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3njm2bjs4w6knv12rl2tzs8r2qicpn | (CNN) -- Sri Lankan cricketers have described for the first time how they feared some of their teammates had been killed during a deadly attack on the team bus by gunmen in Pakistan -- and paid tribute to the driver of the bus for saving their lives.
Thilan Samaraweera is due to undergo surgery to have a bullet removed from his leg.
Six police officers and a driver were killed in the ambush by around a dozen attackers armed with automatic weapons as the players made their way to Lahore's cricket stadium early Tuesday.
Two players, Tharanga Paranavitana and Thilan Samaraweera, suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and leg respectively while six others suffered shrapnel wounds. But vice-captain Kumar Sangakkara told CNN he believed Paranavitana had been killed when he collapsed after being shot.
"I was lying on the ground. I heard Thilan (Samaraweera) groan and I heard Tharanga Paranavitana say something. I turned around and a bullet whizzed past my head and hit the seat in front of me. And then I got hit in the shoulder by shrapnel," Sangakkara said.
"Then I saw Tharanga Paranavitana get up and say 'I've been shot' and then he collapsed on the seat. I really thought he was seriously hurt or even dead." Read profiles of the wounded players »
Describing the initial moments of the ambush, Sri Lanka coach Trevor Bayliss said there had been an explosion "which someone said later was a rocket launcher that missed the bus and went over the top and hit somewhere in front of us." Watch footage of the gunmen staging their attack » | ['Who is having surgery?', 'Why?', 'From where?', 'How did it get there?', 'Where?', 'Who was attacked?', 'Where were they?', 'Was anyone killed?', 'Who?', 'How many cops?', 'How many were injured?', 'Any serious?', 'How many?', 'Who is Sangakkara?', 'Who did he think was killed?', 'Why?', 'Did he speak before he fell?', 'What were his words?', 'Who does the team say saved them?', 'How many gunmen were there?'] | {'answers': ['Thilan Samaraweera', 'to remove a bullet', 'his leg.', 'an attack by gunmen', 'in Pakistan', 'Sri Lankan cricket team', 'on the team bus', 'yes', 'police officers and a driver', 'Six', 'eight', 'yes', 'Two', 'the vice-captain', 'Paranavitana', 'he collapsed', 'yes', "I've been shot", 'the driver', 'around a dozen'], 'answers_start': [253, 278, 253, 121, 159, 9, 127, 339, 339, 339, 530, 530, 530, 694, 690, 745, 1075, 1119, 184, 400], 'answers_end': [298, 323, 336, 171, 181, 160, 159, 383, 383, 358, 688, 612, 613, 724, 774, 792, 1140, 1139, 249, 454]} |
3zpbjo59kp12f69s84pzapoi0qjhd3 | (CNN) -- A Canadian hang-gliding instructor who police say swallowed a memory card possibly containing video of a fatal accident was granted bail Friday, a court spokesman said.
William Jonathan Orders, 50, who was arrested and charged with obstructing justice, appeared in provincial court in Chilliwack, British Columbia. His bail was set at $5,750 (Canadian), said Neil MacKenzie, communications counsel with the province's criminal justice branch.
Orders was instructed to turn over his passport and to not operate a hang glider or paraglider, he said.
Lenami Godinez-Avila had just started a tandem hang-gliding flight with the instructor, when she fell from the glider, plunging hundreds of feet to her death Saturday in a heavily wooded part of western Canada, authorities say.
Investigators say the instructor tried to hide what might be a key piece of evidence about what went wrong -- a possible onboard video recording of the flight -- in his digestive tract.
The recording has since passed and is now in police custody, MacKenzie said. He declined comment on whether anything retrievable could be taken from the card.
Calls on Thursday and Friday seeking comment from Orders' attorney, Laird Cruickshank, were not immediately returned.
The fall happened near Mount Woodside, from which Orders and the 27-year-old Godinez-Avila took off, more than 50 miles east of Vancouver.
A witness, Nicole McLearn, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that when the glider was in the air, Godinez-Avila appeared to be wearing her harness, but it wasn't attached to the glider. The passenger clung to Orders before she fell, McLearn said. | ['What did the man swallow?', 'His name?', 'Was he arrested?', 'What was the charge?', 'Was someone killed?', 'Name?', 'How did she die?', 'doing what?', 'Where did it happen?', 'How old was the person arrested?', 'What was his occupation?', 'What do investigators say about him?'] | {'answers': ['a memory card', 'William Jonathan Orders', 'yes', 'obstructing justice', 'yes', 'Lenami Godinez-Avila', 'she fell', 'tandem hang-gliding', 'Canada', '50', 'hang-gliding instructor', 'he tried to hide evidence'], 'answers_start': [8, 180, 180, 209, 9, 563, 656, 563, 729, 180, 9, 793], 'answers_end': [83, 209, 225, 262, 128, 720, 721, 680, 773, 225, 82, 877]} |
3ikz72a5b4grnm9z28f239ozznjfnd | Al-Shabaab militants launched an attack Somalia's parliament headquarters Saturday, leaving at least 10 people dead and more than 11 others wounded, witnesses and officials said.
Members of the parliament were among those wounded after gunmen loyal to the al Qaeda-affiliated terror group stormed the facility in Mogadishu, according to witnesses and official accounts.
Fighters used automatic rifles, heavy machine guns and explosives in an attack that lasted more than three hours, witnesses said.
Mohamed Madale, a police spokesman, said security forces later secured the building after the fighters blew themselves up. He said the security forces killed several fighters during the attack.
Dahir Mohamed, a police officer who witnessed the attack, said the attackers used a car filled with explosives to get into the parliament building, and killed some of the Somali forces guarding the building on their way in.
Smoke and flames could be seen pouring from the building as ambulances pulled up to attend to the wounded lying on the ground. People took cover as security forces moved in, exchanging gunfire with the attackers. Some members of parliament were evacuated from the building.
Ali Osman, an ambulance worker at the scene, told CNN that he collected 10 bodies, including those of Somali forces, civil servants and civilians who were caught in the crossfire during the attack.
He also said more than 11 others, including members of parliament, also were wounded.
A spokesman said on Al-Shabaab's radio network that the group was responsible for the attack.
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3ps7w85z8z2ghpn6wi1m2c8gl7q9tw | (CNN) -- If a fellow is going to spend 55 years working in the same place, he would be wise to count his blessings that the place is Riverdale.
"The first day I walked in, in 1958, I was 17 years old," said Victor Gorelick. "I took a job as a fill-in art assistant."
He never went on to college. He never took another job. Today he is 72. His explanation for staying is so basic he can express it in a single sentence:
"I decided to stick with Archie."
And Betty. And Veronica. And Jughead. And Reggie. And, most of all, Riverdale, U.S.A.
It doesn't exist, of course, which is probably what makes the town so perfect. Nothing in real life could match it. Archie Andrews first appeared in a comic book in 1941, and that idealized town in which he and his friends have always lived has never been identified by state. Some readers assume it is in the Midwest, but Gorelick -- the longest-serving employee of Archie Comics, and now its editor-in-chief -- will go no further than to say that "it's in a place that has four seasons."
The summer, autumn, winter and spring in the pages of the comic books have never been the same seasons that Gorelick has observed outside the windows of the Archie offices in Westchester County, New York: "We have a four-month lead time. So the season an artist is drawing on a given day is not the same season we're living in actual life." | ['Where did Victo Gorelick walk into in 1958?', 'Is that a real place?', 'How old was Gorelick when he got there?', 'How old is he now?', 'What was his job in 1958?', 'What is his job now?', 'Name one of the characters he created?', 'Name another?', 'And another?', 'And yet one more?', "What's the name of the company Gorelick works for?", 'What state is their office in?', 'Which county in New York?', 'When did Archie Anrdrews first appear?', 'How many seasons does Riverdale have?', "Do readers think it's in the South?", 'Where do some think it is?', 'How much lead time does Gorlick have for the magazine?', 'Did he ever go to college?', 'How many jobs has he had?'] | {'answers': ['Riverdale', 'no', '17', '72', 'fill-in art assistant', 'editor-in-chief', 'Jughead', 'Archie Andrews', 'Betty', 'Veronica', 'Archie Comics', 'New York', 'Westchester', '1941', 'four', 'no', 'Midwest', 'four months', 'no', 'One'], 'answers_start': [133, 549, 189, 339, 245, 943, 490, 665, 465, 476, 916, 1236, 1216, 714, 1024, 826, 859, 1257, 271, 300], 'answers_end': [142, 566, 191, 341, 266, 958, 497, 679, 470, 484, 929, 1244, 1227, 718, 1036, 866, 866, 1267, 298, 326]} |
3iq1vmjrytkb2toxqia577ioxgn9ap | Robert Frost was one of America's best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came late in his life.
He was born in San Francisco, California in 1874. He lived in California during his early childhood. He was named after the chief Southern general in America's Civil War. The general's name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to honor the general.
Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost's childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very good writer. Robert Frost's father was a reporter who wanted to be a politician. He often drank too much wine and became angry. Robert was the victim of his anger.
Robert Frost finished high school in 1891. After high school, Robert's grandfather offered to pay his costs at Dartmouth College. But Robert left the school after a few months. He did not like it. He spent the next few years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes. He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry.
Robert Frost attended Harvard University for two years. After that, he returned to the many jobs he held before. For a while, Frost tried to take care of a farm in the state of New Hampshire. He was not a successful farmer. And he continued to write poetry. He said that until 1930, he earned only about ten dollars a year from writing.
In 1912, he decided to try to make a new start. He took his family to Britain. The cost of living was low. In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called A Boy's Will. When it appeared in 1913. Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had not received in his own country.
Ezra Pound, another American poet living in Britain, read the poems and liked them very much. He wrote a magazine article about Frost. He also helped get Frost's second book of poems published in America. That book was called North of Boston. | ["Which one of America's best known writers is this story about?", 'Who was he named after?', 'What was Robert Lee famous for?', 'So, why was Frost named after him?', 'And where did Frost live as a young child?', 'Was he also born there?', 'In which year?', 'Why did he quit Dartmouth?', 'Did he have a happy childhood?', 'How many years did he go to Harvard?', 'What did he do in New Hampshire?', 'What did he write?', 'What was published in 1913?', 'Did people like it?', 'Who wrote an article about him?', 'What was the name of the book that he helped Frost get published?', 'What did Hemingway say about becoming a writer?', "Who offered to pay Frost's way at Dartmouth?", 'What did did he graduate high school?', 'Was he ever a reporter like his father?'] | {'answers': ['Robert Frost', 'Robert Edward Lee.', 'chief Southern general', 'father wanted to honor the general', 'California', 'yes', '1874', "He didn't like it.", 'no', 'two', 'tried to farm', 'poetry', "A Boy's Will.", 'yes', 'Ezra Pound', 'North of Boston', 'The best thing was to have an unhappy childhood.', "Robert's grandfather", '1891', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [0, 218, 217, 367, 166, 117, 117, 937, 579, 1187, 1313, 1411, 1698, 1758, 1870, 2005, 502, 869, 808, 1141], 'answers_end': [77, 330, 330, 413, 217, 217, 165, 1005, 653, 1241, 1379, 1443, 1757, 1806, 2004, 2111, 561, 936, 849, 1159]} |
3lwjhtcvccmcqjmri07j73j4415fq5 | Cairo (CNN) -- An Egyptian military court has sentenced an activist blogger critical of the army to three years in prison, and it did so without his lawyers present, a development that drew stiff condemnation by human rights groups.
Maikel Nabil, who was sentenced Monday morning, had been arrested on March 28 and charged with defaming the army and spreading false information, according to his lawyer, Adel Ramadan.
A general in charge of the "Morale Affairs Directorate" of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said on television that "Nabil had used 'inappropriate language' and defamed the military, and that his calls for an end to military conscription would have a negative effect on the youth of Egypt," according to Human Rights Watch.
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said the sentence "may be the worst strike against free expression in Egypt since the (Hosni) Mubarak government jailed the first blogger for four years in 2007."
His group, which issued a statement on the sentence, said Nabil's trial "has serious implications for freedom of expression on the internet more generally and in particular the ability to expose military abuses."
"The sentence is not only severe, but it was imposed by a military tribunal after an unfair trial," Stork said.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday that the U.S. government is "deeply concerned" about Nabil's sentence. "This is not the kind of progress we're looking for," he said.
Former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Nabil's imprisonment "calls into question whether a democratic transition is under way in Egypt." | ['Who is Maikel Nabil?', 'When was he arrested?', 'what for?', 'does he have a lawyer?', 'what is his name?', 'who directs the Middle East division of HRC?', 'did Joe Stork think the trial was fair?', 'who made a statement for the State Department?', 'what did he say about the US reaction?', 'who isPJ Crowley', 'how long is the prison term>', 'were his lawyers there when he was sentenced?', 'were humanitarian groups concerned about this?', 'was the sentence given by a military court?', 'what country did this occur?', 'which leader imprisoned a blogger in 2007?', 'how long was that sentence for?'] | {'answers': ['An activist blogger', 'March 28', 'Defaming the army and spreading false information', 'Yes', 'Adel Ramadan', 'unknown', 'No', 'Mark Toner', 'The U.S. government is "deeply concerned" about the sentence', 'Former State Department spokesman', 'Three years', 'No', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Egypt', 'the (Hosni) Mubarak government', 'Four years'], 'answers_start': [235, 235, 235, 317, 381, -1, 1197, 1311, 1366, 1498, 15, 16, 123, 14, 15, 898, 892], 'answers_end': [379, 312, 379, 421, 418, -1, 1309, 1348, 1494, 1544, 121, 164, 232, 121, 55, 981, 981]} |
3cp1to84pt13w3rhad49p9uozvf25l | As young Chinese increasingly forget how to write characters because they don't have to, using keyboards and touch screen technology on mobile phones is changing the trend.
For Yin Liang, a 26-year-old purchasing agent at a company, his embarrassment over forgetting how to write characters has gradually disappeared since he started to use the handwriting input method on his iPhone 4 a month ago.
"When you write on the touch screen, you use your finger, instead of a mouse or keyboard," Yin says.
"Actually, your finger is like a pen, writing the complicated characters that have long been spelled by pinyin, an alphabet-based input system. Whether typing on computers or texting on phones, most users in China type by phonetically spelling out the sounds of the characters and the software then gives a menu of characters that fit the pronunciation, so users only need to recognize the character.
Handwriting technology on a mobile phone touch screen has been around for years and became popular with the iPhone, which recognizes the input and offers a wide selection of characters.
"It's efficient and accurate," Yin says.
Chinese characters are the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world, but as pinyin-based typing has become more widespread, youths have started forgetting how to write out characters. This was one of the main topics for debate at the first Cross-Straits Chinese Character Art Festival, held recently in Beijing, which attracted experts from Taiwan and the mainland.
According to Zhang Zikang, president of the Culture and Art Publishing House, writing with a pen on the touch screen brings handwriting into the digital age. It is even better when you write with your finger, feeling the flow of the cursive script and the grace and art of Chinese characters, he says.
"Smart gadgets don't take life from the square-shaped characters, instead they offer a new and advanced platform to show the charm of Chinese characters, which are always evolving," Zhang says. | ['What is like a pen?', 'Who are fogetting how to draw letters?', 'Why?', 'What is helping to change that?', 'What is the name of a purchasing agent?', 'How old is he?', 'How long has handwriting ability been available on phones?', 'Which phone made it popular?'] | {'answers': ['your finge', 'young Chinese', "they don't have to, using keyboards and touch screen technology on mobile phones", 'the handwriting input method on his iPhone 4', 'Yin Liang', '26', 'Handwriting technology on a mobile phone touch screen has been around for years', 'popular with the iPhone'], 'answers_start': [517, 3, 69, 343, 179, 192, 909, 999], 'answers_end': [527, 16, 149, 387, 188, 194, 988, 1023]} |
3s3amizx3u5byyycmcbyzyr2o6ocdg | Gallman, Mississippi (CNN) -- A 42-year-old man was charged Wednesday with arson and two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of a woman and her 7-year-old son in Mississippi.
Wearing a bulletproof vest, Timothy Burns appeared in Copiah County Justice Court. He said he has no lawyer, so one will be appointed to him.
No bond was set.
He's being held in the deaths of Atira Hughes-Smith and Jaidon Hill. The boy's stepfather, Laterry Smith, was also killed.
There's some question as to whether Smith was killed in a different county, said Copiah County Sheriff Harold Jones, explaining why Burns was charged with two, rather than three, counts of murder.
There's no indication the suspect had anything against the three victims, the sheriff noted, nor that he even knew them.
"We don't think there is (a relationship)," Jones said. "But we haven't tied that loose end up yet."
The seeming randomness of the crime makes the deaths all the more inexplicable to loved ones, as well as to neighbors in the city of Brandon they called home.
As Vinson Jenkins, Hughes-Smith's cousin, said: "We don't know why anybody would want to do any harm to them."
The family was last seen Friday in a car that was later found flipped and on fire.
The Copiah County sheriff says authorities now believe that Burns was driving that car when he got in an accident, then set it ablaze. Was he alone at the time? Jones said he has "no way of knowing that right now." | ['Who was charged with arson and 2 counts of murder?', 'What was his name?', 'How old was he?', 'Who did he kill?', 'Where?', 'What were the names of the victims?', 'Why was he tried with only 2 counts instead of 3?', 'Was there a bond set?', 'Which county is he being tried in?', 'What is the name of the victims cousin?', 'When were they last seen?', 'Where at?', 'What condition was the car in?', 'Who does the sheriff feel is responsible for the car accident?', 'Was he alone?', 'Did he have anything against the victims?', 'Did he wear a bulletproof vest to court?', 'Does he have an attorney?', 'Will one be appointed to him?'] | {'answers': ['a man', 'Timothy Burns', '42-years-old', 'a woman and her 7-year-old son', 'Mississippi', 'Atira Hughes-Smith, Jaidon Hil, Laterry Smith', "There's some question as to whether Smith was killed in a different county", 'No', 'Copiah County', 'Vinson Jenkins', 'Friday', 'in a car', 'flipped and on fire', 'Burns', 'no way of knowing', 'No', 'Yes', 'No', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [30, 188, 30, 30, 30, 351, 476, 332, 188, 1062, 1175, 1175, 1175, 1260, 1395, 675, 188, 271, 188], 'answers_end': [186, 330, 186, 186, 186, 474, 673, 349, 330, 1173, 1258, 1258, 1257, 1395, 1474, 796, 330, 330, 330]} |
3xiqgxaumc8jkn8xmv4zdj2g3as7xx | Teenagers in the UK and the US get to watch some wonderful TV shows. Why not have a look at a few of them yourself and take the chance to practice your English at the same time?
Modern Family
Network: ABC
Number of seasons: 3
The TV drama features two families, modern and traditional. The first is a typical American family with 3 adolescent children. Claire is a traditional mom, while Phil, the father, wants to be friends with his three children; he can name all the songs in the hit film High School Musical.
The second family is made up of a 60- year-old man, Jay, his attractive young Latin American wife, Gloria , and her 11-year-old son, Alex. Jay is 30 years older than Gloria and everyone thinks they are father and daughter.
2 Broke Girls
Network: CBS
Number of seasons: 1
Max Black is a cafe waitress and babysitter in Brooklyn, New York; Caroline Channing is the daughter of a Manhattan millionaire.
Neither of them ever imagined making friends with the other. But when Caroline loses all of her fortune after her father goes to prison, she applies for a job as a waitress in the same cafe and has to learn from Max.
Problems are unavoidable, but luckily, kind-hearted girls can always make things work out. They turn out to be great at helping each other out in their endless struggle against strange customers and picky bosses. Gradually a friendship develops.
True Blood
Network: HBO
Number of seasons: 4
Vampires live on in countless books, movies and television shows. If the Twilight series got you interested in vampire myths, then look no further than True Blood for another exciting adventure. Sookie Statckhouse is a small-town waitress. She is also telepathic . A meet with Bill Compton in a bar turns her life upside down. Bill is a vampire and that night Sookie saves him from a murder attempt. Sookie then becomes involved in a series of murder cases. The love between Sookie and Bill adds a touch of romance to a thrilling story.
Merlin
Network: BBC
Number of seasons:4
King Arthur is one of the most important mythical figures in England. But the BBC tells a slightly different story from the legend. Instead of focusing on Arthur, it is Merlin, the wizard who helps Arthur all the way through his adventures, who takes the lead role. Rather than the wise old wizard who instructs Arthur in the legend, the TV dram turns him into a handsome young man. Merlin meets Arthur in the kingdom of Camelot and believes that he is an arrogant bully . Arthur, likewise, has a less than great opinion of Merlin. The series focuses on how a friendship grows between the two. | ['How many seasons are there of the show?', 'what network?', 'what genre?', 'how many families?', 'how are they different?', 'how many kids in the modern one?', 'who is the mom?', 'what kind of dad do they have?', 'what songs can he list?', 'how much older is Jay then his wife?', 'what is the other show?', 'is it on the same network?', 'which show has more seasons?', 'who are the girls in 2 broke girls?', 'do they have the same job?', 'what network is true blood on?', 'is it about normal people?', 'what is Merlin about?'] | {'answers': ['Three', 'ABC', 'drama', 'two', 'modern and traditiona', 'Three', 'Claire', 'wants to be their friend', 'all from High School Musical', '30 years older', '2 Broke Girls', 'no', 'merlin and true blood', 'max and caloine', 'yes', 'HBO', 'no', 'Merlin, the wizard'], 'answers_start': [211, 196, 239, 256, 270, 338, 361, 396, 462, 663, 749, 765, 1991, 870, 1071, 1414, 1452, 2192], 'answers_end': [231, 208, 246, 268, 291, 359, 388, 457, 520, 684, 763, 777, 2035, 887, 1123, 1427, 1460, 2224]} |
32xvdsjfpzx14acn2clv6b5aksj2ms | Angie went to the library with her mother. First she had to turn in the books she was returning at the return desk. They said hello to the man there. He took their books. Then they went into the adult reading room. Angie sat in a brown chair at the table. She made a drawing of her mother. Her mother found a large red book. Then they went to the Mystery section. Angie sat in a blue chair. She drew a picture of her brother. Her mother found the book. It was a green book. Finally it was time to go to the children's room. It was Story Hour. Miss Hudson was there to read to all the children. She read a book about friendship. After the story Angie sat in the red chair and began drawing. They were drawing pictures of friends. Angie drew a picture of her best friend Lilly. Miss Hudson hung the pictures on the wall. Then Angie and her mother picked out 8 books to read at home. They checked the books out and went home. | ['what color chair did Angie sit in?', 'was she drawing?', 'what did she draw?', 'what did her mother find?', 'what color was it?', 'what section did they go to?', 'did Angie sit in a different chair?', 'what color was it?', 'who did she draw this time?', 'did Angie sit in a blue chair?', 'did she draw a picture of her brother?', 'where did miss hudson hang the picture?'] | {'answers': ['brown', 'Yes', 'her mother', 'the book.\\', 'green', 'the Mystery section', 'yes', 'red', 'her best friend', 'no', 'no', 'on the wall'], 'answers_start': [215, 256, 254, 425, 452, 324, 628, 644, 728, 644, 729, 775], 'answers_end': [241, 290, 290, 452, 473, 363, 670, 671, 775, 670, 775, 819]} |
3zwfc4w1uu7c2k1rvfwjctt90perft | CHAPTER THIRTY ONE.
DESCRIBES A HAPPY HOME AND A HAPPIER MEETING.
In a small wayside cottage in the outskirts of one of those picturesque villages which surround London, an old woman sat at the head of a small deal table, with a black teapot, a brown sugar-basin, a yellow milk jug, and a cracked tea-cup before her.
At the foot of the same table sat a young man, with a large knife in one hand, a huge loaf of bread in the other, and a mass of yellow butter in a blue plate in front of him.
The young man was James Slagg; the old woman was his mother. Jim had no brothers or sisters, and his father chanced to be absent at market, so he had the "old lady" all to himself.
"Well, well, Jim," said Mrs Slagg, with a loving look at her son's flushed face, "you've told me a heap o' wonderful tales about telegrumphs, an' tigers, an' electricity an' what not. If you was as great a liar as you was used to be, Jim, I tell 'ee plain, lad, I wouldn't believe one word on it. But you're a better boy than you was, Jim, an' I do believe you--indeed I do, though I must confess that some on it is hard to swallow."
"Thank 'ee, mother," said Jim, with a pleasant nod, as he cut an enormous slice from the loaf, trowelled upon it a mass of the yellow butter, and pushed in his cup for more tea. | ['Who sat at the foot of the table?', 'What did she have before her?', 'What was her name?', 'Who sat at the foot of the table?', 'What was he holding in one hand?', 'And in the other?', 'What did he have before him?', 'What was his name?', "What was the woman's relationship to him?", 'Where were his brothers and sisters?', 'And his dad?', 'Was his face pale?', 'What had he been telling his mom?', 'Did she believe them?', 'But were they easy to believe?', 'Did he thank his mom?', 'What did he use his knife for?', 'What did he put on it?', 'Did he ask for more to drink?'] | {'answers': ['an old woman', 'a black teapot, a brown sugar-basin, a yellow milk jug, and a cracked tea-cup', 'Mrs Slagg', 'a young man', 'a large knife', 'a huge loaf of bread', 'a mass of yellow butter in a blue plate', 'Jim', 'his mother', 'Jim had no brothers or sisters', 'at market,', 'no', "a heap o' wonderful tales", 'yes', 'no', 'yes', 'he cut an enormous slice from the loaf', 'a mass of the yellow butter', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [174, 174, 683, 323, 323, 323, 323, 683, 500, 561, 596, 683, 683, 980, 1017, 1119, 1173, 1119, 1265], 'answers_end': [224, 321, 716, 368, 400, 435, 498, 716, 559, 591, 640, 762, 805, 1043, 1115, 1148, 1259, 1259, 1296]} |
3kkg4cdwkiyw048ghh0eu4wo5f8498 | CHAPTER VII.
"I WISH YOU'D LIKE ME."
All the Saturday night Heathcote had been on the run, and he did not return home to bed till nearly dawn on the Sunday morning. At about noon prayers were read out on the veranda, the congregation consisting of Mrs. Heathcote and her sister, Mrs. Growler, and Jacko. Harry himself was rather averse to this performance, intimating that Mrs. Growler, if she were so minded, could read the prayers for herself in the kitchen, and that, as regarded Jacko, they would be altogether thrown away. But his wife had made a point of maintaining the practice, and he had of course yielded. The service was not long, and when it was over Harry got into a chair and was soon asleep. He had been in the saddle during sixteen hours of the previous day and night, and was entitled to be fatigued. His wife sat beside him, every now and again protecting him from the flies, while Kate Daly sat by with her Bible in her hand. But she, too, from time to time, was watching her brother-in-law. The trouble of his spirits and the work that he felt himself bound to do touched them with a strong feeling, and taught them to regard him for the time as a young hero.
"How quietly he sleeps!" Kate said. "The fatigue of the last week must have been terrible."
"He is quite, quite knocked up," said the wife.
"I ain't knocked up a bit," said Harry, jumping up from his chair. "What should knock me up? I wasn't asleep, was I?" | ['When did he finally go to sleep?', 'When?', 'How long had he been out?', 'What had he been doing?', 'What is his name?', 'What happened at lunchtime?', 'By who?', 'Who is someone else who is involved?', 'Who else?', 'Anyone else?', 'Does he want to go?', 'Why not?', 'Who does he think can manage it by themselves?', "Who won't appreciate them?", 'Did it take a long time?', 'What did he do afterwards?', 'To do what?', 'How long had he been on a horse?', 'Was someone next to him?', 'Who?'] | {'answers': ['nearly dawn', 'on the Sunday morning', 'All night', 'on the run', 'Harry', 'prayers were read out', 'Mrs. Heathcote and others', 'her sister', 'Mrs. Growler', 'yes Jacko', 'no', 'averse to this performance', 'Mrs. Growler', 'his wife', 'no', 'got into a chair', 'sleeping', 'sixteen hours', 'yes', 'His wife'], 'answers_start': [134, 146, 41, 83, 308, 183, 252, 271, 283, 301, 326, 333, 377, 536, 633, 674, 704, 745, 823, 823], 'answers_end': [145, 167, 63, 93, 313, 204, 281, 281, 295, 306, 339, 359, 389, 544, 645, 690, 710, 758, 831, 831]} |
3dy4fpooa1o1yhnhvu1nufwvn5hrv3 | (CNN) -- Luci Baines Johnson was just 16 years old when she approached her father, President Johnson, with what she considered a reasonable request.
Luci Baines Johnson, left, and her older sister, Lynda Bird, pose inside the White House in 1963.
"I asked my father if we could have the Beatles come to play at the White House," she recalled. "I was very excited about it."
His response? A decisive no, "without even any moment of trying to soften the blow," Johnson said in a recent phone interview.
The president thought the move would be viewed as self-serving. His daughter, however, saw it as a chance to honor "a great talent" and strengthen ties between the United States and Great Britain -- not to mention a golden opportunity for her and her friends.
"I could see how different sets of folks could have either perspective. And I suspect my father could see that too," she said.
Luci Baines Johnson learned quickly of the scrutiny that came from being a first daughter. Her family moved into the White House in 1963, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Johnson was catapulted into the exclusive fraternity of White House families and embraced what she describes as a role she landed simply by chance. That fraternity has most recently expanded to include President Obama's daughters, Sasha and Malia.
"I was an eyewitness to history, over and over, during my father's five years in the White House. And I wasn't elected to that option. I had no qualifications that provided me that privilege except an accident of birth," she said. See famous first kids who grew up in the White House » | ['What did Luci ask her father?', 'Who was her father?', 'Who did he succeed?', 'What caused Kennedy to leave office?', 'When did the Johnsons move into the White House?', 'How old was Luci?', 'Was her sister older or younger?', 'What was her name?', 'Was Luci excited about the potential concert?', 'How did she describe the Beatles?', 'What political purpose did she hope to accomplish, as well?', 'Did her father agree?', 'Did he let his daughter down gently?', 'Why did he reject the idea?', 'Did Luci understand?', 'Did she feel accepted into the fraternal White House family?', 'Did she feel like she earned her position?', 'Who are the most recent inductees?', "How long was Luci's father in office?", 'What did she state she was a firsthand witness to?'] | {'answers': ['if they could have the Beatles come to play at the White House', 'President Johnson', 'Kennedy', 'he was assassinated', 'in 1963', '16', 'older', 'Lynda Bird', 'yes', 'a great talent', 'strengthen ties between the United States and Great Britai', 'No', 'No', 'he thought the move would be viewed as self-serving.', 'yes', 'Yes', 'No', 'Sasha and Malia Obama', 'five years', 'history'], 'answers_start': [251, 71, 900, 1038, 991, 9, 151, 182, 347, 573, 641, 380, 380, 509, 771, 1098, 1193, 1246, 1396, 1348], 'answers_end': [346, 100, 1095, 1095, 1036, 50, 210, 210, 378, 640, 703, 407, 464, 572, 898, 1245, 1245, 1346, 1444, 1379]} |
3xuhv3nrvky7btuzty7gcd0qomx5hm | El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador (, literally "Republic of The Savior"), is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. , the country had a population of approximately /1e6 round 2 million, consisting largely of Mestizos of European and Indigenous American descent.
El Salvador was for centuries inhabited by several Mesoamerican nations, especially the Cuzcatlecs, as well as the Lenca and Maya. In the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. In 1821, the country achieved independence from Spain as part of the First Mexican Empire, only to further secede as part of the Federal Republic of Central America in 1823. Upon the republic's dissolution in 1841, El Salvador became sovereign until forming a short-lived union with Honduras and Nicaragua called the Greater Republic of Central America, which lasted from 1895 to 1898.
From the late 19th to the mid-20th century, El Salvador endured chronic political and economic instability characterized by coups, revolts, and a succession of authoritarian rulers. Persistent socioeconomic inequality and civil unrest culminated in the devastating Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992), which was fought between the military-led government and a coalition of left-wing guerrilla groups. The conflict ended with a negotiated settlement that established a multiparty constitutional republic, which remains in place to this day. | ['which other nations did it form a union with?', 'what is the capital?', 'is this also the largest city?', 'what was the union with the two countries called?', 'between what years was it unstable?', 'when did it get independence from Spain?', 'what happened in 1823?', 'what is the official name?', 'meaning what?', 'when was it in war?', 'what is the war called?', 'who was the war between?', 'what the approx population?', 'what was established when the war ended?', 'how many years did the union with the two countries last?', 'who were the original dwellers?', 'such as?', 'what started the civil war?', 'when did the Spanish conquer it?', 'which people live there now?'] | {'answers': ['Honduras and Nicaragua', 'San Salvador.', 'yes', 'Greater Republic of Central America,', '19th to the mid-20th century', '1821', 'It further seceded as part of the Federal Republic of South America', 'Republic of El Salvador', 'Republic of The Savior', '1979–1992', 'Salvadoran Civil War', 'the governemt and left-wing guerilla groups', '2 million', 'multiparty constitutional republic', '3 years', 'several Mesoamerican nations', 'the Cuzcatlec', 'socioeconomic inequality and civil unrest', 'the early 16th century', 'mostly Mestizos of European and Indigenous American descent.'], 'answers_start': [898, 171, 182, 956, 1043, 647, 748, 12, 55, 1284, 1301, 1353, 277, 1492, 954, 413, 455, 1219, 503, 293], 'answers_end': [954, 222, 223, 1002, 1141, 701, 821, 50, 90, 1335, 1321, 1435, 293, 1538, 1034, 443, 468, 1270, 573, 369]} |
3eo896nrawv5n10fiuszr6mjg3ijty | Who touched the hearts of Chinese people in the past year? Luo Yang, 51, the father of China's carrier jet, who devoted his whole life to the aircraft industry, is no doubt one such person. Luo was the head of production for the new J-15 fighter. On November 25, he was joining in fighter jet landing exercises for the Liaoning as usual. Shortly after the successful landing of the J-15, Luo experienced a sudden heart attack. He was soon sent to the hospital but the doctors couldn't save his life. Luo was given an award for his special contribution to the country by China Central Television on February 19. As general manager of the Shenyang Aircraft Corp, Luo didn't use his power to improve the quality of his life. He gave up the chance to move into a new apartment. His suit was ten years old and his watch strap was faded .All he focused on was the aircraft industry. Luo seldom had the time for a good chat with his wife and daughter. He always started work at 6 am and returned home around midnight when they were sleeping. When devoted to his work, Luo always forgot about everything else. His final days were all spent on the J-15. At one point, he felt unwell, but he didn't leave the carrier or see a doctor. "I spent eight days on the carrier with Luo. He worked all day and night under huge pressure," recalled Meng Jun, one of his colleagues . Luo's death is a big _ to the country. His example, however, has inspired many people. "It's a pity Luo Yang died when the aircraft carrier achieved success. It's good to see more young people are entering this career now," said Yang Yu, a commentator for China Central Television. | ['what killed Luo?', 'what did he fly?', 'what did he successfully land?', 'how old was he?', 'what was he devoted to?', 'has he inspired people?', 'when he felt unwell, did he visit the doctor?', 'did he even leave the carrier?', 'when did he usually start work?', 'and when would he get home?', 'did he have a new apartment?', 'how old was his suit?', 'what day did he die?', 'did he receive any awards?', 'for what?', 'by who?', 'when?', 'what company was he general manager for?', 'did he abuse his power?', 'what did he focus all his time on?'] | {'answers': ['a sudden heart attack', 'the Liaoning', 'the J-15', '51', 'the aircraft industry', 'yes', 'no', 'no', '6 am', 'around midnight', 'no', 'ten years old', 'November 25', 'yes', 'for his special contribution to the country', 'China Central Television', 'on February 19', 'Shenyang Aircraft Corp', 'no', 'the aircraft industry'], 'answers_start': [404, 247, 378, 69, 137, 1401, 1145, 1179, 971, 994, 722, 787, 250, 500, 523, 570, 595, 637, 661, 854], 'answers_end': [425, 337, 386, 71, 159, 1447, 1223, 1206, 975, 1009, 772, 800, 261, 594, 566, 594, 609, 659, 720, 875]} |
3nxnz5rs1axtjrqzjfylxggyv2u97y | LONDON, England (CNN) -- Troubled pop star Amy Winehouse spent the night in a London hospital after suffering a reaction to a medication she was taking at home Monday night, according to her spokeswoman.
Amy Winehouse's husband was recently jailed for 27 months.
Tracey Miller said she could not say what medication was involved.
A statement from University College Hospital said Winehouse had been kept in overnight for observation.
She had a comfortable night and was released Tuesday morning, the statement said.
London Ambulance Service said it transported the singer after being notified of "an adult female taken unwell."
Winehouse's spokesman in London, Chris Goodman, told the British Press Association that he had not been told what was wrong with the 24-year-old singer, who is well known for her song "Rehab," describing the singer's reluctance to enter a clinic.
The pop singer was investigated this year after a London tabloid made public a leaked home video that showed her smoking something in a glass pipe minutes after she was heard saying she had just taken six tablets of the anti-anxiety drug Valium. Police declined to file charges.
The singer has battled drug addiction and spent about two weeks in a rehabilitation clinic in January.
Winehouse won five Grammy awards this year -- three for "Rehab" as well as Album of the Year and Best New Artist.
Winehouse's Grammy winning album, "Back to Black," is still a big seller, recently charting at No. 12 in the UK more than 19 months after its release. Madame Toussaud's London wax museum recently unveiled a wax statue of Winehouse alongside Madonna, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce and other musicians in the museum's "Music Zone" exhibit. | ['Who is the story about?', 'Where did she spend Monday night?', 'Why was she there?', 'What medicine?', 'When was she discharged?', 'What is the title of her popular song?', 'What does it describe?', 'What was shown to the public this year?', 'What does she battle?', 'Where was she at in the beginning of the year?', 'For how long?', 'What is at the top of the charts?', 'What was it ranked?'] | {'answers': ['Amy Winehouse', 'in a hospital', 'a reaction to a medication', 'unknown', 'Tuesday morning', 'Rehab', "the singer's reluctance to enter a clinic", 'a wax statue of Winehouse', 'drug addiction', 'a rehabilitation clinic', 'about two weeks', 'Back to Black', 'No. 12'], 'answers_start': [43, 72, 110, -1, 487, 825, 844, 1595, 1193, 1237, 1218, 1425, 1486], 'answers_end': [56, 93, 136, -1, 502, 830, 885, 1621, 1207, 1260, 1233, 1440, 1492]} |
3pptzcwalqkiv0drjc1qavzmg6dzqr | Bratislava ( or ; , or "" ) is the capital of Slovakia, and with a population of about 450,000, the country's largest city. The greater metropolitan area is home to more than 650,000 people. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia, occupying both banks of the River Danube and the left bank of the River Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two sovereign states.
The history of the city has been strongly influenced by people of different nations and religions, namely by Austrians, Croats, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, Jews, Serbs and Slovaks (in alphabetical order). The city served as the coronation site and legislative center of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1536 to 1783, and has been home to many Slovak, Hungarian and German historical figures.
Bratislava is the political, cultural and economic centre of Slovakia. It is the seat of the Slovak president, the parliament and the Slovak Executive. It is home to several universities, museums, theatres, galleries and other important cultural and educational institutions. Many of Slovakia's large businesses and financial institutions also have headquarters there.
The capital of Slovakia is the eighth best city for freelancers to live in, mostly because of fast internet and the low taxes. In 2017, Bratislava was ranked as the third richest region of the European Union by GDP (PPP) per capita (after Hamburg and Luxembourg City). GDP at purchasing power parity is about three times higher than in other Slovak regions. | ['What is the name of this town?', 'What is that in?', 'How many people live there?', 'Does that make it the biggest town?', 'Which river is near it?', 'Are there any more?', 'Which one?'] | {'answers': ['Bratislava', 'in southwestern Slovakia', '450,000', 'Yes', 'River Danube', 'Yes', 'River Morava'], 'answers_start': [0, 204, 87, 96, 259, 297, 297], 'answers_end': [10, 229, 94, 123, 272, 309, 309]} |
3x73llyyq1eb1i05xy326u0cf5nnhg | Montenegro ( ; Montenegrin: "Crna Gora"/Црна Гора, , meaning "Black Mountain") is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the southwest and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east, and Albania to the southeast. Its capital and largest city is Podgorica, while Cetinje is designated as the Old Royal Capital ("prijestonica").
In the 9th century, three Serbian principalities were located on the territory of Montenegro: Duklja, roughly corresponding to the southern half; Travunia, the west; and Rascia, the north. In 1042, "archon" Stefan Vojislav led a revolt that resulted in the independence of Duklja from the Byzantine Empire and the establishment of the Vojislavljević dynasty. After passing through the control of several regional powers and the Ottoman Empire in the ensuing centuries, it became a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1918, which was succeeded by the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945.
After the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro together established a federation as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, although its status as the legal successor to Yugoslavia was opposed by other former republics and denied by the United Nations; in 2003, it renamed itself Serbia and Montenegro. On the basis of an independence referendum held on 21 May 2006, Montenegro declared independence on 3 June of that year. It was officially named Republic of Montenegro until 22 October 2007. | ['What year did Yugoslavia breakup?', 'What does Montenegro mean?', 'Where is it?', 'What kind of state is it?', 'Who led a revolt in 1042?', 'What did it result in?', 'Which 2 republics established a federation as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?', 'Who denied its status?', 'In what year did it rename itself?', 'What did it rename itself?', 'When did Montenegro declare independence?'] | {'answers': ['1992', 'Black Mountain', 'Southeastern Europe', 'sovereign state', 'Stefan Vojislav', 'independence of Duklja from the Byzantine Empire and the establishment of the Vojislavljević dynasty', 'Serbia and Montenegro', 'United Nations', '2003', 'Serbia and Montenegro.', '3 June'], 'answers_start': [1086, 62, 103, 83, 655, 704, 1108, 1316, 1336, 1360, 1482], 'answers_end': [1090, 76, 122, 99, 671, 805, 1131, 1331, 1340, 1382, 1489]} |
386csbg1ozmg7qtgh74fdx6rbw4q63 | When you need a job very much, you may end up taking one for which you are over qualified. Although you were initially grateful just to have the work, you now feel bored and depressed. Is there any way to change that?
Start by changing your opinion, says Caitlin Kelly, the author of Malled, a book based on her experience as a sales clerk after losing her job in journalism. "Don't focus on what you're not getting but what you are getting," she says. "Be patient and work attentively with a wide range of people. It doesn't matter what the job is -there are always things you can learn and skills you can develop."
Hilary Pearl, the founder of a coaching firm, says, "Tell yourself the current situation isn't the end of your career. Don't overdramatize the negative aspects but try to view the situation more philosophically: life has a series of stages, and this is one of them. Don't forget to study even in the worst stage."
Consider that because you're overqualified, you may be able to learn or do things on the job that might not have been possible in a more demanding position, says Sarah Hathorn, the chief executive of Illustra Consulting. "You could spend your extra time in learning different aspects of the business and teaching others in the organization," she says.
Is it possible to make your work more challenging, even if your job responsibilities aren't likely to change?
Of course, you may seek tasks and responsibilities that force you to learn something new or to work harder. "You may be operating on autopilot right now, but chances are that people above you are stressed," Sarah Hathorn says. " _ and let him know which projects or tasks you want to learn more about."
Always express your request positively, saying that you love new challenges, rather than complaining that you're bored and underused, says Ethun, the president of the Park Avenue Group. In your down time, educate yourself about the company and its industry. "Read corporate information, analyst reports and related news articles," she says. "If your boss accepts your suggestions, it will make you a more valuable employee." | ['Is this article about what to do when you are under qualified for a job?', 'Who is the leader of Park Avenue Group?', 'Does she believe you should complain about how bored you are?', 'What should one say instead?', 'What is one way someone could teach themselves more about a company?', 'Would this make you more valuable?', 'Why would someone take a job in which they were over qualified?', 'How might someone feel after accepting such a position?', 'What does Caitlin Kelly think is the first step in fixing the situation?', 'Did she make a CD to discuss this?'] | {'answers': ['Yes', 'Ethun', 'no', 'say that you love new challenges', 'Read corporate information, analyst reports and related news articles', 'if your boss accepts your suggestions, yes', 'When your inneed of any job at all', 'Although you were initially grateful just to have the work, you now feel bored and depressed', 'Start by changing your opinion', 'no'], 'answers_start': [0, 1846, 1708, 1748, 1967, 2051, 0, 91, 220, 272], 'answers_end': [90, 1892, 1842, 1783, 2036, 2132, 89, 183, 270, 300]} |
3vhhr074h3hoktr88c1b2p7tw11l78 | It was near dusk, and Kim Cooper and her husband, Steve, were trucking through northern Kentucky transportation auto parts from Louisville to Detroit for a goods company. "Steve, wake up!" she shouted. "There's a truck on fire!" Inside the burning truck, Ronnie Sanders, 38, was fighting for his life. He'd been running a heavy load of tractors and forklifts from Georgia to Indianapolis when a van in front of him stopped suddenly in traffic on the icy road. As Ronnie bore down, he could see children in the backseat. The truck's bulk would probably protect him from the worst of the impact, but the force of 23 tons would likely crush everyone inside the van. "I figured instead of killing other people, I'd just put the truck in the ditch." At the bottom, rocks cut a fuel tank, which caught fire. A tree branch destroyed the windshield and knocked Ronnie unconscious. He came to life a couple of minutes later to find the cabin flames and his legs on fire. Steve dashed to Ronnie, who was hanging headfirst from the passenger door. Ronnie had used his pocket knife to cut himself free from the driver's side seat belt only to get his boot trapped in another one. Steve climbed into the burning cab to free him. He tried three times to pull Ronnie out before finally freeing him. But Ronnie's legs were still burning, so Steve laid him on the ground, ripped off his own shirt, and beat the flames with it. He'd managed to drag him about 20 yards when one of the truck's 150 gallon fuel tanks exploded. Both Steve and Ronnie paid a price for risking their lives for strangers. Ronnie spent two months in the hospital and received skin grafts on both of his legs. Steve suffered smoke breathing and minor burns, and shrapnel from the fuel tank explosion broke a tooth. In February, the Coopers received a Hero of the Highway award from the Open Road Foundation for rescuing an injured driver. Steve insists Ronnie is the real hero: "If he hadn't gone into the ditch, he would have hit that van. It was his decision to drive off the road." "I feel pretty good about it," says Ronnie. "A lot of people could have been hurt." | ['what cut the fuel tank?', 'did the truck explode?', 'who had been driving?', 'what time of day was it?', 'was it dawn or was it dusk?', 'who was in the back of the van?', 'did Ronnie want to crush them?', 'who found Ronnie?', 'what state were they going through?', 'what broke the windshield?', 'how old is Ronnie?', 'did his legs catch on fire?', 'who pulled Ronnie from the fire?', 'how long was he in the hospital?', 'did he need surgery?', 'what did Steve lose?', 'where had Ronnie driven into?', 'who received an award?', 'who did they think the real hero was?', 'was he happy about the ultimate outcome?'] | {'answers': ['rocks', 'yes', 'Ronnie', 'unknown', 'near dusk', 'children there were kids inside', "I figured instead of killing other people, I'd just put the truck in the ditch./ no", 'Kim Cooper and her husband, Steve', 'northern Kentucky', 'A tree branch', '38', 'He came to life a couple of minutes later to find the cabin flames and his legs on fire/ yes', 'Steve', 'two months', 'yes', 'a tooth', 'a ditch', 'the Coopers', 'Ronnie', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [760, 1474, 1288, -1, 7, 494, 664, 22, 78, 802, 271, 873, 1168, 1593, 1611, 1762, 1962, 1784, 1909, 2044], 'answers_end': [765, 1504, 1294, -1, 16, 502, 743, 55, 96, 815, 273, 960, 1173, 1603, 1644, 1769, 1967, 1795, 1915, 2069]} |
3p529iw9kyl1zm6eqvznqhkatkufl5 | A Texas teen who's been jailed more than four months for a Facebook comment he made during a video-game argument is finally getting a day in court that could let him go home.
Justin Carter, who was 18 when he was arrested, will appear in Comal County (Texas) District Court on Tuesday, July 16, for a bond hearing, according to his lawyer, Don Flanary.
Flanary told CNN he will argue to have Carter's $500,000 bond, which his family cannot afford to cover, reduced.
Flanary, who is working the case for free, met with Carter for the first time on Tuesday. He said Carter is not doing well, and his family says he has been placed on suicide watch.
"Justin is in bad shape and has suffered quite a bit of abuse while in jail," Flanary said in an e-mail. "We will likely bring out these issues at the bond hearing."
He did not elaborate on the type of abuse claimed by Carter, who is now 19.
In February, Carter and a friend were arguing on Facebook with someone else over the online video game "League of Legends."
His father told CNN that the other gamer called Justin crazy and his son responded with sarcasm.
According to court documents, Justin wrote, "I'm f***ed in the head alright. I think I'ma (sic) shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one of them."
Jack Carter said his son followed the claim with "LOL" and "J/K" -- indicating that the comment wasn't serious. | ['How old was Carter when he was arrested?', 'What court will he go to?'] | {'answers': ['18', 'a Facebook comment'], 'answers_start': [177, 24], 'answers_end': [223, 75]} |
3a0ex8zrn8ovm41x482h1zvloc5byx | ISO 20121 (full name: ISO 20121:2012, "Event sustainability management systems –- Requirements with guidance for use") is a voluntary international standard for sustainable event management, created by the International Organization for Standardization. The standard aims to help organizations improve sustainability throughout the entire event management cycle.
Every event – from a village barbecue to a major sporting event like the Olympics – will have economic, social and environmental impacts. Water and energy resources are put under pressure, significant amounts of waste and carbon emissions can be generated. Sometimes events can put a strain on local communities. By 2005, practitioners within the events industry were becoming aware of the need for more sustainable practices.
Specifically, the Head of Sustainability at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, David Stubbs, was looking for a way to make good on the sustainability promises made in the London Games bid.
He raised the issue with the British Standards Institution (BSI) in the UK. This led to the creation of BS 8901:2007 "Specification for a sustainable event management system with guidance for use". After a period of review, the second version of BS 8901 was published in 2009.
BS 8901 was received very positively by the international event industry, and was soon being widely used. For example, COP15, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, was certified as compliant with BS 8901 in December 2009. The Microsoft Corporation achieved certification to BS 8901 at its Microsoft Convergence® 2009 event in New Orleans, Louisiana, in March 2009. | ['What is the article mainly about?', 'What is one example of an event that comes with impacts?', 'Name another?', 'And the last?', 'How many types of impacts are there?', 'Name one?', 'Can the environment be impacted?', "What other impact haven't we mentioned?", 'What is one type of resources can be strained?', "What's another?", 'What is one type of emission this can generate?', "What's another?"] | {'answers': ['Event sustainability', 'a village barbecue', 'the Olympics', 'a major sporting event', 'Three', 'economic', 'yes', 'social', 'water', 'energy', 'waste', 'carbon emissions'], 'answers_start': [39, 365, 365, 365, 366, 365, 365, 365, 502, 503, 503, 554], 'answers_end': [59, 502, 503, 448, 503, 503, 503, 501, 622, 621, 621, 621]} |
3rgu30dzta81a6av9xrn5srrn8tmjy | Chapter 20: The Triumph Of Venice.
Francis rowed off to the ship, got the flags in readiness for hoisting, and stood with the lines in his hand.
"Can you make them out, yet?" he hailed the men at the mastheads.
"They are mere specks yet, signor," the man at the foremast said.
The other did not reply at once, but presently he shouted down:
"Far as they are away, signor, I am almost sure that one or two of them, at least, have something white flying."
There was a murmur of joy from the men on the deck, for Jacopo Zippo was famous for his keenness of sight.
"Silence, men!" Francis said. "Do not let a man shout, or wave his cap, till we are absolutely certain. Remember the agony with which those on shore are watching us, and the awful disappointment it would be, were their hopes raised only to be crushed, afterwards."
Another ten minutes, and Jacopo slid rapidly down by the stays, and stood on the deck with bared head.
"God be praised, signor! I have no longer a doubt. I can tell you, for certain, that white flags are flying from these boats."
"God be praised!" Francis replied.
"Now, up with the Lion!"
The flag was bent to the halyards and Francis hoisted it. As it rose above the bulwark, Pisani, who was standing on a hillock of sand, shouted out at the top of his voice:
"It is Zeno's fleet!"
A shout of joy broke from the troops. Cheer after cheer rent the air, from ship and shore, and then the wildest excitement reigned. Some fell on their knees, to thank God for the rescue thus sent when all seemed lost. Others stood with clasped hands, and streaming eyes, looking towards heaven. Some danced and shouted. Some wept with joy. Men fell on to each other's necks, and embraced. Some threw up their caps. All were wild with joy, and pent-up excitement. | ['Who did Francis hail?', 'Did anyone reply?', 'How did Francis arrive at the ship?', 'What did he do when reaching the ship?', 'Did the men on deck see anything flying on the other ships?', 'What was it?', 'How many were there?', 'Who spotted she ships?', 'What was he known for?', 'How did the men react to the news?', 'How long did Jacopo wait before coming down?', 'Did he come down slowly?', 'How then?', 'How did he come down?', 'On what?', 'Did he sit down when reaching the bottom?', 'What did he do?', 'Did he have an announcement to make?', 'Was he sure it was correct?', 'Who shouted as Francis rose the flag?'] | {'answers': ['the man at the foremast', 'he did not reply at once, but yes', 'he rowed to the ship', 'got the flags in readiness for hoisting, and stood with the lines in his hand.', 'yes', 'flags are flying from these boats', 'unknown', 'Jacopo Zippo', 'his keenness of sight', 'God be praised!', 'ten minutes', 'no', 'rapidly', 'slid', 'the stays', 'no', 'stood', 'yes', 'yes', 'Pisani'], 'answers_start': [219, 286, 37, 37, 382, 1032, -1, 521, 522, 1077, 850, 866, 850, 863, 887, 906, 906, 947, 998, 1228], 'answers_end': [277, 347, 66, 146, 461, 1071, -1, 534, 570, 1093, 861, 904, 887, 879, 904, 943, 943, 1072, 1025, 1234]} |
3hya4d452rjvy0k6gphibll1opu2f5 | Left unfettered , Anthony Konieczka, 9 years old, would happily play his Game Boy Advance or PlayStation 2 from the minute he gets up to the moment he goes to bed, 14 bleary-eyed hours later.
Anthony's box is stocked with traditional toys--board games, puzzles, art supplies--and as far as he is concerned, they are relics of Christmases past. His sister Michaely, 6 years old, still likes dressing her Barbies. But once she starts playing Game Boy, it's hard to get her away.
Play patterns like this could take up another Christmas for the toy department. Through September, toy sales were down 5% compared with the first nine months of last year, according to the NDP Group. Meanwhile, the video-game industry is heading for another record year. Thanks to hot new games like Halo 2 for the Xbox, the industry is light-years ahead of the toy business when it comes out.
While some new toys emerge every holiday season, toymakers are heading into this one without a monster hit . Indeed, there has not been a Furby-style frenzy in years. Of 10 toy segments only two, arts and crafts and dolls, have generated sales growth over a recent 12-month period. Some of the weakest categories like construction sets and action figures are the ones aimed at boys, who suffer the most from the video games. Analysts expect one of the top stocking stuffers this season to be not a traditional toy but the new generation of Nintendo's Game Boy, the DS, which hit stores last week.
The deeper issue is that shifts in play patterns are forcing toymakers to fight for shelf space in a tightening market. Boys in particular seem to be abandoning traditional toys at earlier ages in favor of consumer electronics, video games, PC software and the Internet. The fact that kids are growing more tech-savvy , a trend called "age compression ", has troubled toy companies for at least a decade. Action figures, for instance, used to be considered healthy for boys up to age 12. Now the items are mainly marketed to boys 4 to 6. A recent study found that nearly half of the US children start on video games at 4 to 5 years old--and 20% at age 3 or younger.
Toy companies, of course, have long seen this trend. Several of the toys expected to sell well this season are, in fact, those that involve video gaming and DVD technologies. Mattel's Fisher-Price introduced a game system called InteracTV this year, featuring DVDs with characters like Dora the explorer. Hasbro came out with a portable color1 video player called VideoNow and has been putting classic games like Battleship and Yahtzee into hand-held electronic format. | ['How old is the boy?', 'And how many hours a day does he play?', 'He gets gifts like board games, puzzles and what?', 'How old is his sister?', 'She plays dressup with what?', 'The sales were down how much percent?', 'Videogames are predicted to be up due to what game in particular?', "What hasn't there been in years?", '2 toy divisions have had growth in purchases over the past year, what are they?', 'Which 2 have been the least selling categories?'] | {'answers': ['9 years old', '14 bleary-eyed hours later', 'art supplies', '6 years old', 'still likes dressing her Barbies.', 'Five', 'Halo 2', 'unknown', 'arts and crafts and dolls', 'construction sets and action figures'], 'answers_start': [37, 48, 194, 346, 345, 579, 750, -1, 1044, 1158], 'answers_end': [49, 193, 277, 378, 413, 651, 875, -1, 1157, 1301]} |
3zwfc4w1uu7c2k1rvfwjctt9zdtfr7 | The priesthoods of public religion were held by members of the elite classes. There was no principle analogous to separation of church and state in ancient Rome. During the Roman Republic (509–27 BC), the same men who were elected public officials might also serve as augurs and pontiffs. Priests married, raised families, and led politically active lives. Julius Caesar became pontifex maximus before he was elected consul. The augurs read the will of the gods and supervised the marking of boundaries as a reflection of universal order, thus sanctioning Roman expansionism as a matter of divine destiny. The Roman triumph was at its core a religious procession in which the victorious general displayed his piety and his willingness to serve the public good by dedicating a portion of his spoils to the gods, especially Jupiter, who embodied just rule. As a result of the Punic Wars (264–146 BC), when Rome struggled to establish itself as a dominant power, many new temples were built by magistrates in fulfillment of a vow to a deity for assuring their military success. | ['When was the Roman Republic?', 'What did priests do at that time?', 'What level of society were they?', 'What did an augur do?', 'why?', 'Which god stood for just rule?', 'What war started in 264?', 'When did they end?', 'Did Rome have an easy time?', 'What did Rome struggle with?', 'What did Caesar become?', 'Which Caesar was this?', 'What was he elected as next?', 'Was there division of church and state back then?'] | {'answers': ['509–27 BC', 'married, raised families, and led politically active lives', 'elite', 'read the will of the gods and supervised the marking of boundaries', 'universal order', 'Jupiter', 'Punic Wars', '146 BC', 'No', 'establish itself as a dominant power', 'pontifex maximus', 'Julius', 'consul', 'No'], 'answers_start': [189, 297, 63, 436, 522, 822, 874, 890, 904, 922, 378, 357, 417, 88], 'answers_end': [198, 355, 68, 502, 537, 829, 884, 896, 918, 958, 394, 363, 423, 161]} |
3rgu30dzta81a6av9xrn5srrn2djm3 | Imagine that you are in school, giving a speech to your class. Now think what it feels like when stammering makes it a struggle to communicate your thoughts and feelings to other people.
The King's Speech, which won the best picture at the Academy Awards in March, 2011, focuses on stammering along with other speech-related problems. The movie tells the story of Britain's King George VI, who became king after his brother Edward VIII gave up the crown to marry an American woman.
As a result of British actor Colin Firth's performance, people are starting to realize that stammering can damage a person's self-confidence and cause him or her to escape from life.
"The serious problem is unseen and unheard," said Norbert Lieckfeldt, an expert at the British Stammering Association, in an interview with a news reporter.
"Stammering masks your ability," he said. "It's a serious disability."
Most stammerers face bullying in school, something that is "usually carried over into the workplace".
George VI's stammer took away his confidence as a speaker. But Samantha Mesango, a speech coach based in the UK, believes that speech problems are more common than most people realize. "Some simply don't like the sound of their own voice; others are scared of speaking in public," she said.
Travis Treats from St.Louis University praisedThe King's Speech. He said it shows that "how one's speech does not mean what one is inside". He also added that people who stammer need to be heard and our society should recognize that they have a lot to give to the world. | ["When did The King's Speech win best picture?", 'What does it focus on?', 'Who was the actor?', 'What nationality is he?', 'Who is the expert?', 'Where is he an expert?', 'Who is the speech coach?', 'Where is she located?', 'Is stammering a disability?', 'Do stammerers experience bullying?'] | {'answers': ['March, 2011', 'stammering along with other speech-related problems', 'Colin Firth', 'British', 'Norbert Lieckfeldt', 'British Stammering Association', 'Samantha Mesango', 'UK', "It's a serious disability", 'Most stammerers'], 'answers_start': [260, 284, 515, 501, 721, 758, 1070, 1116, 873, 903], 'answers_end': [271, 335, 526, 508, 739, 788, 1086, 1118, 898, 918]} |
3yz8upk3vtmxf09y871n9yvqacncu6 | Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation, and expression of genes. RNA and DNA are nucleic acids, and, along with lipids, proteins and carbohydrates, constitute the four major macromolecules essential for all known forms of life. Like DNA, RNA is assembled as a chain of nucleotides, but unlike DNA it is more often found in nature as a single-strand folded onto itself, rather than a paired double-strand. Cellular organisms use messenger RNA (mRNA) to convey genetic information (using the letters G, U, A, and C to denote the nitrogenous bases guanine, uracil, adenine, and cytosine) that directs synthesis of specific proteins. Many viruses encode their genetic information using an RNA genome.
Some RNA molecules play an active role within cells by catalyzing biological reactions, controlling gene expression, or sensing and communicating responses to cellular signals. One of these active processes is protein synthesis, a universal function where RNA molecules direct the assembly of proteins on ribosomes. This process uses transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules to deliver amino acids to the ribosome, where ribosomal RNA (rRNA) then links amino acids together to form proteins.
Like DNA, most biologically active RNAs, including mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, snRNAs, and other non-coding RNAs, contain self-complementary sequences that allow parts of the RNA to fold and pair with itself to form double helices. Analysis of these RNAs has revealed that they are highly structured. Unlike DNA, their structures do not consist of long double helices, but rather collections of short helices packed together into structures akin to proteins. In this fashion, RNAs can achieve chemical catalysis (like enzymes). For instance, determination of the structure of the ribosome—an enzyme that catalyzes peptide bond formation—revealed that its active site is composed entirely of RNA. | ['What is the article about?', 'What is it similar to?', 'What is it similar to?', 'What does it do?', 'What do they actively do?', 'How is it different from DNA?', 'What shape are they?', 'Are they like enzymes?', 'How?', 'What kind of acids are they?'] | {'answers': ['RNA', 'DNA', 'unknown', 'codes, decodes, regulates, and expresses genes', 'catalyze biological reactions, control gene expression, sense and communicate responses to cellular signals', 'single-strand rather than double-strand', 'collections of short helices packed together into structures akin to proteins', 'yes', 'they can achieve chemical catalysis', 'nucleic acids'], 'answers_start': [18, 151, -1, 88, 832, 412, 1629, 1708, 1726, 159], 'answers_end': [21, 154, -1, 141, 952, 481, 1707, 1776, 1761, 172]} |
3yoh7bii097fbdam5asqt3ahtmdkvc | ISIS, as the Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria are known, has become the new face of international terrorism in the eyes of the United States and its Western allies.
Now the focus in America and abroad has become what will President Barack Obama and other leaders do about it?
Here are key questions on the matter:
1) Who killed James Foley?
Britain's ambassador to the United States, Peter Westmacott, told CNN on Sunday that British officials were close to identifying the ISIS militant who beheaded Foley, an American journalist captured in Syria in 2012.
He couldn't elaborate on the identity of the killer, who is seen decapitating Foley in a video posted last week on YouTube.
"We're putting a great deal into the search," he said, referring to the use of sophisticated technology to analyze the man's voice.
In the video, Foley, 40, is seen kneeling next to a man dressed in black, who speaks with what experts say is a distinctly English accent.
Linguists said that based on his voice, the man sounds to be younger than 30. He also appears to have been educated in England from a young age and to be from southern England or London.
Britain close to identifying James Foley's killer, ambassador says
2) Will the United States expand air strikes to ISIS targets in Syria?
Pressure is increasing on Obama to go after ISIS in both Iraq and Syria, ignoring an essentially non-existent border between them.
Last week, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said that taking on ISIS in Syria was the only way to defeat the Sunni jihadists. | ['Who is the new face of terrorism?', 'Who alleges this?', 'Anyone else?', 'Under whose administration is this a priority?', 'Who is the firs key point on the matter about?', 'What was his fate?', 'How was he murdered?', 'How old was he?', 'How old do they think the person who ended his life was?', 'What did Foley do for a living?', 'In what year did this happen?', 'Where?', 'Who told CNN the authorities were close to solving the case?', "And what's his job?"] | {'answers': ['ISIS,', 'United States', 'Western allies', 'President Barack Obama', 'James Foley', 'Death', 'decapitating', '40', '30', 'He was a journalist', '2012', 'Syria', 'Peter Westmacott', "Britain's ambassador to the United States"], 'answers_start': [0, 136, 158, 232, 343, 336, 642, 851, 1052, 536, 568, 560, 358, 358], 'answers_end': [54, 149, 172, 255, 354, 354, 654, 860, 1054, 547, 573, 565, 417, 399]} |
3gdtjdapvubcqpecituwg2id7yom85 | Manchester () is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300 . It lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.55 million. Manchester is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. The local authority is Manchester City Council.
The recorded history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of "Mamucium" or "Mancunium", which was established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. It was historically a part of Lancashire, although areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated in the 20th century. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township but began to expand "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century. Manchester's unplanned urbanisation was brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, and resulted in it becoming the world's first industrialised city.
Manchester achieved city status in 1853. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894, creating the Port of Manchester and linking the city to the sea, to the west. Its fortunes declined after the Second World War, owing to deindustrialisation, but the IRA bombing in 1996 led to extensive investment and regeneration. | ['Where is Manchester located?', 'What is the population?', "Is it the UK's most populated area?", 'What year did it become a city?', 'What was opened in 1894?', "What is located to it's south?", 'What is the governing authority?', 'Where did the history begin?', 'When?', 'During what time was it a manorial township?', 'During what period did textile manufacturing increase dramatically?', 'What was the result of the increase in manufacturing?', 'In what direction was the city linked to the sea?', 'What happened after WWII?', 'Why?'] | {'answers': ['Greater Manchester, England,', '530,300', 'no', '1853', 'The Manchester Ship Canal', 'the Cheshire Plain', 'Manchester City Council', 'with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of "Mamucium"', 'about AD 79', 'Throughout the Middle Ages till the turn of the 19th century.', 'during the Industrial Revolution,', "it becoming the world's first industrialised city", 'to the west', 'Its fortunes declined', 'deindustrialisation'], 'answers_start': [20, 88, 148, 1138, 1179, 245, 375, 426, 530, 802, 1004, 1069, 1258, 1299, 1321], 'answers_end': [80, 110, 180, 1177, 1219, 272, 421, 539, 593, 868, 1068, 1134, 1297, 1347, 1377]} |
3jjvg1ybebxxkgrdt6xkq2xss40b59 | Henry woke up one morning and looked out his window. To his surprise the ground was covered in white. He quickly ran downstairs and asked his mommy what the white stuff was. She told him with a smile that it was snow. Henry was not sure what snow was, but got excited when she told him that it meant that he did not have to go to school that day. Henry asked his mom if he could play in snow and she told him yes. She got him dressed in warm clothes and took him outside and taught him how to build a snowman. She also taught him how to sled down the small hill in their yard. Henry had so much fun that day he fell asleep early and had dreams about the fun white snow that fell that day hoping he could have fun the next day as well. | ['What did Henry see when he looked out the window?', 'Did he know what it was?', 'Who told him what it was?', 'Was he happy about it?', 'Why?', "Did Henry's mother let him go outside?", 'What did she teach him how to make?', 'What else did she show him how to do?', 'Did Henry stay up late that night?', 'What did he dream about?'] | {'answers': ['snow', 'no', 'his mommy', 'yes', "he didn't have to go to school", 'yes', 'a snowman', 'how to sled down the hill', 'no', 'snow'], 'answers_start': [132, 102, 102, 577, 218, 347, 414, 510, 608, 632], 'answers_end': [217, 173, 217, 608, 346, 412, 508, 575, 628, 668]} |
3c2nj6jbkah7msxned0vjquaphi2nf | Jill ran upstairs as soon as she got home from school. Today she was a sad and angry girl. Her teacher had given her a lot of homework. Jill always thought homework wasn't fair. But she thought it was extra unfair today because she wanted to play with a new toy. The new toy was called Wiggle Giggle and Jill's friends said it was very fun. When Jill ran into her room, she jumped up on her bed. Frowning, she tried to think of a way to get her homework done very quickly. While she was thinking, she unwrapped a brownie and began to eat it. Brownies were her favorite snack and it made her feel a little better. Suddenly, Jill came up with a plan. She jumped down from the bed and stuffed the rest of the snack in her mouth. As she chewed, she opened her toy chest. Jill had to dig way down to the bottom, but she soon found what she was looking for: parts from a few broken toys. Things were looking up! Jill's plan was to build a robot to do her homework. Nothing would get in the way of her plan. It took her hours to finish it, but she was proud of her work. When it was done, she named the robot Mister Sparks. She told it, "Mister Sparks, do my homework!" Then Jill had to go eat dinner. After dinner, Jill spent the rest of the night playing Wiggle Giggle. It was so much fun! But Jill got some bad news before going to bed. Mister Sparks had not done any of the homework! | ['What did Jill do as soon as she got home from school?', 'How was she feeling?', 'Why did she feel that way?', 'Did she think getting homework was fair?', 'Why was getting home work even worse today?', 'Who said the new toy she got was very fun?', 'Did she try to come up with a way to finish her homework quickly?', 'What did she eat while she was thinking about it?', 'Are brownies her favorite snack?', 'Did it help her feel any better?', 'Did she come up with a plan to get her homework done?', 'What was it?', 'How long did it take for her to finish it?', 'What did she name the robot?', 'Then what did she tell her to do?', 'What did she have to do after she told it that?', 'Did she spend the rest of the night playing after she ate?', 'Did Mister Sparkes do her homework?'] | {'answers': ['ran upstairs', 'sad and angry', 'Her teacher had given her a lot of homework', 'No', 'she wanted to play with a new toy.', "Jill's friends", 'Yes', 'A brownie', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'to build a robot to do her homework', 'Hours', 'Mister Sparks.', 'to do her homework', 'to go eat dinner', 'Yes', 'No'], 'answers_start': [0, 55, 91, 136, 178, 304, 406, 473, 542, 575, 623, 906, 1001, 1082, 1117, 1163, 1195, 1333], 'answers_end': [17, 89, 134, 176, 262, 339, 471, 540, 574, 611, 648, 957, 1032, 1117, 1160, 1193, 1263, 1379]} |
3cfjtt4sxtqmusj2n94ya9f1fxji73 | When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near a copper smelter , and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to be a beautiful forest. One day a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. Paul knocked him down. From then on, something happened inside him.
Years later Paul was back in the area, and he went to the smelter office. He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. The answer from that big industry was "No".
Paul then went to college to study the science of plants. Unfortunately, his teachers said there weren't any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds. It would be a waste of his life to try to do it. Everyone knew that, he was told. Even if he was knowledgeable as he had expected, he wouldn't get his idea accepted.
Paul later got married but his dream would not die. And then one night he did what he could with what he had. As Samuel Johnson wrote, "It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. Attainable good is often ignored by minds busied in wide ranges." Under the cover of darkness, he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting.
And every week, he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. For fifteen years he did this against _ . Slowly rabbits appeared. Later, as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment, the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing.
Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes, and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has. It took him until his hair turned white, but he managed to keep that impossible vow he made to himself as a child. | ['Who went to college?', 'Where did he grow up?', 'Was he a single man?', 'Where was his childhood residence by?', 'Was it good for the surroundings?', 'What was his dream?', 'Was he encouraged to do so?', 'What did he major in at school?', 'What did the smelter destroy?', 'What did he sneak around and do under the cover of darkness?', 'How many acres was it?', 'Did animal life start to appear?', 'Was he acknowledged for his tasks?', 'Was he a young man when he achieved it?', 'In his younger years was he ever violent?', 'What did he do?', 'why?', 'Who wrote the quote that encouraged him?', 'Did he gain employment for the cause he was trying to achieve?', 'Was the legal system every involved?'] | {'answers': ['Paul', 'Utah', 'Yes, in college', 'a copper smelter', 'no', 'to try to bring the trees back', 'No', 'the science of plants.', 'a beautiful forest', 'started planting', 'fourteen thousand', 'yes', 'yes', 'no', 'yes', 'he knocked someone down', 'he called the wasteland an awful area', 'Samuel Johnson', 'yes', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [535, 34, 852, 65, 88, 460, 528, 570, 162, 1207, 1533, 1360, 1449, 1318, 260, 265, 235, 965, 1449, 1392], 'answers_end': [539, 38, 874, 81, 138, 487, 530, 592, 180, 1223, 1550, 1383, 1512, 1335, 282, 281, 258, 980, 1512, 1447]} |
3zpbjo59kp12f69s84pzapoi0pedhs | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (CNN) -- Officials are forcing the 25-year-old model who won the Dominican Republic's top beauty pageant to hand over her crown, saying she violated contest rules when she hid her marriage.
Pageant organizers claim Carlina Duran had been married since 2009 but told Miss Dominican Republic contest organizers she was single. Contestants in the pageant cannot be married or divorced, organizers said.
The runner-up in last week's Miss Dominican Republic contest, Dulcita Lieggi, will represent the Caribbean nation in the Miss Universe pageant, organizers said.
Dominicans were divided over the pageant's decision.
"If there is an established rule, and it comes out that she is married, she is violating the rule," said Rafael Concepcion.
On Duran's official Facebook page, fans lamented the move.
Dari Baez said taking away Duran's crown was unfair. "She already won it," Baez said.
Beauty queens from dozens of countries are scheduled to compete in the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas in June.
Journalist Diulka Perez contributed to this report.
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39asuflu6x74t2n793i5jtuxoshxej | (CNN) -- Tim Tebow wants to be an inspiration.
As the Denver Broncos quarterback approaches the second round of the NFL playoffs, a documentary offers a detailed look at his quest to convince the teams that he could bring his college success to the pro level. With typical humility, he says he just hopes the film inspires young people.
"I hope it's a positive message for kids who (are) trying to accomplish their dreams," he told ESPN's Bill Williamson. "I want to show them that there are adversity and obstacles for everyone, but you can make it. I am honestly living my dream, but I had adversity and obstacles. I want kids to get hope from this."
Yeah, some of you are rolling your eyes.
But Tebow genuinely believes that. And that's one of the messages of the film, says Chase Heavener, who directed "Tim Tebow: Everything in Between."
Tim Tebow is exactly what he appears to be: a hard-working, squeaky-clean, all-American guy.
"It's really cool to see that it's true. He is who he says he is," Heavener said.
Heavener is something of an expert on this subject. He's not just a filmmaker who followed the man who is now arguably the most famous quarterback in America. He's also a friend.
Heavener's dad and Tebow's dad were college roommates and have stayed buddies. That friendship uniquely positioned the younger Heavener to ask the Heisman Trophy winner and two-time national champion to be filmed constantly through winter 2010.
Heavener and his team at Fiction, a video production company, ended up with more than 1,000 hours of film, which were edited to 50 minutes when ESPN picked up the television rights to the project. It was shot in the months between Tebow's last collegiate game and the night he was drafted by the Broncos. | ['who wants something?', 'what does he want?', 'what is his occupation?', 'who does he play for?', 'who interviewed him?', 'where does the interviewer work?', 'did someone direct a movie?', 'who?', "it's title?", 'how else, does the director know the football player?', 'how did they meet one another?', 'did the football player win anything?', 'only one thing?', 'what was one of the thing he won?', 'who does the movie maker work for?', 'what kind of establishment is that?', 'how long is the movie discussed?'] | {'answers': ['Tim Tebow', 'to be an inspiration.', 'quarterback', 'the Denver Broncos', 'Bill Williamson', 'ESPN', 'Yes', 'Chase Heavener', '"Tim Tebow: Everything in Between."', 'he is a friend', 'their dads were friends', 'Yes', 'No', 'the Heisman Trophy', 'Fiction', 'a video production company', '50 minutes'], 'answers_start': [8, 9, 49, 56, 428, 436, 786, 785, 802, 1084, 1213, 1356, 1356, 1356, 1460, 1484, 1536], 'answers_end': [24, 48, 82, 82, 458, 458, 851, 815, 851, 1209, 1290, 1413, 1412, 1374, 1492, 1520, 1598]} |
3owepkl089ce8tutkphqfhbi1557ni | Zhuyin fuhao (), Zhuyin (), Bopomofo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) or Mandarin Phonetic Symbols is the major Chinese transliteration system for Taiwanese Mandarin. It is also used to transcribe other Chinese languages, particularly other varieties of Standard Chinese and related Mandarin dialects, as well as Taiwanese Hokkien.
The first two are traditional terms, whereas Bopomofo is the colloquial term, also used by the ISO and Unicode. Consisting of 37 characters and four tone marks, it transcribes all possible sounds in Mandarin. Zhuyin was introduced in China by the Republican Government in the 1910s and used alongside the Wade-Giles system, which used a modified Latin alphabet. The Wade system was replaced by Hanyu Pinyin in 1958 by the Government of the People's Republic of China, and at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1982. Although Taiwan adopted Hanyu Pinyin as its official romanization system in 2009, Bopomofo is still an official transliteration system there and remains widely used as an educational tool and for electronic input methods.
The informal name "Bopomofo" is derived from the first four syllables in the conventional ordering of available syllables in Mandarin Chinese. The four Bopomofo characters () that correspond to these syllables are usually placed first in a list of these characters. The same sequence is sometimes used by other speakers of Chinese to refer to other phonetic systems. | ['How many characters does the Mandarin Phonetic Symbols system have?', 'And how many tone marks?', 'What are the traditional terms for the system?', 'What is the colloquial term?', 'What is the name derived from?', 'What other languages is the system used to transcribe?', 'Any Taiwanese languages?', 'Which one?', 'When was the system introduced?', 'Was there another system used?', 'What was it called?', 'What type of alphabet did that system use?', 'Is the system still used?', 'When was it replaced?', 'What was it replaced by?'] | {'answers': ['37', 'four', 'Zhuyin fuhao (), Zhuyin', 'Bopomofo', 'from the first four syllables in the conventional ordering of available syllables in Mandarin Chinese', 'other varieties of Standard Chinese', 'Yes', 'Hokkien', 'in the 1910s', 'Yes', 'the Wade-Giles system', 'a modified Latin alphabet', 'No', '1958 in China', 'Hanyu Pinyin'], 'answers_start': [419, 451, 0, 353, 1092, 142, 287, 287, 528, 594, 610, 632, 670, 714, 690], 'answers_end': [447, 467, 23, 384, 1214, 244, 304, 304, 589, 630, 630, 668, 698, 774, 714]} |
3p1l2b7ad1pv5zj7pyiddbtomqsoli | Martin was returning to work in his London office after spending two weeks with his brother in New York.He was coming back with a heavy heart.It was not just that it was the end of a wonderful holiday; it was not just that he invariably suffered badly from jet lag ; it was that Monday mornings always began with a team meeting and,over the months,he had grown to hate them.
Martin was aware that colleagues approached these meetings with hidden agenda ; they indulged in game playing; and he knew that people were not being honest and open.The meetings themselves were bad enough-there was all the moaning afterwards at the meeting like"I could have improved on that idea,but I wasn't going to say".
As this morning's meeting began,Martin prepared himself for the usual dullness and boredom.But,as the meeting progressed,he became aware of a strange background noise.At first,he thought that he was still hearing the engine noise from the aircraft that had brought him back to London.But,as he concentrated on the noise,it became a little clearer.
He realized,to his amazement,that he could actually hear what they were thinking at the same time as they were speaking.What surprised him,even more than the acquisition of this strange power,was that he discovered that what people were saying was not really what they were thinking.They were not making clear their reservations.They were not supporting views which they thought might be popular.They were not contributing their new insights.They were not volunteering their new ideas.
Martin found it impossible not to respond to his new knowledge.So he started to make gentle interventions,based more on what he could hear his colleagues thinking than on what he could hear them saying."So,John,are you really saying...""Susan,do you really think that?""Tom,have you got an idea on how we could take this forward?"They looked at him,puzzled.In truth,he felt rather proud of his newly-acquired talent.
As the meeting progressed,it was clear to him that each member of the meeting was learning how to hear the thoughts of the others.The game playing started to fall away; people started to speak more directly; views became better understood; the atmosphere became more open and trusting.
The meeting ended.As people left the room,Martin found that he could still hear what they were thinking."That was the best meeting we've ever had.""All meetings should be like that.""In future,I'm going to say what I think". | ['What was wrong with Mondays for Martin?', 'Was it dull this Monday?', 'What did he notice that morning?', 'Is that what he thought at first?', 'What did he thinkg at first?', 'At first were people saying what they thought?', 'Did people usually feel good about the meetings?', 'When Martin started to ask questions what happened?', 'When the meeting was over were people happy with it?', 'What was their plan for future meetings?'] | {'answers': ['They started with a team meeting', 'no', 'He could hear what everyone was thinking.', 'no', 'engine noise', 'no', 'no', 'people started to speak more directly', 'yes', 'to say what they thought'], 'answers_start': [279, 705, 1055, 872, 872, 1339, 457, 2130, 2250, 2432], 'answers_end': [376, 1541, 1174, 989, 934, 1541, 703, 2168, 2474, 2474]} |
3l70j4kazgmn5j1e2yf7t31ent5daw | My summer hols wr CWOT. B4, WE USED 2go 2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :-@ KIDS FTF. ILNY, its gr8. Can you understand this sentence? If you can't, don't feel too bad: neither could the middle school teacher in England who received this as homework. This is Netspeak: the language of computerized communication found on Internet or cellphones. To newcomers, it can look like a completely foreign language. So, what is the "translation" of the sentence above? My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend, and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York; it's great. School teachers and parents say this new form of writing is harming the English language. Increasing spelling and grammatical mistakes can be seen in students' writing. They fear the language could become corrupted . Everyone should just relax, say linguists . They believe Netspeak is in fact more of a good thing. David Crystal, from the University of Wales, argues that Netspeak and Internet create a new language use and the almost lost art of diary writing has been picked up again. Geoffrey Nunberg, from Stanford University, agrees. "People get better at writing by writing," he says. "Kids who are now doing text messaging, e-mail, and instant messages will write at least as well as, and possibly better than, their parents." Linguist James Milroy says, for centuries, it is believed without exception that young people are harming the language. And you can _ that when today's teenagers become tomorrow's parents, they too will think this way. Milroy argues that languages do not and cannot become "corrupted"; they simply change to meet the new needs. However, Netspeakers do agree that it is important to teach young people how to speak and write Standard English. Cynthia McVey says, "I can understand Netspeak worries teachers and it's important that they get across to their pupils that text messaging is for fun, but that learning to write proper English is a must for their future." Perhaps, we should give teenagers a little more trust anyway. Erin, age 12, says, "I wouldn't use text language in my homework. Text is just for fun." | ["who couldn't understand the sentence", 'what is the language', 'what was not worth the time?', 'How long has it been thought young ones are ruining wordds?', 'what do Netspeakers agree on?', 'How old is Erin?', 'What does she use text for?', "what wouldn't she use it for?", 'what worries teachers?', "who becomes tomorrow's parents?", 'what can be seen in their writing?', 'what is a lost art?', 'who thinks that?', 'what does gf mean', 'ftf?', 'what does ilny mean?', 'who recieved those words as homework?', 'what does CWOT mean', 'who has kids', 'who believes netspeak is a good thing?', 'who is geoffrey?', 'what should we give teenagers?'] | {'answers': ['the middle school teacher', 'Netspeak:', 'My summer holidays', 'for centuries', 'that it is important to teach young people how to speak and write Standard English', '12', 'for fun', 'homework', 'the language could become corrupted', "today's teenagers", 'spelling and grammatical mistakes', 'diary writing', 'David Crysta', 'girlfriend', 'face to face', 'I love New York;', 'the middle school teacher', 'complete waste of time.', 'my brother and his girlfriend', 'linguists', 'Nunberg, from Stanford University', 'more trust'], 'answers_start': [168, 250, 459, 1387, 1724, 2114, 2180, 2135, 822, 1530, 742, 1081, 968, 562, 75, 85, 168, 18, 550, 900, 1140, 2052], 'answers_end': [248, 267, 508, 1506, 1827, 2126, 2202, 2178, 866, 1574, 799, 1113, 1113, 576, 621, 639, 248, 509, 609, 966, 1182, 2113]} |
32riadziss4e5j4fqn05bz1extr4st | Recently, a small group of birdwatchers spent three weeks around Mount Vernon. They were busy counting wild birds on Mount Vernon's wetlands, south of Washington, D.C. They began in the middle of December and worked until the beginning of January, 2015.
The birdwatchers were among 70,000 volunteers who collected information for the National Audubon Society, a U.S. conservation group. They counted birds in more than 2,400 areas in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean Sea and other parts of the Americas.
The Audubon Society's first "Christmas Bird Count" took place 115 years ago in 1900. At that time, a man named Frank Chapman suggested a new Christmas tradition that people count birds instead of shooting them around the holiday.
Harry Glasgow has taken part in the Christmas Bird Count for the past 10 years. This year, he was one of the volunteer birdwatchers at Mount Vernon.
"I think it's a tremendous use of a lot of unofficial talent around the nation to keep track of birds. Birds are one of the surest indicators of the health of ecology."
Last year, the bird count recorded over 66 million birds of 2,403 different species.
Gary Langham is chief scientist with the National Audubon Society.
"The Audubon climate report says that half the birds in North America -- 314 out of 588 species -- are seriously threatened by climate change. The impacts sort of cut across all birds, all sizes, all kinds, all places."
Information from the bird counts has shown that birds are staying farther north during the winter months because of warmer weather. Birdwatcher Jaime Reidy has noted the difference close to Washington, in the state of Virginia.
"You get to see them at odd times of the year, a little earlier, staying a little later."
Gary Langham says other conditions are affecting bird populations.
"You can imagine the birds that live along the beach or along the rocky shore line as sea levels are rising around the world. That is impacting them, you know."
David Yarnold is president of the Audubon Society. In his words, "Christmas Bird Count data is becoming important not only in documenting current climate change, but in predicting the future effects of climate change on North American bird populations. If we know what to expect, we can start taking actions now to do something about it." | ['Who were people volunteering for?', 'What were they doing?', 'In how many parts of the U.S.?', 'Any other countries?', 'Does this counting event have a name?', 'What?', "Who's idea was it?", 'What year did it start?', 'What is the information used for?', 'Can it help with understanding climate change?', 'Who says it can help?', 'Who is he?', 'Where does he work?', 'How long has Harry Glasgow helped out?', 'Where did he go this year?', 'What month did they start?', 'When did they stop?', 'Was he part of a group?', 'How many birds were counted the previous year?', 'What portion of North American birds have a problem with climate change?'] | {'answers': ['National Audubon Society,', 'Counted birds.', 'More than 2,400.', 'Yes.', 'Yes.', '"Christmas Bird Count"', 'Frank Chapman.', '1900.', 'Keep track of birds.', 'Yes.', 'Gary Langham.', 'Chief scientist.', 'National Audubon Society.', '10 years.', 'Mount Vernon.', 'December', 'Beginning of January.', 'Yes.', 'Over 66 million.', 'Half.'], 'answers_start': [328, 394, 411, 455, 544, 544, 627, 538, 978, 1329, 1157, 1173, 1198, 754, 828, 172, 209, 926, 1070, 1226], 'answers_end': [361, 431, 431, 514, 568, 566, 676, 601, 1001, 1369, 1224, 1224, 1224, 827, 898, 204, 254, 978, 1155, 1446]} |
34hjijklp5wuxbljki5ammllwxf4vs | A disheveled man appeared in court Thursday on charges of murdering a Chinese woman whose fight with her attacker was seen on webcam by her boyfriend in China. Police refused to release any details about the crime or its possible motive.
The body of York University student Liu Qian, 23, of Beijing, was found Friday in her apartment in Toronto a few hours after her boyfriend witnessed the attack, police said.
She was found undressed from the waist down but there were no obvious signs of sexual attack or trauma severe enough to kill her. Police say it may be weeks before the results of an autopsy are known.
Brian Dickson, 29, stood before the court in a wrinkled white shirt and blue jeans as a charge of first- degree murder was read out. He did not enter a plea. His case was held over until April 26.
Dickson was arrested Wednesday. Police only announced his name and his age and asked the media not to publish any photos of Dickson, saying it could compromise the investigation. Toronto police spokesman Tony Vella declined to respond to the request further.
Liu's father, Liu Jianhui, who arrived from China after being informed of his daughter's death, thanked authorities for their quick action.
"I sincerely thank the people concerned with my daughter's case," he told reporters after the arrest. "Our daughter was studying very hard."
Police released no motive or details about Dickson, but one friend described the Toronto man as _ .
Patricia Tomasi, a friend of Dickson's, told The Associated Press that she acted in a play at a local theater in Toronto with Dickson in 2007.
"He doesn't seem like the type but that's what they always say," Tomasi said. "He's tall with boyish good looks. I don't know much about him except that he wanted to be an actor."
Dickson attended York University where he studied global politics, but did not earn a degree from there.
He later worked for the Atlantic Council of Canada (ACC), where he served as an assistant to the president Juilie Lindhout. According to his biography on a newsletter from the Atlantic Council of Canada, Dickson has also been a running instructor and has been involved with Developments in Literacy, a Pakistani aid organization that raises money for children in Pakistan.
A statement from the Atlantic Council of Canada on Thursday said it was not council policy to comment on staff, but it confirmed that Dickson had been an intern with the council from September 29, 2008, until March 27, 2009.
Liu was chatting with her boyfriend, Meng Xianchao, by webcam at about 1 am. Friday when a man knocked on the door, police said.
Meng reported seeing a struggle break out between the two before Liu's webcam was shut off. Meng contacted other friends in Toronto who in turn called police.
The victim's father, Liu Jianhui, said his daughter studied at Beijing City University before moving to Canada, where she met Meng.
Liu Qian's laptop computer, webcam and mobile phone were taken from the apartment the night of the attack, police said. Police said the online chat was on a live streaming camera and was not recorded, though investigators were trying to figure out if there was any way they could recover it.
York University, whose campus is located near one of Toronto's rougher neighborhoods, is one of Canada's largest universities with more than 53,000 undergraduate and graduate students. About 3,200 of York's students come from more than 150 foreign countries, the university's website says. | ['what kind of man appeared in court?', 'when did he appear in court?', 'was he accused of murdering a mexican woman?', 'was she chinese?', 'how old was she?', 'who said her boyfriend witnessed her murder?', 'how old is brian dickson?', 'is he accused of murdering the chinese woman?', 'how long before the autopsy results are known?', 'was dickson charged with second-degree murder?', "what was Liu's father name?", 'Where did he live?', 'who is Tomasi?', 'did they act in a play together?', 'did she say he was short?', 'what did dickson study in college?', 'did he work for ACC?', 'did ACC confirm that he worked as an intern?', 'was liu online with Meng at the time of the murder?', 'what did the her attack take besides the computer and cellphone?', 'is the university located near a safe neighborhood?', 'how many students attend the university?', 'how many different countries do they come from?'] | {'answers': ['A disheveled man', 'Thursday', 'No', 'Yes', '23', 'police', '29 years old', 'Yes', 'weeks', 'No, first degree murder', 'Liu Jianhui', 'China', "Dickson's friend", 'Yes', 'No', 'Global Politics', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'webcam', 'no', 'more than 53,000 undergraduate and graduate students.', 'more than 150 foreign countries'], 'answers_start': [0, 35, 70, 70, 286, 401, 634, 818, 556, 717, 1093, 1123, 1483, 1533, 1689, 1835, 1900, 2275, 2507, 2956, 3274, 3352, 3448], 'answers_end': [16, 43, 83, 83, 288, 407, 636, 849, 573, 737, 1104, 1129, 1503, 1609, 1791, 1858, 1957, 2501, 2578, 2962, 3306, 3406, 3479]} |
3mrnmeiqw56412sizp4x2hhphfadl4 | Jim and Linda are our neighbors. Jim and Linda have an old dog named Reggie. We love our neighbors. They are like the perfect grandparents. We watch Reggie for them when they go out of town to see their children and grandchildren. Reggie is so fun to have around. He is 14 years old. We have 3 other dogs and Reggie is older than all of them. They all listen to what Reggie tells them to do. It is fun to see them respect him.
We are watching Reggie now. He is staying with us for 3 weeks. He likes to go for rides in the car. He likes to go for walks.
This time, when Jim and Linda dropped Reggie off, Jim picked up mom's guitar and played us a song. He was really good! Then Jim and Linda sang a song for us.
I can see why Reggie misses them when they are gone. They are so nice! We give Reggie lots of love so that he is happy at our house when they are on vacation.
He likes our dogs and cats. We have a big black dog named Able. We have a little dog named Mudpuppy and we have a puppy named Goldberry. We have two cats. One of our cats is named Glitch. She has lots of colors. We also have a white kitten named Vex.
One of the best things about watching Reggie is that we know when Jim and Linda come home, Linda bakes us a cherry pie for taking care of Reggie. She makes delicious pie. We are very lucky to have such nice neighbors! | ['Who is Linda?', 'Who is Jim?', 'How is Jim related to Linda?', 'Who is Reggie?', 'How old is he?', 'How many dogs do we have?', 'What are we doing now?', 'For how long?', 'What does he like to do?', 'What did Jim do after dropping off Reggie?', 'And then what?', 'Does Reggie like other animals?', 'What other animals do we have?'] | {'answers': ['neighbor', 'neighbor', 'son', 'dog', '14', 'Three', 'watching Reggie', '3 weeks', 'go for rides', 'played a song', 'Jim and Linda sang a song', 'yes', 'dogs and cats'], 'answers_start': [8, 0, 607, 55, 264, 284, 429, 457, 492, 607, 676, 878, 891], 'answers_end': [31, 31, 633, 75, 282, 304, 455, 490, 527, 654, 713, 906, 905]} |
3dbqwde4y6yzlpgaww2thxxmayxn54 | Central America () is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast. Central America is bordered by Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Central America consists of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. The combined population of Central America is between 41,739,000 (2009 estimate) and 42,688,190 (2012 estimate).
Central America is a part of the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, which extends from northern Guatemala through to central Panama. Due to the presence of several active geologic faults and the Central America Volcanic Arc, there is a great deal of seismic activity in the region. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur frequently; these natural disasters have resulted in the loss of many lives and much property.
In the Pre-Columbian era, Central America was inhabited by the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica to the north and west and the Isthmo-Colombian peoples to the south and east. Soon after Christopher Columbus's voyages to the Americas, the Spanish began to colonize the Americas. From 1609 until 1821, most of the territory within Central America—except for the lands that would become Belize and Panama—was governed by the Viceroyalty of New Spain from Mexico City as the Captaincy General of Guatemala. After New Spain achieved independence from Spain in 1821, some of its provinces were annexed to the First Mexican Empire, but soon seceded from Mexico to form the Federal Republic of Central America, which lasted from 1823 to 1838. The seven states finally became independent autonomous states: beginning with Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala (1838); followed by El Salvador (1841); then Panama (1903); and finally Belize (1981). Even today, though, people in Central America sometimes still refer to their nations as though they are provinces of a Central American state (e.g. it is still common to write "C.A." after the country names, in formal and informal contexts). | ['Where is Central America in relation to North America?', 'Is it a single nation?', 'How many countries are in it?', 'WHat are some of them?', 'Are all of the countries landlocked?', 'What bodies of water does it border?', 'Is the poopulation growing?', 'What was it in 2012?', 'Were Europeans the first people to live there?', 'Who were?', 'WHat European nation came there first?', 'Who did they send?', 'When did they start taking over?', 'Do they still have control of the area?', 'When did their control end?', 'Were they taken over by anyone else then?', 'WHat did they become after they left Mexico?', 'Which modern nation was the last to leave that republic?', 'WHen did that happen?', 'Is the area geologically stable?'] | {'answers': ['southernmost', 'no', 'seven', 'Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala', 'no', 'Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean', 'yes', '42,688,190', 'no', 'indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica, and the Isthmo-Colombian', 'Spanish', "Christopher Columbus'", '1609', 'no', '1821,', 'No they were annexed though', 'Federal Republic of Central America', 'Belize', '1981', 'no'], 'answers_start': [26, 0, 330, 347, 240, 240, 477, 509, 1001, 1022, 1197, 1145, 1242, 1783, 1514, 1562, 1625, 1891, 1899, 694], 'answers_end': [38, 40, 335, 389, 301, 288, 537, 519, 1055, 1102, 1204, 1166, 1246, 1909, 1519, 1584, 1660, 1897, 1903, 726]} |
34qn5it0tzrfnb75to7yi5b03g008q | Three travelers, Allan, Carl and Paul were sitting on the chairs in a train station. They were waiting for a train that was very late. To pass the time, they began talking to each other. At first, they talked about the weather and their work. Then Paul said, "Tell me--what would you most like to do if your doctor tell you that you have only three months to live?" The other two men thought about this for a while, then Carl spoke. "Well," he said, "if I have only three months to live, I'll take all my money out of the bank and go to foreign countries for holidays with my best friend, Erik. I'd like to travel to the places in the world as many as possible. And I'll stay at the best hotels and then eat the best food. I think I'll have a wonderful time." "That's very interesting." Paul said. With these words, he turned to the other man, saying, "And what about you?" "I'll tell you a secret," Allan said. "I always want to be a racing driver. So if I have only three months to live, the first thing I'd like to do is to sell my house. With the money I'll buy the fastest car in the world. Maybe I can enter all the big motor races." Then he laughed, "I might even end up (......) world champion." "Now it's your turn," Allan went on, "If your doctor tell you the bad news, what would you most like to do?" "Oh," said Paul with a smile. "I'll go and see another doctor." | ['Who wanted to be a race car driver?', 'What did he want to buy?', 'Any kind of car?', 'For what purpose?', 'How would he afford it?', 'Who wished to travel?', 'Where did he want to go?', 'with whom?', 'Does he know Erik well?', 'Where would they stay?', 'How would he afford it?', 'Who came up with this hypothetical question?', 'And what was his answer?', 'How many men were discussing it?', 'Where were they?', 'Were they early?', 'Was the train late?', 'What did they talk about first?', 'and what else?', 'How late was the train?'] | {'answers': ['Allan', 'A car', 'the fastest car in the world', 'To enter races', 'Sell his house', 'Carl', 'foreign countries', 'Erik', 'Presumably.', 'the best hotels', 'Remove money from the bank.', 'Paul', 'Visit a second doctor.', 'Three', 'a train station', 'No', 'Yes', 'weather', 'their work', 'very late'], 'answers_start': [900, 1067, 1066, 1108, 1027, 451, 536, 573, 573, 679, 494, 248, 1349, 17, 68, 85, 103, 219, 230, 123], 'answers_end': [905, 1094, 1094, 1138, 1040, 567, 554, 593, 593, 694, 526, 252, 1374, 38, 83, 133, 133, 226, 241, 133]} |
3wt783ctpbhij10s8gks4832lg4bcq | The Hellenistic period covers the period of ancient Greek (Hellenic) history and Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the subsequent conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year. At this time, Greek cultural influence and power was at its peak in Europe, Africa and Asia, experiencing prosperity and progress in the arts, exploration, literature, theatre, architecture, music, mathematics, philosophy, and science. For example, competitive public games took place, ideas in biology, and popular entertainment in theaters. It is often considered a period of transition, sometimes even of decadence or degeneration, compared to the enlightenment of the Greek Classical era. The Hellenistic period saw the rise of New Comedy, Alexandrian poetry, the Septuagint and the philosophies of Stoicism and Epicureanism. Greek Science was advanced by the works of the mathematician Euclid and the polymath Archimedes. The religious sphere expanded to include new gods such as the Greco-Egyptian Serapis, eastern deities such as Attis and Cybele and the Greek adoption of Buddhism. | ['What is the main topic?', 'Whos history does it cover?', 'Were sports played?', 'What else did this period see a rise of?', 'Did this include religion?', 'Can you name one?', 'And from the east?', 'Did they adopt any other beliefs?', 'What was this considered a period of?', 'Were they moral?', 'Who died in 323?', 'What countries power and influence peaked during this time?', 'What happened in 31?'] | {'answers': ['The Hellenistic period', 'Ancient Greek (Hellenic) and Mediterranean history', 'Yes, there were competitive public games', 'the arts, exploration, literature, theatre, architecture, music, mathematics, philosophy, and science', 'The religious sphere expanded to include new gods', 'Serapis', 'Attis and Cybele', 'Buddhism', 'transition, sometimes even decadence or degeneration', 'unknown', 'Alexander the Great', 'Greece', 'The Battle of Actium'], 'answers_start': [0, 44, 554, 438, 1032, 1109, 1142, 1185, 683, -1, 124, 319, 208], 'answers_end': [22, 102, 589, 539, 1081, 1116, 1158, 1193, 738, -1, 143, 369, 228]} |
3xiqgxaumc8jkn8xmv4zdj2g24y7xq | I Don't Have to Be Like Them All students have to face their own problems when they are growing up. You may not think that having a good family is a problem. But for me , it was. I had to face the problem of being the youngest of the Smith girls. We live in a small town in Pennsylvania, US. There are three girls in the Smith family, Amanda, Theresa and me . People often say things to me , like " Oh, the three of you , you're such nice girls. Your sisters are so pretty and so thin! You're really nothing like them . " That made me sad. At school , all of my teachers had taught my sisters . On the first day of school , they said , "Oh , the youngest of the three! I hope you're just like your sisters. They're such wonderful students." People always compared me with my sisters . So I couldn't help comparing myself with them , too. Theresa was smarter , Amanda was prettier . I began to work hard to be more like them . What my sisters did , I did , too. At last , I became drum major of our school 's marching band . Both Amanda and Theresa had been drum majors . I became editor of the school's newspaper . Theresa had been the editor two years before. But last year, Amanda went to college , and Theresa went to high school . Now I'm by myself at junior high . Everyone knows me , because I'm the drum major and the newspaper's editor . Now I don't feel like a Smith girl any more , I feel like myself . I'm proud of doing all of the same great things that my sisters did . But the best thing I did was to learn to stop comparing myself with them . | ['Who is this story about?', 'Who is in the Smith family?', 'Where do they live?', 'Is the writer a male or female?', 'Are her sisters older or younger?', 'Was it nice having older sisters?', 'What is wrong with it?', 'Is the author like her siblings?', 'What was different?', 'Is the protagonist smarter than them?', 'Who was the more intelligent one?', 'Who was better looking?', 'How did the writer feel about that?', 'How did she cope?', 'To do what?', 'How?', 'Where at?', 'What else did she do?', 'Do they all go to school together?'] | {'answers': ['the Smith family', 'Amanda, Theresa and the writer', 'in a small town in Pennsylvania, US', 'female', 'older', 'it is a problem', 'People always compared me with my sisters', 'no', 'sisters are so pretty', 'no', 'Theresa', 'Amanda', 'compared myself with them', 'began to work hard', 'to be more like them', 'became drum major', 'school', "became editor of the school's newspaper", 'yes'], 'answers_start': [317, 292, 246, 214, 208, 100, 741, 399, 446, 839, 838, 860, 785, 882, 902, 973, 991, 1073, 1234], 'answers_end': [333, 357, 290, 246, 245, 178, 782, 519, 485, 857, 857, 879, 836, 923, 923, 990, 1022, 1112, 1267]} |
3r9wasfe2zgl4bni5wqwywv898xzfy | CHAPTER XII
ALICE HEATH HAS A VISION
This change of legal adviser, while very important to Ben Fordyce and the Haneys, did not seem to trouble Allen Crego very much. As a matter of fact, he was about to run for Congress, and had all the business he could attend to anyway. He liked the young Quaker, and responded "All right" in the frank Western fashion, sending the Haneys away quite as solidly friendly as before. To Ben he was most cordial. "I'm glad you're going to settle here, and I'm specially glad you've got a retainer; for the field is overcrowded, and it may take a long time for you to get a place. We old fellows who came down along with the pioneers have an immense advantage. I wish you every success." And he meant it.
Only when he got home to Mrs. Crego did he come to realize what a horrible injury he had permitted "a young and inexperienced Eastern boy" to do himself. "This connection will ostracize them both," his wife said.
He answered a little wearily. "Oh, now, my dear, I think you take your social Medes and Persians too seriously. We lawyers can't afford to inquire into the private affairs of our clients too closely--especially if they are derived from the pioneer West. Ben Fordyce doesn't become responsible for Haney's past; it is a business and not a social arrangement."
"That's like a man," she responded; "they never see anything till it bumps their noses. They've both called on the Haneys and gone riding with them--or with the girl. They've even eaten luncheon there!" | ["What is Crego's current job?", 'Did he just lose some clients?', 'Who?', 'Who does this change matter most to?', 'Who did the clients hire to replace the old lawyer?', 'Is he experienced?', 'Why is getting a new client meaningful to him?', 'Is he socially close to his new client?', 'How so?', 'Why might that be a problem?', 'Who thinks that?', 'Does her husband agree?', 'Why not?', 'How long has he been in that line of work?', 'Does he have future plans?', 'To do what?', 'Is he likely to win?', 'How are his relationships with former clients?', 'How is his relationship with the Haneys in particular?', 'What part of the US are they in?'] | {'answers': ["He's a lawyer", 'Yes', 'The Haneys', 'Mrs. Crego', 'Ben Fordyce', 'No', 'The field is overcrowded', 'Yes', "They've called on the Haneys and gone riding with them", 'The connection will ostracize them', 'Mrs. Crego', 'No', 'Because it is a business', 'unknown', 'Yes', 'To run for Congress', 'unknown', 'unknown', 'Solidly friendly', 'unknown'], 'answers_start': [1072, 46, 372, 767, 424, 844, 542, 1419, 1419, 902, 944, 960, 1268, -1, 207, 207, -1, -1, 393, -1], 'answers_end': [1079, 69, 378, 777, 427, 867, 562, 1428, 1455, 927, 948, 985, 1284, -1, 223, 223, -1, -1, 409, -1]} |
3x0h8uuit1oqelnz0t6o6rk5hncwsv | Parents have widely different views on the problem of pocket money. Four new fathers were asked this question and this is how they answered.
Ashish Khanna: Although many argue that pocket money helps develop children's sense of value, I don't agree. I wouldn't give my child any pocket money. First of all, I never got pocket money and I seem to have a good value for money. If my child ever needed something and I felt it was a reasonable request, I would buy it for him.
Sharad Sanghi: No, I wouldn't give my child pocket money because I don't want to create the perception of "her" money and "my" money. Besides, if I refuse to buy her something that I think is bad for her, she may buy it with her pocket money _ In this way, I would lose control over my child's requests. I feel it also encourages children to care more about money than anything else. I don't want my child to start judging other children by the amount of money or pocket money they have.
Rakesh Shah: Yes, I would give my child pocket money because I feel that children should learn to spend money properly. I will give him a fixed amount every month and if he spends the money before the month is over, he will learn a lesson and not spend money so freely. He will learn what his limitations are and feel the difficulty when he has to pay for something that is over his own pocket.
Rajiv Patel: Yes, I would give my child pocket money because it is important that he learns to manage money. But I would not give it to him on a weekly or monthly basis. He would have to earn it. If he helped me finish some of my jobs or helped his mother with housework, I would reward him. This helps him realize that "money does not grow on trees" and it requires hard work to earn money. | ['Who has different views on pocket money?', 'How many fathers were asked about it?', 'Name one?', 'Another?', 'Another?', 'Last one?', 'Does Ashish think pocket money is a good idea?', 'What do many say that it helps develop?', 'Would he give his kid pocket money?', 'What about Sharad?', 'Why?', 'What does he also feel?', 'What does he not want his child to do?', 'What does Rajiv think?', 'Why?', 'Would he give it to him on a scheduled basis?', 'When would he give it to him?', 'What does Rakesh think?', 'Why?', 'Would he give it to him on a scheduled basis?'] | {'answers': ['Parents', 'Four', 'Ashish Khanna', 'Rakesh Shah', 'Sharad Sanghi', 'Rajiv Patel', 'No', "Children's sense of value", 'No', 'No', 'Because he doesn\'t want to create the perception of "her" money and "my" money.', 'It encourages children to care more about money than anything else.', 'To start judging other children by the amount of money or pocket money they have.', 'He would give his child pocket money', 'Because it is important that he learns to manage money.', 'No', 'He would have to earn it.', 'He would give his child pocket money', 'He feels that children should learn to spend money properly.', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [0, 68, 143, 967, 477, 1364, 143, 157, 143, 477, 534, 780, 861, 1364, 1364, 1473, 1473, 967, 967, 1087], 'answers_end': [66, 142, 156, 978, 490, 1375, 251, 251, 294, 533, 610, 860, 965, 1416, 1472, 1533, 1559, 1019, 1086, 1129]} |
36h9ulyp62uv4wienanaa27iq79fjc | CHAPTER VI
A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK
There was a game of hide and seek that Danny Meadow Mouse once played with Buster Bear. It was a very dreadful game for Danny. But hard as it was for Danny, it didn't begin to be as hard as the game Lightfoot the Deer was playing with the hunter in the Green Forest.
In the case of Buster Bear and Danny, the latter had simply to keep out of reach of Buster. As long as Buster didn't get his great paws on Danny, the latter was safe. Then, too, Danny is a very small person. He is so small that he can hide under two or three leaves. Wherever he is, he is pretty sure to find a hiding-place of some sort. His small size gives him advantages in a game of hide and seek. It certainly does. But Lightfoot the Deer is big. He is one of the largest of the people who live in the Green Forest. Being so big, it is not easy to hide.
Moreover, a hunter with a terrible gun does not have to get close in order to kill. Lightfoot knew all this as he waited for the coming of the hunter of whom Sammy Jay had warned him. He had learned many lessons in the hunting season of the year before and he remembered every one of them. He knew that to forget even one of them might cost him his life. So, standing motionless behind a tangle of fallen trees, Lightfoot listened and watched. | ['Who can kill from a distance?', 'With what?', 'Is one of the animals aware of this?', 'WHo?', 'What kind of animal is he?', 'Who told him the gunman will arrive?', "What is the rodent's name?", 'Is he playing with someone?', 'With whom?', 'What kind of animal is he?', 'What game are they playing?', 'How can Danny win?', 'Is Danny big?', 'How little is he?', 'Can he conceal himself easily?', 'What is sufficient to conceal him?', 'Where do these beasts live?', 'Which one?', 'Are there large animals there?', 'Please name one.'] | {'answers': ['a hunter', 'a gun', 'yes', 'Lightfoo', 'Deer', 'Sammy Jay .', 'Danny', 'yes', 'Buster', 'bear.', 'hide and seek', 'k eep out of busters reach', 'No', 'very small', 'yes', 'two or three leaves.', 'Forest', 'the Green Forest', 'yes', 'Lightfoot'], 'answers_start': [877, 869, 954, 953, 231, 1011, 39, 41, 39, 102, 39, 346, 476, 487, 647, 536, 802, 799, 308, 729], 'answers_end': [987, 908, 988, 1005, 256, 1053, 97, 126, 124, 126, 90, 399, 516, 515, 707, 574, 826, 827, 346, 758]} |
3pb5a5bd0v68y1d7xl4vpx2l0o57gm | (CNN) -- Former English Premier League referees have jumped to the defense of Howard Webb after criticism of his performance in Sunday's World Cup final.
Webb, the first referee to officiate the European Champions League final and World Cup final in the same season, dished out 13 yellow cards and one red as Spain defeated the Netherlands 1-0 in a tempestuous clash at Soccer City, Johannesburg.
Dutch coach Bert Van Marwijk and several of his players suggested the English official favored the Spanish, and Netherlands fans booed Webb and his assistants when they collected their medals after the game.
But ex-referee Jeff Winter, who took charge of several fiery encounters between English giants like Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool, was full of praise for Webb's performance in extremely testing circumstances.
"I thought he had a superb game," Winter told CNN. "I find it very difficult to remember a more testing game than that at any level. I thought the players' behavior and discipline were abysmal.
"It was as if the Dutch had decided the only way they were going to stop Spain was by kicking them, harassing the referee and being obnoxious throughout.
"From a referee's point of view, if the players don't want to be controlled it's virtually impossible to control them. Had it had been a referee without his experience of the European game, they might have lost control within the first 30 minutes."
Webb's tally of 14 yellow cards -- including the red shown to Netherlands defender Johnny Heitinga in extra-time - was a record for the World Cup final. | ['Why was the referee criticized?', 'What specifically had everyone in an uproar?', 'What did he do that made everyone believe he was showing favoritism?', 'What is his name?', 'What was kind of special or unusal about his refereeing these games?', 'Did EVERYONE think he called a bad game?', 'Who stuck up for him?', 'Who is he?', 'How did he think of how the participants behaved?', 'Does he think the players desire to be instructed on what to do?'] | {'answers': ["his performance in Sunday's World Cup final.", 'Dutch coach Bert Van Marwijk and several of his players suggested the English official favored the Spanish', 'dished out 13 yellow cards and one red', 'Howard Webb', "Webb's tally of 14 yellow cards -- including the red shown to Netherlands defender Johnny Heitinga in extra-time - was a record for the World Cup final.", 'No', 'Jeff Winter', 'an ex-referee', '"It was as if the Dutch had decided the only way they were going to stop Spain was by kicking them, harassing the referee and being obnoxious throughout.', "if the players don't want to be controlled it's virtually impossible to control them."], 'answers_start': [96, 401, 269, 78, 1436, 833, 833, 615, 1029, 1217], 'answers_end': [154, 507, 308, 89, 1589, 1027, 1027, 637, 1183, 1303]} |
3oswbblg1exz1w97d87ldbccprnxdk | In biological classification, class () is:
The composition of each class is determined by a taxonomist. Often there is no exact agreement, with different taxonomists taking different positions. There are no hard rules that a taxonomist needs to follow in describing a class, but for well-known animals there is likely to be consensus.
In botany, classes are now rarely discussed. Since the first publication of the APG system in 1998, which proposed a taxonomy of the flowering plants up to the level of orders, many sources have preferred to treat ranks higher than orders as informal clades. Where formal ranks have been assigned, the ranks have been reduced to a very much lower level, e.g. class Equisitopsida for the land plants, with the major divisions within the class assigned to subclasses and superorders.
For some clades, a number of alternative classifications are used.
The class as a distinct rank of biological classification having its own distinctive name (and not just called a "top-level genus" "(genus summum)" was first introduced by the French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in his classification of plants that appeared in his "Eléments de botanique", 1694.
In the first edition of his "Systema Naturae" (1735). Carl Linnaeus divided all three of his kingdoms of Nature (minerals, plants, and animals) into classes. Only in the animal kingdom are Linnaeus's classes similar to the classes used today; his classes and orders of plants were never intended to represent natural groups, but rather to provide a convenient "artificial key" according to his "Systema Sexuale", largely based on the arrangement of flowers. | ['Who published about nature in the 18th century?', 'what year was the 1st edition published?', 'the name of the book?', 'how many kingdoms did he have?', 'name one', 'another?', 'and?', 'what were each divided into', 'are they all used today?', 'are any?', "what's the class determined by?", 'do they agree?', 'are there strict rules?', 'when did Joseph Pitton de Tourefort publish his work?', "it's name?", 'his nationalist?', 'what was published in 1998?', 'are classes discussed in plant study now?', 'what did the APG suggest?', 'what did Linnaeus mean his plant classes to be?'] | {'answers': ['Carl Linnaeus', '(1735).', '"Systema Naturae"', 'three', 'minerals', 'plants', 'and animals', 'into classes', 'no', "Only in the animal kingdom are Linnaeus's classes similar to the classes used today", 'class is determined by a taxonomist', 'no', 'no', '1694', '"Eléments de botanique"', 'French', 'the APG system', 'rarely', 'it proposed a taxonomy of the flowering plants up to the level of orders', 'a convenient "artificial key'], 'answers_start': [1198, 1198, 1226, 1277, 1311, 1321, 1329, 1266, 1356, 1356, 69, 105, 202, 1160, 1149, 1068, 394, 362, 445, 1523], 'answers_end': [1265, 1251, 1242, 1302, 1319, 1327, 1340, 1354, 1439, 1439, 104, 139, 219, 1194, 1189, 1083, 437, 382, 514, 1573]} |
3ouygizwr7y0t36mf5994r6qssg0pu | CHAPTER VII.
NEW LODGINGS.
Dan was so eager to see the new lodgings that he could not wait with any degree of patience until Seth had fully satisfied himself regarding certain matters connected with the leasing of them, but insisted on setting out at once, and his partner felt obliged to accompany him.
Arriving at the address given them by 'Lish Davis, they found affairs exactly as he had stated.
The room which had been offered at such a low rental was in the attic of an old-fashioned, pitch-roof house, and although it was not such an apartment as could readily have been let to adults, to the boys it appeared as the acme of comfort and even luxury.
Mrs. Hanson, the mistress of the dwelling, had provided a fairly good bed for the lodgers, and the clothing on it looked so rest-inviting that Dan declared that it was hard to resist the temptation to "turn in" at once.
There were two chairs, a rude stand on which were a water-pitcher and a basin, a small mirror, and an old table.
The window boasted of a curtain; but the floor was carpetless, save for two well-worn rugs.
Dan, fearing lest Seth might refuse to hire this very swell apartment because of the suspicion that some of Ninety-four's men had agreed to pay a certain portion of the rental in order that it might be offered at an exceedingly low price, promptly announced his willingness to take the room, and when this had been done it seemed to Master Bartlett as if he was in duty bound to ratify the bargain. | ['Who was eager?', 'What was he eager to see?', 'What was he waiting on?', 'What did he insist on?', 'Who was his partner?', 'Who gave them the address?', 'How did they find things when they got there?', 'Where was the room?', 'How did the place look to them?', 'Who was the leader of the place?', 'What did she provide for them?', 'How did the clothes on it look?', 'What did he say was hard resisting?', 'How many seats were there?', 'What was on the stand?', 'Was the looking glass big?', 'Was the table old?', 'Was there carpet?', 'What was there in place of carpet?', 'What did he fear?'] | {'answers': ['Dan', 'new lodgings', 'certain matters', 'setting out', 'Seth', "'Lish Davis", 'exactly as stated', 'attic', 'comfortable and luxurious', 'Mrs. Hanson', 'a good bed', 'rest-inviting', 'to turn in', 'two', 'water-pitcher', 'no', 'yes', 'no', 'rugs', 'Seth might refuse the apartment'], 'answers_start': [31, 55, 77, 240, 129, 348, 380, 461, 613, 667, 714, 762, 850, 889, 939, 968, 988, 1041, 1075, 1116], 'answers_end': [35, 71, 222, 251, 134, 359, 404, 515, 663, 708, 756, 804, 885, 910, 954, 982, 1000, 1065, 1094, 1167]} |
3amw0rghod23ezytgbb7f3231wvpnl | Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death.
Charles II's father, Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War. Although the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649, England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth, and the country was a "de facto" republic, led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe. Cromwell became virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland, and Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands. A political crisis that followed the death of Cromwell in 1658 resulted in the restoration of the monarchy, and Charles was invited to return to Britain. On 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim. After 1660, all legal documents were dated as if he had succeeded his father as king in 1649. | ['What position did Charles II hold?', 'What country did he rule over first?', 'Who was his dad?', 'What happened to him?', 'Where?', 'When?', 'Was Charles II ever in a war?', 'Did he lose any battles?', 'Which one?', 'Who beat him?', 'When?', 'What happened after he lost?', 'Did he ever go to France?', 'When did he return to Britain?', 'What city did he return to?'] | {'answers': ['King of England, Scotland and Ireland', 'Scotland', 'Charles I', 'executed', 'Whitehall', 'January 30 1649', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Battle of Worcester', 'Oliver Cromwell', 'September 3 1651', 'Charles fled to mainland Europe', 'Yes', 'On 29 May 1660', 'London'], 'answers_start': [43, 401, 276, 287, 301, 316, 613, 620, 649, 596, 672, 695, 833, 1054, 1105], 'answers_end': [84, 410, 287, 309, 309, 332, 681, 628, 668, 606, 691, 774, 852, 1068, 1113]} |
3f6kkywmnb1up2v3b2kcf9len7ondp | Musa Kayairanga of Rwanda is a traditional healer. He uses natural medicines to treat his patients. He learned how to use computers at a rural telecommunications center in his country. Musa Kayairanga says he exchanges information with doctors as far away as Canada. He also says the computer has improved his knowledge of using plants to treat diseases. Many people in rural areas are now able to communicate with the rest of the world. This is one example of how technology is changing life in developing countries.
Andrew Burns is an economist at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He led a recent study of technology in developing countries. The study found that technology has spread faster in such countries than in rich nations. It also found that technological progress has helped raise wages in developing countries. And it reduced the percentage of people living in extreme poverty from twenty-nine percent in 1990 to eighteen percent in 2004.
Progress in communications technology has aided the growth of call centers in developing countries. Call centers are offices where most telephone calls for a business can be answered. For example, a woman in the United States who calls her computer company about a problem might speak with someone in India or Pakistan.
Call centers serve businesses in local and international markets. And they have added to economic growth by providing well-paid jobs and new skills for workers who might not have had such employment. Ahsan Saeed is a young call center worker in Karachi, Pakistan. He says the job improves his language skills, his sales skills and his ability to deal with people.( from VOA Special English ) | ['Who works at the World Bank?', 'What is his position?', 'Where is it located?', 'What did his research conclude?', 'Anything else?', 'What?', 'That all?', 'Please tell me then', 'By how much?', 'Who is the first person mentioned?', 'Where is he from?', 'What does he do?', 'What treatments does he employ?', 'Like what?', 'What tools does he have?'] | {'answers': ['Andrew Burns', 'He is an economist', 'Washington, D.C', 'That technology has spread faster in developing countries than in rich nations.', 'Yes', 'That technological progress has helped raise wages in developing countries', 'No', 'Technologyt reduced the percentage of people living in extreme poverty', 'From twenty-nine percent in 1990 to eighteen percent in 2004', 'Musa Kayairanga', 'Rwanda', 'He is a traditional healer.', 'Natural medicines', 'unknown', 'The computer'], 'answers_start': [520, 520, 520, 648, 738, 738, 828, 828, 828, 0, 0, 0, 51, -1, 267], 'answers_end': [585, 587, 585, 736, 826, 826, 954, 956, 954, 49, 50, 50, 98, -1, 353]} |
3h7xdtshkcrnoge85tc7hd12te5wg2 | (CNN) -- Saudi Arabia's quest for a fourth Asian Cup title, and first since 1996, is over after they slumped to a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Jordan in Doha on Thursday.
A mistake from goalkeeper Waleed Abdullah sealed Saudi Arabia's fate, as the kingdom slumped to their second successive defeat following their surprise 2-1 loss to Syria on Sunday.
Last weekend's defeat saw the instant dismissal of Portuguese coach Jose Peseiro, but his replacement Nasser Al Johar failed to get the victory the Saudi's needed to keep their tournament alive, despite making four changes to his side.
An ominous sign for the 2022 World Cup?
The only goal of the game came three minutes before half-time against the run of play.
There looked no danger when Baha Abdelrahman floated in a cross from the right hand side, but Abdullah completely misjudged the flight of the ball and could only watch on in horror as it looped into the net.
Despite the shock nature of their exit, Al Johar was philosophical about the defeat. "We played very well and we created opportunities to score, especially in the second half," he told reporters.
"But we were not lucky and this is football. Maybe we'll do better in the future," he added.
The result means Saudi Arabia become the first team to bow out of the competition and puts Jordan level on points with Japan at the top of the group.
Meanwhile, Group B favorites Japan claimed a hard fought 2-1 win over Syria in the day's other match to move onto four points after their two matches. | ['what is story about', 'what year is world cup', 'who was the first teanm to bough out', 'did Saudi Arabia win the cup', 'who were group b favorites', 'how many minutes beefore half time', 'what day was the match played', 'who failed to get victory', 'who floated in a cross from the right hand side', 'who was Portuguese coach'] | {'answers': ['quest for a fourth Asian Cup title', '2022 World Cup', 'Saudi Arabia', 'no', 'Japan', 'three minutes', 'Thursday.', 'Nasser Al Johar failed to get the victory', 'Baha Abdelrahman', 'Jose Peseiro'], 'answers_start': [23, 616, 1242, 113, 1389, 664, 150, 455, 751, 405], 'answers_end': [58, 630, 1307, 125, 1412, 722, 168, 497, 812, 434]} |
3bf51chdtva8gm8yws14vi4z7760h2 | Today is National Bike-to-Work Day. And on New York City's jammed streets, people are cycling on hundreds of miles of new bike lanes. But New York's widespread efforts to make streets safer for bikes have also left some locals complaining about the loss of parking spots and lanes for cars.
When the weather is good, Aaron Naparstek likes to pedal his two young kids to school on a special Dutch-made bicycle. Naparstek supports the new lane.
Aaron: The bike lane on Prospect Park West is really introducing a lot of new people to the idea that it's possible to use a bike in New York City for transportation or to travel around. This is what 21stcentury New York City looks like.
Prospect Park West is still a one-way road, but where it used to have three lanes of car traffic, now it has two, plus a protected bike lane. Supporters say that makes the road safer for everyone, including pedestrians, by slowing down cars and taking bikes off the sidewalk. But some longtime residents disagree. Lois Carswell is president of a group called Seniors for Safety. She says the two-way bike lane is dangerous to older residents who are used to one-way traffic.
Lois: We wanted a lane -- the right kind of lane that would keep everybody safe, that would keep the bikers safe. But we want it to be done the right way. And it has not been done the right way.
Craig Palmer builds bars and restaurants in Manhattan. I was interviewing him for a different story when he brought up the bike lanes all on his own.
Craig: I think the biggest problem is that Bloomberg put all these bike lanes in. You took what used to be a full street and you're shrinking it.
Then there are the Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who forced the city to remove a bike lane through their neighborhood. But polls show that the majority of New Yorkers support bike lanes by a margin of 56% to 39%. Bicycle advocate Caroline Samponaro of Transportation Alternatives calls that _
Caroline: If this was an election, we would have already had our victory. The public has spoken and they keep speaking. And I think, more importantly, the public is starting to vote with their pedals. | ['What is new around the city?', 'Which city?', 'Does everyone think they need them?', 'Do most people support or oppose them?', 'By what percentage?', 'What was lost for the new lanes?', 'What else?', 'Does Aaron Naparstek like them?', 'What kind of bike does he have?', 'Where does he take it?', 'Does he do this when it rains?', 'What is Lois Carswell the head of?', 'Called what?', 'What did the group want?', 'Does she think this one is safe?', 'Who is it unsafe for?', 'Why?', 'Who made the city take out a bike lane?', 'Where was it?', 'Where is that?'] | {'answers': ['bike lanes', 'New York', 'no', 'support', '56%', 'parking spots', 'lanes for cars', 'yes', 'Dutch', "kids' school", 'unknown', 'a group', 'Seniors for Safety', 'a bike lane that would keep everybody safe', 'no', 'older residents', 'they are used to one-way traffic', 'Hasidic Jews', 'Williamsburg', 'Brooklyn'], 'answers_start': [75, 138, 1278, 1794, 1856, 250, 249, 412, 350, 325, -1, 1006, 1006, 1170, 1319, 1066, 1066, 1681, 1680, 1695], 'answers_end': [132, 167, 1358, 1857, 1876, 290, 291, 445, 409, 378, -1, 1064, 1064, 1243, 1358, 1128, 1160, 1761, 1708, 1718]} |
39ghhavomfrl6glp3trrjyar1bu4jv | Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor of the apartment building. For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it. He earned a little money by serving as a model to artists who could not pay for a professional model. He was a fierce, little, old man who protected the two young women in the studio apartment above him.
Sue found Behrman in his room. In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint. Sue told him about Johnsy and how she feared that her friend would float away like a leaf on the old ivy vine climbing hopelessly up the outside block wall.
Old Behrman was angered at such an idea. "Are there people in the world with the foolishness to die because leaves drop off a vine? Why do you let that silly business come in her brain?"
"She is very sick and weak," said Sue, "and the disease has left her mind full of strange ideas."
"This is not any place in which one so good as Miss Johnsy shall lie sick," yelled Behrman. "Some day I will paint a masterpiece, and we shall all go away."
Johnsy was sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade down to cover the window. She and Behrman went into the other room. They looked out a window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked at each other without speaking. A cold rain was falling, mixed with snow.
The next morning, Sue awoke after an hour's sleep. She found Johnsy with wide-open eyes staring at the covered window. "Pull up the shade; I want to see," she ordered, quietly. Sue obeyed.
After the beating rain and fierce wind that blew through the night, there yet stood against the wall one ivy leaf. It was the last one on the vine. It was still dark green at the center. But its edges were color1ed with the yellow. It hung bravely from the branch about seven meters above the ground.
"It is the last one," said Johnsy. "I thought it would surely fail during the night. I heard the wind. It will fall today and I shall die at the same time."
"Dear, dear!" said Sue, leaning her worn face down toward the bed. "Think of me, if you won't think of yourself. What would I do?" But Johnsy did not answer.
The next morning, when it was light, Johnsy demanded that the window shade be raised. The ivy leaf was still there. Johnsy lay for a long time, looking at it. And then she called to Sue, who was preparing chicken soup.
"I've been a bad girl," said Johnsy. "Something has made that last leaf stay there to show me how bad I was. It is wrong to want to die. You may bring me a little soup now."
An hour later she said: "someday I hope to paint the Bay of Naples."
Later in the day, the doctor came, and Sue talked to him in the hallway. "Even chances. With good care, you'll win," said the doctor. "And now I must see another case I have in your building. Behrman, whose name is some kind of an artist, I believe, has Pneumonia , too. He is an old, weak man and his case is severe. There is no hope for him, but he goes to the hospital today to ease his pain."
The next day, the doctor said to Sue:" She's out of danger. You won. Nutrition and care now - that's all."
Later that day, Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay, and put one arm around her. "I have something to tell you, white mouse," she said, "Mister Behrman died of pneumonia today in the hospital. He was sick only two days. They found him the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain. His shoes and clothing were completely wet and icy cold. They could not imagine where he had been on such a terrible night.
"And then they found a lantern, still lighted, and a ladder that had been moved from its place. And art supplies and a painting board with green and yellow color1s mixed on it.
"Look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn't you wonder why it never moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it is Behrman's masterpiece - he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell." | ['Where did Old Behrman live?', "What was he working to start but hadn't yet?", 'Who was protective of him?', 'What did she find in his room?', 'What did they find that had been there for 25 years?'] | {'answers': ['the ground floor of the apartment building.', 'to paint a work of art', 'Sue', 'they found a lantern', 'a blank canvas'], 'answers_start': [0, 94, 2051, 3620, 410], 'answers_end': [82, 173, 2116, 3665, 481]} |
3nl0rfnu0fngh0r7ler3kda4gzfk4t | It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man.Over the phone ,his mother told him,"Mr.Belser died last night ,The funeral is Wednesday."Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days.
When Jack was very young ,his father died.Mr Belser,who lived in the same neighborhood with them,spent as much time as he could to make sure Jack had a man's influence in his life.He spent a lot of time teachimg Jack he thought what was important in his following life.If Mr.Belser hadn' taught him how to weave,he wouldn't be in this business now.So he promised his mother he would attend Mr.Belser's funeral.
"You'd better not drive your car.It's a long way."his mother warned him.
Busy as he was,he kept his word.Though tired from the earliest flight,Jack tried his best to help.Mr.Belser's funeral was small because he had no children of his own and most of his s had passed away.
The night before he had to return home,Jack and his mother stopped by to see the old house Mr.Belser once lived.Now it belonged to him.He bought the house from one of his s.
The house was exactly as he remembered.Every step held memories.Every picture,every piece of furniture... Jadk stopped suddenly.
The box on his desk was gone!He once asked the old man what was inside.He just smiled and said it was the most valuable thing to him,though it almost cost nothing to others.He figured that someone from the Belser family had taken it ."I will never know what was so valuable to him."Jack thought disappotntedly.
Three days later returning home from work,Jack discovered a small package in his mailbox.
The handwriting was difficult to read,but the return address caught his attention."Mr.Harold Belser"it read.
Jack couldn't wait to open it .Inside lay the familiar small box.His heart racing,Jack unlocked the box.Inside he found a gold pocket watch with these words engraved:"Jack,Thanks for your time!Harold Belser."
"The thing he valued most was my time."Jack held the watch before his chest,tears filling his eyes. | ['What did the memories of belser flash through his mind like?', 'Had it been a while since he Jack had seen him?', 'What did he teach jack?', "Was Belser's funeral larger?", 'Who stopped by belsers old house with jack?', 'Was the house different than he remembered?', 'What did Jack receive in the box he got that return address was Mr, Harold Belser?', 'What was a skill Belser taught him that causes him to be in buisness now?', "Who did Jack think took the box that was normally on Belser's desk?", 'What did his mother warn him about driving?'] | {'answers': ['an old newsreel', 'it had been some time since Jack had seen the old man', 'what was important in his following life.', 'no', 'his mother', 'no', 'a gold pocket watch with these words engraved:"Jack,Thanks for your time!Harold Belser."', 'taught him how to weave', 'someone from the Belser family had taken it', '"You\'d better not drive your car.It\'s a long way."'], 'answers_start': [144, 1, 431, 837, 981, 1118, 1869, 526, 1438, 664], 'answers_end': [198, 53, 520, 938, 1043, 1157, 1973, 562, 1481, 737]} |
3jnqlm5ft4mhysu220kg6yqllrel23 | Boston (CNN) -- Government prosecutors have released a series of new photographs showing cash, weapons and even a grenade recovered from the Santa Monica, California, apartment where fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger and his long-time companion, Catherine Greig, apparently lived for 15 years while he was being hunted by the FBI.
The photographs were introduced as evidence Monday during a detention hearing for Greig, whose court-appointed attorney is seeking to have her released on bail. FBI Agent Michael Carazza testified that agents found 30 weapons inside the apartment, some of them hidden behind living room and bathroom walls.
The evidence photographs show several handguns, one automatic rifle and a hand grenade the FBI says was recovered after it arrested Bulger in late June at the small apartment only a few blocks from the beach.
The government also released a brief security camera video of Greig walking in and out of a local drugstore, picking up a prescription, prosecutors said, that was under an assumed name. Bulger and Greig were known in Santa Monica as Charles and Carol Gasko.
One neighbor, 88-year-old Catalina Schlank, told CNN that the couple was always friendly to her. But, she added, they refused to be listed as an emergency contact in the event Schlank became ill, and the only phone number they provided was one that was directed to an answering service.
The detention hearing was to determine whether Greig will be granted bail on charges of harboring a fugitive. During the hearing, her attorney, Kevin Reddington, told the judge that his client was a "kind, gentle person" who had a "loving personality." For his part, Bulger had entered a plea of not guilty to 19 counts of murder. | ['Who was hiding from the FBI?', 'Where were they living?', 'In what city?', 'Did their neighbors describe them as violent?', 'What names did they use with neighbors?', 'How long had the been residing there?', 'When was Bulger arrested?', 'How many weapons were found at the residence?', 'Were they hidden?', 'What are some of the types of weapons that were found?', 'How many counts of murder does Bulger face?', 'Does he admit guilt?', 'What is Greig being charged with?', 'Where had she been spotted locally and filmed?', 'Is she seeking bail?'] | {'answers': ['James "Whitey" Bulger and Catherine Greig', 'an apartment', 'Santa Monica, California', 'No', 'Charles and Carol Gasko.', '15 years', 'unknown', '30 weapons', 'some of them', 'everal handguns, one automatic rifle and a hand grenade', '19', 'No', 'harboring a fugitive.', 'a local drugstore', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [183, 167, 137, 1110, 1036, 260, -1, 491, 578, 639, 1666, 1652, 1446, 850, 1399], 'answers_end': [329, 258, 276, 1206, 1107, 329, -1, 576, 638, 725, 1730, 1730, 1508, 957, 1507]} |
3aapld8ucch9wv5puupeft644hzhtp | Educators across the U.S. are calling for major changes to the admission process in higher education.
The National Center for Educational Statistics (or NCES) reported that U.S. colleges and universities received more than 9 million applications between 2013 and 2014 and admitted more than 5 million students. But the problem is not in the number of students, a new report says. The report is called "Turning the Tide -- Making Caring Common."
The report argues that the process schools use to choose students causes major problems. David Hawkins is the Executive Director for Educational Content and Policy. He says that most colleges and universities require many things from students when they apply.
Schools usually require an essay describing a student's interests or why they want to study at that school. The schools also ask for letters from teachers describing why a student is a good candidate. But, Hawkins says, schools are most concerned with a student's high school grades and standardized test results.
The Education Conservancy is an organization that fights to make higher education equal and available. Lloyd Thacker is the Executive Director of the Education Conservancy, saying that the college admission process has changed a lot.
"Over the past 30 years, college admissions have become more complex." He says that ranking systems for colleges and universities are a big part of the problem.
U.S. News and World Report is a media company that creates a list of what it calls "America's Best Colleges." The company bases the list on information collected from colleges and universities across the country. This information includes results of standardized tests like the SAT from all of a school's students. Higher average test results help put schools higher on the list.
Thacker claims, "Too many students are learning to do whatever it takes in order to get ahead, even if that means sacrificing their own individuality, their health, their happiness and behavior..."
"The impact on students and on parents is that college is all about where you go. The rank has nothing to do with the quality of education that goes on at the college."
The Harvard report states that the best way to change the admission process is by changing college applications. | ['Who is calling for major changes?', 'To what?', 'What is the NCES?', 'What do they report on?', 'What is the problem?', 'What causes major problems?', 'Who is David Hawkins?', 'What do schools require?', 'What are schools most concerned with?', 'What is the education conservancy?', 'Who is Lloyd Thacker?', 'What does he say?', 'Have admissions become more complex?', 'What does he say?', 'What is the U.S. News and World Report', 'What is an example of a standardized test?', 'What does the Harvard report state?'] | {'answers': ['unknown', 'to the admission process in higher education.', 'The National Center for Educational Statistics (or NCES)', 'reported that U.S. colleges and universities received more than 9 million applications between 2013 and 2014 and admitted more than 5 million students.', 'the problem is not in the number of students', 'The report argues that the process schools use to choose students causes major problems', 'David Hawkins is the Executive Director for Educational Content and Policy.', "require an essay describing a student's interests or why they want to study at that school.", "schools are most concerned with a student's high school grades and standardized test results.", 'The Education Conservancy is an organization that fights to make higher education equal and available', 'Executive Director of the Education', 'saying that the college admission process has changed a lot.', 'Yes, over the past 30 years, college admissions have become more complex', 'He says that ranking systems for colleges and universities are a big part of the problem.', 'U.S. News and World Report is a media company that creates a list of what it calls "America\'s Best Colleges.', 'SAT', 'The Harvard report states that the best way to change the admission process is by changing college applications.'], 'answers_start': [-1, 56, 104, 161, 317, 449, 538, 726, 931, 1027, 1151, 1200, 1264, 1334, 1426, 1704, 2179], 'answers_end': [-1, 101, 160, 313, 361, 536, 613, 818, 1025, 1128, 1186, 1261, 1331, 1424, 1534, 1708, 2291]} |
3zotghdk5ibi9cex97fepx7jdf0sop | CHAPTER VII.
Something between a hindrance and a help. WORDSWORTH.
Etheldred awoke long before time for getting up, and lay pondering over her visions. Margaret had sympathised, and therefore they did not seem entirely aerial. To earn money by writing was her favourite plan, and she called her various romances in turn before her memory, to judge which might be brought down to sober pen and ink. She considered till it became not too unreasonably early to get up. It was dark, but there was a little light close to the window: she had no writing-paper, but she would interline her old exercise-book. Down she ran, and crouching in the school-room window-seat, she wrote on in a trance of eager composition, till Norman called her, as he went to school, to help him to find a book.
This done, she went up to visit Margaret, to tell her the story, and consult her. But this was not so easy. She found Margaret with little Daisy lying by her, and Tom sitting by the fire over his Latin.
"Oh, Ethel, good-morning, dear! you are come just in time."
"To take baby?" said Ethel, as the child was fretting a little.
"Yes, thank you, she has been very good, but she was tired of lying here, and I can't move her about," said Margaret.
"Oh, Margaret, I have such a plan," said Ethel, as she walked about with little Gertrude; but Tom interrupted.
"Margaret, will you see if I can say my lesson?" and the thumbed Latin grammar came across her just as Dr. May's door opened, and he came in exclaiming, "Latin grammar! Margaret, this is really too much for you. Good-morning, my dears. Ha! Tommy, take your book away, my boy. You must not inflict that on sister now. There's your regular master, Richard, in my room, if it is fit for his ears yet. What, the little one here too?" | ['Which section is this?', 'Who woke up early?', 'What did she do when she woke up?', 'Who was sympathetic?', 'What was her preferred plan?', 'What subject did she think about?', 'Until what time did she ponder this?', 'Where did she run to?', 'Who interrupted her writing?', 'What did he want?', 'What did she do after?', 'What would she do with her?', 'Who was with Margaret?', 'Was Margaret happy to see Ethel?', 'What did she want Ethel to do?', "What is the baby's name?", 'What news did Ethel give Margaret?', 'Who broke up their conversation?', 'What did he want?', 'Who arrived and stopped the lesson?', 'What did he say to Tom?'] | {'answers': ['Chapter VII', 'Etheldred', 'Pondered ger visions', 'Margaret', 'to earn money by writing', 'her past romances', 'until there was a little light', 'the school room', 'Norman', 'a book', 'visit margaret', 'concult', 'Daisy and Tom', 'yes', 'Take the baby', 'Daisy', 'she had a plan', 'Tom', 'to practice his latin lesson', 'Dr. May', 'Take your book away'], 'answers_start': [0, 73, 120, 158, 233, 282, 471, 608, 668, 762, 805, 833, 918, 1000, 1059, 922, 1245, 1333, 1357, 1448, 1596], 'answers_end': [12, 122, 157, 183, 280, 346, 533, 666, 739, 790, 832, 871, 994, 1056, 1084, 949, 1279, 1355, 1406, 1481, 1632]} |
3hwrjooet52wxl18ftcikld5anvse7 | A biblical canon or canon of scripture is a set of texts (or "books") which a particular religious community regards as authoritative scripture. The English word "canon" comes from the Greek κανών, meaning "rule" or "measuring stick". Christians became the first to use the term in reference to scripture, but Eugene Ulrich regards the idea as Jewish.
Most of the canons listed below are considered "closed" (i.e., books cannot be added or removed), reflecting a belief that public revelation has ended and thus some person or persons can gather approved inspired texts into a complete and authoritative canon, which scholar Bruce Metzger defines as "an authoritative collection of books". In contrast, an "open canon", which permits the addition of books through the process of continuous revelation, Metzger defines as "a collection of authoritative books".
These canons have developed through debate (canonology) and agreement on the part of the religious authorities of their respective faiths and denominations. Believers consider canonical books as inspired by God or as expressive of the authoritative history of the relationship between God and his people. Some books such as the Jewish-Christian gospels, have been excluded from various canons altogether, but many disputed books—considered non-canonical or even apocryphal by some—are considered to be Biblical apocrypha or Deuterocanonical or fully canonical by others. Differences exist between the Jewish Tanakh and Christian biblical canons, although the Jewish Tanakh did form the basis for the Christian Old Testament, and between the canons of different Christian denominations. The differing criteria and processes of canonization dictate what the various communities regard as inspired scripture. In some cases where varying strata of scriptural inspiration have accumulated, it becomes prudent to discuss texts that only have an elevated status within a particular tradition. This becomes even more complex when considering the open canons of the various Latter Day Saint sects—which one may view as extensions of Christianity (and thus of Judaism)—and the scriptural revelations purportedly given to several leaders over the years within that movement. | ['Where does the English word Canon come from?', 'What have the caonons developed through?', 'How does Bruce Metzger define an Authoritive canon?', 'What does an open cannon permit?', 'How does Metzger define an open canon?', 'Are there differences in the Jewish Tanakh and Christian biblical canons?', 'What is the definition of the greek word canon comes from?', 'Where does it become prudent to discuss texts that only have an elevated status within a particular tradition?', 'Did the Jewish Tanakh for the basis for the Christian Old Testament?', 'What group became the first to use the term?'] | {'answers': ['the Greek κανών', 'debate', 'an authoritative collection of books', 'the addition of books', 'a collection of authoritative books', 'yes', 'rule', 'cases where varying strata of scriptural inspiration have accumulated', 'yes', 'Christians'], 'answers_start': [143, 864, 592, 691, 708, 1435, 169, 1770, 1518, 235], 'answers_end': [213, 906, 690, 804, 859, 1509, 212, 1949, 1588, 304]} |
386csbg1ozmg7qtgh74fdx6rb0s6qf | (CNN) -- In the last week, Jeremy Lin has gone from an unknown professional basketball player struggling to get time on court to an overnight sporting and media sensation. CNN takes a closer look at the first U.S.-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA, and how he's becoming more popular with every game.
Who is Jeremy Lin?
Born to parents Shirley and Gie-Ming on August 23, 1988, Lin is an Asian-American NBA player for the New York Knicks. He wears the jersey No. 17 and plays as point guard. As a professional basketballer he's not overly tall, measuring 6 feet, 3 inches (191 centimeters) and weighs 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms). He played for four years at Harvard, and has spent just one year as a professional player.
Career highlights:
Following his stint at Harvard (where he was twice named to the all-Ivy League), Lin failed to get drafted by an NBA franchise, and instead signed as a free agent with the Golden State Warriors in July, 2010. In December 2011, Lin signed with the New York Knicks after being cut by the Houston Rockets. His 109 points in his first four starts this past week have surpassed Allen Iverson's to become the most by any player since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976.
'Linsanity': Why the hype?
Everyone loves a battle-against-the-odds story, and Lin fits the bill perfectly. The reasons for his meteoric rise to become a U.S. basketball sensation are numerous, but it all starts with talent. In just weeks he's gone from one-time bench-warmer to team savior, leading the Knicks to five straight victories and averaging more than 20 points per game, while his field goal percentage during this winning streak tops 50%. In Friday's game against Kobe Bryant's L.A. Lakers, he reeled off 38 points in that victory alone. | ["Who does 'Linsanity' refer to?", 'Who is that?', 'Is he popular?', 'When was he born?', 'How tall is he?', 'Is that tall for a basketball player?', 'How much does he weigh?', 'Did he get drafted right out of college?', 'What did he do instead?', 'Is he still with them?', 'What team does he play for now?', 'When did he join them?', 'Are they doing well with him on the team?', 'How well?', 'How many points does he average a game?', 'How were his first four starts this week?', 'When did they merge?', 'Who held the old record?', 'How long has he been a professional?', 'Where did he play in college?', 'What position does he play?', 'Why do people like him so much?'] | {'answers': ['Jeremy Lin', 'the first U.S.-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA', 'Yes.', 'August 23, 1988', '6 feet, 3 inches (191 centimeters)', 'No.', '200 pounds (90.7 kilograms).', 'No', 'signed as a free agent with the Golden State Warriors', 'No', 'The New York Knicks', 'In December 2011', 'Yes', 'five straight victories', 'more than 20', '109 points in his first four starts,the most by any player since the NBA-ABA merger.', 'in 1976', 'Allen Iverson', 'one year', 'Harvard', 'point guard', 'Everyone loves a battle-against-the-odds story'], 'answers_start': [27, 199, 286, 353, 577, 524, 626, 776, 916, 988, 1003, 985, 1461, 1528, 1578, 1079, 1208, 1079, 662, 776, 471, 1263], 'answers_end': [38, 277, 328, 408, 622, 575, 661, 902, 984, 1077, 1038, 1001, 1573, 1573, 1616, 1233, 1230, 1164, 754, 806, 522, 1344]} |
339ansotr52ap7qm63t7eeknlpfikl | CHAPTER XLV
Law Business in London
On the Monday morning at six o'clock, Mr Oriel and Frank started together; but early as it was, Beatrice was up to give them a cup of coffee, Mr Oriel having slept that night in the house. Whether Frank would have received his coffee from his sister's fair hands had not Mr Oriel been there, may be doubted. He, however, loudly asserted that he should not have done so, when she laid claim to great merit for rising in his behalf.
Mr Oriel had been specially instigated by Lady Arabella to use the opportunity of their joint journey, for pointing out to Frank the iniquity as well as madness of the course he was pursuing; and he had promised to obey her ladyship's behests. But Mr Oriel was perhaps not an enterprising man, and was certainly not a presumptuous one. He did intend to do as he was bid; but when he began, with the object of leading up to the subject of Frank's engagement, he always softened down into some much easier enthusiasm in the matter of his own engagement with Beatrice. He had not that perspicuous, but not over-sensitive strength of mind which had enabled Harry Baker to express his opinion out at once; and boldly as he did it, yet to do so without offence.
Four times before the train arrived in London, he made some little attempt; but four times he failed. As the subject was matrimony, it was his easiest course to begin about himself; but he never could get any further. | ["Is this story going to be about a doctor's office?", 'What city?', 'Was Mr Oriel an enterprising man?', 'What about a presumptuous one?', 'Did he intend to talk about the subject of matrimony?', 'What did he talk about instead each time, instead?', 'Who was he engaged to?', 'Who was able to express their opinion at once, though?', 'Was anyone offended when Harry did it?', 'What are Mr Oriel and Frank riding together?'] | {'answers': ['No', 'London', 'No', 'no', 'yes', 'himself', 'Beatrice', 'Harry Baker', 'no', 'train'], 'answers_start': [14, 30, 716, 716, 808, 1403, 1028, 1125, 1037, 1252], 'answers_end': [36, 36, 807, 808, 1036, 1410, 1036, 1136, 1227, 1258]} |
3zv9h2yqqd7mu42kae5nyjctp9rw3l | A police cruiser draped in black banners and topped with a rose sat in front of the Jupiter, Florida, police department Monday morning, paying testament to a 20-year department veteran killed Sunday while helping escort President Barack Obama through Palm Beach County.
Officer Bruce St. Laurent, 55, was traveling with the presidential motorcade around 4:45 p.m. Sunday southbound on Interstate 95 through West Palm Beach when he pulled his motorcycle onto an on ramp, so he could stop traffic from accessing the highway, according to a statement released Monday by Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera.
The statement said St. Laurent drove into the path of a 1994 Ford F150 driven by Susan Holloway, 56, of West Palm Beach, as she was accelerating to merge onto the interstate. Holloway hit the brakes to avoid the crash, but she hit St. Laurent's motorcycle, knocking the officer from his motorcycle and trapping him under her pickup when the vehicles came to rest, the statement said.
Jupiter Police Chief Frank Kitzerow said St. Laurent was transported to nearby St. Mary's Medical Center, where he died Sunday.
Barbera told CNN the statement details preliminary findings, and the ongoing investigation "could take months." When the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Highway Patrol complete their investigation, state attorneys will determine whether any charges will be filed in the case.
CNN senior photojournalist Peter Morris, who was in the motorcade, said this presidential caravan was longer than normal. In addition to the standard package of SUVs, he said three buses, including the president's campaign bus, comprised Sunday's motorcade south through Florida. Morris said motorcycle police often act as escorts and handle intersection control for motorcades. | ['how old is officer St Laurent/', 'what happened to him?', 'how?', 'where did he work?', 'which one?', 'for how long?', 'what was he doing when the wreck happened?', 'who hit him?', 'where is she from?', 'who is the police chief/', 'will charges be filed?', 'was this a normal sized motorcade?', 'how many buses were there?'] | {'answers': ['55', 'He died.', 'He as hit while riding a motorcycle.', 'police department', 'Jupiter, Florida', '20 years', 'traveling with the presidential motorcade', 'Susan Holloway', 'West Palm Beach', 'Frank Kitzerow', 'unknown', 'No', 'three'], 'answers_start': [272, 1018, 863, 84, 84, 158, 272, 632, 713, 1018, -1, 1511, 1612], 'answers_end': [301, 1146, 1014, 270, 270, 184, 348, 1016, 751, 1146, -1, 1567, 1672]} |
3fe7txl1linsppafu5scnkpfvul2qn | (CNN) -- Timothy Jones Jr. allegedly went on a 700-mile journey that began in South Carolina with the bodies of his five young children wrapped in garbage bags in the back of his SUV, authorities said Wednesday.
Jones, a 32-year-old computer tech and Mississippi State University graduate, told neighbors last week that he was moving his children from their home near Lexington to another state.
The father of five was being held Wednesday in a Mississippi jail in connection with the deaths of his children, ages 1 to 8, whose bodies were dumped in Alabama.
It's still unclear how or why Jones allegedly killed his children, but acting Sheriff Lewis McCarty of Lexington County told reporters that Jones drove for several days with their decomposing bodies in the back of his SUV.
It is believed he killed the children at the same time, and that the crime happened in Lexington County, McCarty said.
"I don't understand why he did it but, yes, these children were in the car, deceased, in garbage bags for some period of time," McCarty said.
When Jones was picked up Saturday at a police checkpoint in Mississippi, he seemed "very strange, maybe somewhat disoriented, a little bit on the violent side," McCarty said. In the car, police later found "cleaning material, they saw blood, they saw children's clothing but no children."
McCarty said Jones, who allegedly was in possession of synthetic marijuana and a drug called "bath salts," faces five counts of murder when he's returned to South Carolina. | ['What were the bodies wrapped in', 'how many', 'How long was the journey', 'Who did this', 'Where did it start', 'What kind of car was it', 'How old is he', 'What is his occupation?', 'Where did he graduate?', 'Was he being held in jail?', 'Where', 'Where were the bodies dumped?', 'What ages were they', 'Where did the crime occur?', 'Who said that', 'Who is he', 'of what?', 'When was Jones picked up?', 'Where?', 'in what state?'] | {'answers': ['garbage bags', 'five', '700-miles', 'Timothy Jones Jr.', 'South Carolina', 'SUV', '32', 'computer tech', 'Mississippi State University', 'Yes', 'Mississippi', 'Alabama', '1 to 8', 'Lexington County', 'McCarty', 'acting Sheriff', 'Lexington County', 'Saturday', 'a police checkpoint', 'Mississippi'], 'answers_start': [102, 98, 9, 9, 55, 160, 214, 214, 214, 1346, 1054, 525, 484, 790, 790, 636, 636, 1055, 1055, 1055], 'answers_end': [159, 135, 63, 41, 92, 182, 248, 248, 290, 1518, 1125, 564, 563, 893, 910, 684, 684, 1088, 1126, 1127]} |
3md9plukkiexs30z3k99614haiknzv | Martin Lynch, an American businessman, had been going on vacation to a small Mexican fishing village for a number of ears. One morning while going for a walk along the beach, he saw his friend Pablo Perez, a local fisherman. Martin watched Pablo _ his boat and pack the fish in a box. Martin noticed Pablo was smiling and looked very happy. He could also see several large fish in the boat. Martin greeted Pablo and asked how long it took to catch the fish. "Just a few hours," replied Pablo. Martin asked, "Why didn't you stay longer and catch more fish?" "I have enough for my family," Pablo said. "And what do you do with the rest of your day?" asked Martin. "I take a nap, play with my children, spend time with my wife, and go into the village to see my friends and play cards, I have a full and busy life." Martin explained that if Pablo worked longer hours and caught more fish, he could make more money. With the extra money, Pablo could buy more boats and catch money more fish. By selling the fish, Pablo could open his own factory and sell direct to supermarkets. "Then what?" asked Pablo. "Well you would probably have to move to Mexico City to run the business. Finally, you would be able to sell your business and make millions of dollars," replied Martin. "How long will that take?" asked Pablo. Martin thought for a while and said it would probably take at least 15 years. "And then what" asked Pablo. "Well, that's the best part," Martin said. "You will be able to retire, buy a house near the ocean, sleep longer, play with your children, spend more time with your wife, see your friends, and play cards." | ["What's the story's main character's name?", 'Where was he from?', 'Where did he like to holiday?', 'Did he have a friend there?', "What was his friend's name?", "What was Pablo's job?", 'How did Pablo spend his free time?', 'What does Martin advise him to do?', 'Why does Martin think he should do that?', 'What could he do with the money?', 'What would happen next?', 'Would Pablo be able to stay in the fishing village then?', 'Where would he have to go?', 'Why?', 'How much could he sell the business for?', 'How much time would pass before then?', 'What could Pablo do after selling the business?', 'How did Pablo look when Martin saw him?', 'What was in the boat?', 'How much time did he need to catch them?'] | {'answers': ['Martin Lynch', 'He is from America', 'a small Mexican fishing village', 'Yes', 'Pablo Perez', 'a local fisherman', 'I take a nap, play with my children, spend time with my wife, and go into the village to see my friends and play cards', 'worked longer hours and caught more fish', 'he could make more money', 'Pablo could buy more boats and catch money more fish', 'By selling the fish, Pablo could open his own factory and sell direct to supermarkets', 'No', 'Mexico City', 'run the business', 'millions of dollars', 'at least 15 years', 'You will be able to retire, buy a house near the ocean, sleep longer, play with your children, spend more time with your wife, see your friends, and play cards.', 'smiling and looked very happy', 'several large fish in the boat.', 'Just a few hours'], 'answers_start': [0, 17, 69, 175, 182, 206, 663, 844, 886, 934, 988, 1102, 1141, 1157, 1233, 1369, 1462, 310, 359, 459], 'answers_end': [12, 25, 100, 204, 204, 223, 781, 884, 910, 986, 1073, 1173, 1153, 1173, 1252, 1387, 1622, 339, 390, 475]} |
3137onmdkg5t7gshkti1v7u2maoegs | They know Russian tanks would make short work of their ramshackle defenses and shallow trenches. But with U.S. and Europe shrinking from the fight, this rag-tag band of civilian volunteers know they could be the first, last and only line of defense if Moscow rolls into this corner of northeast Ukraine.
"We can't expect help from anybody else. Our own government is too passive. But hopefully we can rely on support from ordinary Ukrainians," Vladimir Fedorok told CNN on a blustery morning close to the Ukrainian border village of Senkivka.
In more peaceful times, Fedorok runs a farm supplies company. Now, with Russia estimated to be massing up to 88,000 troops just across the border from Ukraine's eastern frontier, he finds himself marshaling a newly formed self-defense committee. They're setting up an outpost along the highway that cuts from the Ukrainian-Russian border to the Ukraine's interior.
Klitschko pulls out of presidential race
He and his closest aides, Younis and Olec, are clad in British Army-issue uniforms from the Iraq "Desert Storm" campaign. They still bear the Union Jack insignia on the left sleeve.
"We picked them up at the bazaar. I've no idea how they got there. Including my boots, I paid around 100 euros," Fedorok said. Other members of his self-defense unit are sporting surplus combat jackets and pants from other European militaries.
All of the volunteers say they have some army training from time spent doing military service. Fedorok said they've also been getting refresher courses from friendly Ukrainian army officers in recent days. Two members of the group claim -- like an unspecified number of other Ukrainian nationalists -- to have fought alongside Muslim insurgents against the Russians in Chechnya. | ['Who pulled out of the presidential race?', 'What kind of uniforms are he and his aides wearing?', 'What flag do they have on the sleeve?', 'Who talked to CNN?', 'Would russian tanks have a hard time against their defenses?', 'Who is leaving the fight?', 'Who knows they are the only defense?', 'Are they military members?', 'What does Fedorok do in other times?', 'What was the weather like when he talked to CNN?', 'Was it in the evening?', 'How many troops does Russia have?', 'Where are they located?', 'What sleeve is the Union Jack on?', 'Where did they buy the uniforms?', 'Did they know how they got there?', 'How much did he pay for it?', 'What are other members wearing?', 'Do the volunteers have any military experience?', 'What are the names of his aides?'] | {'answers': ['Klitschko', 'British Army-issue uniforms from the Iraq "Desert Storm" campaign', 'the Union Jack', 'Vladimir Fedorok', 'no', 'the U.S. and Europe', 'the volunteers', 'no', 'runs a farm supplies company', 'blustery', 'no', '88,000', "just across the border from Ukraine's eastern frontier", 'the left', 'the bazaar', 'no', 'around 100 euros', 'surplus combat jackets and pants from other European militaries', 'yes', 'Younis and Olec'], 'answers_start': [914, 957, 1079, 381, 0, 97, 149, 149, 547, 306, 445, 618, 618, 1095, 1141, 1141, 1141, 1269, 1387, 957], 'answers_end': [955, 1079, 1139, 472, 74, 218, 249, 188, 608, 493, 545, 670, 725, 1137, 1174, 1207, 1253, 1384, 1482, 998]} |
3njm2bjs4w6knv12rl2tzs8r1klpcq | Grace wants to play Frisbee. She goes to her store to buy a Frisbee. She picks out a red Frisbee. It is small enough to fit in her hand. It costs 75 cents. She buys it. She leaves the store. When Grace gets home, she has no one to play with. She looks for her friend Susan. Susan is not at home. She looks for her friend Jeff. Jeff is not allowed to go outside. Grace finds a dog named Ginger. Ginger loves to play frisbee. Grace tosses the frisbee to Ginger. Ginger catches it in her mouth. Ginger brings the frisbee back to Grace. Grace tosses the frisbee again. Ginger jumps up in the air and catches it. Grace throws the Frisbee one more time. The Frisbee lands in a tree. Grace is too short to reach the Frisbee. Grace pets Ginger and tells her that she is a good girl. Grace takes Ginger home. They eat cookies. The next day, they come back to the park. They get their Frisbee back. They play again. | ['What did Grace buy?', 'for how much?', 'was it big?', 'What color was the frisbee?', 'Did anyone play frisbee with her?', 'who?', 'Did she try to play with anyone else?', 'Who?', "Why didn't she play with Susan?", 'and Jeff?', 'Did she like playing with Ginger?', 'Was ginger good at playing frisbee?', 'Did they do anything else together?', 'Do they play frisbee again?', 'when?', 'did something happen to the frisbee?', 'how?', 'where did grace take ginger?', 'is ginger a person?'] | {'answers': ['a Frisbee', '75 cents', 'no', 'red', 'Yes', 'Ginger', 'yes', 'Susan and Jeff', 'she is not at home', 'he is not allowed to go outside', 'yes', 'yes', 'They eat cookies.', 'yes', 'The next day', 'it landed in a tree', 'Grace throws the Frisbee one more time', 'home', 'no, a dog'], 'answers_start': [58, 146, 98, 85, 424, 492, 242, 242, 274, 327, 889, 460, 800, 889, 818, 648, 608, 775, 362], 'answers_end': [67, 154, 135, 88, 458, 522, 272, 361, 294, 360, 905, 490, 817, 905, 858, 675, 645, 798, 393]} |
3xcc1odxdlb9t9r09v7dosxn7gaqrn | A pub /pʌb/, or public house is, despite its name, a private house, but is called a public house because it is licensed to sell alcohol to the general public. It is a drinking establishment in Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Denmark and New England. In many places, especially in villages, a pub can be the focal point of the community. The writings of Samuel Pepys describe the pub as the heart of England.
The history of pubs can be traced back to Roman taverns, through the Anglo-Saxon alehouse to the development of the modern tied house system in the 19th century.
Historically, pubs have been socially and culturally distinct from cafés, bars and German beer halls. Most pubs offer a range of beers, wines, spirits, and soft drinks and snacks. Traditionally the windows of town pubs were of smoked or frosted glass to obscure the clientele from the street but from the 1990s onwards, there has been a move towards clear glass, in keeping with brighter interiors. | ['What is a pub?', 'What is it for?', 'what does it serve?', 'Anything else?', 'Are they in America?', 'where?'] | {'answers': ['a public house', 'drinking', 'alcohol', 'soft drinks and snacks', 'yes', 'new england'], 'answers_start': [10, 157, 122, 744, 166, 250], 'answers_end': [31, 192, 142, 772, 269, 266]} |
33lkr6a5kekyskkbs5mtn6qxnpa1tb | Norfolk Island (i/ˈnɔːrfək ˈaɪlənd/; Norfuk: Norf'k Ailen) is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia, 1,412 kilometres (877 mi) directly east of mainland Australia's Evans Head, and about 900 kilometres (560 mi) from Lord Howe Island. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia. Together with two neighbouring islands, it forms one of Australia's external territories. It has 1,796 inhabitants living on a total area of about 35 km2 (14 sq mi). Its capital is Kingston.
Norfolk Island was colonised by East Polynesians but was long unpeopled when it was settled by Great Britain as part of its settlement of Australia from 1788. The island served as a convict penal settlement from 6 March 1788 until 5 May 1855, except for an 11-year hiatus between 15 February 1814 and 6 June 1825, when it lay abandoned. On 8 June 1856, permanent civilian residence on the island began when it was settled from Pitcairn Island. In 1913, the UK handed Norfolk over to Australia to administer as an external territory. | ['What island is featured in this article?', 'In what ocean is it located?', 'Near where?', 'What continent is it a part of?', 'How many people live there?', "What's the total area of the island?", 'What is its capital?', 'What people first lived there?', 'Who eventually settled it?', 'When?', 'What did they use it for?', 'When?', 'Was it used the entire time in that manner?', 'When was it not?', 'When did free people begin to live there?', 'Who settled it?', 'Does the UK still own it?', 'Who does?', 'What is it classified as now?', 'How far away from Lord Howe Island is it?'] | {'answers': ['Norfolk Island', 'Pacific Ocean', 'between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia', 'Australia.', '1,796', '35 km2 (14 sq mi).', 'Kingston.', 'East Polynesians', 'Great Britain', '1788', 'convict penal settlement', 'from 6 March 1788 until 5 May 1855', 'No', 'between 15 February 1814 and 6 June 1825', '8 June 1856,', 'Pitcairn Island', 'No', 'Australia', 'external territory.', ', and about 900 kilometres (560 mi)'], 'answers_start': [0, 77, 97, 288, 431, 470, 507, 535, 619, 688, 694, 740, 778, 792, 875, 949, 979, 989, 1048, 230], 'answers_end': [14, 97, 154, 341, 464, 507, 532, 583, 644, 692, 740, 776, 870, 847, 931, 977, 1067, 1067, 1067, 287]} |
3z7ishfuh0vcpwdvxikqo4emm2dz86 | The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia. Austronesian languages are spoken by about 386 million people, making it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers, behind only the Indo-European languages, the Sino-Tibetan languages, the Niger-Congo languages, and the Afroasiatic languages. It is on par with Indo-European, Niger–Congo, and Afroasiatic as one of the best-established language families. Major Austronesian languages with the highest number of speakers are Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, and Filipino (Tagalog). The family contains 1,257 languages, which is the second most of any language family.
Similarities between the languages spoken in the Malay Archipelago and the Pacific Ocean were first observed in 1706 by the Dutch scholar Adriaan Reland. In the 19th century, researchers (e.g. Wilhelm von Humboldt, Herman van der Tuuk) started to apply the comparative method to the Austronesian languages, but the first comprehensive and extensive study on the phonological history of the Austronesian language family including a reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian lexicon was made by the German linguist Otto Dempwolff. The term Austronesian itself was coined by Wilhelm Schmidt (German "austronesisch") which comes from Latin "auster" "south wind" plus Greek "nêsos" "island". The family is aptly named, as the vast majority of Austronesian languages are spoken on islands: only a few languages, such as Malay and the Chamic languages, are indigenous to mainland Asia. Many Austronesian languages have very few speakers, but the major Austronesian languages are spoken by tens of millions of people and one Austronesian language, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), is spoken by 250 million people, making it the 8th most spoken language in the world. Approximately twenty Austronesian languages are official in their respective countries (see the list of major and official Austronesian languages). | ['When were similarities between the languages first noticed?', 'By whom?', 'Where are the languages spoken?', 'Are there any members in Asia?', 'How many?', 'How many speak Austronesian?', 'Is it the largest spoken language?', 'What languages encompass the top 4?', 'How many languages does the family contain?', 'Is that the 3rd most?', 'Where does it stand?'] | {'answers': ['1706', 'Dutch scholar Adriaan Reland', 'Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean', 'Yes', 'a few', 'about 386 million people', 'fifth-largest', 'Indo-European languages, the Sino-Tibetan languages, the Niger-Congo languages, and the Afroasiatic languages.', '1,257', 'no', 'second most'], 'answers_start': [905, 917, 84, 158, 163, 235, 275, 345, 725, 755, 755], 'answers_end': [909, 945, 157, 197, 169, 260, 288, 455, 730, 767, 766]} |
3b837j3ldowl6p6d1zwijscop7gsr5 | In side their one-storey, metal-roofed house on Vancouver Island's west coast,Janet Schwartz and her domesticated deer, Bimbo,are returning to their normal lives. The law--represented by men and women dressed in black uniforms and carrying guns -- is no longer threatening to forcibly separate Schwartz and Bimbo,freeing the l0-year-old deer to the fates of the surrounding rainforest and its hungry wolves and black bears.
"We love each other,"said Schwartz who turned 70 on Saturday. "she'll come up to me and she'll kiss me right on the lips,1ike a man kisses a woman''
For four days last week,Schwartz' life turned as rocky as the rough logging road that connected her life to the outside world. Conservation officers had arrived with orders to 1oose Bimbo. Schwartz was to1d she wasn't allowed to touch Bimbo any more It seemed somebody had complained,said Environment Minister Terry Lake earlier in the week, noting it's illegal to keep wild animals as pets.
During those tense days,sleepless nights were made even more restless by nightmares,said Schwartz. There were news stories and Facebook pages which supported Schwartz and by Friday,the government had changed its mind. Schwartz could keep her pet with the help of a veterinarian and conservation officers.
"It makes me feel good,"said Schwartz of the announcement."She is my life.and I've had her since the day she's been born."
The relationship began when a friend found the orphaned fawn along a nearby logging road,more than a kilometer away from her current home,said Schwartz. The friend brought the fawn over because she knew Schwartz had raised a deer before.
Schwartz named the fawn Bimbo,based on a Gene Autry song that was playing inside her home at the time,and began feeding the animal goat's milk.
Days turned into months and years, and now Bimbo's a part of the family. | ['WHat unusual pet does the lady have?', 'How did dhe come to have it?', 'How long ago?', 'Why did her friend pick her to care for the fawn?', 'What did she name it?', 'WHy was the woman afraid recently?', 'Why?', 'How did they even know she had it?', 'Why was the woman worried about letting it go?', 'Anything else?', 'Did she receive any outside support?', 'From who?', 'Did officials change their minds?', 'Does she have to follow any special rules?', 'How old is the woman anyway?', 'Does she live in a city?', 'How do you know?', 'How does the deer show a special connection to her?'] | {'answers': ['a deer', 'The friend brought the orphened fawn to her', '10 years ago', 'she knew Schwartz had raised a deer before.', 'Bimbo', 'Conservation officers had orders to loose Bimbo.', 'it is illegal to keep wild animals as pets', 'somebody complained', 'there are hungry wolves and black bears', "Bimbo's a part of the family.", 'yes', 'News and people on Facebook pages', 'yes', 'accept help of veterinarian and conservation officers', 'just turned 70', 'no', 'a rough logging road that connects her to the outside world', 'it kisses me right on the lips'], 'answers_start': [78, 1556, 312, 1556, 1643, 704, 931, 826, 392, 1832, 1070, 1071, 1152, 1189, 452, 639, 632, 489], 'answers_end': [119, 1632, 342, 1642, 1672, 765, 967, 860, 423, 1861, 1112, 1137, 1188, 1274, 486, 702, 703, 575]} |
3bxqmrhwkzyaomlplwv1cu024nlumu | (CNN) -- The threatening calls reportedly came one after the other to Mexico's main Catholic seminary.
Callers, claiming to be from one of the country's feared drug cartels, offered an ominous warning: Pay up if you value the safety of your priests.
"They called several times. They identified themselves as the Familia Michoacana, but who knows?" Cardinal Norberto Rivera, archbishop of Mexico City, revealed at a Mass this week. "I spoke with the authorities. We made the appropriate report. Because they wanted us to pay. Because if not, they would kill one of us. They wanted to extort 60,000 pesos ($4,600)."
Reports of extortion have become increasingly common as drug cartels expand their reach in Mexico. But public denouncements of such attempts are rare.
Rivera called on parishioners to report extortion to authorities, and he urged them not to pay.
His description Sunday of the extortion attempts and a statement denouncing drug violence give a glimpse into the problems faced by a Catholic Church often caught in the crossfire of warring cartels and government efforts to stop them.
In the country's capital alone, more than 10 priests have been threatened with extortion, said the Reverend Hugo Valdemar Romero, a spokesman for the archdiocese.
"None of them have paid," he told CNN. "Last year, two extortionists were arrested."
It's not uncommon for individual parishes to face extortion threats, he said. But the calls last month to the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Mexico marked the first time such a large church-run institution in the capital had been targeted, Romero said. | ['Who got the threats?', 'Where?', 'Who the callers claimed to be?', 'What they want?', 'If not paid, what they would do?', 'Is this types of activity common?', 'Why?', 'Do people denounce it?', 'How many times they called in this case?', 'Who they said they are?', 'Who says that?', 'Who is he?', 'of what?', 'Who did he inform that?', 'When?', 'How much they wanted?', 'Did he talk to the appropriate persons?', 'How many priests were threatened in the capital?', 'Who informed that?', 'In what capacity?'] | {'answers': ['main Catholic seminary', 'in Mexico', 'drug cartels', 'money', 'hurt the priests', 'yes', 'drug cartels expanded', 'rarely', 'several times', 'Familia Michoacana', 'Norberto Rivera', 'archbishop', 'Mexico City', 'at a Mass', 'this week', '60,000 pesos ($4,600)', 'I spoke with the authorities', '10', 'Reverend Hugo Valdemar Romero', 'as a spokesman for the archdiocese'], 'answers_start': [79, 70, 162, 204, 228, 631, 676, 761, 260, 316, 361, 378, 392, 414, 423, 594, 436, 1151, 1208, 1239], 'answers_end': [101, 76, 174, 210, 250, 672, 707, 769, 280, 334, 376, 388, 403, 423, 433, 615, 464, 1153, 1237, 1270]} |
31euonyn2v3y14v132kj0krqcj4vo7 | (CNN) -- "I killed that lady," the 10-year-old boy told a Pennsylvania state trooper, after a 90-year-old woman was found dead in the home of the boy's grandfather.
Tristen Kurilla, a fifth grader, made the chilling confession Saturday, police said, after his mother brought him to the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks in Honesdale, about 140 miles north of Philadelphia.
Now, Kurilla is being held at the Wayne County Correctional Facility and charged as an adult with criminal homicide, the Wayne County district attorney's office said. The boy is separated from adult offenders and is being constantly supervised, CNN affiliate WBRE reported.
The boy admitted to grabbing a wooden cane, holding it against 90-year-old Helen Novak's throat for several seconds and punching her in the throat and stomach, according to the police affidavit.
Kurilla told police he was angry at Novak because she had yelled at him when he entered her room. He said he wanted to ask her a question.
Were you trying to kill her? the trooper asked the boy.
"No, I was only trying to hurt her," Kurilla replied, according to the affidavit.
The boy was ordered to be held without bail after his arraignment and is set to appear in court October 22.
Bernie Brown, his lawyer, said he was petitioning the court to get the fifth-grade Damascus Elementary School student out of jail, WBRE reported.
"Tristen really kind of doesn't have an idea of what is going on," Brown told the station.
Brown added, "Jail is still jail, no matter what part of the facility you are in." | ['What crime did Tristen Kurilla confess to?', 'Who did he kill?', 'Was she related to him?', 'How did he do it?', 'Intentionally?', 'How did it happen?'] | {'answers': ['criminal homicide', 'Helen Novak', 'no', 'a cane and punches', 'no', 'a wooden cane, holding it against her throat for several seconds and punching her in the throat and stomach, according to the police affidavit.'], 'answers_start': [378, 654, 91, 683, 1392, 654], 'answers_end': [493, 743, 166, 850, 1484, 850]} |
3sepori8wnzq8k6aug44kvkhcswaz8 | There are 5 channels on British television and each channel has several news programs all day long. Some programs are only for 3 minutes but some are one hour long. The people who read the news are called news presenters and because they appear on television every day, they are very famous. This is a popular news presenter in England called Trevor McDonald, in the news studio. He presents a program called "News at Ten"every Monday to Friday evenings. Another popular news presenter is Kirsty Young. She has a more modern style of reading the news, as you can see, she sits on the desk not on a chair! Television news presenters need to have worked as journalists because they have to write most of the news that they read. Sometimes an important new event happens after the program has started, so the presenter has to be able to read something without looking at it first. They must always keep calm even when there are many changes during the program. At the end of "News at Ten"Trevor McDonald says "And finally...". Then he reads an unusual or interesting item. It's a famous saying in England now. | ['What do news presenters do?', 'Are they famous?', 'Where can they been seen?', 'How often?', 'How many channels does British TV have?', 'How long are the shows?', 'How long are others?', 'What kind of shows are they?', 'Are they news shows', 'Does Trevor MacDonald star on one?', 'Which one?', 'When does it air?'] | {'answers': ['read the news', 'yes', 'on television', 'every day,', 'Five', 'some are one hour long', 'only 3 minutes', 'several', 'yes', 'yes', '"News at Ten', 'every Monday to Friday evenings'], 'answers_start': [179, 269, 244, 258, 9, 141, 118, 64, 379, 336, 409, 422], 'answers_end': [194, 290, 259, 269, 42, 163, 136, 72, 453, 379, 421, 453]} |
32m8bpygatm5nlu3gc8sgmsue7tgi9 | CHAPTER VII. THE COLONEL'S CHICKENS.
They censured the bantam for strutting and crowing, In those vile pantaloons that he fancied looked knowing; And a want of decorum caused many demurs Against the game chicken for coming in spurs. The Peacock at Home.
Left to themselves, Mother Carey, with Janet and old nurse, completed their arrangements so well that when Jessie looked in at five o'clock, with a few choice flowers covering a fine cucumber in her basket, she exclaimed in surprise, "How nice you have made it all look, I shall be so glad to tell mamma."
"Tell her what?" asked Janet.
"That you have really made the room look nice," said Jessie.
"Thank you," said her cousin, ironically. "You see we have as many hands as other people. Didn't Aunt Ellen think we had?"
"Of course she did," said Jessie, a pretty, kindly creature, but slow of apprehension; "only she said she was very sorry for you."
"And why?" cried Janet, leaping up in indignation.
"Why?" interposed Allen, "because we are raw cockneys, who go into raptures over primroses and wild hyacinths, eh, Jessie?"
"Well, you have set them up very nicely," said Jessie; "but fancy taking so much trouble about common flowers."
"What would you think worth setting up?" asked Janet. "A big dahlia, I suppose, or a great red cactus?"
"We have a beautiful garden," said Jessie: "papa is very particular about it, and we always get the prize for our flowers. We had the first prizes for hyacinths and forced roses last week, and we should have had the first for forced cucumbers if the gardener at Belforest had not had a spite against Spencer, because he left him for us. Everybody said there was no comparison between the cucumbers, and Mr. Ellis said-—" | ['how does the room look?', 'who made it nice?', 'Did she have help?', 'Who helped?', 'Who thought it looked good?', 'Who is she going to tell?', 'are they related?', 'what relationship are jessie and janet?', 'is Jessie a friendly girl?', 'Is she intelligent', "What is her mamma's name?", 'How did Ellen feel towards Janet?', 'how did Janet react?', 'did she sit down?', 'what did ALlen say Ellen was sorry for?', 'what type of flowers are common?', 'how many types of flower does Janet mention?', 'what is it?', 'what other plant is mentioned?', 'who does the gardening for Jessie?'] | {'answers': ['nice', 'Janet', 'yes', 'Mother Carey and the old nurse', 'Jessie', 'mamma', 'yes', 'cousins', 'yes', 'no', 'Ellen', 'sorry', 'with ndignation', 'no', 'because they were raw cockneys', 'primroses and wild hyacinths', 'one', 'a dahlia', 'a red cactus', 'Spencer'], 'answers_start': [601, 568, 260, 260, 366, 494, 663, 663, 788, 788, 752, 788, 921, 921, 974, 999, 1214, 1214, 1267, 1561], 'answers_end': [660, 662, 566, 357, 566, 566, 704, 705, 848, 875, 784, 919, 972, 972, 1098, 1210, 1281, 1281, 1318, 1655]} |
3lwjhtcvccmcqjmri07j73j44ypqfu | More "Breaking Bad" yo?
The series star Bryan Cranston seemed to drop a major hint in an interview with CNN's Ashleigh Banfield Thursday. Asked by Banfield if his character, Walter White, died or not, Cranston said, "Hey, you never saw bags zip up or anything. Or say ... you know." He left the rest up to viewers' imaginations.
In response to questions about whether the character could show up in a movie or anywhere else ever again, Cranston said: "Never say never."
Whoa.
He may have been teasing, but that remark revived hopes for countless fans who still are mourning the loss of the character and the acclaimed series. The show literally went out with a bang in September 2013 and there was even a mock funeral held for the character in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the series was set and filmed.
Cranston has remained busy since the series ended, most recently starring in the summer film "Godzilla." And AMC has announced that "Breaking Bad" fans can look forward to a new series, "Better Call Saul," which will be a spinoff featuring criminal lawyer Saul Goodman.
What say you diehard fans? Do you think Cranston was kidding or not?
| ['Who is the star of the series?'] | {'answers': ['Bryan Cranston'], 'answers_start': [37], 'answers_end': [56]} |
39owyr0epkrlzldd9aodkpm63e3fyx | CHAPTER III. SWEDENBORG AND THE SIBYL.
MY narrative may move on again from the point at which it paused in the first chapter.
Mary and I (as you may remember) had left the bailiff alone at the decoy, and had set forth on our way together to Dermody's cottage.
As we approached the garden gate, I saw a servant from the house waiting there. He carried a message from my mother--a message for me.
"My mistress wishes you to go home, Master George, as soon as you can. A letter has come by the coach. My master means to take a post-chaise from London, and sends word that we may expect him in the course of the day."
Mary's attentive face saddened when she heard those words.
"Must you really go away, George," she whispered, "before you see what I have got waiting for you at home?"
I remembered Mary's promised "surprise," the secret of which was only to be revealed to me when we got to the cottage. How could I disappoint her? My poor little lady-love looked ready to cry at the bare prospect of it.
I dismissed the servant with a message of the temporizing sort. My love to my mother--and I would be back at the house in half an hour.
We entered the cottage.
Dame Dermody was sitting in the light of the window, as usual, with one of the mystic books of Emanuel Swedenborg open on her lap. She solemnly lifted her hand on our appearance, signing to us to occupy our customary corner without speaking to her. It was an act of domestic high treason to interrupt the Sibyl at her books. We crept quietly into our places. Mary waited until she saw her grandmother's gray head bend down, and her grandmother's bushy eyebrows contract attentively, over her reading. Then, and then only, the discreet child rose on tiptoe, disappeared noiselessly in the direction of her bedchamber, and came back to me carrying something carefully wrapped up in her best cambric handkerchief. | ['Where the narrator was heading?', 'Where is it?', 'Who was with the narrator?', 'Who they had left?', 'Where?', "What's the name of the narrator?", 'Who was living in the cottage?', 'How she is related to George?', 'Could they enter the cottage?', 'Who they met there?', 'Where she was seated?', 'What was she doing then?', 'What?', 'Did she acknowledge them?', 'How?', 'What she expected them to do then?', 'Was it okay to interrupt her reading?', 'Why?', 'Who was seated first?', 'Did get something from her at the end?'] | {'answers': ['garden gate', "Dermody's cottage", 'Mary', 'bailiff', 'the decoy', 'George', 'Dame Dermody', "She isn't", 'Yes', 'Dame Dermody', 'in the light of the window', 'reading', 'books of Emanuel Swedenborg', 'yes', 'lifted her hand', 'occupy our customary corner without speaking to her', 'No', 'It was an act of domestic high treason to interrupt the Sibyl at her books', 'George', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [286, 245, 130, 176, 193, 711, 1181, 1540, 1155, 1181, 1205, 1673, 1266, 1312, 1324, 1377, 1440, 1429, 711, 1681], 'answers_end': [298, 262, 134, 183, 202, 717, 1193, 1581, 1177, 1193, 1232, 1680, 1294, 1359, 1340, 1428, 1505, 1504, 717, 1892]} |
3vhp9mdgrnk8wic8di6onyun0j7fcx | (EW.com) -- When she gets a look at the latest list on Forbes.com, Drew Barrymore won't be smiling anymore.
The magazine ranked her first on its list of "Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actors," reporting that her films only bring in 40 cents for every dollar she is paid as an actress -- and that's without taking into account the fall TV bust "Charlie's Angels," on which Barrymore served as an executive producer.
Eddie Murphy had the unenviable fate of taking second place, though his return ($2.70 for every dollar he's paid) was significantly higher than Barrymore's. While the jury is still out whether "Tower Heist" (opening today) and his stint as Oscars host will bring Murphy the gold in 2012, his fate for 2011 is sealed. See what other big names made the list after the jump.
For this list, Forbes analyzed Hollywood's 40 top-earning actors and their respective compensation for their starring roles in the last five years and compared it to the operating income on those films. Nicolas Cage (#6) might be the person on the list who is simultaneously the most predictable and unexpected entrant.
As a go-to guy for huge action flicks, it seems like he'd generate healthy revenue stream. Then you remember his recent films include "Season of the Witch," "Drive Angry," and more recently "Trespass," which earned a paltry $16,000 in its first weekend. Yes, friends, that's roughly the going rate for a Honda Fit.
Cage's "Trespass" co-star Nicole Kidman also didn't fare well, landing in tenth place. Her ex Tom Cruise -- another tentpole action star with a questionable ability to return on his asking price -- took ninth place, though perhaps December's "Mission: Impossible" -- Ghost Protocol can turn things around for him next year. | ["which magazine's list is it?", 'which magazine?', 'how many actors are analyzed?', 'what place is Nicole Kidman?', 'who ranks higher, Drew Barrymore or Nicolas Cage?', 'what is her position?', 'will she be happy about this?', 'who follows her on the list?', 'what move of his opens the day this article came out?', 'who is a go-to for action flicks?', 'how many of his movies are mentioned?', 'who hosted the oscars in 2012?', 'how much is a Honda Fit roughly?', 'is that about what trespass made opening week?', 'which mission impossible movie is mentioned?', 'who is in that?', 'besides cage, who else was in trespass?', 'what was Barrymore executive producer on?', 'how much did her films bring in for every dollar she is paid?'] | {'answers': ["Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actors", 'Forbes', '40', 'tenth', 'Drew Barrymore', 'first', 'no', 'Eddie Murphy', 'Tower Heist', 'Nicolas Cage', 'Three', 'Eddie Murphy', '$16,000', 'yes', 'Ghost Protocol', 'Tom Cruise', 'Nicole Kidman', "Charlie's Angels", '40 cents'], 'answers_start': [156, 55, 832, 1502, 66, 134, 82, 415, 609, 1116, 1225, 641, 1335, 1335, 1695, 1522, 1428, 342, 230], 'answers_end': [188, 61, 834, 1507, 81, 139, 98, 427, 620, 1148, 1312, 667, 1426, 1364, 1709, 1532, 1467, 358, 255]} |
386csbg1ozmg7qtgh74fdx6rb2d6q4 | The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3).
Founded and currently led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. , the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has 463 members.
The W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) in October, 1994. It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS) with support from the European Commission and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which had pioneered the Internet and its predecessor ARPANET.
The organization tries to foster compatibility and agreement among industry members in the adoption of new standards defined by the W3C. Incompatible versions of HTML are offered by different vendors, causing inconsistency in how web pages are displayed. The consortium tries to get all those vendors to implement a set of core principles and components which are chosen by the consortium. | ['Who leads the WC3?', 'Did he also found it?', 'When?', 'Which month?', 'Where?', 'Was he with someone else previously?', 'Who?', 'Do they use an acronym?', 'What is it?', 'Do they try to foster anything with its members?', 'Name one thing?', 'Anything else?', 'What?', 'Does the W3C set any standards?', 'Local ones?', 'Which type?', 'Did anyone support the forming of the group?', 'Who?', 'Anyone else?', 'Who?'] | {'answers': ['Tim Berners-Lee', 'yes', '1994', 'October', 'at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science', 'yes', 'the European Organization for Nuclear Research', 'yes', 'CERN', 'yes', 'compatibility', 'yes', 'agreement', 'yes', 'no', 'World Wide', 'yes', 'the European Commission', 'yes', 'Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency'], 'answers_start': [135, 135, 537, 718, 736, 588, 588, 617, 622, 1004, 1004, 1020, 1021, 1107, 0, 39, 843, 843, 839, 844], 'answers_end': [196, 179, 735, 735, 828, 672, 664, 671, 670, 1087, 1050, 1064, 1064, 1139, 131, 107, 938, 881, 938, 938]} |
30jnvc0or9kw4fdxdqvjaovhkj0qh2 | Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- The European Union announced a recovery package of 180 million euros for the Ivory Coast on Tuesday as residents of the African nation attempted to adjust to life with a clear leader and relative stability after months of bloodshed.
Forces arrested former President Laurent Gbagbo after storming his residence on Monday. Gbagbo defied calls to step down after an electoral commission declared he lost a presidential election in November to Alassane Ouattara. Ouattara has been recognized internationally as the legitimate winner.
A violent power struggle followed the standoff, with supporters loyal to both sides taking to the streets in protests since December. Hundreds have been killed, according to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Andris Piebalgs, EU commissioner for development, announced the recovery package on Tuesday.
"We will stand by Ivory Coast and its people by immediately starting to work with the government of President Ouattara to support him in getting the country on the right track towards reconciliation, democracy, economic recovery and sustainable development," he said.
The funding will provide support to ensure basic needs for citizens such as health, water, sanitation and to support the agricultural sector, Piebalgs said in a statement. It also will clear the Ivory Coast's debt accumulated through the European Investment Bank.
Top military brass pledged their support to Ouattara in a ceremony Tuesday at a hotel in Abdijan. Gen. Phillipe Mangou, Gbagbo's former army chief of staff, said on state television that the generals were received by Ouattara and given orders to take measures to restore order in the country. | ['Which country is this article about?', 'Who was arrested on Monday?', 'What office had he had?', 'But did he lose the last election?', 'Were people telling him to step down?', 'Did he do it ?', 'So what happened to him?', 'Who really won the election?', 'Has there been fighting about the election results?', 'Was anybody killed?', 'How many people?', 'Who is Andris Piebalgs?', 'What does EU stand for?', 'What did he announce?', 'Name one of the needs this package will meet?', 'Anything else?', 'Anything involving the European Investment Bank?', 'Were the military in support of Quattara?', 'When did they say so?', 'Where?'] | {'answers': ['Ivory Coast', 'Laurent Gbagbo', 'President', 'yes', 'yes', 'no', 'he was arrested', 'Alassane Ouattara', 'yes', 'yes', 'Hundreds', 'EU commissioner for development', 'European Union', 'a recovery package', 'economic recovery', 'health, water, sanitation', "Ivory Coast's debt", 'yes', 'Tuesday', 'a hotel'], 'answers_start': [107, 296, 288, 425, 359, 359, 272, 471, 652, 697, 698, 825, 33, 59, 1115, 1249, 1368, 1440, 1507, 1518], 'answers_end': [118, 312, 297, 456, 385, 378, 280, 489, 807, 724, 706, 857, 48, 77, 1132, 1275, 1388, 1484, 1514, 1526]} |
3y5140z9dxgb0yn2jvyfav6memuip4 | CHAPTER XXXII
ACQUITTED
If Skip had been an actor in a pantomime, and rehearsed the scene every day for a week, he could not have arrived more precisely, than when he made his appearance at the very moment Mr. Hunter was about to declare the defense closed.
Sam and Fred sprang to their feet as he entered the door, and Joe actually shouted, so great was his joy and relief; but he was speedily made to understand by the officers that another breach of decorum as flagrant would result in his expulsion from the court-room.
Following Skip came the constable leading Tim, who looked frightened and pale. Mr. Hunter at once called the prisoner to the witness stand.
Not knowing that Gus had denied having seen the money, Tim soon said enough to convict himself, and in a few moments was ready to confess his share in the matter.
"I didn't take it," he said, whiningly. "Gus showed me the money here in town an' told as how he'd sneaked it out of the pocket of a feller what he found asleep on the mountain. He agreed that I could have half if I'd go off somewhere with him."
"Where is he now?" Mr. Hunter asked.
"I don't know. When I went for some grub he was watchin' Fred Byram what we caught followin' us."
"What had been done with the money?"
"He had all that was left but ten dollars, an' I was goin' to spend that."
"What had Fred Byram done to you?" | ['What chapter is this?', 'Who arrived just on time?', 'who was about to declare the defense closed?', 'who shouted?', 'who came into the room right after skip?', 'how did he look?', 'who denied seeing the cash?', 'Did Tim know that?', 'Who did they steal the money from?', 'where?', 'what was the feller doing?', 'did they split the money 60/40?', 'how did they split it?', 'who was following them?', 'where was the money when they took it?', 'who lead tim into the courtroom?', 'who warned joe to be quiet?', 'who called tim to the witness stand?', 'Did Gus take the money?', 'where did gus show the money?/'] | {'answers': ['CHAPTER XXXII', 'Skip', 'Mr. Hunter', 'Joe', 'Tim', 'frightened and pale', 'Gus', 'no', 'a feller', 'the mountain', 'sleeping', 'no', 'half and half', 'Fred Byram', 'the pocket of a feller', 'Skip', 'the officers', 'Mr. Hunter', 'yes', 'town'], 'answers_start': [0, 116, 210, 326, 532, 574, 691, 674, 933, 970, 970, 1032, 1032, 1183, 933, 532, 401, 573, 880, 880], 'answers_end': [15, 156, 220, 346, 577, 609, 727, 732, 1015, 1015, 1015, 1049, 1049, 1221, 978, 577, 466, 649, 948, 916]} |
3rsdurm96amtt7dhez472716r6ieyu | To many Westerners, Manga is synonymous with fantasy -- its glossy lines, popping color palettes and fanciful scenarios are an escapist's delight.
But one of the most celebrated makers of the wildly popular Japanese graphic novels says he draws on reality as much as possible.
Takehiko Inoue was just 23 when his second Manga propelled him to fame in Japan.
"Slam Dunk," published in 31 volumes of magazine "Weekly Shonen Jump" in the early 1990s, followed the fortunes of a loveless delinquent who joins a basketball team to impress a girl, and then discovers a natural ability for the game.
Inoue's interest in Manga was piqued when, at nine years old, he read a popular baseball Manga called "Dokaben." It had "attractive characters," he recalls, "and how they play baseball and how their bodies were drawn -- all these things looked so cool."
A keen basketball player at high school, Inoue says drawing a basketball Manga was a natural way for him to combine his two loves, and he believes "Slam Dunk" readers could see the obvious enjoyment he took from drawing basketball.
"I really drew it in the way I liked, did whatever I wanted," he says.
"Slam Dunk" has now sold almost 120 million copies, been licensed in 17 countries, and adapted into an anime TV series. An English version was released in North America in 2002.
Its popularity endures: According to a 2012 survey by research group goo, it is still the second most popular Japanese Manga, and is responsible for the single most memorable piece of dialogue -- when a coach says, "If you give up, the game is already over!" | ['How old is Takehiko Inoue?', 'How old was he when he became famous?', 'What sport did he play?', 'When did he play it?', 'What does he do for a living now?', 'What publication of his made him famous?', 'How many copies has it sold?', 'Is it sold in other countries?', 'How many has it been licensed in?', 'What was it about?', 'What was it published in?', 'In what year?', 'Is it available in any other forms of media?', 'What kind?', 'Was the manga still popular in 2012?', 'Is it the most popular?', 'What is manga synonymous with to Western people?', 'Why?', 'What made Inoue interested in Manga?'] | {'answers': ['unknown', '23', 'basketball', 'at high school', 'draws Manga', '"Slam Dunk"', '120 million copies', 'yes', '17 countries,', 'it follows the fortunes of a loveless delinquent who joins a basketball team', 'in 31 volumes of magazine "Weekly Shonen Jump"', 'the early 1990s,', 'yes', 'into an anime TV series', 'yes', 'no', 'with fantasy', "its glossy lines, popping color palettes and fanciful scenarios are an escapist's delight.", 'he read a popular baseball Manga called "Dokaben."'], 'answers_start': [-1, 281, 857, 857, 898, 364, 1164, 1216, 1216, 453, 386, 412, 1246, 1259, 1344, 1418, 25, 55, 627], 'answers_end': [-1, 307, 903, 897, 936, 452, 1215, 1247, 1247, 528, 433, 453, 1282, 1282, 1468, 1469, 53, 147, 713]} |
39gxdjn2otevgc8lwlvn3y1qyk58vz | "Norton," Sheppard said, "I saw Rufus Johnson yesterday. Do you know what he was doing?" The child looked at him with a kind of half attention, his eyes forward but not yet engaged. They were a paler blue than his father's as if they might have faded like the shirt; one of them listed, almost imperceptibly , toward the outer rim.
"He was in a path," Sheppard said, "and he had his hand in a garbage can. He was trying to get something to eat out of it." He paused to let this soak in. "He was hungry," he finished, and tried to pierce the child's conscience with his gaze.
The boy picked up the piece of chocolate cake and began to bite it from one corner.
"Norton," Sheppard said, "do you have any idea what it means to share?"
A flicker of attention. "Some of it is yours," Norton said.
"Some of it is his," Sheppard said heavily. It was hopeless. Almost any fault would have been preferable to selfishness--a violent temper, even a tendency to lie.
The child turned the bottle of tomato sauce upside-down and began thumping sauce onto the cake.
Sheppard's look of pain increased. "You are ten and Rufus Johnson is fourteen," he said. "Yet, I'm sure your shirts would fit Rufus." Rufus Johnson was a boy whom he had been trying to help at the reformatory for the past year. He had been released two months ago. "When he was in the reformatory, he looked pretty good, but when I saw him yesterday, he was skin and bones. He hasn't been eating cake with peanut butter on it for breakfast."
The child paused. "It's not fresh," he said. "That's why I have to put stuff on it."
Sheppard turned his face to the window at the end of the bar. The side lawn, green and even, sloped fifty feet or so down to a small suburban wood. When his wife was living, they had often eaten outside, even breakfast on the grass. He had never noticed then that the child was selfish. ks5u
"Listen to me," he said, turning back to him, "look at me and listen."
The boy looked at him. At least his eyes were forward.
"I gave Rufus a key to the house when he left the reformatory---to show my confidence in him and so he would have a place he could come to and feel welcome any time. He didn't use it, but I think he'll use it now because he's seen me and he's hungry. And if he doesn't use it, I'm going out and find him and bring him here. I can't see a child eating out of garbage cans."
The boy frowned. It was dawning upon him that something of his was threatened.
Sheppard's mouth stretched in disgust. "Rufus's father died before he was born," he said. "His mother is in the state penitentiary . He was raised by his grandfather in a shack without water or electricity and the old man beat him every day. How would you like to belong to a family like that?"
"I don't know" the child said lamely.
"Well, you might think about it sometime," Sheppard said.
Sheppard was City Recreational Director. On Saturday he worked at the reformatory as a counselor, receiving nothing for it but the satisfaction of knowing he was helping boys no one else cared about. Johnson was the most intelligent boy he had worked with.
Norton turned what was left of the cake over as if he no longer wanted it.
"You started that, now finish it," Sheppard said.
"Maybe he won't come," the child said and his eyes brightened slightly. | ['What would any fault have been preferable to?', 'Would a violent temper be better than that?', 'What about a tendency to lie?', 'Who turned a bottle of tomato sauce upside-down?', 'What did they put it on?', 'What kind of cake was it?', 'Does Norton have any idea what it means to share?'] | {'answers': ['Selfishness', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'The child', 'A cake', 'Chocolate', 'No'], 'answers_start': [801, 860, 861, 966, 966, 579, 667], 'answers_end': [964, 964, 964, 1062, 1062, 663, 964]} |
31euonyn2v3y14v132kj0krqch4ovw | John and Jack met at the old bench every afternoon. Then they played football. But they didn't have enough money to buy a real football. So Jack made a ball out of old socks covered with a piece of plastic. Every time, the two friends didn't stop kicking and running until very late. On Monday afternoon, John and Jack met again at the old bench. Soon the home-made ball was running across the grass. The boys laughed and shouted happily. The ball was stopped by a boy wearing a nice pair of sports shoes. John was upset when he saw it was Steven. The next morning, John's mother gave him a bill. "Your uncle sent you a birthday present." She smiled. John's eyes grew big when he saw the $100 bill. Later that day, his mother bought a pair of new sports shoes and a real football. That afternoon Steven invited John to play football. Steven did not want Jack to join them only because Jack's sports shoes were dirty. When the game was over, John and Steven walked past the old bench where Jack was sitting. Steven picked up a stone and threw it at him. John, holding his new football in his hands, walked on and did not look back. Several days later, as John walked past the old bench, he saw something lying under it. He looked closer and saw it was the home-made ball. John was full of sadness when he saw the ball. As his sadness turned to anger, he picked up his new football and kicked it into the air. Then he walked to the beach, sat down and waited. | ['who met at the old bench?', 'When?', 'Did they meet there on Monday?', 'what time?', 'what did they play with?', 'What was it made of?', 'Who made it?', 'What kind of ball?', 'Did it work?', 'Did anyone else come?', 'Who?', 'What did he do?', 'Who sent John money?', 'how much?', 'for what?', 'What did his mom buy?', 'Who played that afternoon?', 'Why not Jack?', 'Why not?', 'What did Steven do after?', 'What did John see under the bench later?'] | {'answers': ['John and Jack', 'every afternoon', 'yes', 'afternoon', 'a home-made ball', 'old socks', 'Jack', 'football', 'yes', 'yes', 'Steven', 'he stopped the ball', 'his uncle', '$100', 'his birthday', 'new sports shoes and a real football', 'Steven and John', 'Steven did not want Jack to join', "Jack's sports shoes were dirty.", 'Steven threw a stone at Jack', 'the home-made ball'], 'answers_start': [0, 14, 283, 284, 352, 145, 140, 88, 352, 506, 506, 439, 598, 677, 598, 715, 781, 834, 841, 1007, 1219], 'answers_end': [34, 50, 345, 303, 370, 173, 156, 135, 399, 546, 546, 504, 636, 698, 636, 779, 833, 915, 917, 1051, 1270]} |
3ejjqnku9r5wggsxq5kjfe5mfszhr0 | CHAPTER XXX
A WAY TO FORGET
The faces of the group, as Uncle John finished reading, were worth studying. Arthur Weldon was white with anger, and his eyes blazed. Silas Watson stared blankly at his old friend, wondering if it was because he was growing old that he had been so easily hoodwinked by this saucy child. Beth was biting her lip to keep back the tears of humiliation that longed to trickle down her cheeks. Louise frowned because she remembered the hard things Tato had said of her. Patsy was softly crying at the loss of her friend.
Then Kenneth laughed, and the sound sent a nervous shiver through the group.
"Tato's a brick!" announced the boy, audaciously. "Can't you see, you stupids, that the thing is a good joke on us all? Or are you too thin skinned to laugh at your own expense?"
"Oh, we can laugh," responded Uncle John, gravely. "But if Tato's a brick it's because she is hard and insensible. The loss of the money doesn't hurt me, but to think the wicked little lass made me love her when she didn't deserve it is the hardest blow I have ever received."
That made Patsy sob outright, while Louise ejaculated, with scorn: "The little wretch!"
"It serves us right for having confidence in a child reared to crime and murder from the cradle," said Arthur, rather savagely. "I don't know how much money I am worth, but I'd gladly spend another thirty thousand to bring this wretched creature to justice." | ['Who had just completed reading?', 'Who was mad?', 'How was his anger evident?', 'Who was trying not to cry?', 'What was she doing to prevent it?', 'Who was actually crying?', 'Did anyone laugh?', 'Who?', 'What did Patsy call her?', 'How much was Arthur willing to spend?', 'for what?', 'What did Kenneth call Tato?'] | {'answers': ['Uncle John.', 'Arthur Weldon.', 'His eyes blazed.', 'Beth.', 'Biting her lip.', 'Patsy.', 'Yes.', 'Kenneth.', 'Little wretch.', 'Thirty thousand.', 'To bring Tato to justice.', 'A brick.'], 'answers_start': [59, 108, 124, 319, 328, 497, 554, 555, 1157, 1377, 1393, 630], 'answers_end': [86, 144, 165, 365, 343, 549, 571, 571, 1177, 1394, 1437, 664]} |
3483fv8beejzf7rvfweehf8ovwn26a | (RS.com) -- Neil Young has filed for divorce from Pegi Young, his wife of 36 years and frequent musical collaborator.
A petition for dissolution of marriage was filed by Young in their hometown of San Mateo, California, on July 29. A hearing is scheduled for December 12. A rep for Neil Young had no comment.
Pegi is the inspiration for some of Young's most enduring love songs, including "Such a Woman," "Unknown Legend" and "Once an Angel." She began serving as his background singer in the 1990s, sharing the stage with him at the 1994 Academy Awards and numerous tours over the past 20 years.
Review: Neil Young's 'A Letter Home'
They last performed together at the Bridge School Benefit in October of 2013.
Neil first met Pegi when she was working as a waitress at a diner near his California ranch, a story he tells in the 1992 song "Unknown Legend." "I used to order just to watch her float across the floor," he sang. "She grew up in a small town/Never put her roots down."
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Pegi has released three solo albums since 2007 and she's toured extensively on her own, occasionally with Neil on guitar. Inspired by the lack of educational opportunities for their son Ben, who suffers from cerebral palsy, they co-founded the Bridge School in 1986, which educates children with severe physical impairments. They raise funds for it every year with an all-star concert in Mountain View, California. | ["Who's the main male in this article?", 'Was he married?', 'Who to?', 'Where did they meet?', 'What was she doing there?', 'As?', 'What was close by?', 'How long were they married?', 'Who filed to dissolve the relationship?', 'Where?', 'When?', "When's the hearing for?", 'In what year did they last have a performance?', 'In what month?', 'Where?', "What's the song about how they meet?", 'When was it released?', 'Was she a city girl?', 'Does she have albums as well?', 'How many with only her?'] | {'answers': ['Neil Young', 'yes', 'Pegi Young', 'at a diner', 'working', 'a waitress', "Neil's California ranch", '36 years', 'Neil', 'San Mateo, California', 'July 29', 'December 12', '2013', 'October', 'the Bridge School Benefit', '"Unknown Legend"', '1992', 'no', 'yes', 'three'], 'answers_start': [12, 22, 45, 722, 747, 755, 788, 66, 12, 163, 222, 234, 642, 703, 670, 834, 831, 936, 1055, 1073], 'answers_end': [22, 60, 60, 813, 776, 776, 812, 83, 44, 220, 232, 272, 720, 720, 700, 866, 848, 992, 1100, 1091]} |
3kms4qqvk2qqfgow5vnmbh7v5pdfk1 | The Gunpowder Plot was conspiracy to kill King James I, as well as the members of the House of Lords and Commons at the re-opening of Parliament. It was designed by a group of Catholics in protest against the anti-Catholic laws that were being introduced by the king. Robert Catesby was the leader of the group. It was he and his cousin, Thomas Wintour, and two other friends, Thomas Percy and John Wright, who formed the center of the group. They were joined by nine more men; among them was Guy Fawkes, from the city of York in the north of England. Fawkes found a store room directly under the House of Lords and rented it out under the false name of John Johnson. The conspirators stored thirty-six barrels of gunpowder there, and Fawkes, who was an explosives expert, was to light the fuses on 5th November 1605. The plot failed because one of the conspirators, Francis Tresham, sent a letter to his relative, who was a member of the House of Lords. The letter warned him not to attend the opening ceremony of Parliament. The letter was passed on to the authorities, who took action. Guy Fawkes was found in the cellar on the night of 4th November with the thirty-six barrels and a number of fuses. He was imprisoned and ill-treated, eventually giving away the names of the conspirators. Soldiers of the king surrounded Holbeach House, in the Midlands, where they knew the conspirators to be hiding. In the fight that followed, four of them were shot dead, including Catesby and Percy, who were actually killed by the same bullet. The others were imprisoned and hanged along with Guy Fawkes on 31st January 1606. These days, on 5th November, children all over Britain celebrate Guy Fawkes Night by building huge bonfires and lighting fireworks. It's a family tradition and an occasion to eat potatoes baked by the flames. There is always a 'guy' on top of the fire, a model of Guy Fawkes, dressed in the clothes of the 17th century. | ['What was the plot to kill King James I?', 'Who else was it designed to kill?', 'Who were the designers?', 'What were they protesting?', 'Who was making the law?', 'Who was their lead man?', 'Who was his main helper?', 'How were they related?', 'How much gun powder did they have in storage?', 'What day were they going to light them?', 'Were they able to?', 'Why?'] | {'answers': ['The Gunpowder Plot was conspiracy to kill King James I, as well as the members of the House of Lords and Commons at the re-opening of Parliament', 'as well as the members of the House of Lords and Commons - The king and his government', 'a group of Catholics - Religious protesters', 'anti-Catholic laws', 'the king - James I was making them', 'Robert Catesby was the leader', 'Thomas Wintour - was his main helper', 'his cousin - they were cousins', 'thirty-six barrels of gunpowder - 36 barrels', 'light the fuses on 5th November 1605 - 5/11/1605', 'The plot failed - No', 'The plot failed because one of the conspirators, Francis Tresham, sent a letter to his relative - A letter detailing the plot was discovered'], 'answers_start': [0, 56, 165, 209, 258, 268, 338, 325, 691, 780, 818, 818], 'answers_end': [144, 112, 185, 227, 266, 297, 352, 336, 723, 816, 833, 913]} |
3q8gyxhfep2guljj76tf1m3abvvc5p | Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States. With over six million residents, it is the 18th most populous state. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The capitol is in Jefferson City on the Missouri River. The state is the 21st most extensive in area. In the South are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Mississippi River forms the eastern border of the state.
Humans have inhabited the land now known as Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture built cities and mounds, before declining in the 1300s. When European explorers arrived in the 1600s they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. The French established Louisiana, a part of New France, and founded Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764. After a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South, including enslaved African Americans, rushed into the new Missouri Territory. Many from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee settled in the Boonslick area of Mid-Missouri. Soon after, heavy German immigration formed the Missouri Rhineland.
Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States, as memorialized by the Gateway Arch. The Pony Express, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, and California Trail all began in Missouri. As a border state, Missouri's role in the American Civil War was complex and there were many conflicts within. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became centers of industrialization and business. Today, the state is divided into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. | ["What did European explorers find in the 1600's?", 'Who founded Louisiana?', 'Did they claim other areas?', 'Which ones?', 'When was that?', 'What about St. Louis?', 'Who acquired the Louisiana Purchase?', 'When?', 'Who was it immediately populated by?', 'How many people live in Missouri now?', 'What is the capital?', 'Did it play a role in the Civil War?', 'How come?', 'Was it considered a border state?', 'Did it play a small or large roll in westward expansion?', 'What notable trails began in Missouri?', 'Where in the US is it located?', 'What rivers are in it?', 'Is there another?', 'How many counties are in it?'] | {'answers': ['Osage and Missouria nations.', 'The French', 'yes', 'Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis', 'Ste. Genevieve in 1735', '1764', 'United States', '1803', 'Americans from the Upland South', 'over six million', 'Jefferson City', 'yes', 'there were many conflicts within', 'yes', 'large', 'The Pony Express, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, and California Trail', 'Midwest', 'The Mississippi River', 'unknown', '114'], 'answers_start': [661, 717, 717, 777, 785, 812, 873, 873, 928, 53, 201, 1450, 1427, 1408, 1201, 1316, 0, 397, -1, 1645], 'answers_end': [716, 749, 800, 821, 807, 829, 918, 926, 959, 84, 233, 1480, 1517, 1425, 1257, 1408, 51, 457, -1, 1690]} |
3ochawuvgok7f2fh5pt8ho729xwkxq | (CNN) -- History was made on two fronts when Joao Sousa beat Julien Benneteau to win the Malaysian Open.
While Sousa celebrated becoming the first Portuguese man to claim an ATP title, Benneteau wasn't nearly as joyous. He slumped to 0-9 in finals to tie the unwanted men's record in the Open era, which began in 1968.
Is he tennis' unlucky loser?
Benneteau's fellow Frenchman, Cedric Pioline, and American Pat Dupre also lost their first nine finals, although Pioline went on to triumph five times -- he was a two-time grand slam finalist -- and Dupre ended his drought in Hong Kong in 1982.
No man has lost his first 10 finals in the Open era, said the ATP.
Benneteau was so close to overturning his woe in finals, too, holding a match point in the second set Sunday against Sousa.
He did little wrong on the point, approaching the net with a good forehand, but Sousa unleashed a stunning forehand down the line.
Benneteau then wasted a flurry of break points in the final set and fell 2-6 7-5 6-4.
French sports daily L'Equipe used the headline, 'Benneteau, nothing new,' when referring to his defeat on its website, and the player tweeted a picture of what looked like a beer accompanied by the words: 'To forget.'
"I tried everything today," Benneteau, 31, told the ATP's website. "I played very well, particularly I was very aggressive and I didn't let him play for two sets almost. I had match point and I played the point perfectly. | ['Who won the Malaysian Open?', 'who did he beat?', 'he was the first male player from which country to win the title?', 'Which country is he from?', 'how many men have lost 10 finals?', 'who lost nine finals?', 'anyone else?', 'who else?', "What did L'Equipe say about the loss?", 'what did he tweet a photo of?', 'Did Benneteau think he should have been more aggressive?', 'Did Sousa win using a strong backhand?', 'what did he use?', 'did he make many mistakes on the point?', 'who had the better forehand?'] | {'answers': ['Joao Sousa', 'Julien Benneteau', 'Sousa', 'Portugal', 'None', 'Benneteau', 'Yes', 'Cedric Pioline and Pat Dupre', "'Benneteau, nothing new'", "Something that looked like a beer, accompanied by the words: 'To forget.'", 'No', 'No', 'A stunning forehand', 'No', 'Sousa'], 'answers_start': [45, 45, 107, 107, 601, 187, 240, 354, 1037, 1150, 1305, 872, 872, 796, 871], 'answers_end': [103, 77, 185, 163, 636, 250, 319, 423, 1090, 1234, 1359, 926, 911, 828, 926]} |
3l70j4kazgmn5j1e2yf7t31eo3pady | Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) -- It's September of 2014, but Bakari Sellers is already getting calls and visits from the small crop of Democrats considering a 2016 presidential bid.
Few voters outside South Carolina have heard of him. But he's a young star in the state's Democratic party, and as a key political figure in a pivotal early primary state, Sellers could play an outsized role in electing the next President.
When Barack Obama won South Carolina's 2008 presidential primary in blowout fashion, boosting his campaign after a devastating blow in New Hampshire, Sellers, then a 23-year old first-term state legislator, was in the crowd at his victory party, beaming.
Sellers co-chaired Obama's campaign in the early primary state, helping the then-senator go from long-shot to history-maker after vanquishing Hillary Clinton in the heavily African-American state. For Obama, having the Sellers name on his campaign steering committee didn't hurt: Bakari's father, Cleveland Sellers, is a civil rights icon in the state, jailed in the aftermath of the 1968 "Orangeburg Massacre" in which three black students were killed by police.
Today, at the advanced age of 29, Sellers is serving his fourth term in the state house — and he's being courted by the small crop of Democrats considering a 2016 presidential bid, including Vice President Joe Biden and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley. Hillary Clinton has yet to come calling, but the Ready For Hillary super PAC, eager to co-opt some of Obama's 2008 magic in South Carolina, recently invited Sellers to headline a fundraiser for the group. | ["When did Obama win South Carolina's primary?", 'How old is Sellers?', 'What term is Sellers serving in the state house?', "Did Sellers work on any of Obama's campaigns?", 'What is the date?', 'Do a lot of people know who Sellers is?', 'What party is he in?', "Was Sellers at Obama's victory party?", 'Who is Sellers father?', 'Why is his father important?', 'Is he being courted by anyone?', 'Is Joe Biden wanting to work with him?', 'Does Hillary Clinton want to work with him yet?', 'Where did Obama suffer a blow?'] | {'answers': ['2008', '29', 'his fourth', 'yes', 'September 2014', 'no', 'the Democratic party', 'yes', 'Cleveland Sellers', 'he is a civil rights icon in the state', 'yes', 'yes', 'no', 'New Hampshire'], 'answers_start': [427, 1150, 1184, 684, 33, 185, 242, 634, 964, 981, 1246, 1332, 1403, 533], 'answers_end': [491, 1182, 1238, 719, 56, 236, 291, 672, 998, 1035, 1331, 1367, 1442, 575]} |
3myyfcxhj37bfevovn6omlib9oz4gn | KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) is a collection of databases dealing with genomes, biological pathways, diseases, drugs, and chemical substances. KEGG is utilized for bioinformatics research and education, including data analysis in genomics, metagenomics, metabolomics and other omics studies, modeling and simulation in systems biology, and translational research in drug development.
The KEGG database project was initiated in 1995 by Minoru Kanehisa, Professor at the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, under the then ongoing Japanese Human Genome Program. Foreseeing the need for a computerized resource that can be used for biological interpretation of genome sequence data, he started developing the KEGG PATHWAY database. It is a collection of manually drawn KEGG pathway maps representing experimental knowledge on metabolism and various other functions of the cell and the organism. Each pathway map contains a network of molecular interactions and reactions and is designed to link genes in the genome to gene products (mostly proteins) in the pathway. This has enabled the analysis called KEGG pathway mapping, whereby the gene content in the genome is compared with the KEGG PATHWAY database to examine which pathways and associated functions are likely to be encoded in the genome.
According to the developers, KEGG is a "computer representation" of the biological system. It integrates building blocks and wiring diagrams of the system — more specifically, genetic building blocks of genes and proteins, chemical building blocks of small molecules and reactions, and wiring diagrams of molecular interaction and reaction networks. This concept is realized in the following databases of KEGG, which are categorized into systems, genomic, chemical, and health information. | ['What project is this article about?', 'Which stands for?', 'Is it just one database?', 'What is it used for?', 'Who began the project?', 'What was his occupation?', 'Where?', 'Which part?', 'When did it begin?', 'Which database was made first?', 'What is in it?', 'Were they drawn by computer?', 'What do these maps symbolize?'] | {'answers': ['KEGG', 'Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes', 'no', 'bioinformatics research', 'Minoru Kanehisa', 'Professor', 'Kyoto University', 'the Institute for Chemical Research', 'in 1995', 'the KEGG PATHWAY database', 'a collection of manually drawn KEGG pathway maps', 'no', 'experimental knowledge on metabolism and various other functions of the cell and the organism'], 'answers_start': [0, 6, 47, 161, 404, 455, 522, 485, 434, 714, 762, 785, 830], 'answers_end': [5, 45, 75, 219, 470, 502, 538, 520, 451, 761, 817, 804, 924]} |
37wlf8u1wpquwnvl42kihbuiczfk6q | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) () is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms in order to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter. It is the successor of the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.
UNESCO has 195 member states and ten associate members. Most of its field offices are "cluster" offices covering three or more countries; national and regional offices also exist.
UNESCO pursues its objectives through five major programs: education, natural sciences, social/human sciences, culture and communication/information. Projects sponsored by UNESCO include literacy, technical, and teacher-training programmes, international science programmes, the promotion of independent media and freedom of the press, regional and cultural history projects, the promotion of cultural diversity, translations of world literature, international cooperation agreements on secure the world cultural and natural heritage (World Heritage Sites) and to preserve human rights, and attempts to bridge the worldwide digital divide. It is also a member of the United Nations Development Group.
UNESCO's aim is "to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information". Other priorities of the organization include attaining quality Education For All and lifelong learning, addressing emerging social and ethical challenges, fostering cultural diversity, a culture of peace and building inclusive knowledge societies through information and communication. | ['What is an agency?', 'What does that stand for?', 'Is it specialized?', 'where is it based?', 'What organization is it a part of?', 'How many member states does it have', 'Associate members?', 'Do national offices exist?', 'How many major programs does it have', 'Is it a member of the United Nations Development Group', 'What is its aim', 'What is its declared purpose', 'What is its predecessor?'] | {'answers': ['UNESCO', 'The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization', 'yes', 'Paris', 'the United Nations', '195', 'ten', 'yes', 'five', 'yes', 'to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration', 'to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration', "the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation."], 'answers_start': [70, 0, 70, 131, 80, 563, 592, 700, 782, 1385, 148, 148, 461], 'answers_end': [104, 76, 104, 146, 127, 591, 617, 743, 802, 1446, 248, 248, 561]} |
378xpawrucd4duh0ucgik0hrf19ia5 | CHAPTER VI.
THE WATER-SOLDIER.
'Presumptuous maid, with looks intent, Again she stretched, again she bent, Nor knew the gulf between.'--GRAY.
It all seemed like a dream to Ursula, perhaps likewise to her mother, when they rose to the routine of daily life with the ordinary interests of the day before them. There was a latent unwillingness in Mrs. Egremont's mind to discuss the subject with either aunt or daughter; and when the post brought no letter, Ursula, after a moment's sense of flatness, was relieved, and returned to her eager desire to hurry after the water-soldier. It was feasible that very afternoon. Mary Nugent came in with the intelligence.
'And can Gerard come? or we shall only look at it.'
'Yes, Gerard can come, and so will Mr. Dutton,' said Mary, who, standing about half-way between Mrs. Egremont and her daughter, did not think herself quite a sufficient chaperon.
'He will look on like a hen at her ducklings,' said Nuttie. 'It is cruel to take him, poor man!'
'Meantime, Nuttie, do you like an hour of "Marie Stuart?"'
'Oh, thank you!' But she whispered, 'Aunt Ursel, may I tell her?'
'Ask your mother, my dear.'
Leave was given, half reluctantly, and with a prohibition against mentioning the subject to any one else, but both mother and aunt had confidence in Mary Nugent's wisdom and discretion, so the two friends sat on the wall together, and Ursula poured out her heart. Poor little girl! she was greatly discomfited at the vanishing of her noble vision of the heroic self-devoted father, and ready on the other hand to believe him a villain, like Bertram Risingham, or 'the Pirate,' being possessed by this idea on account of his West Indian voyages. At any rate, she was determined not to be accepted or acknowledged without her mother, and was already rehearsing magnanimous letters of refusal. | ['did someone come in?', 'who?', 'with?', 'was she wise?', 'how do you know?', 'did she speak?', 'what did she say?', 'where was she when she spoke?', 'what roman numeral is shown?', 'did someone have a difficulty with their mind?', 'who?'] | {'answers': ['Yes', 'Mary Nugent', 'with the intelligence.', 'yes', "both mother and aunt had confidence in Mary Nugent's wisdom", 'Yes', "'Yes, Gerard can come, and so will Mr. Dutton,'", 'standing about half-way between Mrs. Egremont and her daughter', 'VI', 'Yes', 'Mrs. Egremont'], 'answers_start': [623, 623, 623, 1267, 1271, 722, 722, 770, 8, 314, 314], 'answers_end': [666, 642, 666, 1330, 1330, 779, 779, 848, 10, 370, 370]} |
37zheehm6wm74p1j26xb63dcwj073e | (CNN) -- A grand jury has brought felony charges against three Dallas, Texas, police officers who were caught on patrol car dashboard cameras beating a motorcyclist after a chase, prosecutors said Thursday.
Officers Paul Bauer and Kevin Randolph were charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by a public servant, a charge that carries a five-year minimum prison term, in the September 5 beating of motorcyclist Andrew Collins. A third officer, Henry Duetsch, was charged with third-degree felony of tampering with physical evidence, said Jamille Bradfield, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County district attorney's office.
Bauer was also charged with assault and with official oppression, both misdemeanors. Randolph -- who was fired for failing probation after the incident -- was charged with official oppression and tampering with a governmental record, another felony.
There was no immediate response to the charges from the three defendants.
Prosecutors say Bauer and Randolph spotted Collins sitting on his motorcycle on a sidewalk the night of September 5. He drove off when the officers shined a spotlight on him, and they began pursuing him. An internal investigation found that Bauer and Randolph disregarded an order to stop the chase, with one of the officers saying, "Keep us going. I'm going to kick the s--- out of him."
Collins eventually stopped, and when the officers spotted him, Bauer struck the bike with his patrol car. Randolph beat Collins with his baton after Collins dropped to all fours, and Bauer began hitting and kicking him, police said. And Duetsch, who arrived on the scene after Collins had stopped, turned another cruiser's dashboard camera away from the scene when he arrived. | ['Felony charges were brought against whom?', 'How many were involved in the charge?', 'What were they charged for?', 'What were they caught doing on the dashboard camera?', 'What was his name?', 'When did the beating take place?', 'What made him drive away from the cops?', 'What did Bauer do to him when he stopped?', 'What did Randolph use against Collins?', 'What did Duetsch do when he arrived at the scene?', 'What is the minimum prison term for aggravated assault?'] | {'answers': ['Henry Duetsch', 'three', 'Bauer and Randolph were charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and Duetsch was charged tampering with physical evidence', 'beating a motorcyclist', 'Andrew Collins', 'the night of September 5', 'the officers shined a spotlight on him', 'struck the bike with his patrol car', 'his baton', "turned another cruiser's dashboard camera away from the scene", 'five-year'], 'answers_start': [458, 57, 209, 142, 425, 1056, 1100, 1425, 1489, 1654, 351], 'answers_end': [471, 62, 635, 164, 439, 1080, 1138, 1460, 1498, 1716, 360]} |
3c6fju71tqtai3a34zjc6pn9dxkuy5 | CHAPTER XXXIV Silver Hair
And how should I your true love know From another man?--Friar of Orders Gray
"Please God, I can try again."
Those were the words with which Herbert Bowater looked into his Rector's face on awaking in the evening of that same December day from one of a series of sleeps, each sweeter and longer than the last, and which had borne him over the dreaded hours, without fever, and with strengthening pulse.
Julius had not ventured to leave the sick-room that whole day, and when at last he went home and sank into the chair opposite Terry, for the first time through all these weeks of trouble and tension, he burst into a flood of tears.
He had hardly made the startled lad understand that life, not death, had thus overcome him, when the door flew open, and in rushed Rosamond, crying, "Julius, Julius, come! It is he or his ghost!"
"Who? What?"
"It is your hair! At Mrs. Douglas's grave! He'll be gone! Make haste--make haste!"
He started up, letting her drag him along, but under protest. "My dear, men _do_ come to have hair like mine."
"I tell you it was at our graves--our own--I touched him. I had this wreath for Raymond, and there he was, with his hat off, at the railing close to Mrs. Douglas's. I thought his back was yours, and called your name, and he started, and I saw--he had a white beard, but he was not old. He just bowed, and then went off very fast by the other gate, towards Wil'sbro'. I did call, 'Wait, wait,' but he didn't seem to hear. Oh, go, go, Julius! Make haste!" | ["Who hadn't left a sick new born all day?", "What were the words with which herbert bowater looked into his rector's face on awakining?", 'What did Mrs. douglas say?'] | {'answers': ['Julius', 'Please God, I can try again', 'unknown'], 'answers_start': [436, 108, -1], 'answers_end': [442, 135, -1]} |
3fq5jj512lo2381d3j6zjmg47lkkn8 | Sunni Islam ( or ) is the largest denomination of Islam. Its name comes from the word Sunnah, referring to the exemplary behaviour of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagreement over the choice of Muhammad's successor and subsequently acquired broader political significance, as well as theological and juridical dimensions.
According to Sunni traditions, Muhammad did not clearly designate a successor and the Muslim community acted according to his sunnah in electing his father-in-law Abu Bakr as the first caliph. This contrasts with the Shi'a view, which holds that Muhammad intended his son-in-law and cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib to succeed him. Unlike the first three (Rashidun) caliphs, Ali was from the same clan as Muhammad, Banu Hashim, and Shia Muslims consider him legitimate by favour of his blood ties to Muhammad. Political tensions between Sunnis and Shias continued with varying intensity throughout Islamic history and they have been exacerbated in recent times by ethnic conflicts and the rise of Wahhabism.
, Sunni Muslims constituted 87–90% of the world's Muslim population. Sunni Islam is the world's largest religious denomination, followed by Catholicism. Its adherents are referred to in Arabic as ' ("the people of the sunnah and the community") or ' for short. In English, its doctrines and practices are sometimes called "Sunnism", while adherents are known as Sunni Muslims, Sunnis, Sunnites and Ahlus Sunnah. Sunni Islam is sometimes referred to as "orthodox Islam". However, other scholars of Islam, such as John Burton believe that there's no such thing as "orthodox Islam". | ['Where did differences between Sunni and Shia muslims come from?', 'What is the largest denomination of Islam?', 'Where does the name come from?', 'What does that refer to?', 'Who was the first caliph?', 'Did Muhammad choose a successor?', 'How did the muslim community act?', "Who was Muhammad's son-in-law?", 'What clan was he from?', 'What was the name of it?', 'Why do the Shia consider him legitimate?', "How much of the earth's population do the Sunni constitute?", 'Is it the largest in the world?'] | {'answers': ["The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagreement over the choice of Muhammad's successor", 'Sunni Islam', 'from the word Sunnah', 'to the exemplary behaviour of the Islamic prophet Muhammad', 'Abu Bakr', 'According to Sunni traditions, Muhammad did not clearly designate a successor', 'according to his sunnah', 'Ali ibn Abi Talib', 'the same one as Muhammad', 'Banu Hashim', 'because of his blood ties to Muhammad', '87–90%', 'no'], 'answers_start': [164, 0, 56, 94, 503, 386, 468, 653, 752, 753, 805, 1090, 1156], 'answers_end': [276, 55, 92, 162, 577, 463, 518, 693, 792, 804, 886, 1158, 1240]} |
3tu5zicbrd13b4c4am1dxb2ihswq8t | During the years after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, structural engineers have been trying hard to solve a question that would otherwise have been completely unthinkable: Can building be designed to stand catastrophic blasts by terrorists?
Soon after the terrorist attacks on the twin towers, structural engineers from the University at Buffalo and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) traveled to ground zero as part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation. They spent two days beginning the task of formulating ideas about how to design such structures and to search for clues on how to do so in buildings that were damaged, but still are standing.
"Our objective in visiting ground zero was to go and look at the buildings surrounding the World Trade Center, those buildings that are still standing, but that sustained damage," said M. Bruneau, Ph.D. "Our immediate hope is that we can develop a better understanding as to why those buildings remain standing, while our long-term goal is to see whether earthquake engineering technologies can be married to existing technologies to achieve enhanced performance of buildings in the event of terrorist attacks," he added.
Photographs taken by the investigators demonstrate the monumental damage to the World Trade Center towers and buildings nearby. One building a block away from the towers remains standing, but was badly damaged. "This building is many meters away from the World Trade Center and yet we see a column there that used to be part of that building," explained A. Whittaker, Ph.D. "The column became a missile that shot across the road, through the window and through the floor."
The visit to the area also brought some surprises, according to the engineers. For example, the floor framing system in one of the buildings was quite strong , allowing floors that were pierced by tons of falling debris to survive. "Good framing systems may provide a simple, but reliable strategy for blast resistance," he added. Other strategies may include providing alternate paths for gravity loads in the event that a load-bearing column fails. "We also need a better understanding of the mechanism of collapse," said A. Whittaker. "We need to find out what causes a building to collapse and how you can predict it."
A. Reinhorn, Ph.D. noted that "earthquake shaking has led to the collapse of buildings in the past. Solutions developed for earthquake-resistant design may apply to blast engineering and terrorist-resistant design. Part of our mission now is to transfer these solutions and to develop new ones where none exist at present." | ['What is the nickname of the building that was referenced in the first paragraph?', 'What are structural engineers trying to protect buildings from?', 'What university where the structural engineers from?', 'Where did they travel to for research?', 'What were they looking at?', 'Specifically, the buildings they were looking at, did they want to see untouched buildings?', 'What area were these buildings surrounding?', 'What suffix does M. Bruneau carry?', 'Were there any surprises during the visit?', 'What mechanism do they need to understand better in order to achieve their objective?'] | {'answers': ['unknown', 'Terrorists', 'The University at Buffalo', 'ground zero', 'Clues', 'No', 'World Trade Center', 'Ph.D.', 'Yes', 'Collapse'], 'answers_start': [-1, 187, 313, 442, 531, 725, 776, 904, 1723, 2172], 'answers_end': [-1, 258, 364, 466, 722, 903, 836, 927, 1801, 2260]} |
3k4j6m3cxetqh3b54ogfzo4b10eagr | Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Geographically located in the South Central region of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, while the Gulf of Mexico is to the southeast.
Houston is the most populous city in Texas and the fourth largest in the U.S., while San Antonio is the second most populous in the state and seventh largest in the U.S. Dallas–Fort Worth and Greater Houston are the fourth and fifth largest metropolitan statistical areas in the country, respectively. Other major cities include Austin, the second most populous state capital in the U.S., and El Paso. Texas is nicknamed "The Lone Star State" to signify its former status as an independent republic, and as a reminder of the state's struggle for independence from Mexico. The "Lone Star" can be found on the Texas state flag and on the Texan state seal. The origin of Texas's name is from the word "Tejas," which means "friends" in the Caddo language. | ["What's the second-largest state by area?", 'And by population?', 'How many US states does it border?', 'And how many Mexican states?', 'What body of water also borders it?', 'What does its name mean?', 'In what language?', "What's the state's nickname?", 'Why is it called that?', 'Its status as what?', 'Which US region is it in?', 'What state is to the west?', 'Northeast?', 'East?', 'North?', "What's the state capital?", 'Is it also the largest city in the state?', 'What is?', 'How does it rank in the whole US?', "What's the second-largest city in the state?"] | {'answers': ['Texas', 'second largest', 'Four', 'Four', 'the Gulf of Mexico', 'friends"', 'the Caddo language.', '"The Lone Star State"', 'to signify its former status', 'as an independent republic,', 'the South Central', 'New Mexico', 'Arkansas', 'Louisiana', 'Oklahoma', 'Austin,', 'No!', 'Houston', 'fourth', 'San Antonio'], 'answers_start': [0, 13, 149, 300, 391, 1153, 1164, 854, 876, 905, 110, 268, 219, 195, 245, 761, 735, 433, 483, 518], 'answers_end': [5, 27, 292, 384, 409, 1161, 1184, 876, 904, 932, 128, 279, 227, 205, 255, 770, 768, 440, 491, 530]} |
3yz8upk3vtmxf09y871n9yvqa81cuc | Ireland (; ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.
Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, in the northeast of the island. In 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just over 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
The island's geography comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild but changeable climate which is free of extremes in temperature. Thick woodlands covered the island until the Middle Ages. As of 2013, the amount of land that is wooded in Ireland is about 11% of the total, compared with a European average of 35%. There are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland. The Irish climate is very moderate and classified as oceanic. As a result, winters are milder than expected for such a northerly area. However, summers are cooler than those in Continental Europe. Rainfall and cloud cover are abundant. | ['what portion of Ireland does the Republic of Ireland cover?', 'what part of the Atlantic is it located in?', 'how does it rank in terms of size of islands on earth?', 'how many people live there?', 'how many of those are in the Republic of Ireland?', 'how many are in norther ireland?', 'what channel separates Great Britain from Ireland?', 'what is the population rank of the island?', 'does it have lush vegetation?', 'how much of the land is wodded?', 'is that lower or higher than the European average?'] | {'answers': ['five-sixths', 'North', 'twentieth-largest', '6.4\xa0million', 'Just under 4.6\xa0million', 'just over 1.8\xa0million', 'North Channel', 'second-most populous island in Europe', 'Yes', '11%', 'lower'], 'answers_start': [344, 0, 270, 532, 655, 714, 65, 532, 905, 1094, 1093], 'answers_end': [431, 63, 298, 579, 710, 762, 132, 653, 935, 1164, 1206]} |
3f6hpjw4jd0x9m616erif971imzw2z | New York (CNN) -- The mansion and four-acre estate featured in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film "The Godfather" is up for sale for a whopping $2.9 million.
Owner Jim Norton said he put the eight-bedroom, five-bathroom Staten Island home on the market after his father recently passed away.
The film employed a star-studded cast, including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and Diane Keaton. Brando played fictional character Vito Corleone, the head of an organized crime family who transfers power to his reluctant son.
The film is based on a novel written by Mario Puzo and begins with a scene filmed at the iconic estate, where the aging Corleone accepts requests for favors during the wedding reception of his daughter Connie, played by Talia Shire.
The estate features a four-car garage, two fireplaces, an English pub and an in-ground swimming pool, Norton said.
His mother collected behind-the-scenes mementos from the film, including pictures and autographs from cast and crew members, he said.
Realtor Connie Profaci said the location was suggested by neighbor and co-star Gianni Russo, who played Corleone's son-in-law in the film.
"His family lived near the home and was familiar with the English Tudor enclave connecting Todt Hill and Emerson Hill," Profaci said. "Paramount producer Al Ruddy agreed and the rest was history."
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