copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2024-02-03): Origin: The study of words and their meanings have changed throughout history. But word ‘Hello’ or its use as a greeting is related to invention of telephone. The word ‘Hello’ was never intended to mean the ‘Hi’ we use it today. [...] Myths around ‘Hello’: Rumor has it that the standard greeting came as it was name of Alexander Graham Bell’s girlfriend while experimenting his invention. She later married the inventor. Does this mean that his wife’s name was Hello Bell? Others suggest that Alexander Graham Bell was honouring his girlfriend while choosing the word for answering a telephone call. She was reportedly Margaret Hello. Does it mean Hello’ is indication of love while answering the phone. These rumours lack historical facts.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2024-08-08): We will give you a hint: it's got nothing to do with Alexander Graham Bell's girlfriend's name... A video shared on social media allegedly shares the meaning behind the greeting 'Hello', linking it to Alexander Graham Bell's fiancee, Margaret Hello... According to several online sources, this is false. First, Alexander Graham Bell's wife's name was Mabel Gardiner Hubbard. Second, it has been said that American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison proposed using the word 'Hello' as a greeting, and it stuck.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2011-08-20): In our daily life we are causally using the word "hello" while answering the phone calls.Actually the word "hello" came into existence by Alexander graham bell, the inventor of telephone. Hello is the name of Alexander graham bell's girlfriend called Margaret Hello. [...] I believe the answer above is not true. Bell's girlfriend on 1873 is Mabel Hubbard which he marries on 1877. The telephone was patented in 1876. BTW Mabel Hubbard is deaf. His father-in-law is one of the two financial backers for his invention. Ask one of our cast of character bots yes . when we pick the phone we say hello because hello is the girlfriend of Graham bell . in this way we remember his girlfriend.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2024-07-05): Claim: The fiancée of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was named Margaret Hello, and this led to the customary use of the greeting "hello" in phone calls. [...] The post then claims that "hello" originated from the name of Bell’s fiancée, Margaret Hello, and that this was the first word Bell spoke over the phone. [...] Previous fact-checks: The claim linking the origins of "hello" to Bell’s supposed fiancée isn’t new; the fact-checking organization Snopes had debunked the claim in a March 14, 2014 article titled, "The Hello Girl." Fact Crescendo, meanwhile, has a recent article on the claim published on June 11. – Percival Bueser/ Rappler.com
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2011-02-17): A (Shockingly) Short History Of 'Hello' [...] The dictionary says it was Thomas Edison who put hello into common usage. He urged the people who used his phone to say "hello" when answering. His rival, Alexander Graham Bell, thought the better word was "ahoy." "Ahoy," it turns out, had been around longer — at least 100 years longer — than hello. It too was a greeting, albeit a nautical one, derived from the Dutch "hoi," meaning "hello." Bell felt so strongly about "ahoy" he used it for the rest of his life.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2022-08-30): It reads: "When you lift the phone you say Hello..? Do you know what is the real meaning of Hello..? It is the name of a girl..! YES & do u know who is that girl..? ‘Margaret Hello’ she was the girlfriend of Graham Bell who invented telephone." [...] Scottish-born US inventor Alexander Graham Bell did invent the telephone, in 1876. But was "hello" really his girlfriend’s surname? [...] Bell "was engaged to Mabel Hubbard", a woman he married the year after he invented the phone, "who remained his wife until his death in 1922", Snopes says. The photo in the meme is of Bell and Hubbard – not "Margaret Hello".
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2014-03-15): While there certainly exist words that began their linguistic lives as people's names, hello does not belong in that category. This sorry tale about the surname of Alexander Graham Bell's girlfriend is merely a hoax, nothing more. We began seeing this purported etymology for hello in the online world in November 2010. Iterations of this leg-pull have subsequently rechristened the inventor of the telephone "Graham Bell" and "graham-bell" (with one version also claiming "His first 2 instruments were at his and her place ... and the first call he made to commercially test the phones was to his girlfriend!") [...] As for that first call, or any other by Graham, being made to the "Margaret Hello" identified in this tall tale as "his girlfriend," such would have stood as rather interesting personal news to those who knew him, because in 1876 Bell was engaged to Mabel Hubbard, a woman whom he married the following year and who remained his wife until his death in 1922. By December 2016, the tale graduated to meme form; the image of Bell with the purported "Margaret Hello" was in fact a photograph of the inventor and Hubbard.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2018-10-08): First, let’s rid ourselves of myths we may have picked up over the internet. Rumor has it that the standard greeting came about because it was the name of Alexander Graham Bell’s girlfriend at the time of patenting the invention. The story goes that she later married the inventor. Perhaps, this means, his wife’s proper name would be Hello Bell? Others suggest that it was a girlfriend that Bell was honoring when choosing the go-to phrase for answering a call on the telephone. This girlfriend is said to have been named Margaret Hello. Supposedly, a declaration of love is why we say hello when answering the phone. [...] With all of the inventions that were said to be wrongly credited to The Wizard of Menlo Park, who knows if he invented the word? After all, the Oxford English dictionary cites the first printed version of ‘Hello’ with that spelling was fifty years prior in the Norwich Courier of Norwich, Connecticut.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2016-06-22): Do you know what is the real meaning of "Hello" It is the name of a girl. [...] Margaret Hello. She was the girlfriend of Graham bell who invented the telephone. One can forget the name of Graham bell but not his girlfriend - that is Love !!!! or whatever.... [...] Was Bell involved with a woman named Margaret Hello and is that the reason the word "hello" was popularized?
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-09): Fact Crescendo found the claim made along with the viral video be False. This is not a video from a recent Israeli airstrike in Gaza.The viral video dates back to May 2021 when Israeli airstrikes destroyed the 14-storey tower in Gaza City.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-08): Live: Palestinian children, women killed in Israeli strikes on central Gaza Huge explosions in Gaza’s central Bureij refugee camp with at least 25 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks, including 8 women and children. - At least 25 Palestinians – including six children and two women – are killed in Israeli air strikes on central Gaza as soldiers "systematically work to empty" the war-battered north.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-07): Israeli fighter jets struck and destroyed rocket launchers in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis used by Hamas in an attack earlier today on central Israel, the military says. [...] Amnesty also criticizes Israel’s response: "The massacre perpetrated by Hamas and its accomplices, and Israel’s subsequent devastating attacks on Gaza, reverberate in the public discussions held here and around the world. They lead to mutual accusations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide, which each party attributes to the other." [...] Separately, the IDF struck Hamas sites in central Gaza overnight, which it says posed a threat to Israeli forces operating in the Netzarim Corridor area.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-07): Israeli authorities say about 1,200 people were killed last Oct. 7, as Hamas led thousands of attackers bursting out of Gaza, ambushing Israeli towns and communities. Kibbutz Be’eri suffered the biggest loss of any single village: 102 people killed — about one out of every 13 people living there. The deadliest single attack in Israeli history led to the deadliest war in Palestinian history, with more than 41,000 Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip this past year, according to health officials there.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-11): Rockets target Tel Aviv after Gaza tower destroyed - Published Palestinian militants say they fired 130 missiles at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike felled a tower block in the Gaza Strip. [...] The rockets were launched after the destruction of the Hanadi Tower in Gaza, which houses an office used by the political leadership of Hamas.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-06-22): Israel war on Gaza updates: Israel kills 101 Palestinians in 24 hours
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-04-05): NewsNewsIsrael-Gaza warIsrael marks year since Hamas attack as fighting rages on multiple frontsVigils have been held across Israel including at the festival where hundreds were killed last October.6 hrs agoMiddle EastMiddle East conflict: How will it end?Talk of how the Israel-Palestine conflict could be resolved has been drowned out amid the increased fighting.11 hrs agoBBC InDepthLebanon abandoned by international community - ex PMFouad Siniora tells the BBC that Lebanon as a state has been kidnapped by Hezbollah.6 hrs agoMiddle EastPolicewoman killed and 10 injured in shooting in IsraelThe gunman was shot dead at the scene in Beersheba after what police described as a "suspected terror attack".
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-07): World leaders are reacting to Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel Saturday morning. Many are, as has been the case during previous conflicts, calling for calm and restraint. [...] German Chancellor Olaf Scholz: "Shocking news reaches us today from Israel. The rocket fire from Gaza and the escalating violence shock us deeply. Germany condemns these Hamas attacks and stands by Israel." [...] Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte: "Appalling images from Israel. Terror organisation Hamas is waging an unprecedented attack on Israel. Innocent civilians are being attacked by terrorists. This violence must stop; Israel has every right to defend itself."
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-07): Israel attack: PM says Israel at war after 250 killed in attack from Gaza [...] Israel has responded with a wave of air strikes on Gaza that have killed 232 people and wounded 1,600, medics say. [...] Later, missiles destroyed the 11-storey Palestine Tower in downtown Gaza City, which houses Hamas radio stations in the rooftop.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-08-18): Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Blinken arrives in Tel Aviv
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-07): Israel stepped up air and ground attacks on Hamas in Gaza, killing at least 52 people according to Palestinian medics, on the first anniversary of a war has destroyed much of the territory and shattered the lives of its people. [...] Israel’s subsequent offensive in Gaza has killed nearly 42,000 Palestinians, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry, displaced nearly all its 2.3 million people – many of them multiple times – and wrought a humanitarian crisis with hunger widespread and health care and critical infrastructure breaking down. [...] On Monday, Israeli tanks advanced into Jabalia, the largest of Gaza Strip’s eight historic urban refugee camps, after encircling it, residents said. Soon after the rocket volley, the Israeli military expanded evacuation orders in Jabalia to cover areas in the northern towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-08): What we covered here • Israel will "continue to fight," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday in a speech marking a year since the October 7 Hamas attacks. Israel’s ensuing war in Gaza has killed more than 41,000 people and triggered a humanitarian crisis, catalyzing a widening regional conflict.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-14): Israeli strikes on evacuee convoys in Gaza kill 70, Hamas says [...] The Israel Defense Forces have been conducting localized raids on the ground in the Gaza Strip over the past day "in an effort to eliminate the threat of terrorists and weapons in the area and locate hostages," the IDF said in a statement Friday evening local time. [...] TEL AVIV — For Israeli families desperate to be reunited with their loved ones who were taken hostage by Hamas, the militant group's claim today that 13 hostages died in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip comes as a new and devastating blow. NBC News has not verified Hamas' claim.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2023-11-08): Amnesty International investigated five Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, which took place between 7 and 12 October. Between 2012 and 2022, the Israeli authorities have denied, or failed to respond to, all of Amnesty International’s requests to gain access to Gaza. For this reason, the organization worked with a Gaza-based fieldworker who visited attack sites and collected testimony and other evidence. Amnesty International researchers interviewed 17 survivors and other eyewitnesses, as well as six relatives of victims over the phone, for the five cases included in this report. The organization’s Crisis Evidence Lab analysed satellite imagery and verified photos and videos of attack sites. [...] At around 8:20pm on 7 October, Israeli forces struck a three-storey residential building in the al-Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, where three generations of the al-Dos family were staying. Fifteen family members were killed in the attack, seven of them children. The victims include Awni and Ibtissam al-Dos, and their grandchildren and namesakes Awni, 12, and Ibtissam, 17; and Adel and Ilham al-Dos and all five of their children. Baby Adam, just 18 months old, was the youngest victim. [...] On 10 October an Israeli air strike hit a six-storey building in Sheikh Radwan, a district of Gaza City, at 4:30pm. The strike completely destroyed the building and killed at least 40 civilians.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-09): This is an enormously difficult task. War is always tragic, and even the most carefully planned military operations often put civilians at risk. As President Biden noted during his recent visit to Israel, America itself has at times fallen short of our higher values when engaged in war, and in the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. government wasn’t interested in heeding the advice of even our allies when it came to the steps we took to protect ourselves against Al Qaeda. Now, after the systematic massacre of Israeli citizens, a massacre that evokes some of the darkest memories of persecution against the Jewish people, it’s understandable that many Israelis have demanded that their government do whatever it takes to root out Hamas and make sure such attacks never happen again. Moreover, Hamas’ military operations are deeply embedded within Gaza — and its leadership seems to intentionally hide among civilians, thereby endangering the very people they claim to represent.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-28): It’s unclear why air defenses failed to intercept the drone, which appears to be the first known attack on Tower 22 since attacks on US and coalition forces began on October 17. US forces at the outpost are there as part of an advise-and-assist mission with Jordan. [...] Meanwhile, Israel is continuing its campaign in Gaza against Hamas following Hamas’ terror attack on Israel on October 7. More than 25,000 people are estimated to have been killed and tens of thousands more injured – according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza, in the intense fighting since October 7. Israel is also targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon; on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said it struck Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon with artillery and fighter jets.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-20): I met with the Prime Minister and members of his cabinet. And most movingly, I met with Israelis who had personally lived through horrific horror of the attack by Hamas on the 7th of October.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2022-04-20): Israel has committed a new crime against humanity by massacring more than a hundred civilians who had taken refuge in a school building in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City. This attack demonstrated once again that the Netanyahu Government intends to sabotage the negotiations for a permanent ceasefire.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-30): The airstrike hit a multistory residential building, according to an Associated Press journalist at the scene. Videos showed ambulances and a crowd gathered near the building in a mainly Sunni district with a busy thoroughfare lined with shops.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2023-11-16): Israel called up army reservists and launched a wave of airstrikes on the tiny strip, which is home to 2.3 million people. Netanyahu warned Palestinians in Gaza to "get out of there now" as he vowed to reduce Hamas hideouts to "rubble", but there is nowhere for those in the blockaded territory to escape to. Warplanes targeted several buildings in the centre of Gaza City, including Palestine Tower, an 11-storey building that houses Hamas radio stations. [...] The Palestinian health ministry said on 8 October that at least 400 Palestinians had been killed, including 20 children, and nearly 2,000 wounded as a result of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza since the day before. Seven people were also killed by Israeli army fire in the West Bank, including a child, it said.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-04-04): JERUSALEM (AP) — A Human Rights Watch investigation published Thursday said an Israeli attack on a Gaza building in October had no apparent militant target, but killed 106 civilians, including 54 children, making it an "apparent war crime." International law prohibits attacks on military targets that will likely cause disproportionate harm to civilians. The Oct. 31 attack was one of the deadliest since the start of the war nearly six months ago. Human Rights Watch says four separate strikes collapsed the Engineer’s Building in central Gaza, which was housing some 350 people, around a third of whom had fled their homes elsewhere in the territory. WATCH: José Andrés accuses Israel of deliberately targeting World Central Kitchen members Those killed included children playing soccer outside and residents charging phones in the first-floor grocery store, it said. Thirty-four women, 18 men and 54 children were killed in the strike, according to the group, which says it corroborated its list of the dead with Airwars, a London-based conflict monitor. The dead came from 22 families. One extended family, the Abu Said family, lost 23 relatives in the strike, it said.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-03-09): Dozens of families in the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip were left homeless Saturday after Israeli forces struck one of the largest residential towers there, asserting that the block is used by Hamas to plan attacks on Israel. [...] Israel’s latest attack is increasing pressure on the last part of the enclave that it has not yet targeted, where upwards of 1 million displaced Palestinians are sheltering. One of the 300 residents of the tower, which is located some 500 meters (1,640 feet) from the border with Egypt, told Reuters that Israel gave them a 30-minute warning to flee the building at night.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-08-13): Israeli Attack on Al Tabi'een School in Gaza Underscores Desperate Need for Ceasefire, Scaled Up Humanitarian Assistance, UN Political Chief Tells Security Council The Israeli attack on the al-Tabeen school in Gaza City on 10 August underscored the desperate need to reach a ceasefire, free the hostages, and scale up humanitarian aid to Gaza, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today, as delegates voiced concern over rising regional tensions. [...] Strongly condemning Israel’s airstrikes on the Al Tabi’een school in Gaza, the representative of China said that attacking in broad daylight a school where a large number of civilians shelter is "a heinous act". Over the past 10 months, millions of people in Gaza have seen their homes destroyed and forced to move from place to place, "only to be met with indiscriminate bombardment and death". "As we speak, nowhere is safe in Gaza," he said, calling for an immediate ceasefire. However, instead of credible signs of Israel’s commitment to a ceasefire, the world is witnessing ever-expanding military operations and uprising civilian casualties. Highlighting Washington, D.C.’s influence over Israel, he urged that country to take sincere actions to push Tel Aviv to stop its military operation in Gaza and slaughtering civilians.
Claim: Israeli Attacked On Gaza Tower Recently !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-09)
Evidence (2024-04-27): A Sari, ‘Israeli Attacks on Gaza’s Tower Blocks’ (Articles of War. Lieber Institute, West Point, 17 May 2021) <https://lieber.westpoint.edu/israeli-attacks-gazas-tower-blocks/> accessed 2 February 2024. [...] J Federman, ‘Shocking and Horrifying’: Israel Destroys AP Office in Gaza’ (AP News, 16 May 2021) <https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-fe452147166f55ba5a9d32e6ba8b53d7> accessed 2 February 2024, and ‘Give Us 10 Minutes: How Israel Bombed a Gaza Media Tower’ (Al Jazeera, 15 May 2021) <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/15/give-us-10-minutes-how-israel-bombed-gaza-media-tower> accessed 2 February 2024.