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Casings
What were sausage casings made from originally?
Sausage
true
9FOOD
[ 0 ]
[ "Traditionally, sausage casings were made of the cleaned intestines, or stomachs in the case of haggis and other traditional puddings.", "Today, however, natural casings are often replaced by collagen, cellulose, or even plastic casings, especially in the case of industrially manufactured sausages.", "Some forms of sausage, such as sliced sausage, are prepared without a casing.", "Additionally, luncheon meat and sausage meat are now available without casings in tin cans and jars." ]
[ 0 ]
Equipment
What does the raised heel help with?
Olympic weightlifting
false
4SPORT
[ 10 ]
[ "Olympic weightlifting uses a steel bar with rotating sleeves (also known as a barbell) which hold rubber-coated discs of different weights.", "The weight plates, typically referred to as \"bumper plates\" because of their rubber design, weigh between 0.5kg and 25kg.", "These plates are secured to the bar using collars on each sleeve that weigh exactly 2.5kg each.", "Lifters typically wear a one-piece, close-fitting leotard often called a singlet.", "The wearing of a t-shirt underneath the singlet is optional.", "A weightlifting belt of 120mm maximum width may also be worn to provide lower back support.", "Perhaps the piece of equipment most peculiar to Olympic weightlifting are the shoes worn by lifters.", "Weightlifting shoes are typically designed with a raised heel of 0.5\" to 1.5\" and one or two metatarsal straps that tighten across the instep of the shoe.", "The shoes are designed for maximum stability while remaining flexible in the toebox.", "This allows the lifter to come up on their toes and catch the weight on the ball of their back foot during the \"jerk\" movement of their lift.", "The raised heel helps the lifter maintain an upright torso while catching the bar and also allows for a deeper squat under the bar." ]
[ 0 ]
Lyrics
What line was Martin asked by Frank Sinatra to change to make it happier?
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
true
0MUSIC
[ 8, 9, 6 ]
[ "Some of the original lyrics that were penned by Martin were rejected before the show began.", "They were: \"Have yourself a merry little Christmas / It may be your last/ Next year we may all be living in the past / Have yourself a merry little Christmas / Pop that champagne cork / Next year we may all be living in New York.\"", "When presented with the original draft lyric, Garland, her co-star Tom Drake and director Vincente Minnelli criticized the song as depressing, and asked Martin to change the lyrics.", "Though he initially resisted, Martin made several changes to make the song more upbeat.", "For example, the lines \"It may be your last / Next year we may all be living in the past\" became \"Let your heart be light / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight\".", "Garland's version of the song, which was also released as a single by Decca Records, became popular among United States troops serving in World War II; her performance at the Hollywood Canteen brought many soldiers to tears.", "In 1957, Frank Sinatra asked Martin to revise the line \"Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow.\"", "He told Martin, \"The name of my album is \"A Jolly Christmas\".", "Do you think you could jolly up that line for me?\"", "Martin's new line was \"Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.\"", "Martin made several other alterations, changing the song's focus to a celebration of present happiness, rather than anticipation of a better future.", "On \"The Judy Garland Show Christmas Special\", Garland sings the song to her children Joey and Lorna Luft with Sinatra's alternate lyrics.", "The lyrics Garland sang in \"Meet Me in St. Louis\" have been recorded with only slight variations by a number of artists, including Sinatra himself (in 1950 and 1963 single recordings), Doris Day (in \"The Doris Day Christmas Album\"), Ella Fitzgerald (in \"Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas\"), James Taylor (in \"October Road\"), The Pretenders in the first \"A Very Special Christmas\" compilation released in 1987 (which benefits Special Olympics), and Luther Vandross (in \"This Is Christmas\").", "In 2001 the 86-year-old composer Hugh Martin, occasionally active as a pianist with religious ministries since the 1980s, wrote an entirely new set of lyrics to the song with John Fricke, \"Have Yourself a Blessed Little Christmas,\" a religious version of the secular Christmas standard.", "The song was recorded by gospel female vocalist Del Delker with Martin accompanying her on piano.", "In 2002, NewSong lead singer Michael O'Brien noted the line \"through the years, we all will be together if the Lord allows,\" which was part of the original song, was purged and replaced with \"if the fates allow\" to remove religious reference when the song was released.", "He noted while a pastor in a California church in 1990, he had met Martin, who played piano at the church where O'Brien was serving for an evening, and the pastor was told, \"That's the original way I wrote it, so I want you to sing it this way.\"", "In addition to NewSong, Rachael Lampa, Twila Paris, Kathy Troccoli, Phil Wickham, BarlowGirl, Sidewalk Prophets, and Don Moen have recorded the song with the original lyrics." ]
[ 0 ]
Serbian campaign
Who was promoted to Corporal at the age of 10?
World War I
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 3, 4, 5 ]
[ "Austria invaded and fought the Serbian army at the Battle of Cer and Battle of Kolubara beginning on 12 August.", "Over the next two weeks, Austrian attacks were thrown back with heavy losses, which marked the first major Allied victories of the war and dashed Austro-Hungarian hopes of a swift victory.", "As a result, Austria had to keep sizable forces on the Serbian front, weakening its efforts against Russia.", "Serbia's defeat of the Austro-Hungarian invasion of 1914 counts among the major upset victories of the last century.", "This campaign had the youngest known soldier of World War I. Momčilo Gavrić, born in Trbušnica, joined the 6th Artillery Division of the Serbian Army when he was 8 years old, after Austro-Hungarian troops killed his parents, grandmother, and seven of his siblings in August 1914.", "At the age of 10 he was promoted to Corporal, and at the age of 11 he became a Lance Sergeant." ]
[ 3 ]
Abstract
Who performs the song "As Long as You Love Me"?
As Long as You Love Me (Justin Bieber song)
false
0MUSIC
[ 0 ]
[ "As Long as You Love Me (Justin Bieber song)\"As Long as You Love Me\" is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber, from his third studio album, \"Believe\" (2012).", "The track was produced by Rodney \"Darkchild\" Jerkins and Andre Lindal.", "It was written by Rodney Jerkins, Andre Lindal, Nasri Atweh, Sean Anderson and Justin Bieber.", "It was first released on June 11, 2012 as a promotional single from the album, and one month later it was released as the album's second single.", "The track features American rapper Big Sean.", "The song has since charted in the United Kingdom first at number thirty as a promo single with first week sales of 11,598, and then after being released as a single it improved its position on the UK Singles Chart reaching number 22.", "On \"Billboard\"s Rhythmic Airplay Chart, the single reached number one, giving Bieber his first number one single on an American airplay music chart.", "It also reached the number one position on \"Billboard\"s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, making Bieber the fifth Canadian artist to reach that position after Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette's \"Hello\" in 2011.", "The song has sold 2,240,000 copies in the US as December 2012.", "The music video features actor Michael Madsen." ]
[ 3 ]
Variants
What are the different variations of French Fries?
French fries
true
9FOOD
[ 0 ]
[ "Variants of French fries include \"thick-cut fries\", \"steak fries\", \"shoestring fries\", \"jojos\", \"crinkle fries\", \"curly fries\", \"hand-cut fries\" and \"tornado fries\".", "Fries cut into rough cubes instead of sticks are called \"home fries\".", "Fries cut thickly with the skin left on are called \"potato wedges\", and fries without the skin are called \"steak fries\", essentially the American equivalent of the British \"chip\".", "They can also be coated with breading, spices, or other ingredients, which include garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, paprika, and salt to create \"seasoned fries\", cheese to create \"cheese fries\", or chili to create \"chili fries\".", "Sometimes, French fries are cooked in the oven as a final step in the preparation (having been coated with oil during preparation at the factory): these are often sold frozen and are called \"oven fries\" or \"oven chips\".", "Some restaurants and groceries in North America offer French fries made from sweet potatoes instead of traditional white potatoes.", "In France, the thick-cut fries are called \"Pommes Pont-Neuf\" or simply \"pommes frites\", about 10 mm; thinner variants are \"pommes allumettes\" (matchstick potatoes), ±7 mm, and \"pommes paille\" (potato straws), 3–4 mm (roughly ⅜, ¼ and ⅛ inch respectively).", "The two-bath technique is standard (Bocuse).", "\"Pommes gaufrettes\" or \"waffle fries\" are not typical French fried potatoes, but actually crisps obtained by quarter-turning the potato before each next slide over a grater and deep-frying just once.", "This results in large flat fries with two layers, each of which consists of parallel strips of potato.", "In an interview, Burger King president Donald Smith said that his chain's fries are sprayed with a sugar solution shortly before being packaged and shipped to individual outlets.", "The sugar caramelizes in the cooking fat, producing the golden color customers expect.", "McDonald's was assumed to fry their fries for a total time of about 15 to 20 minutes, and with fries fried at least twice." ]
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Contemporary era
Who was the winner of the Argentina presidental race in 1983?
Argentina
true
5COUNTRY
[ 0 ]
[ "Raúl Alfonsín won the 1983 elections campaigning for the prosecution of those responsible for human rights violations during the \"Proceso\": the Trial of the Juntas and other martial courts sentenced all the coup's leaders but, under military pressure, he also enacted the Full Stop and Due Obedience laws, which halted prosecutions further down the chain of command.", "The worsening economic crisis and hyperinflation reduced his popular support and the Peronist Carlos Menem won the 1989 election.", "Soon after, riots forced Alfonsín to an early resign.", "Menem embraced neoliberal policies: a fixed exchange rate, business deregulation, privatizations and dismantling of protectionist barriers normalized the economy for a while.", "He pardoned the officers who had been sentenced during Alfonsín's government.", "The 1994 Constitutional Amendment allowed Menem to be elected for a second term.", "The economy began to decline in 1995, with increasing unemployment and recession; led by Fernando de la Rúa, the UCR returned to the presidency in the 1999 elections.", "De la Rúa kept Menem's economic plan despite the worsening crisis, which led to growing social discontent.", "A massive capital flight was responded to with a freezing of bank accounts, generating further turmoil.", "The December 2001 riots forced him to resign.", "Congress appointed Eduardo Duhalde as acting president, who abrogated the fixed exchange rate established by Menem.", "By the late 2002 the economic crisis began to recess, but the assassination of two \"piqueteros\" by the police caused political commotion, prompting Duhalde to move elections forward.", "Néstor Kirchner was elected as the new president.", "Boosting the neo-keynesian economic policies laid by Duhalde, Kirchner ended the economic crisis attaining significant fiscal and trade surpluses, and steep GDP growth.", "Under his administration Argentina restructured its defaulted debt with an unprecedented discount of about 70% on most bonds, paid off debts with the International Monetary Fund, purged the military from officers with doubtful human rights records, ruled the Full Stop and Due Obedience laws as unconstitutional, and resumed legal prosecution of the Juntas' crimes.", "He did not run for reelection, promoting instead the candidacy of his wife, senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was elected in 2007 and reelected in 2011." ]
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Description
what did the insects in Dali's paintings symbolize?
The Persistence of Memory
true
3ART
[ 8 ]
[ "The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch.", "It epitomizes Dalí's theory of \"softness\" and \"hardness\", which was central to his thinking at the time.", "As Dawn Ades wrote, \"The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order\".", "This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.", "Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun.", "Although fundamentally part of Dalí's Freudian phase, the imagery precedes his transition to his scientific phase by fourteen years, which occurred after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.", "It is possible to recognize a human figure in the middle of the composition, in the strange \"monster\" that Dalí used in several contemporary pieces to represent himself – the abstract form becoming something of a self-portrait, reappearing frequently in his work.", "The orange clock at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants.", "Dalí often used ants in his paintings as a symbol of decay.", "The figure in the middle of the picture can be read as a \"fading\" creature, one that often appears in dreams where the dreamer cannot pinpoint the creature's exact form and composition.", "One can observe that the creature has one closed eye with several eyelashes, suggesting that the creature is also in a dream state.", "The iconography may refer to a dream that Dalí himself had experienced, and the clocks may symbolize the passing of time as one experiences it in sleep or the persistence of time in the eyes of the dreamer .", "\"The Persistence of Memory\" employs \"the exactitude of realist painting techniques\" to depict imagery more likely to be found in dreams than in waking consciousness." ]
[ 0 ]
Broadcast
What channel started airing the series on Jan 31, 1999
Family Guy
true
1TV
[ 1 ]
[ "The seires premiered in Australia on April 9, 1999 on Seven Network, in 2000 on Fox8, and on 7mate on September 27, 2010.", "In Canada the series started airing on January 31, 1999 on Global, on September 1, 2003 on Teletoon, and on July 4, 2012 on Adult Swim.", "The series also airs in Ireland, and New Zealand.", "The series has aired in the UK on BBC Three and Fox since September 21, 1999." ]
[ 0 ]
Iraqi drones
What number of drones were utilized by the UAV armada of Iraq?
2003 invasion of Iraq
true
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 3 ]
[ "In October 2002, a few days before the US Senate vote on the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution, about 75 senators were told in closed session that the Iraqi government had the means of delivering biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drones that could be launched from ships off the US' Atlantic coast to attack US eastern seaboard cities.", "Colin Powell suggested in his presentation to the United Nations that UAVs were transported out of Iraq and could be launched against the United States.", "In fact, Iraq had no offensive UAV fleet or any capability of putting UAVs on ships.", "Iraq's UAV fleet consisted of less than a handful of outdated Czech training drones.", "At the time, there was a vigorous dispute within the intelligence community whether the CIA's conclusions about Iraq's UAV fleet were accurate.", "The US Air Force agency denied outright that Iraq possessed any offensive UAV capability." ]
[ 0 ]
Chinese Civil War and SEATO
Were the republicans weakened by the war against Japan?
Cold War
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 1, 2 ]
[ "In 1949, Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army defeated Chiang Kai-shek's United States-backed Kuomintang (KMT) Nationalist Government in China, and the Soviet Union promptly created an alliance with the newly formed People's Republic of China.", "According to Norwegian historian Odd Arne Westad, the Communists won the Civil War because they made fewer military mistakes than Chiang Kai-Shek, and because in his search for a powerful centralized government, Chiang antagonized too many interest groups in China.", "Moreover, his party was weakened in the war against Japanese.", "Meanwhile the Communists told different groups, such as peasants, exactly what they wanted to hear, and cloaked themselves in the cover of Chinese nationalism.", "Chiang and his KMT government retreated to the island of Taiwan.", "Confronted with the communist revolution in China and the end of the American atomic monopoly in 1949, the Truman administration quickly moved to escalate and expand the containment policy.", "In NSC-68, a secret 1950 document, the National Security Council proposed to reinforce pro-Western alliance systems and quadruple spending on defense.", "United States officials moved thereafter to expand containment into Asia, Africa, and Latin America, in order to counter revolutionary nationalist movements, often led by communist parties financed by the USSR, fighting against the restoration of Europe's colonial empires in South-East Asia and elsewhere.", "In the early 1950s (a period sometimes known as the \"Pactomania\"), the US formalized a series of alliances with Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and the Philippines (notably ANZUS in 1951 and SEATO in 1954), thereby guaranteeing the United States a number of long-term military bases." ]
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Art market
What year did he achieve his $4.1 million record?
Henry Moore
false
3ART
[ 2 ]
[ "By the end of his career, Moore was the world's most successful living artist at auction.", "In 1982, four years before his death, Sotheby's in New York sold a 6 ft \"Reclining Figure\" (1945), for $1.2 million to collector Wendell Cherry.", "Although a first record of $4.1 million was set in 1990, Moore's market slumped during the recession that followed.", "His eight-foot bronze, \"Reclining Figure: Festival\" (1951) sold for a record £19.1 million at Christie's, making him the second most expensive 20th-century British artist after Francis Bacon." ]
[ 0 ]
Modern women's ice hockey
How many IIHF World Women's Championships tournaments were held b the end of 2013?
Ice hockey
true
4SPORT
[ 5 ]
[ "Women's ice hockey.", "Modern women's ice hockey.", "Ice hockey is one of the fastest growing women's sports in the world, with the number of participants increasing 350 percent in the last 10 years.", "In 2011, Canada had 85,827 women players, United States had 65,609, Finland 4,760, Sweden 3,075 and Switzerland 1,172.", "While there are not as many organized leagues for women as there are for men, there exist leagues of all levels, including the Canadian Women's Hockey League, Western Women's Hockey League, Mid-Atlantic Women's Hockey League, and various European leagues; as well as university teams, national and Olympic teams, and recreational teams.", "By the end of 2013, the IIHF had held fifteen IIHF World Women's Championship tournaments.", "The USHL welcomed the first female professional hockey player in 1969–70, when the Marquette Iron Rangers signed Karen Koch.", "Women's ice hockey was added as a medal sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.", "The United States won the gold, Canada won the silver and Finland won the bronze medal.", "The chief difference between women's and men's hockey is that body checking is not allowed in women's hockey.", "After the 1990 Women's World Championship, body checking was eliminated in women's hockey.", "In current IIHF women's competition, body checking is either a minor or major penalty, decided at the referee's discretion.", "In addition, players in women's competition are required to wear protective full-face masks.", "One woman, Manon Rhéaume, appeared as a goaltender for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning in pre-season games against the St. Louis Blues and the Boston Bruins, and in 2003 Hayley Wickenheiser played with the Kirkkonummi Salamat in the Finnish men's Suomi-sarja league.", "Several women have competed in North American minor leagues, including goaltenders Kelly Dyer, Erin Whitten, Manon Rhéaume, and defenceman Angela Ruggiero." ]
[ 5 ]
Landscape
What were a majority of Dali's paintings inspired by?
The Persistence of Memory
false
3ART
[ 1 ]
[ "The craggy rocks to the right represent a tip of Cap de Creus peninsula in north-eastern Catalonia.", "Many of Dalí's paintings were inspired by the landscapes of his life in Catalonia.", "The strange and foreboding shadow in the foreground of this painting is a reference to Mount Pani." ]
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Casualties and survivors
Approximately what was the death toll in the sinking of the RMS Titanic?
Sinking of the RMS Titanic
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 1 ]
[ "The number of casualties of the sinking is unclear, due to a number of factors, including confusion over the passenger list, which included some names of people who cancelled their trip at the last minute, and the fact that several passengers travelled under aliases for various reasons and were double-counted on the casualty lists.", "The death toll has been put at between 1,490 and 1,635 people.", "The figures below are from the British Board of Trade report on the disaster.", "Less than a third of those aboard \"Titanic\" survived the disaster.", "Some survivors died shortly afterwards; injuries and the effects of exposure caused the deaths of several of those brought aboard \"Carpathia\".", "Of the groups shown in the table, 49% of the children, 26% of the female passengers, 82% of the male passengers and 78% of the crew died.", "The figures show stark differences in the survival rates of the different classes aboard \"Titanic\".", "Although only 3 percent of first-class women were lost, 54% of those in third class died.", "Similarly, five of six first-class and all second-class children survived, but 52 of the 79 in third class perished.", "The only first-class child to perish was Loraine Allison, aged 2.", "Proportionately, the heaviest losses were suffered by the second-class men, of whom 92% died.", "Additionally, among the pets brought aboard three survived the sinking." ]
[ 0 ]
Modern competitive archery
How does Para-Archery work?
Archery
true
4SPORT
[ 3 ]
[ "Competitive archery involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy from a set distance or distances.", "This is the most popular form of competitive archery worldwide and is called target archery.", "A form particularly popular in Europe and America is field archery, shot at targets generally set at various distances in a wooded setting.", "Para-Archery is an adaptation of archery for athletes with a disability.", "It is governed by the World Archery Federation (WA), and is one of the sports in the Summer Paralympic Games.", "There are also several other lesser-known and historical forms of archery, as well as archery novelty games and flight archery, where the aim is to shoot the greatest distance." ]
[ 5 ]
Tourism
Where is the Peak lookout restaurant housed?
Victoria Peak
false
2TRAVEL
[ 10 ]
[ "With some seven million visitors every year, the Peak is a major tourist attraction of Hong Kong.", "It offers spectacular views of the city and its harbours.", "The viewing deck also has coin operated telescopes that the visitors can use to enjoy the cityscape.", "The number of visitors led to the construction of two major leisure and shopping centres, the Peak Tower and the Peak Galleria, situated adjacent to each other.", "The Peak Tower incorporates the upper station of the Peak Tram, the funicular railway that brings passengers up from the St. John's Cathedral in Hong Kong's Central district, whilst the Peak Galleria incorporates the bus station used by the Hong Kong public buses and green minibuses on the Peak.", "The Peak is also accessible by taxi and private car via the circuitous Peak Road, or by walking up the steep Old Peak Road from near the Zoological Botanical Gardens.", "Victoria Peak Garden is located on the site of Mountain Lodge, the Governor's old summer residence, and is the closest publicly accessible point to the summit.", "It can be reached from Victoria Gap by walking up Mount Austin Road, a climb of about .", "Another popular walk is the level loop along Lugard Road, giving good views of Hong Kong's Central district and Kowloon, and then returning via Harlech Road, encircling the summit at the level of the Peak Tower.", "There are several restaurants on Victoria Peak, most of which are located in the two shopping centres.", "However, the Peak Lookout Restaurant, is housed in an older and more traditional building which was originally a spacious house for engineers working on the Peak Tramway.", "It was rebuilt in 1901 as a stop area for sedan chairs, but was re-opened as a restaurant in 1947.", "In addition to being a major tourist attraction for Hong Kong, The Peak is also the summit of Hong Kong's property market.", "At the peak of The Peak, properties are more precious than anywhere else in the world.", "Most of the super rich in Hong Kong - including Cheung Kong (Holdings) chairman Li Ka-shing and the Kwok brothers of Sun Hung Kai Properties - live in detached houses in Island South or The Peak.", "A house at Barker Road (where Hong Kong's most expensive residential buildings are located) sold for HK$1.8 billion last year.", "At $68,228 per square foot, it is the most expensive location in the world.", "The buyer is reported to be a Hong Kong billionaire, Lee Shau-kee.", "On January 12.", "2014, a Barker Road property sold at over HK$100k (US$13k) per square foot for HK$690 million." ]
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Abstract
Who did Van Gogh use as a model for his work?
Sien (Van Gogh series)
false
3ART
[ 3 ]
[ "Sien (Van Gogh series)Vincent van Gogh drew and painted a series of works of his mistress Sien during their time together in the Netherlands.", "In particular, his drawing \"Sorrow\" is widely acknowledged as a masterwork of draftsmanship, the culmination of a long and sometimes uncertain apprenticeship in learning his craft.", "Commonly called Sien Hoornik, Clasina Maria Hoornik (1850 - 1904) lived with van Gogh during much of his time in The Hague from 1881 to 1883.", "Van Gogh used Sien, a pregnant prostitute, as a model for his work and later took Sien and her daughter into his home.", "Van Gogh made drawings and paintings of Sien and her daughter, baby and mother over that period, which reflected the domestic life and hardships of the working poor.", "Their relationship was not accepted by his family or supporters, although his brother Theo did not withdraw his support over it.", "It did contribute undoubtedly, however, to a split with Anton Mauve, a cousin-in-law and noted painter of the Hague School, who had introduced van Gogh to painting as well as supporting him financially, and whom van Gogh revered.", "At his brother Theo's urging, van Gogh left Sien in 1883 to paint in Drenthe, putting an end to the only domestic relationship he was ever to have.", "Sien resumed her life as a seamstress, cleaning woman and likely prostitute before marrying in 1901.", "On 12 November 1904, aged 54, she threw herself into the Schelde river and drowned, fulfilling a prophecy she had made to van Gogh in 1883: \"Yes, I'm a whore ... it’s bound to end up with me jumping into the water.\"" ]
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Batting and baserunning tactics
What is a squeeze play?
Baseball
false
4SPORT
[ 4 ]
[ "Several basic offensive tactics come into play with a runner on first base, including the fundamental choice of whether to attempt a steal of second base.", "The hit and run is sometimes employed with a skillful contact hitter: the runner takes off with the pitch drawing the shortstop or second baseman over to second base, creating a gap in the infield for the batter to poke the ball through.", "The sacrifice bunt calls for the batter to focus on making contact with the ball so that it rolls a short distance into the infield, allowing the runner to advance into scoring position even at the expense of the batter being thrown out at first—a batter who succeeds is credited with a sacrifice.", "(A batter, particularly one who is a fast runner, may also attempt to bunt for a hit.)", "A sacrifice bunt employed with a runner on third base, aimed at bringing that runner home, is known as a squeeze play.", "With a runner on third and fewer than two outs, a batter may instead concentrate on hitting a fly ball that, even if it is caught, will be deep enough to allow the runner to tag up and score—a successful batter in this case gets credit for a sacrifice fly.", "The manager will sometimes signal a batter who is ahead in the count (i.e., has more balls than strikes) to take, or not swing at, the next pitch." ]
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Box lacrosse
When was box lacrosse introduced?
Lacrosse
false
4SPORT
[ 2 ]
[ "Box lacrosse is played by teams of six on a hockey rink where the ice has been removed or covered by artificial turf, or in an indoor soccer or lacrosse field.", "The enclosed playing area is called a box, in contrast to the open playing field of the traditional game.", "This version of the game was introduced in the 1930s to promote business for hockey arenas, and within several years had nearly supplanted field lacrosse in Canada.", "Box lacrosse is played at the highest level by the \"Senior A\" divisions of the Canadian Lacrosse Association and the National Lacrosse League (NLL).", "The National Lacrosse League employs some minor rule changes from the Canadien Lacrosse Association (CLA) rules.", "Notably, the games are played during the winter.", "The NLL games consist of four fifteen-minute quarters compared with three periods of twenty minutes each (similar to ice hockey) in CLA games (multiple 15-minute OT periods for tied games, until whoever scores first).", "NLL players may use only sticks with hollow shafts, while CLA permits solid wooden sticks.", ":The goals in box lacrosse are much smaller than field lacrosse, traditionally wide by tall in box, and wide by tall in the NLL.", "Also, the goaltender wears much more protective padding, including a massive chest protector and armguard combination known as \"uppers\", large shin guards known as leg pads (both of which must follow strict measurement guidelines), and ice hockey-style masks or lacrosse helmets.", "Also, at the professional level, box lacrosse goaltenders often use traditional wooden sticks outside of the NLL, which does not allow wooden sticks.", "This makes Box Lacrosse faster and rougher than the traditional Field Lacrosse.", "The style of the game is quick, accelerated by the close confines of the floor and a shot clock.", "The shot clock requires the attacking team to take a shot on goal within 30 seconds of gaining possession of the ball.", "In addition, players must advance the ball from their own defensive end to the offensive side of the floor within 10 seconds.", "Box lacrosse is also a much more physical game.", "Since cross checking is legal in box lacrosse, players wear rib pads in addition to the shoulder and elbow pads that field lacrosse players wear.", "Box lacrosse players wear a different type of helmet as well, a hockey helmet with a box lacrosse cage.", "For most penalties, the offending player is sent to the penalty box and his team has to play without him (thus lacking one player) for a short amount of time.", "Most penalties last for two minutes, unless a five-minute major penalty has been assessed.", "What separates box lacrosse (and ice hockey) from other sports is that at the top levels of professional and junior lacrosse, a five-minute major penalty is given and the players are not ejected for participating in a fight." ]
[ 2 ]
Categories
Which location the metals placed in periodic table?
Periodic table
true
8SCIENCE
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[ "The elements can be conveniently classified according to their shared physical and chemical properties into the major categories of metals, metalloids and nonmetals.", "Metals are generally located to the left and bottom of the periodic table.", "They are ordinarily shiny, highly conducting solids which form alloys with one another and salt-like ionic compounds with nonmetals.", "Nonmetals are located to the right and top.", "They are mostly coloured or colourless insulating gases that form covalent compounds with one another.", "In between metals and nonmetals are metalloids, which have intermediate or mixed properties.", "Metal and nonmetals can be further classified into similar subcategories that show a left to right gradation in metallic to non-metallic properties.", "The metals are divided into the highly reactive alkali metals, through the less reactive alkaline earth metals, lanthanides and actinides, via the archetypal transition metals, and ending in the physically and chemically weak other metals.", "The nonmetals are simply subdivided into the polyatomic nonmetals which, being nearest the metalloids, show some incipient metallic character; the diatomic nonmetals, which are essentially nonmetallic; and the monatomic noble gases, which are almost completely inert and nonmetallic.", "Specialized groupings such as the refractory metals and the noble metals, which are subsets (in this example) of the transition metals, are also known and occasionally denoted.", "Placing the elements into categories and subcategories based on shared properties is imperfect.", "There is a spectrum of properties within each category and it is not hard to find overlaps at the boundaries, as is the case with most classification schemes.", "Beryllium, for example, is classified as an alkaline earth metal although its amphoteric chemistry and tendency to mostly form covalent compounds are both attributes of a chemically weak or other metal.", "Radon is classified as a nonmetal and a noble gas yet has some cationic chemistry that is more characteristic of a metal.", "Other classification schemes are possible such as the division of the elements into mineralogical occurrence categories, or crystalline structures.", "Categorising the elements in this fashion dates back to at least 1869 when Hinrichs wrote that simple boundary lines could be drawn on the periodic table to show elements having like properties, such as the metals and the nonmetals, or the gaseous elements." ]
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Production
When was the Indonesian killings?
The Act of Killing
false
6MOVIES
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[ "In 2001, while conducting interviews for their 2003 film \"The Globalisation Tapes\", Oppenheimer and Cynn began delving into the Indonesian killings of 1965–66.", "After moving up the ranks of those involved with the killings, Oppenheimer's interviews led him to meet Anwar Congo in 2005.", "The film was shot mostly in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, between 2005 and 2011.", "After seeing an early preview of \"The Act of Killing\", filmmakers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris signed on as executive producers.", "The name \"Anonymous\" appears 49 times under 27 different crew positions in the credits.", "These crew members still fear revenge from the death-squad killers." ]
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Abstract
"Z" was the number known as a physical characteristic of atoms after what year?
Atomic number
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8SCIENCE
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[ "In chemistry and physics, the atomic number of a chemical element (also known as its proton number) is the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom of that element, and therefore identical to the charge number of the nucleus.", "It is conventionally represented by the symbol Z.", "The atomic number uniquely identifies a chemical element.", "In an uncharged atom, the atomic number is also equal to the number of electrons.", "The atomic number, \"Z\", should not be confused with the mass number, \"A\", which is the number of nucleons, the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom.", "The number of neutrons, \"N\", is known as the neutron number of the atom; thus, \"A\" = \"Z\" + \"N\" (these quantities are always whole numbers).", "Since protons and neutrons have approximately the same mass (and the mass of the electrons is negligible for many purposes) and the mass defect of nucleon binding is always small compared to the nucleon mass, the atomic mass of any atom, when expressed in unified atomic mass units (making a quantity called the \"relative isotopic mass,\") is roughly (to within 1%) equal to the whole number \"A\".", "Atoms with the same atomic number \"Z\" but different neutron numbers \"N\", and hence different atomic masses, are known as isotopes.", "A little more than three-quarters of naturally occurring elements exist as a mixture of isotopes (see monoisotopic elements), and the average isotopic mass of an isotopic mixture for an element (called the relative atomic mass) in a defined environment on Earth, determines the element's standard atomic weight.", "Historically, it was these atomic weights of elements (in comparison to hydrogen) that were the quantities measurable by chemists in the 19th century.", "The conventional symbol \"Z\" comes from the German word meaning number/numeral/figure, which, prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table, whose order is approximately, but not completely, consistent with the order of the elements by atomic weights.", "Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this \"Z\" number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word (and its English equivalent \"atomic number\") come into common use in this context." ]
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Production
What was the occupation of Samantha originally?
The Kid with a Bike
true
6MOVIES
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[ "Luc Dardenne said that he and his brother Jean-Pierre had for a long time had the idea of a film about \"a woman who helps a boy emerge from the violence that holds him prisoner.\"", "Writing the screenplay took one year including a few breaks.", "In the earliest drafts, the character Samantha was a doctor and not a hairdresser.", "The script was structured with a fairytale in mind, where the boy would lose his illusions and Samantha would appear as a fairy-like figure.", "By not explaining much about the characters' past and psychology, the brothers aimed to avoid sentimentality.", "Throughout the writing process the brothers strove to maintain a strong clarity in the overall work and to avoid gloom, which is why the brothers, according to Jean-Pierre, decided to omit \"any form of vulgarity in the teenagers' language, even though they're street criminals.", "\"The film is a co-production with 46% investment from its directors' Belgian company Les Films du Fleuve, 44% from its French Archipel 35, and 10% from Italy's Lucky Red.", "It received further funding from the CNC, Eurimages, Wallimage, Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, and the Belgian French Community.Cécile de France was offered the role of Samantha soon after the screenplay was finished, as the brothers believed she would be able to portray the kindness of the character with her body and face alone.", "For the casting of the boy, Cyril, the production team held around 100 auditions.", "Thomas Doret was the fifth applicant the brothers met, and according to Jean-Pierre, \"it clicked right away.\"", "The team rehearsed for a month on the actual sets in full costume.", "The 55-day shoot commenced in Belgium in August and ended 15 October 2010.", "It was the first time the Dardenne brothers made a film in the summer.", "The film was made under the production title \"Délivrez-moi!\"", "which means \"Set me free!", "\"Unusually for a film by the Dardenne brothers, there is music in the film.", "According to Luc, they hesitated for a long time, but eventually decided that music would serve the film's structure: \"In a fairytale there has to be a development, with emotions and new beginnings.", "It seemed to us that music, at certain points, could act like a calming caress for Cyril.\"" ]
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Abstract
Who were the executive producers of The Act of Killing?
The Act of Killing
true
6MOVIES
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[ "The Act of Killing (, meaning \"Butcher\") is a 2012 documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, and co-directed by Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian.", "It is a Danish-British-Norwegian co-production, presented by Final Cut for Real in Denmark and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen.", "The executive producers were Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Joram ten Brink, and Andre Singer.", "It is a Docwest project of the University of Westminster.", "It won the 2013 European Film Award for Best Documentary, the Asia Pacific Screen Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.", "\"The Act of Killing\" won best documentary at the 2014 BAFTA awards.", "In accepting the award, Oppenheimer asserted that the United States and the United Kingdom have \"collective responsibility\" for \"participating in and ignoring\" the crimes, which was omitted from the video BAFTA posted online.", "After a screening for US Congress members, Oppenheimer demanded that the US acknowledge its role in the killings." ]
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History
How wide was the canvas?
Dora Maar au Chat
false
3ART
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[ "The canvas (50 ½ by 37 ½ inches / 128.3 cm by 95.3 cm) was one of many portraits of Dora Maar painted by Pablo Picasso over their nearly decade-long relationship.", "Picasso fell in love with the 29-year old Maar at the age of 55 and soon began living with her.", "This painting was done during the year 1941, when the Nazis were occupying France.", "In the 1940s, the painting was obtained by Chicago collectors Leigh and Mary Block.", "They sold the painting in 1963 After that, the painting was never shown until the 21st century.", "During 2005 and 2006, \"Dora Maar au Chat\", then owned by the Gidwitz family of Chicago, was shown worldwide as part of Sotheby's exhibitions in London, Hong Kong and New York.", "It came up for sale in an auction of Impressionist/Modern works held at Sotheby's on May 3, 2006 in New York and making it the second-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.", "An anonymous Russian bidder present at the New York auction won the work with a final bid of US$95,216,000, well exceeding the pre-auction US$50 million estimates.", "The identity of the bidder, who spent more than US$100 million in total, and purchased an 1883 Monet seascape and a 1978 Chagall in addition to the Picasso, was a topic of much speculation.", "Apparently a novice bidder, though possibly acting as an agent for a more well-known collector, the anonymous buyer may have been unknown at the start of the auction even to Sotheby's officials.", "As of mid-2007, the ownership of the \"Dora Maar au Chat\" is still unknown to the general public, although rumors have focused on the Georgian mining magnate and current Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina (Boris) Ivanishvili, who sold his Moscow bank a week before the auction for $550 m." ]
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Casualties
In the Vietnam War, how many Vietnamese civilians perished?
Vietnam War
true
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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[ "Estimates of the number of casualties vary, with one source suggesting up to 3.8 million violent war deaths.195,000–430,000 South Vietnamese civilians died in the war.", "50,000–65,000 North Vietnamese civilians died in the war.", "The Army of the Republic of Vietnam lost between 171,331 and 220,357 men during the war.", "The official US Department of Defense figure was 950,765 communist forces killed in Vietnam from 1965 to 1974.", "Defense Department officials believed that these body count figures need to be deflated by 30 percent.", "In addition, Guenter Lewy assumes that one-third of the reported \"enemy\" killed may have been civilians, concluding that the actual number of deaths of communist military forces was probably closer to 444,000.", "A detailed demographic study calculated 791,000–1,141,000 war-related deaths for all of Vietnam.", "Between 200,000 and 300,000 Cambodians died during the war.", "About 60,000 Laotians also died, and 58,220 U.S. service members were killed." ]
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Labor dispute
The workers on the space needle began working on it in what year?
Space Needle
true
2TRAVEL
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[ "In 2012, the union workers of the Space Needle started working without a contract when the current contract expired.", "The workers, working with the union, Unite Here Local 8, have entered into contract negotiations with the owners.", "The owners have made it clear that they don't want to extend a contract with the workers or the union because of terminology used in the contract.", "The Space Needle believes it offered employees enough security under past contracts without explicitly promising no subcontracting, which is what the workers want in the new contract.", "This would likely limit the company's ability to hire workers on a needed basis such as peak seasons or special events.", "But instead of striking this item from the contract, Unite Here has pushed for picketing outside of the Space Needle on a weekly basis until such contract terms are accepted.", "In 2013, federal mediation was set to begin between workers and the owners of the Space Needle." ]
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Nutrients
Four pieces of bacon can contain up to how many mg of sodium?
Bacon
true
9FOOD
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[ "One rasher of cooked streaky bacon contains of fat, and of protein.", "Four pieces of bacon can also contain up to 800 mg of sodium, which is roughly equivalent to 1.92 grams of salt.", "The fat and protein content varies depending on the cut and cooking method.68% of bacon's calories come from fat, almost half of which are saturated.", "Each ounce of bacon contains 30 milligrams of cholesterol." ]
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