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The VS-300 was a type of what?	It had a single three-blade rotor originally powered by a 75 horsepower (56 kW) engine.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	The first "free" flight of the VS-300 was on 13 May 1940.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	The VS-300 was the first successful single lifting rotor helicopter in the United States and the first successful helicopter to use a single vertical-plane tail rotor configuration for antitorque.	1
The VS-300 was a type of what?	With floats attached, it became the first practical amphibious helicopter.	1
The VS-300 was a type of what?	[PAR] Design and development [PAR] Igor Sikorsky's quest for a practical helicopter began in 1938, when as the Engineering Manager of the Vought-Sikorsky Division of United Aircraft Corporation, he was able to convince the directors of United Aircraft that his years of study and research into rotary-wing flight problems would lead to a breakthrough.	1
The VS-300 was a type of what?	His first experimental machine, the VS-300, was test flown by Sikorsky on 14 September 1939 tethered by cables.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	In developing the concept of rotary-wing flight, Sikorsky was the first to introduce a single engine to power both the main and tail rotor systems.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	The only previous successful attempt at a single-lift rotor helicopter, the Yuriev-Cheremukhin TsAGI-1EA in 1931 in the Soviet Union, used a pair of uprated, Russian-built Gnome Monosoupape rotary engines of 120 hp each for its power.	1
The VS-300 was a type of what?	For later flights of his VS-300, Sikorsky also added a vertical aerofoil surface to the end of the tail to assist anti-torque but this was later removed when it proved to be ineffective.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	[PAR] The cyclic control was found to be difficult to perfect, and led to Sikorsky locking the cyclic and adding two smaller vertical-axis lifting rotors to either side aft of the tail boom.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	By varying pitch of these rotors simultaneously, fore and aft control was provided.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	Roll control was provided by differential pitching of the blades.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	In this configuration, it was found that the VS-300 could not fly forward easily and Sikorsky joked about turning the pilot's seat around.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	[PAR] Operational history [PAR] Sikorsky fitted utility floats (also called pontoons) to the VS-300 and performed a water landing and takeoff on 17 April 1941, making it the first practical amphibious helicopter.	1
The VS-300 was a type of what?	[http://www.sikorsky.com/vgn-ext-templating-SIK/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid [PAR] 208ae39d40a78110VgnVCM1000001382000aRCRD "Timeline."]	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	Sikorsky.com.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	Retrieved: 22 September 2009.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	On 6 May 1941, the VS-300 beat the world endurance record held by the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, by staying aloft for 1 hour 32 minutes and 26.1 seconds.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	[PAR] The final variant of the VS-300 was powered by a 150 hp Franklin engine.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	The VS-300 was one of the first helicopters capable of carrying cargo.	1
The VS-300 was a type of what?	The VS-300 was modified over a two-year period, including removal of the two vertical tail rotors, until 1941 when a new cyclic control system gave it much improved flight behavior.Chiles 2008, p. 104.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	[PAR] Survivor [PAR] In 1943, the VS-300 was retired to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	It has been on display there ever since, except for a trip back to the Sikorsky Aircraft plant for restoration in 1985.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	[PAR] Specifications (VS-300)[DOC] [TLE] S-46/VS-300/VS -300A Helicopter - Sikorsky ArchivesUntitled Document [PAR] VS-300A NX 28996 in Forward flight with Igor Sikorsky at the controls [PAR] Background [PAR] [PAR] Igor Sikorsky dreamed of building a helicopter from his youth.	1
The VS-300 was a type of what?	In 1931, he applied for a patent for a single main rotor helicopter which included nearly every feature that would be incorporated in the VS-300.	1
The VS-300 was a type of what?	By 1938, technology had caught up with his dream.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	When he was summoned to United Aircraft Headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut to be told that the Sikorsky Division which at that time was building fixed-wing aircraft was being shut down due to a lack of business, he requested that he be allowed to keep his design team together to design a helicopter.	1
The VS-300 was a type of what?	His request was granted along with an initial $30,000 budget.	0
The VS-300 was a type of what?	The VS-300 was America’s first practical helicopter.	1
The VS-300 was a type of what?	It was also the first successful helicopter in the world with a single main rotor	1
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	[DOC] [TLE] Dame Judi Dench \| British actress \| Britannica.comJudi Dench \| British actress \| Britannica.com [PAR] British actress [PAR] Alternative Title: Dame Judith Olivia Dench [PAR] Judi Dench [PAR] Judi Dench, in full Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born December 9, 1934, York , North Yorkshire , England ), British actress known for her numerous and varied stage roles and for her work in television and in a variety of films.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	[PAR] Judi Dench and Colin Firth in Shakespeare in Love (1998).	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	[PAR] Copyright © 1999 Miramax Films [PAR] Dench studied at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in London .	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	In 1957 she gave her first important critically acclaimed performance, as Ophelia in the Old Vic production of Hamlet.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	The following year she made her Broadway debut in Twelfth Night.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	Her performance as Lady Macbeth in the Royal Shakespeare Company ’s Macbeth (1977) earned her a Laurence Olivier Award from the Society of West End Theatre Managers (now the Society of London Theatre).	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	It was her first of eight Olivier Awards; she also won for Juno and the Paycock (1980), Pack of Lies (1983), Antony and Cleopatra (1987), Absolute Hell (1996), A Little Night Music (1996), and The Winter’s Tale (2016), and in 2004 she received a special Olivier Award.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	[PAR] Judi Dench appearing in a National Theatre production of Anton Chekhov’s The … [PAR] Robbie Jack/Corbis [PAR] From the beginning of her career, Dench frequently acted on television, in adaptations of plays as well as in series.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	Among her notable credits were two romantic comedy series that aired on the BBC : A Fine Romance (1981–84), which she starred in with her husband, Michael Williams, whom she had married in 1971 and who died in 2001; and As Time Goes By (1992–2005).	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	She later starred in the BBC miniseries Cranford (2007–09), based on works by Elizabeth Gaskell .	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	[PAR] After making her big-screen debut in the crime drama The Third Secret (1964), Dench acted in such films as A Room with a View (1985) and A Handful of Dust (1988).	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	She took the role of James Bond ’s boss, M, in GoldenEye (1995)—the first of several Bond movies in which she appeared—and subsequently played two British queens, the recently widowed Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997) and Queen Elizabeth I in the comedy Shakespeare in Love (1998).	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	For her role as Elizabeth I, she won an Academy Award for best supporting actress, and, for that of Queen Victoria, she won an Academy Award nomination and the Golden Globe Award for best actress in a drama.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	Additional Oscar nominations for best actress came for her portrayals of British writer Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001), an eccentric theatre owner in Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005), and the lonely teacher Barbara Covett in Notes on a Scandal (2006).	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	[PAR] Daniel Craig (left) as James Bond and Judi Dench as M in Casino Royale … [PAR] © 2006 Sony Pictures Entertainment.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	All rights reserved.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	[PAR] Britannica Stories [PAR] Scientists Ponder Menopause in Killer Whales [PAR] After appearing in the musical Nine (2009), Dench played Mrs. Fairfax in Jane Eyre (2011), an adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	In Clint Eastwood ’s biopic J. Edgar (2011), she portrayed the mother of J. Edgar Hoover (played by Leonardo DiCaprio ), and, in the drama My Week with Marilyn (2011), she appeared as actress Sybil Thorndike .	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	She was featured in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and its 2015 sequel, both of which concern the comic hijinks of a group of British retirees in India .	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	Dench also starred alongside Steve Coogan in Philomena (2013), based on the true story of a woman’s search for a child she had given up for adoption in her youth.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	She earned another Oscar nomination for best actress for her work on that film .	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	In 2015 Dench paired with Dustin Hoffman in a BBC adaptation of Roald Dahl ’s Esio Trot (1990).	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	The following year she had a cameo in Tim Burton ’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.	0
Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?	[DOC] [TLE]	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	[DOC] [TLE] Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX - Jan 26, 1986 ...Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX - Jan 26, 1986 - HISTORY.com [PAR] Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX [PAR] Share this: [PAR] Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX [PAR] Author [PAR] Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX [PAR] URL [PAR] Publisher [PAR] A+E Networks [PAR] On January 26, 1986, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Chicago Bears score a Super Bowl record number of points to defeat the New England Patriots, 46-10, and win their first championship since 1963.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	[PAR] Led by Coach Mike Ditka, a tight end for the Bears during their last Super Bowl win, Chicago won 17 of 18 games to reach the championship match-up with the Patriots, who became only the fourth wild-card team in history to advance to the Super Bowl.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	After Tony Franklin kicked a 36-yard field goal only one minute and 19 seconds into the game, New England took the quickest lead in Super Bowl history.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	It was mostly downhill for the Patriots from there, as the Bears built a 23-3 lead by halftime, gaining a total of 236 yards, compared with New England’s minus 19.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	The young Patriots quarterback, Tony Eason, had zero completions in six passes, was sacked three times and fumbled once before being replaced by Steve Grogan near the end of the first half.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	[PAR] The mighty Bears defense made a crucial impact on the game, causing six Patriot turnovers (four of which led to touchdowns) and holding New England to a total of only seven rushing yards all game.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	The Bears were hot on offense as well, as quarterback Jim McMahon completed 12 of 20 passes for 256 yards and no interceptions.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	Defensive tackle William “The Refrigerator” Perry had one of the game’s most memorable moments, running in a one-yard touchdown and spiking the ball in celebration.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	The celebrated Chicago running back Walter Payton carried 22 times for 61 yards but did not score, the one disappointment in an otherwise triumphant game for the Bears.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	[PAR] When the game was over, the Bears had set a new NFL record for margin of victory (36 points), bettering the mark of 29 set by the Los Angeles Raiders when they beat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	They also scored more points than any other team in the history of the Super Bowl, beating the previous record (38) shared by the Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XIX.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	The Bears defensive end Richard Dent, who contributed one and a half of Chicago’s record seven sacks, was named the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XX, becoming only the fourth defender to win the honor.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	[PAR] Super Bowl XX is also remembered for the ubiquitous “Super Bowl Shuffle,” a rap song and accompanying video released by the Bears during the weeks leading up to their championship meeting with the Patriots.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	Payton, McMahon, Dent, Perry and linebacker Mike Singletary were among the Bears who participated in the song’s production, which reached #41 on the Billboard charts and earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	[PAR] Related Videos[DOC] [TLE] Super Bowl XX Game Recap - NFL.com - Official Site of the ...Super Bowl XX Game Recap [PAR] Chicago 46, New England 10 [PAR] SuperBowl.com wire reports [PAR] Buddy Ryan's '46' defense squashed the Patriots.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	(AP) [PAR] The NFC champion Chicago Bears, seeking their first NFL title since 1963, scored a Super Bowl-record 46 points in downing AFC champion New England 46-10 in Super Bowl XX.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	The previous record for most points in a Super Bowl was 38, shared by San Francisco in XIX and the Los Angeles Raiders in XVIII.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	[PAR] The Bears' league-leading defense tied the Super Bowl record for sacks (7) and limited the Patriots to a record-low seven rushing yards.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	[PAR] New England took the quickest lead in Super Bowl history when Tony Franklin kicked a 36-yard field goal with 1:19 elapsed in the first period.	0
Who won Super Bowl XX?	The score came about because of Larry McGrew's fumble recovery at the Chicago	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	[DOC] [TLE] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 [PAR] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 [PAR] Sinclair Lewis [PAR] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 [PAR] Sinclair Lewis [PAR] Prize share: 1/1 [PAR] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters".	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	[PAR] Photos: Copyright © The Nobel Foundation [PAR] Share this: [PAR] To cite this page [PAR] MLA style: "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930".	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	Nobelprize.org.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	Nobel Media AB 2014.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	Web.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	18 Jan 2017.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	<http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/>[DOC] [TLE] Why Don’t More Americans Win the Nobel Prize?	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	- The New YorkerWhy Don’t More Americans Win the Nobel Prize?	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	- The New Yorker [PAR] Why Don’t More Americans Win the Nobel Prize?	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	[PAR] By [PAR] [PAR] October 8, 2013 [PAR] When the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Sinclair Lewis, in 1930, it was the first time in the prize’s three-decade history that it had been given to an American.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	Lewis’s acceptance lecture was a not-especially-gracious missive aimed at his critics in the United States.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	Yet the curmudgeonly writer managed more expansive moments, gesturing toward the historic nature of that year’s award and remarking upon the state of American literature at the time, and on its status in the world.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	[PAR] Lewis argued that writing in the U.S. had been stunted in the years after Whitman and Twain, and mostly ignored; only architecture and film were taken seriously as popular arts among Americans.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	The authors who did manage to attract notice were mostly sentimental and blandly patriotic, while cultural critics, like Lewis himself, who were honest enough to express that the country had “not yet produced a civilization good enough to satisfy the deepest wants of human creatures,” were disparaged.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	“The American novelist or poet or dramatist or sculptor or painter must work alone, in confusion, unassisted save by his own integrity,” Lewis said.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	[PAR] This might have sounded familiar to an audience of European intellectuals—the notion of Americans as either “a puerile backwoods clan,” in Lewis’s phrase, or else a boorish mass of humanity enthralled by industry, science, and high finance.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	By recognizing Lewis with the Nobel, the committee was at once endorsing his political critiques of his home country, and also marking American literature as having come of age.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	Lewis noted that the award could have gone to one of his contemporaries—Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser or Eugene O’Neill—but he also predicted that future committees would have many talented writers to chose from among a group of young Americans that was hard at work giving the United States “a literature worthy of her vastness.” [PAR] Since 1930, ten other Americans have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, including a few whom Lewis mentioned in his lecture—O’Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	Others, whom he couldn’t have predicted—John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison—have become central writers in a national literary canon worthy of the vastness of this, or any other, country.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	Still others—Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky—came to the United States as adults, and wrote primarily in their native languages, which reflected another step toward cosmopolitanism among American letters.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	(The work of the other American winner, Pearl Buck, who won the Nobel in 1938, has not aged well, and her award has become a frequently cited example of the committee’s idiosyncratic choices.)	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	Through the twentieth century, the idea of the American literary scene as an overlooked backwater faded, owing to the artistry of these writers and scores of others, but also because the United States became a haven for exiled Europeans during the Second World War and its Cold War aftermath, and, perhaps most especially, because of the economic dominance of the American publishing industry.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	[PAR] Nowadays, New York is the world’s publishing capital for books written in English, and American literature has joined film and music as one of the country’s principal artistic exports.	0
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?	And yet, echoes of the intellectual situation that Lewis identified	0
Stapleton international airport is in which US state?	[DOC] [TLE] Stapleton International Airport WebcamStapleton International Airport Webcam [PAR] Stapleton International Airport Webcam [PAR] Stapleton International Airport Forecast Widget [PAR] Stapleton International Airport, Denver County, Colorado, United States [PAR] The Stapleton International Airport webcam below is the best available in our database.	0
Stapleton international airport is in which US state?	This Stapleton International Airport webcam and those cams nearby are not operated by weather-forecast.com, however please let us know if the Stapleton International Airport webcam is dead or frequently offline.	0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

It had a single three-blade rotor originally powered by a 75 horsepower (56 kW) engine.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

The first "free" flight of the VS-300 was on 13 May 1940.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

The VS-300 was the first successful single lifting rotor helicopter in the United States and the first successful helicopter to use a single vertical-plane tail rotor configuration for antitorque.

1

The VS-300 was a type of what?

With floats attached, it became the first practical amphibious helicopter.

1

The VS-300 was a type of what?

[PAR] Design and development [PAR] Igor Sikorsky's quest for a practical helicopter began in 1938, when as the Engineering Manager of the Vought-Sikorsky Division of United Aircraft Corporation, he was able to convince the directors of United Aircraft that his years of study and research into rotary-wing flight problems would lead to a breakthrough.

1

The VS-300 was a type of what?

His first experimental machine, the VS-300, was test flown by Sikorsky on 14 September 1939 tethered by cables.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

In developing the concept of rotary-wing flight, Sikorsky was the first to introduce a single engine to power both the main and tail rotor systems.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

The only previous successful attempt at a single-lift rotor helicopter, the Yuriev-Cheremukhin TsAGI-1EA in 1931 in the Soviet Union, used a pair of uprated, Russian-built Gnome Monosoupape rotary engines of 120 hp each for its power.

1

The VS-300 was a type of what?

For later flights of his VS-300, Sikorsky also added a vertical aerofoil surface to the end of the tail to assist anti-torque but this was later removed when it proved to be ineffective.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

[PAR] The cyclic control was found to be difficult to perfect, and led to Sikorsky locking the cyclic and adding two smaller vertical-axis lifting rotors to either side aft of the tail boom.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

By varying pitch of these rotors simultaneously, fore and aft control was provided.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

Roll control was provided by differential pitching of the blades.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

In this configuration, it was found that the VS-300 could not fly forward easily and Sikorsky joked about turning the pilot's seat around.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

[PAR] Operational history [PAR] Sikorsky fitted utility floats (also called pontoons) to the VS-300 and performed a water landing and takeoff on 17 April 1941, making it the first practical amphibious helicopter.

1

The VS-300 was a type of what?

[http://www.sikorsky.com/vgn-ext-templating-SIK/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid [PAR] 208ae39d40a78110VgnVCM1000001382000aRCRD "Timeline."]

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The VS-300 was a type of what?

Sikorsky.com.

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The VS-300 was a type of what?

Retrieved: 22 September 2009.

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The VS-300 was a type of what?

On 6 May 1941, the VS-300 beat the world endurance record held by the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, by staying aloft for 1 hour 32 minutes and 26.1 seconds.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

[PAR] The final variant of the VS-300 was powered by a 150 hp Franklin engine.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

The VS-300 was one of the first helicopters capable of carrying cargo.

1

The VS-300 was a type of what?

The VS-300 was modified over a two-year period, including removal of the two vertical tail rotors, until 1941 when a new cyclic control system gave it much improved flight behavior.Chiles 2008, p. 104.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

[PAR] Survivor [PAR] In 1943, the VS-300 was retired to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

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The VS-300 was a type of what?

It has been on display there ever since, except for a trip back to the Sikorsky Aircraft plant for restoration in 1985.

0

The VS-300 was a type of what?

[PAR] Specifications (VS-300)[DOC] [TLE] S-46/VS-300/VS -300A Helicopter - Sikorsky ArchivesUntitled Document [PAR] VS-300A NX 28996 in Forward flight with Igor Sikorsky at the controls [PAR] Background [PAR] [PAR] Igor Sikorsky dreamed of building a helicopter from his youth.

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The VS-300 was a type of what?

In 1931, he applied for a patent for a single main rotor helicopter which included nearly every feature that would be incorporated in the VS-300.

1

The VS-300 was a type of what?

By 1938, technology had caught up with his dream.

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The VS-300 was a type of what?

When he was summoned to United Aircraft Headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut to be told that the Sikorsky Division which at that time was building fixed-wing aircraft was being shut down due to a lack of business, he requested that he be allowed to keep his design team together to design a helicopter.

1

The VS-300 was a type of what?

His request was granted along with an initial $30,000 budget.

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The VS-300 was a type of what?

The VS-300 was America’s first practical helicopter.

1

The VS-300 was a type of what?

It was also the first successful helicopter in the world with a single main rotor

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

[DOC] [TLE] Dame Judi Dench | British actress | Britannica.comJudi Dench | British actress | Britannica.com [PAR] British actress [PAR] Alternative Title: Dame Judith Olivia Dench [PAR] Judi Dench [PAR] Judi Dench, in full Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born December 9, 1934, York , North Yorkshire , England ), British actress known for her numerous and varied stage roles and for her work in television and in a variety of films.

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

[PAR] Judi Dench and Colin Firth in Shakespeare in Love (1998).

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

In 1957 she gave her first important critically acclaimed performance, as Ophelia in the Old Vic production of Hamlet.

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

The following year she made her Broadway debut in Twelfth Night.

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

Her performance as Lady Macbeth in the Royal Shakespeare Company ’s Macbeth (1977) earned her a Laurence Olivier Award from the Society of West End Theatre Managers (now the Society of London Theatre).

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

It was her first of eight Olivier Awards; she also won for Juno and the Paycock (1980), Pack of Lies (1983), Antony and Cleopatra (1987), Absolute Hell (1996), A Little Night Music (1996), and The Winter’s Tale (2016), and in 2004 she received a special Olivier Award.

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

[PAR] Judi Dench appearing in a National Theatre production of Anton Chekhov’s The … [PAR] Robbie Jack/Corbis [PAR] From the beginning of her career, Dench frequently acted on television, in adaptations of plays as well as in series.

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

Among her notable credits were two romantic comedy series that aired on the BBC : A Fine Romance (1981–84), which she starred in with her husband, Michael Williams, whom she had married in 1971 and who died in 2001; and As Time Goes By (1992–2005).

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

She later starred in the BBC miniseries Cranford (2007–09), based on works by Elizabeth Gaskell .

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

[PAR] After making her big-screen debut in the crime drama The Third Secret (1964), Dench acted in such films as A Room with a View (1985) and A Handful of Dust (1988).

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

She took the role of James Bond ’s boss, M, in GoldenEye (1995)—the first of several Bond movies in which she appeared—and subsequently played two British queens, the recently widowed Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997) and Queen Elizabeth I in the comedy Shakespeare in Love (1998).

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

For her role as Elizabeth I, she won an Academy Award for best supporting actress, and, for that of Queen Victoria, she won an Academy Award nomination and the Golden Globe Award for best actress in a drama.

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

Additional Oscar nominations for best actress came for her portrayals of British writer Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001), an eccentric theatre owner in Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005), and the lonely teacher Barbara Covett in Notes on a Scandal (2006).

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

[PAR] Britannica Stories [PAR] Scientists Ponder Menopause in Killer Whales [PAR] After appearing in the musical Nine (2009), Dench played Mrs. Fairfax in Jane Eyre (2011), an adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel.

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

In Clint Eastwood ’s biopic J. Edgar (2011), she portrayed the mother of J. Edgar Hoover (played by Leonardo DiCaprio ), and, in the drama My Week with Marilyn (2011), she appeared as actress Sybil Thorndike .

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

She was featured in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and its 2015 sequel, both of which concern the comic hijinks of a group of British retirees in India .

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

Dench also starred alongside Steve Coogan in Philomena (2013), based on the true story of a woman’s search for a child she had given up for adoption in her youth.

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

She earned another Oscar nomination for best actress for her work on that film .

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

In 2015 Dench paired with Dustin Hoffman in a BBC adaptation of Roald Dahl ’s Esio Trot (1990).

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Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?

The following year she had a cameo in Tim Burton ’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

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Who won Super Bowl XX?

[DOC] [TLE] Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX - Jan 26, 1986 ...Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX - Jan 26, 1986 - HISTORY.com [PAR] Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX [PAR] Share this: [PAR] Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX [PAR] Author [PAR] Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX [PAR] URL [PAR] Publisher [PAR] A+E Networks [PAR] On January 26, 1986, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Chicago Bears score a Super Bowl record number of points to defeat the New England Patriots, 46-10, and win their first championship since 1963.

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[PAR] Led by Coach Mike Ditka, a tight end for the Bears during their last Super Bowl win, Chicago won 17 of 18 games to reach the championship match-up with the Patriots, who became only the fourth wild-card team in history to advance to the Super Bowl.

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After Tony Franklin kicked a 36-yard field goal only one minute and 19 seconds into the game, New England took the quickest lead in Super Bowl history.

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Who won Super Bowl XX?

It was mostly downhill for the Patriots from there, as the Bears built a 23-3 lead by halftime, gaining a total of 236 yards, compared with New England’s minus 19.

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Who won Super Bowl XX?

The young Patriots quarterback, Tony Eason, had zero completions in six passes, was sacked three times and fumbled once before being replaced by Steve Grogan near the end of the first half.

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Who won Super Bowl XX?

[PAR] The mighty Bears defense made a crucial impact on the game, causing six Patriot turnovers (four of which led to touchdowns) and holding New England to a total of only seven rushing yards all game.

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The Bears were hot on offense as well, as quarterback Jim McMahon completed 12 of 20 passes for 256 yards and no interceptions.

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Defensive tackle William “The Refrigerator” Perry had one of the game’s most memorable moments, running in a one-yard touchdown and spiking the ball in celebration.

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Who won Super Bowl XX?

The celebrated Chicago running back Walter Payton carried 22 times for 61 yards but did not score, the one disappointment in an otherwise triumphant game for the Bears.

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[PAR] When the game was over, the Bears had set a new NFL record for margin of victory (36 points), bettering the mark of 29 set by the Los Angeles Raiders when they beat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII.

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They also scored more points than any other team in the history of the Super Bowl, beating the previous record (38) shared by the Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XIX.

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The Bears defensive end Richard Dent, who contributed one and a half of Chicago’s record seven sacks, was named the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XX, becoming only the fourth defender to win the honor.

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[PAR] Super Bowl XX is also remembered for the ubiquitous “Super Bowl Shuffle,” a rap song and accompanying video released by the Bears during the weeks leading up to their championship meeting with the Patriots.

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Payton, McMahon, Dent, Perry and linebacker Mike Singletary were among the Bears who participated in the song’s production, which reached #41 on the Billboard charts and earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.

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Who won Super Bowl XX?

[PAR] Related Videos[DOC] [TLE] Super Bowl XX Game Recap - NFL.com - Official Site of the ...Super Bowl XX Game Recap [PAR] Chicago 46, New England 10 [PAR] SuperBowl.com wire reports [PAR] Buddy Ryan's '46' defense squashed the Patriots.

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(AP) [PAR] The NFC champion Chicago Bears, seeking their first NFL title since 1963, scored a Super Bowl-record 46 points in downing AFC champion New England 46-10 in Super Bowl XX.

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The previous record for most points in a Super Bowl was 38, shared by San Francisco in XIX and the Los Angeles Raiders in XVIII.

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Who won Super Bowl XX?

[PAR] The Bears' league-leading defense tied the Super Bowl record for sacks (7) and limited the Patriots to a record-low seven rushing yards.

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Who won Super Bowl XX?

[PAR] New England took the quickest lead in Super Bowl history when Tony Franklin kicked a 36-yard field goal with 1:19 elapsed in the first period.

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Who won Super Bowl XX?

The score came about because of Larry McGrew's fumble recovery at the Chicago

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

[DOC] [TLE] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 [PAR] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 [PAR] Sinclair Lewis [PAR] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 [PAR] Sinclair Lewis [PAR] Prize share: 1/1 [PAR] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters".

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

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<http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/>[DOC] [TLE] Why Don’t More Americans Win the Nobel Prize?

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- The New YorkerWhy Don’t More Americans Win the Nobel Prize?

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- The New Yorker [PAR] Why Don’t More Americans Win the Nobel Prize?

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

[PAR] By [PAR] [PAR] October 8, 2013 [PAR] When the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Sinclair Lewis, in 1930, it was the first time in the prize’s three-decade history that it had been given to an American.

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

Lewis’s acceptance lecture was a not-especially-gracious missive aimed at his critics in the United States.

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

Yet the curmudgeonly writer managed more expansive moments, gesturing toward the historic nature of that year’s award and remarking upon the state of American literature at the time, and on its status in the world.

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[PAR] Lewis argued that writing in the U.S. had been stunted in the years after Whitman and Twain, and mostly ignored; only architecture and film were taken seriously as popular arts among Americans.

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

The authors who did manage to attract notice were mostly sentimental and blandly patriotic, while cultural critics, like Lewis himself, who were honest enough to express that the country had “not yet produced a civilization good enough to satisfy the deepest wants of human creatures,” were disparaged.

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

“The American novelist or poet or dramatist or sculptor or painter must work alone, in confusion, unassisted save by his own integrity,” Lewis said.

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

[PAR] This might have sounded familiar to an audience of European intellectuals—the notion of Americans as either “a puerile backwoods clan,” in Lewis’s phrase, or else a boorish mass of humanity enthralled by industry, science, and high finance.

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By recognizing Lewis with the Nobel, the committee was at once endorsing his political critiques of his home country, and also marking American literature as having come of age.

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

Lewis noted that the award could have gone to one of his contemporaries—Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser or Eugene O’Neill—but he also predicted that future committees would have many talented writers to chose from among a group of young Americans that was hard at work giving the United States “a literature worthy of her vastness.” [PAR] Since 1930, ten other Americans have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, including a few whom Lewis mentioned in his lecture—O’Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway.

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Others, whom he couldn’t have predicted—John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison—have become central writers in a national literary canon worthy of the vastness of this, or any other, country.

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

Still others—Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky—came to the United States as adults, and wrote primarily in their native languages, which reflected another step toward cosmopolitanism among American letters.

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

(The work of the other American winner, Pearl Buck, who won the Nobel in 1938, has not aged well, and her award has become a frequently cited example of the committee’s idiosyncratic choices.)

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

Through the twentieth century, the idea of the American literary scene as an overlooked backwater faded, owing to the artistry of these writers and scores of others, but also because the United States became a haven for exiled Europeans during the Second World War and its Cold War aftermath, and, perhaps most especially, because of the economic dominance of the American publishing industry.

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

[PAR] Nowadays, New York is the world’s publishing capital for books written in English, and American literature has joined film and music as one of the country’s principal artistic exports.

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Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?

And yet, echoes of the intellectual situation that Lewis identified

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Stapleton international airport is in which US state?

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