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General_Electric

GE (General Electric) Energy's renewable energy business has expanded greatly, to keep up with growing U.S. and global demand for clean energy. Since entering the renewable energy industry in 2002, GE has invested more than $850 million in renewable energy commercialization. In August 2008 it acquired Kelman Ltd, a Northern Ireland company specializing in advanced monitoring and diagnostics technologies for transformers used in renewable energy generation, and announced an expansion of its business in Northern Ireland in May 2010. In 2009, GE's renewable energy initiatives, which include solar power, wind power and GE Jenbacher gas engines using renewable and non-renewable methane-based gases, employ more than 4,900 people globally and have created more than 10,000 supporting jobs.

Question: In what year did GE enter the renewable energy industry?
Answer: 2002

Question: How much money has GE invested in renewable energy commercialization?
Answer: more than $850 million

Question: In what year did GE acquire Kelman Ltd.?
Answer: 2008

Question: As of 2009, how many people did GE employ in its renewable energy initiatives?
Answer: more than 4,900

Question: When did GE announce an expansion of its business in Northern Ireland?
Answer: May 2010
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In May 2005, GE announced the launch of a program called "Ecomagination," intended, in the words of CEO Jeff Immelt "to develop tomorrow's solutions such as solar energy, hybrid locomotives, fuel cells, lower-emission aircraft engines, lighter and stronger durable materials, efficient lighting, and water purification technology". The announcement prompted an op-ed piece in The New York Times to observe that, "while General Electric's increased emphasis on clean technology will probably result in improved products and benefit its bottom line, Mr. Immelt's credibility as a spokesman on national environmental policy is fatally flawed because of his company's intransigence in cleaning up its own toxic legacy."

Question: When did GE announce its Ecoimagination program?
Answer: May 2005

Question: Who was the CEO of GE when it announced its Ecoimagination program?
Answer: Jeff Immelt

Question: What type of technology related to water was to be developed under the Ecoimagination program?
Answer: water purification technology

Question: Which newspaper printed an op-ed piece that questioned Immelt's credibility as a spokesman on environmental policy?
Answer: The New York Times

Question: What type of locomotive technology was to be developed by GE under its Ecoimagination program?
Answer: hybrid
General_Electric

GE's history of working with turbines in the power-generation field gave them the engineering know-how to move into the new field of aircraft turbosuperchargers.[citation needed] Led by Sanford Alexander Moss, GE introduced the first superchargers during World War I, and continued to develop them during the Interwar period. Superchargers became indispensable in the years immediately prior to World War II, and GE was the world leader in exhaust-driven supercharging when the war started. This experience, in turn, made GE a natural selection to develop the Whittle W.1 jet engine that was demonstrated in the United States in 1941. GE ranked ninth among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts. Although their early work with Whittle's designs was later handed to Allison Engine Company, GE Aviation emerged as one of the world's largest engine manufacturers, second only to the British company, Rolls-Royce plc.

Question: Who led GE's effort to build the first turbosupercharges during World War I?
Answer: Sanford Alexander Moss

Question: Which jet engine did GE introduce in 1941?
Answer: Whittle W.1

Question: What was GE's rank among US corporations in the value of wartime production contracts during World War II?
Answer: ninth

Question: To which company did GE hand off their work on Whittle's jet engines?
Answer: Allison Engine Company

Question: Which company is ranked as the largest engine manufacturer in the world?
Answer: Rolls-Royce plc
General_Electric

General Electric heavily contaminated the Hudson River with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) between 1947-77. This pollution caused a range of harmful effects to wildlife and people who eat fish from the river or drink the water. In response to this contamination, activists protested in various ways. Musician Pete Seeger founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and the Clearwater Festival to draw attention to the problem. The activism led to the site being designated by the EPA as one of the superfund sites requiring extensive cleanup. Other sources of pollution, including mercury contamination and sewage dumping, have also contributed to problems in the Hudson River watershed.

Question: In what time period did GE pollute the Hudson River with PCBs?
Answer: 1947-77

Question: Who founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and the Clearwater Festival to bring attention to the pollution caused by GE?
Answer: Pete Seeger

Question: What does PCB stand for?
Answer: polychlorinated biphenyls

Question: What designation did the EPA give to the site of GE's Hudson River pollution
Answer: superfund

Question: What other types of pollution have contaminated the Hudson River watershed?
Answer: mercury contamination and sewage dumping
General_Electric

GE has said that it will invest $1.4 billion in clean technology research and development in 2008 as part of its Ecomagination initiative. As of October 2008, the scheme had resulted in 70 green products being brought to market, ranging from halogen lamps to biogas engines. In 2007, GE raised the annual revenue target for its Ecomagination initiative from $20 billion in 2010 to $25 billion following positive market response to its new product lines. In 2010, GE continued to raise its investment by adding $10 billion into Ecomagination over the next five years.

Question: How much money has GE said it will invest in 2008 for clean technology R&D?
Answer: $1.4 billion

Question: How many green products did GE bring to market via its Ecoimagination program as of October 2008?
Answer: 70

Question: What type of engine did GE bring to market as part of its Ecoimagination project?
Answer: biogas

Question: What type of lamp was introduced by GE as part of its Ecoimagination initiative?
Answer: halogen

Question: What was GE's new revenue target for its Ecoimagination program in 2010?
Answer: $25 billion
General_Electric

Short Films, Big Ideas was launched at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival in partnership with cinelan. Stories included breakthroughs in Slingshot (water vapor distillation system), cancer research, energy production, pain management and food access. Each of the 30 films received world premiere screenings at a major international film festival, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. The winning amateur director film, The Cyborg Foundation, was awarded a US$100,000 prize at the 2013 at Sundance Film Festival.[citation needed] According to GE, the campaign garnered more than 1.5 billion total media impressions, 14 million online views, and was seen in 156 countries.[citation needed]

Question: What was the name of the project introduced by GE at the 2011 Toronto International Fils Festival?
Answer: Short Films, Big Ideas

Question: Which company was GE's partner in the Short Fils, Big Ideas project?
Answer: cinelan

Question: What type of system is Sligshot?
Answer: water vapor distillation

Question: What prize was awarded to the winning amateur dirctor film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival?
Answer: US$100,000

Question: How many online views did the Short Films, Big Ideas campaign generate?
Answer: 14 million
General_Electric

In April 2014, it was announced that GE was in talks to acquire the global power division of French engineering group Alstom for a figure of around $13 billion. A rival joint bid was submitted in June 2014 by Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) with Siemens seeking to acquire Alstom's gas turbine business for €3.9 billion, and MHI proposing a joint venture in steam turbines, plus a €3.1 billion cash investment. In June 2014 a formal offer From GE worth $17 billion was agreed by the Alstom board. Part of the transaction involved the French government taking a 20% stake in Alstom to help secure France's energy and transport interests, and French jobs. A rival offer from Siemens-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was rejected. The acquisition was expected to be completed in 2015.

Question: When did GE announce it was in talks to acquire the French engineering group Alstom?
Answer: April 2014

Question: What was the final acquisition price paid by GE for Alstom?
Answer: $17 billion

Question: How big was the stake in Alstom taken by the French government as part of the acquisition deal?
Answer: 20%

Question: When was GE's acquisition of Alstom agreed to by Alstom's board?
Answer: June 2014

Question: From which company did the Alstom board reject a rival acquisition proposal?
Answer: Siemens-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
General_Electric

GE is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Its main offices are located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza at Rockefeller Center in New York City, known now as the Comcast Building. It was formerly known as the GE Building for the prominent GE logo on the roof; NBC's headquarters and main studios are also located in the building. Through its RCA subsidiary, it has been associated with the center since its construction in the 1930s. GE moved its corporate headquarters from the GE Building on Lexington Avenue to Fairfield in 1974.

Question: Where is GE's headquarters located?
Answer: Fairfield, Connecticut

Question: On what street in New York was GE headquartered before moving to Fairfield?
Answer: Lexington Avenue

Question: In what year did GE move its headquarters to Fairfield?
Answer: 1974

Question: Which television broadcast company is located in the same building as GE's main offices in New York City?
Answer: NBC

Question: What was the former name of the Comcast Building, location of GE's main offices?
Answer: 30 Rockefeller Plaza at Rockefeller Center
General_Electric

In 1983, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York to compel GE to pay for the cleanup of what was claimed to be more than 100,000 tons of chemicals dumped from their plant in Waterford, New York. In 1999, the company agreed to pay a $250 million settlement in connection with claims it polluted the Housatonic River (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) and other sites with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other hazardous substances.

Question: Which New York State Attorney General filed suit in US District Court to force GE to pay for the cleanup of chemicals dumped by their plant in Waterford, NY?
Answer: Robert Abrams

Question: How much did GE agree to pay in claims for the pollution it caused in the Housatonic River and other sites?
Answer: $250 million

Question: How many tons of PCBs were claimed to have been dumped by GE's Waterford Plant in the 1983 lawsuit?
Answer: more than 100,000

Question: In which year was a settlement reached regarding GE's pollution of the Housatonic River?
Answer: 1999

Question: What was the location of the pollution caused by GE in the Housatonic River?
Answer: Pittsfield, Massachusetts
United_States_Army

The Continental Army was created on 14 June 1775 by the Continental Congress as a unified army for the colonies to fight Great Britain, with George Washington appointed as its commander. The army was initially led by men who had served in the British Army or colonial militias and who brought much of British military heritage with them. As the Revolutionary War progressed, French aid, resources, and military thinking influenced the new army. A number of European soldiers came on their own to help, such as Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who taught the army Prussian tactics and organizational skills.

Question: When was the Continental Army created?
Answer: 14 June 1775

Question: Who was the commander of the Continental Army?
Answer: George Washington

Question: From what country did Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben come from?
Answer: Europe

Question: What did Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben teach the Continental Army?
Answer: Prussian tactics and organizational skills
United_States_Army

The Vietnam War is often regarded as a low point for the U.S. Army due to the use of drafted personnel, the unpopularity of the war with the American public, and frustrating restrictions placed on the military by American political leaders. While American forces had been stationed in the Republic of Vietnam since 1959, in intelligence & advising/training roles, they did not deploy in large numbers until 1965, after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. American forces effectively established and maintained control of the "traditional" battlefield, however they struggled to counter the guerrilla hit and run tactics of the communist Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army. On a tactical level, American soldiers (and the U.S. military as a whole) did not lose a sizable battle.

Question: What year did American forces start being stationed in Vietnam?
Answer: 1959

Question: What caused American forces to deploy in large number in 1965?
Answer: Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Question: What political structure did Vietnam have?
Answer: communist
United_States_Army

By the twentieth century, the U.S. Army had mobilized the U.S. Volunteers on four separate occasions during each of the major wars of the nineteenth century. During World War I, the "National Army" was organized to fight the conflict, replacing the concept of U.S. Volunteers. It was demobilized at the end of World War I, and was replaced by the Regular Army, the Organized Reserve Corps, and the State Militias. In the 1920s and 1930s, the "career" soldiers were known as the "Regular Army" with the "Enlisted Reserve Corps" and "Officer Reserve Corps" augmented to fill vacancies when needed.

Question: What was organized to replace the concept of U.S. Volunteers?
Answer: the "National Army"

Question: When was the National Army demobilized?
Answer: end of World War I

Question: Who filled vacancies in the Regular Army?
Answer: "Enlisted Reserve Corps" and "Officer Reserve Corps"
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The army is led by a civilian Secretary of the Army, who has the statutory authority to conduct all the affairs of the army under the authority, direction and control of the Secretary of Defense. The Chief of Staff of the Army, who is the highest-ranked military officer in the army, serves as the principal military adviser and executive agent for the Secretary of the Army, i.e., its service chief; and as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a body composed of the service chiefs from each of the four military services belonging to the Department of Defense who advise the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council on operational military matters, under the guidance of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1986, the Goldwater–Nichols Act mandated that operational control of the services follows a chain of command from the President to the Secretary of Defense directly to the unified combatant commanders, who have control of all armed forces units in their geographic or function area of responsibility. Thus, the secretaries of the military departments (and their respective service chiefs underneath them) only have the responsibility to organize, train and equip their service components. The army provides trained forces to the combatant commanders for use as directed by the Secretary of Defense.

Question: Who is the highest-ranked military officer in the army?
Answer: The Chief of Staff

Question: Who does the Chief of Staff serve as the principal military adviser to?
Answer: Secretary of the Army

Question: How many military services beling to the Department of Defense?
Answer: four

Question: In what year did the Goldwater-Nichols act take place?
Answer: 1986
United_States_Army

The United States Army (USA) is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed (14 June 1775) to fight the American Revolutionary War (1775–83)—before the U.S. was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784, to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army, and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775.

Question: What branch of the USA Armed Forces is the largest?
Answer: The United States Army

Question: How many uniformed services are there in the US?
Answer: seven

Question: What years did the American Revolutionary War span?
Answer: 1775–83

Question: What date was the U.S. Army created?
Answer: 3 June 1784

Question: What did the U.S Army replace?
Answer: Continental Army
United_States_Army

After the war, though, the Continental Army was quickly given land certificates and disbanded in a reflection of the republican distrust of standing armies. State militias became the new nation's sole ground army, with the exception of a regiment to guard the Western Frontier and one battery of artillery guarding West Point's arsenal. However, because of continuing conflict with Native Americans, it was soon realized that it was necessary to field a trained standing army. The Regular Army was at first very small, and after General St. Clair's defeat at the Battle of the Wabash, the Regular Army was reorganized as the Legion of the United States, which was established in 1791 and renamed the "United States Army" in 1796.

Question: What political party did not have trust in standing armies?
Answer: republican

Question: Who was defeated at the Battle of the Wabash?
Answer: General St. Clair

Question: Who did the state militias have ongoing conflict with?
Answer: Native Americans

Question: In what year was the Legion of the United States established?
Answer: 1791

Question: In what year was the Legion of the United States renamed to the United States Army?
Answer: 1796
United_States_Army

For the first two years Confederate forces did well in set battles but lost control of the border states. The Confederates had the advantage of defending a very large country in an area where disease caused twice as many deaths as combat. The Union pursued a strategy of seizing the coastline, blockading the ports, and taking control of the river systems. By 1863 the Confederacy was being strangled. Its eastern armies fought well, but the western armies were defeated one after another until the Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862 along with the Tennessee River. In the famous Vicksburg Campaign of 1862–63, Ulysses Grant seized the Mississippi River and cut off the Southwest. Grant took command of Union forces in 1864 and after a series of battles with very heavy casualties, he had Lee under siege in Richmond as William T. Sherman captured Atlanta and marched through Georgia and the Carolinas. The Confederate capital was abandoned in April 1865 and Lee subsequently surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House; all other Confederate armies surrendered within a few months.

Question: In what year did the Union Forces capture New Orleans?
Answer: 1862

Question: Who took control of the Mississippi River in 1862-63?
Answer: Ulysses Grant

Question: Who captured Atlanta?
Answer: William T. Sherman

Question: Where did Lee surrender his army?
Answer: Appomattox Court House
United_States_Army

The end of World War II set the stage for the East–West confrontation known as the Cold War. With the outbreak of the Korean War, concerns over the defense of Western Europe rose. Two corps, V and VII, were reactivated under Seventh United States Army in 1950 and American strength in Europe rose from one division to four. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops remained stationed in West Germany, with others in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, until the 1990s in anticipation of a possible Soviet attack.

Question: What war occurred after the end of World War II?
Answer: Cold War

Question: In what year were corps V and corps VII reactivated?
Answer: 1950

Question: How many divisions of the U.S. Army were in Europe?
Answer: four
United_States_Army

The United States joined World War II in December 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. On the European front, U.S. Army troops formed a significant portion of the forces that captured North Africa and Sicily, and later fought in Italy. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, and in the subsequent liberation of Europe and defeat of Nazi Germany, millions of U.S. Army troops played a central role. In the Pacific War, U.S. Army soldiers participated alongside the United States Marine Corps in capturing the Pacific Islands from Japanese control. Following the Axis surrenders in May (Germany) and August (Japan) of 1945, army troops were deployed to Japan and Germany to occupy the two defeated nations. Two years after World War II, the Army Air Forces separated from the army to become the United States Air Force in September 1947 after decades of attempting to separate. Also, in 1948, the army was desegregated by order of President Harry S. Truman.

Question: What month and year did the U.S. join World War II?
Answer: December 1941

Question: Which military force attacked Pearl Harbor?
Answer: Japanese

Question: What is the month, day and year of "D-Day"?
Answer: June 6, 1944

Question: What war lead to the capture of the Pacific Islands by the U.S.?
Answer: Pacific War

Question: Who was responsible for the desegregation of the army?
Answer: Harry S. Truman
United_States_Army

The Total Force Policy was adopted by Chief of Staff of the Army General Creighton Abrams in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and involves treating the three components of the army – the Regular Army, the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve as a single force. Believing that no U.S. president should be able to take the United States (and more specifically the U.S. Army) to war without the support of the American people, General Abrams intertwined the structure of the three components of the army in such a way as to make extended operations impossible, without the involvement of both the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve.

Question: Who adopted the Total Force Policy?
Answer: General Creighton Abrams

Question: What war was responsible for the creation of the Total Force Policy?
Answer: Vietnam War

Question: How many army components were affected by the Total Force Policy?
Answer: three
United_States_Army

In response to the September 11 attacks, and as part of the Global War on Terror, U.S. and NATO forces invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, displacing the Taliban government. The U.S. Army also led the combined U.S. and allied invasion of Iraq in 2003. It served as the primary source for ground forces with its ability to sustain short and long-term deployment operations. In the following years the mission changed from conflict between regular militaries to counterinsurgency, resulting in the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S service members (as of March 2008) and injuries to thousands more. 23,813 insurgents were killed in Iraq between 2003–2011.

Question: Which country was invaded by the U.S. in October 2001?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: The U.S. Army invaded Iraq in what year?
Answer: 2003

Question: About how many U.S. soldiers died as of March 2008 due to counterinsurgency?
Answer: more than 4,000

Question: How many Iraqi insurgents were killed from 2003-2011?
Answer: 23,813