r] is sometimes described as velarized as well. Palatalized consonants occur in standard Mandarin Chinese in the form of the alveolo-palatal consonants, which are written in pinyin as j, q, and x ." }, { "text": "Consonants with other primary articulations may be palatalized, that is, accompanied by the raising of the tongue surface towards the hard palate." } ]
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What areas can you find both the black howler and the Bolivian red howler?
You can find both Bolivian red howlers and black howlers in Bolivia, and Brazil.
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[ { "text": "The black howler ( Alouatta caraya) (also known as black-and-gold howler) is a species of howler monkey, a large New World monkey, from northeastern Argentina, eastern Bolivia, eastern and southern Brazil, and Paraguay. Together with the brown howler, it is the southernmost member of the Alouatta genus." }, { "text": "The Bolivian red howler is a part of the Atelidae; Atelidae are a subfamily of New World monkey, which includes the various spider and woolly monkeys. They are covered in reddish orange hair. The red howler are found only in neotropical South America in places like Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Perú, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. They extend from northwest Colombia east and south to the Amazon River in eastern Brazil." } ]
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What is state police and what are their functions?
In the United States, the state police is a police body unique to each U.S. state, having statewide authority to conduct law enforcement activities and criminal investigations. Normally, they support local police and help to coordinate multi-jurisdictional task force activity in serious or complicated cases in those states that grant full police powers statewide.
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[ { "text": "They support local police and help to coordinate multi-jurisdictional task force activity in serious or complicated cases in those states that grant full police powers statewide. A general trend has been to bring all of these agencies under a state-level Department of Public Safety." }, { "text": "In the United States, the state police is a police body unique to each U.S. state, having statewide authority to conduct law enforcement activities and criminal investigations." } ]
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Both France and Span have given what type of recognition to victims of terrorism?
Medals
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[ { "text": "The medal was created to give a proper recognition to the sacrifice of terrorism victims while still maintaining the award criterion of existing national honours such as the Legion of Honor. In Spain there is a similar honour known as the Royal Order of Civil Recognition for Victims of Terrorism ." }, { "text": "the recognition of people who have been killed, wounded, or held hostage during terrorist attacks. The National Recognition Medal for Victims of Terrorism ( French: Médaille nationale de reconnaissance aux victimes du terrorisme) is a national medal of France awarded to French victims of terrorism." } ]
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What is the scientific name for the fish that shares a family and genus with the slender-spined porcupine fish, and whose diet includes sea urchins and hard-shelled mollusks?
The scientific name of the long-spine porcupinefish is Diodon holocanthus.
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[ { "text": "The slender-spined porcupine fish or globefish ( Diodon nichthemerus) is a porcupinefish of the family Diodontidae, found in the waters of southern Australia, as far north as Port Jackson to Geraldton, Western Australia. It is most common in Port Phillip Bay and the coastal waters of Tasmania in shallow coastal waters and under manmade jettys ." }, { "text": "The long-spine porcupinefish ( Diodon holocanthus ), also known as the freckled porcupinefish among other vernacular names, is a species of marine fish in the family Diodontidae. The species' diet includes sea urchins and hard-shelled mollusks." } ]
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What are the symptoms of the disease caused by the type of snails that tetrabutyltin is used to combat?
Symptoms of this disease include abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody stool, or blood in the urine.
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[ { "text": "Tetrabutyltin is used as an antifouling paint for ships, for the prevention of slimes in industrial recirculating water systems, for combating freshwater snails that cause bilharzia, as a wood and textile preservative, and as a disinfectant." }, { "text": "Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever and bilharzia,[9] is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes.[5] The urinary tract or the intestines may be infected.[5] Symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody stool, or blood in the urine.[5] Those who have been infected for a long time may experience liver damage, kidney failure, infertility, or bladder cancer.[5] In children, it may cause poor growth and learning difficulty.[5]" } ]
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What refers to the various religious practices of the Germanic peoples from the Iron Age and has a similar neuter noun to denote pagan gods like Old High German "got".
Germanic paganism.
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[ { "text": "For example, all the Germanic languages use a similar neuter noun to denote pagan gods: Gothic guþ, Old English god, Old High German got, and Old Norse guð. Proto-Germanic, therefore, surely had a similar word with a similar sense." }, { "text": "Germanic paganism refers to the various religious practices of the Germanic peoples from the Iron Age until Christianisation during the Middle Ages. Religious practices represented an essential element of early Germanic culture." } ]
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The European Patent Organisation is not bound to what thing that Iceland, Norway and Switzerland have submitted membership applications in the past but subsequently frozen them?
European Union
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[ { "text": "Of the four major western European countries that are not EU members, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland have submitted membership applications in the past but subsequently frozen them, while the United Kingdom is a former member." }, { "text": "The European Patent Organisation is not legally bound to the European Union (EU) and has several members which are not themselves EU states" } ]
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Impedance mismatches result in standing what, which in electrical engineering the impedance of being an important factor to consider when designing a waveguide, along the transmission line?
Waves
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[ { "text": "In electrical engineering, the wave impedance is an important factor to consider when designing a waveguide. The parameters of the medium must match up such that the wave impedance will be the desired value. For example, coaxial cable used for TV signals has a designated wave impedance of 75 Ω." }, { "text": "Impedance mismatches result in standing waves along the transmission line, and SWR is defined as the ratio of the partial standing wave 's amplitude at an antinode (maximum) to the amplitude at a node (minimum) along the line." } ]
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The Columba livia domestica and the medium-sized, approximately 31 cm long organism with reddish feet and red bare skin around the eye are both types of what?
Pigeons.
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[ { "text": "The tooth-billed pigeon is a medium-sized, approximately 31 cm long, dark pigeon with reddish feet and red bare skin around the eye. The underparts, head and neck are greyish with a slight blue-green iridescence, and the tail, wings-coverts and tertials are rufous chestnut, while the remaining remiges are blackish." }, { "text": "The domestic pigeon ( Columba livia domestica) is a pigeon subspecies that was derived from the rock dove (also called the rock pigeon). The rock pigeon is the world's oldest domesticated bird. Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets mention the domestication of pigeons more than 5,000 years ago, as do Egyptian hieroglyphics." } ]
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What is an important component of laundry detergents that use bleaching agents that is an organic compound with the formula (CH 3 C (O)) 2 NCH 2 CH 2 N (C (O)CH 3) 2?
Tetraacetylethylenediamine
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[ { "text": "Tetraacetylethylenediamine, commonly abbreviated as TAED, is an organic compound with the formula (CH 3 C (O)) 2 NCH 2 CH 2 N (C (O)CH 3) 2. This white solid is commonly used as a bleach activator in laundry detergents and for paper pulp. It is produced by acetylation of ethylenediamine ." }, { "text": "TAED is an important component of laundry detergents that use \"active oxygen\" bleaching agents. Active oxygen bleaching agents include sodium perborate, sodium percarbonate, sodium perphosphate, sodium persulfate, and urea peroxide." } ]
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Regarding the houses of the horoscope that represent different fields of experience and the connection between the microcosm and the macrocosm, to what field of Hindu study do they belong to?
Hindu astrology.
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In the practice that involves ascertaining the avasthas of planets at given times, what is the term that refers to one-third of the arc of the ecliptic intercepted between any two adjacent angles?
In Hindu astrology, bhava describes this portion of the arc.
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McVitie's did not register the name of what cakes, which is also the name of also an ancient port city in Israel?
Jaffa
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Are Empanda ornata part of the scared animals of the sun-god, equivalent to Roman Sol and Greek Helios referenced in late Roman and Greek poetry?
No, his sacred animals include roe deer, swans, and pythons while Empanda ornata is a spider.
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Avco Lycoming O-290-D2 and BMW 801 are both examples of what?
Aircraft engines
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[ { "text": "Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The BMW 801 was a powerful German 41.8-litre (2,550 cu in) air-cooled 14-cylinder- radial aircraft engine built by BMW and used in a number of German Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II." }, { "text": "Two/three-seat cabin monoplane version powered by a 135 hp (101 kw) Avco Lycoming O-290-D2 engine, 65 built. Open-cockpit two-seat agricultural version of the A-4, 74 built." } ]
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Lucius Tarquinius Priscus was a member of the court of a king who was what number king of Rome?
Fourth
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Raj Kumar Singh and Mohamed Shaker are both what?
Ministers
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The system that runs along the south coast of Andalusia, from the province of Cádiz, across the province of Granada, into the Region of Murcia until reaching the Campo de Cartagena, is the southernmost of how many systems of the Baetic System?
Three
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In the branch of physics that includes waves in plasmas, the Alfvén wave is what kind of wave where ions oscillate in response to a restoring force?
A magnetohydrodynamic wave.
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B lymphocytes (B cells), are part of the normal response of what system which Natural killer (NK) cells are part of?
Immune system
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[ { "text": "small lymphocytes: these lymphocytes are the main agents of the acquired immune system. The two main types are: B cells. Natural killer (NK) cells are a part of the immune system a person is born with. They protect the organism from tumours and from cells infected by viruses." }, { "text": "B lymphocytes (B cells), which are part of the normal immune response, are also responsible for the over-aggressive response seen in autoimmune diseases like SLE. B cells develop in the bone marrow and continue to mature peripherally in secondary lymphoid organs and in the gut." } ]
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In architectural acoustics, what, also defined as the process by which a new idea or new product is accepted by the market, is the spreading of sound energy evenly in a given environment?
Diffusion
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In which waters might you find the territorial animal that will dart out of their hiding place to maintain their territory, and prefer rocky headlands?
Eastern Pacific ocean
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[ { "text": "Ophioblennius steindachneri, the large-banded blenny or the Panamic fanged blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the eastern Pacific ocean. This species reaches a length of 18 centimetres (7.1 in) SL." }, { "text": "The adults of Ophioblennius steidachneri are mainly found in the surge zone of exposed rocky headlands which have steep slopes where they wedge themselves into crevices near the shore in shallow water. They are territorial and will dart out of their hiding place to defend their territory." } ]
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The Accensus who are made up of the poorest men are a part of what army that started from Ancient Rome up to the Byzantine Empire?
The Roman army.
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How does a surname show kinship?
A name shows which tribe one was in since tribes are based on kinships relations.
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In the verb that is used as a "jussive subjunctive", what city named after this has its community patrons taking special pride in their shool?
Stet.
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[ { "text": "It is a form of the Latin verb sto, stare, steti, statum. This usage of the verb, known as the \" jussive subjunctive \", derives from the active-voiced third-person subjunctive singular present and is typically translated as \"Let it stand\" or \"As you were\"." }, { "text": "The origin of the name \"Stet\" is obscure. The meaning of Stet in Latin is \"let it stand.\" The community patrons took special pride in their school, which thrived for many years in a rural surrounding." } ]
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What inflammation of either one or both of the bronchi that deliver air to the lobes of the lungs is characterized by the coughing up of sputum, wheezing, chest pain, and shortness of breath?
Bronchitis
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[ { "text": "Bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) in the lungs that causes coughing. Symptoms include coughing up sputum, wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest pain." }, { "text": "The left main bronchus divides into two secondary bronchi or lobar bronchi, to deliver air to the two lobes of the left lung—the superior and the inferior lobe. The secondary bronchi divide further into tertiary bronchi, (also known as segmental bronchi ), each of which supplies a bronchopulmonary segment." } ]
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Which divisions in the area previously known as Manbhum speak a version of an Eastern Indo-Aryan language that has Hindi and Odia mixed in?
Santhal Pargana division and Kolhan division in Jharkhand speak Manbhumi, a Bengali dialect.
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[ { "text": "Bengali is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language that arose from the eastern Middle Indic languages around 1000 CE and developed considerably during the Bengal Renaissance." }, { "text": "Manbhumi dialect: Manbhumi is spoken in westernmost Bengali speaking regions which includes the whole of Medinipur division and the northern half of Burdwan division in West Bengal and the Bengali speaking regions of Santhal Pargana division and Kolhan division in Jharkhand state." }, { "text": "Manbhumi is the local Bengali dialect spoken in the district of Purulia, and adjacent area of other districts of West Bengal and Jharkhand, previously Manbhum, in Eastern India. It is one of the Bengali dialects, having very prominent Hindi and Odia blending in it." } ]
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Which of the physical elements known since antiquity were depleted by solar heating?
Carbon
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The ortographical mark: Él (He) and El (The) also appears in Portuguese where it is used to nasalise what vowels?
a" (ã) and "o" (õ)
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[ { "text": "The \"tilde\" is just the ortographical mark: Él (He) and El (The). The \"acento\" is just the syllable where the strenght falls. For instance: although the word \"ejemplo\" (example) doesn't have any tilde, the \"acento\" is strenghted on the second syllable [e 'jem plo]." }, { "text": "The tilde also appears in Portuguese where it is used to nasalise (meaning to sound them through the nose) the vowels \"a\" (ã) and \"o\" (õ). In UNIX operating systems, a tilde represents the user's \"home\" directory. The tilde is also used to denote when something is an estimate, such as ~24 meaning approximately 24." } ]
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What is fission in biology and what does binary fission result in?
Fission, in biology, is the division of a single entity into two or more parts and the regeneration of those parts to separate entities resembling the original. Binary fission results in the reproduction of a living prokaryotic cell (or organelle) by dividing the cell into two parts, each with the potential to grow to the size of the original.
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[ { "text": "This form of asexual reproduction and cell division is also used by some organelles within eukaryotic organisms (e.g., mitochondria ). Binary fission results in the reproduction of a living prokaryotic cell (or organelle) by dividing the cell into two parts, each with the potential to grow to the size of the original." }, { "text": "Fission, in biology, is the division of a single entity into two or more parts and the regeneration of those parts to separate entities resembling the original. The object experiencing fission is usually a cell, but the term may also refer to how organisms, bodies, populations, or species split into discrete parts." } ]
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In practice, algorithms have been designed only for polynomials with coefficients in what field, any extension of which by another similar version is separable and simple?
A finite field
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[ { "text": "More generally, every element in GF (pn) satisfies the polynomial equation xpn − x = 0 . Any finite field extension of a finite field is separable and simple. That is, if E is a finite field and F is a subfield of E, then E is obtained from F by adjoining a single element whose minimal polynomial is separable." }, { "text": "In practice, algorithms have been designed only for polynomials with coefficients in a finite field, in the field of rationals or in a finitely generated field extension of one of them." } ]
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What badge would been awarded to members of the volunteer military units organized by a self made millionaire?
Members of the USVSR units would have been awarded the sharpshooter badge.
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[ { "text": "Along with \" marksman \" and \"expert\", \"sharpshooter\" is one of the three marksmanship badges awarded by the U.S. Army and the United States Marine Corps . Another use of units of marksmen was during the Napoleonic Wars in the British Army." }, { "text": "Notable sharpshooter units of the Civil War included the 1st and 2nd United States Volunteer Sharpshooter Regiment (USVSR), composed of companies provided by numerous (primarily eastern) Union states. The U.S.V.S.R. were organized by Colonel Hiram Berdan, a self-made millionaire who was reputed to be the best rifle marksman in the nation at that time." } ]
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Nobel laureate Patrick White and his partner had a house they named "Dogwoods" in what suburb of Sydney, Australia?
Dogwoods" was in Castle Hill.
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[ { "text": "/  33.72917°S 151.00389°E  / -33.72917; 151.00389 Castle Hill is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, located 30 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and 9.5 kilometres north of Parramatta. It is within the Hills District region, split between the local government areas of The Hills Shire and Hornsby Shire ." }, { "text": "notable part of Castle Hill's cultural history was the period from the post-war period until 1968 in which Nobel laureate Patrick White and his partner Manoly Lascaris lived at 74 Showground Road in a house they named \"Dogwoods\". For much of that period, they worked several hectares of farmland at the site. White wrote several of his most well-known novels while at Castle Hill; the suburb formed the basis of fictional settings for the novels The Tree of Man, The Solid Mandala, Riders in the Chariot, the collection of short stories The Burnt Ones, and the play The Season at Sarsaparilla. In his work, Castle Hill went variously by the names of \"Sarsaparilla\" and Durilgai\"." } ]
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Bradley Walsh and Catherine Tate have acted in which long-running British science fiction television series, where Tate's character was a companion of the titular character?
Doctor Who.
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[ { "text": "Graham O'Brien is a fictional character created by Chris Chibnall and portrayed by Bradley Walsh in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who." }, { "text": "Donna Noble is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Portrayed by British actress and comedian Catherine Tate, she is a former companion of the Tenth Doctor ( David Tennant )." } ]
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A number form is a mental map of what, many names for large versions of which are simply the result of following a naming system to its logical conclusion?
Numbers
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[ { "text": "Note the convolutions, and how the first 12 digits correspond to a clock face. A number form is a mental map of numbers, which automatically and involuntarily appears whenever someone who experiences number-forms thinks of numbers. Numbers are mapped into distinct spatial locations and the mapping may be different across individuals." }, { "text": "Thus, many names for large numbers are simply the result of following a naming system to its logical conclusion—or extending it further. Names for large numbers are frequently used in incremental games, also known as idle games. The words bymillion and trimillion were first recorded in 1475 in a manuscript of Jehan Adam." } ]
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How are conditions in the group of genetic syndromes that includes Setleis syndrome usually diagnosed?
These conditions are usually diagnosed by clinical observation.
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[ { "text": "Setleis syndrome is a very rare genetic condition characterized by facial skin abnormalities and double upper eyelashes and absent lower eyelashes. It belongs to a group of diseases known as ectodermal dysplasias. Ectodermal dysplasias typically affect the hair, teeth, nails, and/or skin." }, { "text": "Ectodermal dysplasia (ED) is a group of genetic syndromes all deriving from abnormalities of the ectodermal structures.[1]:570 More than 150 different syndromes have been identified.[2]Despite some of the syndromes having different genetic causes, the symptoms are sometimes very similar. Diagnosis is usually by clinical observation, often with the assistance of family medical histories so that it can be determined whether transmission is autosomal dominant or recessive.Worldwide, around 1/7,000 people have been diagnosed with an ectodermal dysplasia condition." } ]
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Systemic inflammatory response syndrome is frequently a response to something what how many major subgroups?
Two
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Ricininae and Fatshedera lizei are both what?
Plants.
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[ { "text": "The castor oil plant ( Ricinus communis ), is a plant species of the Euphorbiaceae, the sole member of the genus Ricinus and of the subtribe Ricininae. Its seed is the castor bean which is not a true bean. The castor oil plant is used as an ornamental plant in gardens and to create Castor oil." }, { "text": "× Fatshedera / fætsˈhɛdərə / is hybrid genus of flowering plants, common name tree ivy or aralia ivy. It has only one species, × Fatshedera lizei." } ]
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What type of metabolism do both Uridine kinase and UMP kinase share?
Pyrimidine
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[ { "text": "Other names in common use include pyrimidine ribonucleoside kinase, uridine-cytidine kinase, uridine kinase (phosphorylating), and uridine phosphokinase. This enzyme participates in pyrimidine metabolism ." }, { "text": "The systematic name of this enzyme class is ATP:UMP phosphotransferase. Other names in common use include uridylate kinase, UMPK, uridine monophosphate kinase, PyrH, UMP-kinase, and SmbA. This enzyme participates in pyrimidine metabolism ." } ]
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Where is Wani located and which constituency is it a part of?
Wani (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is one of the 288 constituencies of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in the Yavatmal district . It is a part of the Chandrapur (Lok Sabha constituency) with adjoining Chandrapur district along with five other Vidhan Sabha assembly constituencies.
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[ { "text": "Wani (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is one of the 288 constituencies of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in the Yavatmal district ." }, { "text": "It is a part of the Chandrapur (Lok Sabha constituency) with adjoining Chandrapur district along with five other Vidhan Sabha assembly constituencies, viz. Rajura (SC), Chandrapur (SC), Ballarpur and Warora from the Chandrapur district and Arni (ST) from the Yavatmal district." } ]
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Khoja Ahror Valiy and Umayyad are both names of what?
Mosques
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[ { "text": "Umayyad Mosque in Damascus is considered by Muslims to be the fourth holiest site in both Shia and Sunni Islam. One of the four authorized copies of the Quran was kept here, and the head of Yahya ibn Zakariyya is believed to be in the shrine." }, { "text": "Khoja Ahror Valiy mosque is a mosque in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Also known as the Jama or Dzhuma Mosque, it was built in 1451 by Sheikh Ubaydullo Khoja Akhror (1404-1490). This article about a mosque or other Islamic place of worship in Uzbekistan is a stub." } ]
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The beginning of the River Mersey is located in which county?
The beginning of the River Mersey is in Stockport, which is in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.
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Diairesis is what person's later method, who described different forms of government such as Aristocracy, Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny, of definition based on division, developed in their dialogues titled Phaedrus, Sophist, Statesman, and Philebus?
Plato
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Proteins are what size of biomolecules, that are not considered the same size as amino acids and monosaccharides?
Large biomolecules.
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[ { "text": "Larger structures such as nucleic acids and proteins, and many polysaccharides are not small molecules, although their constituent monomers (ribo- or deoxyribonucleotides, amino acids, and monosaccharides, respectively) are often considered small molecules." }, { "text": "Toward the right-center among the coils, a prosthetic group called a heme group (shown in gray) with a bound oxygen molecule (red). Proteins are large biomolecules or macromolecules that are comprised of one or more long chains of amino acid residues." } ]
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Why was the ROK Marine Corps founded and how many divisions is it organized into?
The ROKMC was founded as a suppression operations force against communist partisans in 1949, prior to the Korean War. Its personnel is organized into two divisions and two separate brigades under the Headquarters ROK Marine Corps.
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[ { "text": "The ROK Marine Corps, with 29,000 personnel, is organized into two divisions and two separate brigades under the Headquarters ROK Marine Corps. The ROK Marine Corps has about 300 tracked vehicles including assault amphibious vehicles, main battle tanks, and self-propelled artillery ." }, { "text": "The ROKMC was founded as a suppression operations force against communist partisans in 1949, prior to the Korean War. The ROKMC also fought in combat during the Vietnam War." } ]
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In posed expression databases, the participants are asked to display different basic what, which include facial movements like smiling or scowling, simple behaviors like crying, laughing, or saying "thank you," and more complex behaviors like writing a letter or giving a gift?
Emotional expressions
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[ { "text": "In posed expression databases, the participants are asked to display different basic emotional expressions, while in spontaneous expression database, the expressions are natural. Spontaneous expressions differ from posed ones remarkably in terms of intensity, configuration, and duration." }, { "text": "It can be verbal or non-verbal, and can occur with or without self-awareness. Emotional expressions include facial movements like smiling or scowling, simple behaviors like crying, laughing, or saying \"thank you,\" and more complex behaviors like writing a letter or giving a gift." } ]
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What word phrase for ochlocracy or mobocracy did Sabbath name their album after, that featured Vinny Appice on drums?
Mob Rules.
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[ { "text": "Mob Rules was the first Sabbath album to feature Vinny Appice on drums, who had replaced original member Bill Ward in the middle of the Heaven and Hell tour." }, { "text": "Mob rule is sometimes called ochlocracy or mobocracy. There is sometimes no legal government, and mobs of people decide whatever they want. It is government by a mob (crowd of people). In this system, the mob becomes the ruler or dominant force in society." } ]
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An antenna or aerial is the interface used with a receiver or what item that also impresses information such as an audio or video signal onto the radio frequency current to be carried by the radio waves?
A transmitter
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[ { "text": "The transmitter also impresses information such as an audio or video signal onto the radio frequency current to be carried by the radio waves. When they strike the antenna of a radio receiver, the waves excite similar (but less powerful) radio frequency currents in it." }, { "text": "In radio engineering, an antenna or aerial is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver." } ]
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Ponnani and Ernakulam Lok Sabha are both in what country?
India
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The genus of what was split into several subgenera based on various factors, including morphology, diet, and habitat that are a medically important group of snakes due to the number of bites and fatalities they cause across their geographical range?
Naja
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[ { "text": "The Naja species are a medically important group of snakes due to the number of bites and fatalities they cause across their geographical range. They range throughout Africa (including some parts of the Sahara where Naja haje can be found), Southwest Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia." }, { "text": "The genus Naja was split into several subgenera based on various factors, including morphology, diet, and habitat. Naja naja is part of the subgenus Naja, along with all the other species of Asiatic cobras, including Naja kaouthia, Naja siamensis, Naja sputatrix, and the rest." } ]
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Propagation of a thrombus which occurs towards the heart is a healthy response to prevent an injury from bleed but can be harmful in what kind of clot?
Thrombosis
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[ { "text": "Thrombus formation can have one of four outcomes: propagation, embolization, dissolution, and organization and recanalization. Propagation of a thrombus occurs towards the direction of the heart and involves the accumulation of additional platelets and fibrin. This means that it is anterograde in veins or retrograde in arteries." }, { "text": "A thrombus, colloquially called a blood clot, is the final product of the blood coagulation step in hemostasis. There are two components to a thrombus: aggregated platelets and red blood cells that form a plug, and a mesh of cross-linked fibrin protein. The substance making up a thrombus is sometimes called cruor. A thrombus is a healthy response to injury intended to prevent bleeding, but can be harmful in thrombosis, when clots obstruct blood flow through healthy blood vessels." } ]
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In the concept of collaborationism where the Independent State of Croatia was a puppet to Nazi Germany, what two categories can it be branched off into?
Servile or ideological.
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The chamfered tetrahedron and the chamfered cube are both what?
Convex polyhedrons
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L'Aquila, Ascoli Piceno and Friaul are all names of what?
Provinces
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In the place where the bailiwicks have been administered separately for a long time, what is Queen Elizabeth II called?
Queen Elizabeth II is known by tradition as Duke of Normandy.
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[ { "text": "A woman who holds in her own right the title to such duchy or dukedom, or is the wife of a duke, is normally styled duchess. Queen Elizabeth II, however, is known by tradition as Duke of Normandy in the Channel Islands and Duke of Lancaster in Lancashire ." }, { "text": "\"Channel Islands\" is a geographical term, not a political unit. The two bailiwicks have been administered separately since the late 13th century. Each has its own independent laws, elections, and representative bodies (although in modern times, politicians from the islands' legislatures are in regular contact). Any institution common to both is the exception rather than the rule." } ]
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In computing, what unit of execution or a unit of work also refers to a certain type of activity used in language instruction?
Task
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What could the six main groups of Christianity also be referred to as?
The branches of Christianity
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Islamic jurisprudence elaborates how what scripture that specifies the principle of Qisas (i.e. retaliation) should be interpreted?
Quran.
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Why is the form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths from 10 to 400 nm able to cause skin cancer?
This form of radiation can cause skin cancer because it goes through the skin and causes destruction to cells and sunburn.
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AGS-30 Atlant is what type of weapon, capable of launching munitions of which the XM1060 is an example?
A grenade launcher
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[ { "text": "The XM1060 is a 40 mm thermobaric grenade developed by Picatinny Arsenal. Training ammunition consisting of a steel body filled with orange signal chalk capped with a plastic ogive cap. Besides combat ammo there also exist crowd control ammunition like sponge grenades ." }, { "text": "The AGS-30 Atlant is a Russian-designed automatic grenade launcher currently in production in the Russian Federation and in service with the Russian armed forces . Designed on the basis of AGS-17, the AGS-30 provides better mobility, longer range and better accuracy during firing." } ]
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Central Criminal and High are both names of what?
Courts
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Nearly 223 of what kind affiliates own and operate stations under the name of the NBC Television Network?
privately-owned affiliates
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[ { "text": "This is a table listing of NBC's affiliates, with NBC-owned stations separated from privately-owned affiliates, and arranged in alphabetical order by city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their local programming, hosts and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies." }, { "text": "This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions. The NBC Television Network is an American television network made up of 12 owned-and-operated stations and nearly 223 affiliates." } ]
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Tetramethylindo (di)-carbocyanines were originally used for what?
To increase the sensitivity range of photographic emulsions
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[ { "text": "Cyanines, also referred to as tetramethylindo (di)-carbocyanines are defined as \"synthetic dyes with the general formula R2N [CH=CH]nCH=N+R2↔R2N+=CH [CH=CH]nNR2 (n is a small number) in which the nitrogen and part of the conjugated chain usually form part of a heterocyclic system, such as imidazole, pyridine, pyrrole, quinoline and thiazole.\"" }, { "text": "Cyanines were first synthesized over a century ago. They were originally used, and still are, to increase the sensitivity range of photographic emulsions, i.e., to increase the range of wavelengths which will form an image on the film, making the film panchromatic. Cyanines are also used in CD-R and DVD-R media." } ]
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High speed camera imaging of alkali metals exploding in water has suggested the explosion is a what, meaning an electric discharge occurs among the sodium ions, dispersing them energetically at the atomic level?
Coulomb explosion
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[ { "text": "This accounts for the intimate interface required for an explosion, but does not prove that the explosion is completely Coulombic (that an electric discharge occurs among the sodium ions, dispersing them energetically at the atomic level)." }, { "text": "High speed camera imaging of alkali metals exploding in water has suggested the explosion is a coulomb explosion." } ]
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The largest lake on the longest river in Ireland holds what rank in size among all of the lakes of Ireland?
Lough Derg, the largest lake on the Shannon, the longest river in Ireland, is the third-largest lake in Ireland overall.
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[ { "text": "The longest river in Ireland is the River Shannon, at 360.5 kilometres (224.0 mi). The river develops into three lakes along its course, Lough Allen, Lough Ree and Lough Derg. Of these, Lough Derg is the largest." }, { "text": "Lough Derg, historically Lough Dergart (Irish: Loch Deirgeirt),[1] is a freshwater lake in the Shannon River Basin, Ireland. It is the third-biggest on the island of Ireland (after Lough Neagh and Lough Corrib)." } ]
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Who wrote a victory letter called Zafarnama and had his father executed by Aurangzeb when he was nine years old?
Guru Gobind Singh.
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Where are you if the stars are circumpolar and Polaris appears to be directly above you?
north pole
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In broadcasting, what term, which is also a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and to prevent its reuse, refers to when a radio or television program is abruptly ended by orders of the network or syndicator that distributes the show?
Cancellation
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[ { "text": "A cancellation (or cancel for short; French: oblitération) is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and to prevent its reuse. Cancellations come in a huge variety of designs, shapes, sizes, and colors." }, { "text": "Not to be confused with Series finale. In broadcasting, cancellation refers to when a radio or television program is abruptly ended by orders of the network or syndicator that distributes the show." } ]
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What nonprofit international membership organization with over 500 member institutions in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries was founded at research consortium based at Yale?
The Human Relations Area Files, Inc
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[ { "text": "The Human Relations Area Files, Inc. ( HRAF ), located in New Haven, Connecticut is a nonprofit international membership organization with over 500 member institutions in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries." }, { "text": "On February 26, 1949, delegates from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Washington, and Yale University met in New Haven, Connecticut to pledge their membership in a new nonprofit research consortium to be based at Yale. The plan was to \"develop and distribute files of organized information related to human societies and cultures.\"[1] The name of the new inter-university corporation was the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF). It is an ever-growing catalogue of cross-indexed ethnographic data, sorted and filed by geographic location and cultural characteristics." } ]
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The term describing an atom that has excess nuclear energy and is sometimes confused with radionucleotide typically describes elements with what atomic numbers when used in radiopharmaceuticals?
Radionuclides used in radiopharmaceuticals mostly have atomic numbers less than bismuth.
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Baltimore and Hawkins were both classes of what style of ship?
Cruiser
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The term law enforcement encompasses courts, corrections and what, which a force of many also be referred to as a constabulary or gendarmerie?
Police
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