Question: Context: The former leader of Iraq was rushed to hospital last Sunday after refusing to eat for sixteen days. But according to news agencies, he has ended the hunger strike by eating lunch at the court in Baghdad. "Saddam ate beef and rice and cola with bread which he brought from hospital," one source told Reuters news agency. He was fasting with three co-defendants, and they were demanding more security for their defence lawyers, three of whom have been murdered.

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Answer: Hypothesis: Some Australians have fasted to protest.

Question: Context: In February of 1995, one man single-handedly bankrupted the bank that financed the Napoleonic Wars. Founded in 1762, Barings Bank was Britain's oldest merchant bank and Queen Elizabeth's personal bank.

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Answer: Hypothesis: Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank.

Question: Context: Experimenting on a raft anchored on the river Elbe, Alfred Nobel tries to make nitroglycerine safer to handle. Finds that the addition of kieselguhr turns nitroglycerine into a dough that can be kneaded, and calls it "dynamite".

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Answer: Hypothesis: Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.

Question: Context: Protesters, many from organized pro-government groups but including many ordinary citizens, carried anti-American banners and chanted slogans attacking U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his close alignment with U.S. policy.

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Hypothesis: Protesters confiscated anti-American banners and chanted slogans attacking U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his close alignment with U.S. policy.