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d5de129c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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Who leads the Tibetan equivalent of the cause that the Scottish National Party most prominently supports in Scotland?
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The Tibetan diaspora in countries like India and the United States, and by celebrities and Tibetan Buddhists in the United States, India and Europe
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"text": "The Tibetan independence movement ( Chinese: 西藏独立运动) is a political movement for the independence of Tibet and the political separation of Tibet from China. It is principally led by the Tibetan diaspora in countries like India and the United States, and by celebrities and Tibetan Buddhists in the United States, India and Europe."
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"text": "Scottish independence is supported most prominently by the Scottish National Party, but other parties also support independence. Other pro-independence parties which have held representation in the Scottish Parliament include the Scottish Green Party,[6] the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity. At the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, 69 of the 129 seats available were won by pro-independence parties (63 SNP and 6 Greens)."
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The location of the 1120 battle between Mas'ud ibn Mohammad and the Seljuq emperor Mahmud II is now the capital city of which province of Afghanistan?
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Asadabad is the capital city of Kunar Province
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"text": "Asadabad or Asad Abad ( Dari: اسدآباد - Asadābād) is the capital city of Kunar Province in Afghanistan. It is in the eastern part of the country next to Pakistan. There are a lot of mountains around Asadabad. ↑ \"Asadabad (Afghanistan)\". Silobreaker."
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"text": "Another battle was fought at Asadabad in 1120, when Mas'ud ibn Mohammad, the governor of Mosul, al-Jazira, and Azerbaijan, unsuccessfully rebelled against the Seljuq emperor Mahmud II."
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The Province of Parma is made up of 47 what, that are called municipalities in English?
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Comuni.
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"text": "A province of the Italian Republic is composed of many municipalities ( comune ). Usually several provinces together form a region; the region of Aosta Valley is the sole exception—it is not subdivided into provinces, and provincial functions are exercised by the region."
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"text": "The Province of Parma ( Italian: Provincia di Parma) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its largest town and capital is the city of Parma . It is made up of 47 comuni."
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YMQ for Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, and PAR for Charles de Gaulle Airport are what kind of codes?
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IATA codes.
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"text": "Lloydminster Airport is located northwest of the city, in Alberta province. ^3 YMQ is common IATA code for Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport ( IATA: YUL), Montréal–Mirabel International Airport ( IATA: YMX) and Montreal Saint-Hubert Longueuil Airport ( IATA: YHU)."
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"text": "Antonio Amilton Beraldo Airport ^1 PAR is common IATA code for Charles de Gaulle Airport ( IATA: CDG), Orly Airport ( IATA: ORY), Paris–Le Bourget Airport ( IATA: LBG), Beauvais–Tillé Airport ( IATA: BVA), Pontoise – Cormeilles Aerodrome ( IATA: POX), Châlons Vatry Airport ( IATA: XCR) and Vélizy – Villacoublay Air Base ( IATA: VIY)."
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How are the hill people classified in Manipur, Tripura and Sikkim?
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They are mostly classified as Scheduled Tribes (STs)
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"text": "The hill tribes of Northeast India are hill people, mostly classified as Scheduled Tribes (STs), who live in the Northeast India region. This region has the largest proportion of scheduled tribes in the country."
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"text": "Northeast India comprises the former British province of Assam and part or all of the former princely states of Manipur, Tripura and Sikkim."
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What extinct species of parrot was green with a proportionally large head and beak was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar?
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Rodrigues parrot
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"text": "The Rodrigues parrot was green, and had a proportionally large head and beak and a long tail. Its exact size is unknown, but it may have been around 50 cm (20 in) long. It was the largest parrot on Rodrigues, and it had the largest head of any Mascarene parrot. It may have looked similar to the great-billed parrot."
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"text": "The Rodrigues parrot or Leguat's parrot ( Necropsittacus rodricanus) is an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar."
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What are two kinds of inorganic compounds?
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Sodium Azide and Palladium oxide are both inorganic compounds
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"text": "Sodium azide is the inorganic compound with the formula NaN 3. This colorless salt is the gas-forming component in legacy car airbag systems. It is used for the preparation of other azide compounds."
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"text": "Palladium (II) oxide is the inorganic compound of formula Pd O. It is the only well characterised oxide of palladium. It is prepared by treating the metal with oxygen. Above about 900 °C, the oxide reverts to palladium metal and oxygen gas."
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d5de14c20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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What type of club is located in the forward funnel on the first cruise ship owned and operated by Disney Cruise Line?
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There is a teens-only club in this location.
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"text": "The false funnels did have more uses than simply aiding aesthetics however - a stoker who survived the sinking of the Titanic escaped the boiler room by ascending the false funnel, the aft funnel of Normandie housed the passengers' dog kennels, and Disney Cruise Line 's Disney Magic 's forward funnel plays host to a teens-only club."
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"text": "Disney Magic is the first cruise ship owned and operated by Disney Cruise Line, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.[2] She has 11 public decks, can accommodate 2,700 passengers in 875 staterooms,[1] and has a crew of approximately 950. The interior of Disney Magic is decorated in the Art Deco style.The ship has 20 bright yellow lifeboats which, along with the black, red, and white colors of the ship itself, match the colors of Mickey Mouse. This change from the standard safety orange took a waiver of international maritime rules."
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What was the eventual downfall of the territory ruled by the fourth king of pontus?
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It fell to conquest by the Roman Republic.
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"text": "Mithridates III ( Greek: Mιθριδάτης) was the fourth king of Pontus, son of Mithridates II of Pontus and Laodice. Mithridates had two sisters: Laodice III, the first wife of the Seleucid King Antiochus III the Great, and Laodice of Pontus. He may have ruled in an uncertain period between 220 BC and 183 BC."
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"text": "The kingdom was proclaimed by Mithridates I in 281 BC[citation needed] and lasted until its conquest by the Roman Republic in 63 BC.[7] The Kingdom of Pontus reached its largest extent under Mithridates VI the Great, who conquered Colchis, Cappadocia, Bithynia, the Greek colonies of the Tauric Chersonesos, and for a brief time the Roman province of Asia. After a long struggle with Rome in the Mithridatic Wars, Pontus was defeated.[8] The western part of it was incorporated into the Roman Republic as the province Bithynia et Pontus; the eastern half survived as a client kingdom until 62 AD.[citation needed]"
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Eta Orionis is in what constellation that includes the stars Rigel and Betelgeuse?
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Eta Orionis is a multiple star in the constellation Orion.
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"text": "Eta Orionis ( η Orionis) is a multiple star in the constellation Orion. It lies a little to the west of Orion's belt between Delta Orionis and Rigel, being closer to Delta Orionis than to Rigel. It lies at a distance of around 1,000 light years from Earth and is part of the Orion OB1 association ."
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"text": "Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world. It is one of the most conspicuous[1] and recognizable constellations in the night sky.[2] It is named after Orion, a hunter in Greek mythology. Its brightest stars are blue-white Rigel (Beta Orionis) and red Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis)."
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What are the two largest groups of non-Muslim religious minorities in the country that borders the Caspian Sea and historically was home to the ancient kingdom of Hyrcania?
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Followers of the Baháʼí Faith and Christianity
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"text": "Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism are officially recognized and protected, and have reserved seats in the Iranian parliament. Iran is home to the second largest Jewish community in the Muslim world and the Middle East. The two largest non-Muslim religious minorities in Iran are the followers of the Baháʼí Faith and Christianity."
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"text": "Northern Iran consists of the Southern border of the Caspian Sea and the Alborz- mountains. It includes the provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, and Golestan of Iran (Ancient kingdom of Hyrcania, medieval region of Tabaristan). The major provinces, Gilan and Mazandaran, are covered with dense forests, snow-covered mountains and impressive sea shores."
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The Dhimmī is a historical term for what kind of people who aren't of the group that have the religious duty of zakat?
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Muslims.
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"text": "Dhimmī ( Arabic: ذمي ḏimmī, IPA: [ˈðɪmmiː], collectively أهل الذمة ahl aḏ-ḏimmah/dhimmah \"the people of the covenant\") is a historical term for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state with legal protection."
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"text": "Silver or gold coinage is one way of granting zakat. As one of the Five Pillars of Islam, zakat is a religious duty for all Muslims who meet the necessary criteria of wealth to help the needy. It is a mandatory charitable contribution, often considered to be a tax."
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In a revolver, how many cavities where the cartridge is inserted before being fired does it contain?
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Multiple chambers.
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"text": "A cartridge being pushed into the chamber of a Springfield M1903. In firearms, the chamber is the cavity at the back end of a breechloader 's barrel or cylinder, where the cartridge is inserted before being fired. The rear opening of the chamber is the breech, and is sealed by the breechblock or the bolt."
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"text": "In a breech-loading weapon the chamber is directly behind and in line with the barrel. In a revolver there are multiple chambers contained in a revolving cylinder."
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The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque, or Pink Mosque, is located in what Iranian city that is the fifth-most-populous city and the capital of Fars Province?
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It's located in Shiraz, Iran.
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"text": "The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque ( Persian: مسجد نصیر الملک Masjed-e Nasir ol-Molk ), also known as the Pink Mosque (مسجد صورتی Masjed-e Surati ), is a traditional mosque in Shiraz, Iran. It is located in Gawd-i Arabān quarter, near Shāh Chérāgh Mosque. It was built during Qajar dynasty rule of Iran."
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"text": "Shiraz is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which is also known as Pars and Persis. At the 2016 census, the population of the city was 1,869,001 and its built-up area with Shahr-e Jadid-e Sadra was home to 1,565,572 inhabitants. Shiraz is located in the southwest of Iran on the Rudkhaneye Khoshk (The Dry River) seasonal river. It has a moderate climate and has been a regional trade center for over a thousand years. Shiraz is one of the oldest cities of ancient Persia."
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San Juan and Mississippi are both names of what?
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Rivers
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"text": "/ 29.15111°N 89.25333°W / 29.15111; -89.25333 The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system."
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"text": "From Durango the river flows south into New Mexico through the town of Aztec to its confluence with the San Juan River at Farmington. The only major tributary of the Animas River is the Florida River which confluences just north of the Colorado–New Mexico border."
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Where do Parasitoid wasps and Dicrocoelium dendriticum lay their eggs?
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Parasitoid wasps and Dicrocoelium dendriticum lay their eggs in other creatures.
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"text": "Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, with all but the wood wasps ( Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita. As parasitoids, they lay their eggs on or in the bodies of other arthropods, sooner or later causing the death of these hosts."
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"text": "The lancet liver fluke ( Dicrocoelium dendriticum) is a parasitic trematode with a complex life cycle. In its adult state it occurs in the liver of its definitive host ( ruminants ), where it reproduces. The parasite eggs are passed with the feces of the host, which then are eaten by a terrestrial snail (first intermediate host)."
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Baggara and Hawazin are both what?
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Tribes.
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"text": "The Nigerian Arabs are the westernmost representation. Baggara tribes in Sudan include: the Rizeigat, Ta’isha, Beni Halba, Habbaniya, Salamat, Messiria, Tarjam, and Beni Hussein in Darfur, and the Messiria Zurug, Messiria Humr, Hawazma, Habbaniya and Awlad Himayd in Kordofan, and the Beni Selam on the White Nile ."
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"text": "According to this tradition, ‘Adnani Arabs ( العرب المستعربة) were the progeny of Ishmael, the firstborn son of the patriarch Abraham, of the Jurhum tribe. The Hawazin tribe and the Quraysh tribe are considered ‘Adnani Arabs."
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The speed of gazelle is an example of what biological entity within the hierarch of biological organization?
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A unit of selection
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"text": "A unit of selection is a biological entity within the hierarchy of biological organization (for example, an entity such as: a self-replicating molecule, a gene, a cell, an organism, a group, or a species) that is subject to natural selection."
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"text": "The speed of the faster gazelle could be caused by a single gene, be polygenic, or be fully environmentally determined, but the unit of selection in this case is the individual since speed is a property of each individual gazelle. When speaking about individual organism evolution an extended phenotype and superorganism must be also mentioned."
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d5de171a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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What defines the mode of a random variable whose set of possible values is uncountable?
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The mode of a continuous variable is the local peak of its probability density function.
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"text": "Mode: for a discrete random variable, the value with highest probability; for a continuous random variable, a location at which the probability density function has a local peak. Support: set of values that can be assumed with non-zero probability by the random variable."
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"text": "A random variable X is also called continuous if its set of possible values is uncountable, and the chance that it takes any particular value is zero (in symbols, if P (X = x) = 0 for every real number x)."
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What is an example of an indigenous peoples that can be found as part of the union territory of India consisting of 572 islands?
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The Andamanese are the indigenous peoples.
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"text": "The Andamanese are the various indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, part of India 's Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory in the southeastern part of the Bay of Bengal in Southeast Asia. The Andamanese peoples are among the various groups considered Negrito, owing to their dark skin and diminutive stature."
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"text": "Devendra Kumar Joshi Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India consisting of 572 islands, of which 38 are inhabited, at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The territory is about 150 km (93 mi) north of Aceh in Indonesia and separated from Thailand and Myanmar by the Andaman Sea."
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Who conceived Cowboy Bebop: The Movie?
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Watanabe
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"text": "The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop work to find the terrorist and discover the source of the pathogen before the attack can take place. The film was conceived by Watanabe as an extension of his work on the television series, which he treated as a series of miniature films."
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"text": "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is set between episodes 22 and 23 of the original series. The plot centers on a mysterious terrorist planning to destroy the human population on Mars using an unknown pathogen. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop work to find the terrorist and discover the source of the pathogen before the attack can take place."
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What word is both a senior official in a number of Christian Churches as well as a seignorial officer in charge of managing burgh affairs and rural estates in pre-Revolutionary France?
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provost
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"text": "A provost is a senior official in a number of Christian Churches . The word praepositus ( Latin: \"set over\", from praeponere, \"to place in front\") was originally applied to any ecclesiastical ruler or dignitary."
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"text": "The word prévôt (provost) applied to a number of different persons in pre-Revolutionary France. The term referred to a seignorial officer in charge of managing burgh affairs and rural estates and, on a local level, customarily administered justice."
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How many round trips from Lamlash to Brodick would equal the amount of miles of Anglesey Coastal Path that is on Holy Island?
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It would be 5 round trips.
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"text": "Around 30 miles (50 kilometres) of the 125-mile (200 km) Anglesey Coastal Path is on Holy Island. National Cycle Route 5 and National Cycle Route 8 traverse the island."
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"text": "Lamlash is located in the southern half of the island, some 3 miles (5 km) to the south of Brodick and 5 miles (8 km) to the north of Whiting Bay. It is on the eastern side and sits on a bay facing the Holy Isle and the Firth of Clyde ."
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The Darboux integral is similar to what integral that sums over a regular partition of an interval?
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A Riemann integral.
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"text": "A sequence of Riemann sums over a regular partition of an interval. The number on top is the total area of the rectangles, which converges to the integral of the function. The partition does not need to be regular, as shown here. The approximation works as long as the width of each subdivision tends to zero."
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"text": "The Darboux integral, which is similar to the Riemann integral but based on Darboux sums, is equivalent to the Riemann integral. Loosely speaking, the Riemann integral is the limit of the Riemann sums of a function as the partitions get finer."
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What game lists it's character in chronological order in which the games debuted that has a total of 34 characters?
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Tekken
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"text": "The following is a list of characters from the fighting game series Tekken. Characters are chronologically listed in order of the games in which they debuted. Players can choose from a diverse cast that hails from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and fighting styles."
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"text": "In contrast to previous titles, Tekken Tag Tournament features tag battles and includes almost all of the Tekken characters in the series up until that point in time, for a total of 34 characters. The game ran on the same arcade board as Tekken 3, and thus saw major graphical upgrades when ported to the PlayStation 2."
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What term that refers to the "Christian world" has been intimately connected with the concept of Christianity and the Western World?
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Christendom
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"text": "Christendom historically refers to the \"Christian world\": Christian states, Christian-majority countries and the countries in which Christianity dominates or prevails. Since the spread of Christianity from the Levant to Europe and North Africa during the early Roman Empire, Christendom has been divided in the pre-existing Greek East and Latin West."
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"text": "There is a common and nonliteral sense of the word that is much like the terms Western world, known world or Free World. The notion of \"Europe\" and the \"Western World\" has been intimately connected with the concept of \"Christianity and Christendom\"; many even attribute Christianity for being the link that created a unified European identity.["
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What, also defined as the process by which a new idea or new product is accepted by the market, of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread?
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Diffusion
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"text": "The blue curve is broken into sections of adopters. Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread."
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"text": "Diffusion is the process by which a new idea or new product is accepted by the market. The rate of diffusion is the speed with which the new idea spreads from one consumer to the next."
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d5de19cc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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The port that is served by Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks is located in which county?
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The Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks is located in Mobile County, Alabama.
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"text": "The Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks ( reporting mark TASD) is a terminal railroad according to the AAR. It operates on about 75 miles (121 km) of track and is a subsidiary of the Alabama State Port Authority located at the Port of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama . The TASD serves 25 different customers mostly in chemicals and bulk goods."
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"text": "Mobile (/moʊˈbiːl/ moh-BEEL, French: [mɔbil] (About this soundlisten)) is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 as of the 2010 United States Census,[8] making it the third-most-populous city in Alabama, and the most populous in Mobile County."
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What company that had abrasive in its cleaners used the kine of material that can be alkali and grouped into two types?
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Bon Ami.
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"text": "Alkali feldspars are grouped into two types: those containing potassium in combination with sodium, aluminium, or silicon; and those where potassium is replaced by barium. The first of these include:"
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"text": "Bon Ami, which had a mine near Little Switzerland, North Carolina, used feldspar as an abrasive in its cleaners. The Little Switzerland Business Association says the McKinney Mine was the largest feldspar mine in the world, and North Carolina was the largest producer."
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What did heavy infantry consist of and which ancient armies were they critical to?
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Heavy infantry consisted of heavily armed and armoured infantrymen who were trained to mount frontal assaults and/or anchor the defensive center of a battle line. They were critical to many ancient armies, such as the Greek hoplites, Macedonian phalangites, and Roman legionaries.
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"text": "Heavy infantry consisted of heavily armed and armoured infantrymen who were trained to mount frontal assaults and/or anchor the defensive center of a battle line."
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"text": "Heavy infantry were critical to many ancient armies, such as the Greek hoplites, Macedonian phalangites, and Roman legionaries. After the fall of Rome, heavy infantry declined in Europe, but returned to dominance in the Late Middle Ages with Swiss pikemen and German Landsknechts."
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How thick is the massive wedge that creates the basin that contains the Belly River Formation?
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This wedge is about six kilometers thick under the Rocky Mountains, but thins to zero at its eastern margins.
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"text": "The Belly River Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin."
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"text": "The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) is a vast sedimentary basin underlying 1,400,000 square kilometres (540,000 sq mi) of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia and the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories. It consists of a massive wedge of sedimentary rock extending from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Canadian Shield in the east. This wedge is about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) thick under the Rocky Mountains, but thins to zero at its eastern margins."
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The Chinese sorna is what type of instrument that can be made of metal and is often curved in various ways?
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A horn.
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"text": "The suona, also called laba or haidi, is a Chinese sorna ( double-reeded horn ). It has a distinctively loud and high-pitched sound, and is used frequently in Chinese traditional music ensembles, particularly those that perform outdoors."
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"text": "This article is about a family of wind instruments. For the specific instrument known in music circles as just \"horn\", see French horn. A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges."
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The OECD Financial Action Task Force list of "Non-Cooperative Countries or Territories" aims to document the same type of abuses as which tool of the European Union?
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The EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions
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"text": "The European Union tax haven blacklist, officially the EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions, is a tool of the European Union (EU) that lists tax havens. It is used by the Member States to tackle external risks of tax abuse and unfair tax competition."
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"text": "The OECD and its Financial Action Task Force regularly publish the list of uncooperative tax havens . The FATF blacklist was the common shorthand description for the Financial Action Task Force list of \"Non-Cooperative Countries or Territories\" (NCCTs)."
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The dam located on the Jordan River, British Columbia, Canada known locally as Diversion Dam was completed in what year?
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Construction of the main Jordan River Diversion Dam was completed in 1911.
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"text": "The Jordan River Dam, officially the Jordan River Diversion Dam, and known locally simply as Diversion Dam, is a dam located in Jordan River, British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the second hydroelectric development on Vancouver Island. The largest of the disused trestles formerly shared by the flume and the railway."
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"text": "Prior to the dam's construction, the Lubbe Powerhouse was the main source of electricity to Victoria. Upon completion, it dwarfed the previous plant.The Vancouver Island Power Company, a subsidiary of British Columbia Electric Railway, completed construction of the smaller Bear Creek Dam and the main Jordan River Diversion Dam in 1911"
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The fundic glands (or oxyntic glands ), are found in the fundus and body of the what, which in humans the duodenum connects the jejunum to?
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Stomach
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"text": "In humans, the duodenum is a hollow jointed tube about 25–38 cm (10–15 inches) long connecting the stomach to the jejunum. It begins with the duodenal bulb and ends at the suspensory muscle of duodenum. It can be divided into four parts. The duodenum is a 25–38 cm (10-15 inch) C-shaped structure lying adjacent to the stomach."
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"text": "There are two kinds - either simple tubular with short ducts or compound racemose resembling the duodenal Brunner's glands . The fundic glands (or oxyntic glands ), are found in the fundus and body of the stomach. They are simple almost straight tubes, two or more of which open into a single duct."
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The fleet of what army had the Type 3 submergence transport vehicle and and its 5th Division involved with landings at Tanggu?
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The Imperial Japanese Army.
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"text": "The Type 3 submergence transport vehicle (三式潜航輸送艇, San-Shiki Senkō Yusōtei) was a class of transport submarines built for the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War. The IJA planned to build over 400 boats, however only 38 boats were completed until the end of war."
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"text": "The IJN 2nd Fleet was assigned to escort army transports and was involved in landings of IJA 5th Division at Tanggu. With the dispatch of troops to the Tsingtao area, the IJN 2nd Fleet assumed responsibility for operations in northern China waters, while the IJN 3rd Fleet operated in central and south China waters."
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d5de1c1a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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What country can you find both the Munster Republic and Rugbai Mumhan?
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Ireland
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"text": "The Munster Republic was an informal and affectionate term used by Irish republicans to refer to the territory they held in the province of Munster at the start of the Irish Civil War. The \"republic\" never claimed to be a state as such, but was a base for the republican civil war aim of creating an all-Ireland Irish Republic ."
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"text": "Munster Rugby ( Irish: Rugbaí Mumhan) is one of the four professional provincial rugby teams from the island of Ireland. They compete in the Pro14 and the European Rugby Champions Cup."
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Why will the largest shield volcano on Earth become extinct in the future?
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It will become extinct because slow drift of the Pacific Plate will eventually carry it away from the Hawaii hotspot.
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"text": "The main difference between Martian shield volcanoes and those on Earth is in size: Martian shield volcanoes are truly colossal. For example, the tallest volcano on Mars, Olympus Mons, is 550 km across and 21 km high. It is nearly 100 times greater in volume than Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the largest shield volcano on Earth."
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"text": "Mauna Loa has probably been erupting for at least 700,000 years, and may have emerged above sea level about 400,000 years ago. The oldest-known dated rocks are not older than 200,000 years.[7] The volcano's magma comes from the Hawaii hotspot, which has been responsible for the creation of the Hawaiian island chain over tens of millions of years. The slow drift of the Pacific Plate will eventually carry Mauna Loa away from the hotspot within 500,000 to one million years from now, at which point it will become extinct."
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d5de1cc40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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The Salt Lake City metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on the city of Salt Lake City in what state that the Wasatch Front is located in?
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Utah
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"text": "The Wasatch Front/ˈwɑːsætʃ/is a metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Utah. It consists of a chain of contiguous citiesand townsstretched along the Wasatch Rangefrom approximately Nephiin the south to Brigham Cityin the north."
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"text": "The Salt Lake City metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau currently define the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area as comprising two counties: Salt Lake and Tooele."
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d5de1cec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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Are there more governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile region or more governorates of Tunisia divided into delegations?
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There are more delegations of the Governorates of Tunisia.
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"text": "The governorates are divided into 264 \" delegations \" or \" districts \" ( mutamadiyat ), and further subdivided into municipalities ( baladiyat ), and sectors ( imadats ). Tunisia has 6 regions in the entire country. Near the capital, Tunis, it is mostly semi-arid. However, in the southern regions, it is very arid due to the Saharan Desert ."
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"text": "There are nine governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region, ten of Upper Egypt along the Nile river south from Cairo to Aswan and five frontier governorates covering Sinai and the deserts that lie west and east of the Nile river. Egypt's topography."
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What is a common European species of pill millipede that is found throughout central and north-western Europe?
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Glomeris marginata
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"text": "Glomeris marginata is found throughout central and north-western Europe, from Poland and Scandinavia to Spain and Italy. In the British Isles, it is found in all areas south of the Central Belt of Scotland."
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"text": "Glomeris marginata is a common European species of pill millipede. It is a short millipede, rounded in cross-section, which is capable of rolling itself up into a ball (\" volvation \") when disturbed. This behaviour is also found in the pill woodlouse Armadillidium, with which G. marginata is often confused."
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In the concept of industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in a separate corporation, what other type of this is a dispute with the employer's parent company?
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Secondary action.
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"text": "The term \"secondary action\" is often used with the intention of distinguishing different types of trade dispute with a worker's direct contractual employer. Thus, a secondary action is a dispute with the employer's parent company, its suppliers, financiers, contracting parties, or any other employer in another industry."
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"text": "Solidarity action (also known as secondary action, a secondary boycott, or a sympathy strike) is industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in a separate corporation, but often the same enterprise, group of companies, or connected firm. In most countries, solidarity action is lawful."
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What nationality were the people who established the Red Cross concentration camp and Topovske Supe?
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German
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"text": "Red Cross concentration camp; German: KZ Crveni Krst; Serbian: Логор Црвени крст, romanized : Logor Crveni krst ), also known as the Niš concentration camp ( German: Lager Nich ), located in Crveni Krst, Niš, was operated by the German Gestapo and used to hold captured Serbs, Jews and Romanis during the Second World War."
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"text": "The camp at Topovske Šupe (lit. cannon sheds)[10] was established on 20 August 1941[12] on the site of a former Royal Yugoslav Army military base.[1][13] The former military base was called Logor kraljevića Andreja, the \"Prince Andrej Camp\", after Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, brother of the king.[14] Located on the outskirts of Belgrade, it was the first extermination camp for Jewish men established by German forces in Serbia[12][14] and was partly run by the Gestapo.[15]"
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According to articles 89 to 91 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Supreme Leader of Iran is the what, which under a presidential system would be the POTUS?
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Head of state
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"text": "For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). The president of the United States ( POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces ."
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"text": "The presidential system, in which the head of state is also the head of government and has all executive powers (e.g. United States, Indonesia, South Korea ). In a federal constituent or a dependent territory, the same role is fulfilled by the holder of an office corresponding to that of a head of state."
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"text": "^ According to articles 89 to 91 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Supreme Leader of Iran is the head of state, and the President is the head of government."
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The Teign and Sence are both what?
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Rivers.
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"text": "Lower down, it is joined by the Kestor Brook and it then flows through the woods in Bradley Valley, past the manor house of Bradley, and through the town of Newton Abbot where it flows through a 440-yard-long tunnel below the town centre. Just below the town, the river joins the River Teign at"
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"text": "Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The River Sence is a river which flows in Leicestershire, England. The tributaries of the Sence, including the Saint and Tweed, fan out over much of western Leicestershire from Charnwood Forest and Coalville in the north-east to Hinckley and almost to Watling Street in the south and south-west."
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North Carolina Highway 157 intersects with what road that is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Walterboro, South Carolina to Painted Post, New York?
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U.S. Route 15
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"text": "U.S. Route 15 ( US 15) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Walterboro, South Carolina to Painted Post, New York. In Virginia, the U.S. Highway runs 230.37 miles (370.74 km) from the North Carolina state line near Clarksville north to the Maryland state line at the Potomac River near Lucketts."
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"text": "North Carolina Highway 157 ( NC 157) is a 29.3-mile-long (47.2 km) primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The highway runs in a north–south direction from Interstate 85 (I-85), U.S. Route 15 (US 15), US 70, and US 501 in Durham, to US 158, US 501, and NC 57 in Roxboro."
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d5de1fda0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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In common usage and classical mechanics, a physical object or physical body is a collection of something with how many common states?
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Four
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"text": "In common usage and classical mechanics, a physical object or physical body (or simply an object or body) is a collection of matter within a defined contiguous boundary in three-dimensional space. The boundary must be defined and identified by the properties of the material."
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"text": "The four common states of matter. Clockwise from top left, they are solid, liquid, plasma, and gas, represented by an ice sculpture, a drop of water, electrical arcing from a tesla coil, and the air around clouds, respectively. Historically, the distinction is made based on qualitative differences in properties."
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What kind of coating is on a protein that is encoded by a gene that is not found in marsupials, but is found in most placental mammals?
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Mucin-7, a protein encoded by the MUC7 gene has a dense sugar coating.
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"text": "Mucin-7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MUC7 gene. In animals, the MUC7 gene is found in most placental mammals, but not marsupials. Humans carry either a five or six tandem repeat version of the gene."
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"text": "Mucin genes encode mucin monomers that are synthesized as rod-shaped apomucin cores that are post-translationally modified by exceptionally abundant glycosylation . The dense \"sugar coating\" of mucins gives them considerable water-holding capacity and also makes them resistant to proteolysis, which may be important in maintaining mucosal barriers."
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What does the demonization that conducts liturgical processions called crucessions call a box-like or dome-like vessel for the exclusive reservation of the consecrated Eucharist?
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The Tabernacle
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"text": "A container for the same purpose, which is set directly into a wall, is called an aumbry . Within Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and in some traditions of Anglicanism and Lutheranism, the Tabernacle is a box-like or dome-like vessel for the exclusive reservation of the consecrated Eucharist."
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"text": "Eastern Christian liturgical processions called crucessions include a cross or crucifix at their head. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the crucifix is often placed above the iconostasis in the church."
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What are some words that demonstrate the fact that marriage was originally unrelated with the phrase that is now used to describe a woman following her wedding and honeymoon?
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The words "midwife ", "goodwife", "fishwife" and "spaewife" demonstrate that the phrase "wife" was not always connected with marriage.
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"text": "A woman on her wedding day is usually described as a bride, even after the wedding ceremony, while being described as a wife is also appropriate after the wedding or after the honeymoon. If she is marrying a man, her partner is known as the bridegroom during the wedding, and within the marriage is called her husband ."
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"text": "The original meaning of the phrase \"wife\" as simply \"woman\", unconnected with marriage or a husband/wife, is preserved in words such as \" midwife \", \" goodwife \", \" fishwife \" and \" spaewife \". In many cultures, marriage is generally expected that a woman will take her husband's surname, though that is not universal."
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What is the second largest branch of Islam in which Ali is important to?
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Shi‘ism.
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"text": "Ali is important to both Shias and Sunnis, politically and spiritually. The numerous biographical sources about Ali are often biased according to sectarian lines, but they agree that he was a pious Muslim, devoted to the cause of Islam and a just ruler in accordance with the Qur'an and the Sunnah."
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"text": "Shi‘a Islam, also known as Shi‘ite Islam or Shi‘ism, is the second largest branch of Islam after Sunni Islam. Shias adhere to the teachings of Muhammad and the religious guidance of his family (who are referred to as the Ahl al-Bayt) or his descendants known as Shia Imams."
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The humpback chub and Black seadevils are both kinds of what species?
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Fish.
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"text": "The humpback chub ( Gila cypha) is a federally protected fish that lived originally in fast waters of the Colorado River system in the United States."
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"text": "Black seadevils are small, deepsea lophiiform fishes of the family Melanocetidae. The five known species (with only two given common names) are all within the genus Melanocetus. They are found in tropical to temperate waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, with one species known only from the Ross Sea ."
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The Cygnus X-3 microquasar has been used to observe very-high-energy gamma rays in what energy spectrum discovered by by Paul Villard in 1900?
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The Cygnus X-3 microquasar has been used to observe very-high-energy gamma rays.
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"text": "The energy spectrum of gamma rays can be used to identify the decaying radionuclides using gamma spectroscopy. Very-high-energy gamma rays in the 100–1000 teraelectronvolt ( TeV) range have been observed from sources such as the Cygnus X-3 microquasar ."
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"text": "Potassium-40 is the largest source of natural radioactivity in animals including humans. A 70 kg human body contains about 140 grams of potassium, hence about 0.000117 × 140 = 0.0164 grams of 40 K; whose decay produces about 4,300 disintegrations per second ( becquerel) continuously throughout the life of the body."
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The Neolithic sites such as passage graves and what, which are also found in Northern Europe, especially Northern France and the British Isles, used to be considered to be primarily tombs of chieftains?
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Dolmens
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"text": "Dolmens are also found in Northern Europe, especially Northern France and the British Isles. Korean dolmens exhibit a morphology distinct from the Atlantic European dolmen. The largest concentration of dolmens in the world is found on the Korean Peninsula. With an estimated 35,000 dolmens, Korea alone accounts for nearly 40% of the world’s total."
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"text": "The Neolithic sites such as dolmens, passage graves and the like used to be considered to be primarily tombs of chieftains. Possibly drawing from the Egyptian model, a tribe was imagined as labouring away to build a burial site of stone for a mighty chieftain, much as the workers in Egypt had done for the pharaohs."
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d5de22500dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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What Prince of Condé from 1818 until his death was the only son of Louis Joseph?
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Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon
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"text": "Louis Henri was the only son of Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé by his first wife, Charlotte de Rohan, daughter of Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise."
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"text": "Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon (13 April 1756 – 30 August 1830) was the Prince of Condé from 1818 to his death. He was the brother-in-law of Philippe Égalité and nephew of Victoire de Rohan."
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Metal figures made in India of who, who in Theravada Buddhism refers to one who has become awake through their own efforts and insight, used to be taken to various countries for installation?
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Buddha
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"text": "In Theravada Buddhism, Buddha refers to one who has become awake through their own efforts and insight, without a teacher to point out the dharma (Sanskrit; Pali dhamma; \"right way of living\"). A samyaksambuddha re-discovered the truths and the path to awakening and teaches these to others after his awakening."
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"text": "The head of the statue is egg-shaped, which indicates its origin in the Sukothai period. Given that Sukothai art had Indian influences and metal figures of the Buddha made in India used to be taken to various countries for installation, this suggests the Golden Buddha statue may have been cast in parts in India."
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d5de22be0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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Praseodymium (III) chloride and Praseodymium (IV) oxide are both types of what?
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Inorganic compounds
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"text": "Praseodymium (III) chloride is the inorganic compound with the formula Pr Cl 3. It is a blue-green solid that rapidly absorbs water on exposure to moist air to form a light green hepta hydrate . Praseodymium (III) chloride is prepared by treating praseodymium metal with hydrogen chloride:"
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"text": "Praseodymium (IV) oxide is an inorganic compound with chemical formula PrO 2 . Praseodymium (IV) oxide can be produced by boiling Pr 6 O 11 in water or acetic acid: Praseodymium (IV) oxide starts to decompose at 320~360 °C, liberating oxygen."
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Meretseger and Neferneferuaten Nefertiti were both what?
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Queens
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"text": "Neferneferuaten Nefertiti ( / ˌnɛfərˈtiːti /) ( c. 1370 – c. 1330 BC) was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshipped one god only, Aten, or the sun disc."
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"text": "Examples include Iset, the mother of Thutmose III, Tiaa, the mother of Thutmose IV and Mutemwia, the mother of Amenhotep III. Meretseger, the chief wife of Senusret III, may be the earliest queen whose name appears with this title; she also was the first consort known to write her name in a cartouche."
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d5de230e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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Similar agencies operated in each of the republics of what, which several scholars hold was a hybrid entity containing elements common to both multinational empires and nation states, aside from the Russian SFSR?
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Soviet Union
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"text": "Several scholars hold that the Soviet Union was a hybrid entity containing elements common to both multinational empires and nation states. It has also been argued that the Soviet Union practiced colonialism as did other imperial powers."
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"text": "Similar agencies operated in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from the Russian SFSR, with many associated ministries, state committees and state commissions. The agency was a military service governed by army laws and regulations, in the same fashion as the Soviet Army or the MVD Internal Troops."
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What is repetition and what other name can it be called?
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In traditional music, repetition is a device for creating recognizability, reproduction for the sake of the music notes of that specific line and the representing ego. In repetitive music. Repetition is important in music, where sounds or sequences are often repeated. It may be called restatement, such as the restatement of a theme.
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"text": "In traditional music, repetition is a device for creating recognizability, reproduction for the sake of the music notes of that specific line and the representing ego. In repetitive music, repetition does not refer to eros and the ego, but to the libido and to the death instinct.\""
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"text": "Repetition is important in music, where sounds or sequences are often repeated. It may be called restatement, such as the restatement of a theme. While it plays a role in all music, with noise and musical tones lying along a spectrum from irregular to periodic sounds,(Moravcsik, 114)(Rajagopal,[page needed]) it is especially prominent in specific styles."
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What odor does the simple type of the non-specific cellular toxin that causes damage to the gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal and neurological systems have?
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It has an odor that reminds some people of an coal tar smell.
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"text": "Cresols have an odor characteristic to that of other simple phenols, reminiscent to some of a \" coal tar \" smell. The name cresol reflects their structure, being phenols, and their traditional source, creosote . In its chemical structure, a molecule of cresol has a methyl group substituted onto the ring of phenol."
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"text": "The main active ingredient are phenols (26%), coal tar neutral oils (51%), soaps (13%) and water (10%) . The main toxicity of this product is that of phenols, which are non-specific cellular toxins causing damage to the gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal and neurological systems."
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Cassano and the province of Cosenza of Calabria are both in what country?
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Italy
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"text": "/ 39.783°N 16.317°E / 39.783; 16.317 Cassano all'Ionio, also named Cassano allo Ionio, is a town and comune in province of Cosenza of Calabria, southern Italy, known in Roman times as Cassanum."
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"text": "It lies in a fertile region in the concave recess of a steep mountain, 60 km northeast of the town of Cosenza, 10 km west of the archaeological site of Sybaris . Cassano was the site of great Saracen defeat of the Byzantine forces in Italy under Pothos in 1031."
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What disease is characterized by acute renal failure and a type of medical condition that results in a decrease in the number of red blood cells (RBCs)?
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Hemolytic-uremic syndrome
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"text": "Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) (also known as haemolytic-uraemic syndrome) is a disease characterized by hemolytic anemia, acute renal failure ( uremia) and a low platelet count ( thrombocytopenia ). It predominantly but not exclusively affects children."
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"text": "There are two types of Alpha-thalassemia, named hemoglobin Bart hydrops fetalis syndrome (also known as Hb Bart syndrome) and HbH disease. Anemia is a type of medical condition that results in a decrease in the number of red blood cells (RBCs) or less than the normal quantity of hemoglobin in the blood."
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NTS are the initials for the United Kingdom's National Transmission System and what Australian system for vocational education and training?
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National Training System.
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"text": "The United Kingdom's National Transmission System ( NTS) is the network of gas pipelines that supply gas to about forty power stations and large industrial users from natural gas terminals situated on the coast, and to gas distribution companies that supply commercial and domestic users. It covers Great Britain, i.e. England, Wales and Scotland."
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"text": "National Training System (Australia), the Australian system for vocational education and training National Treasury School, the French government's school for training civil servants Neurotypical, a term for people not on the autistic or psychotic spectra"
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d5de24e40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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What is both a batman and those who during the French colonization period, the majority of for the French were male?
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Servants.
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"text": "A batman or an orderly is a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. Before the advent of motorized transport, an officer's batman was also in charge of the officer's \"bat-horse\" that carried the pack saddle with his officer's kit during a campaign."
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"text": "During the French colonization period, the majority of household servants for the French were male. The term is used by Vietnamese themselves to indicate that the spoken French language is poor, incorrect and ungrammatical."
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d5de250c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9
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In one of the most important historical philosophical works, the books and chapters in it are referred to in what kinds of numerals?
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Roman and Arabic numerals, respectively.
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"text": "The Nicomachean Ethics is very often abbreviated \"NE\", or \"EN\", and books and chapters are generally referred to by Roman and Arabic numerals, respectively, along with corresponding Bekker numbers. (Thus, \"NE II.2, 1103b1\" means \" Nicomachean Ethics, book II, chapter 2, Bekker page 1103, Bekker column b, line number 1\".)"
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"text": "The Nicomachean Ethics is widely considered one of the most important historical philosophical works and had an important influence on the European Middle Ages, becoming one of the core works of medieval philosophy. It therefore indirectly became critical in the development of all modern philosophy as well as European law and theology."
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What member of the family Trichechidaeare large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals that have just six cervical vertebrae?
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Manatee
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"text": "The manatee is unusual among mammals in having just six cervical vertebrae, a number that may be due to mutations in the homeotic genes. All other mammals have seven cervical vertebrae, other than the two-toed and three-toed sloths . Like the horse, the manatee has a simple stomach, but a large cecum, in which it can digest tough plant matter."
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"text": "Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), and the West African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis). They measure up to 4.0 metres (13 ft 1 in) long, weigh as much as 590 kilograms (1,300 lb),[2] and have paddle-like flippers."
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DisplayPort which is backwards compatible with HDMI and DVI is standardized by what organization?
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The Video Electronics Standards Association.
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"text": "The interface is backward compatible with other interfaces, such as HDMI and DVI, through the use of either active or passive adapters. DisplayPort is the first display interface to rely on packetized data transmission, a form of digital communication found in technologies such as Ethernet, USB, and PCI Express."
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"text": "DisplayPort ( DP) is a digital display interface developed by a consortium of PC and chip manufacturers and standardized by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The interface is primarily used to connect a video source to a display device such as a computer monitor, and it can also carry audio, USB, and other forms of data."
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Silalish is the ancient name for what district found in Northern Shewa?
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Bulga.
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"text": "Most of northern Shewa, made up of the districts of Menz, Tegulet, Yifat, Menjar and Bulga, is populated mostly by Christian Amharas, while southern is inhabited by the Gurages and eastern Shewa have large Oromo and Argobba Muslim populations."
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"text": "Amongst these was the family of the widely revered Saint Tekle Haymanot, who was born in the district of Zorare, in Silalish, an ancient name for Bulga in 1215 and where he first launched his first evangelisations."
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What is a three-dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices that has some repetitive quality of nonconvexity giving it a star-like visual quality?
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a star polyhedron
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"text": "In geometry, a polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons) is a three-dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices. The word polyhedron comes from the Classical Greek πολύεδρον, as poly- (stem of πολύς, \"many\") + -hedron (form of ἕδρα, \"base\" or \"seat\")."
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"text": "In geometry, a star polyhedron is a polyhedron which has some repetitive quality of nonconvexity giving it a star-like visual quality. There are two general kinds of star polyhedron:"
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In Christianity, the specific names and roles of what, which is from two Old French words, clergié and clergie, vary by denomination?
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Clergy
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"text": "\"Clergy\" is from two Old French words, clergié and clergie, which refer to those with learning and derive from Medieval Latin clericatus, from Late Latin clericus (the same word from which \"cleric\" is derived). \"Clerk\", which used to mean one ordained to the ministry, also derives from clericus."
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"text": "In Christianity, the specific names and roles of the clergy vary by denomination and there is a wide range of formal and informal clergy positions, including deacons, elders, priests, bishops, preachers, pastors, ministers and the pope. In Islam, a religious leader is often known formally or informally as an imam, qadi, mufti, mullah, or ayatollah."
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The Alaskan Athabascans live in what region of the state?
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central region
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"text": "The Alaskan Athabascans, Alaskan Athabaskans, Alaskan Athapaskans ( Russian: атабаски Аляски, атапаски Аляски) are Alaska Native peoples of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. They are the original inhabitants of the interior of Alaska. In Alaska, where they are the oldest, there are eleven groups identified by the languages they speak."
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"text": "Interior Alaska is the central region of Alaska's territory, roughly bounded by the Alaska Range to the south and the Brooks Range to the north. It is largely wilderness. Mountains include Denali in the Alaska Range, the Wrangell Mountains, and the Ray Mountains."
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The largest language by number of speakers has the lowest proficiency in what region?
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The Middle East.
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"text": "English is the largest language by number of speakers, and the third most-spoken native language in the world, after Standard Chinese and Spanish. It is the most widely learned second language and is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states."
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"text": "English proficiency levels are evolving at different rates in different countries, including a few countries with declining English skills. Europe as a whole has the highest proficiency in English, while the Middle East averages the lowest. Women speak English better than men on average."
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What is the difference in how Jim Henson's Rowlf the dog and Gromit the dog in Wallace & Gromit were created?
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Rowlf is a puppet and Gromit is made of clay.
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"text": "Jim Henson designed Rowlf, and Don Sahlin built him; it was Sahlin's first Muppet construction. Rowlf rose to popularity as Jimmy Dean 's sidekick on The Jimmy Dean Show, performed by Henson and Frank Oz."
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"text": "The Muppets are an ensemble cast of puppet characters known for an absurdist, burlesque, and self-referential style of variety-sketch comedy. Created by Jim Henson in 1955, they are the namesakes of the Disney-owned media franchise that encompasses television, film, music, and other media associated with the characters."
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"text": "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 stop-motion clay-animated supernatural comedy film produced by British studio Aardman Animations in partnership with American studio DreamWorks Animation.[3][4] United International Pictures distributed the film in the United Kingdom, and it was the last DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by DreamWorks Pictures in the United States."
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An application like LibreOffice Writer can be distinguished among what two main classes of software?
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Closed source vs open source.
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"text": "LibreOffice Writer, a word processing application. Application software ( app for short) is computing software designed to carry out a specific task other than one relating to the operation of the computer itself, typically to be used by end-users."
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"text": "Software applications are also classified in respect of the programming language in which the source code is written or executed, and respect of their purpose and outputs. Application software is usually distinguished among two main classes: closed source vs open source software applications, and among free or proprietary software applications."
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The warmest zone in the British Isles, zone 10 which is close to Sub-Tropical, is what touristy archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, owned mostly by the Duchy of Cornwall?
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The warmest zone is the Isles of Scilly.
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"text": "England mainly lies within hardiness zone 8, but the Pennines and Cumbrian Mountains lie in the colder zone 7 and south west England, the Irish sea coast, South coast and London lie in the warmer zone 9. A very small area, the Isles of Scilly lie in the warmest zone in the British Isles, zone 10 which is close to Sub-Tropical ."
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"text": "The Isles of Scilly is an archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall. One of the islands, St Agnes, is the most southerly point in England, being over 4 miles (6.4 km) further south than the most southerly point of the British mainland at Lizard Point. The adjective \"Scillonian\" is sometimes used for people or things related to the archipelago. The Duchy of Cornwall owns most of the freehold land on the islands. Tourism is a major part of the local economy, along with agriculture—particularly the production of cut flowers."
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Scythians may have been what kind of people that comes from the country that derives from Medieval Latin Croātia?
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Croats.
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"text": "John Skylitzes in his work Madrid Skylitzes identified Croats and Serbs as Scythians. Nestor the Chronicler in his Primary Chronicle identified White Croats with West Slavs along Vistula river, with other Croats included in the East Slavic tribal union."
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"text": "The name of Croatia ( Croatian: Hrvatska) derives from Medieval Latin Croātia, itself a derivation of the native ethnonym of Croats, earlier *Xъrvate and modern-day Croatian: Hrvati ."
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Dark, Four-wheeled, and Sergio are all types of what?
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Slides involving boards
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"text": "Also known as a Sergio slide (named after the Brazilian inventor of the move, Sergio Yuppie), a layback is a frontside slide performed while riding downhill by placing your uphill hand on the ground behind the tail of your board and breaking the rear wheels out of traction."
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"text": "A four-wheeled slide where the skateboarder puts one hand on the ground and rotates the board while it is still on the ground, effectively sliding on the wheels of the skateboard. The trick was named after the surfer Larry Bertlemann, who performed the trick in his surfing routine."
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"text": "The Dark slide is a seemingly complicated looking trick in which the rider approaches a ledge or rail and does a flip trick onto the obstacle so that the rider lands on the board upside down with their feet on the nose and the tail and slides across the obstacle."
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What park can you find the item that has lustrous faces and is often from a primary deposit is yellow, brown or gray to colorless?
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Crater of Diamonds park
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"text": "Diamonds are also mined alluvially over disperse areas, where diamonds have been eroded out of the ground, deposited, and concentrated by water or weather action. There is also at least one example of a heritage diamond mine ( Crater of Diamonds State Park ). Small rough diamonds from Russia."
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"text": "Its lustrous faces also indicate that this crystal is from a primary deposit. Typically yellow, brown, or gray to colorless. Less often blue, green, black, translucent white, pink, violet, orange, purple, and red. Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic."
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What landlocked county in the West Midlands of England borders Derbyshire, a county in the East Midlands?
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Staffordshire
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"text": "Derbyshire ( / ˈdɑːrbiʃɪər, - ʃər /) is a county in the East Midlands of England. Much of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire, containing the southern extremity of the Pennine range of hills, which extend into the north of the county."
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"text": "Staffordshire ( / ˈstæfərdʃɪər, - ʃər /; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands County and Worcestershire to the south, and Shropshire to the west."
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The 34-mile long tributary of the Smith River can be found in what state that includes the Snake River Valley?
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Oregon.
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"text": "The North Fork Smith River is a 34-mile (55 km) tributary of the Smith River in Douglas County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It begins in the Central Oregon Coast Range near Roman Nose Mountain and flows generally southwest to meet the larger river 16 miles (26 km) from its confluence with the Umpqua River at Reedsport."
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"text": "Still others include the entire area east of the Cascade Range; this meaning would also include Sherman, Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Wasco, and Wheeler counties. The extreme eastern section of Oregon in the Snake River Valley, including the city of Ontario, is part of the Treasure Valley, which extends east to Boise, Idaho."
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During the end of what period did megafauna start disappearing due to the activities of humans?
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The last glacial period.
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"text": "The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity."
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"text": "The Holocene extinction includes the disappearance of large land animals known as megafauna, starting at the end of the last glacial period."
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What distinction do both the African palm civet and the masked palm civet have in common?
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Both the masked palm civet and the African palm civet are listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
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"text": "The African palm civet ( Nandinia binotata ), also known as the two-spotted palm civet, is a small feliform mammal widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. The African palm civet is grey to dark brown with dark spots on the back. It has short legs, small ears, a lean body, and a long ringed tail."
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"text": "The masked palm civet has been listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List since 2008 as it occurs in many protected areas, it does not have spots or stripes, and is distributed from the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, especially the Himalayas."
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What 1961 film that was the only theatrically released film directed by José Quintero starred Vivien Leigh as an acclaimed American stage actress and her businessman husband off on holiday to Rome?
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone was directed by José Quintero.
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"text": "Karen Stone ( Vivien Leigh ), an acclaimed American stage actress and her businessman husband are off on holiday to Rome. On the plane, her husband, a multi- millionaire, suffers a fatal heart attack."
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"text": "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is a 1961 British romantic drama film made by Seven Arts-Warner Bros.[1][2][3] It was directed by José Quintero and produced by Louis de Rochemont with Lothar Wolff as associate producer. The screenplay was written by Gavin Lambert and Jan Read and based on the novel by Tennessee Williams. The music score was by Richard Addinsell and the cinematography by Harry Waxman.This was the only theatrically released film directed by José Quintero.[4]"
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The rectangular Paramushir island is found on what island chain that is near Sakhalin?
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Kuril Islands.
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"text": "Severo-Kurilsk, the administrative center of the Severo-Kurilsky district, is the only permanently populated settlement on Paramushir island. Paramushir is roughly rectangular, and is the second largest of the Kuril Islands with an area of 2,053 square kilometres (793 sq mi). Geologically, Paramushir is a continuous chain of 23 volcanoes."
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"text": "The largest city on Hokkaido is its capital, Sapporo, which is also its only ordinance-designated city. Sakhalin lies about 43 kilometers (26 mi) to the north of Hokkaido, and to the east and northeast are the Kuril Islands, which are administered by Russia, though the four most southerly are claimed by Japan."
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What bone is affected in a periapical abscess and is studied in dental traumatology?
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The teeth.
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"text": "Dental trauma refers to trauma (injury) to the teeth and/or periodontium (gums, periodontal ligament, alveolar bone ), and nearby soft tissues such as the lips, tongue, etc. The study of dental trauma is called dental traumatology. A broken upper front tooth."
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"text": "In a periapical abscess, usually the origin is a bacterial infection that has accumulated in the soft, often dead, pulp of the tooth. This can be caused by tooth decay, broken teeth or extensive periodontal disease (or combinations of these factors)."
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What elder son of Pompey the Great and possibly great-grandson of Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman historian?
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Gnaeus Pompeius
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"text": "Gnaeus Pompeius (consul 31 BC) (died 14 AD), possibly the great-grandson of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, suffect consul in 31 BC This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name."
},
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"text": "Gnaeus Pompeius (son of Pompey the Great) (ca. 75 BC – 45 BC), elder son of Pompey the Great, a politician and general from the late Roman Republic Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (1st century BC), a Roman historian who adopted the nomen Pompeius from Pompey the Great after serving in Pompey's war against Quintus Sertorius"
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If a matrix has the same number of rows and columns, how can someone deduce some of its properties?
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Someone can deduce some of its properties by computing its determinant.
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"text": "In mathematics, a square matrix is a matrix with the same number of rows and columns. An n -by- n matrix is known as a square matrix of order . Any two square matrices of the same order can be added and multiplied. Square matrices are often used to represent simple linear transformations, such as shearing or rotation."
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"text": "If the matrix is square, then it is possible to deduce some of its properties by computing its determinant. For example, a square matrix has an inverse if and only if its determinant is not zero. Insight into the geometry of a linear transformation is obtainable (along with other information) from the matrix's eigenvalues and eigenvectors ."
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Which animal in the family Lithodidae is said to descend from an animal family that contains 542 species in over 70 genera?
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The king crab is said to descend from the Paguridae family of hermit crabs.
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"text": "Many studies based on their physical characteristics, genetic information, and combined data demonstrate the longstanding hypothesis that the king crabs in the family Lithodidae are derived hermit crabs descended from pagurids and should be classified as a family within Paguroidea."
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"text": "The Paguridae are a family of hermit crabs of the order Decapoda. This family contains 542 species in over 70 genera"
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The Pont de Normandie and Millau Viaduct are both what kind of bridge?
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Cable-stayed.
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"text": "The Pont de Normandie (English: Normandy Bridge) is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre to Honfleur in Normandy, northern France. Its total length is 2,143.21 metres (7,032 ft) – 856 metres (2,808 ft) between the two piers."
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"text": "This bridge spans a deep river gorge. The bridge's two towers, built on either rim of the gorge, are 269 m (883 ft) tall, but due to the depth of the river gorge, the deck height of the Duge Bridge is 565 m (1,854 ft). The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed bridge that is both tall (in structural height) and high (in deck height)."
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The SR Merchant Navy class and the Battle of Britain class were both types of what?
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Steam locomotives
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"text": "Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the Bulleid light pacifics, the West Country and Battle of Britain classes of locomotives that ran on the British Southern Railway network."
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"text": "The SR Merchant Navy class (originally known as the 21C1 class, and later informally known as Bulleid Pacifics, Spam Cans or Packets) is a class of air-smoothed 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by Oliver Bulleid. The Pacific design was chosen in preference to several others proposed by Bulleid."
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Who is a patron saint and which denominations venerate them?
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A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Anglicanism, or Eastern Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person. The veneration and recognition of patron saints or saints in general is found in Catholicism, Eastern Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and among some Lutherans and Anglicans. Catholics believe that patron saints, having already transcended to the metaphysical, are able to intercede effectively for the needs of their special charges
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"text": "A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Anglicanism, or Eastern Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person."
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"text": "The veneration or \"commemoration\" and recognition of patron saints or saints in general is found in Catholicism, Eastern Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and among some Lutherans and Anglicans. Catholics believe that patron saints, having already transcended to the metaphysical, are able to intercede effectively for the needs of their special charges."
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Livistona chinensis and Chamaerops humilis are both types of what?
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Palms
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"text": "The only currently fully accepted species is Chamaerops humilis, variously called European fan palm or the Mediterranean dwarf palm. It is one of the most cold-hardy palms and is used in landscaping in temperate climates."
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"text": "Saribus oliviformis Hassk. Saribus subglobosus Hassk. Livistona chinensis, the Chinese fan palm or fountain palm, is a species of subtropical palm tree of east Asia. It is native to southern Japan, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, southeastern China and Hainan."
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Someshvara and Bhoja II were both members of what dynasty?
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The Shilahara Dynasty
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"text": "Bhoja II (ruled 1175–1212 CE) was a ruler in medieval India, the last of the Shilahara dynasty of Kolhapur in Maharashtra. He suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Singhana, king of the Yadava Dynasty, in 1212 CE at Umalvad."
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"text": "Someshvara was Shilahara ruler of north Konkan branch from 1255 CE – 1265 CE. The successor of Keshideva II was Someshvara, who, like Aparaditya, assumed the imperial titles Maharajadhiraja and Konkana Chakravarti. Someshvara is the last known king of North Konkan. In his time the power of the Yadavas of Devagiri was increasing."
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The emergence of aesthetic what, which is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the human brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation, depends heavily on an authored vision provided by a (media) artifact?
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Illusion
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"text": "The emergence of aesthetic illusion depends heavily on an authored vision provided by a (media) artifact. Thus, different recipients can be expected to share similar imaginative experiences, which stands in contrast to more recipient-centered illusionist experiences like hallucinations, dreams, daydreams and delusions."
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"text": "An illusion is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the human brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. Although illusions distort our perception of reality, they are generally shared by most people."
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Which of the metropolitan counties which are based on the major english conurbations had people move in after the ice age ended?
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Yorkshire, it was occupied after the ice age.
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"text": "Yorkshire is a historic county of England, centred on the county town of York. The region was first occupied after the retreat of the ice age around 8000 BC. During the first millennium AD it was inhabited by celtic Britons and occupied by Romans, Angles and Vikings."
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"text": "There are six metropolitan counties which are based on the major English conurbations; and they also correspond exactly to a ceremonial county and have multiple districts, but do not have county councils. They are Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands and West Yorkshire."
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Pursuant to the Appointments Clause in Article II, all members of Article III tribunals are appointed by the President and confirmed by the what, whose committees hold confirmation hearings on presidential nominations to executive and judicial positions within their jurisdiction?
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Senate
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"text": "They constitute the judicial branch of the federal government (which is defined by Article III of the Constitution). Pursuant to the Appointments Clause in Article II, all members of Article III tribunals are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate."
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"text": "Each Senate committee holds confirmation hearings on presidential nominations to executive and judicial positions within its jurisdiction. These hearings often offer an opportunity for oversight into the activities of the nominee's department or agency."
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The Amargosa niterwort has a genus name that translates to what, in English?
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Nitrophila is Greek for 'soda-loving'.
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"text": "Nitrophila mohavensis in flower. Nitrophila mohavensis is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common name Amargosa niterwort. It is endemic to Nye County in southwestern Nevada and Inyo County, in eastern California ."
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"text": "Nitrophila is a small genus of flowering plants. The genus name is Greek for 'soda-loving', as the plant grows in alkaline or salty soils, such as those rich in borax. These are rhizomatous perennials with fleshy foliage that helps them conserve water in environments high in mineral salts"
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Ariolimax and Limax are both genuses of what?
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Slugs
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"text": "Limax is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Limacidae . The generic name Limax literally means \"slug\". Some species, such as the leopard slug ( L. maximus) and the tawny garden slug ( Limacus flavus ), are considered serious garden pests."
},
{
"text": "Banana slugs are North American terrestrial slugs comprising the genus Ariolimax. They are often bright yellow (giving rise to the \" banana \" common name) although they may also be greenish, brown, tan, or white. Species within the genus Ariolimax include:"
}
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ECC and implicit are both types of what?
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Curves
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{
"text": "In mathematics, an implicit curve is a plane curve defined by an implicit equation relating two coordinate variables, commonly x and y. For example, the unit circle is defined by the implicit equation . In general, every implicit curve is defined by an equation of the form for some function F of two variables."
},
{
"text": "It is one of the fastest ECC curves and is not covered by any known patents. The reference implementation is public domain software. The original Curve25519 paper defined it as a Diffie–Hellman (DH) function."
}
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