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What do many scholars regard the Late Middle Ages as the beginning of?
Some historians, particularly in Italy, prefer not to speak of the late Middle Ages at all, but rather see the high period of the Middle Ages transitioning to the Renaissance and the modern era.
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Who decided that chemistry and alchemy were different?
The theory that all matter is made of atoms, which are the smallest constituents of matter that cannot be broken down without losing the basic chemical and physical properties of that matter, was provided by John Dalton in 1803, although the question took a hundred years to settle as proven.
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How many PCs was Dell's Indian plant slated to make in 2007?
In 2007 the Chennai facility had the target of producing 400,000 desktop PCs, and plans envisaged it starting to produce notebook PCs and other products in the second half of 2007.[citation needed]
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St. George's Town, St. George's Island and St. George's Parish are all referred to as what?
There is a Hamilton Parish in addition to the City of Hamilton (which is in Pembroke Parish).
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What Toronto building was built in 1817?
In Montreal, English born architect John Ostell worked on a significant number of remarkable constructions in the Georgian style such as the Old Montreal Custom House and the Grand séminaire de Montréal.
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Who was the Greek king immortalized in Buddhist canon?
A Greek king, Menander, has even been immortalized in the Buddhist canon.
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Who was the first President of Guinea-Bissau?
Following independence, the PAIGC killed thousands of local Guinean soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against guerrillas.
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What was the world's first artificial nuclear reactor?
The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile) and was the first reactor designed and built for continuous operation.
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How many private schools are in the Francophone public school district?
There are currently 36 primary, elementary and secondary schools in the city of St. John's, including three private schools.
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How old was Beyonce when she went to her first Michael Jackson concert as a kid?
Aged five, Beyoncé attended her first ever concert where Jackson performed and she claims to have realised her purpose.
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What was the 1993 PowerBook 165c Apple's first portable computer to feature?
The 1993 PowerBook 165c was Apple's first portable computer to feature a color screen, displaying 256 colors with 640 x 400-pixel resolution.
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What good fortune from Russia assisted Frederick the Great?
Frederick the Great’s personal reputation was enormously enhanced, as his debt to fortune (Russia’s volte-face after Elizabeth’s death) and to the British subsidy were soon forgotten while the memory of his energy and his military genius was strenuously kept alive.
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What's the approximate number of students in Germany who are enrolled in a university of technology?
There are 17 universities of technology in Germany with about 290,000 students enrolled.
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When were intergender singles bouts fought on a national scale?
Later, Chyna became the first female to hold a belt that was not exclusive to women when she won the Intercontinental Championship.
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What year did Victoria fall down the stairs at Windsor?
Beatrice and Henry planned to marry, but Victoria opposed the match at first, wishing to keep Beatrice at home to act as her companion.
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How many basic emotions did Ekman recognize?
His research findings led him to classify six emotions as basic: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise.
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Who was modern Greece's first president?
As soon as the Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821, several Greek Cypriots left for Greece to join the Greek forces.
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Which BYU building features films in several languages?
This is an on-campus apartment complex where students commit to speak only their chosen foreign language while in their apartments.
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When did Jenny Lind visit Chopin?
Here in June 1849 he was visited by Jenny Lind.
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How does long term memory encode information?
While short-term memory encodes information acoustically, long-term memory encodes it semantically:
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What did the potato blight cause Victoria to be called?
In Ireland, Victoria was labelled "The Famine Queen".
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What decision allowed Gaddafi to move Libya closer to socialism?
For Gaddafi, this was an important step towards socialism.
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In the 1970 s what developer built high rises in downtown Houston?
many by real estate developer Gerald D. Hines—culminating with Houston's tallest skyscraper, the 75-floor, 1,002-foot (305 m)-tall JPMorgan Chase Tower (formerly the Texas Commerce Tower), completed in 1982.
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What is name of one of the compositions composed by Athanasius while he lived as a monk?
Athanasius, after remaining some days in the neighbourhood of the city, finally withdrew into the desert of Upper Egypt, where he remained for a period of six years, living the life of the monks, devoting himself to the composition of a group of writings; "Apology to Constantius", the "Apology for his Flight", the "Letter to the Monks", and the "History of the Arians".
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In 310 Agathocles invaded Tunisia and defeated what army?
Agathocles then invaded Italy (c. 300 BCE) in defense of Tarentum against the Bruttians and Romans, but was unsuccessful.
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What was the population of San Diego at the time of the 2010 census?
They, along with the Riverside–San Bernardino, form those metropolitan areas in California larger than the San Diego metropolitan area, with a total population of 3,095,313 at the 2010 census.
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Chopin's birth is recorded as when?
The parish baptismal record gives his birthday as 22 February 1810, and cites his given names in the Latin form Fridericus Franciscus (in Polish, he was Fryderyk Franciszek).
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When did Methodist and Baptist preachers oppose slavery and urge manumission?
By the mid-19th century, northern Baptists tended to oppose slavery.
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The Germans recorded how many causualties in the battle?
Once blocked from retreat, the French in the fortress of Metz had no choice but to engage in a fight that would see the last major cavalry engagement in Western Europe.
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IBM has towers in which cities?
Other major campus installations include towers in Montreal, Paris, and Atlanta; software labs in Raleigh-Durham, Rome, Cracow and Toronto; Johannesburg, Seattle; and facilities in Hakozaki and Yamato.
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How long is the pipeline from the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam which the HMWSSB operates?
The HMWSSB regulates rainwater harvesting, sewerage services and water supply, which is sourced from several dams located in the suburbs.
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What was Issac Backus' profession?
Thomas Jefferson's influential Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was enacted in 1786, five years before the Bill of Rights.
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What party has won every election in Namibia?
Since independence Namibia has successfully completed the transition from white minority apartheid rule to parliamentary democracy.
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What was the reason behind demolishing the city walls?
To show that the city was safe against attack, he had the city walls demolished, replacing them with Grands Boulevards.
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What type of sports are popular in Brasilia?
Brasília is known as a departing point for the practice of unpowered air sports, sports that may be practiced with hang gliding or paragliding wings.
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What is included in the list of organizations allowed to use .org?
It is not designated specifically for charitable organizations or any specific organizational or tax-law status, however; it encompasses anything that is not classifiable as another category.
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How much does a safari hunter spend compared to an average ecotourist?
Safari hunters are also more likely to use remote areas, uninviting to the typical ecotourist.
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What year was the ADGB created?
I British term probably coined by Amyas Borton and believed to derive via the Royal Flying Corps from the music-hall comedian George Robey's line "Archibald, certainly not!").
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Other than CD parameters, what else can be used as parameter references?
They may use the Compact Disc (CD) parameters as references (44.1 kHz, 2 channels at 16 bits per channel or 2×16 bit), or sometimes the Digital Audio Tape (DAT) SP parameters (48 kHz, 2×16 bit).
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What process can sometimes seem arbitrary today?
All these characters have on the left a radical of three short strokes (氵), which is a reduced form of the character 水 shuǐ meaning "water", indicating that the character has a semantic connection with water.
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Who wrote that it was not suprising that the blame for 9/11 was trying to be blamed on a masonic world order?
Professor Andrew Prescott of the University of Sheffield writes: "Since at least the time of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, antisemitism has gone hand in hand with anti-masonry, so it is not surprising that allegations that 11 September was a Zionist plot have been accompanied by suggestions that the attacks were inspired by a masonic world order".
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What was something used to minimize the impact of the soverign-debt crisis?
This changed with the recent sovereign-debt crisis.
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Where did Cabrillo leave from to embark on his journey to the West Coast?
Arriving on his flagship San Diego, Vizcaíno surveyed the harbor and what are now Mission Bay and Point Loma and named the area for the Catholic Saint Didacus, a Spaniard more commonly known as San Diego de Alcalá.
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What is more significant than isotropic gas pressure past the Karman line?
The thermosphere in this range has large gradients of pressure, temperature and composition, and varies greatly due to space weather.
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What did the agency propose to find Southwest Airlines?
Rather than commend the agency for proposing a $10.2 million fine against Southwest Airlines for its failure to conduct mandatory inspections in 2008, he was quoted as saying the following in an Associated Press story: "Penalties against airlines that violate FAA directives should be stiffer.
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What era did this discrimination take place?
During the apartheid era, those classed as "Coloured" were oppressed and discriminated against.
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Who did the Chinese lose territory to in exchange for help?
In return for promises of support against the British and the French, the Russian Empire took large chunks of territory in the Northeast in 1860.
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When was the activity of desktop publishing first used?
In 1985, the combination of the Mac, Apple's LaserWriter printer, and Mac-specific software like Boston Software's MacPublisher and Aldus PageMaker enabled users to design, preview, and print page layouts complete with text and graphics—an activity to become known as desktop publishing.
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When was the Promenade des Berges de la Seine inaugurated?
Bertrand Delanoë also transformed a section of the highway along the left bank of the Seine into an urban promenade and park, the Promenade des Berges de la Seine, which he inaugurated in June 2013.
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Turkish cuisine originates from what source?
Many common dishes in the region, descendants of the once-common Ottoman cuisine, include yogurt, döner kebab/gyro/shawarma, cacık/tzatziki, ayran, pita bread, feta cheese, baklava, lahmacun, moussaka, yuvarlak, köfte/keftés/kofta, börek/boureki, rakı/rakia/tsipouro/tsikoudia, meze, dolma, sarma, rice pilaf, Turkish coffee, sujuk, kashk, keşkek, manti, lavash, kanafeh, and more.
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Which RAF technical advisor was the conversation passed onto?
In June 1940, a German prisoner of war was overheard boasting that the British would never find the Knickebein, even though it was under their noses.
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Did the FBI keep files on Elvis Presley?
The FBI has maintained files on numerous people, including celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, John Denver, John Lennon, Jane Fonda, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, the band MC5, Lou Costello, Sonny Bono, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, and Mickey Mantle.
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What loses signal strength?
Intermediate matchings will lose some signal strength, but not as much as a complete mismatch.
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In what former industrial facility is the Richmond National Battlefield Park Visitors Center located?
Near the riverfront is the Richmond National Battlefield Park Visitors Center and the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, both housed in the former buildings of the Tredegar Iron Works, where much of the ordnance for the war was produced.
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What year did the Mayflower set sail from Southampton?
The port was the point of departure for the Pilgrim Fathers aboard Mayflower in 1620.
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When did cooperation between communist and nationalist forces end?
However, its policies of brutality toward the Chinese population, of not yielding any real power to these regimes, and of supporting several rival governments failed to make any of them a viable alternative to the Nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek.
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Other than industrial chemicals, what other industry discharges chemicals that can contaminate the environment?
As far as safety of the human health is concerned, then these environmental contaminants can reduce people's nutritional status and health.
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How many HD channels did the Freeview HD service contain as of December 2013?
However, Freeview HD is not the first HDTV service over digital terrestrial television in Europe;
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What disease was said to possibly be the result of diets that are high in meat and dairy products?
Some studies show these to be, in high quantities, possible causes of some cancers.
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How much of their body weight do honey buzzards lose during migration?
Birds of prey such as honey buzzards which migrate using thermals lose only 10 to 20% of their weight during migration, which may explain why they forage less during migration than do smaller birds of prey with more active flight such as falcons, hawks and harriers.
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What is the third largest ethnic group in Kathmandu?
The largest ethnic groups are Newar (29.6%), Matwali (25.1% Sunuwar, Gurung, Magars, Tamang etc.), Khas Brahmins (20.51%) and Chettris (18.5%) .
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Who is the Anglican Bishop of Swaziland?
On 18 July 2012, Ellinah Wamukoya, was elected Anglican Bishop of Swaziland, becoming the first woman to be a bishop in Africa.
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What are the symbols used for deuterium and tritium?
During the early study of radioactivity, various heavy radioactive isotopes were given their own names, but such names are no longer used, except for deuterium and tritium.
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Who hired Byzantine experts to decorate a rebuilt abbey church?
"The abbot in his wisdom decided that great number of young monks in the monastery should be thoroughly initiated in these arts" – says the chronicler about the role of the Greeks in the revival of mosaic art in medieval Italy.
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Who married Sacagewea?
Unless they were specifically adopted into the tribe by an adult male, they could have no social status in it.
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Who created the crystalline silicon solar cell?
Following the work of Russell Ohl in the 1940s, researchers Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller and Daryl Chapin created the crystalline silicon solar cell in 1954.
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How much was the total investment in renewable energy in 2012?
As a share of total investment in power plants, wind and solar PV grew from 14% in 2000 to over 60% in 2012.
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About how many cultural and artistic organizations are in New York City?
New York City has more than 2,000 arts and cultural organizations and more than 500 art galleries of all sizes.
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What is the most popular sport in Portugal?
The legendary Eusébio is still a major symbol of Portuguese football history.
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Which artist guested on a live version of Queen's The Show Must Go On?
By this point, Queen's vast amount of record sales made them the second best selling artist in the UK of all time, behind the Beatles.
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marshall jefferson got involved in house music after hearing whose music?
"Move Your Body (The House-Music Anthem)," (originally released on Chicago-based Trax Records) got involved in house music after hearing Ron Hardy's music in Muzic Box.
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What trend led to the decrease of Estonia's GDP?
Because of the global economic recession that began in 2007, the GDP of Estonia decreased by 1.4% in the 2nd quarter of 2008, over 3% in the 3rd quarter of 2008, and over 9% in the 4th quarter of 2008.
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Which architects in the US and Britain still employ the Georgian style for private residences?
In both the United States and Britain, the Georgian style is still employed by architects like Quinlan Terry Julian Bicknell and Fairfax and Sammons for private residences.
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Who was responsible for crafting a new look for all Apple products?
Apple instead brought the design work in-house by establishing the Apple Industrial Design Group, becoming responsible for crafting a new look for all Apple products.
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What was the last international competition Egypt hosted?
Egypt has hosted several international competitions.
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Does the Government of Ireland use the British Isle term?
The Government of Ireland does not recognise or use the term and its embassy in London discourages its use.
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What type of music do Foo Fighters and Harvey Danger perform?
The city is also home to such varied artists as avant-garde jazz musicians Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz, hot jazz musician Glenn Crytzer, hip hop artists Sir Mix-a-Lot, Macklemore, Blue Scholars, and Shabazz Palaces, smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G, classic rock staples Heart and Queensrÿche, and alternative rock bands such as Foo Fighters, Harvey Danger, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Posies, Modest Mouse, Band of Horses, Death Cab for Cutie, and Fleet Foxes.
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Instead of having an enduring essence, what does Whitehead believe?
To put it another way, a thing or person is often seen as having a "defining essence" or a "core identity" that is unchanging, and describes what the thing or person really is.
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How many total games does each club in the Premier League play per season?
During the course of a season (from August to May) each club plays the others twice (a double round-robin system), once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents, for a total of 38 games.
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What traditions did the seasonal festivals incorporate?
A comparison of surviving Roman religious calendars suggests that official festivals were organized according to broad seasonal groups that allowed for different local traditions.
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Who was Maria's mother?
In July 1836 Chopin travelled to Marienbad and Dresden to be with the Wodziński family, and in September he proposed to Maria, whose mother Countess Wodzińska approved in principle.
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What is the name given to the Annunciation in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer?
The Annunciation is called the "Annunciation of our Lady" in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
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Which publication was associated with the soundtrack release?
Both six- and seven-track versions of the game's soundtrack were released on November 19, 2006, as part of a Nintendo Power promotion and bundled with replicas of the Master Sword and the Hylian Shield.
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In what century did the Gothic style first flourish?
From the early 12th century, French builders developed the Gothic style, marked by the use of rib vaults, pointed arches, flying buttresses, and large stained glass windows.
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What do Torrent files NOT contain?
Some torrent indexing and search sites, such as The Pirate Bay, now encourage the use of magnet links, instead of direct links to torrent files, creating another layer of indirection; using such links, torrent files are obtained from other peers, rather than from a particular website.
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Gray color is often called what when referring to dogs?
For example, height measured to the withers ranges from 15.2 centimetres (6.0 in) in the Chihuahua to about 76 cm (30 in) in the Irish Wolfhound; color varies from white through grays (usually called "blue") to black, and browns from light (tan) to dark ("red" or "chocolate") in a wide variation of patterns; coats can be short or long, coarse-haired to wool-like, straight, curly, or smooth.
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Rousseau argued for a society based on what, rather than faith?
The political philosopher Montesquieu introduced the idea of a separation of powers in a government, a concept which was enthusiastically adopted by the authors of the United States Constitution.
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What acted as a physical obstacle to anti-aircraft defence?
Another aspect of anti-aircraft defence was the use of barrage balloons to act as physical obstacle initially to bomber aircraft over cities and later for ground attack aircraft over the Normandy invasion fleets.
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What priesthood was reserved solely for women?
Some rituals specifically required the presence of women, but their active participation was limited.
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Western political philosophy originates in what philosophy?
Western political philosophy originates in the philosophy of ancient Greece, where political philosophy dates back to at least Plato.
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What was the nationality of Matsushita Electric?
He located Japanese electronics manufacturer Matsushita Electric (now known as Panasonic), which agreed to acquire MCA for $6.6 billion in 1990.
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How long was the doctrines of Galen in use for?
Most of Galen's teachings were gathered and enhanced in the late 11th century by Benedictine monks at the School of Salerno in Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, which still had users in the 17th century.
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What other famous movie did Cacoyannis direct?
During the 1970s and 1980s Theo Angelopoulos directed a series of notable and appreciated movies.
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Edwin Hubble's discovery about galaxies allowed for which theory by Georges Lemaitre?
Not only did quantum mechanics show that the laws of motion did not hold on small scales, but even more disturbingly, the theory of general relativity, proposed by Einstein in 1915, showed that the fixed background of spacetime, on which both Newtonian mechanics and special relativity depended, could not exist.
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What is the second most common minority group in Nanjing?
As in most of eastern China the ethnic makeup of Nanjing is predominantly Han nationality (98.56 percent), with 50 other minority nationalities.
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What work did the Bishop suggest for Athanasius?
After questioning Athanasius, Bishop Alexander informed him that the baptisms were genuine, as both the form and matter of the sacrament had been performed through the recitation of the correct words and the administration of water, and that he must not continue to do this as those baptized had not been properly catechized.
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Was the third volume of the first edition deemed sufficient?
The third volume of that first edition was published in 1987, but was already being superseded by a second, revised edition of the entire work, greatly aided through the advice and assistance of then Yale doctoral candidate Grant Hardy, Dr. Gordon C. Thomasson, Professor John W. Welch (the head of FARMS), Professor Royal Skousen, and others too numerous to mention here.
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In 1806 who did Gorkas defeat with the help of provincial chiefs?
In the revolt of 1857, or first Indian war of independence, arising from a number of grievances against the British, the people of the hill states were not as politically active as were those in other parts of the country.
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What bacteria was observed as before prokaryotic cytoskeleton was discovered?
As they are prokaryotes, bacteria do not usually have membrane-bound organelles in their cytoplasm, and thus contain few large intracellular structures.
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Where is the annual Boston Arts festival?
There are several major annual events such as First Night, which occurs on New Year's Eve, the Boston Early Music Festival, the annual Boston Arts Festival at Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, and Italian summer feasts in the North End honoring Catholic saints.
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