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401	en	The Hubble is a scientific workhorse in the prime of its life. It is also the privileged photographer of the universe. Whether the images are of solar systems at birth, galaxies colliding, or the death throes of a star in supernova, Hubble's photos reveal both the ferocity and tranquillity of our universe.	Hubble is a Space telescope.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
402	en	The Jurassic Park Institute is an absolutely accurate way for kids to get excited about dinosaur science! Written by two noted paleontologists and illustrated in big bold colors, this kid-friendly nonfiction guide uses easy-to-understand text to describe at least 100 dinosaurs alphabetically.	Michael Crichton is the author of the book Jurassic Park.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
403	en	Two of Gianni Versace's favorite buzzwords were quality and future, so after the 50-year-old designer was murdered last July outside his Miami Beach, Fla. mansion, it was somehow inevitable that his family would have to go about putting those words together: They had to ask themselves how they could ensure the future of the company Versace had built without sacrificing its reputation for quality.	Gianni Versace is a designer.	0	YES	QA	long
404	en	In 1962, Armstrong was transferred to astronaut status. He served as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, launched March 16, 1966, and along with David Scott, performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space by mating his Gemini 8 with an uninhabited Agena rocket.	Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
405	en	Neil Armstrong was an aviator in the Navy and was chosen with the second group of astronauts in 1962. Made seven flights in the X-15 program (1960 photo), reaching an altitude of 207,500 feet. Was backup command pilot for Gemini 5, command pilot for Gemini 8, backup command pilot for Gemini 11, backup commander for Apollo 8, and commander for Apollo 11: successfully completing the first moonwalk.	Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.	0	YES	QA	long
406	en	The Cyrillic alphabet is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. It has also been used for other languages in the past. Not all letters in the Cyrillic alphabet are used in every language which is written with it.	Cyrillic is an alphabet used for certain Slavic languages, such as Russian.	0	YES	QA	long
407	en	Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on April 21, 1926 in London, England. Her father, Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the second son of King George V. Her mother, the former Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was the daughter of a Scottish earl. Princess Elizabeth was their first child. Her only sibling, Margaret Rose, was born in 1930.	Elizabeth the Second's father was George VI.	2	NO	QA	long
408	en	Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was born in London on April, 21 1926, first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, subsequently King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks later she was christened in the chapel of Buckingham Palace and was given the names Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor. The Queen ascended the throne on February 6, 1952 upon the death of her father, King George VI. Her Coronation followed on June 2, 1953.	Elizabeth the Second's father was George VI.	0	YES	QA	long
409	en	George H.W. Bush served this country not only as President but also as Vice President, Member of Congress, United Nations Ambassador, chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and also, as a naval aviator in World War II. Coming back from the war, he married his sweetheart, Barbara Pierce of Rye, New York, and later that year made his first civilian adult decision when he made the appropriate choice of moving to Texas, where he lived the rest of his life.	The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.	0	YES	QA	long
410	en	Bush and his wife, Laura, departed the White House on Thursday afternoon to spend four days at the wooded presidential retreat of rustic cabins in the Maryland mountains. Along with the first lady's mother, Jenna Welch, the weekend gathering includes the president's parents, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara; his sister Doro Koch and her husband, Bobby; and his brother, Marvin, and his wife, Margaret.	The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.	0	YES	QA	long
411	en	Although I come across Borges and Calvino fairly often, too, I have to admit that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the only one of the other authors I am at all familiar with, so I am not sure which difference it might make. I would be curious, though, what that difference might look like to people writing about media art and architecture in Spanish, for example.	Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a writer.	0	YES	QA	long
412	en	The United Kingdom, Turkey, "Old" British commonwealth forces ( New Zealand, Aussies, Canadians, Gurkhas, India), Germany, Poland, Vietnam, some units from USA, Russia, France, China (but only some) Japan would be included but I'm uncomfortable about using the word respected for Japanese soldiers for obvious reasons.	The Gurkhas come from Nepal.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
413	en	The town lies along the stretch of coastline designated as Gold Beach during the D-Day landings , one of the beaches used by British troops in the allied invasion. Arromanches was selected as one of the sites for two Mulberry Harbours built on the Normandy coast, the other one built further West at Omaha Beach.	The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
414	en	After months of planning and build-up, Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower set Operation Overlord for June 6, 1944: some 7000 ships in the British Isles set to sea and sailed across the English Channel, and, under the leadership of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, 135,000 troops landed and stormed Feldmarschal Erwin Rommel's German positions along 80 km of the Normandy coast.	The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.	0	YES	QA	long
415	en	Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who stunned Germans with admission that he used illegal bank accounts to funnel secret money to Christian Democratic party, invokes personal honor in refusing to disclose names of people who gave more than $1 million between 1993 and 1998; scandal threatens to shred Kohl's place in history for reunifying Germany and leading Europe toward common currency.	The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
416	en	Since '82 Federal Chancellor (elected by "constructive vote of no confidence" against former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Social Democratic Party (SPD); reelected 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1994). This makes Helmut Kohl the longest-serving chancellor of the Federal Republic, passing by Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor, this October.	The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
417	en	When comparing Michele Granger and Brian Goodell, Brian has to be the clear winner. In 1976, while still a student at Mission Viejo High, Brian won two Olympic gold medals at Montreal, breaking his own world records in both the 400- and 1,500-meter freestyle events. He went on to win three gold medals in he 1979 Pan American Games.	Brian Goodell won three gold medals in the 1979 Pan American Games.	0	YES	QA	long
418	en	More than a decade ago, Carl Lewis stood on the threshold of what was to become the greatest athletics career in history. He had just broken two of the legendary Jesse Owens' college records, but never believed he would become a corporate icon, the focus of hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising. His sport was still nominally amateur. Eighteen Olympic and World Championship gold medals and 21 world records later, Lewis has become the richest man in the history of track and field -- a multi-millionaire.	Carl Lewis won eighteen gold medals and set 21 world records.	0	YES	QA	long
419	en	Discovery of the top quark, if confirmed, completes one set of subatomic building blocks whose existence is predicted by the prevailing theory, called the Standard Model, of the particles and forces that determine the fundamental nature of matter and energy. In the whimsical lexicon of modern physics, the elementary particles are called quarks, leptons and bosons.	Quarks, leptons, and bosons are the three elementary particles of physics according to the Standard Model.	0	YES	QA	long
420	en	Yachtsman Melvyn Percy became so fed up with the standard of service when preparing his boat for the 3000-mile Atlantic crossing that he decided to set up his own company on the Clyde to provide Scots sailors with professional advice and practical assistance. Minerva Rigging, based at Kip Marina just south of Gourock, now employs five full-time staff and is the Scottish agent for Kemp, one of Europe's leading yacht spar and mast manufacturers.	Melvyn Percy set up Minerva Rigging at Kip Marina.	0	YES	QA	long
421	en	Of all the national park lands in the United States, none is closer to a major urban area or more beset with problems than the Everglades, a shallow, 50-mile-wide river of grass that flows south from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay. For more than a generation, this fragile natural wonder has been held hostage by a web of special interests -- farmers, sportsmen and about 6 million South Florida residents in need of drinking water and flood control -- that is as complex as the ecosystem itself.	The Everglades is 50-mile wide.	0	YES	QA	long
422	en	Aeschylus is often called the father of Greek tragedy; he wrote the earliest complete plays which survive from ancient Greece. He is known to have written more than 90 plays, though only seven survive. The most famous of these are the trilogy known as Orestia. Also well-known are The Persians and Prometheus Bound.	"The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.	0	YES	QA	long
423	en	Canada is officially a bilingual country but, with nearly 60% of the population speaking English as their mother-tongue, and only 24% speaking French as their first language, some people are questioning whether Canada is truly a bilingual nation or rather, a bilingual nation on paper only. French is not the only linguistic minority in Canada, and some of the languages spoken, in order of popularity, are Chinese, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Ukrainian, Arabic, Dutch, Tagalog, Greek, Vietnamese, Cree and Inuktitut.	French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
424	en	One year on from the Indian Ocean tsunami, the world's grief and compassion returned to the tsunami-battered coastlines of the Indian Ocean, where at least 216,000 people lost their lives. Under a clear sky and before a gentle sea, the world commemorated those who lost their lives, in one of the worst natural disasters that the modern world has experienced.	Earthquakes have the potential to generate a tsunami.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
425	en	Brazilian cardinal Dom Eusbio Oscar Scheid, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro , harshly criticized Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after arriving in Rome on Tuesday.	The Brazilian President is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.	0	YES	QA	short
426	en	According to members of Brazilian Court, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may be subjected to an impeachment process, if there is some proof that he is really involved in some of the alleged scandals, or in case someone can prove that he was acting with negligence.	The Brazilian President is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.	0	YES	QA	long
427	en	A report prepared by a five member UN commission noted "killing of civilians, enforced disappearances, destruction of villages, rape and other forms of sexual violence, pillaging and forced displacement, throughout Darfur", and secretly named alleged war criminals that should go before the ICC.	More than 200,000 people were killed in the air attack in the Darfur region.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
428	en	The United States Marshals Service working together with nearly 960 other law enforcement agencies recently concluded a week-long operation, Operation FALCON, which succeeded in the arrest of 10,340 fugitives across the United States and elsewhere. Other regional sweeps have been conducted before; but this was the first of its kind at the national level and resulted in the highest number of arrests ever recorded in a single operation.	Operation Condor was a genocide and a campaign of counter-terrorism implemented by the right-wing dictatorships that dominated the Southern Cone in Latin America from the 1950s to 1980s.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
429	en	Operation FALCON was conducted during a one week period, April 4-10, 2005, chosen to coincide with National Crime Victim's Rights Week , April 10-16, the dates being chosen to "honor the victims" of violent crime in America. "By taking violent fugitives off the streets and putting them behind bars where they belong," said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales , "we've honored the victims and made our streets safer."	Operation Condor was a genocide and a campaign of counter-terrorism implemented by the right-wing dictatorships that dominated the Southern Cone in Latin America from the 1950s to 1980s.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
430	en	Thousands of Romanians participated in rallies on Monday to campaign for the release of three Romanian journalists kidnapped last month in Iraq . Crowds swelled in size after a weekend of smaller rallies sponsored by Romanian media workers and the Arab community in Romania.	Romania sent 730 troops in Iraq.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
431	en	"These new results from Cassini may be the first evidence of gases originating either from the surface or possibly from the interior of Enceladus," said Dr. Michele Dougherty, principal investigator for the Cassini magnetometer and professor at Imperial College in London. Scientists have suspected Enceladus as geologically active and a possible source of Saturn's icy E ring. Enceladus is the most reflective object in the solar system, reflecting about 90 percent of the sunlight that hits it.	Titan is the fifteenth of Saturn's known satellites.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
432	en	A collection of real-life testimonies by Klaus Pohl, one of Germany's most performed dramatists, its power resides less in the conventional meaning of the word drama than in what it reveals - a country still deeply at odds with itself, a kaleidoscope of events that flatters neither side, neither Western capitalism nor the former communist regime.	Klaus Pohl is one of Germany's most performed dramatists.	0	YES	QA	long
433	en	TWA connects through New York en route to Frankfurt . Lufthansa , the German airline , flies direct daily from Los Angeles to Frankfurt , and the airline shares flights with Lauda Air , an Austrian carrier , on Wednesdays , Fridays and Sundays to fly directly to Munich . Another German airline , Ltu , also flies direct from Los Angeles to Dusseldorf and Munich on Mondays and Thursdays . Frankfurt is the hub for trips to most of the country 's smaller cities.	Lufthansa is the German airline.	0	YES	QA	long
434	en	November 9, 1989 , the day the Berlin Wall fell and the world changed forever . Not even the most astute saw it coming . As Hungary's foreign minister in the late summer of 1989 , Gyula Horn gave the order to let visiting East Germans use his country to do a 400-mile end run around the Berlin Wall , a move now seen as the beginning of the end for hard-line communism in Europe .	The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.	0	YES	QA	long
435	en	Global markets should be "quite strong enough to absorb it without lasting damage", he said . "I would stress that these circumstances are unique to Barings and should not apply to other banks operating in London." Barings faced losses of at least 600m in contracts on three stock exchanges in Singapore , Osaka and Tokyo , he said , but 'further unquantifiable losses' were expected .	The banking firm Barings collapsed due to speculations made by Nick Leeson.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
436	en	"It's a vote of confidence that the momentum is going to continue", Doyle said . The momentum also appears to be moving south . The Mexican election is the latest indication that the free-market reforms that have swept Latin America during the past decade are gaining political acceptance . In Brazil , prices rose sharply , reacting to the Mexico vote and to new polls favorable to free-market presidential candidate Fernando Henrique Cardoso .	Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a presidential candidate.	0	YES	QA	long
437	en	Although he won with the lowest majority ever tallied by the ruling party , 48.7% of the votes , his ballots almost doubled those of outsider Diego Fernandez de Cevallos , the rightist runner-up . And insiders are now favored to win other Latin American elections in the coming months : In Brazil , Fernando Henrique Cardoso , a former Senate leader and Cabinet minister , is expected to finish ahead of outsider Luis Inacio (Lula) da Silva , a leftist former labor leader , in the first round of president.	Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a Brazilian former Senate leader and Cabinet minister.	0	YES	QA	long
438	en	It would force countries in the region to choose between the United States and Japan -- or maybe between Japan and China . And it would collapse whatever promise the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) holds as a vehicle to assure American commercial access to the booming Pacific markets . To risk all of this in the name of a flawed concept is foolish . This is not to deny the Administration 's understandable frustration with a persistently huge Japanese trade surplus.	APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.	0	YES	QA	long
439	en	It is an independence movement among the Tamil peoples of northern Sri Lanka -- the ancient land of Ceylon independent from Britain in 1948 and took the name Sri Lanka, a Sinhalese word, in 1972.	The current name of Ceylon is Sri Lanka.	0	YES	QA	short
440	en	Article 19 said a correspondent for the independent newspaper Narodnaya Volya who attempted to determine how many people involved in emergency work in the contaminated zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor after the 1986 catastrophe were still alive was told by the Ministry of Emergencies that non-state newspapers could be refused access to any information.	The catastrophe at Chernobyl happened in 1986.	0	YES	QA	long
441	en	After leaving Time-Life, Shuker joined the Public Broadcast Laboratory, forerunner of PBS, and participated in two pioneering films -- 'The Chair,' about an attorney trying to save a condemned man, and 'Free At Last,' a 90-minute documentary about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that by chance was being made when King was murdered in 1968.	Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968.	0	YES	QA	long
442	en	Meanwhile, at a Pushkin-Goethe Festival held recently in Moscow to observe the poets' birthdays (this year is Goethe's 250th), Dmitri Prigov, a post-modernist poet and conceptual artist, took the first line from "Onegin" ("My uncle - high ideals inspire him") and set it to Buddhist and Muslim mantras and Russian Orthodox and Gregorian chants.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
443	en	Addressing a function organized here by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Anand said, the greatest and most urgent challenges of human rights in India were in the areas of maternal and child care, child education, child labor, child abuse and protection of minorities and weaker sections.	Amnesty International takes care of human rights.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
444	en	President Jacques Chirac of France, a conservative like Kohl, and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, whose fellow Socialists saw in the victory of Schroeder's Social Democrats a continuation of a European trend that brought them and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party to power last year, paid tribute to both in almost equal measure.	Tony Blair belongs to the Labor Party.	0	YES	QA	long
445	en	Aides to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose Labor Party won power 13 months ago and who is the current EU president, said the leaders acknowledged jointly - and without trying to blame each other - that the EU's Belgian-based bureaucracy is regarded as both remote and overbearing.	Tony Blair belongs to the Labor Party.	0	YES	QA	long
446	en	That theory, a concept first proposed by Albert Einstein and often reiterated by British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, seeks to find a single set of equations that can explain all the fundamental forces in the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak interactive forces among subnuclear particles.	Stephen Hawking is a physicist.	0	YES	QA	long
447	en	A condition called "social anxiety disorder" this week joined the long list of downers in life - including obesity, impotence, depression and phobia - that Americans once commonly saw as challenges of willpower and character but can now have treated by popping a pill.	Phobia is a an extreme fear of a particular thing or situation.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
448	en	NPF said that young people displaying onset symptoms of Parkinson's disease have special needs, because they often have children to raise, jobs to keep and other issues to address that are different than those patients in retirement years.	The symptoms of Parkinson's disease are: tremor, rigidity (stiffness; increased muscle tone), bradykinesia/akinesia, also "dysdiadokinesia", and postural instability.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	long
449	en	Olympic officials familiar with Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Games have described in recent weeks a process by which Salt Lake City Olympic officials targeted the votes of 17 African IOC members after losing by four votes to Nagano, Japan, for the right to play host to the 1998 Winter Olympics.	Before Salt Lake City, Winter Olympic Games took place in Nagano.	0	YES	QA	long
450	en	Hubble is one of the most remarkable facilities in the entire history of science.	Hubble is a Space telescope.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
451	en	Jurassic Park is a novel written by Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park was published in 1990.	Michael Crichton is the author of the book Jurassic Park.	0	YES	QA	short
452	en	Boris Becker is a true legend in the sport of tennis. Aged just seventeen, he won Wimbledon for the first time and went on to become the most prolific tennis player.	Boris Becker is a Wimbledon champion.	0	YES	QA	short
453	en	Boris Becker is a former professional tennis player for Germany.	Boris Becker is a Wimbledon champion.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
454	en	On Aug. 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was exploded on Hiroshima with an estimated equivalent explosive force of 12,500 tons of TNT, followed three days later by a second, more powerful, bomb on Nagasaki.	In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.	0	YES	QA	short
455	en	He interviewed Shigeko Sasamori in December 2004. Ms. Sasamori was thirteen when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945).	In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.	0	YES	QA	short
456	en	On August 6, 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Tibbetts, was chosen to make the mission. The mission was recorded as successful by Capt. William S. Parson at 9:20 A.M.	In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.	0	YES	QA	short
457	en	Even Homer realises the cleverness of Jan De Bont's tautly-directed action. Laser Movies , Speed , Widescreen with Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock.	The movie 'Speed' was directed by Jan De Bont.	0	YES	QA	short
458	en	According to the director Kim Ki-duk The biggest problem for Americans understanding Korean movies is that all action films have the same plot. For example, the movie 'Speed' with Keanu Reeves.	The movie 'Speed' was directed by Jan De Bont.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
459	en	Felipe González Márquez (born March 5, 1942) is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997.	Felipe González is the President of Spain.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
460	en	González Márquez, Felipe is a Spanish political leader. After joining what was then the Spanish Socialist Workers' party, González became its secretary-general and revived it from the moribund position into which it had fallen under Franco.	Felipe González is the President of Spain.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
461	en	As spacecraft commander for Apollo XI, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon. "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." With these historic words, man's dream of the ages was fulfilled.	Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.	0	YES	QA	short
462	en	Cyrillic is an alphabet form that is derived from the Greek alphabet. The characters in the script look substantially different from the Latin alphabet that is used throughout Western Europe.	Cyrillic is an alphabet used for certain Slavic languages, such as Russian.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
463	en	Qin Shi Huang, personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BCE to 221 BCE, and then the first emperor of a unified China from 221 BCE to 210 BCE, ruling under the name First Emperor.	Qin Shi Huang was the first China Emperor.	0	YES	QA	short
464	en	The Qin (from which the name China is derived) established the approximate boundaries and basic administrative system that all subsequent dynasties were to follow.	Qin Shi Huang was the first Chinese Emperor.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
465	en	Following the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula, in exchange for peace with its neighbor. For over two decades, the Sinai Peninsula was home to about 7,000 Israelis.	The Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement was signed in 1979.	0	YES	QA	short
466	en	Canada and the United States signed an agreement on January 30, 1979, to amend the treaty to allow subsistence hunting of waterfowl.	The Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement was signed in 1979.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
467	en	In 1979, the leaders signed the Egypt-Israel peace treaty on the White House lawn. Both President Begin and Sadat received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work. The two nations have enjoyed peaceful relations to this day.	The Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement was signed in 1979.	0	YES	QA	short
468	en	President George W. Bush, who gave the keynote address and introduced his father, raved about the vessel: "She is unrelenting, she unshakeable, she is unyielding, she is unstoppable. In fact, she should have been named the Barbara Bush."	The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
469	en	George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is the former 41st President of the United States of America. Almost immediately upon his return from the war in December 1944, George Bush married Barbara Pierce.	The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.	0	YES	QA	short
470	en	Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Autumn of the Patriarch" and other novels.	Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a novelist and writer.	0	YES	QA	short
471	en	Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a liberal thinker whose left-wing politics angered many conservative politicians and heads of state. His job as a reporter for the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, in 1960, and and friendship with Fidel Castro resulted in his being ultimately denied entry to the United States for political reasons.	Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a conservative politician.	2	NO	QA	short
472	en	In 1867, Nobel obtained a patent on a special type of nitroglycerine, which he called "dynamite". The invention quickly proved its usefulness in building and construction in many countries.	Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.	0	YES	QA	short
473	en	Experimenting on a raft anchored on the river Elbe, Alfred Nobel tries to make nitroglycerine safer to handle. Finds that the addition of kieselguhr turns nitroglycerine into a dough that can be kneaded, and calls it "dynamite".	Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.	0	YES	QA	short
474	en	A British Dynamite Company (Ardeer, Scotland, UK) is founded. In 1877 the company name was changed to Nobel's Explosives Company.	Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
475	en	Euro Disney is one of the most popular theme parks of USA.	Euro-Disney is an Entertainment Park.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
476	en	The Disneyland of Europe is located 20 miles east of Paris. Euro Disney is a huge complex with hotels, restaurants, shops and a nearby golf course apart from the actual theme park. It provides a much better experience than its American cousin thanks to the marvels of modern engineering.	Euro-Disney is an Entertainment Park.	0	YES	QA	short
477	en	Charles de Gaulle died in 1970 at the age of eighty. He was thus fifty years old when, as an unknown officer recently promoted to the (temporary) rank of brigadier general, he made his famous broadcast from London rejecting the capitulation of France to the Nazis after the debacle of May-June 1940.	Charles de Gaulle died in 1970.	0	YES	QA	short
478	en	Charles de Gaulle retired as an earl and died in November. He wished a simple funeral for himself: he would be buried in his village in a seventy-two dollar oak coffin, borne to his grave by his fellow villagers-a butcher's assistant, a cheesemaker, and a farmhand.	Charles de Gaulle died in 1970.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
479	en	Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonics, 81, niece of the late Charles de Gaulle, died in Paris on February 14, 2002. She joined the French resistance when the Germans occupied Paris.	Charles de Gaulle died in 1970.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
480	en	The Argentinian propaganda made the Gurkhas out to be evil savages who ate their PoW's. However instead of causing the Argentinian conscripts fight to the end, it caused them to run away, the Gurkhas never saw more than brief token resistance.	The Gurkhas come from Nepal.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
481	en	The Gurkhas come from mountainous Nepal and are extremely tenacious warriors-as foot soldiers they are the best only in close combat jungle/mountain combat and hand to hand type situation.	The Gurkhas come from Nepal.	0	YES	QA	short
482	en	Arromanches-les-Bains or simply Arromanches is a town in Normandy, France, located on the coast in the heart of the area where the Normandy landings took place on D-Day, on June 6, 1944.	The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.	0	YES	QA	short
483	en	The D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion force ever assembled headed for France on June 6th 1944.	The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
484	en	Kohl participated in the late stage of WWII as a teenage soldier. He joined the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) in 1947.	The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.	0	YES	QA	short
485	en	An American journalist of Russian descent, Klebnikov was shot four times by at least one assassin in a passing car as he stepped outside his office that evening in Moscow. He died shortly after arriving at City Hospital No. 20 in Moscow.	Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
486	en	An American journalist of Russian descent, Klebnikov was shot four times by at least one assassin in a passing car as he stepped outside his office that evening in Moscow.	Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
487	en	Russian Public Television head Vladislav Listyev is shot in the heart by an unknown gunman outside his Moscow home. The attack is linked to opponents of an advertising ban he had proposed for the television channel.	Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.	0	YES	QA	short
488	en	The final major piece of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was to hit just after midnight, completing a ring of crater-like plumes of swirling superheated gas and debris thousands of miles across. "It hit Jupiter like a string of machine-gun bullets" said Eugene Shoemaker, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., who helped discover the comet last year.	The Shoemaker-Levy comet hit Jupiter.	0	YES	QA	short
489	en	You rifle through your visual memory and there it is: Vermeer, the 17th-Century Dutch artist who painted extraordinary portraits of women engaged in the ordinary -- writing a letter, making lace or putting on a necklace of pearls.	Vermeer is a 17th-Century Dutch artist.	0	YES	QA	short
490	en	A collection of real-life testimonies by Klaus Pohl, one of Germany's most performed dramatists, its power resides less in the conventional meaning of the word drama than in what it reveals - a country still deeply at odds with itself, a kaleidoscope of events that flatters neither side, neither Western capitalism nor the former communist regime.	Klaus Pohl is a German dramatist.	0	YES	QA	short
491	en	In India, carpets are made mostly in Uttar Pradesh, which adopted a "Child Labour Abolition and Regulation Act" in 1986.	The Child Labour Abolition and Regulation Act was adopted in 1986.	0	YES	QA	short
492	en	Victor Emmanuel was born on Nov. 11, 1869, in Naples. After his father, Umberto I, was assassinated in 1900, Victor Emmanuel succeeded to the throne.	Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
493	en	King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy reigned from 1900 to 1946.	Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.	0	YES	QA	short
494	en	Victor Emmanuel III yielded most of his powers to his son Umberto II in 1944, when Umberto was appointed as Lieutenant General of the Realm, and finally abdicated in 1946.	Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
495	en	Victor Emmanuel III, 1869-1947, king of Italy (1900-1946), emperor of Ethiopia (1936-43), king of Albania (1939-43), son and successor of Humbert I.	Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.	0	YES	QA	short
496	en	Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) was a Hungarian/Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer who lived from 1811 to 1886. Liszt is widely considered to be one of the greatest piano virtuosi of all time, and certainly the most famous of the nineteenth century.	Franz Liszt lived from 1811 to 1886.	0	YES	QA	short
497	en	The Altenburg is located in the Jenaer street which lies just outside of Weimar's city centre beyond the Ilm park. It was built in 1810-1811 and during the years following 1848, Princess Carolyne of Sayn Wittgenstein and her husband, Franz Liszt, lived there.	Franz Liszt lived from 1811 to 1886.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short
498	en	Franz Liszt, a Hungarian composer who lived from 1811 to 1886 was the equivalent of a rock star in his day. His piano compositions were extremely popular and he often gave concerts to his multitude of fans. Liszt was also the pioneer of many musical techniques, including the symphonic poem and the technique of transforming themes.	Franz Liszt lived from 1811 to 1886.	0	YES	QA	short
499	en	Aeschylus was born in 525 BC, and spent his youth as a soldier in the Athenian army. He wrote The Persians when he was 53 years old, but it is his earliest surviving work.	"The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.	0	YES	QA	short
500	en	To write "The Persians," which opens Thursday at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, Ellen McLaughlin spent six days. Given the direction of U.S. foreign policy, McLaughlin says, the lessons of "The Persians" are particularly crucial today, 2,500 years after it was written.	"The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.	1	UNKNOWN	QA	short

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The Hubble is a scientific workhorse in the prime of its life. It is also the privileged photographer of the universe. Whether the images are of solar systems at birth, galaxies colliding, or the death throes of a star in supernova, Hubble's photos reveal both the ferocity and tranquillity of our universe.

Hubble is a Space telescope.

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The Jurassic Park Institute is an absolutely accurate way for kids to get excited about dinosaur science! Written by two noted paleontologists and illustrated in big bold colors, this kid-friendly nonfiction guide uses easy-to-understand text to describe at least 100 dinosaurs alphabetically.

Michael Crichton is the author of the book Jurassic Park.

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Two of Gianni Versace's favorite buzzwords were quality and future, so after the 50-year-old designer was murdered last July outside his Miami Beach, Fla. mansion, it was somehow inevitable that his family would have to go about putting those words together: They had to ask themselves how they could ensure the future of the company Versace had built without sacrificing its reputation for quality.

Gianni Versace is a designer.

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In 1962, Armstrong was transferred to astronaut status. He served as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, launched March 16, 1966, and along with David Scott, performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space by mating his Gemini 8 with an uninhabited Agena rocket.

Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong was an aviator in the Navy and was chosen with the second group of astronauts in 1962. Made seven flights in the X-15 program (1960 photo), reaching an altitude of 207,500 feet. Was backup command pilot for Gemini 5, command pilot for Gemini 8, backup command pilot for Gemini 11, backup commander for Apollo 8, and commander for Apollo 11: successfully completing the first moonwalk.

Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.

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The Cyrillic alphabet is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. It has also been used for other languages in the past. Not all letters in the Cyrillic alphabet are used in every language which is written with it.

Cyrillic is an alphabet used for certain Slavic languages, such as Russian.

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Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on April 21, 1926 in London, England. Her father, Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the second son of King George V. Her mother, the former Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was the daughter of a Scottish earl. Princess Elizabeth was their first child. Her only sibling, Margaret Rose, was born in 1930.

Elizabeth the Second's father was George VI.

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was born in London on April, 21 1926, first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, subsequently King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks later she was christened in the chapel of Buckingham Palace and was given the names Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor. The Queen ascended the throne on February 6, 1952 upon the death of her father, King George VI. Her Coronation followed on June 2, 1953.

Elizabeth the Second's father was George VI.

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George H.W. Bush served this country not only as President but also as Vice President, Member of Congress, United Nations Ambassador, chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and also, as a naval aviator in World War II. Coming back from the war, he married his sweetheart, Barbara Pierce of Rye, New York, and later that year made his first civilian adult decision when he made the appropriate choice of moving to Texas, where he lived the rest of his life.

The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.

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Bush and his wife, Laura, departed the White House on Thursday afternoon to spend four days at the wooded presidential retreat of rustic cabins in the Maryland mountains. Along with the first lady's mother, Jenna Welch, the weekend gathering includes the president's parents, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara; his sister Doro Koch and her husband, Bobby; and his brother, Marvin, and his wife, Margaret.

The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.

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Although I come across Borges and Calvino fairly often, too, I have to admit that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the only one of the other authors I am at all familiar with, so I am not sure which difference it might make. I would be curious, though, what that difference might look like to people writing about media art and architecture in Spanish, for example.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a writer.

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The United Kingdom, Turkey, "Old" British commonwealth forces ( New Zealand, Aussies, Canadians, Gurkhas, India), Germany, Poland, Vietnam, some units from USA, Russia, France, China (but only some) Japan would be included but I'm uncomfortable about using the word respected for Japanese soldiers for obvious reasons.

The Gurkhas come from Nepal.

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The town lies along the stretch of coastline designated as Gold Beach during the D-Day landings , one of the beaches used by British troops in the allied invasion. Arromanches was selected as one of the sites for two Mulberry Harbours built on the Normandy coast, the other one built further West at Omaha Beach.

The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.

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After months of planning and build-up, Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower set Operation Overlord for June 6, 1944: some 7000 ships in the British Isles set to sea and sailed across the English Channel, and, under the leadership of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, 135,000 troops landed and stormed Feldmarschal Erwin Rommel's German positions along 80 km of the Normandy coast.

The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.

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Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who stunned Germans with admission that he used illegal bank accounts to funnel secret money to Christian Democratic party, invokes personal honor in refusing to disclose names of people who gave more than $1 million between 1993 and 1998; scandal threatens to shred Kohl's place in history for reunifying Germany and leading Europe toward common currency.

The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.

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Since '82 Federal Chancellor (elected by "constructive vote of no confidence" against former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Social Democratic Party (SPD); reelected 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1994). This makes Helmut Kohl the longest-serving chancellor of the Federal Republic, passing by Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor, this October.

The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.

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When comparing Michele Granger and Brian Goodell, Brian has to be the clear winner. In 1976, while still a student at Mission Viejo High, Brian won two Olympic gold medals at Montreal, breaking his own world records in both the 400- and 1,500-meter freestyle events. He went on to win three gold medals in he 1979 Pan American Games.

Brian Goodell won three gold medals in the 1979 Pan American Games.

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More than a decade ago, Carl Lewis stood on the threshold of what was to become the greatest athletics career in history. He had just broken two of the legendary Jesse Owens' college records, but never believed he would become a corporate icon, the focus of hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising. His sport was still nominally amateur. Eighteen Olympic and World Championship gold medals and 21 world records later, Lewis has become the richest man in the history of track and field -- a multi-millionaire.

Carl Lewis won eighteen gold medals and set 21 world records.

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Discovery of the top quark, if confirmed, completes one set of subatomic building blocks whose existence is predicted by the prevailing theory, called the Standard Model, of the particles and forces that determine the fundamental nature of matter and energy. In the whimsical lexicon of modern physics, the elementary particles are called quarks, leptons and bosons.

Quarks, leptons, and bosons are the three elementary particles of physics according to the Standard Model.

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Yachtsman Melvyn Percy became so fed up with the standard of service when preparing his boat for the 3000-mile Atlantic crossing that he decided to set up his own company on the Clyde to provide Scots sailors with professional advice and practical assistance. Minerva Rigging, based at Kip Marina just south of Gourock, now employs five full-time staff and is the Scottish agent for Kemp, one of Europe's leading yacht spar and mast manufacturers.

Melvyn Percy set up Minerva Rigging at Kip Marina.

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Of all the national park lands in the United States, none is closer to a major urban area or more beset with problems than the Everglades, a shallow, 50-mile-wide river of grass that flows south from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay. For more than a generation, this fragile natural wonder has been held hostage by a web of special interests -- farmers, sportsmen and about 6 million South Florida residents in need of drinking water and flood control -- that is as complex as the ecosystem itself.

The Everglades is 50-mile wide.

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Aeschylus is often called the father of Greek tragedy; he wrote the earliest complete plays which survive from ancient Greece. He is known to have written more than 90 plays, though only seven survive. The most famous of these are the trilogy known as Orestia. Also well-known are The Persians and Prometheus Bound.

"The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.

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Canada is officially a bilingual country but, with nearly 60% of the population speaking English as their mother-tongue, and only 24% speaking French as their first language, some people are questioning whether Canada is truly a bilingual nation or rather, a bilingual nation on paper only. French is not the only linguistic minority in Canada, and some of the languages spoken, in order of popularity, are Chinese, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Ukrainian, Arabic, Dutch, Tagalog, Greek, Vietnamese, Cree and Inuktitut.

French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.

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One year on from the Indian Ocean tsunami, the world's grief and compassion returned to the tsunami-battered coastlines of the Indian Ocean, where at least 216,000 people lost their lives. Under a clear sky and before a gentle sea, the world commemorated those who lost their lives, in one of the worst natural disasters that the modern world has experienced.

Earthquakes have the potential to generate a tsunami.

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Brazilian cardinal Dom Eusbio Oscar Scheid, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro , harshly criticized Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after arriving in Rome on Tuesday.

The Brazilian President is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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According to members of Brazilian Court, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may be subjected to an impeachment process, if there is some proof that he is really involved in some of the alleged scandals, or in case someone can prove that he was acting with negligence.

The Brazilian President is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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A report prepared by a five member UN commission noted "killing of civilians, enforced disappearances, destruction of villages, rape and other forms of sexual violence, pillaging and forced displacement, throughout Darfur", and secretly named alleged war criminals that should go before the ICC.

More than 200,000 people were killed in the air attack in the Darfur region.

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The United States Marshals Service working together with nearly 960 other law enforcement agencies recently concluded a week-long operation, Operation FALCON, which succeeded in the arrest of 10,340 fugitives across the United States and elsewhere. Other regional sweeps have been conducted before; but this was the first of its kind at the national level and resulted in the highest number of arrests ever recorded in a single operation.

Operation Condor was a genocide and a campaign of counter-terrorism implemented by the right-wing dictatorships that dominated the Southern Cone in Latin America from the 1950s to 1980s.

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Operation FALCON was conducted during a one week period, April 4-10, 2005, chosen to coincide with National Crime Victim's Rights Week , April 10-16, the dates being chosen to "honor the victims" of violent crime in America. "By taking violent fugitives off the streets and putting them behind bars where they belong," said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales , "we've honored the victims and made our streets safer."

Operation Condor was a genocide and a campaign of counter-terrorism implemented by the right-wing dictatorships that dominated the Southern Cone in Latin America from the 1950s to 1980s.

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Thousands of Romanians participated in rallies on Monday to campaign for the release of three Romanian journalists kidnapped last month in Iraq . Crowds swelled in size after a weekend of smaller rallies sponsored by Romanian media workers and the Arab community in Romania.

Romania sent 730 troops in Iraq.

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"These new results from Cassini may be the first evidence of gases originating either from the surface or possibly from the interior of Enceladus," said Dr. Michele Dougherty, principal investigator for the Cassini magnetometer and professor at Imperial College in London. Scientists have suspected Enceladus as geologically active and a possible source of Saturn's icy E ring. Enceladus is the most reflective object in the solar system, reflecting about 90 percent of the sunlight that hits it.

Titan is the fifteenth of Saturn's known satellites.

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A collection of real-life testimonies by Klaus Pohl, one of Germany's most performed dramatists, its power resides less in the conventional meaning of the word drama than in what it reveals - a country still deeply at odds with itself, a kaleidoscope of events that flatters neither side, neither Western capitalism nor the former communist regime.

Klaus Pohl is one of Germany's most performed dramatists.

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TWA connects through New York en route to Frankfurt . Lufthansa , the German airline , flies direct daily from Los Angeles to Frankfurt , and the airline shares flights with Lauda Air , an Austrian carrier , on Wednesdays , Fridays and Sundays to fly directly to Munich . Another German airline , Ltu , also flies direct from Los Angeles to Dusseldorf and Munich on Mondays and Thursdays . Frankfurt is the hub for trips to most of the country 's smaller cities.

Lufthansa is the German airline.

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November 9, 1989 , the day the Berlin Wall fell and the world changed forever . Not even the most astute saw it coming . As Hungary's foreign minister in the late summer of 1989 , Gyula Horn gave the order to let visiting East Germans use his country to do a 400-mile end run around the Berlin Wall , a move now seen as the beginning of the end for hard-line communism in Europe .

The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.

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Global markets should be "quite strong enough to absorb it without lasting damage", he said . "I would stress that these circumstances are unique to Barings and should not apply to other banks operating in London." Barings faced losses of at least 600m in contracts on three stock exchanges in Singapore , Osaka and Tokyo , he said , but 'further unquantifiable losses' were expected .

The banking firm Barings collapsed due to speculations made by Nick Leeson.

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"It's a vote of confidence that the momentum is going to continue", Doyle said . The momentum also appears to be moving south . The Mexican election is the latest indication that the free-market reforms that have swept Latin America during the past decade are gaining political acceptance . In Brazil , prices rose sharply , reacting to the Mexico vote and to new polls favorable to free-market presidential candidate Fernando Henrique Cardoso .

Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a presidential candidate.

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Although he won with the lowest majority ever tallied by the ruling party , 48.7% of the votes , his ballots almost doubled those of outsider Diego Fernandez de Cevallos , the rightist runner-up . And insiders are now favored to win other Latin American elections in the coming months : In Brazil , Fernando Henrique Cardoso , a former Senate leader and Cabinet minister , is expected to finish ahead of outsider Luis Inacio (Lula) da Silva , a leftist former labor leader , in the first round of president.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a Brazilian former Senate leader and Cabinet minister.

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It would force countries in the region to choose between the United States and Japan -- or maybe between Japan and China . And it would collapse whatever promise the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) holds as a vehicle to assure American commercial access to the booming Pacific markets . To risk all of this in the name of a flawed concept is foolish . This is not to deny the Administration 's understandable frustration with a persistently huge Japanese trade surplus.

APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.

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It is an independence movement among the Tamil peoples of northern Sri Lanka -- the ancient land of Ceylon independent from Britain in 1948 and took the name Sri Lanka, a Sinhalese word, in 1972.

The current name of Ceylon is Sri Lanka.

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Article 19 said a correspondent for the independent newspaper Narodnaya Volya who attempted to determine how many people involved in emergency work in the contaminated zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor after the 1986 catastrophe were still alive was told by the Ministry of Emergencies that non-state newspapers could be refused access to any information.

The catastrophe at Chernobyl happened in 1986.

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After leaving Time-Life, Shuker joined the Public Broadcast Laboratory, forerunner of PBS, and participated in two pioneering films -- 'The Chair,' about an attorney trying to save a condemned man, and 'Free At Last,' a 90-minute documentary about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that by chance was being made when King was murdered in 1968.

Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968.

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Meanwhile, at a Pushkin-Goethe Festival held recently in Moscow to observe the poets' birthdays (this year is Goethe's 250th), Dmitri Prigov, a post-modernist poet and conceptual artist, took the first line from "Onegin" ("My uncle - high ideals inspire him") and set it to Buddhist and Muslim mantras and Russian Orthodox and Gregorian chants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.

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Addressing a function organized here by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Anand said, the greatest and most urgent challenges of human rights in India were in the areas of maternal and child care, child education, child labor, child abuse and protection of minorities and weaker sections.

Amnesty International takes care of human rights.

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President Jacques Chirac of France, a conservative like Kohl, and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, whose fellow Socialists saw in the victory of Schroeder's Social Democrats a continuation of a European trend that brought them and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party to power last year, paid tribute to both in almost equal measure.

Tony Blair belongs to the Labor Party.

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Aides to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose Labor Party won power 13 months ago and who is the current EU president, said the leaders acknowledged jointly - and without trying to blame each other - that the EU's Belgian-based bureaucracy is regarded as both remote and overbearing.

Tony Blair belongs to the Labor Party.

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That theory, a concept first proposed by Albert Einstein and often reiterated by British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, seeks to find a single set of equations that can explain all the fundamental forces in the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak interactive forces among subnuclear particles.

Stephen Hawking is a physicist.

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A condition called "social anxiety disorder" this week joined the long list of downers in life - including obesity, impotence, depression and phobia - that Americans once commonly saw as challenges of willpower and character but can now have treated by popping a pill.

Phobia is a an extreme fear of a particular thing or situation.

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NPF said that young people displaying onset symptoms of Parkinson's disease have special needs, because they often have children to raise, jobs to keep and other issues to address that are different than those patients in retirement years.

The symptoms of Parkinson's disease are: tremor, rigidity (stiffness; increased muscle tone), bradykinesia/akinesia, also "dysdiadokinesia", and postural instability.

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Olympic officials familiar with Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Games have described in recent weeks a process by which Salt Lake City Olympic officials targeted the votes of 17 African IOC members after losing by four votes to Nagano, Japan, for the right to play host to the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Before Salt Lake City, Winter Olympic Games took place in Nagano.

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Hubble is one of the most remarkable facilities in the entire history of science.

Hubble is a Space telescope.

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Jurassic Park is a novel written by Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park was published in 1990.

Michael Crichton is the author of the book Jurassic Park.

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Boris Becker is a true legend in the sport of tennis. Aged just seventeen, he won Wimbledon for the first time and went on to become the most prolific tennis player.

Boris Becker is a Wimbledon champion.

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Boris Becker is a former professional tennis player for Germany.

Boris Becker is a Wimbledon champion.

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On Aug. 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was exploded on Hiroshima with an estimated equivalent explosive force of 12,500 tons of TNT, followed three days later by a second, more powerful, bomb on Nagasaki.

In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

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He interviewed Shigeko Sasamori in December 2004. Ms. Sasamori was thirteen when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945).

In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

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On August 6, 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Tibbetts, was chosen to make the mission. The mission was recorded as successful by Capt. William S. Parson at 9:20 A.M.

In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

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Even Homer realises the cleverness of Jan De Bont's tautly-directed action. Laser Movies , Speed , Widescreen with Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock.

The movie 'Speed' was directed by Jan De Bont.

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According to the director Kim Ki-duk The biggest problem for Americans understanding Korean movies is that all action films have the same plot. For example, the movie 'Speed' with Keanu Reeves.

The movie 'Speed' was directed by Jan De Bont.

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Felipe González Márquez (born March 5, 1942) is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997.

Felipe González is the President of Spain.

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González Márquez, Felipe is a Spanish political leader. After joining what was then the Spanish Socialist Workers' party, González became its secretary-general and revived it from the moribund position into which it had fallen under Franco.

Felipe González is the President of Spain.

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As spacecraft commander for Apollo XI, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon. "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." With these historic words, man's dream of the ages was fulfilled.

Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.

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Cyrillic is an alphabet form that is derived from the Greek alphabet. The characters in the script look substantially different from the Latin alphabet that is used throughout Western Europe.

Cyrillic is an alphabet used for certain Slavic languages, such as Russian.

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Qin Shi Huang, personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BCE to 221 BCE, and then the first emperor of a unified China from 221 BCE to 210 BCE, ruling under the name First Emperor.

Qin Shi Huang was the first China Emperor.

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The Qin (from which the name China is derived) established the approximate boundaries and basic administrative system that all subsequent dynasties were to follow.

Qin Shi Huang was the first Chinese Emperor.

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Following the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula, in exchange for peace with its neighbor. For over two decades, the Sinai Peninsula was home to about 7,000 Israelis.

The Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement was signed in 1979.

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Canada and the United States signed an agreement on January 30, 1979, to amend the treaty to allow subsistence hunting of waterfowl.

The Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement was signed in 1979.

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In 1979, the leaders signed the Egypt-Israel peace treaty on the White House lawn. Both President Begin and Sadat received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work. The two nations have enjoyed peaceful relations to this day.

The Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement was signed in 1979.

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President George W. Bush, who gave the keynote address and introduced his father, raved about the vessel: "She is unrelenting, she unshakeable, she is unyielding, she is unstoppable. In fact, she should have been named the Barbara Bush."

The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.

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George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is the former 41st President of the United States of America. Almost immediately upon his return from the war in December 1944, George Bush married Barbara Pierce.

The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Autumn of the Patriarch" and other novels.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a novelist and writer.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a liberal thinker whose left-wing politics angered many conservative politicians and heads of state. His job as a reporter for the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, in 1960, and and friendship with Fidel Castro resulted in his being ultimately denied entry to the United States for political reasons.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a conservative politician.

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In 1867, Nobel obtained a patent on a special type of nitroglycerine, which he called "dynamite". The invention quickly proved its usefulness in building and construction in many countries.

Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.

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Experimenting on a raft anchored on the river Elbe, Alfred Nobel tries to make nitroglycerine safer to handle. Finds that the addition of kieselguhr turns nitroglycerine into a dough that can be kneaded, and calls it "dynamite".

Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.

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A British Dynamite Company (Ardeer, Scotland, UK) is founded. In 1877 the company name was changed to Nobel's Explosives Company.

Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.

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Euro Disney is one of the most popular theme parks of USA.

Euro-Disney is an Entertainment Park.

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The Disneyland of Europe is located 20 miles east of Paris. Euro Disney is a huge complex with hotels, restaurants, shops and a nearby golf course apart from the actual theme park. It provides a much better experience than its American cousin thanks to the marvels of modern engineering.

Euro-Disney is an Entertainment Park.

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Charles de Gaulle died in 1970 at the age of eighty. He was thus fifty years old when, as an unknown officer recently promoted to the (temporary) rank of brigadier general, he made his famous broadcast from London rejecting the capitulation of France to the Nazis after the debacle of May-June 1940.

Charles de Gaulle died in 1970.

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Charles de Gaulle retired as an earl and died in November. He wished a simple funeral for himself: he would be buried in his village in a seventy-two dollar oak coffin, borne to his grave by his fellow villagers-a butcher's assistant, a cheesemaker, and a farmhand.

Charles de Gaulle died in 1970.

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Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonics, 81, niece of the late Charles de Gaulle, died in Paris on February 14, 2002. She joined the French resistance when the Germans occupied Paris.

Charles de Gaulle died in 1970.

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The Argentinian propaganda made the Gurkhas out to be evil savages who ate their PoW's. However instead of causing the Argentinian conscripts fight to the end, it caused them to run away, the Gurkhas never saw more than brief token resistance.

The Gurkhas come from Nepal.

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The Gurkhas come from mountainous Nepal and are extremely tenacious warriors-as foot soldiers they are the best only in close combat jungle/mountain combat and hand to hand type situation.

The Gurkhas come from Nepal.

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Arromanches-les-Bains or simply Arromanches is a town in Normandy, France, located on the coast in the heart of the area where the Normandy landings took place on D-Day, on June 6, 1944.

The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.

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The D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion force ever assembled headed for France on June 6th 1944.

The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.

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Kohl participated in the late stage of WWII as a teenage soldier. He joined the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) in 1947.

The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.

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An American journalist of Russian descent, Klebnikov was shot four times by at least one assassin in a passing car as he stepped outside his office that evening in Moscow. He died shortly after arriving at City Hospital No. 20 in Moscow.

Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.

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An American journalist of Russian descent, Klebnikov was shot four times by at least one assassin in a passing car as he stepped outside his office that evening in Moscow.

Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.

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Russian Public Television head Vladislav Listyev is shot in the heart by an unknown gunman outside his Moscow home. The attack is linked to opponents of an advertising ban he had proposed for the television channel.

Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.

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The final major piece of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was to hit just after midnight, completing a ring of crater-like plumes of swirling superheated gas and debris thousands of miles across. "It hit Jupiter like a string of machine-gun bullets" said Eugene Shoemaker, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., who helped discover the comet last year.

The Shoemaker-Levy comet hit Jupiter.

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You rifle through your visual memory and there it is: Vermeer, the 17th-Century Dutch artist who painted extraordinary portraits of women engaged in the ordinary -- writing a letter, making lace or putting on a necklace of pearls.

Vermeer is a 17th-Century Dutch artist.

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A collection of real-life testimonies by Klaus Pohl, one of Germany's most performed dramatists, its power resides less in the conventional meaning of the word drama than in what it reveals - a country still deeply at odds with itself, a kaleidoscope of events that flatters neither side, neither Western capitalism nor the former communist regime.

Klaus Pohl is a German dramatist.

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In India, carpets are made mostly in Uttar Pradesh, which adopted a "Child Labour Abolition and Regulation Act" in 1986.

The Child Labour Abolition and Regulation Act was adopted in 1986.

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Victor Emmanuel was born on Nov. 11, 1869, in Naples. After his father, Umberto I, was assassinated in 1900, Victor Emmanuel succeeded to the throne.

Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.

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King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy reigned from 1900 to 1946.

Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.

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Victor Emmanuel III yielded most of his powers to his son Umberto II in 1944, when Umberto was appointed as Lieutenant General of the Realm, and finally abdicated in 1946.

Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.

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Victor Emmanuel III, 1869-1947, king of Italy (1900-1946), emperor of Ethiopia (1936-43), king of Albania (1939-43), son and successor of Humbert I.

Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.

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Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) was a Hungarian/Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer who lived from 1811 to 1886. Liszt is widely considered to be one of the greatest piano virtuosi of all time, and certainly the most famous of the nineteenth century.

Franz Liszt lived from 1811 to 1886.

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The Altenburg is located in the Jenaer street which lies just outside of Weimar's city centre beyond the Ilm park. It was built in 1810-1811 and during the years following 1848, Princess Carolyne of Sayn Wittgenstein and her husband, Franz Liszt, lived there.

Franz Liszt lived from 1811 to 1886.

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Franz Liszt, a Hungarian composer who lived from 1811 to 1886 was the equivalent of a rock star in his day. His piano compositions were extremely popular and he often gave concerts to his multitude of fans. Liszt was also the pioneer of many musical techniques, including the symphonic poem and the technique of transforming themes.

Franz Liszt lived from 1811 to 1886.

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Aeschylus was born in 525 BC, and spent his youth as a soldier in the Athenian army. He wrote The Persians when he was 53 years old, but it is his earliest surviving work.

"The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.

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To write "The Persians," which opens Thursday at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, Ellen McLaughlin spent six days. Given the direction of U.S. foreign policy, McLaughlin says, the lessons of "The Persians" are particularly crucial today, 2,500 years after it was written.

"The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.

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