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3nlzy2d53ppyqbwn4bah2goo0tplq5 | Be home by dinnertime, Eric's mother said as he left for school that morning. Eric was excited. Today was show and tell, and he planned to do his magic tricks for the whole class. Once he got to school, he couldn't wait until it was his turn. First up was Angie, who brought her pet lizard. It could change colors to match whatever it was sitting on. The second to be called was John, who showed the class a flower he had grown from seeds. Finally Eric's name was called. He went to the front of the class. "For my first trick" he said, "I'll pull a hamster out of a hat". He had borrowed his sister Candice's pet hamster in order to do his trick. He showed the class his that the hat was empty, then he reached inside, into the secret space where the hamster was hidden. The hamster was gone. He heard a scream. Two girls were standing on their chairs, and the hamster was crawling toward the back of the class. The teacher made him stay after school as punishment, but at least he made it home by dinnertime. | ['When was he told to be home by?', 'who told him that?', 'and why was he eager?', 'and what did he plan to do for the event?', 'what reptile did his friend bring?', 'and what did the next guy show?', 'what animal was he going to pull from a cap?', 'did it work?', 'where was it?', 'what did he have to do as penalty?'] | {'answers': ['by dinnertime', 'his mother', 'Today was show and tell', 'magic tricks', 'pet lizard', 'a flower', 'hamster', 'no', 'the back of the class', 'stay after school'], 'answers_start': [7, 23, 96, 146, 279, 406, 614, 772, 858, 934], 'answers_end': [21, 36, 119, 158, 289, 438, 621, 793, 911, 952]} |
3sle99er0ndvrub20u40f64nu0fzb6 | Donald had his own difficulties in sleeping that night. Not just because of the bright lights of the shelter or people's constant voices, it was the happening repeatedly nightmare that caused him to stay awake, to fear sleep. Donald was back in his small house. He did his best to ignore the howling winds outside his window. Yet he could not turn out the fearful whimpers of his little dog, or the uncomfortable sounds of his mother anxious in her room next door, unable to sleep through the storm despite her insistence they would be all right.
Donald did not want his mother to be upset, but on some level, he was glad to hear she was awake, It meant he was not alone in the dark. Though he was 12, until recently it was impossible for Donald to fall asleep unless his mother lay down by his side.
Suddenly there was a crash. Their living room window is shattered by 125 miles an hour winds. Troy rushed to Donald and sat anxiously on the edge of his bed. He did his best to calm his mother, and she had to comfort him. Soon water was seeping into the single floor house. Quickly it rose from ankle level to leg level. At Donald's insistence, they pushed their way through the water --- now chest high --- toward the front door. When they fought their way into the living room, water rose to their chins.
It was a struggle for the boy and mother to stay afloat. In a total panic, desperate to hold on to something, Troy caught a curtain rod. She was breathing hard, shouting that she couldn't swim.
Donald cried out, "Mom! Hold on!" Just then Donald also caught a floatable wood board. | ['who is the story about?', 'how old is he?', 'is he having difficulty falling asleep?', 'how many reasons for that are listed?', 'what are they?', 'any other reason?', 'what?', 'what did Troy catch?', 'who cried?', 'what did he cry?'] | {'answers': ['Donald', '12', 'yes', 'two reasons', "bright lights and people's voices", 'yes', 'repeatedly nightmare', 'a curtain rod.', 'Donald', "she couldn't swim."], 'answers_start': [0, 686, 10, 55, 64, 158, 159, 1423, 1510, 1451], 'answers_end': [31, 718, 55, 179, 136, 209, 224, 1450, 1533, 1507]} |
33lk57mylt5u8gs4bgqv5venxi0zst | (CNN) -- A Michigan man and woman convicted of trying to extort $680,000 from "Glee" actor John Stamos by threatening to sell compromising photos were each sentenced to four years in prison Friday.
U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar in Marquette said the photos never existed, according to a federal prosecutor.
Scott Edward Sippola, 31, and Allison Lenore Coss, 24, could have faced up to nine years in prison for convictions of conspiracy and interstate communications to extort money.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Lochner said a statement from Stamos was read in court. In it, Stamos said he had been slandered and his reputation impugned. Lochner said the judge ascertained that the conspiracy wasn't just a "foolish lark."
In a presentence filing, Sippola admitted his conduct "was awful."
"I sought to exploit my knowledge of the personal weaknesses of a perfect stranger for my own undeserved financial gain," Sippola wrote.
"The case was made by the fact that these defendants made threats to damage his [Stamos'] reputation in order to have him pay them," Assistant U.S. Attorney Maarten Vermaat said after the July verdict in Marquette, Michigan.
According to CNN affiliate WLUC, prosecutors said that Coss and Sippola told Stamos that if he didn't give them the money, they would sell embarrassing pictures of him allegedly using drugs to tabloid publications.
Vermaat said the defendants sent about 40 e-mails to Stamos threatening to sell the photos. FBI agents got involved and started monitoring Stamos' e-mail account and "eventually communicated by cellular telephone with the defendants pretending to be Mr. Stamos' business manager." Sippola and Coss were arrested in December 2009 at an airport, a pre-arranged dropoff spot for the money. | ['Who was extorted?', 'Is he an actor?', 'What shows has he been in?', 'How many people were in the plot?', 'What did they have?', 'What was in the pictures?', 'How many messages did they send to the star?', 'When were they arrested?', 'Did the star face them at trial?', 'What state was the trial held?', 'What agency investigated the crime?', 'Where were the extorters captured?', 'What were they going to do with the pictures?', 'How were they caught?', "Was the star's image damaged?", 'How many years in jail will they serve?'] | {'answers': ['John Stamos', 'yes', 'Glee', 'Two', 'compromising photos', 'him allegedly using drugs', 'about 40', 'December 2009', 'no', 'Michigan', 'FBI', 'airport', 'sell', 'FBI agents got involved and started monitoring Stamos\' e-mail account and "eventually communicated by cellular telephone with the defendants pretending to be Mr. Stamos\' business manager."', 'yes', 'four'], 'answers_start': [91, 8, 79, 316, 126, 1335, 1421, 1703, 494, 1159, 1480, 1723, 120, 1480, 579, 169], 'answers_end': [102, 198, 83, 492, 145, 1360, 1429, 1716, 577, 1167, 1484, 1730, 126, 1668, 647, 174]} |
3xuhv3nrvky7btuzty7gcd0qohxh5o | (CNN) -- Gillette said Saturday it was "limiting" golfer Tiger Woods' role in its marketing programs to give him the privacy he needs to work on family relationships after disclosures of his "infidelity."
In a statement, the Boston, Massachusetts-based body grooming company said it supports Woods' decision to take "an indefinite break" from professional golf. On his Web site Friday, Woods admitted to infidelity and said he was taking a break from the sport to focus on his family.
"In the midst of a difficult and unfortunate situation, we respect the action Tiger is taking to restore the trust of his family, friends and fans," Gillette spokesman Mike Norton said in the statement. "We fully support him stepping back from his professional career and taking the time he needs to do what matters most. We wish him and his family the best.
"As Tiger takes a break from the public eye, we will support his desire for privacy by limiting his role in our marketing programs," Norton said.
Woods' Friday posting said: "After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father and person."
"I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children," Woods' statement said. "I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness. It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try." | ['Who is the company limiiting?', 'What does he do?', 'Which company said this?', 'What are they limiting?', 'Why?', 'Where is the company based?', 'What kind of company are they?', 'Does Woods have a website?', 'What did he admit to?', 'Was he taking a break?', 'Who is Mike Norton?', 'Does Gilette respect the action?', 'When did Woods post something?', 'Is he a husband?', 'Is he a father?'] | {'answers': ['Tiger Woods', 'golfer', 'Gillette', "Tiger Woods' role in its marketing programs", 'to give him the privacy he needs to work on family relationships', 'Boston', 'body grooming', 'Yes', 'infidelity', 'Yes', 'Gillette spokesman', 'Yes', 'Friday', 'Yes', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 207, 207, 364, 364, 364, 489, 489, 998, 998, 998], 'answers_end': [205, 204, 204, 205, 205, 487, 364, 486, 487, 487, 692, 691, 1197, 1197, 1197]} |
3dr23u6we5exclen4th8uq9rc9uteo | CHAPTER XIII
BUB SUCCUMBS TO FORCE
One day Peter Conant abruptly left his office, came home and packed his grip and then hurried down town and caught the five o'clock train for New York. He was glum and uncommunicative, as usual, merely telling Aunt Hannah that business called him away and he did not know when he would be back.
A week later Peter appeared at the family breakfast table, having arrived on the early morning express, and he seemed in a more gracious mood than usual. Indeed, he was really talkative.
"I met Will Morrison in New York, Hannah," he said to his wife. "He was just sailing for London with his family and will remain abroad all summer. He wanted us to occupy his mountain place, Hillcrest Lodge, during July and August, and although I told him we couldn't use the place he insisted on my taking an order on his man to turn the shack over to us."
"The shack!" cried Aunt Hannah indignantly.
"Why, Peter, Hillcrest Lodge is a little palace. It is the cosiest, most delightful place I have ever visited. Why shouldn't we accept Will Morrison's proposition to occupy it?"
"I can't leave my business."
"You could run up every Friday afternoon, taking the train to Millbank and the stage to Hillcrest, and stay with us till Monday morning."
He stared at her reflectively.
"Would you be safe in that out-of-the-way place?" he asked.
"Of course. Didn't you say Will had a man for caretaker? And only a few scattered cottages are located near by, so we shall be quite by ourselves and wholly unmolested. I mean to go, and take the girls. The change will do us all good, so you may as well begin to make arrangements for the trip." | ["Who is Peter's wife?", 'Is she often indignant?', 'Who did Peter meet with when he was away?', 'Where?', "How'd he get there?", 'Was it the noon train?', 'Where was Will off to?', 'How was he getting there?', "What's the name of his manor?", 'How many months was he going to be gone?', 'Is Hillcrest Lodge somewhat palatial?', "What can't Peter leave?", 'What town could he take the train to on Friday afternoons?', 'Then how would he get to Hillcrest?', 'How long would he then stay?', 'Is Peter in a more talkative mood than normal?', 'What else is his current mood?', 'What meal are they having as they discuss this?', 'Is he concerned if Hannah will be safe at Hillcrest?', 'Why?'] | {'answers': ['Hannah', 'unknown', 'Will Morrison', 'New York', 'the early morning express', 'no', 'london', 'boat', 'Hillcrest Lodge', 'two,', 'yes', 'his business', 'Millbank', 'take the stage', 'till Monday', 'yes', 'gracious', 'breakfast', 'yes', "it's an out-of-the-way place"], 'answers_start': [557, -1, 525, 545, 401, 417, 593, 599, 696, 732, 941, 1111, 1183, 1217, 1241, 336, 458, 370, 1316, 1336], 'answers_end': [589, -1, 545, 557, 439, 512, 637, 609, 730, 755, 980, 1137, 1211, 1238, 1268, 523, 477, 387, 1374, 1361]} |
3a0ex8zrn8ovm41x482h1zvlo96bys | Orlando, Florida (CNN) -- Tiger Woods' mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, was released from a hospital in "good condition" Tuesday afternoon, hours after she was admitted, a hospital spokesman said.
Holmberg -- the mother of Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren -- was admitted to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida, early Tuesday morning for stomach pain.
Paramedics arrived at Woods' home in Orange County, Florida, after a 911 call was made at around 2:35 a.m., dispatch information shows.
Hospital spokesman Dan Yates said that Holmberg, a regional governor in Sweden, was resting at Woods' home after being released around 2 p.m. ET. Yates would not comment further on Holmberg's hospital stay, saying only that she was in a "good state and feeling much better."
Health Central Hospital is the same hospital where Woods was taken after he crashed his sports utility vehicle into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his mansion near Windermere on November 27.
Eva Malmborg, a spokeswoman for Gavleborg County, where Holmberg is governor, told CNN that she had been taken to the Florida hospital because of abdominal pain.
"She is, after the circumstances, well," Malmborg said. "We count on her being back at work on Monday."
There has been no comment on Wood's Web site regarding his mother-in-law's difficulties.
Woods, 33, who tops the sport's world rankings, has been mired in controversy since the crash, which prompted authorities to cite him for careless driving and fine him $164.
Woods was not required to talk to police about the wreck, and declined to talk with investigators on several occasions. | ['Who is Barbro Holmberg?', 'Was she in the hospital?', 'When', 'Was she released?', 'When?', "Who is Wood's wife?", 'Which hospital was this?', 'Where?', 'Why was she admitted?', 'Where does Tiger Woods live?', 'When was the 911 call made?', 'Who is Dan Yates?', 'What does Holmberg do?', 'Who else was taken to this hospital?', 'Why?', 'What kind of car?', 'When was that?', 'Who is Eva Malmborg?', 'for what?', 'Does Tiger Wood have a website?'] | {'answers': ["Tiger Woods' mother-in-law", 'Yes', 'Early Tuesday morning', 'Yes', 'Tuesday afternoon', 'Elin Nordegren', 'Health Central Hospital', 'Ocoee, Florida', 'stomach pain', 'Orange County, Florida', '2:35 a.m.', 'Hospital spokesman', 'A regional governor', 'Woods', 'A car crash', 'SUV', 'November 27', 'A spokeswoman', 'Gavleborg County', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [26, 198, 314, 71, 71, 209, 271, 271, 340, 378, 425, 494, 533, 801, 837, 855, 797, 967, 999, 1237], 'answers_end': [69, 295, 335, 119, 137, 251, 295, 312, 352, 415, 462, 522, 573, 881, 881, 881, 963, 1015, 1015, 1276]} |
3jmsru9hqiucpdic9ohnv8xc9m5ev4 | Claude Monet is surely one of the most famous French artists of all. Monet was particularly interested in the effect of light and would paint the same scene in different lighting conditions or times of the day. For example, he painted around 20 versions of the Rouen Cathedral from dawn to dusk. His most famous paintings include his Water lilies series. The paintings of Paul Cezanne had a lot of influence in the development of 20th century art, including Cubism and Fauvism . Cezanne is one of the most famous French artists and is known as a "post-impressionist", which was similar in some ways to impressionism but also broke away from some of its limitations. Famous French paintings include his Bathers and Mont St Victoire series. Henri Matisse was one of the most important famous French artists of the 20th century. He was considered one of the leaders of the Fauvist movement. He had a long and varied artistic career, painting in different styles ranging from Impressionism to Abstract. In 1941, Matisse was diagnosed with cancer and was forced into a wheelchair. But this didn't stop him completing the amazing Chapel of the Rosary in Vence. Degas is probably one of the most fascinating of all the famous French artists. He is known as one of the founders of Impressionism, but his paintings were also influenced by classicism, romanticism, and realism. His style is definitely very unique. He was a prolific artist, producing over one thousand works. He is best known for his paintings of ballet dancers. | ['Who is mostly known for his paintings of ballet dancers?', 'Who was considered one of the leaders of the Fauvist movement?', 'What happened to Matisse in 1941?', 'What did Monet paint 20 versions of?'] | {'answers': ['Claude Monet', 'Paul Cezanne', 'Matisse was diagnosed with cancer', 'The Rouen Cathedral'], 'answers_start': [1466, 355, 997, 211], 'answers_end': [1519, 479, 1080, 296]} |
39lnwe0k4uwos3vy0hx9k1tlnenui0 | CHAPTER IV
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BARN
"Nat has fallen into the water!"
"Where is he? I can't see a thing."
"He must have gone down in some cistern."
These and other cries rang out, and all of the boys of Oak Hall were filled with consternation. Dave had located the splash fairly well, and as quickly as he could he felt his way in that direction.
"Nat, where are you?" he called out.
"Here, down in a cistern! Help me out, or I'll be frozen to death."
Dave now reached the edge of the cistern. Two of the boards which had covered it had broken, letting Nat down quite unexpectedly. Fortunately there was only three feet of water in the cistern, so there was no fear of drowning. But the water was icy and far from agreeable.
As Dave leaned down to give Poole his hand, the door of the barn was flung open and a farmer strode in, a lantern in one hand and a stout stick in the other. The man held the light over his head and looked around suspiciously.
"Wot yeou fellers doin' here?" he demanded.
"Come here with the light--one of our party has fallen into the cistern!" cried Dave.
"Into the cistern, eh? Mebbe it serves him right. Ain't got no business in my barn," answered the farmer, as he came closer.
"We ran in because your dogs came after us," explained Roger.
"An' where did yeou come from? Ye don't belong around here, I know." | ['what chapter is this ?', 'the title is ?', 'who down in a cistern ?', 'how did he end up there ?', 'if he dont get out what will happen', 'could he see anything ?', 'where did they think he down in ?', 'were there other crys', 'where are the boys from ?', 'who located the splash ?', 'did he find it slow ?', 'he felt his way into what ?', 'did nat edge of the cister ?', 'who was it ?', 'how many boards were there ?', 'were the boards ingood standing ?', 'who gave poole his hand ?', 'who came in ?', 'what did he have in one hand ?', 'and the other ?'] | {'answers': ['IV', 'WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BARN', 'Nat', 'Nat has fallen into the wate', 'frozen to death."', 'no.', 'cistern', 'yes', 'Oak Hall', 'Dave', 'no', 'direction', 'no', 'Dave', 'Two', 'broken', 'Dave', 'farmer', 'lantern', 'stout stick'], 'answers_start': [8, 13, 360, 42, 448, 90, 415, 167, 213, 254, 302, 346, 468, 468, 510, 553, 746, 829, 849, 875], 'answers_end': [10, 39, 363, 70, 466, 109, 422, 189, 222, 259, 310, 355, 472, 472, 513, 559, 750, 835, 857, 886]} |
3nxnz5rs1axtjrqzjfylxggyv3497a | New York—often called New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part—is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.
Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State. The five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 8,491,079 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. By 2014 census estimates, the New York City metropolitan region remains by a significant margin the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area (20.1 million residents) and the Combined Statistical Area (23.6 million residents). In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly US$1.39 trillion, while in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion, both ranking first nationally by a wide margin and behind the GDP of only twelve and eleven countries, respectively. | ['how many boroughs make up the city?', 'when were they consolidated?', 'what are their names?', 'how much impact does NYC have?', 'how many differenet areas does the article say it impacts?', 'is food one of them?', 'is a new york minute slow?', 'what does it mean?', 'which international organisation is based there?', 'how many people live there?', 'in what size area?'] | {'answers': ['five', '1898', 'Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island', 'significant', 'Nine', 'No', 'No', 'its a fast pace', 'the United Nations', '8,491,079', '305 square miles'], 'answers_start': [797, 977, 901, 391, 402, 409, 507, 507, 568, 1041, 1108], 'answers_end': [836, 1016, 970, 410, 507, 507, 554, 554, 602, 1071, 1124]} |
3z3zlgnnsiuha76yy56h6uu716a3qk | In seventh grade, Brittany Blythe dreamed of being a cheerleader. Her school's coaches were less than enthusiastic. "They said, 'I don't know how you'll be able to do it,' she recalls. "'You won't be able to do it. '"
But Brittany, now a junior at Strath Haven High School near Philadelphia, persisted . And when the junior team cheerleaders won a tournament last year, she was right there, dancing and cheering with the rest of the team.
Not bad for someone whose legs were cut off below the knee when she was two years old.
Brittany, 18, was born without shinbones --"just blood and muscle tissue", as she puts it. When she tried to walk, her legs twisted.
After the operation, she adapted quickly. "From day one, I basically jumped up and wanted to do everything," she says. Prosthetic legs allowed her to move around upright, but too slowly to keep up with her friends. Brittany's solution: take the legs off and walk on her knees---sometimes she still does when safety and comfort permit.
She's rarely _ . Other children laughed at her through the years, especially in junior high school, but she says the challenge only made her stronger. Now she's trying to convince her coaches to let her remove the prostheses and be a flyer, the cheerleader who's thrown in the air and caught by her teammates.
Brittany doesn't think her problems are more difficult than the next person's. "My disability was the first thing I had to get through, and that's going to prepare me for the future," she says. "It's all just a test: If someone throws you a curve ball , what are you going to do?" | ['What did Brittany dream of being in High School?', "Who told her she couldn't be a cheerleader?", 'What was Brittany born without?', 'What was the reaction to her prosthetic legs in Junior high?', 'What does Brittany want her coaches to let her do now?', 'What was the first thing Brittany had to go through in like?', 'What school is Brittany at near Philadelphia?', 'Did the junior team cheerleaders win their tournament last year?', 'How old was Brittany when she lost the bottom of her legs?', 'What grade is Brittany in?', 'How did the coaches react to Brittany want to be a cheerleader?', 'Does Brittany ever move around without her prostetics?', 'Does Brittany have a great attitude?', 'Does Brittany think her disability makes her problems more difficult then the next persons?', 'Brittany was born without?', 'Did Brittany have any operations?'] | {'answers': ['cheerleader', "Her school's coaches", 'Shinbones', 'Other children laughed', 'To let her remove the prostheses and be a flye', 'Her disability', 'Strath Haven High School', 'Yes', 'Two', 'a junior', "Her school's coaches were less than enthusiastic", 'Yes', 'Yes', 'No', 'shinbones', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [0, 66, 532, 1021, 1155, 1396, 220, 306, 442, 220, 66, 786, 1315, 1315, 531, 442], 'answers_end': [65, 218, 572, 1104, 1242, 1501, 306, 442, 530, 302, 219, 1002, 1596, 1394, 576, 530]} |
3dzqrbdbslftnnlbq9vm1u98jzr3sf | (CNN) -- Yoshinobu Miyake is perhaps the only athlete apart from Dick Fosbury who has had a technique named after him.
Miyake: the strongest man ever?
While Fosbury was throwing himself backward over the bar in the high jump in Mexico City 1968, Miyake was placing his ankles together, instead of apart, for the lifting snatch.
The "Miyake Pull" was also coined "Frog Style" after the stance the lifter adopts before the pull: heels together with knees fanned outward to around sixty degrees with a wide grip on the bar, resembling a frog upon the lift.
The technique proved physiologically efficient for a body bearing some 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of stress.
Miyake's Olympic gold in 1968 is less well known than Fosbury's, but pound for pound, in his own sport, he is considered one of the strongest men who ever lived -- and Japan's finest weightlifting exponent.
The medal re-affirmed Miyake's pre-eminence in the featherweight class and proved he could travel.
In 1964 he had also won gold in Tokyo in front of a home crowd, improving on a silver earned in Rome in 1960.
Born in Miyagi Prefecture in Honshu, north of Tokyo, in 1939, Miyake was all but unstoppable in the mid-1960s.
During that time he set 25 world records, many consecutively as he bettered his own standards. He was the world champion in 1962-1963 and 1964-1965.
After coming fourth at the 1972 Munich Games, Miyake retired from competitive action to coach Japan's weightlifting team, helping his brother, Yoshiyuki, become world champion in 1969 and 1971. | ['When was Miyake born?', 'Where?', 'Where is that?', 'Does he have any world records?', 'How many?', 'Did he ever beat his own?', 'When was he the world champion?', 'When did he win an Olympic gold medal?', 'What did earn in 1964?', 'where?', 'What had he gotten before that?', 'When?', 'Where?', 'What class is he in?', 'What is named for him?', 'What else is it called?', 'What event is it used in?', 'Where are the ankles for this?', 'What about the knees?', 'What does a person look like while doing the Miyake Pull?'] | {'answers': ['1939', 'Miyagi Prefecture in Honshu', 'north of Tokyo', 'yes', '25', 'yes', '1962-1963 and 1964-1965', '1968', 'gold', 'Tokyo', 'a silver', '1960', 'Rome', 'featherweight', 'Miyake Pull', 'Frog Style', 'the lifting snatch', 'together', 'fanned outward', 'a frog'], 'answers_start': [1094, 1094, 1094, 1224, 1223, 1271, 1302, 672, 982, 982, 1046, 1061, 1058, 903, 334, 334, 250, 249, 447, 527], 'answers_end': [1154, 1129, 1145, 1247, 1247, 1300, 1354, 701, 1010, 1019, 1090, 1090, 1090, 951, 352, 380, 330, 288, 474, 558]} |
3n2bf7y2vqu5j0f5lxo2tfbcaf4hm1 | CHAPTER XXX
FINAL SCENES OF THE GREAT FIGHT
"Si has fallen overboard!"
The cry came from half a dozen throats at once, and Walter's heart almost stopped beating, so attached had he become to the Yankee lad.
"If he's overboard, he'll be sucked under and drowned," he groaned. "I wonder if I can see anything of him."
Without a second thought he leaped on the gun and began to crawl out, on hands and knees, as perilous a thing to do, with the vessel going at full speed, as one would care to undertake.
"Come back!" roared Caleb, trying to detain him. "You'll go overboard, too."
At that moment came a cry from below, and looking down the steel side of the _Brooklyn_, Walter beheld Si clinging to a rope ladder, one of several flung over, to be used in case of emergency. "Si, are you all right?" he called loudly.
"I--reckon--I--I am," came with a pant.
"But I had an awful tumble and the wind is about knocked out o' me." And then Si began to climb up to the deck.
"He's on the ladder and he's all right," shouted Walter, to those still behind the gun. Then a sudden idea struck him. "Hand me another rammer, Stuben."
"Mine cracious! don't you try dot," cried the hose-man. "You vos fall ofer chust like Si."
"Yes, come in here," put in Caleb, and Paul also called upon him to return.
"I'm all right," was the boy's reply. "Give it to me, Stuben." And catching the rammer from the hose-man, Steve Colton passed it forward. "In war we have got to take some risks," he reasoned, as Caleb gave him a severe look. | ['What chapter is this?', 'Who fell overboard?', 'What was he?', 'Who went looking for him?', 'Who tired to stop him?', 'How did Si get back on the ship', 'Was he okay?', 'What was Walter calling for when struck with inspiration?', 'Did the other men think it was a good idea?', 'What did steve colton say as he passed the rammer?'] | {'answers': ['Chapter 30', 'Si', 'A Yankee lad.', 'Walter', 'Caleb', 'a rope ladder', 'Yes', 'another rammer', 'No', '"In war we have got to take some risks,"'], 'answers_start': [0, 48, 48, 77, 514, 682, 786, 1075, 1142, 1419], 'answers_end': [12, 75, 213, 323, 591, 785, 871, 1140, 1311, 1537]} |
3napmvf0zwfij750y6j6nt8kpvt72b | (CNN) -- Missouri police are investigating the death of a 27-year-old woman whose body was found this week at the home of beer tycoon August Busch IV.
Frontenac, Missouri, police officers got a 911 call just before 1:15 p.m. last Sunday about an unresponsive woman at a residence later identified as belonged to Busch, the town's police chief, Thomas Becker, said in a news release.
Paramedics and police officers arrived eight minutes later to find Adrienne Nicole Martin dead, "with no apparent signs of trauma or other indications of cause of death," Becker said.
Busch's lawyer, Art Margulis, on Friday described Martin as a friend of his client.
"There's absolutely nothing here that would indicate that this occurred under any suspicious circumstances," said Margulis. "It's a tragic death of a ... very nice young lady."
Police in Frontenac, where the home is located, said they are investigating the death with help from the St. Louis County medical examiner. The community of about 3,500 people is 11 miles west of St. Louis.
Martin was a model and aspiring art therapist, described as Native American on her page on iStudio.com, which says it serves "the modeling, photography, and associated industries." In the About Me section of her page, she writes that she had been in beauty pageants for years and "would really like to do beer advertising."
Busch, 46, became chief executive officer of Anheuser-Busch in December 2006, after years of working in the company's brewing, operations and marking divisions. He was in charge in 2008 when Belgian brewer InBev engineered a $52 billion takeover of the then-St. Louis, Missouri, company. With that move, the combined Anheuser-Busch InBev became the world's largest brewer. | ["Who's house was she discovered in?", 'Who were the police working with to investigate the case?', 'Who was the victim?', 'What city was she in?', 'Is that a big city?', 'What is the population?', 'How old was Martin?', "What was Nicole's job?", 'Was she caucasian?', 'Was the cause of death blunt force trauma?', 'Was she on the internet?', 'What type of modeling did she want to do?', 'Was an attorney involved?', 'Who?', 'What did he think of Nicole?', "What was Busch's job?", 'Was it taken over?', 'By whom?', 'When was this?', 'For how much?'] | {'answers': ['August Busch IV', 'St. Louis County medical examiner.', 'Adrienne Nicole Martin', 'Frontenac', 'No', '3,500', '46', 'model and aspiring art therapist', 'no', 'No', 'Yes', 'beer advertising.', 'Yes', 'Art Margulis', 'very nice young lady.', 'chief executive officer of Anheuser-Busch', 'yes', 'Belgian brewer InBev', '2008', '$52 billion'], 'answers_start': [76, 891, 454, 153, 978, 1001, 1373, 1047, 1094, 482, 1107, 1328, 573, 589, 813, 1390, 1533, 1564, 1534, 1598], 'answers_end': [149, 977, 476, 172, 1044, 1013, 1382, 1092, 1149, 557, 1149, 1369, 657, 601, 834, 1432, 1660, 1584, 1559, 1619]} |
3dl65mzb8dfgq4cci7mi5g9nop8ce6 | If you had billions of dollars,would you give away almost all of it to charity ?Well that's what Mark Zuckerberg,CEO and founder of Facebook,just said he would do.Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan promised to give 99 percent of their money to society.Right now that is about $45 billion(289 billion yuan),and they plan to give away the money to things like science and education. Many billionaires have done similar things,for example,Bill Gates.But giving back and helping others isn't just for big billionaires.People like Zuckerberg and Gates may have more to give,but people with less are doing it too.Especially around the holidays,people want to do their part and give back to people who are less lucky than them.Schools may have food collections where people bring some food and together they can give away some other things to places like homeless centers. People also host special events like concerts or runs to be creative while raising money.Common people give away whatever they can to US charities like the United Way and the American Red Cross. Then these charities are able to help the poor in different ways like education,health and improving their lives.These things come together to make a big difference. | ['What is a charity that helps people?', 'Is there another talked about?', 'How do these aid?', 'What is one way?', 'What is a way schools help people give back?', 'Do mare people give during holidays?', 'Is it only average income people that help?', 'Who is giving away most of their wealth?', 'Who is he?', 'How much is he pledging?', 'Which is about how much?', 'What is he giving it to?'] | {'answers': ['united way', 'Red Cross', 'different ways', 'education', 'food collections', 'yes', 'no', 'mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan', 'founder of facebook?', '99%', 'about $45 billion', 'Science and education'], 'answers_start': [959, 1026, 1109, 1114, 724, 611, 384, 63, 86, 201, 257, 350], 'answers_end': [1128, 1066, 1177, 1144, 823, 718, 420, 202, 139, 255, 310, 411]} |
3e7tuj2egcm900r9as17x8quhdcd9a | (CNN) -- Concertgoers at the Indiana State Fair panicked and fled in the immediate aftermath of the concert stage collapse. But just as quickly, they returned, offering what they could during the moments that mattered.
"I'm a nurse. I'm a doctor. I'm a trained EMS responder," they said, according to Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, whose voice broke with emotion as he recalled the extraordinary efforts of ordinary people.
"The individual Hoosiers ran to the trouble, not from the trouble," he said, using the name for Indiana residents. "It's the character that we associate with our state. People don't have to be paid to do it."
The stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair Saturday night killed five people and injured 40 others.
Video showed the blue canvas top fraying and flapping just seconds before the steel scaffolding gave way, sending a heavy bank of stage lights and metal onto fans closest to the outdoor stage.
Ivan Gratz, a professional videographer, witnessed the event and filmed what happened after the collapse.
"Everybody ran away from the stage," he said. "And then as soon as the stage, like it was stable on the ground, everyone turned around and they ran back. And that's what was incredible in the pictures where you see the people grab a hold of the stage and they're lifting it up."
"Just amazing," said Gratz.
Allison Hoehn, another concertgoer, said that many attendees rushed to help those trapped after the stage crumbled.
"We tried to get down to help, but no one was moving," Hoehn said. "The storm came on so fast and the stage just snapped like a toothpick." | ['Where was the concert?', 'What happened?', 'Who is the governor of the state?', 'Was anyone killed?', 'How many?', 'Was anyone hurt?', 'How many?', 'What day of the week was it?', 'Did anyone film the event?', 'What was his name?', 'What was his occupation?', 'Did the concertgoers help the victims?', 'What caused the collapse?', 'Was the weather sunny?', 'Did the event have a covering?'] | {'answers': ['the Indiana State Fair', 'the concert stage collapsed', 'Mitch Daniels', 'Yes', 'five', 'Yes', '40', 'Saturday', 'Yes', 'Ivan Gratz', 'videographer', 'Yes', 'the scaffolding gave way', 'No', 'no'], 'answers_start': [9, 9, 303, 636, 696, 636, 719, 636, 935, 935, 935, 124, 740, 1540, 914], 'answers_end': [47, 122, 330, 738, 714, 737, 736, 689, 1040, 1040, 974, 218, 933, 1565, 932]} |
3pmby0ye273zv8lvaw6wd28cxj9c9v | Vincent Van Gogh was an important painter of the 19thcentury. He was born in Holland, but he lived much of his life inprefix = st1 /France. He was a very emotional man, and there was much suffering in his life. His style of painting was very different from classical art. He painted pictures of sunny, hot regions ofFrance. He looked for interesting shapes and exciting colours. He liked to work freely and quickly.
There is a fast movement in many of his paintings. Sometimes the trees look like fire. The sun, the moon, and stars move rapidly in the sky. He also painted pictures of people.
Like his life, his art was always unusual and very emotional.
Paul Gauguin was another 19-century painter. He was French and a friend of Van Gogh. Before he became an artist, Gauguin had been a businessman for many years. He made a lot of money, and he likes to buy modern paintings.
At the age of 354, Gauguin decided to become a painter himself. Gauguin wanted to discover more important things about man. He went to a different part of Franceto live with the farmers. He painted pictures of French country people there. Two years later he went to live in a small place in the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles fromFrance. He wanted to learn about the simple life there. His most famous and interesting paintings were painted at that time. | ['What kind of artist was Van Gogh?', 'What country did he paint?', 'What parts?', 'What appears to be burning in his work?', 'Do his paintings have movement?', 'What moves?', 'At what speed?', 'Did he use people for subjects?', 'Where was he born?', 'Did he stay there his whole life?', 'Where did he go?', 'Did he have a lot of emotion?', 'Did it show in his work?', 'Who was his friend?', 'Was did he do for a living?', 'What did he do before that?', 'How old was he when he started painting?', 'Where did he move to?', 'Then where?', 'Which of his works did he create there?'] | {'answers': ['a painter', 'France.', 'sunny, hot regions', 'trees', 'Yes', 'The sun, the moon, and stars', 'fast', 'yes', 'Holland', 'No', 'France', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Paul Gauguin', 'painter', 'had been a businessman', '354', 'to live with the farmers', 'a small place in the Pacific', 'His most famous and interesting paintings'], 'answers_start': [17, 272, 272, 469, 418, 505, 418, 558, 61, 85, 86, 139, 597, 661, 661, 746, 885, 1009, 1124, 1274], 'answers_end': [60, 323, 322, 503, 468, 557, 467, 595, 84, 138, 138, 167, 659, 745, 704, 820, 902, 1070, 1187, 1342]} |
3maod8e57qa8n80k22lo9go63ygxnz | 110 is a cartridge-based film format used in still photography. It was introduced by Kodak in 1972. 110 is essentially a miniaturised version of Kodak's earlier 126 film format. Each frame is , with one registration hole. There were 24 frames per cartridge that occasionally enabled the user to capture an extra image due to production variations.
The film is fully housed in a plastic cartridge, which also registers the image when the film is advanced. There is a continuous backing paper, and the frame number and film type are visible through a window at the rear of the cartridge. The film does not need to be rewound and is very simple to load and unload. It is pre-exposed with frame lines and numbers, a feature intended to make it easier and more efficient for photofinishers to print.
Unlike later competing formats, such as disc and APS film, processed 110 negatives were returned in strips, without the original cartridge. The 110 cartridge was introduced by Kodak in 1972 with Kodak Pocket Instamatic cameras. The new pocket-sized cameras became immediately popular, and soon displaced competing subminiature cameras, such as the Minolta 16 series, from the market. The 110 film width is 16 mm. A four frame strip measures 111 mm. | ['What is 110?', 'What kind of film?', 'What type of cartridge?', 'When did it start being sold?', 'What is its width?', 'What was it first sold with?', 'Did people buy a lot of them?', 'What was a competitor of that type of camera?', 'How many pictures could be taken with one roll?', 'What company sold it?', 'Was it based off an earlier product?', 'Which one?', 'What was the change?', 'Is it difficult to use?', 'How were processed negatives given back?', 'Was this different from other types of film?', 'Does it show the frame number?', 'What else does it show?', 'Can it be used for videos?', 'How long would a 24 frame strip be?'] | {'answers': ['film', 'cartridge-based', 'plastic', '1972', '16\xa0mm', 'Kodak Pocket Instamatic cameras', 'yes', 'Minolta 16 series', '24 to 25', 'Kodak', 'yes', '126 film', 'it was miniaturised', 'no', 'in strips', 'yes', 'yes', 'film type', 'no', '666 mm'], 'answers_start': [0, 9, 367, 63, 1183, 939, 1056, 1103, 222, 64, 119, 145, 118, 632, 858, 799, 497, 518, 37, 1212], 'answers_end': [36, 37, 397, 98, 1210, 1025, 1082, 1164, 256, 90, 176, 176, 176, 662, 905, 830, 541, 540, 62, 1246]} |
3wt783ctpbhij10s8gks4832kcvcb9 | (CNN) -- Michael Jackson wanted to live forever.
Just a year and a half before his death, I conducted what ended up being the last major interview with the reclusive Jackson in his suite at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City. And his words stopped me.
"Let's face it. Who wants mortality? Everybody wants immortality," he told me that warm September afternoon. "You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or music. Like Michelangelo said, 'I know the creator will go but his work survives. That's why to escape death I attempt to bind my soul to my work.' That's how I feel. I give my all at work. 'Cause I want it to just live."
Most of us remember where we were when we heard that he was dead.
I was mowing the lawn at my house outside Chicago when I got the first call.
In fact, I got several calls and texts with the bulletin -- first from TMZ and then from the Los Angeles Times -- that he had died. But it wasn't until I heard CNN's Wolf Blitzer announce it at 6:28 p.m. ET that I finally believed it.
Michael Jackson was dead.
Sure, I was shocked when I heard the news that the King of Pop had left the world. But, in a way, I was not all that surprised. Jackson, even as troubled as he was, had given his all to the world during his 50 years on the planet. And now he was in the hands of history. | ['Who died?', 'What was he known as?', 'How old was he at the time?', 'Where was the last interview with him?', 'Where in NYC?', 'Who announced his death on CNN?', 'At what time did he talk about it?', 'In the evening or in the morning?', 'Was the author surprised?', 'Where was the author when he first found out?'] | {'answers': ['Michael Jackson', 'he wanted to live forever', '50', 'New York City.', 'the Carlyle Hotel', 'Wolf Blitzer', '628', 'evening', 'yes', 'mowing the lawn'], 'answers_start': [9, 9, 1273, 213, 191, 954, 968, 934, 51, 724], 'answers_end': [45, 46, 1277, 228, 210, 1037, 1037, 1038, 252, 800]} |
345lhzdedxs920dffeqmgvrw4z9u3p | In England, a civil parish (CP) is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. It is an administrative parish, in contrast to an ecclesiastical parish.
A civil parish can range in size from a large town with a population of about 80,000 to a single village with fewer than a hundred inhabitants. In a limited number of cases a parish might include a whole city where city status has been granted by the Monarch. Reflecting this diverse nature, a civil parish may be known as a town, village, neighbourhood or community by resolution of its parish council. Approximately 35% of the English population live in a civil parish. As of 31 December 2015 there were 10,449 parishes in England.
On 1 April 2014, Queen's Park became the first civil parish in Greater London. Before 2008 their creation was not permitted within a London borough.
The division of land into ancient parishes was linked to the manorial system: parishes and manors often covered the same area and had the same boundaries. The manor was the principal unit of local administration and justice in the early rural economy. Later the church replaced the manor court as the rural administrative centre, and levied a local tax on produce known as a tithe. In the medieval period, responsibilities such as relief of the poor passed increasingly from the Lord of the Manor to the parish's rector, who in practice would delegate tasks among his vestry or the (often well-endowed) monasteries. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the power to levy a rate to fund relief of the poor was conferred on the parish authorities by the Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601. Both before and after this optional social change, local (vestry-administered) charities are well-documented. | ['How many parishes were there in England in 2015?', 'What is a civil parish?', 'What kind of territorial designation is it?', 'About what percentage of English live in a civil parish?', 'What was the first civil parish in Greater London?', 'On what date?', 'What was the dividing up of land into ancient parishes linked to?', 'What was a manor?', 'What later replaced it?', "What's the range in size of a civil parish?", 'Can parishes include whole cities?', "What wasn't permitted before 2008?", 'In medieval times, where did responsibilities pass?', 'What was the Act for the Relief of the Poor?', 'In what year?', 'Did parishes and manors sometimes cover the same places?', 'What was the main unit of local administration and justice in early rural economy?', 'What was a tithe?', 'Who delegated tasks to his vestry?'] | {'answers': ['10,449', 'a town, village, neighbourhood or community', 'the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties', 'Approximately 35', "Queen's Park", '1 April 2014', 'the manorial system', 'the principal unit of local administration and justice in the early rural economy', 'the church', 'about 80,000 to fewer than a hundred inhabitants', 'Yes', 'creation of civil parishes were not permitted within a London borough.', "to the parish's rector", 'the power to levy a rate to fund relief of the poor', '1601', 'Yes', 'The manor', 'a local tax on produce', "the parish's rector"], 'answers_start': [730, 550, 11, 662, 810, 794, 945, 1100, 1196, 258, 402, 873, 1327, 1603, 1702, 1023, 1100, 1286, 1445], 'answers_end': [792, 624, 134, 729, 871, 871, 1021, 1195, 1238, 400, 466, 943, 1464, 1737, 1737, 1099, 1196, 1325, 1520]} |
36zn444ytrytfyb14vl0lv1w5wnoid | CHAPTER III
IN THE LOW COUNTRY
Master Lirriper had stood apart while the boys were conversing with Francis Vere.
"What do you think, Master Lirriper?" Geoffrey exclaimed as they joined him. "We have asked Mr. Vere to take us with him as pages to the war in the Low Country, and though he said we were not to be hopeful about his reply, I do think he will take us. We are to go round to Westminster at one o'clock to see him again. What do you think of that?"
"I don't know what to think, Master Geoffrey. It takes me all by surprise, and I don't know how I stand in the matter. You see, your father gave you into my charge, and what could I say to him if I went back empty handed?"
"But, you see, it is with Francis Vere," Geoffrey said. "If it had been with anyone else it would be different. But the Veres are his patrons, and he looks upon the earl, and Mr. Francis and his brothers, almost as he does on us; and, you know, he has already consented to our entering the army some day. Besides, he can't blame you; because, of course, Mr. Vere will write to him himself and say that he has taken us, and so you can't be blamed in the matter. My father would know well enough that you could not withstand the wishes of one of the Veres, who are lords of Hedingham and all the country round." | ['How did the Master feel about he news?', 'What was his name?', 'Who was talking to the lads apart from the Master?', "What's his first name?", 'Where would they go?', 'For what?', 'What would be their role there?'] | {'answers': ['surprise', 'Geoffrey.', 'Mr. Vere', 'Francis', 'Low Country', 'as pages', 'pages'], 'answers_start': [512, 496, 211, 103, 211, 211, 242], 'answers_end': [540, 512, 249, 115, 278, 248, 248]} |
3sbehtycwn359cf3aiuynmzyj5vyi5 | (CNN) -- Manchester City have completed a sensational transfer deadline-day swoop for Brazilian forward Robinho in an estimated £32.5 million ($58 million) deal with Real Madrid, following the English Premier League club's takeover by an Abu Dhabi group on Monday.
Brazilian Robinho joins Manchester City for a British transfer record of £32.5 million.
Chelsea had been leading the chase for Robinho, who had insisted he wanted to play for the London club.
However, Real had stood firm in insisting that they did not want to sell 24-year-old Robinho and refused numerous Chelsea offers in recent weeks, putting an end to that deal.
But City -- with new financial clout provided by their Middle East-based owners -- met the valuation placed on Robinho by the Spanish giants, breaking the British transfer record.
Robinho told City's Web site: "I knew that Manchester City is a very big club, there's a great team there already and this is an exciting project.
"I liked the project, and when City made the offer to Real Madrid, I decided to come here. I liked the plans that Manchester City have and I want to succeed with them."
Robinho confirmed the presence of his international team-mates Jo and Elano at City was a factor in his decision to sign, even though Chelsea appeared a more likely destination at the start of transfer deadline day.
Hughes, who had a playing spell in Spain with Barcelona, has spoken to his new signing and Robinho is keen to work with the former Blackburn and Wales manager. | ['How much was the trade worth?', 'Who got Robinho?', 'What position does Robinho play?', 'Who did Manchester get him from?', 'Did anyone else try to get Robinho?', 'Who?', 'Had they put in offers for him?', 'Is Robinho happy about the trade?', 'How old is he?', 'What web site interviewed Robinho?', 'Does he think Manchester has a good team already?'] | {'answers': ['estimated £32.5 million ($58 million)', 'Manchester City', 'forward', 'Real Madrid', 'yes', 'Chelsea', 'yes', 'yes', '24', "Manchester City's", 'yes'], 'answers_start': [104, 267, 86, 156, 357, 357, 576, 972, 536, 822, 901], 'answers_end': [177, 306, 111, 177, 403, 403, 591, 1060, 555, 850, 935]} |
3r5f3lqfv2kfao0b4z9mlq4m1z2zoe | When elephants retire, many head for the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn. They arrive one by one, but they tend to live out their lives two-by-two. "Every elephant that comes here searches out someone that she then spends most all of her time with," says sanctuary co-founder Carol Buckley. It's likely having a best girlfriend, Buckley says - "Somebody they can relate to, they have something in common with."
Debbie has Ronnie. Misty can't live without Dulary. _ But perhaps the closest friends of all are Tarra and Bella. Tarra, an 8,700 pound Asian elephant; Bella, a stray dog, are closest friends.
Bella is one of more than a dozen stray dogs that have found a home at the sanctuary. Most want nothing to do with the elephants and vice versa. But not this odd couple. "Bella knows she's not an elephant. Tarra knows she's not a dog," Buckley adds. "But that's not a problem for them." "When it's time to eat they both eat together. They drink together. They sleep together. They play together," Buckley says.
Tarra and Bella have been close for years -- but no one really knew how close they were until recently. A few months ago Bella suffered a spinal cord injury. She couldn't move her legs, couldn't even wag her tail. For three weeks the dog lay motionless up in the sanctuary office. And for three weeks the elephant held vigil: 2,700 acres to roam free, and Tarra just stood in the corner, beside a gate, right outside that sanctuary office. "She just stood outside the balcony - just stood there and waited," says Buckley. "She was concerned about her friend." Then one day, sanctuary co-founder Scott Blais carried Bella onto the balcony so she and Tarra could at least see each other.
"Bella's tail started wagging. And we had no choice but to bring Bella down to see Tarra," Blais says.
They visited like that every day until Bella could walk. Today, their love -- and trust -- is stronger than ever. Bella even lets Tarra pet her tummy - with the bottom of her enormous foot. They harbor no fears, no secrets, no prejudices. Just two living creatures who somehow managed to look past their immense differences.
Take a good look at this couple, human beings. Take a good look at the world. If they can do it -- what's our excuse? | ['How much does Tarra weigh?', 'Does Tarra think she is a dog?', 'Who is she friends with?', 'Is Bella an elephant?', 'What is she?', 'What do Bella and Tarra do together?', 'What injury did Bella get?', 'Could she move her tail and legs?', 'How long was she like that?', 'What did Tarra do during those weeks?', 'Could Tarra see Bella then?', 'Then what happened?', 'What happened to Bella then?', 'And later what else happened?', 'Where did Tarra wait for Bella?', 'What city was it in?', 'Are there any other dogs there?', 'How many?', 'Are most of them interest in elephants?', 'How long have Bella and Tarra been friends?'] | {'answers': ['8,700 pounds', 'no', 'Bella', 'no', 'a stray dog', 'eat, drink ,sleep, play', 'a spinal cord injury', 'no', 'For three weeks', 'held vigil', 'no', 'Scott Blais carried Bella onto the balcony', "Bella's tail started wagging.", 'Bella could walk.', 'right outside that sanctuary office', 'Hohenwald, Tenn', 'yes', 'more than a dozen', 'no', 'for years'], 'answers_start': [533, 819, 533, 571, 570, 902, 1131, 1184, 1241, 1308, 1587, 1587, 1716, 1820, 1383, 0, 614, 614, 699, 1027], 'answers_end': [612, 863, 612, 612, 612, 1025, 1184, 1240, 1307, 1467, 1714, 1714, 1745, 1877, 1465, 78, 698, 699, 758, 1069]} |
33ooo72ivhlifnu982bd429orwhtct | CHAPTER LVII.
_Message of the Pasha_
THE sudden apparition of Eva at Gindarics, and the scene of painful mystery by which it was followed, had plunged Tancred into the greatest anxiety and affliction. It was in vain that, the moment they had quitted the presence of Astarte, he appealed to Fakredeen for some explanation of what had occurred, and for some counsel as to the course they should immediately pursue to assist one in whose fate they were both so deeply interested. The Emir, for the first time since their acquaintance, seemed entirely to have lost himself. He looked perplexed, almost stunned; his language was incoherent, his gestures those of despair. Tancred, while he at once ascribed all this confused demeanour to the shock which he had himself shared at finding the daughter of Besso a captive, and a captive under circumstances of doubt and difficulty, could not reconcile such distraction, such an absence of all resources and presence of mind, with the exuberant means and the prompt expedients which in general were the characteristics of his companion, under circumstances the most difficult and unforeseen.
When they had reached their apartments, Fakredeen threw himself upon the divan and moaned, and, suddenly starting from the couch, paced the chamber with agitated step, wringing his hands. All that Tan-cred could extract from him was an exclamation of despair, an imprecation on his own head, and an expression of fear and horror at Eva having fallen into the hands of pagans and idolaters.
It was in vain also that Tancred endeavoured to communicate with Keferinis. The minister was invisible, not to be found, and the night closed in, when Tancred, after fruitless counsels with Baroni, and many united but vain efforts to open some communication with Eva, delivered himself not to repose, but to a distracted reverie over the present harassing and critical affairs. | ['Who fell into the hands of pagans?', 'And who else?', 'Who tried to communicate with Keferinis?', "Who couldn't be found?", 'Who threw himself on the divan?', 'Then what did he do?', 'What was the apparition of?', 'What followed it?', 'How did they make Tancred feel?', 'Who was asked for an explanation?', 'And what else was he asked for?', 'About what?'] | {'answers': ['Eva', 'idolaters', 'Tancred', 'the minister', 'Fakredeen', 'paced', 'Eva at Gindarics', 'the scene of painful mystery', 'feelings of anxiety and affliction', 'Fakredeen', 'some counsel', 'the course they should immediately pursue to assist one in whose fate they were both so deeply interested'], 'answers_start': [1471, 1471, 1531, 1607, 1139, 1179, 41, 84, 41, 278, 279, 367], 'answers_end': [1513, 1528, 1606, 1651, 1217, 1286, 82, 142, 203, 345, 368, 479]} |
3ias3u3i0fg5lj8qbnvmsvug8k2b2h | Rose sat behind Kate in the classroom. They got on well with each other. But one day, Rose didn't see her school IC card at lunch time. She asked her classmates and looked for it everywhere. But she couldn't find it. Later, one girl said that she saw Kate take a card from Rose's desk. Hearing this, Rose got very angry. When she met Kate in the afternoon, Rose shouted, "You have stolen my card!" Hearing this, Kate began to cry, "No, no, I didn't steal it! I only took it by mistake." But Rose didn't think so and she began to say bad words to Kate. Just then a teacher came up and asked what had happened. Kate told the whole story. She said a middle school classmate of hers came to see her in the morning. She was so excited that she took the card on the desk and rushed out. Then they went for lunch happily. "I used the card, but I had thought it was mine. I didn't know it was Rose's until she looked for it. I was too afraid to explain it to her. So I decided to put the card back with some money secretly. I am sorry, Rose." Kate said in a low voice. "It's just a misunderstanding !" said the teacher. Tears came into Rose's eyes. Then she said, "I was very sorry, Kate! I hope we are still good friends." Kate smiled when she heard the words. Hand in hand, they walked toward the classroom building. | ['What kind of card did Rose not see?', 'At what time did this occur?', 'Did someone tell her that her card was taken?', 'Who did she say took the card?', "What was Rose's reaction to this information?", 'Did Kate end up using the card?', 'What did she leave with the card when she returned it?', 'Who was seated behind Rose in class?', 'Did they get along?', 'What did Rose yell at Kate that afternoon?', "Upon hearing this, what was Kate's response?", 'Was she crying at this time?', "At first, did Rose believe Kate's explanation?", 'What sort of classmate had come to visit Kate earlier?', 'Did she and the classmate then leave to go eat?', "In the end, did Rose accept Kate's story?", 'Was Kate bored when her classmate came to see her?', 'What emotion did she feel?', "Why didn't Kate initially explain what happened with the card to Rose?", 'Did Rose ask her classmates for help in locating the card?'] | {'answers': ['IC card', 'lunch time', 'yes', 'Kate', 'angry.', 'yes', 'some money secretly', 'Kate', 'yes', '"You have stolen my card!', '"No, no, I didn\'t steal it! I only took it by mistake."', 'yes', 'no', 'middle school', 'yes', 'yes', 'No', 'excited', 'afraid', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [112, 124, 217, 251, 314, 815, 995, 16, 39, 371, 431, 398, 486, 647, 781, 1141, 711, 722, 927, 136], 'answers_end': [120, 134, 286, 255, 320, 916, 1014, 20, 71, 396, 487, 429, 550, 660, 814, 1181, 779, 729, 933, 190]} |
3ql2ofsm96ikkappb6p1v33w24lncs | Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈla] or [kataˈla]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and Valencia (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories. | ['What is Catalan?', 'Where is Catalonia?', 'It is tough to learn?', 'Is it common?', 'Where did it start?', 'Is it similar to other languages?'] | {'answers': ['a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia', 'in northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France', 'unknown', 'yes', 'Catalonia', 'unknown'], 'answers_start': [0, 66, -1, 791, 0, -1], 'answers_end': [118, 178, -1, 933, 117, -1]} |
3snlul3wo4nqi434lkumchld366lu5 | Do you want to know something about children in Africa? What to they do for fun every day? Find out here: Education School is expensive for many African children. Lots of families can't afford school uniforms or exercise books even though they don't have to pay for school. For those lucky enough to go to school , they have a lot to learn. Some take two language classes: English or French, and their first language. There is also math, science, history, social studies and geography. _ take up much of children's time after school. They have to get water and firewood for the family every day. Also there's cleaning , washing and helping Mum with the meal. Daily fun It's not all work and no play. Sports are very popular. Children can make goals with twigs ( )and their own footballs with plastic and bits of string ( ). They play in the country and the streets of old towns. There're many football teams for teenagers in Africa. Internet It's really expensive to get on the Internet. To surf the net for 20 hours costs over 600yuan. This is more than the average monthly pay per person. Egypt and South Africa are the top two users of the Internet in Africa. All of the capital cities there can get on the Internet. Some schools offer computer lessons but few students can enjoy computer fun at home. | ['it school accessible for them', 'why', 'are the options limited', 'is that all they do'] | {'answers': ['Yes', "they don't have to pay for school", 'Yes', 'No'], 'answers_start': [239, 239, 106, 534], 'answers_end': [272, 272, 162, 596]} |
3v5q80fxixr0io4dwuggacw4l2q324 | (CNN) -- Timo Glock faces an uncertain future in Formula One after parting company with Marussia ahead of the new season.
The 30-year-old German, who was expected to partner rookie Max Chilton for the 2013 campaign, had been with the team since it began as Virgin back in 2010.
Glock made his debut for Jordan in 2004 before going on to spend two years at Toyota.
But Marussia are in need of a driver who can attract sponsorship to the team, a key factor in the decision to cut ties.
Domenicali: Ferrari 'right' to retain Massa
"I have had three excellent years with the Marussia F1 Team, during which I had the chance to actively participate in building and developing the team in its endeavours to succeed within the Formula 1 World Championship," Glock said in a statement.
"I would like to wish the team good luck in navigating this next period and thank everyone for the great times we shared and the support I have received.
"Although it is not the path I expected to be taking, I am in fact very excited about what the future holds in terms of my own career and I hope to comment on that very soon."
Team principal John Booth revealed that there were financial factors which led to Glock's departure following the team's failure to hang on to 10th place in the constructors' championship.
"Timo is a fantastic driver and he has been a very popular member of the team," he told reporters. | ['Whose future is uncertain?', 'Where exactly?', 'Why?', 'When?', 'How long he has been with the team?', 'When did he start for Jordan?', 'After that did he go elsewhere?', 'Where?', 'After how long?', 'How old is he?', 'Who was his suppoesd partner?', 'When?', 'What kind of driver Marussia needs?', 'Did he had good years with the team?', 'Did he help build the team?', 'What he want to comment about later?', 'Who is the head of the team?'] | {'answers': ['Timo Glock', 'in Formula One', 'He parted company with Marussia', 'ahead of the new season', '2 years', '2004', 'yes', 'Toyota', 'two years', '30', 'Max Chilton', '2013', 'one who can attract sponsorship', 'Ye', 'Yes', 'financial factors', 'John Booth'], 'answers_start': [9, 45, 67, 98, 218, 316, 321, 360, 346, 127, 182, 202, 407, 539, 612, 1173, 1138], 'answers_end': [19, 60, 96, 120, 278, 321, 366, 366, 357, 130, 194, 207, 434, 597, 688, 1191, 1148]} |
3zwfc4w1uu7c2k1rvfwjctt9zborfa | (CNN) -- Five years. Sixty-two episodes. One big, presumably bloody finale.
Hundreds of possible ways it could end.
With "Breaking Bad" careening toward a climax Sunday night, fans of the AMC show -- newly anointed by Emmy voters as the best drama on TV -- are feverishly doing the plot-resolution math. The Internet is buzzing with potential clues, predictions and crazy theories as viewers debate the most fitting way to send teacher-turned-drug-lord Walter White into the Albuquerque sunset.
Which characters will survive? Will Walt die, and how? Who is the vial of ricin, and the machine gun in his trunk, meant for? What will become of wife Skyler, son Walt Jr., sister-in-law Marie and -- most pressing of all -- Jesse, his tormented ex-partner in crime?
Cryptic comments by Vince Gilligan, the show's creator, have only stoked the speculation.
"We worked long and hard to ensure that ... the very last episode — would satisfy an audience," he told Entertainment Weekly. "I am guardedly optimistic that we have achieved just that. And furthermore, trying to be as coy as possible, trying to give away as little as possible, I feel like this ending represents on some level, however small, something of a victory for Walter White.
"Read into that what you will. And try to be as open-minded as possible when you watch this episode, because it may not indeed feel like a victory. Or maybe it will."
Got that?
Only Gilligan, his actors and crew know for sure how the show will end its run. But that hasn't stopped the rest of us from trying to guess. Here are five theories: | ['How many years was Breaking Bad?', 'How many episodes?', 'What night does it come on?', 'How many ways could it end?', 'Who created it?', 'Who interviewed him?', 'Do they want to keep the ending secret?', 'Who will it make a victory for?', 'Who knows how it will end?', 'How many theories are there?', 'Will the ending be violent?'] | {'answers': ['Five', '62', 'Sunday', 'Hundreds', 'Vince Gilligan', 'Entertainment Weekly.', 'yes', 'you', 'Gilligan, his actors and crew', 'Five', "don't know"], 'answers_start': [9, 9, 120, 78, 769, 861, 1049, 1250, 1431, 1570, 1431], 'answers_end': [76, 76, 179, 118, 859, 988, 1140, 1417, 1511, 1595, 1510]} |
3qavnhz3em463vp6ffdvcg9jx6val6 | John was born to Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine on 24 December 1166. Henry had inherited significant territories along the Atlantic seaboard—Anjou, Normandy and England—and expanded his empire by conquering Brittany. Henry married the powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine, who reigned over the Duchy of Aquitaine and had a tenuous claim to Toulouse and Auvergne in southern France, in addition to being the former wife of Louis VII of France. The result was the Angevin Empire, named after Henry's paternal title as Count of Anjou and, more specifically, its seat in Angers.[nb 2] The Empire, however, was inherently fragile: although all the lands owed allegiance to Henry, the disparate parts each had their own histories, traditions and governance structures. As one moved south through Anjou and Aquitaine, the extent of Henry's power in the provinces diminished considerably, scarcely resembling the modern concept of an empire at all. Some of the traditional ties between parts of the empire such as Normandy and England were slowly dissolving over time. It was unclear what would happen to the empire on Henry's death. Although the custom of primogeniture, under which an eldest son would inherit all his father's lands, was slowly becoming more widespread across Europe, it was less popular amongst the Norman kings of England. Most believed that Henry would divide the empire, giving each son a substantial portion, and hoping that his children would continue to work together as allies after his death. To complicate matters, much of the Angevin empire was held by Henry only as a vassal of the King of France of the rival line of the House of Capet. Henry had often allied himself with the Holy Roman Emperor against France, making the feudal relationship even more challenging. | ["Who is John's mom?", 'And his dad?', 'What country was he from?', 'When was he born?', 'What oceanic regions did Henry have?', 'How many is that?', 'What region did he add to that?', 'How?', 'Where did his mom reign?', 'Did she have a strong claim to Toulouse?', 'Who was her previous husband?', 'Where was he from?', 'What was created when Henry and Eleanor wed?', 'Was Henry the Duke of Anjou?', 'What was he?', 'How did he get that title?', 'Was the empire strong?', 'Why not?'] | {'answers': ['Eleanor of Aquitaine', 'Henry II', 'England', 'Dec 24 1166', 'Anjou, Normandy and England', 'Three', 'Brittany', 'by conquering it', 'the Duchy of Aquitaine', 'it was tenuous', 'Louis VII', 'France.', 'the Angevin Empire', 'no', 'Count of Anjou', 'its his paternal title', 'no', 'each part had a different history'], 'answers_start': [9, 9, 0, 62, 155, 155, 207, 207, 279, 324, 409, 428, 450, 497, 522, 485, 588, 696], 'answers_end': [61, 25, 37, 81, 182, 182, 229, 229, 319, 355, 448, 449, 483, 537, 537, 519, 631, 731]} |
3tok3khvjtiwqeu5l4h3u6bnr7z7o6 | Annie Oakley was born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. Her family was very poor. She decided to help her family even when she was very young, so she learned to use a gun, and began hunting animals for food. She could shoot them without losing the important parts of the meat.
Soon her shooting ability became well known. When she was sixteen, she was invited to a competition with a famous marksman , Frank Butler. Annie surprised everyone by winning the competition. Later that year she and Frank married.
In 1882, Annie Oakley and Frank Butler started putting on shows together. Frank Butler was the star of the show and she was his assistant. The famous Native American leader, Sitting Bull, thought so highly of her shooting ability that he called her "Little Sure Shot". Later Annie Oakley became the star of the show and Frank Butler was her assistant. Posters for the show called her the "Champion Markswoman".
During World War One, Annie Oakley wanted to train a group of women volunteers for the army, but the United States did not accept it. She gave American soldiers shooting lessons, and traveled across the country visiting many training camps. She gave shooting performances and raised money to support the American soldiers.
Annie Oakley died on November 3, 1926. Eighteen days later, Frank Butler died too. | ['Is Annie Oakley still alive?', 'When did she die?', 'Did she outlive her partner?', 'What was her partners name?', 'When did he pass?', 'When did they start working with each other?', 'Who was the main character in their program initially?', 'Did that change?', 'What was her nickname?', 'Where did that name come from?', 'Did she have another nickname?', 'What was that?', 'Who nicknamed her that?', 'Was she rich as a child?', 'Where did she 1st live?', 'Did she hunt?', 'Was she single?', 'Who did she marry?', 'How did they meet?', 'Did her dad approve of the marriage?'] | {'answers': ['no', 'November 3, 1926', 'no', 'Frank Butler', 'Eighteen days after she died', 'In 1882', 'Frank Butler', 'yes', 'the "Champion Markswoman"', 'her shooting ability', 'yes', '"Little Sure Shot"', 'Sitting Bull', 'no', 'Darke County, Ohio', 'yes', 'no', 'Frank Butler', 'a shooting competition', 'unknown'], 'answers_start': [1247, 1247, 1286, 401, 1286, 509, 583, 778, 861, 697, 744, 744, 683, 53, 0, 169, 468, 468, 343, -1], 'answers_end': [1264, 1284, 1329, 413, 1329, 581, 620, 824, 921, 738, 776, 777, 776, 78, 51, 204, 508, 508, 414, -1]} |
3e4gguz1t8r6emckh08fryd6vng2kf | James was getting ready for the weekend. He needed to go to the store. He needed to get food for his friend's birthday party. James made a list of things to get. He wrote down strawberries, apples, cupcakes, juice, and bananas. James was going to make a fruit salad. James went to the store. He bought the apples, cupcakes, and bananas that were on the shopping list. He forgot to buy the juice. James also bought a toy mouse for a present for his friend. James was very excited for the party this weekend.
The day of the party finally arrived. James made the fruit salad with the apples, strawberries, and bananas he bought. He set out the cupcakes and fruit salad on the table. He placed the toy mouse in shiny paper and set it on the table too. He checked his watch. It was almost time for the party. The birthday guests would be there soon.
Once the guests came they ate cupcakes and fruit salad. Everyone liked the food. James gave his friend the present. His friend really liked the toy mouse. James was very happy because his friend had a great birthday. | ['Who was getting ready for the weekend?', 'where did he need to go?', 'What did he need to get?', 'Did he make a list of things he needed to get?', 'What was on the list?', 'What was he going to make?', 'What did he forget to buy?', 'What kind of toy did he buy?', 'What did he set out with the fruit salad on the table?', 'What did he place in shiny paper?'] | {'answers': ['James', 'the store', "food for his friend's birthday party", 'yes', 'strawberries, apples, cupcakes, juice, and bananas', 'fruit salad.', 'juice', 'a toy mouse', 'cupcakes', 'the toy mouse'], 'answers_start': [0, 41, 70, 126, 162, 227, 367, 396, 628, 682], 'answers_end': [40, 70, 125, 162, 227, 266, 395, 455, 681, 720]} |
3amywka6ybmdmeg02ucbosbrvp06oc | Los Angeles (CNN) -- You could call it "the year of the rear" at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, although last year's chief twerker chose a higher path.
While Nicki Minaj and her collaborators paid tribute to their assets with song and dance, Miley Cyrus stood offstage and watched as a young homeless man accepted her best music video award.
These might have been the most memorable moments of the night if not for Beyonce and her daughter, Blue Ivy, stealing the show.
Here are four highlights from the show at the Forum in Inglewood, California, on Sunday night.
1. Beyonce and Blue Ivy steal the show. Beyonce's 2-year-old daughter gave her own performance while sitting in her father's lap and watching her mother onstage Sunday. Blue Ivy's facial expressions and hand gestures suggested she inherited the music gene.
Blue Ivy applauded her mommy as daddy Jay Z carried her onstage at the end of Beyonce's 16-minute performance. Jay Z handed his wife the MTV Michael Jackson Vanguard Award while declaring that she was "the greatest living entertainer." Blue Ivy is heard saying "Mommy!"
"I'm so full," Beyonce said, as the audience began chanting. "I have nothing to say, but I'm filled with so much gratitude."
The family hug that followed could be one of the most loving and memorable moments ever on the VMA stage.
Even the stars were struck by Beyonce's daughter. Katy Perry tweeted: "OMG BLUE IVY JUST PERSONALLY WAVED AT ME. MY LIFE IS OVER."
2. Miley Cyrus is the adult in the room. A year after she set tongues wagging with a provocative dance with a teddy bear, Cyrus was more like Mother Teresa when her "Wrecking Ball" video was named as the best of 2014. She stopped short of the stage, instead sending a young man who identified himself as Jesse to accept the moon man trophy on "behalf of the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youths in the United States who are starving, lost and scared for their lives right now." | ['what did Miley Cyrus do ?', 'who accepted her award ?', 'for what ?', 'what year was this ?', 'was it BET ?', 'who stole the show ?', 'and who else ?', 'who is blue ?', 'when was the show ?', 'afternoon ?', 'where was it held ?', 'in what city ?', 'who is blues daddy ?'] | {'answers': ['stood offstage', 'young homeless man', 'best music video', '2014', 'MTV', 'Beyonce', 'Blue Iv', 'her daughter', 'Sunday', 'no', 'the Forum', 'Inglewood', 'Jay Z'], 'answers_start': [258, 290, 322, 69, 74, 421, 447, 433, 559, 566, 520, 533, 872], 'answers_end': [272, 309, 338, 73, 78, 428, 454, 445, 565, 571, 529, 542, 878]} |
3pmby0ye273zv8lvaw6wd28cwex9c5 | CHAPTER XIX
OF THE CHANGE IN THOMAS
To find ways of making David propose to Elspeth, of making Elspeth willing to exchange her brother for David--they were heavy tasks, but Tommy yoked himself to them gallantly and tugged like an Arab steed in the plough. It should be almost as pleasant to us as to him to think that love was what made him do it, for he was sure he loved Grizel at last, and that the one longing of his heart was to marry her; the one marvel to him was that he had ever longed ardently for anything else. Well, as you know, she longed for it also, but she was firm in her resolve that until Elspeth was engaged Tommy should be a single man. She even made him promise not to kiss her again so long as their love had to be kept secret. "It will be so sweet to wait," she said bravely. As we shall see presently, his efforts to put Elspeth into the hands of David were apparently of no avail, but though this would have embittered many men, it drew only to the surface some of Tommy's noblest attributes; as he suffered in silence he became gentler, more considerate, and acquired a new command over himself. To conquer self for her sake (this is in the "Letters to a Young Man") is the highest tribute a man can pay to a woman; it is the only real greatness, and Tommy had done it now. I could give you a score of proofs. Let us take his treatment of Aaron Latta. | ['Who did Tommy wish to marry?', 'was she the only girl he had ever longed for?', 'would she marry him immediately?', 'who had to marry first?', 'who was supposed to propose to her?', 'was tommy trying to make that happen?', 'besides not marry, what else would Grizel not allow?', 'did people know he loved her?', 'did she want to be his wife?', 'Did David propose to Elspeth?', 'Was Tommy salty about that?', 'how did he suffer?', 'did he act in bad ways?', 'what did he become?', 'was he more in control of himself?', 'is this a compliment to the female?', 'does the author have proof of this?', 'To whom did Tommy yoke himself?', 'what did he tug like?', 'and what made him do it?'] | {'answers': ['Grizel', 'No', 'No', 'Elspeth', 'David', 'Yes', 'For him to kiss her', 'No', 'Yes', 'No', 'No', 'in silence', 'No', 'gentler and more considerate', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Heavy tasks', 'an Arab steed in the plough', 'love'], 'answers_start': [401, 471, 602, 607, 40, 805, 663, 912, 527, 805, 959, 1027, 1050, 1049, 1091, 1199, 1305, 173, 214, 317], 'answers_end': [447, 525, 661, 632, 87, 882, 710, 958, 568, 910, 1022, 1049, 1126, 1085, 1126, 1246, 1340, 204, 258, 350]} |
3ru7gd8vpot0ucqyo7stexc9nlyspa | He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire and being proclaimed "Genghis Khan", he started the Mongol invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of Eurasia. These included raids or invasions of the Qara Khitai, Caucasus, Khwarezmid Empire, Western Xia and Jin dynasties. These campaigns were often accompanied by wholesale massacres of the civilian populations – especially in the Khwarezmian and Xia controlled lands. By the end of his life, the Mongol Empire occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia and China.
Before Genghis Khan died, he assigned Ögedei Khan as his successor and split his empire into khanates among his sons and grandsons. He died in 1227 after defeating the Western Xia. He was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia at an unknown location. His descendants extended the Mongol Empire across most of Eurasia by conquering or creating vassal states out of all of modern-day China, Korea, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and substantial portions of modern Eastern Europe, Russia, and Southwest Asia. Many of these invasions repeated the earlier large-scale slaughters of local populations. As a result, Genghis Khan and his empire have a fearsome reputation in local histories. | ['Who founded the Mongol Empire?', 'Who did he assign to take over after he died?', 'How did Khan come to power?', 'Where did the Mongols raid?', 'Were they nice to the civilians?', 'When did the founder of the Mongol Empire pass away?', 'After doing what?', 'Who did he defeat shortly before dying?', 'Where was he laid to rest?', "What is the Mongol's reputation in history?"] | {'answers': ['Genghis Khan', 'Ögedei Khan', 'by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia', 'the Qara Khitai, Caucasus, Khwarezmid Empire, Western Xia and Jin dynasties', 'no', 'in 1227', 'after assigning Ögedei Khan as his successor and splitting his empire into khanates among his sons and grandsons', 'the Western Xia', 'in an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia at an unknown location', 'they had a fearsome reputation'], 'answers_start': [129, 628, 16, 262, 392, 729, 619, 754, 785, 1240], 'answers_end': [141, 639, 72, 338, 430, 737, 720, 769, 850, 1261]} |
3pjuzcgdj6gxj5vitkqrbgct7x598d | CHAPTER XLV.
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.
Granville helped him on his arm into the judge's room amid profound silence. All the court was deeply stirred. A few personal friends hurried after him eagerly. Among them were the Warings, and Mrs. Clifford, and Elma.
The judge staggered to a seat, and held Granville's hand long and silently in his. Then his eye caught Elma's. He turned to her gratefully. "Thank you, young lady," he said, in a very thick voice. "You were extremely good. I forget your name. But you helped me greatly."
There was such a pathetic ring in those significant words, "I forget your name," that every eye about stood dimmed with moisture. Remorse had clearly blotted out all else now from Sir Gilbert Gildersleeve's powerful brain save the solitary memory of his great wrong-doing.
"Something's upon his mind still," Elma cried, looking hard at him. "He's dying! he's dying! But he wants to say something else before he dies, I'm certain. ... Mr. Kelmscott, it's to you. Oh, Cyril, stand back! Mother, leave them alone! I'm sure from his eye he wants to say something to Mr. Kelmscott."
They all fell back reverently. They stood in the presence of death and of a mighty sorrow. Sir Gilbert still held Granville's hand fast bound in his own. "It'll kill her," he muttered. "It'll kill her! I'm sure it'll kill her! She'll never get over the thought that her father was--was the cause of Montague Nevitt's death. And you'll never care to marry a girl of whom people will say, either justly or unjustly, 'She's a murderers daughter'.... And that will kill her, too. For, Kelmscott, she loved you!" | ['Who is the main person in this story?'] | {'answers': ['Granville'], 'answers_start': [1238], 'answers_end': [1247]} |
3glb5jmzfxvofaehoy7hppchm5wgdo | CHAPTER III.
VALVE MAKING.
One morning, when Rollo awaked, he heard a sharp clicking against the window.
"Nathan," said he, "Nathan, I believe there is a snow-storm."
But Nathan was too sleepy to hear or understand.
Rollo looked up, but there was a curtain against the window, and he could not see very well. He listened. He heard a low, moaning sound made by the wind, and a continuance of the sharp clicking which he had heard at first.
When he had got up, and dressed himself, he found that there was a violent snow-storm. At first he was glad of it, for he liked snow-storms. But then, pretty soon, he was sorry, for it had been winter a long time, and he was impatient for the spring.
After breakfast, he and Nathan read and studied for two hours, under their mother's direction. When they were released from these duties, Rollo proposed to Nathan that they should go out into the shed, and see how the storm came on. There was a large door in the shed, opening towards the street, where they could stand, protected from the wind, and see the drifts of snow.
They accordingly put on their caps, and went. They found that the snow was pretty deep. It was heaped up upon the fence and against the windows; and there was a curious-shaped drift, with the top curled over in a singular manner, running along from the corner of the shed towards the garden gate.
"Ah," says Rollo, "when it clears up, I mean to go and wade through it." | ['Did the pair go outside?', 'what did they wear to do this?', 'who woke first?', 'what told his there was a snow-storm?', 'did they eat a meal?', 'what?', 'when he got up, could Rollo see out?', 'why?', 'how many sounds could he hear?', 'name one'] | {'answers': ['yes', 'their caps', 'Rollo', 'Rollo', 'yes', 'breakfast', 'no', 'there was a curtain against the window', 'two', 'moaning sound made by the wind'], 'answers_start': [1080, 1104, 49, 49, 710, 710, 242, 247, 226, 347], 'answers_end': [1126, 1114, 55, 55, 719, 719, 318, 285, 449, 378]} |
3pdjhanyk5g3uxudyhhl4jeqkfzh61 | Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts. Ultratop is a non-profit organization, created on the initiative of the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA), the Belgian member organization of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Two parallel set of charts are concurrently produced and published, one on behalf of Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flanders region, and the other catering to the nation's French-speaking region of Wallonia.
The music charts produced by Ultratop organization are separated along regional-language boundaries, an unusual division that is justified by the cultural differences in Belgium. So it is that the Dutch-speaking Flanders region has one set of charts of record activity there, while the French-speaking Wallonia region has another set to measure popularity in those provinces.
The charts are broadcast on several Belgian radio stations, and on TV stations TMF in Flanders and Plug RTL in Wallonia.
Ultratop creates charts based on record sales of around 500 retail outlets and legal digital downloads. Currently GfK is the market observer of the charts. The chart broadcasts on Radio Contact on Saturdays from 12:00 to 14:00. The combined number of Ultratop chart listeners on the various radio or TV stations exceeds two million every week. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the charts in 2005, a jubilee book was published. It covers all 15,282 singles from 5,882 artists thus far. | ['Ultratop makes charts based on album sales of how many retail outlets and downloads?', 'How many weekly listeners does the company have?', 'What did they celebrate in 2005?', 'What dud they publish as part of that celebration?', 'How many singles did it over?', 'By how many singers?', 'Where is Ultratop?', 'Are they a for-profit business?', 'One chart is for French speaking people from what region?', 'And where is the Dutch speaking area?', 'How does Ultratop separate charts?', 'Is that a common type of division?', 'But is it justified?', 'By what, in Belgium?', 'What is the Flanders TV station?', 'And where is RTL?', 'What time does Radio Contact air on Saturdays?'] | {'answers': ['around 500', 'over two million', 'the 10th anniversary of the charts', 'a jubilee book', '15,282', '5,882', 'Belgium', 'no', 'Wallonia', 'Flanders', 'regional-language boundaries', 'no', 'yes', 'the cultural differences', 'TMF', 'Wallonia', '12:00 to 14:00'], 'answers_start': [1058, 1286, 1402, 1402, 1488, 1489, 0, 146, 843, 754, 557, 657, 657, 685, 1002, 1034, 1238], 'answers_end': [1160, 1400, 1457, 1487, 1517, 1546, 96, 184, 874, 777, 658, 734, 734, 734, 1017, 1054, 1284]} |
320duz38g7m1iwe9yutssn7urg5gjw | Lying in the sun on a rock, the cougar saw Jeb and his son, Tom, before they saw it. Jeb put his bag down quickly and pulled his jacket open with both hands, making himself look big to the cougar. It worked. The cougar hesitated, ready to attack Jeb, but ready to forget the whole thing, too.
Jeb let go of his jacket, grasped Tom and held him across his body, making a cross. Now the cougar's enemy looked even bigger, and it rose up, ready to move away, but unfortunately Tom got scared and struggled free of Jeb.
"Tom, no!" shouted his father.
But Tom broke and ran and that's the last thing you do with a cougar. The second Tom broke free, Jeb threw himself on the cougar, just as it jumped from the rock. They hit each other in mid-air and both fell. The cougar was on Jeb in a flash, forgetting about Tom, which was what Jeb wanted.
Cougars are not as big as most people think and a determined man stands a chance, even with just his fists. As the cougar's claws got into his left shoulder, Jeb swung his fist at its eyes and hit hard. The animal howled and put its head back. Jeb followed up with his other fist. Then out of the corner of his eye, Jeb saw Tom. The boy was running back to help his father.
"Knife, Tom" shouted Jeb.
The boy ran to his father's bag, while Jeb stated shouting as well as hitting, to keep the cougar's attention away from Tom. Tom got the knife and ran over to Jeb. The cougar was moving its head in and out, trying to find a way through the wall Jeb was making out of his arms. Tom swung with the knife, into the cougar's back. It howled horribly and ran off into the mountains.
The whole fight had taken about thirty seconds. | ['Was the animal hurt?', 'How?', 'How long did it take?', 'Who was attacked?', 'why?', 'Where did they collide?', 'And then?', 'Where was Jeb wounded?', 'Which one?', 'What did he swing?', 'Does he have a child?', 'Which gender?', 'And his name?', 'What weapon was used?', 'To where did it flee?', 'Did it make any noise?', 'What kind?', 'Where was it first seen?', 'Was it raining?', 'How many people were there?'] | {'answers': ['Yes.', 'Knifed in the back.', 'Thirty seconds.', 'Jeb.', 'Jeb threw himself on the cougar.', 'In mid-air.', 'They both fell.', 'His shoulder.', 'Left.', 'His fist.', 'Yes.', 'Male.', 'Tom.', 'Knife.', 'Into the mountains.', 'Yes.', 'Howled.', 'On a rock.', 'No.', 'Two.'], 'answers_start': [1528, 1528, 1631, 762, 650, 650, 716, 958, 955, 1005, 521, 521, 520, 1224, 1601, 1577, 1577, 0, 0, 295], 'answers_end': [1577, 1577, 1678, 795, 682, 747, 762, 1004, 1004, 1024, 552, 550, 552, 1249, 1630, 1597, 1596, 26, 17, 333]} |
3npfyt4izc42dgjyfy8tjwf92d9gx7 | At first Kate thought the Romanian girl could not speak and understand English. Nadia would not reply to anything Kate said. Kate was in charge of showing Nadia around on her first day at Buck Minister Grade School. Kate could not figure out why the school had put Nadia in a class where she could not understand what people were saying.
"Why did they do this?" Kate wondered aloud. "I mean, you can't learn if you can't understand the teacher."
Nadia's voice was a whisper (speaking in a very low voice). "I understand English. I will learn." Nadia's English was perfect.
Kate was _ . She couldn't understand why Nadia did not like to speak. Then she realized that moving to a new country probably wasn't the easiest thing to do. There were hundreds of unfamiliar and unusual things to learn - all at the same time.
"There're a lot of new things to learn, huh?" said Kate.
Nadia nodded rapidly. In a quiet voice she replied, "Many things people say, I do not understand. I have been speaking English and Romanian all my life, but I do not know what some children are saying. For example, yesterday a boy asked if I could help him find the USB port on a thin black box he was carrying. Isn't a port a place for ships? It made no sense to me."
"Don't worry." said Kate. "You'll figure everything out in time. You see, that thin black box was a computer. A USB port is a place where you can connect other machines to a computer."
Nadia and Kate were quiet after that. They took notes while the teacher gave a maths lesson. To Kate's surprise, Nadia put up her hand and offered to answer the questions at the blackboard.
Nadia handled every question the teacher gave her. Some of the questions were really difficult, and no one understood what was going on except Nadia and the teacher. When the teacher said that Nadia answered everything correctly, the whole class clapped their hands.
Nadia was smiling when she sat back down next to Kate. "Some things," she said in a normal voice, "are the same all over the world." | ['What did Kate think about the Romanian girl at first?', 'What was the girls name?', "What was it Kate couldn't figure out about the situation?", 'What was it Kate realized about moving to a new country?', 'What did Nadia and Kate do while the teacher gave a math lesson?', 'To Kates suprise what did Nadia do?', 'Did Nadia answer things correctly?', 'Did the class show their appreciation for this?', 'What did Nadia think a port was for?', 'What two languages had Nadia been speaking her entire life?', 'Did Nadia think somethings were the same all over the world?'] | {'answers': ['She thought the Romanian girl could not speak or understand English', 'Nadia', 'why the school had put Nadia in a class where she could not understand what people were saying', 'That there were hundreds of unfamiliar and unusual things to learn - all at the same time', 'They took notes', 'She put up her hand and offered to answer the questions at the blackboard.', 'yes', 'yes, the whole class clapped their hands', 'ships', 'English and Romanian', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [14, 80, 242, 737, 1480, 1560, 1634, 1864, 1221, 1003, 1958], 'answers_end': [78, 85, 336, 821, 1495, 1632, 1662, 1899, 1226, 1023, 2034]} |
3p529iw9kyl1zm6eqvznqhkatstlfq | Bailey and her friend Kara were bored one Saturday. It was a hot summer day. They didn't want to stay inside any longer but they didn't know what to do. They were tired of watching TV inside. Suddenly, Kara had an idea. She said, "Bailey, we could make some money." "How?," asked Bailey. "Well, it is hot outside," said Kara. "People are thirsty out there. We could make money by making some lemonade and iced tea and have people pay for it." "That is a great idea," answered Bailey, "let's do it!" Kara had made some iced tea with her mom earlier that day. She asked her mom permission to use it. Her mom said yes. She and Kara made two pitchers of lemonade. They got a cooler full of ice and made a sign so people knew what was for sale. Kara's mom helped them get a table and chairs and set up out on the corner in their neighborhood. It was so hot out that people who saw their stand came to buy drinks right away. Their first visitors to their stand were their friends, Abby and Molly. In a half hour, they had to close their stand. They were all out of lemonade and iced tea. They had made a lot of money. They split the money and each got ten dollars. It was a great day. | ['what did Kara suggest they sell?', 'anything else?', 'Did Bailey like the idea?', 'what season was it?', 'who made the Iced Tea?', 'how much lemonade did Kara and Bailey make?', 'how much money did they end up making at the end of day?', 'each?', 'where did they set up the table and chairs?', 'did it take several hours to make a sale?', 'who were the first customers?'] | {'answers': ['lemonade', 'iced tea', 'yes', 'summer', 'Kara and her mom', 'two pitchers', 'ten dollars', 'yes', 'on the corner in their neighborhood', 'it took a half hour', 'their friends, Abby and Molly'], 'answers_start': [357, 357, 444, 52, 499, 616, 1112, 1112, 740, 991, 919], 'answers_end': [400, 414, 482, 75, 539, 659, 1157, 1157, 837, 1081, 989]} |
354p56de9k3bo6myslycebloo1q7s1 | CHAPTER XIII.
DEFIANCE.
It was some moments before the little party could discuss the apparently serious turn which affairs had taken, for Harry remained as he had fallen, and all their thoughts were centered on restoring him to consciousness.
A vigorous application of cold water soon had the desired effect, however, and in ten minutes after the self-invited guests went on deck he was apparently as well as ever, save for a big red lump under his left ear.
"Do you feel all right, now?" Bob asked as the boy recovered from the bewilderment caused by the blow and began hunting for the coffee-pot, which had rolled under one of the lockers.
"My ear aches pretty bad; but the rest of my body is sound enough, though it's hard to tell how long we fellers will be able to keep on our feet if those starving sailors stay aboard."
"They'll go ashore mighty quick if this kind of work is kept up. Tell us what you did that started 'em?"
"I don't know anything about it." And Harry rubbed his sore ear gently to soothe the pain. "Jim and I came when Walter screamed, and saw the red-nosed fellow pounding him. I was going to take his part with the coffee-pot, but before there was time to strike a blow one of them knocked me down."
Then Walter gave a truthful account of all that had been said and done in the cabin, and Bob thought over the matter in silence several moments before speaking. | ['Who had been bewildered?', 'Was he an adult?', 'Who asked him how he felt?', 'What had happened?', 'What hurt on Harry?', 'Who was in the fight?', 'When did Jim come over?', 'What did they see?', 'What was he doing?', 'What was Harry going to use?', 'Did Bob talk right away after the story?', 'Did Walter lie about what happened?', 'What happened to Harry?', 'How long until he was better?', 'How did they wake him up?', 'What did Harry say about why the fight happened?', 'What did he do to help the pain?', 'Which ear?', 'Did they discuss the fight right away?'] | {'answers': ['Harry', 'no', 'Bob', 'a fight', 'his ear', 'Walter and the red-nosed fellow', 'when Walter screamed', 'the red-nosed fellow', 'pounding Walter', 'the coffee-pot', 'no', 'no', 'he got knocked out', 'ten minutes', 'cold water', "he didn't know", 'rubbed his ear', 'his sore ear', 'no'], 'answers_start': [510, 510, 468, 1038, 654, 1059, 1038, 1079, 1083, 1119, 1332, 1244, 143, 329, 250, 948, 985, 981, 1332], 'answers_end': [550, 550, 507, 1118, 677, 1117, 1074, 1117, 1117, 1167, 1387, 1280, 246, 350, 314, 981, 1036, 1010, 1404]} |
31qtrg6q2tdxqy27ndkiwj0a5jbyp2 | A raion (also rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states (such as part of an oblast). The term is from the French ""rayon"" (meaning "honeycomb, department"), which is both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district".
The term "raion" also can be used simply as a kind of administrative division without anything to do with ethnicity or nationality. A raion is a standardized administrative entity across most of the former Soviet Union and is usually a subdivision two steps below the national level. However, in smaller USSR republics, it could be the primary level of administrative division (Administrative divisions of Armenia, Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan). After the fall of the Soviet Union, some of the republics dropped "raion" from their use (Armenia).
In Bulgaria, it refers to an internal administrative subdivision of a city not related to the administrative division of the country as a whole, or, in the case of Sofia municipality a subdivision of that municipality.
The word "raion" (or "rayon") is often used in translated form: ; ; ; , "raioni"; ; ; ; ; and .
Fourteen countries have or had entities that were named "raion" or the local version of it. | ['What is a raion?', 'What language is the word originated from?', 'What does it translate to in English?', 'How many countries have had entities named from this word?', 'What is another spelling of this word?', 'Does the Soviet Union use raions?', 'What about Bulgaria?', 'Did any republics get rid of the use of raions?', 'Which one?', 'When did this happen?'] | {'answers': ['a type of administrative unit', 'French', 'district', 'Fourteen', 'rayon', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Armenia', 'After the fall of the Soviet Union'], 'answers_start': [24, 134, 299, 1189, 13, 596, 870, 767, 858, 768], 'answers_end': [53, 140, 307, 1197, 19, 866, 1090, 869, 865, 802]} |
3gdtjdapvubcqpecituwg2id7tf8m8 | (CNN) -- At first glance, they could almost pass for masterpieces by Monet or Renoir.
But these impressionist-style paintings -- which are changing hands for thousands of dollars -- were painted by a five-year-old girl who is unable to speak.
Meet Iris Halmshaw, an autistic child from Leicestershire, UK, who has been producing these striking artworks since she was three.
She has autism, a condition that has made her unable to communicate except through the medium of art.
"From the first painting, she filled the paper with color and it wasn't random -- it was considered and thought out," says her mother, Arabella Carter-Johnson.
"She was so excited and happy I knew that we had found a key into her world and a way of interacting with her."
Autism changed everything
The journey started when Iris was two. Carter-Johnson and her husband, Peter-Jon Halmshaw, realized that something was wrong: she had not picked up any words, and rarely made eye contact.
"We researched it ourselves," her mother recalls, "but as parents, you are always hoping that there was some other explanation."
Iris was officially diagnosed as a child with autism. According to Carter-Johnson, the doctor was "depressing" because he told them that very few therapies worked.
Not to be deterred, the couple embarked on "long nights of research", which led them to the idea of art therapy.
The little girl picked up painting techniques astonishingly quickly, and before long was spending much time at work on her canvases.
Remarkably for a child of her age, her sessions involved about two hours of consistent concentration. | ['Where does Iris live?', 'What was thought out?', 'who said this?', 'When did her parents start to think something was wrong?', 'why?', 'What did they do first?', 'Was she ever offically diagnosed?', 'with what?', 'were there a lot of options for help?', 'how did that make the parents feel?', 'Were they able to find a therapy?', 'what?', 'How did they find that?', 'How did Iris do with it?', 'How long were her sessions?', 'What type of paintings does she do?', 'Is she selling them?', 'for how much?', 'What could these pass for?', 'Does Iris speak?'] | {'answers': ['Leicestershire, UK,', 'her art', 'her mother', 'when she was two', 'she had not picked up any words, and rarely made eye contact.', 'research', 'yes', 'autism.', 'No', 'depressed', 'yes', 'art therapy.', 'long nights of research', 'The little girl picked up painting techniques astonishingly quickly,', '2 hours', 'impressionist-style paintings', 'yes', "1000's of dollars", 'Monet or Renoir.', 'no'], 'answers_start': [247, 484, 484, 789, 913, 978, 1109, 1109, 1163, 1163, 1275, 1345, 1275, 1390, 1573, 88, 87, 88, 9, 189], 'answers_end': [309, 644, 645, 961, 976, 1032, 1162, 1162, 1273, 1273, 1388, 1389, 1343, 1459, 1626, 128, 242, 245, 87, 246]} |
3xm0hyn6nkzzktlgnc8opg8un4aep1 | (CNN) -- Last Saturday, Sarah Palin stood before the huge crowd at the 2014 National Rifle Association annual meeting and condemned liberals for coddling terrorists. She loaded her speech with religious metaphors, claiming that true leaders would put "the fear of God in our enemies." She said, "They obviously have information on plots to carry out jihad. Oh, but you can't offend them, can't make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen. Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists."
Palin's invocation of forced baptism shocked both conservatives and liberals, inspiring few defenders. Christian commentators, in particular, focused on her link between torture and baptism.
On Wednesday, the National Religious Campaign against Torture released a powerful condemnation of the speech. To Palin, the organization's executive director wrote, "Your statements play into a false narrative conveying that somehow, the conflict between the United States and the terrorist cells is a conflict between Christianity and Islam, or Islam and 'the West.' "
The group's letter to the NRA, signed by 17 faith leaders from many different religions and denominations, reads, "For Christians, baptism is a profoundly holy act. It is in stark contrast to the abhorrent act of waterboarding. Equating baptism to an act of torture like waterboarding is sacrilegious -- and particularly surprising coming from a person who prides herself on her Christian faith."
But it's not actually all that surprising. Palin's public rhetoric relies on crafting existential binaries between "us" and "them," creating a kind of sacred empowered victimhood among her listeners. She draws from the language of militant Christianity to claim the status of both persecutor and persecuted. This is not an accident, and I do not believe she will repudiate her remarks. | ['What shocked both parties during her speech?', 'What event was she speaking at?', 'Which year?', 'Who was she speaking out against?', 'For what?', 'What was her speech filled with?', 'What point was she trying to make?', 'How does she say we would baptize terrorists?', 'What did the Christian commentators focus on in her speech?', 'Did someone release a statement about the speech?', 'Who?', 'When?', 'What did they say her statement was a conflict of?', 'What group was the letter sent to?', 'How many people signed it?', 'What kind of people were they?', 'What word did they use to describe her comparing baptism to torture?', 'Were people actually surprised about what she said?', 'What did they say she relies on?', 'What language does she draw from?'] | {'answers': ['Her forced baptism of terrorists by waterboarding them', 'National Rifle Association meeting', '2014', 'Liberals', 'For coddling terrorists.', 'Religious metaphors', 'That true leaders would put fear of God in enemies.', 'By waterboarding', 'link between torture and baptism', 'Yes', 'National Religious Campaign against Torture', 'Wednesdayj', 'False narrative conveying the United States and terrorists is conflict between Christianity and Islam', 'NRA', '17', 'Faith leaders', 'Sacrilegious', 'No', 'Crafting existential binaries between "us" and "them,"', 'Militant Christianity'], 'answers_start': [0, 72, 71, 107, 132, 78, 213, 468, 641, 733, 731, 732, 925, 1104, 1135, 1136, 1331, 1503, 1581, 1703], 'answers_end': [537, 117, 118, 164, 165, 215, 295, 537, 731, 840, 842, 840, 1102, 1216, 1161, 1166, 1404, 1632, 1635, 1755]} |
3yoh7bii097fbdam5asqt3ahtq7vkp | CHAPTER VII.
THE OATH.
From Eu the party travelled back to Rouen where there were feastings and entertainments in honour of Harold. Nothing could be more courteous than the duke's manner to his guest. He professed an almost fraternal affection for him, and handsome lodgings were assigned in the town to his thanes. A solemn court was held, at which Harold was knighted by William himself with much state and ceremonial, according to the rites of chivalry, which had then been but recently introduced, and had not as yet extended into England. There were great hunting parties in the forest, and to all outward appearance the friendship between William and Harold was of the warmest and most sincere nature. Harold himself was really gratified at the pains that William took to show the esteem in which he held him, and his thanes were all well satisfied with the attentions bestowed upon them by the Norman barons.
Beorn and Wulf had nothing to do save to make friends with young Normans of their own age, to visit their castles and to join in the hunting parties. The duke lost no opportunity of showing the sincerity of the feelings of gratitude he had expressed to them for bringing him the news of Harold's presence in his dominions, and they were always specially invited to all court ceremonials, enjoying themselves exceedingly. Wulf occasionally expressed his surprise to his companion that no word was said as to their return to England, but Beorn's answer always silenced him. | ['Who was knighted?', 'By whom?', 'Was it a modest ceremony?', 'What rites were new at that time?', 'Had they made it into England yet?', 'What was going on in the woods?', 'Did it seem that William and Harold were close?', 'Was Harold happy that William was trying so hard to be friendly to him?', 'Were his thanes also happy?', 'What group had shown them a lot of attention?', 'Where did the party travel from?', 'To where?', 'Was a banquet waiting for them?', 'And what else?', 'All for whom?', 'Who was going to make friends with people their own age?', 'What places were they going to visit?', 'And then what were they going to do?', 'What were they constantly invited to?', 'Was anything mentioned about them going back to England?'] | {'answers': ['Harold', 'William', 'no', 'rites of chivalry', 'no', 'great hunting parties', 'yes', 'yes', 'yes', 'Norman barons', 'Eu', 'Rouen', 'yes', 'entertainments', 'Harold', 'Beorn and Wulf', 'their castles', 'join in the hunting parties', 'all court ceremonials', 'no'], 'answers_start': [354, 377, 392, 441, 510, 559, 600, 712, 828, 905, 31, 63, 75, 100, 128, 922, 1022, 1043, 1286, 1406], 'answers_end': [360, 384, 423, 459, 546, 581, 686, 747, 859, 918, 34, 68, 115, 114, 134, 936, 1035, 1070, 1308, 1452]} |
3sitxwycnv96mzbnzcgfilocm0hxb7 | One day, Jack told his friend. Tom , that he loved a very beautiful girl with charming eyes and long hair, and that he wanted to marry her. Tom was so happy to hear the news and asked Jack to lead him to her. However, Tom loved her at first sight, He then told Jack, "This girl is not suitable for you. She deserves a handsome man like me." Jack was astonished and struggled with Tom until they went to the police to solve the problem.
They told the policeman their story. The policeman asked them to bring the girl to his office.
However, when the policeman saw her, he became taken with her and said, "This girl is not suitable for you two. She deserves someone with a status like me." The three men struggled with each other and then went to the king.
The king asked them to bring him the girl. When the king saw the girl, he said, "Oh, the girl should marry a king like me." They all argued with each other.
Then the girl said, "I have a solution. I'm going to run and you'll run after me. I'll be the wife to the one who catches me first." The four men all agreed and ran after her. While running after her, they suddenly fell into a deep hole. From the top, the girl looked at them and said, "Now, let me tell you who I am."
"I'm Reputation--I'm the one all people run after. They compete against each other to get me . They leave principles aside to seek for me, and they are sure to fall like you !" | ["Who was Jack's friend?", 'What did he tell him?', 'How much?', 'Was he happy?', 'Did he say anything back?', 'what?', 'What happened when they got to her?', 'Did they fight over her?', 'what happened next?', 'What did he do?', 'Did they take her?', 'What did the officer do?', 'Did they go together?', 'What did he do?', 'Were they angry?', 'What did they all do about it?', 'What did he do?', 'did they?', 'What did she do?', 'What was it?', 'Did they?', 'Who was she?'] | {'answers': ['Tom', 'he loved a girl', 'to marry her.', 'yes', 'yes', 'to lead him to her.', 'he loved her', 'yes', 'They told the policeman', 'asked them to bring the girl', 'yes', 'he became taken with her', 'no', 'said, "This girl is not suitable for you two.', 'yes', 'struggled and then went to the king.', 'asked them to bring the girl', 'yes', 'she said she had a solution.', 'to run after her.', 'yes', 'A Reputation'], 'answers_start': [9, 35, 110, 140, 178, 178, 218, 340, 438, 474, 535, 543, 691, 601, 691, 693, 761, 803, 925, 960, 1053, 1241], 'answers_end': [34, 71, 139, 173, 209, 208, 246, 383, 474, 533, 571, 596, 759, 690, 759, 759, 803, 830, 959, 1002, 1095, 1291]} |
378xpawrucd4duh0ucgik0hrg8kiav | New York (CNN) -- Brooke Astor's son got one to three years in prison Monday for scheming to bilk millions of dollars from the late philanthropist's estate.
Anthony Marshall, 85, had been found guilty of 14 of the 15 counts against him. Marshall was convicted in October of the most serious charges -- first-degree grand larceny and scheming to defraud. He faced a minimum of one to three years, or as much as eight to 25 years in state prison.
Marshall's wife, Charlene, sobbed after hearing the sentence as supporters hugged her.
One of the most serious convictions involved Marshall giving himself a $1 million-a-year raise for handling his mother's affairs, said Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann. Marshall's former attorney, Francis Morrissey, was also convicted of five counts relating to the case, including forgery and scheming to defraud Astor.
Seidemann on Monday recommended a sentence of 1.5 to 4.5 years in prison. He objected to bail pending appeal but told the judge he had no problem with Marshall staying out of prison until the first of the year. He asked for restitution of $12.3 million.
Defense attorneys argued Monday for the lowest sentence of one to three years in state prison and asked that the judge not impose restitution. The defense team raised concerns about Marshall's health and indicated that it will appeal the verdict.
In a brief statement to the court before the sentence was announced, Marshall only said, "I have nothing to add to what my attorneys have said." | ['Who was found guilty of crimes?', "What's his name?", 'How many charges were made against him?', 'Was he found guilty of all of them?', 'How many was he guilty of?', 'What was the maximum possible sentence?', 'How many years did his lawyers suggest?', 'How much time did the prosecutor suggest?', 'Does he want him to pay people back?', 'How much?', "Do Marshall's lawyers agree with him?", 'How much prison time did he end up getting?', 'When did this happen?', 'Is Marshall married?', "What's his spouse's name?", 'Was she calm at the hearing?', 'How did she react?', 'Where did he misappropriate money from?', "Was he in charge of his mother's money?", 'Did he get paid for that?', 'Did he ever get a pay increase?', 'How much?', 'Who authorized that?', 'Was it legal for him to do that?', 'Was anyone else tried for something to do with this affair?', 'Who?', 'What is his relationship to the other guy?'] | {'answers': ["Brooke Astor's son", 'Anthony Marshall', '15', 'No', '14', '25 years in state prison', 'One to three years', '1.5 to 4.5 years', 'Yes', '$12.3 million', 'No', 'One to three years', 'Monday', 'Yes', 'Charlene', 'No', 'She sobbed', "His father's estate", 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Yes', '$1 million-a-year', 'Marshall himself', 'No', 'Yes', 'Francis Morrissey', "He is Marshall's former attorney."], 'answers_start': [18, 159, 181, 180, 195, 398, 1127, 871, 1082, 1110, 1225, 18, 18, 449, 449, 466, 476, 93, 538, 538, 609, 608, 583, 538, 717, 716, 717], 'answers_end': [69, 175, 225, 218, 209, 445, 1205, 933, 1123, 1123, 1268, 76, 77, 464, 474, 482, 482, 155, 666, 633, 632, 626, 632, 868, 819, 762, 744]} |
323q6sjs8igzdqnozakpypr3d8rhfh | Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children.In spite of the hopeless condition, two of the children, Albrecht Durer and Albert, had a dream.They both wanted to pursue their talent for art.After many long discussions, the two boys finally worked out an agreement.They would toss a coin.The loser would go down into the nearby mines and, with his earnings, support his brother who attended the academy.Then, when that brother who won the toss completed his studies, in four years, he would support the other brother at the academy.
Tossing a coin, Albrecht Durer won and went off to Nuremberg.Albert went down into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years, supported his brother, _ work at the academy was almost an immediate sensation .By the time he graduated, he had earned considerable fees for his outstanding works.
When the young artist returned to his village, the Durer family held a festive dinner to celebrate Albrecht's triumphant homecoming.Albrecht drank a toast to his beloved brother for the years of sacrifice that had enabled him to complete his dream."And now, Albert, blessed brother of mine, now it is your turn.Now you can go to Nuremberg to look for your dream, and I will take care of you."
Tears streaming down his pale face, Albert sobbed, "No...no...It is too late for me.Look...look at what four years in the mines have done to my hands!The bones in every finger have been broken at least once, and lately I have been suffering from arthritis so badly in my right hand that I cannot even hold a glass to return your toast, much less draw delicate lines with a pen or a brush."
To show thanks to Albert for all that he had sacrificed, Albrecht Durer painstakingly drew his brother's injured hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward.He called his powerful drawing simply "Hands", but the entire world almost immediately opened their hearts to his great masterpiece and renamed it "The Praying Hands".The next time you see a copy of that touching creation, let it be your reminder--no one ever makes any success alone! | ['What era is the article about?', 'Where?', 'How many kids did the family have?', 'How many of the kids worked together?', 'Which ones?', 'What was their deal?', 'To decide what?', 'Who went to college?', 'Was he successful?', 'What happened when he came home?', 'Did the other brother go to college?'] | {'answers': ['fifteenth century', 'tiny village near Nuremberg', 'eighteen', 'two', 'Albrecht Durer and Albert', 'would toss a coin', 'loser would go down into the nearby mines and, with his earnings, support his brother who attended the academy.Then, when that brother who won the toss completed his studies, in four years, he would support the other brother at the academy.', 'Albrecht Durer', 'yes', 'a festive dinner', 'no'], 'answers_start': [12, 35, 85, 139, 160, 326, 349, 607, 844, 960, 1573], 'answers_end': [29, 63, 93, 142, 185, 343, 589, 621, 889, 977, 1667]} |
3pmby0ye273zv8lvaw6wd28cwdu9c0 | CHAPTER XIII.
AUGUST 1ST, 1714.
"Does my mistress know of this?" Esmond asked of Frank, as they walked along.
"My mother found the letter in the book, on the toilet-table. She had writ it ere she had left home," Frank said. "Mother met her on the stairs, with her hand upon the door, trying to enter, and never left her after that till she went away. He did not think of looking at it there, nor had Martin the chance of telling him. I believe the poor devil meant no harm, though I half killed him; he thought 'twas to Beatrix's brother he was bringing the letter."
Frank never said a word of reproach to me for having brought the villain amongst us. As we knocked at the door I said, "When will the horses be ready?" Frank pointed with his cane, they were turning the street that moment.
We went up and bade adieu to our mistress; she was in a dreadful state of agitation by this time, and that Bishop was with her whose company she was so fond of.
"Did you tell him, my lord," says Esmond, "that Beatrix was at Castlewood?" The Bishop blushed and stammered: "Well," says he, "I . . ."
"You served the villain right," broke out Mr. Esmond, "and he has lost a crown by what you told him."
My mistress turned quite white, "Henry, Henry," says she, "do not kill him."
"It may not be too late," says Esmond; "he may not have gone to Castlewood; pray God, it is not too late." The Bishop was breaking out with some banale phrases about loyalty, and the sacredness of the Sovereign's person; but Esmond sternly bade him hold his tongue, burn all papers, and take care of Lady Castlewood; and in five minutes he and Frank were in the saddle, John Lockwood behind them, riding towards Castlewood at a rapid pace. | ["Where did Esmond's mother locate the letter?", 'Who did she run into on the stairs?'] | {'answers': ['on the toilet-table.', 'Mother'], 'answers_start': [137, 231], 'answers_end': [177, 260]} |
3jbt3hlqf82xvoccjzm1aq9ca5hpz5 | Alyssa got to the beach after a long trip. She's from Charlotte. She traveled from Atlanta. She's now in Miami. She went to Miami to visit some friends. But she wanted some time to herself at the beach, so she went there first. After going swimming and laying out, she went to her friend Ellen's house. Ellen greeted Alyssa and they both had some lemonade to drink. Alyssa called her friends Kristin and Rachel to meet at Ellen's house. The girls traded stories and caught up on their lives. It was a happy time for everyone. The girls went to a restaurant for dinner. The restaurant had a special on catfish. Alyssa enjoyed the restaurant's special. Ellen ordered a salad. Kristin had soup. Rachel had a steak. After eating, the ladies went back to Ellen's house to have fun. They had lots of fun. They stayed the night because they were tired. Alyssa was happy to spend time with her friends again. | ["What are Alyssa's friends called?", 'Where did Alyssa go to meet up with them?', 'Where was she from?', 'Where did she travel from?', 'What did she do before visiting?', 'What did she do there?', 'Anything else?', 'Did they have any refreshments?', 'Whose place did she hang out with them at?', 'What did they all feel?', 'Where did they go to eat?', 'What did they catch up on?', 'Did they all order the same food?', 'What did they do after?', "What was the restaurant's special?", 'Why did they stay the night?', 'Who had the special?', "What was the restaurant's special?", 'What did they have to quench their thirst?'] | {'answers': ['Kristin and Rachel', 'Miami', 'Charlotte', 'Atlanta', 'beach', 'swimming', 'laying out', 'yes', 'Ellen', 'happy', 'restaurant', 'lives', 'no', 'have fun', 'catfish', 'tired', 'Alyssa', 'catfish', 'lemonade'], 'answers_start': [366, 112, 43, 65, 157, 228, 253, 328, 265, 493, 526, 466, 610, 725, 569, 799, 610, 569, 337], 'answers_end': [410, 151, 63, 90, 226, 263, 263, 364, 301, 524, 568, 490, 711, 775, 609, 845, 649, 609, 365]} |
3sle99er0ndvrub20u40f64nu3ibzr | (CNN) -- The year is 1969 and Britain is at the peak of its counter-culture revolution -- a time of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. The Beatles are putting together their final album while a relatively unknown musician, David Bowie is making waves with his track "Space Oddity."
Meanwhile, in Liverpool, a 15-year-old schoolgirl is headed for trouble.
Though academically gifted, Jude Kelly is bored at school and overcome with a mix of teenage angst and a vivid imagination. She's beginning to hang around with a rough crowd and soon finds herself in trouble with the law. But one person has taken notice of her downward spiral -- her high school principal.
"The headmaster said to me, 'I don't care if you do maths or biology or whatever, it doesn't matter ... but make sure that you use your imagination for creative good rather than self-destruction'," recalls Kelly.
Fast forward several decades and she's done just that. Today Kelly, 59, is the artistic director of Britain's beloved cultural institution -- London's Southbank Centre.
Looking back, it's clear how defining that very moment was.
"As soon as he said it, I knew he was right -- I feel very strongly that young people deserve help, time, space and permission to be expressive."
His advice spurred Kelly to form a drama club with her fellow classmates including Clive Barker, the now bestselling British horror author, and comedian Les Dennis.
After high school, her passion for the arts continued to flourish. Studying Drama at Birmingham University, she decided to become a director. It was a bold career choice for women in the 1970s -- but by age 22, she defied naysayers by becoming one of the youngest artistic directors in the country. | ['what year was sex drugs and rock and roll', 'who was making waves with space oddity', 'who noticed jude kellys downward spiral', 'how old was jude', 'what was kellys job at 59', 'who was the british horror author', 'what did headmaster say', 'who was the comedian', 'who did she defy at 22', 'what album were the beatles putting together in 1969'] | {'answers': ['1969', 'David Bowie', 'her high school principal.', '15', 'artistic director', 'Clive Barker', "'I don't care if you do maths or biology or whatever, it doesn't matter ... but make sure that you use your imagination for creative good rather than self-destruction'", 'Les Dennis', 'naysayers', 'their final album while'], 'answers_start': [9, 218, 594, 306, 932, 1313, 690, 1399, 1622, 130], 'answers_end': [129, 278, 662, 478, 1017, 1355, 860, 1424, 1657, 186]} |
34majl3qp4nal2j008z43rt25g434i | Austin, Texas (CNN) -- Podcasting saved Kevin Smith's career.
So said the filmmaker (and you can throw a few slashes after that title these days) at the South by Southwest festival here on Monday during a panel called, appropriately, "The Business of Kevin Smith."
"I had no idea, but that would become the f---ing center of everything I'm doing now," said Smith, who broke into moves after making 1994's indie hit "Clerks" for roughly $25,000.
"The ultimate freedom that allowed me to walk away from the 'heroin' [money] of the movie business -- what gave me the strength to walk away -- was [expletive] podcasting."
Smith said he was working on "Zach and Miri Make a Porno," which he wrote and directed, when he realized the passion that led him to make movies like "Dogma" and "Chasing Amy" was gone.
"For a while I became a filmmaker and for a while a professional director," he said. "But I really felt like I'm an artist."
Smith said he decided to take advantage of his access to celebrities and gift of gab to launch a new project. And he deployed a technique he said has always served him well: do what you love and what you're good at, then figure out how to make money doing it.
And that led to "SModcast," a weekly podcast that he and friend/co-producer Scott Mosier launched in 2007 and do to this day.
It was free. But as its online audience grew, the opportunities to make money arose. | ['What was the event called?', 'Where was Kevin Smith speaking?', 'What was it called?', "What's his podcast called?", 'How often is it published?', 'Who else is on it?', 'When did it start?', 'Does he make money on it?', 'How?', 'What did he make use of to start it?', 'Anything else?', 'Is this what let him get away from the movie industry?', 'What does he think of himself as?', 'What did his first movie cost?', 'What was it called?', 'When was it made?', 'What did he write and direct?', 'Where did this festival take place?'] | {'answers': ['South by Southwest', 'On a panel', '"The Business of Kevin Smith."', 'SModcast', 'Weekly', 'Scott Mosier', '2007', 'Yes', 'Opportunities to make money arose.', 'Access to celebrities', 'His gift of gab', 'Yes', 'An artist', '$25,000', 'Clerks', '1994', 'Zach and Miri Make a Porno', 'Texas'], 'answers_start': [64, 64, 64, 1203, 1204, 1203, 1203, 1203, 1331, 941, 941, 451, 814, 269, 269, 395, 626, 0], 'answers_end': [267, 267, 267, 1329, 1329, 1329, 1327, 1415, 1415, 1050, 1050, 624, 939, 447, 449, 450, 713, 62]} |
324g5b4fb38bnx2mjjfs45f5sxr072 | Art lovers around the world have thought about this question for so many years: what is the secret behind the Mona Lisa's smile? However, they can ask Mona Lisa herself in the interactive exhibition in Beijing. This exhibition brings the 500-year-old painting to life. Now Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting can move her head and wave her hand in 3D, and even answer questions. She can answer the questions about her life, her age and so on. But when she talks she doesn't speak Italian but Chinese like: "Da jia hao, wo jiao Mengna Lisha. Hen gao xing jian dao ni men." The new, digital picture of Mona Lisa is the center piece of the World Classic Interactive Arts Exhibition in Beijing. You can also see other world-famous paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. Last Supper is another picture that they made alive with 3D. In this picture, Jesus can walk and talk with his believers . It took the organizer Wang Hui and over 400 digital artists in South Korea two years to make the picture, at a cost of around 50 million yuan. He says, "What's special about it is that it's the first time to use computer technology to make her speak and move." So what does the Mona Lisa say if you ask her why she is smiling? | ['What do people wonder about?', 'Who painted it?', 'How long ago?', 'Where is she now?', 'What kind of thing is she in?', 'What is it called?', 'Is it a normal one, or different?', 'How so?', 'What else can it do?', 'Is it in English?'] | {'answers': ["the secret behind the Mona Lisa's smile", 'Leonardo da Vinci', '500 years', 'in Beijing', 'an interactive exhibition', 'the World Classic Interactive Arts Exhibition', 'different', "it's in 3D", 'answer questions', 'No'], 'answers_start': [87, 273, 237, 151, 151, 600, 572, 331, 352, 452], 'answers_end': [127, 308, 250, 209, 198, 678, 610, 350, 377, 498]} |
37w3jxsd668na7z8zzydod86yhkwy3 | CHAPTER IV
KARI
Thus began my life in London in the house of my uncle, John Grimmer, who was called the Goldsmith. In truth, however, he was more than this, since not only did he fashion and trade in costly things; he lent out moneys to interest upon security to great people who needed it, and even to the king Richard and his Court. Also he owned ships and did much commerce with Holland, France, yes, and with Spain and Italy. Indeed, although he appeared so humble, his wealth was very large and always increased, like a snowball rolling down a hill; moreover, he owned much land, especially in the neighbourhood of London where it was likely to grow in value.
"Money melts," he would say, "furs corrupt with moth and time, and thieves break in and steal. But land--if the title be good--remains. Therefore buy land, which none can carry away, near to a market or a growing town if may be, and hire it out to fools to farm, or sell it to other fools who wish to build great houses and spend their goods in feeding a multitude of idle servants. Houses eat, Hubert, and the larger they are, the more they eat."
No word did he say to me as to my dwelling on with him, yet there I remained, by common consent, as it were. Indeed on the morrow of my coming a tailor appeared to measure me for such garments as he thought I should wear, by his command, I suppose, as I was never asked for payment, and he bade me furnish my chamber to my own liking, also another room at the back of the house that was much larger than it seemed, which he told me was to be mine to work in, though at what I was to work he did not say. | ['Who would say "Money Melts"?', 'What was he called?', 'What did he believe people should invest in?', "What's one thing that could be done with that investment?", "What's another?", 'How were they related?', 'Where would they live?', 'Who arrived the day after the nephew?', 'What was one place the nephew in charge of furnishing?', 'And the other?'] | {'answers': ['John Grimmer', 'the Goldsmith', 'land', 'hire it out to fools to farm', 'sell it to other fools', 'John was his uncle', 'in London', 'unknown', 'his own chamber', 'a room at the back of the house'], 'answers_start': [685, 103, 820, 903, 936, 65, 38, -1, 1426, 1469], 'answers_end': [688, 117, 825, 932, 959, 73, 48, -1, 1440, 1498]} |
3r6p78pk7kbvwzaeao7wutu3pezgtw | A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources.
Although browsers are primarily intended to use the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or files in file systems.
The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development, and is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. His browser was called WorldWideWeb and later renamed Nexus.
In 1993, browser software was further innovated by Marc Andreessen with the release of Mosaic, "the world's first popular browser", which made the World Wide Web system easy to use and more accessible to the average person. Andreesen's browser sparked the internet boom of the 1990s. The introduction of Mosaic in 1993 – one of the first graphical web browsers – led to an explosion in web use. Andreessen, the leader of the Mosaic team at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), soon started his own company, named Netscape, and released the Mosaic-influenced Netscape Navigator in 1994, which quickly became the world's most popular browser, accounting for 90% of all web use at its peak (see usage share of web browsers). | ['When did marc Andreeseen further innovate?', 'And in 1993 when Marc Andreeseen furthered innovated, what did he release?', 'Was it popular?', 'Did it make the World Wide Web easier or harder to use?', 'How accessible did it make it to the average person?', 'What did it spark?', 'When?', 'What is a web browser commonly referred to as?', 'What type of application is it?', 'Does it retrieve information?', 'What else does it do with information?', 'How is an information resource identified?', 'Can a URL be a video?', 'What else can it contain?', 'How can users easily navigate in their browsers to other places?', 'Can you use a browser on a file system?', 'What does W3C stand for?', 'Who was its director in 1990?', 'What did he invent?', 'What exploded?'] | {'answers': ['browser software', 'Mosaic', 'Yes', 'easier', 'more', 'internet boom', '1990s', 'browser', 'software', 'Yes', 'presenting, and traversing information resources', 'Uniform Resource Identifier', 'yes', 'web page, image, or other piece of content', 'Hyperlinks', 'Yes', 'World Wide Web Consortium', 'Sir Tim Berners-Lee', 'The first web browser', 'web use'], 'answers_start': [907, 986, 1123, 899, 1084, 1155, 1176, 41, 55, 0, 92, 207, 164, 258, 308, 411, 697, 641, 595, 1285], 'answers_end': [923, 992, 1182, 1122, 1088, 1168, 1181, 48, 63, 163, 140, 234, 307, 306, 318, 593, 722, 660, 616, 1292]} |
3fq5jj512lo2381d3j6zjmg47hrnka | Edward Sims was born in 1892. He was the fifth child and only son of Herbert and Dora Sims. Herbert was a blacksmith , and had a thriving trade making horseshoes. He was determined that his first-born son would follow him into the blacksmith. For this reason, Edward had to leave school at the age of 12,and worked with his father.
However, Edward was _ a blacksmith. Although he has an athletic body, he didn't have strong arms like his father, and he felt dizzy in the heat of the smithy. When he tried to find alternative employment, he found it difficult because he had never learnt to read or write.
One day, he went for an interview at a solictior's office. The job was a runner, taking documents from the office to other offices in the city. The solicitor was pleased to see that Edward was physically fit, but when he discovered that the young man couldn't read or write, he decided against employing him. "How can you deliver documents to other offices," he asked, "if you can't read the addresses on them?"
Bitterly disappointed, Edward left the building and went to wait for a tram to take him back to the suburb where his father's smithy was. Next to the bus stop, a man was selling newspapers from a stand .
"Excuse me, son?" he said. "Would you look after my stand for a moment?"
For the next 20 minutes, Edward sold newspapers, lots of them. When the man came back, he was so delighted with his new assistant's honesty, that he offered him a job. Edward took it immediately.
In the next few months, the two men progressed from working on newspaper stands to selling newspapers, tobacco,confectionery and other goods in a shop. Then they opened a second shop, and a third. Eventually, they had a chain of 25 shops in three cities.
Edward became very rich, so he employed a tutor to teach him to read and write. The tutor was amazed at what Edward had achieved. "Imagine what you could do if you'd been able to read and write when you were younger!" he said.
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3b837j3ldowl6p6d1zwijscop85rsv | Clay Wanner began to gather a group of architects in Las Vegas a few years ago,to ask them what it would take to design a public school that used 50 percent less energy, cost much less to build and obviously improved student learning. "I think half of them fell off their chairs, " Wanner says.
Wanner manages school facilities for Clark County, Nevada,a district roughly the size of Massachusetts. By 2018,143,000 additional students will enter the already crowded public education system. Wanner needs 73 new schools to house them. Four architecture teams have nearly finished designing primary school prototypes ;they plan to construct their schools starting in 2009. The district will then assess how well the schools perform, and three winners will copy those designs in 50 to 70 new buildings.
Green schools are appearing all over, but in Clark County,which stands out for its vastness, such aggressive targets are difficult because design requirements like more natural light for students go against the realities of a desert climate. "One of the biggest challenges is getting the right site orientation ," Mark McGinty, a director at SH Architecture, says. His firm recently completed a high school in Las Vegas. "You have the same building, same set of windows, but if its orientation is incorrect and it faces the sun, it will be really expensive to cool."
Surprisingly, the man who is responsible for one of the most progressive green-design competitions has doubts about ideas of eco-friendly buildings. "I don't believe in the new green religion," Wanner says."Some of the building technologies that you get are impractical. I'm interested in those that work. "But he wouldn't mind if some green features inspire students. He says he hopes to set up green energy systems that allow them to learn about the process of harvesting wind and solar power. "You never know what's going to start the interest of a child to study math and science,"he says. | ['What kind of people did Clay Wanner gather?', 'Where did he gather them', 'How much less energy did he want the schools to use?', 'What does Wanner manage?', 'Where are the facilities he manages?', 'How many schools does Wanner need for the new students coming in?', 'How many new students are needing to be housed by these schools?', "What design requirement goes against the realities of the area's climate?", 'Does Wanner believe wholeheartedly in eco-friendly technologies?', 'What types of power harvesting does he wish to inspire the stuidents to learn more about?'] | {'answers': ['architects', 'Las Vegas', '50 percent', 'school facilities', 'Clark County', '73', '143,000', 'more natural light for students', 'No', 'harvesting wind'], 'answers_start': [0, 28, 78, 297, 297, 493, 409, 943, 1521, 1750], 'answers_end': [49, 62, 169, 329, 347, 520, 436, 1044, 1580, 1851]} |
3ftop5warfo47s3oks4p7vkejs50jn | (CNN)It was a story that sounded like something out of a horror film: Two young brothers strangled by a 100-pound snake that came crashing through the ceiling as they slept.
But this was no work of fiction.
It was the all-too-real fate suffered by brothers Connor and Noah Barthe in August 2013 at a sleepover in the home of Jean-Claude Savoie, a family friend who lived above an exotic pet store that he ran in New Brunswick, Canada.
Though deemed a tragic accident from the outset, the incident nevertheless remained under investigation, and on Thursday, 18 months later, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced that it had "arrested an individual in connection with the deaths of Noah and Connor Barthe of Campbellton, (New Brunswick)."
Leslie Matchim, an attorney for Savoie, confirmed that his client was the one arrested.
"It remains to be seen if there will be charges," Matchim said on Thursday.
A call and email to the Crown Prosecutor's Office was not immediately returned.
Savoie was arrested in Montreal, where he has since relocated, some 500 miles away from his Reptile Ocean pet store, according to Matchim.
He remained in custody there Thursday night.
According to CBC, the African rock python was kept in a glass enclosure similar to an aquarium, but on the night of the sleepover it slithered into the ventilation system. It was above the living room, where Connor, 6, and Noah, 4, were sleeping, when the ceiling caved in.
Autopsy results revealed that the boys died from asphyxiation. | ['How many brothers were there?', 'What were their names?', 'When did they die?', 'Where were they?', 'At whose home?', 'How did they die?', 'Was Savoie put in jail?', 'What kind of snake was it?', 'How old was Connor?', 'And his brother?', 'What was the pet store named?', 'What city were the victims from?', 'Who reported the story?', 'Was the snake in a cage?'] | {'answers': ['Two', 'Connor and Noah Barthe', 'August 2013', 'New Brunswick, Canada.', 'Jean-Claude Savoie', 'They were strangled by a 100-pound snake that came crashing through the ceiling as they slept.', 'Yes', 'African rock python', 'Six', 'Four', 'Reptile Ocean pet store', 'Campbellton', 'CBC', 'no'], 'answers_start': [70, 261, 287, 416, 299, 70, 752, 1212, 1398, 1413, 1094, 719, 1190, 1207], 'answers_end': [88, 283, 298, 438, 347, 174, 841, 1231, 1407, 1420, 1117, 748, 1206, 1285]} |
3ouygizwr7y0t36mf5994r6qtun0p6 | The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a members of the National League (NL) Central division; the team plays its home baseball games at Wrigley Field. The Cubs are also one of two active major league teams based in Chicago; the other is the Chicago White Sox, who are a member of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is currently owned by Thomas S. Ricketts, son of TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts.
The team played its first games in 1876 as a founding member of the National League (NL), eventually becoming known officially as the Chicago Cubs for the 1903 season. Officially, the Cubs are tied for the distinction of being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club, along with the Atlanta Braves, which also began play in the NL in 1876 as the Boston Red Stockings (Major League Baseball does not officially recognize the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players as a major league.) | ['When did the Chicago Cubs play their first game?', 'In which league?', 'Were they one of the original members?', 'Which team also began playing in 1876?', 'Were they known as anything else?', 'What?', 'What are they tied with the Cubs for?', 'In what division did the Cubs participate while in the National League?', 'Where are home games played?', 'Where in Chicago are they located?', 'Does Chicago have any other baseball teams?', 'How many?', 'Which team is it?', 'And in which league do they play?', 'And in which division?', 'Who owns the team?', 'What business did his father build?', 'In what year did the team officially become the Chicago Cubs?'] | {'answers': ['1876', 'National League (NL)', 'yes', 'the Atlanta Braves', 'yes', 'the Boston Red Stockings', 'being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club', 'Central', 'Wrigley Field', 'the North Side', 'yes', 'one other', 'the Chicago White Sox', 'the American League (AL)', 'Central', 'Thomas S. Ricketts', 'TD Ameritrade', '1903'], 'answers_start': [540, 580, 585, 837, 857, 901, 742, 156, 215, 68, 272, 290, 344, 400, 404, 444, 502, 656], 'answers_end': [579, 628, 601, 924, 924, 924, 824, 213, 270, 106, 344, 300, 379, 425, 442, 493, 536, 706]} |
3awetudc92s5e2p864wh1t80otuizy | In a far away land known as Board, there was a great man named Pawn. This was a very odd land because the only thing to do was play chess. Pawn did not very much care for chess as he was very bored with it. Another problem Pawn had was that he didn't like some of the other people in this land. They had names like Bishop, Queen, Rook, and Knight. And most of all, there was King. He was the greatest person in Board. One day, during their normal battle, Pawn saw an opening to move to the far end of Board. He almost got hurt by Knight but he got away. Amazingly, when he got to the other end he became as powerful as Queen. With this amazing power, Pawn chose to help keep King safe. All was well until Pawn woke up and knew that it was only a dream. He was still Pawn. | ['what was the place called?', 'was there a lot to do there?', 'what could you do there?', 'who was the best guy in the place?', 'where there other there?', 'who?', 'anyone else?', 'who?', 'who was he?', 'did the care for the other?', 'who did he dislike?', 'did he get injured?', 'why not?', 'did he transform?', 'into what', 'what did he do then?', 'then what happened?', 'did any of this really happen?', 'why not?'] | {'answers': ['Board', 'no', 'play chess', 'King', 'They had names like Bishop, Queen, Rook, and Knight', 'Bishop, Queen, Rook, and Knight', 'Yes', 'Pawn', 'a great man', 'no', 'Bishop, Queen, Rook, and Knight', 'no', 'he got away', 'yes', 'he became as powerful as Queen', 'keep King safe', 'he woke up', 'no', 'it was a dream'], 'answers_start': [28, 102, 127, 375, 295, 315, 35, 63, 44, 241, 315, 508, 541, 594, 594, 670, 705, 705, 731], 'answers_end': [33, 137, 137, 379, 346, 346, 67, 67, 56, 293, 346, 526, 552, 624, 624, 684, 717, 751, 751]} |
304sm51wa34yqipo52asjd7k6gdsbh | London, England (CNN) -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic finally took the stand Monday at the U.N.'s international tribunal at The Hague to defend himself against genocide charges stemming from the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict.
For CNN's Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson, the 64 year-old was as defiant and unrepentant as the man he recalled meeting outside Sarajevo in 1993-94, as Bosnian-Serb forces shelled the city.
Karadzic, who faces 11 charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide during the war, told the tribunal the Serb cause is "just and holy," and dismissed as myths two of the worst atrocities of a conflict that claimed 100,000 lives -- the three-year siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre in 1995.
He even claimed that the image of the Muslims as victims was untrue and that they were the first to attack. Their fighters "had blood up to their shoulders," he said.
"I will defend that nation of ours and their cause that is just and holy," he said in his defiant opening statement. The aim of the "Muslim plotters," he added, was "100 percent power, as it was in the Ottoman Empire."
"This is reminiscent of those days," said Robertson, who reported from the Bosnian capital during the war. "These were the exact same justifications: 'we're the ones that had been under attack, we're the ones being wronged.'
"It's very telling that he's not trying to address specific issues, such as the Srebrenica massacre and such like, which are going to be the main parts of the prosecution. | ['who is reporting?', 'his title?', 'who does he work for?', 'who is the report about?', 'his age?', 'did he do something bad?', 'where is the trial?', 'what is the charge?', 'anything else?', 'did many people die?'] | {'answers': ['Nic Robertson', 'Senior International Correspondent', 'CNN', 'Radovan Karadzic', '64', 'he is on trial for bad things', "the U.N.'s international tribunal at The Hague", 'genocide', 'war crimes and crimes against humanity', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [250, 250, 243, 52, 300, 450, 60, 149, 470, 633], 'answers_end': [298, 298, 298, 98, 346, 533, 148, 191, 519, 694]} |
3unh76focs5r5v5uvxsqff6f0bwmyk | (RollingStone.com) -- Ellie Goulding emerged in 2010 with a one-two punch: first, her (still-rising) helium-voiced hit "Lights," then, an elegant read of Elton John's "Your Song" that led to a gig at Prince William's wedding. As Cinderella stories go, it's a good one. But as a 25-year-old adept who dresses rave-y hooks in folk-rock tunefulness and art-pop filigree, Goulding earned her glass slippers.
"Halcyon," her second LP, pumps up her sound as befitting a court musician. The single "Anything Could Happen" has the London Community Gospel Choir swooping around staccato piano and club beats; elsewhere she's multitracked into a one-woman choir. If the songwriting doesn't quite measure up to U.K. art-pop divas like Kate Bush, the hooks always go to town, and her voice -- Dolly Parton-dazzling in the upper register -- mates gorgeously with electronics, swirling around itself on the title track, morphing through synthscapes on "Don't Say a Word." "I Need Your Love," a bangin' collab with Scottish rave-op master Calvin Harris (Rihanna's "We Found Love"), gets slotted as a "bonus cut," maybe to avoid confusing the more genteel fans. But Goulding's magic is in her multitasking. And if she really gets busy with current paramour Skrillex, things could get even more interesting.
See original story at RollingStone.com.
Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone.
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3ovr4i9uspj2s3p2yjb0gzmdfc3q41 | CHAPTER SEVEN.
A LEARNED SQUABBLE.
Bartolommeo Scala, secretary of the Florentine Republic, on whom Tito Melema had been thus led to anchor his hopes, lived in a handsome palace close to the Porta Pinti, now known as the Casa Gherardesca. His arms-- an azure ladder transverse on a golden field, with the motto _Gradatim_ placed over the entrance--told all comers that the miller's son held his ascent to honours by his own efforts a fact to be proclaimed without wincing. The secretary was a vain and pompous man, but he was also an honest one: he was sincerely convinced of his own merit, and could see no reason for feigning. The topmost round of his azure ladder had been reached by this time: he had held his secretaryship these twenty years-- had long since made his orations on the _ringhiera_, or platform of the Old Palace, as the custom was, in the presence of princely visitors, while Marzocco, the republican lion, wore his gold crown on the occasion, and all the people cried, "Viva Messer Bartolommeo!"--had been on an embassy to Rome, and had there been made titular Senator, Apostolical Secretary, Knight of the Golden Spur; and had, eight years ago, been Gonfaloniere--last goal of the Florentine citizen's ambition. Meantime he had got richer and richer, and more and more gouty, after the manner of successful mortality; and the Knight of the Golden Spur had often to sit with helpless cushioned heel under the handsome loggia he had built for himself, overlooking the spacious gardens and lawn at the back of his palace. | ['Was the secretary a humble man?', 'What kind of man was he?', 'Was his palace ugly?', 'What was the name of it?', 'What did his parent do for a living?', 'How did he make it to where is is now?', 'Was he proud of this achievement?', 'What type of medical problem did he have?', 'What part of him did the gout affect?', 'What color was the ladder at the palace entrance?', 'What did it say on the ladder?', 'Did he hold backing bragging about his success?', 'How long had he been the secretary?'] | {'answers': ['no', 'a vain and pompous man', 'no', 'the Casa Gherardesca', 'a miller', 'his own merit', 'yes', 'gout', 'his heel', 'azure', 'Gradatim', 'no', 'twenty years'], 'answers_start': [476, 477, 1423, 165, 352, 550, 931, 1277, 1390, 633, 298, 595, 709], 'answers_end': [516, 517, 1544, 241, 389, 593, 966, 1300, 1423, 671, 332, 632, 750]} |
3f6hpjw4jd0x9m616erif971jvjw22 | Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A massive car bomb tore through the heart of a bustling marketplace in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, killing at least 100 people -- including many women and children -- and injuring at least 200 others, officials said.
A vehicle packed with 150 kilograms (330 pounds) of explosives detonated at the Meena Bazaar, a labyrinth of shops popular with women. The impact destroyed buildings, burying people underneath the rubble, and sparked massive fires in the shops, mosques, and homes.
In a year of seemingly endless militant attacks in Pakistan, this was the deadliest. Those who survived described a narrow escape:
"I ducked quickly and when I looked up it was complete darkness," said Imdad. "I couldn't see anyone. The cars and the van were lying upside down."
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Fareed Ullah, a student at a nearby mosque, was injured when he fell from the second floor as he tried to escape a fire ignited by the blast at the Meena Bazaar.
"We only saw a red blaze and nothing else," he said from his hospital bed. "My friends and I fell from the second floor. We didn't know where we were."
The remote-controlled detonation killed at least 100 people and injured as many as 200 others, hospital and government officials said. The deaths include 68 males and 32 females, including 10 children, the head of the main hospital in Peshawar said.
The car bomb left a 10-foot-wide crater, and the flames spread quickly through stores selling highly flammable fabric. | ['How many children were killed in the explosion?', 'Where did the car bomb go off?', 'About how many were killed?', 'Who was injured falling from the 2nd floor?', 'About how many total were injured?', 'How many men were killed?', 'What was the vehicle packed with?', 'How much?', 'How much is that in pounds?', 'How many women were killed?', 'How was the bomb detonated?', 'What was highly flammable in the stores?', 'How wide was the crater the explosion left?', 'What news institution wrote the article?', 'What was the name of the Bazaar where the incident happend?', 'Who is the Bazaar popular with?', 'Where was Farred Ullah a student?', 'Was he studying engineering?', 'Who else fell with him from the 2nd floor?', 'Did the explosion happen on a Thursday?'] | {'answers': ['10', 'Peshawar, Pakistan', '100', 'Fareed Ullah', '200', '68', 'explosives', '150 kilograms', '330 pounds', '32', 'remote-controlled', 'fabric', '10-foot-wide crater', 'CNN', 'Meena', 'women', 'a nearby mosque', 'unknown', 'unknown', 'No'], 'answers_start': [1175, 29, 28, 857, 29, 1310, 251, 251, 251, 1310, 1175, 1427, 1427, 0, 251, 251, 857, -1, -1, 29], 'answers_end': [1423, 249, 248, 1019, 247, 1424, 516, 386, 385, 1424, 1310, 1545, 1545, 248, 385, 385, 1018, -1, -1, 248]} |
32utubmz7gweia6szxfxu0rr6vvbvg | (CNN) -- They were a Parisian group of artists that gave birth to the Impressionism art movement, so it is perhaps fitting that one of their devotees records the French Open with those broad brushstrokes.
Year after year, Joel Blanc makes the short pilgrimage from his Paris studio to the Stade Roland Garros for the tennis year's second grand slam, aiming to encapsulate the tournament's magic onto his canvas.
In a style reminiscent of those Impressionist forefathers, he brings to life in his paintings what he witnesses taking place in front of him on the famous red clay courts.
"When I begin the painting, I don't know exactly what will happen but I know what I want to introduce in the beginning. After, it's a story of life," he told CNN's Open Court show.
"I know how it begins, but I don't know how it finishes."
A key principle of Impressionism was to paint outdoors rather than inside a studio, so it's a style tailor-made to Blanc's own way of working.
It's an approach that has won over tennis stars such as Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal -- both fans and owners of the Frenchman's paintings -- or television companies, who invite him to cover sporting events.
Making his first visit to depict the action on the main court of Philippe Chatrier in 2004, Blanc has returned every year since, attracted by both the stadium and the French Open's allure and charm.
"Roland Garros is my favorite place," says the 68-year-old. "It's very special, it's near to my studio, I'm like a neighbor. | ['Does Blanc know how it begins?', 'What about how to finish it?', 'Does he like to paint outside?', 'What movement is painting outdoors a key principle of?', 'Versus painting where?', 'What sport is Federer famous for playing?', 'Who else is good at tennis?', "Do Federer and Nadal dig Blanc's paintings?", 'Do they own any?', 'Who invites Blanc to come cover sporting events?', 'When did he make the first of such visits?', 'Which court was that on?', 'Has he ever come back since that first time?', 'How often?', "Is he attracted to a woman's allure and charm?", 'What is he attracted by?', 'Is it a far pilgrimage from his studio to the Stade?', 'Is Roland Garros one of his favorite places?', 'How old is he, anyway?', 'What brush strokes does he use to record the French Open with?'] | {'answers': ['Yes', 'No', 'Yes', 'Impressionism', 'inside a studio', 'Tennis', 'Rafael Nadal', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'television companies', '2004', 'the main court of Philippe Chatrier', 'Yes', 'Every year', 'unknown', "both the stadium and the French Open's allure and charm", 'no', 'Yes', '68', 'broad brushstrokes'], 'answers_start': [773, 796, 834, 833, 833, 980, 978, 978, 978, 1123, 1188, 1188, 1280, 1280, -1, 1317, 207, 1389, 1432, 9], 'answers_end': [829, 831, 977, 916, 915, 1047, 1063, 1116, 1116, 1188, 1278, 1270, 1315, 1315, -1, 1385, 296, 1426, 1447, 203]} |
34qn5it0tzrfnb75to7yi5b04rl08y | New York (CNN) -- A self-described "ex-madam" who claims she supplied fellow city comptroller candidate Eliot Spitzer with escorts several years ago is facing charges of illegally distributing prescription drugs, authorities said.
Kristin Davis, 38, was arrested on Monday night and charged with selling Adderall, Xanax and other drugs. She's also accused of orchestrating the sale of approximately 180 oxycodone pills for cash.
The candidate was released Tuesday on $100,000 bail, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for September 5. Prosecutors said she will have strict pretrial supervision.
"Prescription drug abuse is the fastest-growing drug problem in this country, resulting in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, and this office has a zero tolerance policy towards anyone who helps to spread this plague at any level," Preet Bharara, Manhattan U.S. Attorney, said in a statement.
Spitzer, Weiner and why New York is talking about sex
Davis is charged with four counts of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance. She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each count, if convicted.
Prosecutors allege that from 2009 through 2011 Davis bought ecstasy pills, Adderall pills and Xanax pills from an FBI cooperating witness at least once a month, paying hundreds of dollars for each purchase. She told the witness she provided these drugs to people at house parties, authorities say.
An attorney for Davis was could not be immediately reached for comment.
Davis' campaign manager, Andrew Miller, said he was aware of the arrest but couldn't provide any information. | ['Who was arrested in this case?', 'What is her former profession?', 'Who did she supply with prostitutes?', 'What is she charged with?', 'What other kinds of drugs?', 'How old is she?', 'How much is her bail?', 'When is her hearing?', 'Will she have loose supervision before trial?', 'What is the quickest increasing drug problem in the US?', 'Does it kill fewer individuals than heroin and cocaine?', 'Who is the U.S. attorney involved in this case?', "Who is the defendant's campaign manager?", 'What is the longest imprisonment the defendant could face?'] | {'answers': ['Kristin Davis', '"ex-madam"', 'Eliot Spitzer', 'she is charged with selling Adderall, Xanax and other drugs', 'oxycodone', '38', '$100,000', 'September 5.', 'no', 'Prescription drug abuse is', 'no', 'Preet Bharara', 'Andrew Miller', '20 years'], 'answers_start': [233, 18, 94, 284, 339, 233, 452, 504, 540, 602, 680, 854, 1545, 1088], 'answers_end': [264, 46, 118, 337, 430, 251, 484, 539, 600, 680, 747, 915, 1585, 1128]} |
324g5b4fb38bnx2mjjfs45f5tdb70q | It was three o'clock. A man was walking down a high street in the north of England. He was wearing a dark suit and carrying a suitcase. His name was Terry and he and he had lived away from home for twenty years. In fact he was in prison , Terry was feeling totally depressed because everything in his hometown had changed. The park where he used to play was now a car park. The house where he was born had dis appeared and in its place, ironically , was a bank. Terry wanted to have a cup of coffee in the old small restaurant where he used to go with his friend after school, but it had become a fast food restaurant. He entered it, sat down, and asked for a cup of coffee. Then he felt sadder when he thought of what he had seen. While paying for the coffee he found an old ticket in his wallet. It was for a pair of shoes he had taken to be repaired the day before the bank robbery 20 years ago. The shoe repairer was an old man then, so Terry was sure that he must be dead. But when he turned the cor ner of the steet, he couldn't believe his eyes. The shop was still there! And it was the same shoe repairer! He looked about a hundred years old. Terry was so happy! Terry told him that he had lived in Australia for the past twenty years and that he forgot to pick up the shoes before he left England. The shoe repairer disappeared into the back of the shop. After ten minutes he came back. "Were they dark brown, Italian shoes, size 42?"he asked slowly. "Yes!nsaid Terry, excitedly. "I haven't repaired them,"the shoe repairer said slowly. "You can take them tomorrow afternoon. " | ["Isn't it ironic, don't you think? Maybe a little too ironic?", "Had the shoe repairer fixed Terry's shoes?", "How many years had it been since he'd left them there?", 'How old did the shoe repairer look to be now?', 'Where did he disappear into?', 'How long was he back there?', 'What color were the shoes?', 'What style?', 'Were they dark or light brown?', 'What size?', "Where did Terry say he'd been living?", 'When did the shoe repairer tell him he could pick them up?', 'What time does this story take place?', 'Where does it take place?', 'Was Terry carrying anything with him?', 'What?', 'Where had he lived the last 20 years?', 'What was in place of his house?', 'What had the old small restaurant he used to eat with a friend after school become?'] | {'answers': ['sure', 'no', '20 years ago', 'a hundred years old', 'the back of the shop', 'ten minutes', 'brown,', 'Italian', 'dark', '42', 'Australia', 'tomorrow afternoon', "three o'clock.", 'England.', 'Yes', 'a suitcase', 'in prison', 'a car park.', 'a fast food restaurant'], 'answers_start': [374, 1489, 884, 1130, 1342, 1370, 1412, 1419, 1406, 1439, 1206, 1564, 7, 75, 115, 123, 226, 361, 593], 'answers_end': [461, 1583, 897, 1149, 1362, 1381, 1418, 1426, 1411, 1441, 1218, 1583, 21, 83, 134, 134, 236, 373, 617]} |
3r5f3lqfv2kfao0b4z9mlq4m0v4zo7 | A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.
Hunting and gathering was humanity's first and most successful adaptation, occupying at least 90 percent of human history. Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers have been displaced or conquered by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world.
Only a few contemporary societies are classified as hunter-gatherers, and many supplement their foraging activity with horticulture and/or keeping animals.
In the 1950s, Lewis Binford suggested that early humans were obtaining meat via scavenging, not hunting. Early humans in the Lower Paleolithic lived in forests and woodlands, which allowed them to collect seafood, eggs, nuts, and fruits besides scavenging. Rather than killing large animals for meat, according to this view, they used carcasses of such animals that had either been killed by predators or that had died of natural causes. Archaeological and genetic data suggest that the source populations of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers survived in sparsely wooded areas and dispersed through areas of high primary productivity while avoiding dense forest cover. | ['Are any current societies considered hunter gatherers?', 'What else do those societies do?', 'What is a hunter gatherer?', 'How come agricultural groups are different?', 'How much of our history was hunting and gathering done in?', 'When were they displaced?', 'When did Lewis Binford comment about scavenging?', 'What other foods did people in the Lower Paleolithic collect?', 'Was it thought that they killed big animals?', 'Where did the carcasses come from?'] | {'answers': ['Just a few', 'farm or keep animals', 'human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging', 'unknown', '90 percent', 'Following the invention of agriculture', 'the 1950s', 'seafood, eggs, nuts, and fruits', 'no', 'killed by predators'], 'answers_start': [511, 590, 4, -1, 325, 358, 671, 793, 925, 1051], 'answers_end': [534, 664, 98, -1, 353, 396, 702, 905, 968, 1070]} |
3r2pkq87nw85fvqprf6ntrcrascmis | Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimental tools to probe these phenomena.
The advancement of science generally depends on the interplay between experimental studies and theory. In some cases, theoretical physics adheres to standards of mathematical rigor while giving little weight to experiments and observations. For example, while developing special relativity, Albert Einstein was concerned with the Lorentz transformation which left Maxwell's equations invariant, but was apparently uninterested in the Michelson–Morley experiment on Earth's drift through a luminiferous ether. Conversely, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect, previously an experimental result lacking a theoretical formulation.
A physical theory is a model of physical events. It is judged by the extent to which its predictions agree with empirical observations. The quality of a physical theory is also judged on its ability to make new predictions which can be verified by new observations. A physical theory differs from a mathematical theorem in that while both are based on some form of axioms, judgment of mathematical applicability is not based on agreement with any experimental results. A physical theory similarly differs from a mathematical theory, in the sense that the word "theory" has a different meaning in mathematical terms. A physical theory involves one or more relationships between various measurable quantities. Archimedes realized that a ship floats by displacing its mass of water, Pythagoras understood the relation between the length of a vibrating string and the musical tone it produces. Other examples include entropy as a measure of the uncertainty regarding the positions and motions of unseen particles and the quantum mechanical idea that (action and) energy are not continuously variable. | ['What is theoretical physics used to explain?', 'Can it also predict things?', 'What does it employ?', 'What part of physics is it different from?', 'What did Einstein develop?', 'What did he win for this?', 'What does a physical theory involve?', 'What keeps a boat above water?', 'Who figured this out?', 'Did he also study musical tone?'] | {'answers': ['natural phenomena.', 'yes', 'matematical models', 'This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimental tools to probe these phenomena.', 'an explanation of the photoelectric effect', 'the Nobel prize', "it's a model of physical events/", 'it displaces its mass of water', 'Archimedes', 'Pythagoras understood the relation between thno'], 'answers_start': [0, 0, 0, 180, 791, 792, 953, 1661, 1661, 1733], 'answers_end': [179, 179, 179, 281, 880, 881, 1002, 1732, 1732, 1841]} |
3nxnz5rs1axtjrqzjfylxggywen79e | CHAPTER III.
TWO QUARRELS.
Three days later the shooting party assembled. Several gentlemen came to stay at the house, while Ronald Mervyn and his party, of course, put up at Mervyn Hall. The shooting was very successful, and the party were well pleased with their visit. Reginald Carne was quiet and courteous to his guests, generally accompanying them through the day, though he did not himself carry a gun. After the first day's shooting there was a dinner party at Mervyn Hall, and the following evening there was one at The Hold.
Lieutenant Gulston enjoyed himself more than any one else, though he was one of the least successful of the sportsmen, missing easy shots in a most unaccountable manner, and seeming to take but moderate interest in the shooting. He had, very shortly after arriving at the house, come to the conclusion that the doctor was altogether mistaken, and that Reginald Carne showed no signs whatever of being in any way different from other men. "The doctor is so accustomed to us sailors," he said to himself, "that if a man is quiet and studious he begins to fancy directly there must be something queer about him. That is always the way with doctors who make madness a special study. They suspect every one they come across of being out of their mind. I shouldn't be at all surprised if he doesn't fancy I am cracked myself. The idea is perfectly absurd. I watched Carne closely at dinner, and no one could have been more pleasant and gentlemanly than he was. I expect Mackenzie must have heard a word let drop about this old story, and of course if he did he would set down Carne at once as being insane. Well, thank goodness, that's off my mind; it's been worrying me horribly for the last few days. I have been a fool to trouble myself so about Mackenzie's croakings, but now I will not think anything more about it." | ['Who had the most of fun of anyone there?', "How had his day gone, compared to everyone else's?", 'How were his shooting skills that day?', 'Did he seem very into it?', 'What had he decided about the doctor earlier?', 'About who?', 'What had the doctor diagnosed him as?', 'What does he say the doctor might think of him?', 'How long after the hunt convened did guests stay at the house?', 'Who stayed at Mervyn Hall?', 'Was anyone with him?', 'Was everyone feeling good about the trip?', 'Was the hunt victorious?', 'Who was quiet?', 'But was he polite?', 'To who?', 'Did he accompany the other guys on the hunt?', 'Did he have a firearm?', 'Where did everyone eat the first night?', 'And the next night?'] | {'answers': ['Lieutenant Gulston.', 'One of the least successful.', 'He was missing easy shots.', 'Moderately.', 'He was altogether mistaken.', 'Reginald Carne.', 'Being out of his mind.', 'I am cracked myself.', 'Three days later.', 'Ronald Mervyn.', 'His party.', 'Yes.', 'Yes.', 'Reginald Carne.', 'Yes.', 'His guests.', 'Yes.', 'No.', 'Mervyn Hall.', 'The Hold.'], 'answers_start': [541, 599, 660, 714, 822, 887, 1220, 1287, 31, 129, 129, 226, 192, 276, 276, 276, 330, 374, 413, 486], 'answers_end': [600, 658, 711, 769, 883, 931, 1286, 1360, 122, 143, 191, 275, 225, 301, 315, 328, 374, 413, 485, 539]} |
3tpwus5f891a74y337gormgnvpacwb | Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country. It spans approximately and has a population of 45.7 million (as of 2009). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Burma.
Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys as much as . Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
The Han Empire first recorded diplomatic relations with the province at the end of the 2nd century BC. It became the seat of a Sino-Tibetan-speaking kingdom of Nanzhao in the 8th century AD. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most-likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, with local control exercised by warlords until the 1930s. From the Yuan dynasty onward, the area was part of a central-government sponsored population movement towards the Southwestern frontier, with 2 major waves of migrants arriving from Han-majority areas in northern and southeast China. As with other parts of China's southwest, Japanese occupation in the north during World War II forced another migration of majority Han people into the region. These two waves of migration contributed to Yunnan being one of the most ethnically diverse provinces of China, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 34 percent of its total population. Major ethnic groups include Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Dai and Miao. | ['About how many species of higher plants does Yunnan have?', 'How many total are there in China?', 'What is Yunnan?', 'In what country?', 'What is its capital?', 'What was Kunming known as before?', 'How many people are there?', 'As of which year?', 'Which empire first recorded relations with Yunnan?', 'When was that?', 'What was Nanzhao?', 'What kind of area is Yunnan located in', 'Where do most of the people live?', 'Does it have a lot of natural resources?', 'What are two of its reserves?', 'Which are the largest reserves in China?', 'What other major reserves does it have?', 'When did the Mongols conquer it?', 'With local control by warlords, until when?', 'How many waves of migration were there?'] | {'answers': ['17,000 or more', 'approximately 30,000', 'a province', "People's Republic of China", 'Kunming', 'Yunnan', '45.7 million', '2009', 'The Han Empire', 'end of 2nd century BC', 'a kingdom', 'a mountainous area', 'the eastern part', 'Yes', 'aluminium and lead', 'aluminium, lead, zinc and tin', 'copper and nickel', 'the 13th century', '1930s', 'Two'], 'answers_start': [756, 757, 0, 0, 175, 214, 100, 132, 990, 990, 1093, 395, 512, 667, 855, 855, 931, 1265, 1319, 1515], 'answers_end': [854, 855, 101, 99, 244, 245, 160, 173, 1091, 1092, 1180, 510, 578, 702, 931, 930, 988, 1317, 1375, 1610]} |
32vnztt0a7424442by00lpwianbr4m | CHAPTER ELEVEN
EXPERIMENTS
"The first of June! The Kings are off to the seashore tomorrow, and I'm free. Three months' vacation--how I shall enjoy it!" exclaimed Meg, coming home one warm day to find Jo laid upon the sofa in an unusual state of exhaustion, while Beth took off her dusty boots, and Amy made lemonade for the refreshment of the whole party.
"Aunt March went today, for which, oh, be joyful!" said Jo. "I was mortally afraid she'd ask me to go with her. If she had, I should have felt as if I ought to do it, but Plumfield is about as gay as a churchyard, you know, and I'd rather be excused. We had a flurry getting the old lady off, and I had a fright every time she spoke to me, for I was in such a hurry to be through that I was uncommonly helpful and sweet, and feared she'd find it impossible to part from me. I quaked till she was fairly in the carriage, and had a final fright, for as it drove of, she popped out her head, saying, 'Josyphine, won't you--?' I didn't hear any more, for I basely turned and fled. I did actually run, and whisked round the corner where I felt safe."
"Poor old Jo! She came in looking as if bears were after her," said Beth, as she cuddled her sister's feet with a motherly air.
"Aunt March is a regular samphire, is she not?" observed Amy, tasting her mixture critically. | ['When will the Kings depart?', 'what date?', 'Is Meg happy about it?', 'Who was home when she arrived?', 'Did Jo greet her at the door?', 'what was she doing?', 'Was Beth making lemonade?', 'who did?', 'What was Beth doing?', 'were they clean?', 'Why was Amy making lemonade?', 'What was Jo afraid of?', 'to where?', "why didn't she want to go?", 'What did Beth say Jo looked like?', 'Are Jo and beth cousins?', 'are they related?', 'how?', "what did she do to Jo's feet?", 'with what?'] | {'answers': ['tomorrow', '"The first of June', 'yes', 'Jo, Beth and Amy', 'no', 'laying upon the sofa', 'no', 'Amy', 'taking her boots off', 'no', 'for the refreshment of the whole party', 'that Aunt March would ask her to go with her', 'Plumfield', "because she says it's as gay as a churchyard", 'as if bears were after her,', 'no', 'yes', "they're sisters", 'cuddled them', 'a motherly air'], 'answers_start': [85, 31, 136, 203, 204, 204, 302, 302, 272, 285, 319, 445, 533, 542, 1143, 1203, 1203, 1202, 1191, 1222], 'answers_end': [93, 49, 153, 305, 225, 225, 319, 305, 296, 296, 358, 472, 542, 574, 1171, 1211, 1211, 1211, 1198, 1236]} |
3hya4d452rjvy0k6gphibll1njtf24 | 7 January, 2014 A new report says more and more international students are attending colleges and universities in the United States. It also notes a large increase in the number of international students from China. These findings are from the latest Open Doors Report. The report documents the record number of international students in the United States during 2012, 2013 school year. It says more than seven hundred sixty-four thousand four-hundred such students were attending American colleges and universities during the last two years. That represents an increase of almost six percent than one year earlier. On the other hand, the number of Americans studying overseas increased by one percent, which reached nineteen thousand this year. The report says one hundred ninety-four thousand students at American colleges and universities were from China .That is an increase of more than twenty-three percent over the year before. Peggy Blumenthal, an expert of international education, described the effect of the increase in Chinesestudents. "Now they have been coming for some time. But this year was the highest level ever." She says many Chinese families are able to pay for the highest-quality education for their children. The children mainly choose to study in America. "We know many of them have enough income to be able to afford to send them anywhere in the world if they want to go. And for the most part, looking around the world, Chinese students still prefer to come to the United States as their choice." Chinese students are not the only ones who want to attend American colleges and universities. After China, India sends the second largest number of students to the United States for higher education. India has about one hundred thousand students in American schools. South Korea is third with about seventy-two thousand students. Why do so many foreign students study in the United States? Peggy Blumenthal provides one reason. "The advantage America has is that we have a huge system and a very perfect system. So there are over four thousand universities and colleges in the United States. Among them are some top ones in the world, and what that tells us is there is still a lot of room to host international students. Foreign students represent less than four percent of the total student population in American higher education. And from Learning English, that's the VOA Special English Education Report. I'm Bob Doughty. Thanks for listening. | ['what is the expert called?', 'what is she an expert in?'] | {'answers': ['Peggy Blumenthal', 'international education'], 'answers_start': [935, 934], 'answers_end': [989, 989]} |
3jnqlm5ft4mhysu220kg6yqlkmal2o | On the third day of November, Ron and Pam went to the store. They wanted to get some food for a new recipe. It was late in the afternoon, but they wanted to eat the food soon at dinner. To save time they split the list in half. Ron was to get the pasta and tomato sauce, and Pam was to get the vegetables and juice. They went their separate ways in the store, and made plans to meet in the checkout line in half an hour.
On her way to the fruit and vegetable section, Pam ran into her friend Tom. Tom had bought a pet bunny for his friend and wanted to buy it some food. He asked Pam what he needs to feed the bunny. Pam told him lettuce and carrots, so he put 5 heads of lettuce in his basket along with one bag of carrots. Tom said goodbye to Pam and went to the front of the store to buy his vegetables. Now it was time for Pam to pick out the vegetables she would buy for dinner. She wanted to make a salad, so she bought spinach, 2 big red tomatoes, a box of mushrooms, and 3 cucumbers. Pam then went to where they kept the juice and grabbed a big bottle of lemonade.
Pam went to the front of the store and met Ron. They handed their items to the sales clerk so that they could buy them. The total cost of the food was 20 dollars. As a gift to Pam, Ron paid for the food and said happy birthday. As a gift he would be cooking her dinner. | ['what day did Ron and Pam go to the store?', 'was it late in the afternoon?', 'what did they want to do soon?', 'to save time, how did they divide the list?', 'where were they supposed to meet?', 'who did Pam run into?', "what was he getting for his friend's bunny?", 'did Pam know what type of food?', 'how many heads of lettuce did Tom get?', 'and how many bags of carrots?', 'What did Pam want to make?', 'how many cucumbers did she get for it?', 'did she get anything else?', 'who did she go to the front of the store to meet?', 'how much did they hand the clerk?', 'who paid', "was it Pam's birthday?", "what would be Ron's gift to Pam?"] | {'answers': ['the third day of November', 'yes', 'eat the food soon at dinner.', 'they split the list in half', 'the checkout line', 'her friend Tom', 'food.', 'yes', 'Five', 'one', 'a salad', 'Three', 'lemonade', 'Ron', '20 dollars', 'Ron', 'yes', 'cooking her dinner.'], 'answers_start': [0, 108, 142, 186, 375, 469, 545, 619, 656, 707, 886, 981, 1041, 1077, 1197, 1258, 1240, 1305], 'answers_end': [59, 136, 185, 226, 403, 497, 572, 651, 695, 725, 912, 992, 1073, 1123, 1238, 1279, 1303, 1346]} |
3w8cv64qj2zqcgwbwokxot5s96r9h3 | Chapter 7. THE LION AND THE LAMB
When the boys were gone a lull fell upon Plumfield, and the family scattered to various places for brief outings, as August had come and all felt the need of change. The Professor took Mrs Jo to the mountains. The Laurences were at the seashore, and there Meg's family and the Bhaer boys took turns to visit, as someone must always be at home to keep things in order.
Mrs Meg, with Daisy, was in office when the events occurred which we are about to relate. Rob and Ted were just up from Rocky Nook, and Nan was passing a week with her friend as the only relaxation she allowed herself. Demi was off on a run with Tom, so Rob was man of the house, with old Silas as general overseer. The sea air seemed to have gone to Ted's head, for he was unusually freakish, and led his gentle aunt and poor Rob a life of it with his pranks. Octoo was worn out with the wild rides he took, and Don openly rebelled when ordered to leap and show off his accomplishments; while the girls at college were both amused and worried by the ghosts who haunted the grounds at night, the unearthly melodies that disturbed their studious hours, and the hairbreadth escapes of this restless boy by flood and field and fire. Something happened at length which effectually sobered Ted and made a lasting impression on both the boys; for sudden danger and a haunting fear turned the Lion into a lamb and the Lamb into a lion, as far as courage went. | ['What fell on Plumfiled?', 'Who did the professor take to the Mountains?', 'Were the Laurences at the seashore?', 'When everything occured where was Mrs. Meg & Daisy?', 'Why was Rob the man of the house?', 'What were the girls in college worried about?', 'what turned the lion into a lamb and the lamb into a lion', 'who is Silas', 'Was Octoo worn out?', 'What did Don do?'] | {'answers': ['a lull', 'Mrs Jo', 'Yes', 'in office', 'Demi was off on a run with Tom', 'ghosts', 'sudden danger and a haunting fear', 'general overseer', 'Yes', 'openly rebelled'], 'answers_start': [59, 220, 245, 430, 624, 1052, 1346, 703, 866, 922], 'answers_end': [65, 226, 279, 439, 654, 1096, 1379, 719, 885, 937]} |
3v5q80fxixr0io4dwuggacw4lxe23h | The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or U of C) is a private research university in Chicago. The university, established in 1890, consists of The College, various graduate programs, interdisciplinary committees organized into four academic research divisions and seven professional schools. Beyond the arts and sciences, Chicago is also well known for its professional schools, which include the Pritzker School of Medicine, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Law School, the School of Social Service Administration, the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies and the Divinity School. The university currently enrolls approximately 5,000 students in the College and around 15,000 students overall.
University of Chicago scholars have played a major role in the development of various academic disciplines, including: the Chicago school of economics, the Chicago school of sociology, the law and economics movement in legal analysis, the Chicago school of literary criticism, the Chicago school of religion, and the behavioralism school of political science. Chicago's physics department helped develop the world's first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction beneath the university's Stagg Field. Chicago's research pursuits have been aided by unique affiliations with world-renowned institutions like the nearby Fermilab and Argonne National Laboratory, as well as the Marine Biological Laboratory. The university is also home to the University of Chicago Press, the largest university press in the United States. With an estimated completion date of 2020, the Barack Obama Presidential Center will be housed at the university and include both the Obama presidential library and offices of the Obama Foundation. | ['When was teh University established?', 'How many professionals schools is it organized into?', 'How many students are enrolled?', 'and in the college?', 'What is the University home to?', 'Is that a small press?', 'What will be completed in 2020?', 'where will that be?', 'What will be there?', 'Does the University have a medical school?', 'A law school?'] | {'answers': ['1890', 'seven', '15,000', '5,000', 'University of Chicago Press,', 'No, it is the largest university press in the United States.', 'the Barack Obama Presidential Center', 'It will be housed at the university', 'both the Obama presidential library and offices of the Obama Foundation.', 'Yes, the Pritzker School of Medicine', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [133, 272, 769, 728, 1537, 1566, 1659, 1705, 1735, 404, 486], 'answers_end': [137, 277, 775, 733, 1565, 1614, 1696, 1729, 1814, 432, 500]} |
3kibxj1wd5uklt1p4y6cybg9xtfko9 | NEW YORK (CNN) -- A rarely seen portrait of Michael Jackson is on display inside a Harlem luxury car dealership. Macky Dancy, a partner at Dancy-Power Automotive, said the oil painting titled "The Book" is believed to be the only portrait for which Jackson sat.
The oil painting titled "The Book" is on display at Dancy-Power Automotive in Harlem, New York.
A different portrait of the entertainer was among items auctioned from his Neverland Ranch in April. It is not clear whether Jackson sat for that painting.
The painting on display in Harlem belongs to Marty Abrams, a friend and customer of the owners of the high-profile dealership.
The 40-inch by 50-inch portrait, by Australian painter Brett Livingstone-Strong, sold for $2.1 million in 1990. Abrams acquired it as part of an unrelated business deal in 1992 and had it stored.
The painting shows Jackson sitting in Renaissance-era clothes and holding a book. Jackson sat for the portrait because he was a friend of Livingstone-Strong's.
The painting was unveiled at the Dancy-Power Automotive Group showroom on Thursday but was removed Friday because of crowd concerns. It returned to the showroom floor Monday morning.
Dancy said the painting's owner chose the showroom because it's near the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where the Jackson 5 won their first taste of fame by winning Amateur Night in 1967.
He said Abrams hopes the painting in some way can raise money for charities in the Harlem neighborhood. Dancy said Abrams is not necessarily interested in selling the portrait. | ['who was the portrait of ?', 'what was the portiait made of?', 'did it have a name?', 'What was it called?', 'Did anyone buy the portrait?', 'who?', 'did he pay for it or given?', 'was the painting ever showed publicly', 'Where?', 'Why was it removed friday?', 'When did it return to the showroom?', 'Did Abrams ever sold the portriat?', 'Did it help raise money for charities?'] | {'answers': ['Michael Jackson', 'oil', 'Yes', 'The Book', 'yes', 'Abrams acquired it', 'he got it as part of an unrelated business deal', 'Yes', 'in Harlem', 'because of crowd concerns', 'Monday', 'No', 'Abrams hopes so'], 'answers_start': [32, 168, 176, 176, 649, 730, 760, 520, 520, 1091, 1141, 1494, 1379], 'answers_end': [59, 184, 201, 201, 735, 779, 817, 544, 553, 1140, 1182, 1553, 1454]} |
3x4mxao0bgoed6nml46jghf9vs7wrz | CHAPTER II
HESTER THINKS IT "A GREAT PITY"
"You will understand," Mannering said, as the brougham drove off, "that you and I are speaking together merely as friends. I have nothing official to say to you. It would be presumption on my part to assume that the time is ripe for anything definite while you are still at the head of an unbeaten Government. But one learns to read the signs of the times. I think that you and I both know that you cannot last the session."
"It is a positive luxury at times," Redford answered, "to be able to indulge in absolute candour. We cannot last the session. You pulled us through our last tight corner, but we shall part, I suppose, on the New Tenement Bill, and then we shall come a cropper."
Mannering nodded.
"The Opposition," he said, "are not strong enough to form a Government alone. And I do not think that a one-man Cabinet would be popular. It has been suggested to me that at no time in political history have the conditions been more favourable for a really strong coalition Government, containing men of moderate views on both sides. I am anxious to know whether you would be willing to join such a combination."
"Under whom?" Lord Redford asked.
"Under myself," Mannering answered, gravely. "Don't think me over-presumptuous. The matter has been very carefully thought out. You could not serve under Rushleigh, nor could he serve under you. But you could both be invaluable members of a Cabinet of which I was the nominal head. I do not wish to entrap you into consent, however, without your fully understanding this: a modified, and to a certain extent an experimental, scheme of tariff reform would be part of our programme." | ['Were the two men having a conversation on the record?', 'What was the name of the man who started the discussion?', 'Who was the man responding to him?', 'Was the second man a noble?', 'Did he believe his party would endure the term?', "Where did he believe his party and the other man's, would differ?", 'Was he grateful for the chance to be honest?', 'Did the first man say it was time for certain action?', 'Did he thing the opposing party was strong?', "What did he suggest wouldn't be popular?", 'What did he believe circumstances favored?', 'With what kind of membership?', 'Was he relaxed?', 'What did he want to know?', 'Who did he suggest would lead it?', 'Was the plan hastily decided?', 'Who did he suggest Redford would be unable to work for?', 'Did he believe the reverse was true as well?', 'How did he characterize the value of their service to him?', 'What vehicle left as the conversation began?'] | {'answers': ['No.', 'Mannering', 'Redford', 'Yes.', 'No.', 'on the New Tenement Bill', 'Yes.', 'No.', 'No.', 'a one-man Cabinet', 'a really strong coalition Government', 'men of moderate views', 'No.', 'whether Redford would be willing to join such a combination', 'Himself.', 'No.', 'Rushleigh', 'Yes.', 'invaluable', 'the brougham'], 'answers_start': [170, 70, 510, 1187, 571, 674, 474, 208, 786, 860, 1006, 1055, 1091, 1113, 1209, 1309, 1363, 1374, 1426, 88], 'answers_end': [207, 80, 518, 1199, 600, 699, 570, 297, 801, 877, 1042, 1076, 1104, 1168, 1224, 1335, 1372, 1402, 1436, 101]} |
38sksku7r1xl9d84r358tex2an8il8 | BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- The U.S. Army says it will honor the "heroism and sacrifice" of 350 U.S. soldiers who were held as slaves by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Bernard "Jack" Vogel died in a Nazi slave camp in the arms of fellow U.S. soldier, Anthony Acevedo, in 1945.
The decision by the Army effectively reverses decades of silence about what the soldiers endured in the final months of the war in 1945 at Berga an der Elster, a subcamp of Buchenwald where soldiers were beaten, starved, killed and forced to work in tunnels to hide German equipment.
More than 100 U.S. soldiers died in the camp or on a forced death march. Before they were sent back to the United States, survivors signed a secrecy document with the U.S. government to never speak about their captivity.
"The interests of American prisoners of war in the event of future wars, moreover, demand that the secrets of this war be vigorously safeguarded," the document says.
CNN last month reported the story of Anthony Acevedo, who was a 20-year-old medic when he was sent to Berga with the other soldiers. Acevedo kept a diary that details the day-to-day events inside the camp and lists names and prisoner numbers of men as they died or were executed. See inside Acevedo's diary »
That story prompted a chain of events, including hundreds of CNN.com users urging their congressional leaders to honor the soldiers of Berga. Two congressmen, Reps. Joe Baca, D-California, and Spencer Bachus, R-Alabama, wrote U.S. Army Secretary Peter Geren and asked him to recognize the 350 soldiers. | ['How many US soldiers died?', 'How did they die?', 'Who were held as slaves?', 'how many were held?', 'Who detained them?', 'How old was Anthony Acevedo?', 'Where was Acevedo sent?', 'Who reported the story of Acevedo?', 'when?', 'did he keep a diary?', 'Who is honoring the soldiers?', 'During what war were they held?', 'When did Bernard Vogel die?', "Who's arms did he die in?", 'Was Acevedo a soldier?', 'Were soldiers beaten?', 'Were they ever starved?', 'Who was asked to recognize the soldiers?', 'What is his title?', 'Did the survivors sign a secrecy document?'] | {'answers': ['More than 100', 'in the camp or on a forced death march', 'U.S. soldiers', '350', 'Nazi Germany', '20', 'to Berga', 'CNN', 'last month', 'yes', 'The U.S. Army', 'World War II.', '1945.', 'Anthony Acevedo', 'yes', 'yes', 'yes', 'Peter Geren', 'U.S. Army Secretary', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [573, 591, 99, 92, 117, 998, 1046, 964, 964, 1097, 31, 153, 176, 223, 235, 471, 470, 1495, 1501, 695], 'answers_end': [606, 644, 136, 126, 152, 1039, 1071, 997, 997, 1117, 63, 175, 285, 274, 274, 498, 506, 1578, 1532, 730]} |
3jpsl1dz5szwrvsrrstap8d82c6an5 | The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the , was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 10 to 24, 1964. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's invasion of China, before ultimately being canceled because of World War II.
The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held in Asia, and the first time South Africa was barred from taking part due to its apartheid system in sports. (South Africa was, however, allowed to compete at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, also held in Tokyo, where it made its Paralympic Games debut.) Tokyo was chosen as the host city during the 55th IOC Session in West Germany, on May 26, 1959.
These games were also the first to be telecast internationally without the need for tapes to be flown overseas, as they had been for the 1960 Olympics four years earlier. The games were telecast to the United States using Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, and from there to Europe using Relay 1. These were also the first Olympic Games to have color telecasts, albeit partially. Certain events like the sumo wrestling and judo matches, sports huge in Japan, were tried out using Toshiba's new color transmission system, but only for the domestic market. History surrounding the 1964 Olympics was chronicled in the 1965 documentary film "Tokyo Olympiad", directed by Kon Ichikawa. | ['Who was banned for the first time?', 'Why?', 'Were they allowed to compete in another event?', 'Which one?', 'What year were these Summer Olympics held?', 'And where?', 'Was the country supposed to host the Olympics before?', 'When?', 'Why did it not work out for them?', 'Who was supposed to take over?', 'Did that happen?', 'Why not?', 'From what day to what day were the 1964 Olympics held?', 'What was significant about the international telecasting?', 'What was used to telecast them to the US?', 'How about to Europe?', 'Was it in color or black and white?', 'What was the documentary about it called?', 'Who directed it?', 'When was it made?'] | {'answers': ['South Africa', 'apartheid system in sports.', 'yes', 'Paralympics,', '1964', 'held in Tokyo, Japan', 'yes', '1940', "ecause of Japan's invasion of China", 'Helsinki', 'no', 'ultimately being canceled because of World War II', 'October 10 to 24, 1964', 'they were broadcast without the need for tapes to be flown overseas,', 'Syncom 3', 'from the US via Syncom3 then Europe on Relay 1.', 'both , some was in color, some not', 'Tokyo Olympiad', 'Kon Ichikawa.', '1965'], 'answers_start': [439, 440, 519, 520, 360, 91, 142, 143, 263, 212, 300, 307, 115, 759, 930, 1044, 1080, 1337, 1437, 1338], 'answers_end': [500, 518, 596, 598, 381, 111, 209, 210, 298, 262, 358, 356, 140, 871, 989, 1081, 1161, 1463, 1463, 1463]} |
3l6l49wxw0xdzh64ernxiormi36542 | Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could do to help her 3-year-old son Michael prepare for it. She and her husband found out that the new baby was going to be a girl. Day after day, night after night, Michael sang to his sister in his mom's tummy . Finally, Michael's little sister was born. But she was in a very serious condition. The doctor told the parents there was very little hope. They kept the baby girl in the intensive care unit (ICU, ). Karen was so sad. She decided to plan for her funeral . Michael, however, kept begging his parents to let him see his sister. "I want to sing to her," he would say. Finally Karen decided to take Michael to his sister. This may be the last time he sees her alive. Michael looked at his baby sister. After a moment, he began to sing. In the pure-hearted voice of a 3-year-old, Michael sang: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray." Instantly the baby girl seemed to _ . Her pulse rate began to calm down. "Keep on singing, Michael," encouraged Karen with tears in her eyes. "You never know, dear, how much I love you, please don't take my sunshine away." As Michael sang to his sister, the baby's breath became smooth. After a few days, the little girl was well enough to go home. The doctors called it a miracle . ,. | ['where was the baby girl kept just after he birth?', 'how days was it before she go home?', 'what was the song that Michael sang about?', 'how old is Michael?', "what is his Mom's name?", 'did they know the newborn would be a girl?', 'what did Michael want to do for his sister?', 'was Karen sad?', 'what did she plan for?', 'what happened to the pulse rate of the baby when Michael sang?', 'what happened to her breath?', 'what did the doctors call it?', 'did Michael sing while Karen was pregnant?', 'how often?'] | {'answers': ['the intensive care unit', 'a few', 'sunshine', 'three', 'Karen', 'yes', 'sing to her', 'yes', "the baby's funeral", 'Her pulse rate began to calm down', 'it became smooth', 'a miracle', 'yes', 'Day after day, night after night,'], 'answers_start': [475, 1270, 898, 115, 0, 154, 633, 508, 526, 1015, 1231, 1348, 260, 226], 'answers_end': [498, 1280, 935, 137, 75, 224, 671, 525, 561, 1048, 1262, 1357, 305, 259]} |
3te3o857308s1qpf7khcsazkrky2r7 | CHAPTER 12
I saw her hold Earl Percy at the point With lustier maintenance than I did look for Of such an ungrown warrior.
--King Henry IV
As soon as Violet could leave her little boy without anxiety, the two sisters deposited Charles Layton at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, with hopes that a few years' training there would enable him to become Miss Martindale's little page, the grand object of his desires.
Their next and merriest excursion was to Percy's lodgings, where he had various Greek curiosities which he wished to show them; and Theodora consented to come with her brother and sister in a simple straightforward way that Violet admired.
His rooms were over a toy-shop in Piccadilly, in such a roar of sounds that the ladies exclaimed, and Arthur asked him how much he paid for noise.
'It is worth having,' said Percy; 'it is cheerful.'
'Do you think so?' exclaimed Violet. 'I think carriages, especially late at night, make a most dismal dreary sound.'
'They remind me of an essay of Miss Talbot's where she speaks of her companions hastening home from the feast of empty shells,' said Theodora.
'Ay! those are your West-end carriages,' said Percy; 'I will allow them a dreary dissatisfied sound. Now mine are honest, business-like market-waggons, or hearty tradesfolk coming home in cabs from treating their children to the play. There is sense in those! I go to sleep thinking what drops of various natures make up the roar of that great human cataract, and wake up dreaming of the Rhine falls. | ['what were the rooms over?', 'Where?', 'where did they leave Charles?', 'what did Percy want them to see?', 'who agreed to travel with their siblings?', 'where the rooms in a noisy area?', 'Does Percy like it that way?', 'how did he describe it?', 'did the rest like the noise?', 'who felt the sounds were scary?', 'what was Theodora reminded of?', 'Was Violet scared of the sounds the whole day?', 'How long would charles be at the asylum?', 'what would the schooling help him become?', 'What does Percy say about his sounds?', 'what does he wake up dreaming of?', 'what are the folk coming from?', 'and what do they come in?', 'what kind of carriage does Percy say make the scary sound?'] | {'answers': ['a toy-shop', 'Piccadilly', 'Deaf and Dumb Asylum', 'Greek curiosities', 'Violet', 'Yes.', 'Yes.', 'cheerful', 'No.', 'Violet', "an essay of Miss Talbot's", 'Yes.', 'few years', "Miss Martindale's little page", 'It is worth having', 'Rhine falls', 'treating their children to the play', 'cabs', 'West-end'], 'answers_start': [676, 690, 255, 494, 156, 712, 806, 846, 896, 888, 997, 896, 295, 348, 806, 1511, 1321, 1311, 1143], 'answers_end': [686, 700, 275, 511, 162, 752, 856, 854, 976, 894, 1022, 976, 304, 377, 824, 1522, 1356, 1315, 1151]} |
3lya37p8iqn02zcg0t1qsrgaqxnbkt | (CNN) -- Marco Simoncelli hopes he has put his Le Mans nightmare behind him after earning the first pole position of his top-level motorcycling career in Spain on Saturday.
The Italian rider was reprimanded by MotoGP chiefs following an incident in France two weeks ago that caused Dani Pedrosa to crash and miss his home race after breaking his collarbone.
Simoncelli reportedly received death threats following that collision, which resulted in the 24-year-old finishing fifth after being hit with a ride-through penalty, having been denied his first podium placing.
"This is the best way to forget what happened in Le Mans and what everyone has been saying in the last two weeks, and before this race," he said after qualifying first for Sunday's Catalunya Grand Prix near Barcelona.
Pedrosa crash overshadows Stoner's French MotoGP success
Simoncelli headed off Le Mans winner Casey Stoner and Yamaha's world champion and series leader Jorge Lorenzo as he set a late lap of one minute 42.413 seconds.
Stoner had led for the entire session but was denied his fourth pole position from five attempts this season as he bids to cut Lorenzo's 12-point advantage.
"I'm very satisfied and happy. I didn't expect it because Stoner was faster than me in the other sessions and today we had some problems in the first part of qualifying, but after we chose the right tire for me I could push like I wanted and got this time," Simoncelli said.
American Ben Spies will lead the second row on the grid from Honda's Andrea Dovizioso and fellow Yamaha rider Cal Crutchlow, while seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi was seventh ahead of Ducati teammate Nicky Hayden of the U.S. | ['Why was Marco Simoncelli punished?', 'What sort of incident?', 'Against whom?', 'Who punished him?', 'What other punishment did he receive?', 'What did he win on Saturday?', 'What allowed him to make his top time?', 'What was the time?', 'Who set better times than him earlier on?', "Who's at the front of the next row?", 'What nationality is he?', 'What brand of motorcycle does he drive?', "What made Dani Pedrosa's crash especially disappointing?", 'Who has won the world championship several times?', 'Who rides a Honda?', 'What track are the runs being described taking place at?', 'What city?', 'What track did the crash take place at?', "Who's on top of the current series?", 'How much of a lead does he have?'] | {'answers': ['racing incident in France', 'caused a crash', 'Dani Pedrosa', 'MotoGP chiefs', 'a ride-through penalty,', 'his first pole position', 'chose the right tire', 'one minute 42.413 seconds.', 'Stoner', 'Ben Spies', 'American', 'Yamaha', 'rwithout the penalty, Simoncelli would have won', 'Valentino Rossi', 'Andrea Dovizioso', 'Catalunya Grand Prix', 'Barcelona', 'in Le Mans', 'Jorge Lorenzo', '2-point advantage.'], 'answers_start': [175, 272, 272, 176, 433, 76, 1346, 974, 1234, 1453, 1453, 1453, 439, 1578, 1514, 756, 756, 621, 936, 1144], 'answers_end': [360, 306, 306, 225, 528, 172, 1450, 1014, 1282, 1496, 1472, 1578, 573, 1687, 1538, 793, 791, 632, 964, 1174]} |
3ccz6ykwr7jewncgvmjozw2259m95x | The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations; in 2004, the international football federation, FIFA, selected South Africa over Egypt and Morocco to become the first African nation to host the finals.
The matches were played in 10 stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the final played at the Soccer City stadium in South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg. Thirty-two teams were selected for participation via a worldwide qualification tournament that began in August 2007. In the first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in round-robin groups of four teams for points, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These 16 teams advanced to the knockout stage, where three rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final.
In the final, Spain, the European champions, defeated the Netherlands (third-time losing finalists) 1–0 after extra time, with Andrés Iniesta's goal in the 116th minute giving Spain their first world title. Spain became the eighth nation to win the tournament and the first European nation to win a World Cup hosted outside its home continent: all previous World Cups held outside Europe had been won by South American nations. As a result of their win, Spain represented the World in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup. Host nation South Africa, 2006 champions Italy and 2006 runners-up France were all eliminated in the first round of the tournament. It was the first time that the hosts had been eliminated in the first round. New Zealand, with their three draws, were the only undefeated team in the tournament, but they were also eliminated in the first round. Cameroon, Denmark, Nigeria, Slovenia, South Africa and Uruguay returned after missing the 2006 tournament. | ['where did the 2010 world cup take place?', 'when?', 'Did European countries bid to host?', 'why not?', 'Who did South Africa win over?', 'who won?', 'had they won before?', 'how many stadiums were the games played in?', 'where was the final played?', 'where was this?', 'How many teams competed?', 'how were they chosen?', 'which was when?', 'what month?', 'What type of teams were they seperated into for the first round?', 'how many of these teams advanced?', 'and in total?', 'how many rounds were played in the knockout stage?', 'South Africa became the first African Country to do what?', 'who missed the 2006 tournament?'] | {'answers': ['South Africa.', 'From 11 June to 11 July 2010.', 'No.', 'The bidding process was open only to African nations;', 'Egypt and Morocco', 'Spain.', 'No.', '10.', 'Soccer City stadium.', 'Johannesburg.', 'Thirty-two.', 'Worldwide qualification tournament.', '2007', 'August .', 'Round-robin groups of four teams.', 'Top two teams in each group.', '16.', 'Three.', 'Host the finals.', 'Cameroon, Denmark, Nigeria, Slovenia, South Africa and Urugua.'], 'answers_start': [122, 152, 182, 183, 325, 1007, 1176, 427, 506, 535, 600, 622, 612, 656, 717, 830, 879, 926, 373, 1871], 'answers_end': [152, 183, 271, 270, 370, 1076, 1212, 466, 599, 600, 717, 691, 716, 718, 828, 879, 903, 953, 425, 1977]} |
3570y55xzpjrdl98kuuv2ami4rhgy7 | Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Jefferson County. The city's population was 212,237 in the 2010 United States Census. In the 2010 US Census, the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of about 1,128,047, which is approximately one-quarter of Alabama's population.
Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, notably, former Elyton. It was named for Birmingham, England, the UK's second largest city and then major industrial city. The Alabama city annexed smaller neighbors and developed as an industrial and railroad transportation center, based on mining, the new iron and steel industry, and railroading. Most of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry. The city was developed as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor from rural Alabama could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over unionized industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast.
From its founding through the end of the 1960s, Birmingham was a primary industrial center of the southern United States. Its growth from 1881 through 1920 earned its nicknames as "The Magic City" and "The Pittsburgh of the South". Its major industries were iron and steel production, plus a major component of the railroading industry. Rails and railroad cars were both manufactured in Birmingham. Since the 1860s, the two primary hubs of railroading in the Deep South have been nearby Atlanta and Birmingham. The economy diversified in the latter half of the 20th century. Banking, telecommunications, transportation, electrical power transmission, medical care, college education, and insurance have become major economic activities. Birmingham ranks as one of the largest banking centers in the United States and as one of the most important business centers in the Southeast. | ['What US state is Birmingham in?', 'Are there any other places by that name?', 'Where?', 'What was important about that one?', 'How did the US city form?', 'When?', 'What was the basis of its economy then?', 'Why did businesses like it there?', 'What type of factories did they work in?', 'What nicknames did the city have during its heyday?', 'And the other?', 'Why did it get these names?', 'What did they manufacture there?', 'Why else was it important to railroad companies?', "Are these still the basis of the city's economy?", 'WHy is the city important today?', 'WHat other business activities take place there?', 'What is the population according to a recent census?', 'Is that large for an Alabama town?', 'How does it rank among cities there?'] | {'answers': ['Alabama', 'yes', 'Birmingham, England,', "UK's second largest city and then major industrial city. T", 'it annexed smaller neighbors', '1871', 'mining, the new iron and steel industry, and railroading.', 'it had cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor', 'steel mills and blast furnaces', 'it had 2, 1 was The Magic City', '"The Pittsburgh of the South"', "it's growth as an industrial city", 'Its major industries were iron and steel production, plus a major component of the railroading industry.', '2 major railway hubs in the south are near', 'no', "It's a major banking center in the US", 'Telecommunications, transportation, electrical power transmission, medical care, college education, and insurance', '1,128,047', 'yes', 'most populous'], 'answers_start': [0, 506, 508, 536, 606, 349, 653, 862, 927, 1289, 1296, 1133, 1365, 1533, 1644, 1708, 1643, 174, 0, 0], 'answers_end': [70, 546, 544, 607, 648, 379, 782, 987, 1032, 1363, 1363, 1309, 1469, 1644, 1707, 2013, 1869, 347, 66, 66]} |
3c44yunsi1pusn7grhx4jyq9ntadpa | CHAPTER XXVI. MOONSHINE.
But still the lady shook her head, And swore by yea and nay My whole was all that he had said, And all that he could say. W. M. Praed.
Mrs. Brownlow had intended to go at once to London on her return to England, but the joint entreaties of Armine and Barbara prevailed on her to give them one week at Belforest, now in that early spring beauty in which they had first seen it.
How delightful the arrival was! Easter had been very late, so it was the last week of the vacation, and dear old Friar John's handsome face was the first thing they saw at the station, and then his father's portly form, with a tall pretty creature on each side of him, causing Babie to fall back with a cry of glad amazement, "Oh! Essie and Ellie! Such women!"
Then the train stopped, and there was a tumult of embracings and welcomes, in the midst of which Jock appeared, having just come by the down train.
"You'll all come to dinner this evening?" entreated Caroline. "My love to Ellen. Tell her you must all of you come."
It was a most delightsome barouche full that drove from the station. Jock took the reins, and turned over coachman and footman to the break, and in defiance of dignity, his mother herself sprang up beside him. The sky was blue, the hedges were budding with pure light-green above, and resplendent with rosy campion and white spangles of stitchwort below. Stars of anemone, smiling bunches of primrose, and azure clouds of bluebell made the young hearts leap as at that first memorable sight. Armine said he was ready to hurrah and throw up his hat, and though Elvira declared that she saw nothing to be so delighted about, they only laughed at her. | ['Was had planned a stop to London?', 'when?', 'to where?', "why didn't she?", 'for what?', 'what season is it?', 'what season is near?', 'who did they see at the station?', 'who else?', 'when were they at the station?', 'how were the two females described?', 'who was happy to see them?', 'what was the reaction?', 'and said what?', 'who took control of the reins?', 'and did what?', 'was the weather nice?', 'who was ready to celebrate?', 'what did he want to toss?', 'Who disagreed with him?'] | {'answers': ['Mrs. Brownlow', 'on her return', 'England', 'the joint entreaties of Armine and Barbara prevailed on her', 'to give them one week at Belforest', 'spring', 'Easter', 'Friar John', 'Essie and Ellie', 'the last week of the vacation', 'as tall pretty creatures', 'Babie', 'to fall back with a cry of glad amazement', '"Oh! Essie and Ellie! Such women!"', 'Jock', 'turned over coachman and footman', 'yes', 'Armine', 'his hat', 'Elvira'], 'answers_start': [166, 216, 234, 247, 307, 361, 442, 523, 741, 479, 637, 687, 696, 735, 1111, 1136, 1256, 1533, 1582, 1601], 'answers_end': [180, 230, 241, 307, 341, 367, 448, 533, 756, 508, 657, 692, 734, 771, 1115, 1168, 1293, 1540, 1589, 1608]} |
3gs6s824sqxty8vusxp27xaztitnwm | CHAPTER XXXII. THE TEST OF DAY-DREAMS
Faith's meanest deed more favour bears, Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, That bloom their hour and fade.-—J. H. NEWMAN.
That return to Brompton was the signal for the numerous worries awaiting Clement. First, the doctors thought him much improved, but declared that a return to full work at St. Matthew's would overthrow all the benefit of his long rest, and would not hear of his going back, even with another curate, for an experiment.
Then all went down to Vale Leston together. Mr. Ed'dard was welcomed with rapture by his old flock. Alda had been almost ill with excitement and delight, and had not words enough to show her ecstasy over her beautiful daughter, nor her gratitude to Geraldine, to whose management she insisted on attributing the glorious result. In vain did Geraldine disclaim all diplomacy, Lady Vanderkist was sure that all came of her savoir faire. At any rate, it was really comfortable to be better beloved by Alda than ever in the course of her life! Alda even intimated that she should be well enough to come to Brompton to assist in the choice of the trousseau, and the first annoyance was with Clement for not allotting a disproportioned sum for the purpose. He declared that Francie ought not to have more spent on her than was reserved for her sisters, especially as it would be easy for her to supply all deficiencies, while Alda could not endure that the future Lady Ivinghoe should have an outfit unworthy of her rank, even though both Wilmet and Geraldine undertook to assist. | ['Who gave the credit to savoi fare?', 'What bears favour?', 'Who had been sick?', 'How was he doing now?', 'Where did he work?', 'Was he working 40 + hours again?', 'Which lady wanted more expensive items than the others?', 'Where did Alsa want to go to help out?', "Who wouldn't set aside money for her to go?", 'Who wanted nice new clothes?'] | {'answers': ['Lady Vanderkist', 'Where hearts and wills are weighed', 'Clement', 'First, the doctors thought him much improved', "St. Matthew's", 'would not hear of his going back,', 'unknown', 'Brompton', 'Clement', 'Alda could not endure that the future Lady Ivinghoe should have an outfit unworthy of her rank'], 'answers_start': [907, 82, 259, 294, 383, 451, -1, 1134, 1218, 1452], 'answers_end': [922, 119, 291, 338, 396, 484, -1, 1143, 1225, 1546]} |
3ix2egzr7bjs7mnne5n4rrl1tvyrjx | CHAPTER XXII
ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD
Claire dressed Dlorus, cooked a dinner of beet greens, potatoes, and trout; and by bullying and great sweetness kept Dlorus from too many trips to the gin bottle. Milt caught the trout, cut wood, locked in a log shed Pinky's forlorn mining-tools. They started for North Yakima at eight of the evening, with Dlorus, back in the spare seat, alternately sobbing and to inattentive ears announcing what she'd say to the Old Hens.
Milt was devoted to persuading the huge cat of a car to tiptoe down the slippery gouged ruts of the road, and Claire's mind was driving with him. Every time he touched the foot-brake, she could feel the strain in the tendons of her own ankle.
A mile down the main road they stopped at a store-post-office to telephone back to Mr. Boltwood and Dr. Beach. On the porch was a man in overalls and laced boots. He was lean and quick-moving. As he raised his head, and his spectacles flashed, Claire caught Milt's arm and gasped, "Oh, my dear, I'm in a beautiful state of nerves. For a moment I thought that was Jeff Saxton. I bet it is his astral body!"
"And you thought he was going to forbid your running away on this fool expedition, and you were scared," chuckled Milt, as they sat in the car.
"Of course I was! And I still am! I know what he'll say afterward! He _is_ here, reasoning with me. Oughtn't I to be sensible? Oughtn't I to have you leave me at the Beaches' before you start--jolly jaunt to take a strange woman to her presumably homicidal husband! Why am I totally lacking in sense? Just listen to what Jeff is saying!" | ['Milt was devoted to what ?', 'what ?', 'who dressed somone ?', 'who did she dress ?', 'how many corces she make for dinner ?', 'name one', 'Who liked gin ?', 'how did she keep her from it ?', 'anything else ?', 'where were they going ?', 'when ?', 'at night ?', 'when ?', 'where sis they stop ?', 'why ?', 'call who ?', 'anyone else ?', 'what happened when he hit the breaks ?', 'strain where ?', 'of what ?'] | {'answers': ['persuading', 'huge cat', 'Claire', 'Dlorus', 'Three', 'beet greens', 'Dlorus', 'bullying', 'reat sweetness', 'North Yakima', 'eight', 'no', 'evening', 'store-post-office', 'to telephone', 'Mr. Boltwood', 'Dr. Beach', 'she could feel the strain', 'tendons', 'ankle'], 'answers_start': [494, 509, 46, 61, 88, 88, 163, 129, 143, 310, 326, 339, 339, 763, 781, 802, 819, 658, 691, 710], 'answers_end': [504, 518, 52, 67, 120, 99, 169, 138, 157, 322, 331, 346, 346, 781, 793, 814, 828, 683, 699, 715]} |
3vd82fohkqo22vp1clpeas31sn6oc6 | George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who was the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he was previously a congressman, ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. He is the oldest living former President and Vice President. Previously known as simply "George Bush", since 2001, Bush has often been referred to as "George H. W. Bush", "Bush 41", "Bush the Elder", or "George Bush Senior" to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.
Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed his university studies, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40. Bush became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, and he won election to the House of Representatives in 1966. In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Bush as Ambassador to the United Nations, and in 1973, Bush became the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The following year, President Gerald Ford appointed Bush as the ambassador to the People's Republic of China, and later reassigned Bush to the position of Director of Central Intelligence. Bush ran for president in 1980 but was defeated in the Republican primary by Ronald Reagan. Reagan chose Bush as his running mate, and Bush became vice president after the Reagan–Bush ticket won the 1980 election. During his eight-year tenure as vice president, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting the "War on Drugs". | ['Who was the 43rd VP of the US?', 'for ho many terms?', 'when?', 'what did he do before VP?', 'anything else?', 'what else?', 'was he a democrat?', 'Did he ever become President?', 'when?', 'how many terms?', 'When was he born?', 'where?', 'who was his mother?', 'who was his father?', 'did he attend college?', 'why did he postpone it?', 'in what branch?', 'what inspired him to enlist?', 'how long did he serve?', 'which war?'] | {'answers': ['George Herbert Walker Bush', 'Two', '1981 to 1989', 'He was a congressman.', 'An Ambassador', 'Director of Central Intelligence.', 'No', 'Yes', '1989', 'One', 'June 12, 1924', 'Milton, Massachusetts', 'Dorothy Walker Bush.', 'Prescott Bush', 'Yes', 'He enlisted.', 'U.S. Navy', 'the attack on Pearl Harbor', 'Until the end of the war.', 'unknown'], 'answers_start': [0, 144, 143, 242, 242, 242, 208, 49, 48, 48, 0, 648, 648, 648, 925, 730, 815, 730, 925, -1], 'answers_end': [207, 207, 206, 274, 286, 324, 241, 121, 139, 140, 48, 686, 729, 704, 992, 841, 840, 814, 960, -1]} |
3z2r0dq0jhe3smkalexct301biue21 | (CNN) -- Treasure hunter Christian Hanisch told CNN Thursday that the hunt for Nazi Gold and possibly the legendary Amber Room will end Friday after the two men leading the expedition had a disagreement.
Treasure hunters began drilling again Tuesday to try to locate the lost Nazi gold.
Heinz-Peter Haustein, the other treasure hunter, told Germany's Bild newspaper that geophysicists will now re-evaluate the situation and that digging may resume in two weeks. CNN has so far not been able to reach Haustein for confirmation.
"Haustein told me to get out of here immediately," an angry Hanisch told CNN in a telephone interview.
He said Haustein, who is also the mayor of the village Deutschneudorf, where the digging is taking place, told him he wanted to make the expedition more credible by calling in the scientists. See photos from hunt for lost Nazi gold »
"It can't get any more credible than now," said Hanisch, whose measurements had allegedly pinpointed the treasure.
He said the drilling taking place at the site never focused on the exact coordinates he had provided. "They just always dug around there, but never at the exact location where I wanted them to dig," he said.
The two treasure hunters had said geological surveying had revealed an underground cave holding large amounts of precious metal. They said it could be a holding area dug by the Nazis who used it to stash valuables in World War II.
Haustein said he also believes the legendary Amber Room, an interior made of gold and amber that the Nazis had looted from a palace in St. Petersburg, after Adolf Hitler's forces invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, was also hidden somewhere in the mountains around Deutschneudorf -- and that finding a stash of gold could give clues as to the whereabouts of the Amber Room. | ['Where is Haustein the mayor of?', 'is that a city?', "what's the other huner's name?", 'and?', 'which news team?', 'was it a face to face interview', 'how did they speak?', "where's the diggin happening?", 'which scientists had Haustein called in?', 'what had geological surveys shown?', 'containing what?', 'what does he say that might be?', 'dug by?', 'who did what with it?', 'what else might there be?', 'where was that taken from?', 'what is it made of?', 'are they digging in the right place according to Hanisch', 'which paper had Haustein spoken to?', 'when might drilling restart?'] | {'answers': ['Deutschneudorf', "It's a village", 'Heinz-Peter Haustein', 'Christian Hanisch', 'CNN', 'No', 'in a telephone interview', 'Deutschneudorf', 'geophysicists', 'an underground cave', 'large amounts of precious metal', 'a holding area', 'Nazis', 'used it to stash valuables', 'the legendary Amber Room', 'a palace in St. Petersburg', 'gold and amber', 'unknown', "Germany's Bild newspaper", 'in two weeks'], 'answers_start': [693, 681, 291, 25, 606, 610, 610, 693, 375, 1269, 1296, 1352, 1378, 1388, 1465, 1557, 1510, -1, 345, 451], 'answers_end': [707, 692, 311, 42, 610, 637, 634, 707, 389, 1288, 1328, 1366, 1383, 1414, 1489, 1583, 1525, -1, 369, 464]} |
3u5nzhp4lr2b43ciddguaj57e90hpv | (CNN) -- Petra Kvitova dumped Caroline Wozniacki out of the WTA Championships with a straight sets victory that sealed her place in the final four.
Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion, inflicted Wozniacki's second defeat in Istanbul, winning 6-4 6-2 to go top of the Red Group.
World number one Wozniacki, who called the trainer on during her match after complaining of feeling sick, is rock bottom of the group after playing all three of her round robin games.
After her victory Kvitova told CNN she was delighted to make the final four: "It's nice when I win and I'm happy to be in the semi-final. Istanbul is a great place and it is great experience for me.
"I have had a great season and it's very nice to play here -- it's like something new for me as I'm still learning. I am enjoying every match I play and I'm trying not to think about winning here."
Wozniacki told reporters: "I tried my best, but my body didn't want to do the things I asked it today. What I told my brain didn't go to my body.
"It's just unfortunate that my body has been feeling tired. To get sick now is not the best time if you want to beat the top players."
Czech Kvitova faces Agnieszka Radwanska on Friday -- a match that will determine who grabs the second qualification spot in the red group.
Radwanska, from Poland, currently occupies second spot after she saved three match points to beat Russia's Vera Zvonareva 1-6 6-2 7-5. The Pole can make sure of her place in the semis as long as she wins a set in her clash with Kvitova. | ['Who spoke to CNN about her win?', 'How does she feel about being in the final four?', 'When did she win?', 'What did she become?', 'Who did she beat in Istanbul?', 'Who is ranked number one?', 'Was she feeling okay?', 'Who did she tell?', 'Where did she place in the Red Group?', 'Who had a good season?', 'Does she hate the sport?', 'How does she feel about playing?', "What was wrong with Wozniacki's brain?", 'Who is ranked number two?', 'Where is she from?', 'Who did she win against to get placed second?', 'Where is she from?', 'Who will Radwanska play next?', 'When?', 'What place will the winner be in?'] | {'answers': ['Kvitova', 'delighted', '2011', 'Wimbledon champion', 'Wozniacki', 'Wozniack', 'no', 'the trainer', 'last', 'Kvitova', 'no', 'she enjoys it', "it didn't go to her body", 'Radwanska', 'Poland', 'Vera Zvonareva', 'Russia', 'Czech Kvitova', 'on Friday', 'second'], 'answers_start': [469, 469, 150, 150, 150, 283, 300, 300, 283, 469, 785, 786, 870, 1296, 1296, 1297, 1394, 1155, 1155, 1208], 'answers_end': [544, 545, 186, 187, 235, 308, 387, 388, 467, 697, 818, 811, 1016, 1351, 1318, 1417, 1418, 1204, 1204, 1293]} |
304sm51wa34yqipo52asjd7k7lybsw | One evening last fall, while Marcos Ugarte did his homework and his father, Eduardo, a teacher, prepared lesson plans, they heard shouting outside. Eduardo, 47, and Marcos, 15, stepped onto the balcony of their two-story home. Immediately, Marcos' s eye was caught by a flame from one of their neighbors' houses. "Dad, the house is on fire!" Marcos cried. Dressed only in shorts, the barefoot teen dashed towards the Mas' home with his dad. Grandmother Yim Ma, mother Suzanne Ma, and son Nathan Ma were gathered on the front grassland shouting for help. When the Ugartes got there, they saw through the open front door that father Alex Ma was falling down the stairs, coughing, his face black with dirt. "Is anyone else in the house?" Eduardo asked. "My son!" Alex managed to say, pointing to the second floor. Eduardo started up the stairs, but thick, black smoke, swirling ash, and extreme heatforced him to his knees. He inched upstairs and down the hall where Alex said he would find Cody, eight, who had locked himself in a bedroom. "I'd never seen smoke like that," says Eduardo. "My glasses immediately turned black from the ash." As the fire spread across the hall, Eduardo banged on the bedroom door and tried to turn the handle. But Cody didn't respond, and Eduardo made his way back downstairs. At the same time, Marcos saw Yim and Suzanne pulling an aluminum ladder out of the garage. "Cody was standing at the window, screaming for help," says Marcos. "I knew I had to do something." He grabbed the ladder, positioned it near the window, and climbed towards the boy. When Marcos reached the window, he pushed the screen into the room and persuaded Cody out. "It's OK," Marcos told him. "I've got you." Holding Cody with one arm, Marcos moved down the ladder. Halfway down, he handed the boy to a neighbor. The day after the fire, Alex visited Marcos. "Thank you for saving my son," Alex said. "You are his hero forever." | ["What profession is Marco's father in?", 'What was Marcos wearing on his feel when he ran outside?', 'What was he wearing?', 'What was the teacher doing when Marcos caught his attention?', 'What was burning?', 'Whose house?', "How many of the Ma's were waiting outside for help?", 'Who was still inside?', 'Who else?', 'How old was he?', 'And where was he?'] | {'answers': ['teacher', 'nothing', 'shorts', 'preparing lesson plans', 'house', "neighbors' house", 'three', 'Alex Ma', 'His son', 'eight', 'window'], 'answers_start': [87, 380, 356, 96, 314, 294, 441, 623, 704, 988, 1396], 'answers_end': [94, 397, 378, 117, 340, 310, 534, 666, 759, 999, 1429]} |
37wlf8u1wpquwnvl42kihbuibkck6s | Sing the Language You're Learning How can you remember a song from your childhood to this day? Why do your teachers use songs to teach you English? It seems there is a scientific reason for this. Researchers are now studying the relationship between music and remembering a foreign language. They find that remembering words in a song is the best way to remember even the most difficult language. "Singing could be a new way of learning a foreign language. The brain likes to remember things when they are used in a _ and meaningful way", said Dr, Karen Ludke. The findings may help those who have difficulties learning foreign languages. On his blog, Dr. Ludke writes, "A listen-and-repeat singing method can support foreign language learning, and opens the door for future research in this area." Many language teachers know the value of using music and singing. Hua Zhuying, a teacher at a Chinese language school in Washington, D.C. depends heavily on songs in teaching Chinese. She says, "I use music all the time to teach children Chinese. For little kids usually we use the music. Not only does it work, but it is fun for kids." "Sometimes, I think if I were taught English that way, maybe I could speak much better English than now," Hua Zhuying adds. Our brain likes music, especially for remembering. So, if you're still struggling in learning a language, why not try singing it out ? | ['What are researches studying?', 'What might signing be a new way of doing?', "What is the Dr.'s name?", 'Does she write a column for the newspaper?', 'Where does she write?', 'Where is the Chinese language school located?', "What is the teacher's name there?", 'Does she teach adults?', 'What does she use to teach language?', 'What does she suggest everyone use to learn a language?'] | {'answers': ['the relationship between music and remembering a foreign language', 'a new way of learning a foreign language', 'Dr. Karen Ludke', 'no', 'a blog', 'in Washington, D.C.', 'Hua Zhuying', 'no', 'songs', 'music'], 'answers_start': [196, 397, 457, 639, 639, 878, 865, 983, 869, 983], 'answers_end': [291, 456, 560, 798, 797, 983, 936, 1045, 982, 1046]} |
3vj40nv2qinjocrcy7k4z235fzhtok | French historians traditionally place the Enlightenment between 1715, the year that Louis XIV died, and 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution. Some recent historians begin the period in the 1620s, with the start of the scientific revolution. The Philosophes, the French term for the philosophers of the period, widely circulated their ideas through meetings at scientific academies, Masonic lodges, literary salons and coffee houses, and through printed books and pamphlets. The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the church, and paved the way for the revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. A variety of 19th-century movements, including liberalism and neo-classicism, trace their intellectual heritage back to the Enlightenment.
Francis Hutcheson, a moral philosopher, described the utilitarian and consequentialist principle that virtue is that which provides, in his words, "the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers". Much of what is incorporated in the scientific method (the nature of knowledge, evidence, experience, and causation) and some modern attitudes towards the relationship between science and religion were developed by his protégés David Hume and Adam Smith. Hume became a major figure in the skeptical philosophical and empiricist traditions of philosophy. | ['What type of philosopher was Hutcheson?', 'Who did he mentor?', 'Who was prominent with skeptics?', 'Did somebody die?', 'When?', 'Was there a rebellion?', 'What kind?', 'When was that?', 'Was there another one?', 'What was it?', 'Was there a rebellion in France?', 'What occurred in 1789?', 'What did the people call philosophers?', 'Where did they spread their thoughts?', 'Who was undermined?', 'And what did this lead to?', 'Was Hume important?', 'Yes but was he important?'] | {'answers': ['moral philosopher', 'David Hume and Adam Smith', 'Hume', 'Louis XIV', '1715', 'yes', 'scientific revolution.', '1620', 'yes', 'Enlightenment', 'unknown', 'the beginning of the French Revolution', 'The Philosophes', 'scientific academies, Masonic lodges, literary salons and coffee houses', 'monarchy and the church', 'revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries.', 'skeptical philosophical', 'Hume became a major figure in the skeptical philosophical and empiricist traditions of philosophy.'], 'answers_start': [802, 1207, 1233, 83, 64, 596, 226, 197, 653, 499, -1, 110, 249, 368, 545, 596, 1268, 1234], 'answers_end': [819, 1232, 1238, 93, 68, 607, 248, 201, 676, 512, -1, 148, 264, 439, 568, 639, 1292, 1332]} |
3s0tnuhwkti9mv8z50vtxcvjydu8dt | An old problem is getting new attention in the United States--bullying. Recent cases included the tragic case of a 15-year-old girl whose family moved from Ireland. She hanged herself in Massachusetts following months of bullying. Her parents criticized her school for failing to protect her. Officials have brought criminal charges against several teenagers.
Judy Kuczynski is president of an anti-bullying group called Bully Police USA. Her daughter Tina was also the victim of severe bullying starting in middle school in the state of Minnesota. She said,"Our daughter was a very outgoing child. She was involved in all kinds of things and had lots of friends. And over a period of time her grades fell completely. She started having health issues. She couldn't sleep. She wasn't eating. She had terrible stomach pains and didn't want to go to school."
Bullying is defined as negative behavior repeated over time against the same person. It can involve physical violence, or it can be verbal--for example, insults or threats. Spreading lies about someone or excluding a person from a group is known as social or relational bullying.
And now there is cyber-bullying, which uses the Internet, e-mail or text messages. It has easy appeal for the bully because it does not involve face-to-face contact and it can be done at any time.
The first serious research studies into bullying were done in Norway in the late 1970s. The latest government study in the United States was released last year. It found that about one-third of students age twelve to eighteen were bullied at school.
Susan Swearer is a psychologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and co-director of the Bullying Research Network. She says schools should treat bullying as a mental health problem to get bullies and victims the help they need. She says bullying is connected to depression, anxiety and anti-social behavior and bullies are often victims themselves. | ['what is bullying connected to?', 'and what else?', 'according to who?', 'who is she?', 'how many students are bullied?', 'of what age?', 'what is bullying defined as?', 'where was the girl who died from?', 'where was the family from?', 'who else is mentioned as a victim?', 'when did her bullying start?', 'where was the first research?', 'when?', 'is it an old problem?', 'when was US study released?', 'what does cyber-bullying include?', "who is Tina's mom?", 'is she involved in any groups?', 'which one?', 'what is that?', 'was anyone charged for the girl in Mass.?'] | {'answers': ['depression', 'anxiety and anti-social behavior', 'Susan Swearer', 'a psychologist', 'one-third', 'twelve to eighteen', 'negative behavior', 'Massachusetts', 'Ireland', 'Tina', 'middle school', 'Norway', 'late 1970s', 'yes', 'last year', 'Internet, e-mail or text messages', 'Judy Kuczynski', 'yes', 'Bully Police USA', 'anti-bullying group', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [1860, 1872, 1593, 1609, 1522, 1548, 883, 187, 156, 454, 510, 1403, 1416, 3, 1491, 1190, 362, 396, 423, 396, 341], 'answers_end': [1870, 1904, 1606, 1624, 1534, 1566, 900, 200, 163, 458, 524, 1409, 1427, 14, 1500, 1223, 376, 415, 439, 415, 359]} |
3zgvpd4g6thvng5j0gvlf0a90dhzta | CHAPTER III.
THE NIGHT-WATCHERS.
What first struck Margaret in Thrums was the smell of the caddis. The town smells of caddis no longer, but whiffs of it may be got even now as one passes the houses of the old, where the lay still swings at little windows like a great ghost pendulum. To me it is a homely smell, which I draw in with a great breath, but it was as strange to Margaret as the weavers themselves, who, in their colored nightcaps and corduroys streaked with threads, gazed at her and Gavin. The little minister was trying to look severe and old, but twenty-one was in his eye.
"Look, mother, at that white house with the green roof. That is the manse."
The manse stands high, with a sharp eye on all the town. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it, and so the back of the Tenements is always better behaved than the front. It was in the front that Jamie Don, a pitiful bachelor all his life because he thought the women proposed, kept his ferrets, and here, too, Beattie hanged himself, going straight to the clothes-posts for another rope when the first one broke, such was his determination. In the front Sanders Gilruth openly boasted (on Don's potato-pit) that by having a seat in two churches he could lie in bed on Sabbath and get the credit of being at one or other. (Gavin made short work of him.) To the right-minded the Auld Licht manse was as a family Bible, ever lying open before them, but Beattie spoke for more than him-self when he said, "Dagone that manse! I never gie a swear but there it is glowering at me." | ['What color is the top of the church?', 'Is it short?', 'Who behaves better?', 'Why?', 'Who killed himself?', 'How many attempts did it take?', 'Who never had a wife?', 'What pets did he keep?', 'Who felt the church was always staring at him?', 'Was he the only one?', 'Did someone else think differently about it?', 'Who?', 'Who did they see it?', 'Did the area have an odor?', 'Of what?', 'Who felt this way?', 'Did she think it was normal?', 'Does the narrator like the odor or dislike it?', 'What are the people who weave things wearing?', 'Who tried to look tough and elderly?'] | {'answers': ['green', 'No', 'the back of the Tenements', 'Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it', 'Beattie', 'Two', 'Jamie Don', 'Ferrets', 'Beattie', 'No', 'Yes', 'The right-minded', 'as a family Bible, ever lying open before them,', 'Yes', 'The caddis', 'Margaret', 'No', 'He likes it', 'colored nightcaps and corduroys', 'The little minister'], 'answers_start': [596, 673, 730, 730, 983, 982, 858, 883, 1438, 1433, 1341, 1340, 1341, 37, 37, 37, 288, 288, 387, 507], 'answers_end': [671, 729, 857, 857, 1020, 1128, 963, 981, 1562, 1562, 1562, 1562, 1433, 213, 101, 101, 412, 351, 481, 594]} |
336kav9kyqs1yr11lf9606shtuq2yv | Mary went to Canada on vacation. After a week, she came back to New York. She told lots of interesting things to her best friend, Jack. Jack was very interested in Canada and decided to have a visit there. The next summer vacation, Mary and Jack had a plan to go to Canada together. But her mother was badly ill so she went to the airport to see her friend off. When they got to the airport, Mary had to got to the washroom. When she came back, she couldn't find Jack because there were so many people at the airport. She looked for him everywhere, but it was hard to find Jack among the people. Suddenly Mary saw Jack and she felt very happy, so she shouted,"Hi, Jack. Here, here." At the same time, Jack waved his arms,"I'm here." In 3 minutes, so many policemen came to the front of Jack and caught him, "Please come with me to the police office." After the policemen found out the reason, they let them free. Why? Because the word "hijack" in the English has different meanings. | ['Where did Mary come back?'] | {'answers': ['to New York'], 'answers_start': [61], 'answers_end': [72]} |
3hpzf4ivnmtew9t3i8yccj136y1ycp | CHAPTER II
THE CHURCH PARADE
It was raining hard when I climbed into the dog-cart and rattled away into the darkness, while somewhat to my surprise Robert the Devil, or Devilish Bob, as those who had the care of him called the bay horse, played no antics on the outward journey, which was safely accomplished. So leaving him at the venerable "Swan," I hurried through the miry streets toward the church. They were thronged with pale-faced men and women who had sweated out their vigor in the glare of red furnace, dye-shop, and humming mill, but there was no lack of enthusiasm. I do not think there are any cities in the world with the same public spirit and pride in local customs that one may find in the grimy towns of Lancashire. The enthusiasm is, however, part of their inhabitants' nature, and has nothing to do with the dismal surroundings.
A haze of smoke had mingled with the rain; yellow gas jets blinked through it, though it would not be dark for an hour or so yet; and the grim, smoke-blackened houses seemed trickling with water. Still every one laughed and chattered with good-humored expectancy, even the many who had no umbrellas. It was hard work to reach the church, though I opined that all the multitude did not intend to venture within, and when once I saw my uncle with a wand in his hand I carefully avoided him. Martin Lorimer was a power and well liked in that town, but I had not driven ten miles to assist him. Then I waited among the jostling crowd in a fever of impatience, wondering whether Miss Carrington had yet gone in, until at last I saw the Colonel marching through the throng, which--and knowing the temperament of our people I wondered at it--made way for him. There were others of the party behind, and my heart leaped at the sight of Grace. She was walking beside Captain Ormond, who smiled down at her. | ['Does this town have a cheerful appearance?', 'Does that make the inhabitants unhappy?', 'Who is pulling the cart?', 'Does he have another name?', 'What color is he?', 'Does he act devilish on the trip out?', 'Where doe the narrator drop him off?', 'Where does the narrator continue to after dropping him off at the Swan?', 'Does he proceed slowly?', 'Are the streets clean and dry?', "What's the weather like?", 'Is the precipitation light?', 'Are there lots of folks in the street when he arrives at his destination?', 'What is their mood?', 'Are they all protected from the downpour?', 'Are they all planning to go into the building?', 'Who does the narrator see?', 'Does he greet him?', 'Who is he looking for?', 'Who does the crowd move aside for?'] | {'answers': ['no', 'no', 'Robert the Devil', 'Devilish Bob', 'pale', 'no', 'church', 'church', 'no', 'no', 'rain', 'no', 'yes', 'good-humored', 'no', 'no', 'uncle', 'no', 'Miss Carrington', 'Colonel'], 'answers_start': [715, 1052, 152, 173, 432, 242, 1186, 400, 356, 893, 893, 1030, 1223, 1095, 1142, 1242, 1290, 1332, 1530, 1587], 'answers_end': [724, 1075, 168, 185, 436, 258, 1192, 406, 364, 897, 897, 1050, 1233, 1107, 1155, 1265, 1296, 1340, 1546, 1595]} |
36ahbnmv1rco11zhi4tnwpjlr08ydo | The International Bureau of Weights and Measures () is an intergovernmental organization, one of three such organisations established to maintain the International System of Units (SI) under the terms of the Metre Convention ("Convention du Mètre"). The organisation is usually referred to by its French initialism, BIPM.
The BIPM reports to the International Committee for Weights and Measures (), which is in turn overseen by periodic meetings of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (). These organizations are also commonly referred to by their French initialisms.
The BIPM was created on 20 May 1875, following the signing of the Metre Convention, a treaty among 51 nations (). It is based at the Pavillon de Breteuil in Sèvres, France, a site (originally ) granted to the Bureau by the French Government in 1876, where it enjoys extraterritorial status, a status that was clarified by the French decree No 70-820 of 9 September 1970.
Under the authority of the Metric Convention, the BIPM helps to ensure uniformity of SI weights and measures around the world. It does so through a series of consultative committees, whose members are the national metrology laboratories of the Convention's member states, and through its own laboratory work. | ['What organization is this passage talking about?', 'What does it do?', 'Under which terms?', 'Where does the BIPM report?', 'and that is overseen by what?', 'Is BIPM a French initialism?', 'When was it created?', 'What month and day?', 'By the signing of who?', 'Which was a treaty that was between how many nations?', 'Where is it located?', 'Where exactly?', 'Who granted them this site?', 'In what year?'] | {'answers': ['The International Bureau of Weights and Measures', 'maintains the International System of Units', 'the Metre Convention', 'to the International Committee for Weights and Measures', 'the General Conference on Weights and Measures', 'yes', '1875', '20 May', 'the Metre Convention', '51', 'the Pavillon de Breteuil', 'in Sèvres, France', 'the French Government', '1876'], 'answers_start': [0, 137, 204, 341, 450, 293, 614, 607, 644, 681, 712, 736, 802, 827], 'answers_end': [48, 181, 224, 396, 497, 320, 618, 614, 665, 684, 736, 754, 823, 831]} |
3efe17qcrc58hvsa5uko5oai240sh2 | Washington (CNN) -- First-term Democratic incumbent North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan lost in a tight contest against GOP challenger Thom Tillis, according to a CNN projection.
It was the most expensive Senate race this cycle: A great deal of the funding was provided by out-of-state organizations backing harsh television attack ads.
The neck-and-neck race was key to Republicans' plans to win back the Senate from Democrats. With 99% of precincts reporting their vote totals, Tillis had 49 % to Hagan's 47%.
Tillis is known for his conservative stances on issues like same-sex marriage and women's abortion rights. He worked to nationalize the race by tying Hagan to President Obama, who suffers from high disapproval ratings in the Tar Heel state even though he -- along with Hagan -- were victorious there in 2008.
Tillis made national news in late October when he debated an empty chair on live television after his opponent refused to attend what was initially billed as a debate between the two candidates.
Hagan launched aggressive attacks on Tillis' tenure in the state legislature, highlighting how his legislature cut unemployment benefits, slashed funding for education and prohibited the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. She also worked to bolster her own appeal with racial minorities by pointing out Tillis' enactment of a strict voter identification law.
Neither candidate has enjoyed much popularity in the state according to an NBC News/Marist poll from last week showing Hagan's disapproval rating at 48 percent and Tillis' at 44 percent. | ['Did Kay Hagan win her race?', 'Who was her opponent?', 'Was it a tight election?', 'Was it an inexpensive campaign?', 'Who gave most of the funds?', 'What kind of advertising did they pay for?', 'Was the election important to one of the parties?', 'Which party?', 'Why was it important to them?', 'At the time of this story, how many districts had reported back?', 'What percent of the vote did Tillis get?', 'And his rival?', 'Is Tillis considered liberal?', 'What issues is he known for right-wing views on?', 'Anything else?', 'What political figure did he try to tie his rival to?', 'Is Obama popular in North Carolina?', 'What did Tillis make headlines for?', 'Why did he do that?', 'What organization reported on the election?', 'Has Hagan served multiple terms?'] | {'answers': ['No.', 'Thom Tillis.', 'Yes.', 'No.', 'Out-of-state organizations.', 'Attack ads.', 'Yes.', 'Republicans.', 'To win back the Senate from Democrats.', '99%.', '49 %.', '47%.', 'No.', 'Same-sex marriage.', "Women's abortion rights.", 'Obama.', 'No.', 'When he debated an empty chair on live television.', 'His opponent refused to attend.', 'CNN.', 'No.'], 'answers_start': [71, 129, 90, 182, 269, 321, 352, 353, 387, 432, 489, 505, 512, 572, 594, 655, 681, 864, 921, 142, 20], 'answers_end': [86, 140, 106, 212, 295, 332, 387, 387, 425, 458, 493, 510, 556, 589, 617, 686, 751, 914, 952, 171, 82]} |