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According to a study in 1999, daylight savings has caused what approximate percentage of increase in leisure industry revenue in the European Union?
A 1999 study estimated that DST increases the revenue of the European Union's leisure sector by about 3%.
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What did the later Puritan movement create?
The later Puritan movement, often referred to as dissenters and nonconformists, eventually led to the formation of various Reformed denominations.
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Some people may not report pain because they think it's a sign what is near?
Many Asians do not want to lose respect in society by admitting they are in pain and need help, believing the pain should be borne in silence, while other cultures feel they should report pain right away and get immediate relief.
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Who was Britain's last serious rival after Napoleon?
Victory over Napoleon left Britain without any serious international rival, other than Russia in central Asia.
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What book instructed Gaddafi in how to stage a coup?
Nasser's book, Philosophy of the Revolution, was a key influence on Gaddafi; outlining how to initiate a coup, it has been described as "the inspiration and blueprint of [Gaddafi's] revolution."
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Where is football played?
It was founded in 1987 by Jim Foster, making it the third longest-running professional football league in North America, after the Canadian Football League and the National Football League.
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When was the invasion of the Parthian Empire begun?
In 53 BC, Crassus launched a Roman invasion of the Parthian Empire (modern Iraq and Iran).
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How did slave states react to Lincoln's election?
Sectional tensions had long existed between the states located north of the Mason–Dixon line and those south of it, primarily centered on the "peculiar institution" of slavery and the ability of states to overrule the decisions of the national government.
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What is the length of the border that Estonia shares with Russia?
Estonia's land border with Latvia runs 267 kilometers; the Russian border runs 290 kilometers.
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Who coined the term phytochoria?
The Mediterranean and Submediterranean climate regions in Europe are found in much of Southern Europe, mainly in Southern Portugal, most of Spain, the southern coast of France, Italy, the Croatian coast, much of Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and the Mediterranean islands.
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When was the London Jewish Forum established?
The community set up the London Jewish Forum in 2006 in response to the growing significance of devolved London Government.
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What has changed since the second half of the 20th century?
The vegetation has changed since the second half of the 20th century, as the high alpine meadows cease to be harvested for hay or used for grazing which eventually might result in a regrowth of forest.
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When were the Southern and Northern Dynasties?
The earliest, colloquial stratum is traced to the Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE); the second colloquial one comes from the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420 - 589 CE); the third stratum of pronunciations (typically literary ones) comes from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE) and is based on the prestige dialect of Chang'an (modern day Xi'an), its capital.
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Why couldn't each moment of each person's life be given a different proper name?
Whitehead pointed to the limitations of language as one of the main culprits in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking, and acknowledged that it may be difficult to ever wholly move past such ideas in everyday speech.
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Which act created the Upper Canada provinces?
The Constitutional Act of 1791 created the provinces of Upper Canada (mainly English-speaking) and Lower Canada (mainly French-speaking) to defuse tensions between the French and British communities, and implemented governmental systems similar to those employed in Britain, with the intention of asserting imperial authority and not allowing the sort of popular control of government that was perceived to have led to the American Revolution.
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What is the act of surreptitiously listening to a private conversation?
Eavesdropping is the act of surreptitiously listening to a private conversation, typically between hosts on a network.
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How many students are enrolled in boston and Cambridge?
Greater Boston has more than 100 colleges and universities, with 250,000 students enrolled in Boston and Cambridge alone.
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When was the Doha Declaration adopted?
In 2001, the WTO adopted the Doha Declaration, which indicates that the TRIPS agreement should be read with the goals of public health in mind, and allows some methods for circumventing pharmaceutical monopolies: via compulsory licensing or parallel imports, even before patent expiration.
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What groups are relatives of the arthropods?
A number are important parasites.
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What is the opposite of a Show Up?
The opposite of a Show Up is a "Rip".
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Does the rail station provide 24 hour service
There are regular intercity services to all major Dutch cities; direct services to Schiphol Airport.
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Religious diversity in North Carolina has generally what?
Currently, the rapid influx of northerners and immigrants from Latin America is steadily increasing ethnic and religious diversity: the number of Roman Catholics and Jews in the state has increased, as well as general religious diversity.
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What temperature are cask ales stored at before being tapped?
At this point the beer is ready to sell, either being pulled through a beer line with a hand pump, or simply being "gravity-fed" directly into the glass.
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What kind of winter weather does Houston have?
Houston has mild winters in contrast to most areas of the United States.
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How many temples are present in Kathmandu's Durbar Square?
The complex has 50 temples and is distributed in two quadrangles of the Durbar Square.
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How far away from the Confederate executive mansion was the Virginia State Capitol?
The Confederate Congress shared quarters with the Virginia General Assembly in the Virginia State Capitol, with the Confederacy's executive mansion, the "White House of the Confederacy", located two blocks away.
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What is the first of degree ceremonies?
In other jurisdictions, the grade is not recognised, and no inner ceremony conveys new secrets during the installation of a new Master of the Lodge.
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Has New Mexico had a majority of Spanish speaking natives.
The state (like its southwestern neighbors) has had close linguistic and cultural ties with Mexico.
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How did the Russians used the captured Memel?
The Russians then used Memel as a base to invade East Prussia and defeated a smaller Prussian force in the fiercely contested Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf on 30 August 1757.
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At what temperature does the metal become malleable?
Its melting point is the lowest of all the transition metals aside from mercury and cadmium.
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When did Elizabeth acquire her father's arms?
From 21 April 1944 until her accession, Elizabeth's arms consisted of a lozenge bearing the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom differenced with a label of three points argent, the centre point bearing a Tudor rose and the first and third a cross of St George.
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What is the estimation of deer slaughtered in Charles Town from 1739 to 1761?
Between 1739 and 1761, the height of the deerskin trade era, an estimated 500,000 to 1,250,000 deer were slaughtered.
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What film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1998?
His film Eternity and a Day won the Palme d'Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
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What was the name of the governor who suggested relocating the population of Saint Helena?
The company experienced difficulty attracting new immigrants, and sentiments of unrest and rebellion fomented among the inhabitants.
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What was lacking in the presentation of religious events in Rome?
But official calendars preserved from different times and places also show a flexibility in omitting or expanding events, indicating that there was no single static and authoritative calendar of required observances.
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What was made possible by Lynx?
Lynx itself provided hypertext browsing and navigation prior to Tim Berners Lee's invention of HTTP and HTML.
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Where is the Museo Naval located?
The Museo Naval, is located on the eastern waterfront in Buceo and offers exhibits depicting the maritime history of Uruguay.
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Changes in what intended to keep U.S. banks competitive with their European counterparts?
Changes in capital requirements, intended to keep U.S. banks competitive with their European counterparts, allowed lower risk weightings for AAA securities.
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What is the purpose of a pesticide?
This use of pesticides is so common that the term pesticide is often treated as synonymous with plant protection product, although it is in fact a broader term, as pesticides are also used for non-agricultural purposes.
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What did the studies reveal about men and their declared sexual preference?
Some researchers who study sexual orientation argue that the concept may not apply similarly to men and women.
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What percentage of Swiss people claimed no church affiliation in 2012?
21.4% in 2012 declared themselves as unchurched i.e. not affiliated with any church or other religious body (Agnostic, Atheist, or just not related to any official religion).
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How long is the screening period of an individual's or organization's petition to add a species to the list
" The procedures are the same for both types except with the person/organization petition, there is a 90-day screening period.
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In which year did the Synod of Constantinople confirm the veneration of images of Mary?
Both Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians venerate images and icons of Mary, given that the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 permitted their veneration with the understanding that those who venerate the image are venerating the reality of the person it represents, and the 842 Synod of Constantinople confirming the same.
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How many Republican appointees wrote the minority report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission?
The majority report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, written by the six Democratic appointees, the minority report, written by 3 of the 4 Republican appointees, studies by Federal Reserve economists, and the work of several independent scholars generally contend that government affordable housing policy was not the primary cause of the financial crisis.
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Where was the only African destination for the torch?
Dar es Salaam was the torch's only stop in Africa, on April 13.
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What has been designed to help with the gallery?
To this end a new Gothic access tower with lift has been designed by the abbey architect and Surveyor of the Fabric, Ptolemy Dean.
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With what airline does Amtrak codeshare for transit to Newark Airport that originates or terminates at Union Station?
Amtrak also codeshares with United Airlines for travel to any airport serviced by United Airlines, via Newark Airport (EWR) originating from or terminating at Union Station,
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Beyonce received how many nominations at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards?
At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, Beyoncé received ten nominations, including Album of the Year for I Am...
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What activity is often held before Somali weddings?
Henna parties are usually held before the wedding takes place.
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Who published a book with unnecessarily long title, "Exploring the City: Inquires Toward an Urban Anthropology"?
For example, the classic of urban anthropology, Ulf Hannerz in the introduction to his seminal Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology mentions that the "Third World" had habitually received most of attention; anthropologists who traditionally specialized in "other cultures" looked for them far away and started to look "across the tracks" only in late 1960s.
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How long do women serve in the military?
Men serve two years and eight months and women two years.
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How many immigrants to Paris in 2012 were from the Maghreb?
Note that the immigrants from the Americas and the South Pacific in Paris are vastly outnumbered by migrants from French overseas regions and territories located in these regions of the world.
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What did Brahms sometimes use in his Academic Festival Overture?
Examples include occasional music such as Brahms' use of student drinking songs in his Academic Festival Overture, genres exemplified by Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera, and the influence of jazz on early- and mid-20th-century composers including Maurice Ravel, exemplified by the movement entitled "Blues" in his sonata for violin and piano.
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How many cubic meters of growing stock forest are there on the planet?
As an abundant, carbon-neutral renewable resource, woody materials have been of intense interest as a source of renewable energy.
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What did Schopenhauer believe were the only things we could know?
We directly and immediately know only representations.
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What group did the Nobility of Ruthenia gravitate its loyalty towards?
Many noble Ruthenian families intermarried with Lithuanian ones.
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What is the JK Bridge a nickname for?
The Juscelino Kubitschek bridge, also known as the 'President JK Bridge' or the 'JK Bridge', crosses Lake Paranoá in Brasília.
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How do creators of content protect their work from infringement?
Copyright holders routinely invoke legal and technological measures to prevent and penalize copyright infringement.
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What is one reason for homologs to appear?
It is often assumed that the functions of orthologous genes are more similar than those of paralogous genes, although the difference is minimal.
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What is the term for a ship's cargo manager?
By 1909 there were no more resident palagi traders representing the trading companies, although both Whibley and Restieaux remained in the islands until their deaths.
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Why was the Greater London Council established?
In 1965 London's political boundaries were expanded to take into account the growth of the urban area and a new Greater London Council was created.
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What Rod Stewart song in 1971 featured the mandolin?
Maggie May features a significant mandolin riff.
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Who can individuals derive precedence from?
Wives of male members of all classes also feature on the order of precedence, as do sons, daughters and daughters-in-law of Knights Grand Cross and Knights Commander; relatives of Ladies of the Order, however, are not assigned any special precedence.
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Who discovered uranium in pitchblende?
The 1789 discovery of uranium in the mineral pitchblende is credited to Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named the new element after the planet Uranus.
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What a cappella vocal style is implemented in many of In Transit's songs?
In Transit incorporates vocal beat boxing into its contemporary a cappella arrangements through the use of a subway beat boxer character.
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What type of birds generally feed by fishing, plant eating or piracy?
Aquatic birds generally feed by fishing, plant eating, and piracy or kleptoparasitism.
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What leader started a mass movement against British rule?
From 1920 leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi began highly popular mass movements to campaign against the British Raj using largely peaceful methods.
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Who wrote the Global Accountability Report for 2007?
At a more practical level, the question translates into one about how to make transnational policing institutions democratically accountable (Sheptycki, 2004).
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What was Westminster Abbey's original name?
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.
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How did the phonograph differ from the phonautograph?
Unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound.
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How did the Russians used the captured Memel?
Sweden felt this small army was all that was needed to occupy Pomerania and felt the Swedish army would not need to engage with the Prussians because the Prussians were occupied on so many other fronts.
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Who criticized Madonna's charity efforts, stating that she exaggerated her contributions?
When Madonna visited the schools in April 2013, President of Malawi Joyce Banda expressed criticism of the star and her charity, accusing her of exaggerating her charity's contribution.
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How many contradictory facts does the problem of the direction of time arise from?
Firstly, the fundamental physical laws are time-reversal invariant; if a cinematographic film were taken of any process describable by means of the aforementioned laws and then played backwards, it would still portray a physically possible process.
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What can be done to copper to give it a certain look?
The final patina is a particularly durable layer that is highly resistant to atmospheric corrosion, thereby protecting the underlying metal against further weathering.
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What varies as a function of voltage in varactors?
Mechanically controlled variable capacitors allow the plate spacing to be adjusted, for example by rotating or sliding a set of movable plates into alignment with a set of stationary plates.
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Y Haplogroup N are found at high rates in who?
Postulated to originate from southeast Asia, it is found at high rates in Uralic peoples.
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All four men were convicted and received what as punishment?
He and three associates were later tried and convicted and received the death sentence for their part in the decision-making of that day.
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Why do mountain and moorland breeders move only altitudinally?
Species like the chaffinch are much less migratory in Britain than those of continental Europe, mostly not moving more than 5 km in their lives.
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How long has this name immutability been guaranteed?
All graphic, format, and private use characters have a unique and immutable name by which they may be identified.
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When did the TSFSR break up into three parts?
The TSFSR existed from 1922 to 1936, when it was divided up into three separate entities (Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR).
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What is frequently the case in quantum mechanics when a pair of alternatives are semantically determinate?
In the case of distribution, it is therefore possible to have a situation in which , while .
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What government body is responsible for releasing the annual official economic report for Delhi?
The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi does not release any economic figures specifically for New Delhi but publishes an official economic report on the whole of Delhi annually.
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How many HIV-infected pregnant women receive retroviral coverage?
The prevalence of HIV-infection among the adult population is 1.8%.
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How many Jews live in Europe?
The exact world Jewish population, however, is difficult to measure.
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How many Japanese troops defended Okinawa?
Of the 117,000 Japanese troops defending Okinawa, 94 percent died.
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The Shu were an ally of who, according to the Book of Documents?
Accounts of Shu exist mainly as a mixture of mythological stories and historical legends recorded in local annals such as the Chronicles of Huayang compiled in the Jin dynasty (265–420), with folk stories such as that of Emperor Duyu (杜宇) who taught the people agriculture and transformed himself into a cuckoo after his death.
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What did the group of theorists classify in 1982?
These days, group theory is still a highly active mathematical branch, impacting many other fields.a[›]
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Besides the use of agriculture, what other factor clouds the issue of the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture?
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is not necessarily a one way process.
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Who developed New San Diego that was south of the first location?
In 1850, William Heath Davis promoted a new development by the Bay shore called "New San Diego", several miles south of the original settlement; however, for several decades the new development consisted only a few houses, a pier and an Army depot.
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What is the spacing effect?
Also relevant is the Zeigarnik effect which states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.
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Who can race serve as a significant factor when studying social inequality?
This use of racial categories is frequently criticized for perpetuating an outmoded understanding of human biological variation, and promoting stereotypes.
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What is an example of a political text where the term Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian was used to describe the language?
It is still used for lack of a succinct alternative, though alternative names have been used, such as Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), which is often seen in political contexts such as the Hague War Crimes tribunal.
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What is the name of the House of Deréon junior collection?
The concept is inspired by three generations of women in their family, the name paying tribute to Beyoncé's grandmother, Agnèz Deréon, a respected seamstress.
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How many of CBC's mandatory transmitters were updated before the deadline?
In both of those markets, the corporation's television transmitters are the only ones that were not planned to be converted to digital by the deadline.
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When did the Chernobyl disaster happen?
On September 30, 1989, thousands of Belorussians, denouncing local leaders, marched through Minsk to demand additional cleanup of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine.
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What may have also been in use at the time?
It is possible that other distinct dialect groups were already in existence during this period.
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What would a rotor do without current reversal?
In absence of such current reversal, the motor would brake to a stop.
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Who persecuted the Anabaptists in the 16th century?
As a result of their views on the nature of baptism and other issues, Anabaptists were heavily persecuted during the 16th century and into the 17th by both Magisterial Protestants and Roman Catholics.[aa]
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Who did the Lines of Communication wall fail to prevent from coming into London?
The fortifications failed their only test when the New Model Army entered London in 1647, and they were levelled by Parliament the same year.
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People have been wondering about the nature of matter for the entire history of what branch of science?
For much of the history of the natural sciences people have contemplated the exact nature of matter.
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