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The doctrine of breira and “pits in public thoroughfares” are both related to a type of law based on what?
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The Torah, as interpreted and supplemented by the Talmud.
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"text": "According to the doctrine of breira, subsequent decisions can under certain circumstances be retroactively applied to change or clarify the nature and Jewish-law consequences of prior events. English law has the same concept, known as \"relation back\"."
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"text": "In Jewish law this concept is known as “pits in public thoroughfares” and has wide-reaching tort implications. The Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools (AARTS) and the Association of Institutions of Jewish Studies (AIJS) are specifically recognized to accredit Talmudic degrees."
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"text": "Jewish law is based on the Torah, as interpreted and supplemented by the Talmud. The Babylonian Talmud in its final form dates from the Sassanian period and was the product of a number of colleges in Babylonia. The two principal colleges, Sura and Pumbedita, survived well into the Islamic period."
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When was the Delian League founded and in what year was its treasury moved from Delos to Athens?
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The Delian League, founded in 478 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, with the number of members numbering between 150 and 330 under the leadership of Athens. In 454 BC, the Athenian general Pericles moved the Delian League's treasury from Delos to Athens.
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"text": "The Delian League, founded in 478 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, with the number of members numbering between 150 and 330 under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece."
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"text": "In 454 BC, the Athenian general Pericles moved the Delian League's treasury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia. However, Plutarch indicates that many of Pericles's rivals viewed the transfer to Athens as usurping monetary resources to fund elaborate building projects. Athens also switched from accepting ships, men and weapons as dues from league members, to only accepting money."
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The California county whose highest point is Mount Shasta is located in which congressional district?
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Siskiyou County, the California county whose high point is Mount Shasta, is located in California's 1st congressional district.
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"text": "Siskiyou County is in California's 1st congressional district, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa. In the state legislature Siskiyou is in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican Brian Dahle, and the 1st Assembly District, represented by Republican Megan Dahle."
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"text": "Siskiyou County (/ˈsɪskjuː/ SIS-kew) is a county in the northernmost part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 44,900.[2] Its county seat is Yreka and its highest point is Mount Shasta.[4]"
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How does VEGF act through autocrine signaling on carcinoma cells?
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It secretes a hormone that binds to autocrine receptors, which leads to changes in the cell.
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"text": "VEGF, produced by carcinoma cells, acts through paracrine signaling on endothelial cells and through autocrine signaling on carcinoma cells. Evidence shows that autocrine VEGF is involved in two major aspects of invasive carcinoma: survival and migration."
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"text": "Autocrine signaling is a form of cell signaling in which a cell secretes a hormone or chemical messenger (called the autocrine agent) that binds to autocrine receptors on that same cell, leading to changes in the cell. This can be contrasted with paracrine signaling, intracrine signaling, or classical endocrine signaling."
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What type of terrain do the Namaqualand region daisies grow?
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They grow in hilly to mountainous terrain.
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"text": "The Namaqualand region in the west is famous for its Namaqualand daisies. The southern towns of De Aar and Colesberg found within the Great Karoo are major transport nodes between Johannesburg, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. Kuruman can be found in the north-east and is known as a mission station."
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"text": "The west coast is dominated by the Namaqualand region, famous for its spring flowers. This area is hilly to mountainous and consists of Granites and other metamorphic rocks. The central areas are generally flat with interspersed salt pans."
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What is Sodium citrate/sodium lauryl sulfoacetate/glycerol used for and what causes its laxative action?
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Sodium citrate/sodium lauryl sulfoacetate/glycerol sold under the brandname Microlax and Micolette Micro enema, among others, is a small tube of liquid gel that is used to treat constipation. Its laxative action is the result of osmotic imbalance that extracts bound water from stool and pulls it back into the large bowel.
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"text": "Sodium citrate saline is one of the most effective osmotic laxatives (secondary in action only to magnesium citrate ). Its laxative action is the result of osmotic imbalance that extracts bound water from stool and pulls it back into the large bowel."
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"text": "Sodium citrate/sodium lauryl sulfoacetate/glycerol sold under the brandname Microlax and Micolette Micro enema, among others, is a small tube of liquid gel that is used to treat constipation.[1]The main active ingredients are sodium lauryl sulfoacetate (0.90% w/v), sodium citrate (9.0% w/v) and glycerol"
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What shape is the valley that Kathmandu Durbar Square is in?
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Bowl-shaped
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"text": "Kathmandu ( / ˌkætmænˈduː /; Nepali: काठमाडौँ, Nepali pronunciation: [ˈkaʈʰmaɳɖu]) is the capital and largest city of Nepal, with a population of around 1 million. Also known as the city of temples, the city stands at an elevation of approximately 1,400 metres (4,600 feet) above sea level in the bowl-shaped Kathmandu Valley in central Nepal."
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"text": "Kathmandu Durbar Square ( Basantapur Durbar Kshetra) in front of the old royal palace of the former Kathmandu Kingdom is one of three Durbar (royal palace) Squares in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, all of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites ."
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Does Eucalyptus dielsii or Eucalyptus ignorabilis have flower buds in larger groups?
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Neither, they both have flower buds in groups of seven.
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"text": "Eucalyptus dielsii, commonly known as the cap-fruited mallee or cap-fruited mallet is a species of mallet that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, yellow to yellowish green flowers and cylindrical to hemispherical fruit with a flange near the rim."
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"text": "Eucalyptus ignorabilis is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to southeastern Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped to hemispherical fruit."
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It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million what, a word which was also a work adapted into a novel by Yvonne Navarro, of eukaryote globally?
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Species
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"text": "Species was adapted into a novel by Yvonne Navarro and two comic book series by Dark Horse Comics, one of which was written by Feldman. During the SETI program, Earth's scientists send out transmissions (shown to be the Arecibo message) with information about Earth and its inhabitants, DNA structure, etc., in hopes of finding life beyond Earth."
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"text": "It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million species of eukaryote globally, and possibly many times more if microorganisms, like bacteria, are included. Notable extinct animal species include non-avian dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, dodos, mammoths, ground sloths, thylacines, trilobites and golden toads ."
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How many years after the death of Margrave Otto the Rich did Frederick I's mother flee her husband?
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It happened 80 years after.
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"text": "Albert was the eldest son of Margrave Otto the Rich (1156–1190) with his consort Hedwig of Brandenburg, a daughter of the Ascanian margrave Albert the Bear. In 1186 in Ústí nad Labem he married the Přemyslid princess Sophia, a daughter of Duke Frederick of Bohemia ."
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"text": "Born in Eisenach, Frederick was the son of Albert II, Margrave of Meissen and Margaret of Sicily. According to legend, his mother, fleeing her philandering husband in 1270, was overcome by the pain of parting and bit Frederick on the cheek: therefore he became known as the Bitten ."
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What Tantras, which are related to the same religion that texts within the Schøyen collection and the Pāli Canon are, are a varied group of Indian and Tibetan texts which outline unique views and practices of a religion and its systems?
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Buddhist
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"text": "The Buddhist texts within the Schøyen collection include fragments of canonical Suttas, Abhidharma, Vinaya, and Mahāyāna texts. Most of these manuscripts are written in the Brahmi scripts, while a small portion is written in Gandhāri/ Kharoṣṭhī script."
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"text": "The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon."
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"text": "The Buddhist Tantras are a varied group of Indian and Tibetan texts which outline unique views and practices of the Buddhist tantra religious systems. The Garbhadhātu maṇḍala as used in Śubhakarasiṃha 's teachings from the Mahāvairocana Tantra. Vairocana is located in the center."
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The Marquisate of Bodonitsa was originally created as a vassal state of what short-lived Crusader State founded after the Fourth Crusade over conquered Byzantine lands in Macedonia and Thessaly?
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It was a vassal state of the Kingdom of Thessalonica .
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"text": "The Marquisate of Bodonitsa (1204–1414), like Salona, was originally created as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Thessalonica, but later came under the influence of Achaea. In 1335, the Venetian Giorgi family took control, and ruled until the Ottoman conquest in 1414."
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"text": "The Kingdom of Thessalonica (Greek: Βασίλειο της Θεσσαλονίκης, romanized: Vasílio tis Thessaloníkis) was a short-lived Crusader State founded after the Fourth Crusade over conquered Byzantine lands in Macedonia and Thessaly."
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What feature of the southern fracture zone, defined as plate boundaries, displaces the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
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Transform fault
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"text": "The transform fault of the southern fracture zone displaces the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, coming from the Azores Triple Junction, to the west over a distance of 120 km. At longitude 31.75W a south to north seismically active rift valley with a length of 40 km connects the western end of the southern transform to the eastern end of the northern transform."
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"text": "Fracture zones and the transform faults that form them are separate but related features. Transform faults are plate boundaries, meaning that on either side of the fault is a different plate."
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How many islands in the Buccaneer Archipelago are found between King Sound and Collier Bay?
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Around 800 islands.
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"text": "The Buccaneer Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of Western Australia near the town of Derby in the Kimberley region. The closest inhabited place is Bardi located about 54 kilometres (34 mi) from the western end of the island group."
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"text": "The archipelago, covering over 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi). is located at the head of King Sound and is composed of about 800 islands found between King Sound and Collier Bay near Yampi Sound."
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According to mythology, Izanagi created the first island of what culture whose mythology is a collection of traditional stories, folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the Japanese archipelago?
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Japan
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"text": "Japanese mythology is a collection of traditional stories, folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the Japanese archipelago. Shinto and Buddhist traditions are the cornerstones of Japanese mythology. The history of thousands of years of contact with China, Korea, Ainu, and Okinawan myths are also key influences in Japanese mythology."
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"text": "Historians have interpreted the myth of Izanagi's creation of the first Japanese Island Onogoro as an early example of phallocentrism in Japanese mythology. The earliest creation myths of Japanese mythology generally involve topics such as death, decay, loss, infanticide, and contamination."
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d5dd393a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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Schwarzenegger and Weathers were in a film in a franchise that has a monster that was designed by whom?
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Stan Winston designed the creature from predator.
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"text": "The main cast of Predator. Left to right: Ventura, Black, Schwarzenegger, Duke, Weathers, Landham, and Chaves. Peter Cullen supplies the Predator's voice, credited as providing vocals (noted as \"Vocalizations By\") in the staff roll. His name shows up much later than the rest of the cast."
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"text": "The Predator creature's design is credited to special effects artist Stan Winston. While flying to Japan with Aliens director James Cameron, Winston, who had been hired to design the Predator, was doing concept art on the flight."
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Would the city that Kranaos was king of or the city that Temenus was king of come first alphabetically?
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The city Temenus was king of would come first.
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"text": "According to a Greek myth, Caranus was the son of Temenus, king of Argos, who in turn was a Heraclid, a descendant of Heracles. Plutarch agrees on the Heraclid lineage of Caranus and argues that Alexander the Great is a descendant of Heracles through Caranus."
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"text": "In Greek mythology, Cranaus or Kranaos ( / ˈkræniəs /; Ancient Greek: Κραναός) was the second King of Athens, succeeding Cecrops I . Cranaus married Pedias, a Spartan woman and daughter of Mynes, with whom he had three daughters: Cranaë, Cranaechme, and Atthis."
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What usually refers to hydrons and is involved with the process of self-ionization of water?
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Hydrogen ions.
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"text": "The ions produced by the reaction of these cations with water, as well as their hydrates, are also called 'hydrogen ions'. In connection with acids, \"hydrogen ions\" usually refers to hydrons . Hydrogen anions are formed when additional electrons are acquired:"
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"text": "Water molecules split to form H + and hydroxide anions. This process is referred to as the self-ionization of water. The concentration of hydrogen ions and pH are inversely proportional; in an aqueous solution, an increased concentration of hydrogen ions yields a low pH, and subsequently, an acidic product."
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Kaizer Chiefs Football Club is a professional football club in what country that SANDF comprises the armed forces of?
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South Africa
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"text": "The South African National Defence Force ( SANDF) comprises the armed forces of South Africa. The commander of the SANDF is appointed by the President of South Africa from one of the armed services. They are in turn accountable to the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans of the Defence Department ."
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"text": "Kaizer Chiefs Football Club (often known as Chiefs) is a South African professional football club based in Naturena that plays in the Premier Soccer League. The team is nicknamed Amakhosi which means \"Lords\" or \"Chiefs\" in Zulu, the Phefeni Glamour Boys'."
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What is a French example of a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is sometimes retained on loanwords that used it in the original language?
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Crème brûlée.
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"text": "In English, the circumflex, like other diacritics, is sometimes retained on loanwords that used it in the original language (for example, crème brûlée ). A similar symbol, the caret ( ‸) is used below the baseline in proofreading to indicate insertion."
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"text": "The circumflex is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from Latin circumflexus \"bent around\"—a translation of the Greek περισπωμένη ( perispōménē )."
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What do the voiceless linguolabial fricative and phonetics both deal with?
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Sound.
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"text": "The voiceless linguolabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents it is ⟨ θ̼ ⟩ or ⟨ ɸ̺ ⟩."
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"text": "Traditionally, the minimal linguistic unit of phonetics is the phone —a speech sound in a language—which differs from the phonological unit of phoneme; the phoneme is an abstract categorization of phones. Phonetics broadly deals with two aspects of human speech: production—the ways humans make sounds—and perception—the way speech is understood."
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What did the man whose father was Abu Saleh and whose surname refers to his birthplace Gilan study in Baghdad?
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Abdul Qādir Gīlānī studied Hanbali law.
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"text": "Gilani ( Arabic al-Jilani) refers to his place of birth, Gilan. However, Gilani also carried the epithet Baghdadi, referring to his residence and burial in Baghdad. Gilani's father, Abu Saleh, was from a Sayyid lineage, tracing his descent from Hasan ibn Ali, a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad."
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"text": "Abdul Qādir Gīlānī spent his early life in Gilan, the province of his birth. In 1095, at the age of eighteen, he went to Baghdad. There, he pursued the study of Hanbali law under Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi and ibn Aqil."
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d5dd3ac00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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Cantor and the Smith are both types of what?
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Normal forms
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"text": "Cantor normal form provides a standardized way of writing ordinals. In addition to these usual ordinal operations, there are also the \"natural\" arithmetic of ordinals and the nimber operations . The union of two disjoint well-ordered sets S and T can be well-ordered."
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"text": "The Smith normal form of a matrix is diagonal, and can be obtained from the original matrix by multiplying on the left and right by invertible square matrices. In particular, the integers are a PID, so one can always calculate the Smith normal form of an integer matrix."
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The route E 80 and the route E39 are both found in what continent?
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Europe.
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"text": "European route E 80, also known as Trans-European Motorway or TEM, is an A-Class West - East European route, extending from Lisbon, Portugal to Gürbulak, Turkey, on the border with Iran. The road connects 10 countries and has a length of approximately 6,102 kilometres (3,792 mi)."
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"text": "European route E39 is the designation of a 1,330-kilometre-long (830 mi) north–south road in Norway and Denmark, running from Klett just south of Trondheim to Aalborg, via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand. In total there are nine ferries, the highest number of ferries for a single road in Europe. In Trondheim, there are connections to E6 and E14."
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What are isoptera, Teticulitermes banyulensis, and serritermitidaes?
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All are Termites
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"text": "A new subfamily, genus and species of termite (Isoptera) from New Jersey Cretaceous amber. In D. Grimaldi (ed.) Studies on fossils in amber, with particular reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden."
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"text": "Reticulitermes banyulensis is a species of termite of the family Rhinotermitidae found in the Roussillon region in France. ^ \"SPECIES Reticulitermes banyulensis\"."
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"text": "Serritermitidae is a family of termites belonging to the infraorder Isoptera in the order Blattodea. The family includes only a few species, which live in South America."
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What are associated with one of the living creatures, usually shown with wings and are found on the Romanesque tympanum of the Church of St. Trophime in Arles?
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Four Evangelists.
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"text": "The four winged creatures that symbolise the Four Evangelists surround Christ in Majesty on the Romanesque tympanum of the Church of St. Trophime in Arles. The lion symbol of St. Mark from the Echternach Gospels, here without wings. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris."
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"text": "Each of the four Evangelists is associated with one of the living creatures, usually shown with wings. The most common association, but not the original or only, is: Matthew the man, Mark the lion, Luke the ox, and John the eagle."
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d5dd3bec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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In terms of number of species, what are the three largest orders in the class of animals characterized by the presence of mammary glands that females use to feed their young?
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Rodentia, Chiroptera, and Soricomorpha are the largest orders in the class Mammalia.
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"text": "Most mammals, including the six most species-rich orders, belong to the placental group. The three largest orders in numbers of species are Rodentia: mice, rats, porcupines, beavers, capybaras, and other gnawing mammals; Chiroptera: bats; and Soricomorpha: shrews, moles, and solenodons."
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"text": "Mammals (from Latin mamma, 'breast') are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia, and characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or hair, and three middle ear bones. These characteristics distinguish them from reptiles and birds, from which they diverged in the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago."
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Uroš I and Vukan both had what title?
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Grand Prince
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"text": "Uroš I ( Serbian Cyrillic: Урош I, Greek: Ούρεσις) was the Grand Prince ( Veliki Župan) of the Grand Principality of Serbia from about 1112 to 1145."
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"text": "Uroš I was the son of Marko, who was a son of Petrislav Vojislavljević and brother of Grand Prince Vukan, who had sworn an oath of loyalty to Constantine Bodin, the Grand Prince of Duklja, becoming his vassals. Marko, as the subordinate ruler, would have had his appanage in lands north of Raška, bordering the Kingdom of Hungary."
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Are Argentinian blue and angel blue both a light or dark shade of blue?
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Both are light.
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"text": "The traditional color called royal blue is a dark shade of azure. The web color light blue is part of the X11 color system, with a hue code of 194. This color is closer to cyan than to blue. Variations of this color are known as sky blue, baby blue, or angel blue."
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"text": "The web color medium blue is a shade of the standard (h = 240°) blue. The web color Argentinian blue is a light azure color seen on the national flag of Argentina . Ruddy blue represents the coloring of the beak of the ruddy duck. It is a light shade of azure."
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The ghaukum and the Carpobrotus edulis are both a part of what family?
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Aizoaceae.
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"text": "Carpobrotus edulis is a creeping, mat-forming succulent species and member of the fig-marigold family, Aizoaceae, one of about 30 species in the genus Carpobrotus . C. edulis is easily confused with its close relatives, including the more diminutive and less aggressive Carpobrotus chilensis (sea fig), with which it hybridizes readily."
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"text": "Carpobrotus deliciosus (commonly known as sweet Hottentots fig, perdevy, ghaukum, ghounavy) is a succulent perennial of the family Aizoaceae, native to a strip along the south coast of South Africa ."
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Agaram is a temple in what religion that Nachana is a temple style of?
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Hindu
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"text": "The Nachana temple is one of the prototypal Hindu temple styles that has survived from ancient India. It includes the cubical sanctum, narrates spiritual legends with carvings of divine legends and secular themes in a certain sequence both outside and inside the temple."
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"text": "This is a list of major Hindu temples in India, by state . There are more than 33,000 ancient temples in Tamil Nadu. Shri. Sundararaja Perumal Temple, Agaram, Perambur, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in India. Shri. Venugopalaswamy Temple, Bunder Garden, in Perambur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in India."
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What was the first purposefully built civil airliner created by the company that made the W.8d Hyperabad heavy bomber?
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The W.8, also know as the H.P.18
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"text": "The Handley Page W.8, W.9 and W.10 were British two- and three-engine medium-range biplane airliners designed and built by Handley Page . The W.8 (also known as the H.P.18) was the company's first purpose-built civil airliner although it was a development of the wartime Handley Page Type O /400 bomber via the O/7, O/10 and O/11 transports."
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"text": "The W.8d was the initial designation for the Handley Page Hyderabad heavy bomber. To reduce the risks involved with engine failure, the W.8e was developed with one 360 hp (270 kW) Rolls-Royce Eagle IX in the nose and two 240 hp (180 kW) Siddeley Pumas in the normal position."
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What is the plateau region located in the Eastern United States that gets it's name for the Italian word meaning foothill?
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The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the Eastern United States.
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"text": "Most of the hills in the Piedmont region are smaller than these. The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the Eastern United States. It is situated between the Atlantic coastal plain and the main Appalachian Mountains, stretching from New York in the north to central Alabama in the south."
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"text": "The name \"Piedmont\" comes from the Italian: Piemonte, meaning \"foothill\".[3] Ultimately from Latin \"pedemontium\", meaning \"at the foot of the mountains\", similar to the name of the Italian region of Piedmont (Piemonte), abutting the Alps."
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The Southwest Mountains and the peaks of the Blue Ridge both belong to which U.S. state?
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Virginia.
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"text": "The Southwest Mountains are not particularly large. They are one of the easternmost ranges in Virginia (along with the geologically associated Bull Run Mountains and Catoctin Mountain) and the viewshed for the Blue Ridge Mountains through Nelson and Albemarle Counties."
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"text": "This is a list of mountains in the U.S. state of Virginia . This list is arranged by mountain ranges. This list of peaks of the Blue Ridge in Virginia is listed starting from north to south. / 38.9191; -77.9834 ( Naked Mountain) / 38.8680; -77.9448 ( Little Cobbler Mountain (North Cobbler Mountain))"
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To which continent do Bidasoa and Navia belong?
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Europe
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"text": "/ 43.37278°N 1.79194°W / 43.37278; -1.79194 ( Atlantic Ocean-Adour) The Bidasoa ( Basque: [bidasoa], Spanish: [biðaˈsoa]; French: Bidassoa, pronounced [bidasɔa]) is a river in the Basque Country of northern Spain and southern France that runs largely south to north."
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"text": "The Navia is a river in northern Spain flowing South to North from Galicia into the Autonomous Community of Asturias. It discharges into the Bay of Biscay through an estuary called Ría de Navia . This article about a location in the Principality of Asturias, Spain, is a stub."
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What kind of method in a guitar can have its chords and intervals moved diagonally, and have each interval between consecutive open strings in a perfect fifth?
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Guitar tuning.
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"text": "In all guitar tunings, the higher-octave version of a chord can be found by translating a chord by twelve frets higher along the fretboard. In every regular tuning, for example in all-fourths tuning, chords and intervals can be moved also diagonally."
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"text": "Among guitar tunings, all-fifths tuning refers to the set of tunings in which each interval between consecutive open strings is a perfect fifth. All-fifths tuning is also called fifths, perfect fifths, or mandoguitar."
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What type of chemical defense does The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center provide R and D for?
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They provide R and D for chemical warfare.
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"text": "A chemical used in warfare is called a chemical warfare agent ( CWA ). About 70 different chemicals have been used or stockpiled as chemical warfare agents during the 20th and 21st centuries. These agents may be in liquid, gas or solid form. Liquid agents that evaporate quickly are said to be volatile or have a high vapor pressure."
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"text": "The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) is the United States’s principal research and development resource for non-medical chemical and biological (CB) defense."
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State Route 305 ( SR 305) is a 13.50-mile-long state highway in what US state whose capital is Olympia?
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It's in Washington state.
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"text": "SR 305 is highlighted in red. State Route 305 ( SR 305) is a 13.50-mile-long (21.73 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington, primarily serving Bainbridge Island in Kitsap County and connecting it to Seattle in King County via the Seattle–Bainbridge Ferry."
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"text": "Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington, the first U.S. president, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by the British Empire in 1846, in accordance with the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. Olympia is the state capital; the state's largest city is Seattle. Washington is often referred to as Washington state to distinguish it from the nation's capital, Washington, D.C."
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The Grave by Robert Blair and "Do not stand at my grave and weep" by Mary Elizabeth Frye are both works of what?
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Poetry.
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"text": "Jump to navigationJump to search \"Do not stand at my grave and weep\" is the first line and popular title of a bereavement poem widely attributed to Mary Elizabeth Frye."
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"text": "The Grave is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned."
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What mountain has the Altyn-Tagh as one of its chief northern ranges and the southern branch Bayan Har Mountains?
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Kunlun Mountains.
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"text": "Bayan Har Mountains, a southern branch of the Kunlun Mountains, forms the watershed between the catchment basins of China 's two longest rivers, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River . The highest mountain of the Kunlun Shan is the Kunlun Goddess (7,167 m) in the Keriya area in western Kunlun Shan."
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"text": "A number of important rivers flow from the range including the Karakash River ('Black Jade River') and the Yurungkash River ('White Jade River'), which flow through the Khotan Oasis into the Taklamakan Desert . Altyn-Tagh or Altun Range is one of the chief northern ranges of the Kunlun."
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Of the creatures whose name is derived from a Latin word meaning blind, members of which family are the largest?
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Typhlonectidae
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"text": "In water or very loose mud, caecilians instead swim in an eel-like fashion. Caecilians in the family Typhlonectidae are aquatic, and the largest of their kind. The representatives of this family have a fleshy fin running along the rear section of their bodies, which enhances propulsion in water."
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"text": "The name Caecilian derives from the Latin word caecus = blind, referring to the small or sometimes non-existing eyes. The name dates back to the taxonomic name of the first species described by Carolus Linnaeus, which he gave the name Caecilia tentaculata."
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Which religious tradition generated the deity depicted atop the corners of Prague's National Theatre's roof?
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Roman, given that the winged goddess Victoria is depicted and Victoria is the Roman goddess of victory.
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"text": "There are two triga sculptures installed on the roof corners of the National Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic. The horses are controlled by the winged goddess Victoria."
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"text": "The gate was the first element of a \"new Athens on the River Spree\" by architect Langhans. Atop the gate is a sculpture by Johann Gottfried Schadow of a quadriga - a chariot drawn by four horses - driven by Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory. The Brandenburg Gate has played different political roles in German history."
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What are Majdal Shams and the Harrat Ash Shamah known for?
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Volcanoes.
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"text": "Geologically, the Golan plateau and the Hauran plain to the east constitute a Holocene volcanic field that also extends northeast almost to Damascus. Much of the area is scattered with dormant volcanos, as well as cinder cones, such as Majdal Shams."
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"text": "The Saudi Arabian portion of the Harrat Ash Shamah volcanic field extends across a 210 km (130 mi)-long, roughly 75 km (47 mi)-wide NW-SE-trending area on the NE flanks of the Sirhan Valley and reaches its 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) high point at Jabal Al-Amud."
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The Exotic Shorthair and the purebred long-haired Siamese are both names for breeds of what animal?
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Cats.
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"text": "The Balinese is a long-haired breed of domestic cat with Siamese -style point coloration and sapphire-blue eyes. The Balinese is also known as the purebred long-haired Siamese, since it originated as a natural mutation of that breed and hence is essentially the same cat with a medium-length silky coat and a distinctively plumed tail."
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"text": "The Exotic Shorthair and Himalayan cats are often classified as coat variants of this breed. The Persian cat is a long-haired breed of cat characterized by its round face and short muzzle. It is also known as the \"Persian Longhair\" in the English-speaking countries."
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The Pythia was the name of the high priestess at what temple devoted to the god of music, harmony, light, healing and oracles?
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Pythia was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
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"text": "For other uses, see Pythia (disambiguation). The Pythia ( / ˈpɪθiə /; Ancient Greek: Πυθία [pyːˈtʰi.aː]) was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi who also served as its oracle, also known as the Oracle of Delphi . The name Pythia is derived from Pytho, which in myth was the original name of Delphi."
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"text": "The Temple of Apollo, god of music, harmony, light, healing, and oracles occupied the most important and prominent position in the Delphic Panhellenic Sanctuary. The edifice with the partially restored colonnade visible today dates to the 4th century BC; it is the third temple built at the same place."
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What device based on steam reforming, autothermal reforming or partial oxidation is within the same category as the unit in an oil refinery that changes hydrocarbons into higher octane molecules?
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A methane reformer.
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"text": "Catalytic reformer, a unit in an oil refinery that reforms lighter hydrocarbons into higher octane molecules and hydrogen Steam reformer a unit for converting natural gas into hydrogen and carbon monoxide Hydrogen reformer, a device that extracts hydrogen from other fuels, typically methanol or gasoline"
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"text": "A methane reformer is a device based on steam reforming, autothermal reforming or partial oxidation and is a type of chemical synthesis which can produce pure hydrogen gas from methane using a catalyst."
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What byproduct of slaughtering is sometimes used as a flavoring in hot and sour soup?
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Pork blood is sometimes used as a flavoring in hot and sour soup.
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"text": "The Chinese hot and sour soup is usually meat-based, and often contains ingredients such as day lily buds, wood ear fungus, bamboo shoots, and tofu, in a broth that is sometimes flavored with pork blood. Sometimes, the soup would also have carrots and pieces of pork."
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"text": "Blood is the most important byproduct of slaughtering. It consists predominantly of protein and water, and is sometimes called liquid meat because its composition is similar to that of lean meat. Blood collected hygienically can be used for human consumption, otherwise it is converted to blood meal. Special fractions of animal blood are used in human medicine."
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Found in tree bark, maltol is used to impart a sweet aroma to fragrances due to its odor of caramel and what?
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Cotton candy
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"text": "It is a white crystalline powder that is soluble in hot water, chloroform, and other polar solvents. Because it has the odor of cotton candy and caramel, maltol is used to impart a sweet aroma to fragrances."
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"text": "Maltol is a naturally occurring organic compound that is used primarily as a flavor enhancer. It is found in the bark of larch tree, in pine needles, and in roasted malt (from which it gets its name)."
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In the only country where Twelverism is the state religion, who is the divinely appointed authority on all matters of faith and law?
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The Imam of the Age.
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"text": "The Imamat, or belief in the divine guide, is a fundamental belief in Shia Islam and is based on the concept that God would not leave humanity without access to divine guidance. According to the Twelvers, an Imam of the Age is always the divinely appointed authority on all matters of faith and law."
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"text": "Iran is the only country where Twelverism is the state religion. Twelvers share many tenets with other Shia sects, such as the belief in Imams, but the Ismaili Shias believe in a different number of Imams and, for the most part, a different path of succession regarding the Imamate. They also differ in the role and overall definition of an Imam."
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What national flower of Indonesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants?
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Rafflesia
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"text": "Rafflesia is the national flower of Indonesia. The plant has no stems, leaves or roots. It is a holoparasite of vines in the genus Tetrastigma (a plant in the Vitaceae, the grape vine family), spreading its absorptive organ, the haustorium, inside the tissue of the vine."
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"text": "Rafflesia ( / rəˈfliːz ( i) ə, - ˈfliːʒ ( i) ə, ræ -/) is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower stems of their host plants; one species has the largest flowers in the world."
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All what, also called armed service, of the United States armed forces – the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force have fielded special operations units?
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Branches
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"text": "Most units were created to fulfil categorical obligations within a particular conflict, and were disbanded once that conflict ended. All branches of the United States armed forces – the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force have fielded special operations units. For subsisting special operations units, see United States Special Operations Forces ."
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"text": "Military branch (also service branch or armed service) is according to common standard the subdivision of the national armed forces of a sovereign nation or state. Conducts aerial warfare. Conducts land warfare."
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What is a diverging diamond interchange ( DDI ), and what is its usefulness?
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A diverging diamond interchange ( DDI ), also called a double crossover diamond interchange ( DCD ), is a type of diamond interchange in which the two directions of traffic on the non- freeway road cross to the opposite side on both sides of the bridge at the freeway. Like the continuous flow intersection, the diverging diamond interchange allows for two-phase operation at all signalized intersections within the interchange.
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"text": "A diverging diamond interchange ( DDI ), also called a double crossover diamond interchange ( DCD ), is a type of diamond interchange in which the two directions of traffic on the non- freeway road cross to the opposite side on both sides of the bridge at the freeway."
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"text": "Like the continuous flow intersection, the diverging diamond interchange allows for two-phase operation at all signalized intersections within the interchange. This is a significant improvement in safety, since no long turns (e.g. left turns where traffic drives on the right side of the road) must clear opposing traffic and all movements are discrete, with most controlled by traffic signals.[3] Its at-grade variant can be seen as a two-leg continuous flow intersection."
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Who founded the line Adolph V, Count of Holstein-Segeberg was part of?
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John I
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"text": "Adolph V, Count of Holstein-Segeberg ( c. 1252 – 1308) was the ruling count of Holstein-Kiel from 1263 to 1273 and of Holstein-Segeberg from 1273 until his death. He was the elder of the two sons of Count John I of Holstein-Kiel and Elizabeth of Saxe-Wittenberg ."
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"text": "In 1261 they divided the county, John taking Kiel and founding the line of Holstein-Kiel, and Gerhard taking Itzehoe and founding the Holstein-Itzehoe line. In 1300 Holstein-Itzehoe was further divided into Holstein-Plön, Holstein-Pinneberg and Holstein-Rendsburg . In 1350 the County of Holstein-Plön fell to the counts of Holstein-Kiel."
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What Macedonian woman who gave birth to a future general had at least five cities named after her?
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Laodice of Macedonia gave birth to Seleucus I Nicator and had at least five cities named after her
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"text": "Antiochus married a Macedonian woman called Laodice and in about 358 BC Laodice bore Antiochus a son Seleucus I Nicator, who became a general of Alexander the Great and later founded and became the first king of the Seleucid Empire; she also bore him a daughter, Didymeia."
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"text": "She was the mother of Seleucus, the founder of the Seleucid Empire and Seleucus' sister Didymeia. It was pretended, in consequence of a dream which she had, that Apollo was the real father of her child. No less than five cities were founded by Seleucus in different parts of his dominions, which bore in her honour the name of Laodicea."
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The Baltic Sea is an arm of what ocean that is connected to the Irish sea by a channel?
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The Atlantic Ocean
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"text": "The channel connects the Irish Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, and is part of the marine area officially classified as the \" Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland \" by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)."
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"text": "The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Poland, Russia and the North and Central European Plain . The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude."
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The majority of the ocean that is deeper than any other is in which hemisphere of the Earth?
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The majority of the Pacific ocean is in the water hemisphere.
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"text": "Antarctica provides the Water Hemisphere with the majority of Earth's ice . Most of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and the whole Southern Ocean, are in the water hemisphere. Proportionately, the water hemisphere is approximately 89 percent water (almost all pertaining to the World Ocean ), 6 percent dry land and 5 percent polar ice cap."
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"text": "The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east"
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If an IEEE 754 quad precision number is converted to a decimal string with at least 36 significant digits, and then converted back to quadruple-precision representation, the final result must match what?
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The original number
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"text": "In computing, quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating point –based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision at least twice the 53-bit double precision ."
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"text": "If an IEEE 754 quadruple-precision number is converted to a decimal string with at least 36 significant digits, and then converted back to quadruple-precision representation, the final result must match the original number. The format is written with an implicit lead bit with value 1 unless the exponent is stored with all zeros."
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Who originally inspired the type of hat that T.C. wears in Top Cat?
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Buster Keaton.
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"text": "Top Cat (or simply T.C.) is the yellow-furred, charismatic, and clever main character of the series. He wears a mauve pork pie hat and a matching waistcoat. He often rips off and/or tricks minor characters, Officer Dibble, and even his own gang. He does respect the effort the gang does for him, but he often takes credit for it and he's very wise."
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"text": "The pork pie began to appear in Britain as a man's hat not long after the turn of the century in the fashion style of the man-about-town. Silent film actor Buster Keaton[3] desired to come up with a signature style of hat, and regarded the straw boater worn by top rival Harold Lloyd as too fragile for the kind of comedy he did."
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Can both Coenobita crabs and coconut crabs breath out of the water by storing water in their shells?
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Both Coenobita and coconut crabs can breath out of water but coconut crabs have branchiostegal lungs for breathing rather than storing water like Coenobita crabs.
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"text": "The genus Coenobita contains 17 species of terrestrial hermit crabs. Coenobita species carry water in the gastropod shells they inhabit, allowing them to stay out of water for a long time."
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"text": "Coconut crabs have organs known as branchiostegal lungs, which are used for breathing, instead of their vestigial gills, and after the juvenile stage they will drown if immersed in water for too long."
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The Lagrangian approach deals with what type of force that appears to act on a mass whose motion is described using a non-inertial frame of reference?
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Fictitious
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"text": "A fictitious force (also called a pseudo force, d'Alembert force, or inertial force) is a force that appears to act on a mass whose motion is described using a non-inertial frame of reference, such as an accelerating or rotating reference frame."
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"text": "The Lagrangian approach to fictitious forces is introduced. Unlike real forces such as electromagnetic forces, fictitious forces do not originate from physical interactions between objects."
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Would more people be involved in one unit of Syneisaktism or a syndicat?
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More people would be involved in a syndicat.
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"text": "Syneisaktism is the practice of \"spiritual marriage\", which is where a man and a woman who have both taken vows of chastity live together in a chaste and non-legalized partnership."
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"text": "In French, a syndicat is a trade union, usually a local union. The corresponding words in Spanish and Portuguese, sindicato, and Italian, sindacato, are similar. By extension, the French syndicalisme refers to trade unionism in general."
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What modern-day territory was the Battle of Gaugamela fought in?
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The area today would be considered modern-day northern Iraq.
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"text": "The Battle of Gaugamela ( / ˌɡɔːɡəˈmiːlə /; Greek: Γαυγάμηλα ), also called the Battle of Arbela ( Greek: Ἄρβηλα ), was a battle that took place in 311 BC between Alexander the Great 's Army of Macedon and the Persian army of King Darius III. This battle is considered a decisive battle between Alexander's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire."
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"text": "The fighting took place in Gaugamela, which literally meant \"The Camel's House\", a village on the banks of the river Bumodus. The area today would be considered modern-day northern Iraq. Alexander's army was heavily outnumbered and modern historians say that \"the odds were enough to give the most experienced veteran pause\".[9] Despite the overwhelming odds, Alexander's army emerged victorious due to the employment of superior tactics and the clever usage of light infantry forces. It was a decisive victory for the League of Corinth, and it led to the fall of Achaemenid Empire and of Darius III."
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Wind, string and jazz are all part of what type of ensembles?
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Music.
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"text": "A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instruments, such as the jazz quartet or the orchestra."
},
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"text": "In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families (such as piano, strings, and wind instruments) or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles (e.g., string quartet) or wind ensembles (e.g., wind quintet )."
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What major range of volcanoes in southwestern British Columbia comes from the subduction of an oceanic tectonic plate under another tectonic plate?
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The Cascade Volcanic Arc.
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"text": "Generally, volcanic arcs result from the subduction of an oceanic tectonic plate under another tectonic plate, and often parallel an oceanic trench. The oceanic plate is saturated with water, and volatiles such as water drastically lower the melting point of the mantle."
},
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"text": "The Cascade Volcanic Arc (also known as the Cascade volcanoes or the Cascade Arc) is a major range of volcanoes in southwestern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and in northern California. The arc is central to the Cascade Range, a mountain range in the Pacific Northwest."
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How many M777 howitzers are currently in use by the Light Dragoons?
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The Light Dragoons don't currently use the M777 howitzer. Other nations utilize the weapon.
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"text": "The M777 howitzer is a towed 155 mm artillery piece. It is used by the ground forces of Australia, Canada, India, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. It made its combat debut in the War in Afghanistan. The M777 is manufactured by BAE Systems ' Global Combat Systems division."
},
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"text": "The Light Dragoons (LD) is a cavalry regiment in the British Army. The regiment has a light cavalry role and specialises in mounted and dismounted reconnaissance. This is a role which the regiment has performed since it was formed. It is currently based in Catterick Garrison North Yorkshire."
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How old would Radbot of Klettgau have been when he married Ida?
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He would have been 25 years old.
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"text": "Radbot was probably the second son of Lanzelin of Klettgau (son of Guntram, Count in Breisgau) and the younger brother of Bishop Werner I of Strasbourg. In 1010, he married Ida (before 979–1035), daughter of Duke Frederick I of Upper Lorraine and Beatrice of France."
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"text": "Radbot, Count of Klettgau (c. 985 – 1045), also known as Radbot of Klettgau, was Graf (Count) of the county of Klettgau on the High Rhine in Swabia. Radbot was one of the progenitors of the Habsburg dynasty, and he chose to name his fortress Habsburg."
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Henan and the place that Changsha is the capital of are both what?
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Provinces
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"text": "Changsha is the capital and most populous city of Hunan Province in the south central part of the People's Republic of China. It covers 11,819 km 2 (4,563 sq mi) and is bordered by Yueyang and Yiyang to the north, Loudi to the west, Xiangtan and Zhuzhou to the south, Yichun and Pingxiang of Jiangxi province to the east."
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"text": "Not to be confused with Henan Province. Hunan ( 湖南) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region."
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The ACE is an example of what type of tests that are assessments of the cognitive capabilities of humans and other animals?
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Cognitive
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"text": "The ACE encompassed tests of five cognitive domains: attention/orientation, memory, language, verbal fluency, and visuospatial skills. It is scored out of 100, with a higher score denoting better cognitive function."
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"text": "Cognitive tests are assessments of the cognitive capabilities of humans and other animals. Tests administered to humans include various forms of IQ tests; those administered to animals include the mirror test (a test of visual self-awareness) and the T maze test (which tests learning ability)."
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How widespread in the world is the usage of the strong hissing sound and the postalveolar stops?
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They are one of the most common sounds in the world and used in almost all spoken languages.
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"text": "The voiceless alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar plosives is ⟨ t ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is t."
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"text": "The voiceless alveolar sibilant [s] has a strong hissing sound, as the s in English sin. It is one of the most common sounds in the world. The voiceless denti-alveolar sibilant [s̄] (an ad hoc notation), also called apico-dental, has a weaker lisping sound like English th in thin."
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The AGM-114 Hellfire is what kind of missile designed to be launched from military aircraft at targets on land or sea?
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An air-to-surface missile
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"text": "Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. An air-to-surface missile ( ASM) or air-to-ground missile ( AGM) is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft at targets on land or sea. There are also unpowered guided glide bombs not considered missiles."
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"text": "The AGM-114 Hellfire ( AGM stands for air-to-ground missile) is an air-to-surface missile (ASM) first developed for anti-armor use, but later models were developed for precision drone strikes against other target types, and have been used in a number of actions aimed to \"destroy high-value targets .\""
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The ability to measure what type of abnormal hemoglobin that has four gamma globins is useful in newborn screening tests?
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Hemoglobin Barts
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"text": "The ability to measure hemoglobin Barts makes it useful in newborn screening tests."
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"text": "Hemoglobin Barts, abbreviated Hb Barts, is an abnormal type of hemoglobin that consists of four gamma globins. It is moderately insoluble, and therefore accumulates in the red blood cells. Hb Barts has an extremely high affinity for oxygen, so it cannot release oxygen to the tissue. Therefore, this makes it an inefficient oxygen carrier."
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What is the status of the house sparrow a small bird which is typically 16 cm long, on the IUCN Red List?
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Least concern
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"text": "The house sparrow ( Passer domesticus) and also known as the common bird or the common sparrow is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. It is a small bird that has a typical length of 16 cm (6.3 in) and a mass of 24–39.5 g (0.85–1.39 oz)."
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"text": "Because of its numbers, ubiquity, and association with human settlements, the house sparrow is culturally prominent. It is extensively, and usually unsuccessfully, persecuted as an agricultural pest. It has also often been kept as a pet, as well as being a food item and a symbol of lust, sexual potency, commonness, and vulgarity. Though it is widespread and abundant, its numbers have declined in some areas. The animal's conservation status is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List."
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Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle, and Sabrina Spellman are all characters of what company's publication in a media format that would be published in a periodical in the UK?
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Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
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"text": "Archie Comic Publications, Inc., is an American comic book publisher headquartered in Pelham, New York. The company's many titles feature the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle, Sabrina Spellman, and Josie and the Pussycats ."
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"text": "A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips. It is generally referred to as a comic or a comic magazine, and historically as a comic paper ."
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What is one of the only kinds of bee that can sting, that contains an abundance of various methyl and ethyl fatty acid esters in their pheromones?
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A queen bee.
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"text": "The queen also contains an abundance of various methyl and ethyl fatty acid esters, very similar to the brood recognition pheromone described above. They are likely to have pheromonal functions like those found for the brood recognition pheromone."
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"text": "The alarm pheromone emitted when a bee stings another animal smells like a banana. Drone bees, the males, are larger and do not have stingers. The female bees ( worker bees and queens) are the only ones that can sting, and their stinger is a modified ovipositor."
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Merchants from the capital of what region shipped coffee beans on their own vessels during the Berbera trading season?
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Sahil region
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"text": "Mocha was very dependent on imported coffee beans from present-day Ethiopia, which was exported by Somali merchants from Berbera across the Gulf of Aden. The Berbera merchants procured most of the coffee from the environs of Harar and shipped them off in their own vessels during the Berbera trading season."
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"text": "Berbera (burr-burr-AH; Somali: Barbara, Arabic: بربرة) is the capital of the Sahil region of Somaliland and is the main sea port of the country. Berbera is a coastal city and was the former capital of the British Somaliland protectorate before Hargeisa. It also served as a major port of the Ifat and Adal Sultanates from the 13th to 16th centuries.[3][4]"
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What is Tin(IV) iodide and what are some of its chemical properties?
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Tin (IV) iodide, also known as stannic iodide and tin tetraiodide, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is SnI 4. It reacts with water to make hydriodic acid and tin(IV) oxide. It dissolves in organic solvents. It reacts with hydriodic acid to make the SnI62- ion.
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"text": "Tin (IV) iodide, also known as stannic iodide and tin tetraiodide, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is SnI 4. It contains tin and iodide ions. The tin is in its +4 oxidation state ."
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"text": "Tin(IV) iodide is a red-orange solid. It reacts with water to make hydriodic acid and tin(IV) oxide. It dissolves in organic solvents. It reacts with hydriodic acid to make the SnI62- ion."
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In mathematics, the category Ab has the commutative groups as objects and group homomorphisms as what?
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Morphisms
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"text": "For the group described by the archaic use of the related term \"Abelian linear group\", see Symplectic group. In mathematics, an abelian group, also called a commutative group, is a group in which the result of applying the group operation to two group elements does not depend on the order in which they are written."
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"text": "In mathematics, the category Ab has the abelian groups as objects and group homomorphisms as morphisms. This is the prototype of an abelian category: indeed, every small abelian category can be embedded in Ab. The zero object of Ab is the trivial group {0} which consists only of its neutral element ."
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How do other rodent species in the same family and tribe as the Petaurista philippensis move from tree to tree?
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The tribe of flying squirrels in the Sciuridae family glide from tree to tree using a flap of skin that connects their front and hind legs.
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"text": "The Indian giant flying squirrel ( Petaurista philippensis ), also called the large brown flying squirrel or the common giant flying squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is capable of gliding flight using a skin membrane stretched between front and hind legs."
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"text": "Flying squirrels are a tribe of 44 species in the squirrel family Sciuridae. Despite the name, none use powered flight: all are gliders. They are sociable, noisy rodents that glide from tree to tree, using a flap of loose skin that connects their front and hind legs."
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A professional ice hockey team based in New York City shares a name with a football club who is second only to what team in trophies won?
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Al Ahly
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"text": "The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the East Division. The team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden in the borough of Manhattan, an arena they share with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA)."
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"text": "The club has played in royal blue shirts for the entirety of its history. Rangers is the second-most successful club in world football in terms of trophies won, second only to Egyptian club Al Ahly."
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The northeastern section of the city whose part on the east bank of the Mississippi River is divided by East Hennepin Avenue into northeast and southeast has traditionally been populated by what immigrants of what descent?
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Lebanese, Polish, Finnish, German, Slovak, Russian, and Ukrainian
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"text": "The part of Minneapolis on the east bank of the Mississippi River is divided by East Hennepin Avenue into Northeast and Southeast, approximately aligned with the communities of Northeast and University, respectively. The entire area south of downtown is widely referred to as South Minneapolis."
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"text": "Northeast Minneapolis has been a traditionally working class area populated by immigrants of Lebanese, Polish, Finnish, German, Slovak, Russian, and Ukrainian descent who were drawn into the area first by employment opportunities that the grain mills and sawmills along the river offered, and later by rail and factory jobs across the city."
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Eurasian nomads and the Scythian cultures both occupied which geographic area?
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The Eurasian Steppe.
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"text": "The Eurasian nomads were a large group of nomadic peoples from the Eurasian Steppe, who often appear in history as invaders of Europe from Western Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, and Southern Asia. A nomad is a member of people having no permanent abode, who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock."
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"text": "The Scythian cultures emerged on the Eurasian Steppe at the dawn of the Iron Age in the early 1st millennium BC. The origins of the Scythian cultures has long been a source of debate among archaeologists."
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Who was a Roman governor and what were some of his duties?
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A Roman governor was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of Roman law throughout one or more of the many provinces constituting the Roman Empire. The governor was the province's chief judge. The governor had the sole right to impose capital punishment, and capital cases were normally tried before him.
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"text": "A Roman governor was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of Roman law throughout one or more of the many provinces constituting the Roman Empire. A Roman governor is also known as a propraetor or proconsul."
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"text": "The governor was the province's chief judge. The governor had the sole right to impose capital punishment, and capital cases were normally tried before him. To appeal a governor's decision necessitated travelling to Rome and presenting one's case before either the Praetor Urbanus, or even the Emperor himself, an expensive, and thus rare, process."
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The Mohawk Kenhionhata:tie and the Coldwater River are both found in what region of Canada?
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Ontario.
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"text": "The Coldwater River is a river in Simcoe County in Central Ontario, Canada. It is in the Great Lakes Basin and flows from the Oro moraine west of Lake Simcoe to Lake Huron. The river is believed to take its name from its Ojibwa name gisinaa nibiish, which means \"cold pool of water\"."
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"text": "The Grand River ( French: La Rivière Grand; Mohawk: Kenhionhata:tie) formerly known as The River Ouse is a large river in Southwestern Ontario, Canada."
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A community on the eastern side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada shares its name with a broad valley within which Mississippi's largest what lies?
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Wilderness
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"text": "Black Creek is a community on the eastern side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is approximately 16 km north of Courtenay. It is primarily an agricultural hamlet and bedroom community to Courtenay and Campbell River - approximately 20 km to the north. It is part of Electoral Area C in the Comox Valley Regional District."
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"text": "Located within the De Soto National Forest, Mississippi's largest wilderness lies in the broad valley of Black Creek, stained a deep caramel color by the tannic acid of decaying vegetation. The upland areas protect significant areas of longleaf pine forest, while the river creates bottomland hardwoods and shorelines with sand bars."
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What type of fruit does the snail share it's name with that deposits their eggs above the waterline and can be found in Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia and Indo-Pacific islands?
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Apple.
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"text": "Pila is a genus of large freshwater snails with an operculum, African and Asian apple snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. Distribution of the genus Pila include Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia and Indo-Pacific islands."
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"text": "Several apple snail genera ( Pomacea, Pila and Asolene/Pomella) deposit eggs above the waterline in calcareous clutches and can be recognized by the light pink color they resemble. This remarkable strategy of aquatic snails protects the eggs against predation by fish and other aquatic inhabitants."
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In which ocean would you find both Cephalopholis nigripinnis and Cephalopholis spiloparaea?
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You can find them both in the Indian Ocean.
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"text": "Cephalopholis nigripinnis is distributed in the western Indian Ocean along the eastern coast of Africa from Kenya south as far as Europa Island and South Africa, as well as the Seychelles, Mascarenes. Madagascar and the British Indian Ocean territory."
},
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"text": "Cephalopholis spiloparaea, known commonly as the strawberry hind strawberry rock cod, strawberry cod or orange rock cod, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is in the family Serranidae which also includes the anthias and sea basses. This fish occurs throughout the Indo-Pacific region."
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According to the general pattern in the Chinese dynastic cycle, how would the Hongwu Emperor have consolidated the empire?
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Through absolute rule
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"text": "Occurring during Hongwu Emperor 's reign, they were also called the Four Major Cases of the Hongwu era ( Chinese: 洪武四大案; pinyin: HóngWǔ Sìdààn / Chinese: 洪武四大獄; pinyin: HóngWǔ Sìdàyù ). They are bracketed together as practices of the emperor's key idea: ruling with severe punishment."
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"text": "Generally, in the Chinese dynastic cycle, emperors founding a dynasty usually consolidated the empire through absolute rule: examples include Qin Shi Huang of the Qin, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Guangwu of Han, Emperor Taizong of the Tang, Kublai Khan of the Yuan, and the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing."
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What U. S. state can you stand in and see both Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area and Bois Blanc Island?
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Michigan
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"text": "Bois Blanc Island is an island in Lake Huron coterminous with Bois Blanc Township, Mackinac County, Michigan. The island covers about 34 sq mi (88 km 2) and is about 12 miles (19 km) long, 6 miles (9.6 km) wide and has 6 lakes. It lies southeast of Mackinac Island and almost due north of the city of Cheboygan ."
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"text": "It is almost wholly owned by the U.S. state of Michigan and is overseen by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as part of the Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area. It is accessible by private boat."
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Is East Side, Chicago closer of farther to downtown Chicago than Pullman is close to the Chicago Loop?
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It is farther.
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"text": "It is on the far south side of the city, between the Calumet River and the Illinois - Indiana state line, 13 miles (21 km) south of downtown Chicago. The neighborhood has a park on Lake Michigan, Calumet Park, and a forest, Eggers Grove Forest Preserve."
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"text": "Twelve miles from the Chicago Loop, Pullman is situated adjacent to Lake Calumet . The area known as Pullman encompasses a much wider area than its two historic areas (the older historic area is often referred to as \" Pullman \" and is a Chicago Landmark district and a National Monument."
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Where is the species of pink-headed fruit doves endemic to that is also where there is a species that lays single egg on open platform of sticks in a forest tree?
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Australia.
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"text": "The species is endemic to Australia, where it is restricted to the western edge of the Arnhem Land escarpment. Patches of monsoonal rainforest . Fruit from forest trees, especially figs . Lays single egg on open platform of sticks in a forest tree."
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"text": "The fruit doves of the Sunda Islands and northern Australia, such as the pink-headed fruit dove and banded fruit dove, have comparatively longer tails than other species, and are notable for their solid colouration on the head, neck and breast, with a black band across the belly."
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Speakers of what language based mainly on Portuguese and Gujarati refer to it as Língua da Casa?
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Diu Indo-Portuguese
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"text": "The Daman and Diu Portuguese Creole, also known as Daman and Diu Indo-Portuguese and, to its speakers, as Língua da Casa ( Portuguese for \"Home language\"), refers to varieties of Portuguese-based creole spoken in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, especially in Daman district and Diu district."
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"text": "The Diu Indo-Portuguese or Diu Portuguese is spoken in Diu district, India. It is a creole language based mainly on Portuguese and Gujarati. It is a member of the larger family of Indo-Portuguese creoles, particularly close to the variety of Daman."
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Snow White and Winnie the Pooh are both associated with what company?
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The Walt Disney Company
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"text": "The character of Snow White was derived from a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best-known version being the one collected by the Brothers Grimm . Snow White is the first Disney Princess and the first fictional female character with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame."
},
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"text": "Studios) Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, sometimes abbreviated WDC&S, is an American anthology comic book series featuring characters from The Walt Disney Company's films and shorts, including Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Chip 'n Dale, Li'l Bad Wolf, Scamp, Bucky Bug, Grandma Duck, Brer Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh, and others."
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Who wrote the Simpsons episode that Waylon Smithers first appears in?
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Homer's Odyssey", the episode of The Simpsons that Waylon Smithers first appears in, was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky.
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"text": "Waylon Joseph Smithers Jr., usually referred to as Mr. Smithers or simply Smithers, is a recurring fictional character in the animated sitcom The Simpsons, voiced by Harry Shearer. He first appeared in \" Homer's Odyssey \", although his voice could be heard in the series premiere \" Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire \"."
},
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"text": "\"Homer's Odyssey\" is the third episode of the first season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 21, 1990. In this episode, Homer becomes a crusader for safety in Springfield and is promoted to safety inspector at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. The episode was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky and was the first Simpsons script to be completed, although it was the third episode produced.[2]"
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What is the Arthus reaction and who discovered it?
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The Arthus reaction is a type of local type III hypersensitivity reaction. It was discovered by Nicolas Maurice Arthus in 1903.
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"text": "In immunology, the Arthus reaction ( / ˌɑːrˈtjuːs /) is a type of local type III hypersensitivity reaction. Type III hypersensitivity reactions are immune complex -mediated, and involve the deposition of antigen / antibody complexes mainly in the vascular walls, serosa ( pleura, pericardium, synovium ), and glomeruli."
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"text": "The Arthus reaction was discovered by Nicolas Maurice Arthus in 1903.[1] Arthus repeatedly injected horse serum subcutaneously into rabbits. After four injections, he found that there was edema and that the serum was absorbed slowly. Further injections eventually led to gangrene"
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How many islands are in the archipelago which contains Ross island?
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over 570
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"text": "Ross Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. the island is lying 184 km (114 mi) north from Port Blair ."
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"text": "Tourism in Andaman and Nicobar Islands relates to tourism in union territory of India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Andamans are an archipelago of over 570 tropical islands, of which only 36 are inhabited."
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Who has both a theorem named after them and a crater that is somewhat worn?
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Apollonius
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"text": "In geometry, Apollonius's theorem is a theorem relating the length of a median of a triangle to the lengths of its sides. It states that \"the sum of the squares of any two sides of any triangle equals twice the square on half the third side, together with twice the square on the median bisecting the third side\"."
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"text": "It was named after Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga. It is southwest of the crater Firmicus, and north of Condon . The outer rim of Apollonius is somewhat worn and is overlain by a pair of small craters (including Apollonius E) across the western wall."
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What system determines the parameters for the rugby competition in New South Wales that has multiple age groups and a women's league?
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The Page-McIntyre system sets the parameters for the rugby competition.
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"text": "Group 9 is a rugby league competition based in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, and surrounding areas. The competition is played in five grades, with these being Under 17s, Under 19s, Women's League-Tag, Reserve-Grade and First-Grade. Currently a home and away season consisting of sixteen rounds is played."
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"text": "Currently a home and away season consisting of sixteen rounds is played. The best four teams then play-off according to the Page-McIntyre system, culminating in the Group 9 Grand final, which is traditionally held at McDonald's Park in Wagga Wagga."
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Tachyoryctes audax and T. annectens are both what?
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Mole-rats.
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"text": "In comparison to those of Tachyoryctes audax, the nasal bones are larger and have angles at the sides. T. annectens, which is nearly as large, has smaller teeth and nasals; in T. rex, the basioccipital is broader, and the back part of the mandible (lower jaw) is better developed and has the capsule of the incisor placed further to the front."
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"text": "The Aberdare Mountains African mole-rat ( Tachyoryctes audax) is a species of rodents in the family Spalacidae endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. Some taxonomic authorities consider it to be conspecific with the East African mole-rat ."
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The organism whose scientific name translates to "found growing in or near snow" is one of the main organisms responsible for causing what phenomenon, where patches of snow appear red or pink?
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Chlamydomonas nivalis is mainly responsible for causing the watermelon snow phenomenon.
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"text": "The name Chlamydomonas nivalis is of Latin origin. It translates to ‘found growing in or near snow’. The Latin meaning describes the organism well as this species of algae are only found associated with snow or near snowy areas."
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"text": "Chlamydomonas nivalis is an interesting organism for researchers in various fields to study due to its possible role in lowering global albedo, ability to survive in extreme environments, and production of commercially relevant compounds. are one of the main algae responsible for causing the phenomenon of watermelon snow (also blood snow, raspberry snow[4]), where patches of snow appear red or pink. The first account of microbial communities that form red snow was made by Aristotle. Researchers have been active in studying this organism for over 100 years."
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Who are an indigenous people living on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores and Timor and mainly engaged in manual slash-and-burn farming (tubers, rice, corn), hunting and gathering?
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The Nage.
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"text": "They descended from the indigenous population of Flores They are largely assimilated by the neighboring people. They speak Nage, one of the major languages in the Austronesian languages group. The Nage people mainly engaged in manual slash-and-burn farming (tubers, rice, corn), hunting and gathering."
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"text": "The Nage are an indigenous people living on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores and Timor. They descended from the indigenous population of Flores They are largely assimilated by the neighboring people."
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