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d5ddb8ec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Dissen am Teutoburger Wald is a town located in a state which borders which other German states? | Dissen am Teutoburger Wald is located in Lower Saxony, which borders the German states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Bremen. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Dissen am Teutoburger Wald is an old charactered town in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Teutoburg Forest, approximately 20 km southeast of Osnabrück ."
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d5ddb9640dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is personified by the deity in Maori mythology that has the same name as a creature that lived in the South China Sea in Chinese mythology? | Ao is the personification of light, clouds, and the ordinary world in Maori Mythology. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Ao ( daylight) is one of the primal deities who are the unborn forces of nature in Māori mythology. Ao is the personification of light, clouds, and the ordinary world, as opposed to darkness ( Pō) and the underworld."
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d5ddb98c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of network in the US has its listenership gauged by Nielsen and has some stations owned and operated by Langer Broadcasting? | A radio network. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In the United States, radio listenership is gauged by Nielsen and others for both commercial radio and public radio. Nielsen and similar services provide estimates by regional market and by standard daypart, but do not compile nationwide information by host."
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d5ddb9aa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of neuron contains the cell bodies of all the alpha neurons involved in contracting a single muscle and is known as a component of gems 1? | A motor Neuron | text | [] | [
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"text": "A motor neuron pool contains the cell bodies of all the alpha motor neurons involved in contracting a single muscle. Alpha motor neurons (α-MNs) innervating the head and neck are found in the brainstem; the remaining α-MNs innervate the rest of the body and are found in the spinal cord."
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d5ddb9d20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Where were the earliest references to the river that originates in the Armenian Highlands of eastern Turkey found? | Cuneiform texts | text | [] | [
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d5ddb9fa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Battle of Vicus Helena was a clash between Roman soldiers commanded by general Flavius Aetius and what group of Franks that were seen as one of the main divisions of them? | Salian Franks. | text | [] | [
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d5ddba220dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the central idea of the sender encodes the message in a redundant way, most often by using it and is used in most computers where data corruption cannot be tolerated under any circumstances? | ECC | text | [] | [
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d5ddba4a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Migration and linguistic assimilation helped to spread what languages, associated with the ethnic group containing the Uzbeks, in Eurasia? | Turkic | text | [] | [
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d5ddba720dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Yanluo who judges the dead and presides over the Narakas is a transcription of the Sanskrit name for what? | King Yama. | text | [] | [
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d5ddbac20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The U.S. state in the Midwest, in which the history of human activity there began with migratory tribes of Native Americans who inhabited the area as early as 8000 BC, has what as its state tree? | The Tulip Tree is the state tree of Indiana. | text | [] | [
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d5ddbaea0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What meaning does the word that typically describes an object that reflects an image have in the context of redistributing Wikipedia articles? | A mirror is a publication that copies an article exactly. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Mirrors and forks of Wikipedia are publications that mirror (copy exactly) or fork (copy, but change parts of the material of) Wikipedia. Many correctly follow the licensing terms; however, many others fail – accidentally or intentionally – to place the notice required by these terms."
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d5ddbb120dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The hypothesis claims that there is an ideal time window to do what, which is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language? | Acquire language | text | [] | [
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d5ddbb300dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The woodworking tool used for marking and checking 90 degree angles on pieces of wood is made from what two key parts? | A try square is made of two key parts, the blade and the stock, which are fixed together at 90° to form an 'L' shape. | text | [] | [
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d5ddbb580dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who began the movement that embraces Vedanta and teachings of the east in an effort to convert people to Christianity? | Roberto de Nobili | text | [] | [
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d5ddbb800dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Stolen Generations are what type of people who used weapons like boomerangs, sticks and spears to kill animals for food? | Indigenous Australians | text | [] | [
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d5ddbba80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Instead of being what the Pen y Gadair Fawr, the "Black Hill" has what going onto the Glentye Hill? | A slop leading onto Glentye Hill. | text | [] | [
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d5ddbc200dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The substance secreted by mesenchymal cells is a potential treatment for what disease of the heart? | Coronary artery disease. | text | [] | [
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d5ddbc660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What two medals were awarded along with the 2014-2015 medal? | The British War Medal and Victory Medal | text | [] | [
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d5ddbc8e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What lighthouse in the southwestern entrances to Penobscot Bay is one of the 57 active lights in the state of Maine? | Whitehead Light | text | [] | [
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d5ddbcb60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The laws of what branch of physics define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize thermodynamic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium? | Thermodynamics | text | [] | [
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d5ddbcde0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Modern scheme theory, differential geometry and gauge theory are all concepts in what? | Mathematics | text | [] | [
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d5ddbd420dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Are pictograms older or younger than the Sumerian abacus? | They are older. | text | [] | [
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d5ddbd7e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | When did Ortigas and Company open their 16 hectare mixed use shopping center in San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines? | The early 1970s | text | [] | [
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d5ddbda60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Intravitreal and intravenous are both styles of what? | Injections | text | [] | [
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d5ddbdc40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the length of the U.S.'s oldest mountain range that is called Moʼȯhta-voʼhonáaeva in Cheyenne? | 125 miles. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Black Hills ( Lakota: Ȟe Sápa; Cheyenne: Moʼȯhta-voʼhonáaeva; Hidatsa: awaxaawi shiibisha) is a small and isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States."
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d5ddbdec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of Bus was replaced by creating a completely new high-performance 8-bit bus that was referring to it's relation to the Zilog Z80 series processor? | The STD Bus | text | [] | [
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"text": "IEEE Working Group P1000 initially considered simply repinning the STD Bus , replacing its card edge connector with the DIN41612 connector. But they decided to create a completely new high-performance 8-bit bus. They decided to make a bus more like the VMEbus and Futurebus ."
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d5ddbe140dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The village of Gotham was populated by people sharing a designation with what character known for taking the Golden Goose to market? | Simpleton | text | [] | [
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"text": "The ancient Greeks told tales of stupid populations in Abdera and other cities; in Germany, men of Schilda are conspicuous in these stories; in Spain hundreds of jokes exist about the supposed foolishness of the people from Lepe; and in England, the village of Gotham in Nottinghamshire is reputed to ... |
d5ddbe3c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is Polyethylene glycol and is it safe? | Polyethylene glycol is a polyether compound derived from petroleum.PEG is considered biologically inert and safe by the FDA. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Polyethylene glycol ( PEG; / ˌpɒliˈɛθəlˌiːn ˈɡlaɪˌkɒl, - ˌkɔːl /) is a polyether compound derived from petroleum with many applications, from industrial manufacturing to medicine. PEG is also known as polyethylene oxide ( PEO) or polyoxyethylene ( POE ), depending on its molecular weight."
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d5ddbe640dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is an acceptable short-hand definition, with a single letter abbreviation, of the type of weapon of interest for the CNWDI? | A-bomb | text | [] | [
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d5ddbe8c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | York is a former city within the current city of what, which the Annex is a neighborhood in? | Toronto | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Annex is a neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The traditional boundaries of the neighbourhood are north to Dupont Street, south to Bloor Street, west to Bathurst Street and east to Avenue Road. The City of Toronto recognizes a broader neighbourhood definition that includes the ad... |
d5ddbf040dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The fashion of carrying a pelt that is the Italian word for "sable" fell out of fashion in what century? | The fashion for carrying zibellini died out in the first years of the 17th century. | text | [] | [
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"text": "A zibellino, flea-fur or fur tippet is a women's fashion accessory popular in the later 15th and 16th centuries. A zibellino, from the Italian word for \" sable \", is the pelt of a sable or marten worn draped at the neck or hanging at the waist, or carried in the hand. The plural is zibellini."
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d5ddbf2c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who developed the spectrophotometer that can be used to measure the chemical that is usually found in its greatest concentrations between about 20 and 40 kilometres? | The British meteorologist G. M. B. Dobson developed this item. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Ozone concentrations are greatest between about 20 and 40 kilometres (66,000 and 131,000 ft), where they range from about 2 to 8 parts per million. If all of the ozone were compressed to the pressure of the air at sea level, it would be only 3 millimetres ( 1⁄8 inch) thick."
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d5ddbf540dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Acridotheres fuscus and Acridotheres cristatellus are both types of what? | Myna. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The jungle myna ( Acridotheres fuscus) is a myna, a member of the starling family. It is found patchily distributed across much of the mainland of the Indian Subcontinent but absent in the arid zones of India."
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d5ddbf720dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Interstate 440 ( I-440) is a 7.64-mile-long (12.30 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway which runs through what city that is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee? | It runs thru Nashville. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Interstate 440 ( I-440) is a 7.64-mile-long (12.30 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway which runs through Nashville, Tennessee. It serves as a southern bypass around downtown Nashville, and is located on average about three miles (4.8 km) from the center of the city."
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d5ddbf9a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In what church does the bishop not need to be a high priest and the high priests are primarily responsible for the spiritual welfare of members? | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | text | [] | [
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"text": "According to Latter Day Saint scripture, a bishop in the church does not need to be a high priest nor does he need counselors if he is a Levite and a direct descendant of Aaron, the brother of Moses."
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d5ddbfe00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Phrenic is a name given to both arteries and what? | Nerves | text | [] | [
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"text": "In humans, the right and left phrenic nerves are primarily supplied by the C4 spinal nerve, but there is also contribution from the C3 and C5 spinal nerves. From its origin in the neck, the nerve travels downward into the chest to pass between the heart and lungs towards the diaphragm."
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d5ddc0080dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Plumbum dulce and iron nitrides both form into what kind of structure? | A crystal. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It commonly occurs as a colourless crystal or white powder and, unlike most other lead (II) salts, is soluble in water . Known since the Middle Ages by the name plumbum dulce, the production of lead (II) nitrate from either metallic lead or lead oxide in nitric acid was small-scale, for direct use in... |
d5ddc0580dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Copper is generally considered the best shielding in what kinds of scan rooms that may be designed as a Faraday cage? | An MRI machine room. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The scan room of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine is designed as a Faraday cage. This prevents external RF (radio frequency) signals from being added to data collected from the patient, which would affect the resulting image."
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d5ddc0800dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | When territories were given to Casa Dei, how many territories were they divided into, and what were their names? | The territories were divided into two: Sursassiala and Sutsassiala. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The territories in the upper Anterior Rhine valley ( Surselva) were given to Disentis Abbey, and thus removed from the direct rule of Raetia Curiensis, by Tello, Bishop of Chur (d. 765). The territory was divided into Sursassiala (\"above the gorge [viz. Punt Russein]\") and Sutsassiala (\"below the ... |
d5ddc0a80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is Scarus niger and where is it found? | Scarus niger, common names the swarthy parrotfish, dusky parrotfish, and black parrotfish, is a species of parrotfish. It is in the phylum Chordata, class Actinopterygii, and family Scaridae. It is found in Indo-West and Central Pacific, from the Red Sea, north to Japan, south to Australia and east to French Polynesia.... | text | [] | [
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"text": "It is found in Indo-West and Central Pacific, from the Red Sea, north to Japan, south to Australia and east to French Polynesia. It is found in lagoons, channels and outer reefs slopes on the depths of 2 to 20 metres (6 ft 7 in to 65 ft 7 in). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scarus niger."
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d5ddc0d00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Be (OH) 2 and the mineral of the formula Cu (OH) 2 both have what word in their name? | Hydroxide | text | [] | [
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d5ddc0f80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Kota Kinabalu is the state capital of what state of Malaysia located on the northern portion of Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia? | Kota Kinabalu is the state capital of Sabah. | text | [] | [
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d5ddc1200dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Spironolactone, eplerenone, and bosentan can both treat hypertension and what ailment of the heart? | Heart failure. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Aliskiren (developed by Novartis) is a renin inhibitor which has been approved by the U.S. FDA for the treatment of hypertension. Aldosterone receptor antagonists are not recommended as first-line agents for blood pressure, but spironolactone and eplerenone are both used in the treatment of heart fai... |
d5ddc1660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What are the judicial proceedings conducted by CGCCA called? | Courts-martial | text | [] | [
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d5ddc18e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who played the character in Supernatural whose ghost was confirmed by Robert Singer to have appeared on the show? | Alona Tal plays Jo Harvelle in Supernatural. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Supernatural executive producer Robert Singer confirmed that the apparition was Jo's ghost and not an illusion created by Osiris."
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d5ddc1ca0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Where did the name of Sony Cat originate? | Toro, the Sony Cat, is the family name of the debugger called Toro Inoue. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Toro (トロ), full name Toro Inoue (井上トロ, Inoue Toro), also known as the Sony Cat, is a fictional character created by Sony Interactive Entertainment. He is an anthropomorphized cat who participates in numerous events and tries to act like a human."
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d5ddc1fc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Signal de Botrange experiences stronger winds than the centre of what country which has three main geographical regions? | Belgium | text | [] | [
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"text": "The natural regions of Belgium. Belgium has three main geographical regions: the coastal plain in the north-west, the central plateau, and the Ardennes uplands in the south-east. The coastal plain consists mainly of sand dunes and polders."
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d5ddc2240dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | State route 152 runs Southwest through Georgia from a city that was founded originally for what? | Lyons was founded circa 1890 as a depot on the Central of Georgia Railway. | text | [] | [
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"text": "State Route 152 ( SR 152) is a state highway that runs southwest–to–northeast through portions of Toombs and Tattnall counties in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. It runs from Lyons to Cobbtown ."
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d5ddc2740dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What language is spoken in the low countries? | Flemish or sometimes called nederlands is spoken the the low countries of Belgium and Holland. | text | [] | [
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"text": "This name derives from the 19th-century origins of the kingdom which originally included present-day Belgium. In Dutch, and to a lesser extent in English, the Low Countries colloquially means the Netherlands and Belgium, sometimes the Netherlands and Flanders —the Dutch-speaking north of Belgium."
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d5ddc2c40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which group was attacked by Christians like Ambrose the bishop of Milan and Supersessionism? | Jews | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Christian doctrine of supersessionism, and the Islamic doctrine of tahrif, both exemplify the formation of religious identity by appropriating and adapting Jewish texts while defining Judaism as an enemy. It is often a precursor to racist antisemitism, and has been described as theological or rel... |
d5ddc2ec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Why might studying the landscape of a place like Cono de Arita be beneficial? | The results of landscape genetics studies have potentially important applications to conservation biology and land management practices.[3 | text | [] | [
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d5ddc35a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Sphaerocarpos texanus and Geothallus are both examples of what? | liverworts | text | [] | [
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d5ddc3820dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Where is Aquitaine situated and what was it in the Middle Ages? | Aquitaine is situated in the far southwest corner of Metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. In the Middle Ages, Aquitaine was a kingdom and a duchy, whose boundaries fluctuated considerably. | text | [] | [
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d5ddc3d20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | CAE-I and GME both deal with what? | Models. | text | [] | [
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d5ddc3fa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In which century did both the series with Chandragupta Maurya and the series with Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat take place in? | In the 3rd century BC. | text | [] | [
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d5ddc4220dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What country makes up 40% of the total landmass of the continent where Ukraine is the 8th-most populous country? | Russia | text | [] | [
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"text": "Largest country in the world (10.995% of the world's land mass); its European portion is roughly 4,000,000 km 2, which is around 40% of the total landmass of Europe, making Russia the largest country in Europe; and its Asian portion, which covers all of Northern Asia, is around 13,100,000 km 2, makin... |
d5ddc49a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What 720 yards wide river flows in an easterly direction from its origin approximately 15 miles southwest of Kinston? | The Trent River. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It flows in an easterly direction from its origin approximately 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Kinston, North Carolina and traverses portions of Lenoir County, Jones County and Craven County prior to emptying into the Neuse River at New Bern, North Carolina."
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"text": "The river measures 7... |
d5ddc4c20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What sort of test can detect low levels of the major protein responsible for storing intracellular iron in prokaryotes and eukaryotes? | Blood tests. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Blood tests can show low serum ferritin levels. However, this is unreliable as method of diagnosis, as some patients show typical serum ferritin levels even at the latest stages of neuroferritinopathy. Cerebral spinal fluid tests also are typically normal."
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d5ddc5120dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Work performed by a system is energy transferred by the system to its surroundings in what, whose laws came from a fundamental set of postulates? | Thermodynamics | text | [] | [
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"text": "Thermodynamics is expressed by a mathematical framework of thermodynamic equations which relate various thermodynamic quantities and physical properties measured in a laboratory or production process. Thermodynamics is based on a fundamental set of postulates, that became the laws of thermodynamics .... |
d5ddc5620dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | When did Philip of Antioch serve as king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia which was also known as Little Armenia? | 1222 to 1224 | text | [] | [
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"text": "Philip of Antioch ( Armenian: Ֆիլիպ, French: Philippe; died 1225), also called Philip of Tripoli, was a member of the House of Poitiers who ruled as king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1222 to 1224 as the first husband of Queen Isabella."
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d5ddc5b20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the least-populated city in the country where the capital city has two wards named Setagaya and Nerima? | Utashinai | text | [] | [
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"text": "The least-populated city, Utashinai, Hokkaidō, has a population of merely four thousand, while a town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaidō, has nearly forty thousand residents, and the country's largest village Yomitan, Okinawa has a population of 40,517. The capital city, Tokyo, no longer has c... |
d5ddc5ee0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo is what type of aircraft, whose design often features various arrangements for use on runways with harsh conditions? | STOL aircraft | text | [] | [
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"text": "The de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalois a short takeoff and landing (STOL) utility transport turbopropaircraft developed from the earlier piston-powered DHC-4 Caribou. The aircraft has extraordinary STOL performance and is able to take off in distances much shorter than even most light aircraftcan ma... |
d5ddc65c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What might you farm if you lived in the province that Karkar Island is part of? | It would probably be coconut palm | text | [] | [
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"text": "Karkar Island is an oval-shaped volcanic island located in the Bismarck Sea, about 30 kilometres off the north coast of mainland Papua New Guinea in Madang Province, from which it is separated by the Isumrud Strait. The island is about 25 km in length and 19 km in width. In the centre is an active vo... |
d5ddc67a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What genus of lungless salamanders can be found in the Douglas fir forest? | Batrachoseps. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Batrachoseps attenuatus is found in several plant communities including California oak woodland, redwood forest, Douglas fir forest, montane hardwood conifer, grasslands and riparian zone; occurrence ranges from valley floors to mid-elevation in coastal ranges."
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"text": "Batrachoseps is ... |
d5ddc6ca0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The gens Julia was one of the most ancient patrician families in ancient Rome, whose most famous member was an uncle to what emperor? | Augustus | text | [] | [
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"text": "The first of the family to obtain the consulshipwas Gaius Julius Iulusin 489 BC. The gens is perhaps best known, however, for Gaius Julius Caesar, the dictatorand grand uncle of the emperor Augustus, through whom the name was passed to the so-called Julio-Claudian dynastyof the first century AD."
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d5ddc6f20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What was the relationship of Bindusara to the other person Chanakya mentored? | Maurya's son | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Maurya Empire was established in the Greater Punjab region under the leadership of Chandragupta Maurya and his mentor Chanakya. Chandragupta was taken to Taxila by Chanakya and was tutored about statecraft and governing."
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d5ddc76a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Are there more or less names for the Sharda River than the number of belts in Nepal. | The numbers are equal. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Sharda River, also called Kali River and Mahakali River, originates at Kalapani in the Himalayas at an elevation of 3,600 m (11,800 ft) in the Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand, India. It flows along Nepal 's western border with India and has a basin area of 14,871 km 2 (5,742 sq mi). It joins ... |
d5ddc7920dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Where is Piacenza located and what does the name mean? | Piacenza is located at a major crossroads at the intersection of Route E35/A1 between Bologna and Milan, and Route E70/A21 between Brescia and Turin. The name means a "pleasant abode". | text | [] | [
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"text": "Piacenza is located at a major crossroads at the intersection of Route E35/A1 between Bologna and Milan, and Route E70/A21 between Brescia and Turin. Piacenza is also at the confluence of the Trebbia, draining the northern Apennine Mountains, and the Po, draining to the east."
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d5ddc7ba0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What are two kinds of oranges known for being red? | The Moro blood orange and the Cara Cara navel orange. | text | [] | [
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"text": "For other uses, see Caracara. The Cara Cara navel orange, or red-fleshed navel orange, is an early-to-midseason navel orangebelieved to have developed as a spontaneous bud mutation on a Washington navel orange tree. [1][2][3][4] Cara cara navel orange"
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"text": "The 'Maltese' is known to ... |
d5ddc7e20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The XF-91 Thunderceptor is built by a company that was originally named what? | The XF-91 Thunderceptor is built by Republic Aviation, which was originally known as the Seversky Aircraft Company. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor (originally designated XP-91) is a mixed-propulsion prototype interceptor aircraft, developed by Republic Aviation. The aircraft would use a jet engine for most flight, and a cluster of four small rocket engines for added thrust during climb and interception."
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d5ddc8000dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Sargon II was a king of which foe of Cyaxares ? | Assyria | text | [] | [
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"text": "Cyaxares, seeking revenge, killed the Scythian leaders and proclaimed himself King of Medes. After throwing off the Scythians, he prepared for war against Assyria. Cyaxares reorganized the Median army, then allied himself with King Nabopolassar of Babylonia, a mutual enemy of Assyria."
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d5ddc8280dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Occultists refer to the suit cards of tarot decks like those played in Sicilian tarocchi as what? | Minor Arcana | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Tarocco Siciliano is a tarot deck found in Sicily and is used to play Sicilian tarocchi. It is one of the three traditional Latin-suited tarot decks still used for games in Italy, the others being the more prevalent Tarocco Piemontese and the Tarocco Bolognese. The deck was heavily influenced by ... |
d5ddc8640dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What state of matter is carbon monosulfide most stable in that boron fluoride oxide can be isolated in? | A gas. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It is also called boron fluoride oxide, fluoro (oxo)borane or fluoro-oxoborane. The molecule is stable at high temperatures, but below 1000 °C condenses to a trimer (BOF) 3 called trifluoroboroxin. FBO can be isolated as a triatomic non-metallic molecule in an inert gas matrix, and has been condensed... |
d5ddc8960dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Ancient Romans left a lasting legacy in the culture of what country whose architecture demonstrates great historical and geographical diversity, depending on the historical period? | Spain | text | [] | [
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"text": "Other ancient peoples such as Romans, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Greeks also had some influence. In the areas of language and also religion, the Ancient Romans left a lasting legacy in the Spanish culture because Rome created Hispania as a political, legal and administrative unit."
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d5ddc8c80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Timothy Omundson and Lola Glaudini had what sort of role on the American police procedural drama television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan? | They were guest stars | text | [] | [
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"text": "Lola Glaudini guest stars as Patty Bell, six episodes before joining the cast as Dolores Mayo. Mark Pellegrino guest stars as Fran Watkins. Two young women who worked as exotic dancers are raped and murdered, leaving Andy and Bobby to wade through a sea of scum before closing the case."
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d5ddc8f00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What was the original name of the national forest in which the Red River Gorge is found? | The Red River Gorge is found in the Daniel Boone National Forest, which was originally called the Cumberland National Forest. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Red River Gorge is a canyon system on the Red River in east-central Kentucky. Geologically, it is part of the Pottsville Escarpment . The gorge lies within the Daniel Boone National Forest and has been subsequently designated as the Red River Gorge Geological Area, an area of around 29,000 acres ... |
d5ddc9180dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | During what time period did Sargon of Akkad unite native Semitic-speakers into the Akkadian Empire that eventually sent military expeditions down to Magan? | The early Bronze Age. | text | [] | [
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"text": "During the early Bronze Age period, Sargon of Akkad united all the native Semitic -speaking peoples (including the Assyrians) and the Sumerians of Mesopotamia under the Akkadian Empire (2335–2154 BC)."
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"text": "The empire united Akkadian (Assyrian and Babylonian) and Sumerian speakers un... |
d5ddc9400dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of animal can be described as steel-gray above and white below that was being studied to try and create an intelligent version that has tentacles like an octopus? | A shark | text | [] | [
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"text": "Geneticist Nathan Sands and his daughter Nicole are hired by the U.S. Navy to create a new weapon; they create an intelligent shark that has the tentacles of an octopus, dubbed S-11, controlling the creature using electromagnetic pulses with a device attached to its head."
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d5ddc9e00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What caused the residents of the ghost town in Alaska located on the southern edge of the Kenai Peninsula to flee? | The events that caused the residents of Portlock to flee en mass were that several Dall sheep hunters had disappeared and dismembered bodies of some of the missing had washed ashore in the lagoon. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Portlock is a ghost town in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern edge of the Kenai Peninsula, around 16 miles (26 km) south of Seldovia. It is located in Port Chatham bay, after which an adjacent community takes its namesake."
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d5ddc9fe0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Is the Medal of Military Valor and the Cross of Valour from the same country or different countries? | They are from different countries. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Medal of Military Valor ( Italian language: Medaglia al valor militare) is an Italian medal, originally established as a Sardinian award. It is awarded to military personnel, units above the level of company, and civilians for exceptional valor in the face of the enemy."
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d5ddca260dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What common element can be used to make either a banhu or paiban? | Wood may be used in either | text | [] | [
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"text": "The banhu ( 板胡, pinyin: bǎnhú) is a Chinese traditional bowed string instrument in the huqin family of instruments. It is used primarily in northern China. Ban means a piece of wood and hu is short for huqin . Like the more familiar erhu and gaohu, the banhu has two strings, is held vertically, and t... |
d5ddca4e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many invertebrate species inhabit the body of water that's known to reach a depth of 9,970 feet at its central Suakin Trough? | over 1,000 invertebrate species | text | [] | [
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"text": "It has an average depth of 490 m (1,608 ft), and in the central Suakin Trough it reaches its maximum depth of 3,040 m (9,970 ft). The Red Sea also has extensive shallow shelves, noted for their marine life and corals."
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"text": "The Red Sea also has extensive shallow shelves, noted for th... |
d5ddca760dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | An officer commanding a cohort, part of a legion usually consisting of six centuries, had the first word of his title derived from what? | Roman tribes | text | [] | [
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"text": "The word tribuneis derived from the Roman tribes. The three original tribes known as the Ramnesor Ramnenses, Titiesor Titienses,and the Luceres,were each headed by a tribune, who represented each tribe in civil, religious, and military matters."
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d5ddcaa80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What would a data structure be classified as in the type of science that is concerned with objects that use programming languages? | A data organization, management, and storage format that enables efficient access and modification | text | [] | [
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"text": "In computer science, a data structure is a data organization, management, and storage format that enables efficient access and modification. More precisely, a data structure is a collection of data values, the relationships among them, and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data."... |
d5ddcae40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What group of people chosen to elect a candidate to a particular office with their one vote can ignore the wishes of a general membership? | Electoral college | text | [] | [
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"text": "The electoral college can ignore the wishes of a general membership. A similar concept existed in the former Holy Roman Empire, in which the Holy Roman Emperor was elected by the rulers of various provinces of the Empire, or their representatives. These rulers were referred to as Electors."
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d5ddcb160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Out of the 8 planetary objects in the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it, which is the furthest from the Sun? | Neptune | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it, either directly or indirectly. Of the objects that orbit the Sun directly, the largest are the eight planets, with the remainder being smaller objects, the dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies."
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d5ddcb7a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Meritorious Service and the Atlantic Star are both what? | Medals. | text | [] | [
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"text": "For example, the US Army Meritorious Civilian Service Award is equivalent to the US military Legion of Merit, while the US Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award is equivalent to the lower US military Meritorious Service Medal. Examples of Meritorious Civilian Service Awards include but are not... |
d5ddcbfc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which has a habitat farther west, Crotalus horridus or Crotalus helleri? | Crotalus helleri is found in California and Mexico, on the west coast of the US. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The timber rattlesnake, canebrake rattlesnake or banded rattlesnake ( Crotalus horridus ), is a species of venomous pit viper endemic to eastern North America."
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"text": "The eastern diamondback rattlesnake ( Crotalus adamanteus) is a species of venomous pit viper in the family Viperidae.... |
d5ddcc4c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Upper Mississippi Rive forms the boundary between Wisconsin and what state that is the U.S.'s largest producer of sugar beets, sweet corn, and green peas for processing and farm-raised turkeys? | Minnesota | text | [] | [
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"text": "Relief map showing primarily the Minnesota part of the Driftless Area. The wide diagonal river is the Upper Mississippi River. In this area, it forms the boundary between Minnesota and Wisconsin. The rivers entering the Mississippi from the west are, from the bottom up, the Upper Iowa, Root, Whitewat... |
d5ddccba0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of armor and weapons would Spartacus have likely worn as a gladiator? | He would have probably worn a small rectangular, square or circular shield and a very short sword with a slightly curved blade. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Not to be confused with Spartocus or Sportacus. Spartacus ( Greek: Σπάρτακος Spártakos; Latin: Spartacus; c. 111–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator who, along with Crixus, Gannicus, Castus, and Oenomaus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Ro... |
d5ddcce20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | At the highest level, who holds authority over the WADS unit that typically reports to 1st Air Force at Tyndall AFB in Florida? | The President of the United States | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Washington National Guard is also subject to the call of the President of the United States to serve as part of the total U.S. Military force. The Washington National Guard is made up of the Washington Army National Guard (WAARNG) and the Washington Air National Guard (WA ANG)."
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d5ddcd0a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The High Priest of Ra and Horemheb of the Eighteenth Dynasty are both individuals from which ancient civilization? | Ancient Egypt. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The High Priest of Ra or of Re was known in Egyptian as the wr-mꜢw, which translates as Greatest of Seers. The main cult of Ra was in ancient Heliopolis, northeast of present-day Cairo. The high priests of Ra are not as well documented as the high priests of other deities such as Amun and Ptah . Ahmo... |
d5ddcd5a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Tennessee Walking Horse or Tennessee Walker is part of what category of horse breeds known for their ability to perform one of the smooth-to-ride, intermediate speed, four-beat horse gaits, collectively referred to as ambling gaits? | They're part of the gaited horse breed category. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Gaited horses are horse breeds that have selective breeding for natural gaited tendencies, that is, the ability to perform one of the smooth-to-ride, intermediate speed, four-beat horse gaits, collectively referred to as ambling gaits. Such breeds include the following:"
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d5ddcd820dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Lactoferrin and Transferrin receptor 2 are both types of what? | Proteins | text | [] | [
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"text": "Transferrin receptor 2 ( TfR2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TFR2 gene. This protein is involved in the uptake of transferrin -bound iron into cells by endocytosis, although its role is minor compared to transferrin receptor 1 ."
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"text": "Lactoferrin ( LF ), also known as... |
d5ddcdaa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Wakhjir and Dorah are both names of what? | Passes | text | [] | [
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"text": "It is one of the four major mountain passes entering Chitral District; the others are the Dorah Pass from Badakshan Province of Afghanistan, Shandur Top from Gilgit, and Lowari Top from Upper Dir District . The area of Broghil is inhabited by Wakhi and Kyrgyz people ."
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d5ddcdc80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How long after Lucius Titus proscribed at the end was the revolt lead by Sextus Pompey victories for Triumvirate? | 1 year | text | [] | [
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"text": "Occurring between 44 BC and 36 BC, the revolt was led by Sextus Pompey and ended in a Triumvirate victory. Sextus' father, Pompey the Great, had been an enemy of Julius Caesar for many years, and this enmity finally boiled over in 49 BC with the beginning of Caesar's Civil War."
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d5ddcdf00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In which war would the military planes OS2U and Ho229 have flown in? | They flew in WWII. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The OS2U could also operate on fixed, wheeled, taildragger landing gear. The OS2U was the main shipboard observation seaplane used by the United States Navy during World War II, and 1,519 of the aircraft were built."
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"text": "The only surviving Ho 229 airframe, the V3—and the only surviv... |
d5ddce180dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Cen is a Mandarin pinyin romanization equivalent of what British names like Williams, Jackson, Robinson, Harris, Davis, Brown and Jones? | Surnames | text | [] | [
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"text": "British surnames such as Williams, Jackson, Robinson, Harris, Davis, Brown and Jones are also common among people of non-British descent, such as African Americans due to slavery. Garcia and Martinez represent the rapid growth of several Hispanic communities in the United States."
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d5ddce400dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The role that the loose connective tissue composed mostly of adipocytes plays in human function is to do what? | Its main role is to store energy in the form of lipids, although it also cushions and insulates the body. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Adipose tissue, body fat, or simply fat is a loose connective tissue composed mostly of adipocytes. In addition to adipocytes, adipose tissue contains the stromal vascular fraction (SVF) of cells including preadipocytes, fibroblasts, vascular endothelial cells and a variety of immune cells such as ad... |
d5ddcef40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Annealed what, which is a ferromagnetic metal, can create a concentrated field that is as much as 50,000 times more intense than an air core? | Iron | text | [] | [
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"text": "It is made of ferromagnetic metal such as iron, or ferrimagnetic compounds such as ferrites. The high permeability, relative to the surrounding air, causes the magnetic field lines to be concentrated in the core material. The magnetic field is often created by a current-carrying coil of wire around t... |
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