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Combining corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Thousand Island dressing and sticking it rye produces what kind of sandwich? | Thousand Island dressing
Thousand Island dressing is an American salad dressing and condiment based on mayonnaise and can include olive oil, lemon juice, orange juice, paprika, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, vinegar, cream, chili sauce, tomato purée, ketchup or Tabasco sauce. It is similar to Russian dressing, making it an alternative spread for a Reuben sandwich.
It also typically contains finely chopped ingredients, which can include pickles, onions, bell peppers, green olives, hard-boiled egg, parsley, pimento, chives | , Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Thousand Island or Russian dressing on rye bread. Smoking corned beef, typically with a generally similar spice mix, produces smoked meat (or "smoked beef") such as pastrami.
Corned beef hash with potatoes is commonly served with eggs for breakfast.
In both the United States and Canada, corned beef is sold in cans in minced form. It is also sold this way in Puerto Rico and Uruguay.
Regions North America Newfoundland and Labrador.
Corned beef is known specifically as | 52,400 | triviaqa-train |
In what trick taking card game does a player score 1500 (vulnerable) or 1000 (Non-vulnerable) extra points for taking all of the tricks, an act known as a grand slam? | 37 divided by 4) to arrive at 9.25 as your averaged cross-IMP score.
History of contract bridge scoring.
History of contract bridge scoring Scoring of tricks in notrump contracts.
In the 1932 Laws of Contract Bridge, notrump tricks bid and made, and undoubled notrump tricks made but not bid, score 30, 40, 30, 40, 30, 40, 30.
In 1935 this became 40, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30.
History of contract bridge scoring Scoring | of 13 tricks, earns a bonus of 500 points if not vulnerable and 750 points if vulnerable;
- a grand slam, or successful contract to win all 13 tricks, earns a bonus of 1000 points if not vulnerable and 1500 points if vulnerable.
Scoring elements Doubled or redoubled bonus.
When a doubled or redoubled contract is made, a bonus is awarded to the declaring side. It is colloquially referred to as a bonus for "insult", meaning that the opponents have insulted the pair by suggesting that the | 52,401 | triviaqa-train |
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but which comedian, former SNL cast member, and MNF color man, was born on Nov 3, 1953? Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. | as the standard but hoped not to be too influenced by anyone. Between SNL and his new show, Miller did stand-up dates with Howie Mandel and then with Steven Wright.
Television career "The Dennis Miller Show".
In 1992, after leaving SNL, Miller hosted an eponymous late-night talk show in syndication that lasted seven months.
Television career "The Dennis Miller Show" Late-night landscape.
"The Arsenio Hall Show" was launched in 1989, and after Tribune Entertainment saw how that show brought in new | WWE Raw on December 14, 2009.
Comedic style.
Miller has a laid-back style (for example, calling people "babe" or "cat") and an acerbic, brooding sense of humor. His specialty is the rant, which typically begin with "Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but..." and end with "...of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."
Miller listed his comedic influences for "The | 52,402 | triviaqa-train |
Nov 2, 1947 saw the first flight of the H4 Hercules, the flying boat with the largest wingspan ever produced, better known by what name? | at night when the Spruce Goose Dome was closed to tourists. In 1988, The Walt Disney Company acquired both Long Beach attractions and the associated Long Beach real estate by Pier J. In 1991, Disney informed the Aero Club of Southern California that it no longer wished to display the Hercules aircraft after its highly ambitious Port Disney plan was scrapped.
After a long search for a suitable host, the Aero Club of Southern California arranged for the Hughes Hercules flying boat to be given to Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in exchange for | Germany, Italy, Russia, and Turkey were represented at another conference, this time in London. A majority decided to admit Romania and Serbia in a consultative capacity only and that Bulgaria could be represented only through Turkey, the nominal suzerain. Serbia accepted, but Romania and Bulgaria protested, taking no part in the conference.
After a month of discussion, the delegates decided to:
1. Extend the jurisdiction of the CED from Galatz some twenty miles upstream to Ibraila [nowadays known as Brăila].
2 | 52,403 | triviaqa-train |
Of which African country is Dodoma the capital city? | Dodoma
Dodoma (literally "It has sunk" in Gogo), officially Dodoma City, is the national capital of Tanzania and the capital of Dodoma Region, with a population of 410,956.
Geography.
Located in the centre of the country, the town is west of the former capital at Dar es Salaam and south of Arusha, the headquarters of the East African Community. It is also north of Iringa through Mtera. It covers an area of of which is urbanized.
History.
Originally a small | repair in a fire which occurred when the engines were being started.
- On 25 January 2008, Canadian Airways Congo Boeing 727–247 9L-LEF was damaged beyond economic repair when it was struck on the ground by Aéro-Service Antonov An-12BP EK-11660 which suffered a brake failure while taxiing. The An-12 was also damaged beyond economic repair.
- On 10 November 2008, Veteran Airline Antonov An-12 UR-PLV suffered an in-flight fire. A safe landing was made at Pointe-Noire but the aircraft was subsequently destroyed | 52,404 | triviaqa-train |
Which 1951 Gene Kelly musical film featured the song 'Love Is Here To Stay'? | well-known examples of the genre. The products of this unit include "Easter Parade" (1948), "On the Town" (1949), "An American in Paris" (1951), "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), "The Band Wagon" (1953) and "Gigi" (1958). Non-Freed musicals from the studio included "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" in 1954 and "High Society" in 1956, and the studio distributed Samuel Goldwyn's | lamppost.
- The scene in which Gene Kelly sings "You Were Meant for Me" is featured in the 2015 Nancy Meyers film "The Intern".
- "Singin' in the Rain" was an inspiration for the 2016 musical film "La La Land", directed by Damien Chazelle.
- The song "Good Morning" was featured in the "Legends of Tomorrow" season 3 episode "Phone Home".
- The video to the BTS song "Boy with Luv" heavily references " | 52,405 | triviaqa-train |
In the USA, FD Roosevelt's 'New Deal' was based on the views of which economist? | Historiography and evaluation of New Deal policies Recovery Economic growth and unemployment (1933–1941).
From 1933 to 1941, the economy expanded at an average rate of 7.7% per year. Despite high economic growth, unemployment rates fell slowly.
John Maynard Keynes explained that situation as an underemployment equilibrium where skeptic business prospects prevent companies from hiring new employees. It was seen as a form of cyclical unemployment.
There are different assumptions as well. According to Richard L. Jensen, cyclical unemployment was a grave matter primarily until 1935. Between | Rexford Tugwell
Rexford Guy Tugwell (July 10, 1891 – July 21, 1979) was an economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "Brain Trust," a group of Columbia University academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading up to Roosevelt's New Deal. Tugwell served in FDR's administration until he was forced out in 1936. He was a specialist on planning and believed the government should have large-scale plans to move the economy out of the Great Depression because private enterprise was too frozen in | 52,406 | triviaqa-train |
Which rock star, who died in 1971 aged 36, survived the car crash in which Eddie Cochran died in 1962? | Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent. Chuck Berry's 1955 classic "Maybellene" in particular features a distorted electric guitar solo with warm overtones created by his small valve amplifier. However, the use of distortion was predated by electric blues guitarists such as Joe Hill Louis, Guitar Slim, Willie Johnson of Howlin' Wolf's band, and Pat Hare; the latter two also made use of distorted power chords in the early 1950s. Also in 1955, Bo Diddley introduced the "Bo Diddley beat | the airline since August 1957. All three pilots were killed in the crash.
The two flight attendants, Helen Fournier, aged 21, and Patricia Richards, aged 22, survived the crash and assisted with the evacuation of survivors of the crash. They were credited with saving the lives of people who might have otherwise died in the fire that consumed the aircraft after the crash. Fournier had started her employment with Eastern Air Lines in April 1962, and was on only her third flight at the time of the crash. | 52,407 | triviaqa-train |
When 'Magic Roundabout' was revived on Channel 4 in 1992, which actor provided the voices? | series was still broadcast in black-and-white by the BBC; the first colour episode of the show was transmitted on 5 October 1970.
Fifty-two additional episodes, not previously broadcast, were shown in the United Kingdom during 1991 on Channel 4's "News Daily". Thompson had died by this time, and the job of narrating them in a pastiche of Thompson's style went to actor Nigel Planer, who also re-narrated several of Thompson's episodes.
The English version of Dougal was | the name Dougal (as seen in the Channel 4 documentary "The Return of the Magic Roundabout" (broadcast 08:50 on 25 December 1991 and 18:00 on 5 January 1992), and in the 2003 BBC4 documentary "The Magic Roundabout Story"). In the UK, the series gained cult status among some adults during the mid-to-late 1960s because it was seen as having psychedelic connotations (e.g. Dylan was believed to be high on cannabis and Dougal was thought to be on LSD because of his fondness for sugar | 52,408 | triviaqa-train |
The rival houses of Lancaster and York were both | House of York
The House of York was a cadet branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet. Three of its members became kings of England in the late 15th century. The House of York was descended in the male line from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, the fourth surviving son of Edward III, but also represented Edward's senior line, being cognatic descendants of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, Edward III's second surviving son. It is based on these descents that they claimed the English crown. | the banner of a red dragon while the Yorkist army used Richard III's personal device of a white boar.
Although the names of the rival houses derive from the cities of York and Lancaster, the corresponding duchy and dukedom had little to do with these cities. The lands and offices attached to the Duchy of Lancaster were mainly in Gloucestershire, North Wales, Cheshire, and (ironically) in Yorkshire, while the estates and castles of the Duke of York were spread throughout England and Wales, many in the Welsh Marches | 52,409 | triviaqa-train |
In 1960, Kwame Nkruma became the first President of which African country? | Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.
After twelve years abroad pursuing higher education, developing his political philosophy and organising with other diasporic pan-Africanists, Nkrumah returned to the | the country from France.
He is with Kwame Nkrumah one of the founders of the African Union, and the Guinean Diallo Telly was the first general secretary of the African Union.
Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) led the nation to its independence from the United Kingdom in 1957.
Jomo Kenyatta served as the first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of the Republic.
Oginga Odinga served as the first vice-president.
Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809–1876) was born a free man of black | 52,410 | triviaqa-train |
In 1966, Seretse Khama became the first President of which African country? | Seretse Khama
Sir Seretse Goitsebeng Maphiri Khama, GCB, KBE (1 July 1921 – 13 July 1980) was the first President of Botswana, in office from 1966 to 1980.
Born into one of the most powerful African royal families of what was then the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, he was educated abroad in neighboring South Africa and in the United Kingdom. He married a British woman, Ruth Williams, which initially was controversial because she was white. Eventually, however, she became popular among his people. | Africa. Based on the 1965 constitution, the country held its first general elections under universal suffrage and gained independence on 30 September 1966. Seretse Khama, a leader in the independence movement and the legitimate claimant to the Ngwato chiefship, was elected as the first President, and subsequently re-elected twice.
The presidency passed to the sitting Vice-President, Quett Masire, who was elected in his own right in 1984 and re-elected in 1989 and 1994. Masire retired from office in 1998. He was succeeded | 52,411 | triviaqa-train |
Which band had hits in the 1990's with 'The Riverboat Song', 'You've Got It Bad' and 'The Day We Caught The Train'? | You've Got It Bad
"You've Got It Bad" is a rock song by Ocean Colour Scene (OCS).
The song was released in 1996 and reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart. It is taken from their 1996 album "Moseley Shoals" and was the second single to be released from this album, following "The Riverboat Song". The single was also released as a demo alternative on a second CD, with additional B-sides.
The song is commonly used as bumper | The Riverboat Song", "The Day We Caught the Train", "The Circle" and "You've Got It Bad"). Most of these (all except "You've Got It Bad (demo)", "Men of Such Opinion", "I Need a Love Song" and "Justine") appeared on the B-side compilation album "B-sides, Seasides and Freerides".
Personnel.
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
- Simon Fowler | 52,412 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the Mexican forward that Manchester United have signed this summer from Chivas de Guadalajara for £6 million? | cantera") players and has been the launching pad of many internationally successful players, including Omar Bravo, Javier Hernández, Carlos Vela, Carlos Salcedo, Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Carlos Salcido and Marco Fabián. The team's three colors (red, white, and blue) symbolize "Fraternity, Union, and Sports". The founders of the team adopted the colors that linked them back to their home country, France. Chivas supporters use a flag identical to the French flag to support their team. The team mascot, | Hans Friessen
Hans ""El Güerito"" Friessen Wutteke is a former Mexican footballer that played for various football clubs in the late 1960s and 1970s as a forward. He played primarily for the Chivas de Guadalajara,
Club career.
Born in Guadalajara, Friessen played in the early 1970s with Atlas as a Center Forward debuting only two games, later on he made the transfer to Chivas de Guadalajara. As Chivas had a history of only contracting Mexican players, the club's supporters questioned Friessen's inclusion in the | 52,413 | triviaqa-train |
Which Samuel Becket play tells the story of 'Hamm', who is unable to stand, and his servant 'Clov', who is unable to sit down, and their lives with 'Hamm's' parents who live in rubbish bins in the corner of the house? | away. He refused to allow the play to be translated into film but did allow it to be played on television.
Beckett translated all of his works into English himself, with the exception of "Molloy", for which he collaborated with Patrick Bowles. The success of "Waiting for Godot" opened up a career in theatre for its author. Beckett went on to write successful full-length plays, including "Fin de partie" ("Endgame") (1957), "Krapp's Last Tape" | to stand and blind"
- Clov – "Hamm's servant; unable to sit. Taken in by Hamm as a child."
- Nagg – "Hamm's father; has no legs and lives in a dustbin."
- Nell – "Hamm's mother; has no legs and lives in a dustbin next to Nagg."
Production history.
The play was premiered on 3 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Roger Blin, who also played Hamm; Jean | 52,414 | triviaqa-train |
Which legendary American Football player, who played his entire 15-year career with the Los Angeles Rams and | 40,000s during this time, the Rams were drawing anywhere from 10,000 to 40,000 fans more than the league average. In 1957, the Rams set the all-time NFL attendance record that stood until 2006 and broke the 100,000 mark twice during the 1958 campaign.
Franchise history First Los Angeles Rams era (1946–1994) 1965–1969: The Fearsome Foursome.
The 1960s were defined by the great defensive line of Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, and Lamar Lundy, dubbed the "Fearsome Foursome." It was this group of players | Jackie Slater
Jackie Ray Slater (born May 27, 1954) is an American retired football player who was an offensive tackle for 20 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire career with the Rams franchise: 19 seasons in Los Angeles from 1976–1994, and one in St. Louis in 1995.
A graduate of Jackson State University, he was a teammate of Walter Payton. Drafted in the third round of the 1976 NFL Draft, Slater seldom played his first few years before starting in 1979 | 52,415 | triviaqa-train |
Which chemical element is named after the German physicist who discovered X-Rays? | Roentgenium
Roentgenium is a chemical element with the symbol Rg and atomic number 111. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element that can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature. The most stable known isotope, roentgenium-282, has a half-life of 100 seconds, although the unconfirmed roentgenium-286 may have a longer half-life of about 10.7 minutes. Roentgenium was first created in 1994 by the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany. It is named after the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen ( | named after the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, who discovered X-rays.
However, although this was a major step forward in standardising radiation measurement, the roentgen has the disadvantage that it is only a measure of air ionisation, and not a direct measure of radiation absorption in other materials, such as different forms of human tissue. For instance, one roentgen deposits of absorbed dose in dry air, or in soft tissue. One roentgen of X-rays may deposit anywhere from in bone depending on the beam energy. | 52,416 | triviaqa-train |
Which river has its source in Zambia and flows through Angola, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe before emptying into the Indian Ocean in Mozambique? | Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare and the second largest being Bulawayo. A country of roughly /1e6 round 0 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most commonly used.
Since the 11th century, present-day Zimbabwe has been the site of several organised states and | Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division of Seventh-day Adventists
The Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which coordinates the Church's activities in the southern portion of Africa, which include the nations of Angola, Ascension Island, Botswana, Comoro Islands, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Réunion, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe; as well as | 52,417 | triviaqa-train |
With 53 tries from 77 caps, who is the leading try scorer for the Welsh national Rugby Union team? | released from the squad due to injury.
On 26 February, Cory Hill was released from the squad due to injury.
Head Coach: Warren Gatland
- ‡ – Denotes dual contracted players.
- Caps and clubs updated 17 March 2019
Players Notable players.
Ten former Welsh internationals have been inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame, while 18 have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. One Welsh player, Shane Williams in 2008, has been awarded World Rugby Player of the Year ( | Mark Jones (rugby, born 1979)
Mark Anthony Jones (born 7 November 1979 in Builth Wells, Powys) is a former Welsh rugby union footballer who played on the wing for the Scarlets and Wales. Since making his international debut for Wales, he won 47 caps and scored 13 tries.
Jones began his domestic career at Builth Wells Youth before joining the senior side. He was signed by Llandovery from Builth and in his first season of senior rugby was the highest try scorer in the Welsh League. Jones | 52,418 | triviaqa-train |
With 41 tries from 109 caps, who is the leading try scorer for the Irish national Rugby Union team? | Ronan O'Gara became the first Irishman, and only the fifth player, to score 1,000-points. In Ireland's 24–8 win against England, Brian O'Driscoll scored his 25th try to set a new Six Nations record for tries scored.
In their 2012 Six Nations Championship campaign Ireland finished third overall. Ireland's 2012 summer tour of New Zealand included a 22–19 loss, followed by a 60–0 thrashing, Ireland's heaviest ever defeat.
The 2013 Six Nations Championship saw Ireland finish with one win, three losses, and one draw, | Terry Kennedy (rugby union)
Terry Kennedy (born 4 July 1996) is an Irish rugby union player who plays for the Ireland national rugby sevens team.
Kennedy was a member of the Irish team that won the 2017 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series. He also helped Ireland win the 2018 Moscow Sevens tournament — he scored two tries in the final as Ireland defeated Germany 28–7, and was the leading try scorer in the tournament overall with nine tries. Kennedy scored a try in the final of the 2019 Hong | 52,419 | triviaqa-train |
Which internet company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998? | , we had 10,000 searches a day. And we figured, maybe this is really real."
Some compared Page and Brin's vision to the impact of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of modern printing:
The comparison was also noted by the authors of "The Google Story": "Not since Gutenberg ... has any new invention empowered individuals, and transformed access to information, as profoundly as Google." Also, not long after the two "cooked up their new engine for web searches, they began | earn a doctorate in engineering at Stanford University (with fellow students in Terry Winograd's group of the same year including Sergey Brin and Larry Page.)
Business.
Roscheisen was among the first generation of entrepreneurs in the late 1990s pursuing opportunities in the commercial Internet; and starting in 2000 he was one of the first entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley to focus on green energy technology:
- In 1995, Roscheisen co-founded FindLaw, which became the most widely used Internet legal site, for the first time making U.S. | 52,420 | triviaqa-train |
The fashion designer Philip Treacy is best known for designing which item of clothing? | Grace Jones as a collaborator and friend.
Treacy is the second youngest of a large family and has one sister and seven brothers. He is particularly close to his sister, Marion Tubbing, the eldest of their generation, whom he credits with supplying him with editions of "Harper's and Queen" and "Vogue" while living in Galway (Tubbing was working in London at the time), and for whom, along with his partner Stefan Bartlett, Treacy dedicated his 2015 biography: "Philip Treacy: Hat Designer | Molly Parnis
Mollie Parnis (born Sarah Rosen Parnis; March 18, 1899 – July 18, 1992), later Livingston; was an American fashion designer. She belongs to the first generation of American designers to be known to the public by name rather than by affiliation to a department store and is best known for designing clothing worn by many First Ladies, as well as the uniform of the Cadet Nurse Corps in World War II.
Career.
Parnis was born in New York City to Austrian Jewish parents Abraham | 52,421 | triviaqa-train |
'Sunny Side Up' was a 2010 UK number one album for which singer? | Sunny Side Up (Paolo Nutini album)
Sunny Side Up is the second studio album by Scottish singer and songwriter Paolo Nutini, released on 29 May 2009 in Ireland and 1 June 2009 in the United Kingdom. Nutini and his band, the Vipers, toured the United States briefly before a UK tour prior to the album's release. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. Nutini recorded the album himself with his band the Vipers, with Ethan Johns contributing mixing and production. The album features guest | appearances from trombonist Rico Rodriguez and ?uestlove.
The album was the eighth best-selling album in the United Kingdom of 2009 and the sixth of 2010. On 3 January 2010, "Sunny Side Up" topped the UK Albums Chart for a second time, making it the first number-one album in the United Kingdom of 2010 and the decade.
On 19 February 2010, Colin Farrell presented Nutini with "Best International Album" for "Sunny Side Up" at the 2010 Meteor Awards. On 20 May | 52,422 | triviaqa-train |
Which internet company was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001? | they are often written in a poor, almost unreadable style. Frequent Wikipedia critic Andrew Orlowski commented, "Even when a Wikipedia entry is 100 per cent factually correct, and those facts have been carefully chosen, it all too often reads as if it has been translated from one language to another then into a third, passing an illiterate translator at each stage." A study of Wikipedia articles on cancer was conducted in 2010 by Yaacov Lawrence of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University. The study was limited to those | , volunteered by Bomis, a web-advertising firm owned by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis. Nupedia was founded upon the use of highly qualified volunteer contributors and an elaborate multi-step peer review process. Despite its mailing list of interested editors, and the presence of a full-time editor-in-chief, Larry Sanger, a graduate philosophy student hired by Wales, the writing of content for Nupedia was extremely slow, with only 12 articles written during the first year.
Wales and Sanger | 52,423 | triviaqa-train |
Which ancient dog breed was originally bred in Siberia to assist in the herding of reindeer? | , small terriers, retrievers, herding dogs, scent-hounds, and sight-hounds. There were 17 breeds that conflicted with phenotype or function and these were thought to be the result of crossing some of the other phenotypes. As in a 2004 study that found 9 ‘ancient breeds’ to be genetically divergent, the study found 13 breeds that were genetically divergent from the modern breeds: the Basenji, Saluki, Afghan hound, Samoyed, Canaan dog, New Guinea singing dog, dingo, Chow Chow | Siberian Laika (FCI 305), which had been bred from the aboriginal dogs of northern Russia and Siberia.
International terminology Sled laikas.
The Yakutian Laika is a multi-purpose laika breed from the Sakha Republic, used both in bird and seal hunting, reindeer herding, and sled pulling. However, nowadays it is solely a sled dog. So far it has been officially recognized in Russia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Nordic Countries, and Brazil. In the US, it has been accepted | 52,424 | triviaqa-train |
Umberto Boccioni and Carlo Carra are associated with which artistic movement founded by Filippo Marinetti in the early 20th century? | He decided not to be a lawyer but to develop a literary career. He experimented with every type of literature (poetry, narrative, theatre, "words in liberty"), signing everything "Filippo Tommaso Marinetti".
Futurism.
Marinetti and Constantin Brâncuși were visitors of the Abbaye de Créteil c. 1908 along with young writers like Roger Allard (one of the first to defend Cubism), Pierre Jean Jouve, and Paul Castiaux, who wanted to publish their works through the Abbaye. The Abbaye de Créteil was | . For example, Abbott Handerson Thayer's "A Virgin" (1892–93) is a well-known painted allusion. When Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issued his Futurist Manifesto in 1909, he chose to contrast his movement with the supposedly defunct artistic sentiments of the Winged Victory: "a race-automobile which seems to rush over exploding powder is more beautiful than the 'Victory of Samothrace.
The 1913 sculpture "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" by the Futuristic sculptor Umberto Boccioni, currently located at the Museum of Modern Art | 52,425 | triviaqa-train |
Which actor portrays 'Freddie Krueger' in the 2010 remake of 'Nightmare On Elm Street'? | Wyss was among those switched to Tina after a callback. Wes Craven decided immediately upon mixing Wyss and Langenkamp that this was the duo he wanted. Craven then mixed the duo with auditioners for the male teenage roles trying to find actors who had chemistry with Wyss and/or Langenkamp.
Johnny Depp was another unknown when he was cast; he initially went to accompany a friend (Jackie Earle Haley, who went on to play Freddy in the 2010 remake) but eventually got the part of Glen. Homage is played to Glen Lantz | Men" (2006). This was followed by his performance as pedophile Ronald James McGorvey in "Little Children" (2006), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Subsequent notable roles include the vigilante Rorschach in "Watchmen" (2009), horror icon Freddy Krueger in the remake of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (2010) and Grewishka, a huge cyborg criminal, in "" (2019). He currently stars as Odin Quincannon in "Preacher" and | 52,426 | triviaqa-train |
Which ancient dog breed was originally bred in Tibet to act as sentinels in Buddhist monasteries? | Lhasa Apso
The Lhasa Apso ( ) is a non-sporting dog breed originating in Tibet. It was bred as an interior sentinel in the Buddhist monasteries, to alert the monks to any intruders who entered. Lhasa is the capital city of Tibet, and "apso" is a word in the Tibetan language meaning "bearded," so, Lhasa Apso simply means "long-haired Lhasa dog." There are, however, some who claim that the word "apso" is a form of the Tibetan word | later spread to other parts of Asia. In Tibet, Buddhist monks kept Pugs as pets in their monasteries. The breed has retained its affectionate devotion to its owners since ancient times.
History 16th and 17th centuries.
Pugs were popular at European courts, and reportedly become the official dog of the House of Orange in 1572 after a Pug named Pompey saved the life of the Prince of Orange by alerting him to the approach of assassins.
A Pug travelled with William III and Mary II when they left the Netherlands to | 52,427 | triviaqa-train |
Lawrence Atkinson and David Bomberg are associated with which artistic movement founded by Wyndam Lewis in the early 20th century? | staunchly independent and despite Lewis' attempts he never officially joined Vorticism. In July 1914 he refused involvement with the Vorticist literary magazine "BLAST" and in June of the following year his work featured only in the "Invited to show" section of the vorticist exhibition at London's Dore Gallery.
In 1914 he met his first wife Alice Mayes a resourceful and practical woman about ten years older than him who had worked with Kosslov's Ballet Company. Their mutual interest in experimental dance and the Russian ballet may have helped bring | British Masters (TV series)
British Masters is a three-part BBC television series on 20th century British art, presented by Dr James Fox and first broadcast in July 2011 on BBC Four. The series covers the period from 1910 to 1975.
The first programme explored the lives and works of Mark Gertler, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Walter Sickert, Wyndham Lewis, Lawrence Atkinson, David Bomberg, Richard Nevinson, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer. The second programme explored the works of John Nash, Stanley Spencer, | 52,428 | triviaqa-train |
Which actor plays 'Mr. Han' - the new name for 'Mr. Miyagi' - in the 2010 remake of 'The Karate Kid'? | The Karate Kid (2010 film)
The Karate Kid (known as The Kung Fu Dream in China) is a 2010 family martial arts drama film directed by Harald Zwart, and part of "The Karate Kid" series. It stars Jaden Smith, Taraji P. Henson and Jackie Chan in lead roles, and it was produced by Jerry Weintraub, James Lassiter, Ken Stovitz and Jaden's parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. The screenplay by Christopher Murphey was from the story written by Robert Mark Kamen for the original | his friends showed Mr. Han respect. In the alternative ending, Cheng is about to get beaten up by Master Li for failing the tournament and showing respect towards Dre and Mr. Han, but luckily, Han comes to the rescue by defeating Master Li in a match. This is similar to the opening scene in "Karate Kid, Part II" (Miyagi rescues Johnny from John Kreese) and is implied that this is how the remake of the sequel will begin, on the account that there will be a "Karate Kid | 52,429 | triviaqa-train |
Which South African golfer won the 2010 Open Championship last month? | 150th Anniversary Open Championship" rather than "139th Open Championship." The standard branding returned the following year.
Louis Oosthuizen won his only major championship with 272 (−16), seven strokes clear of runner-up Lee Westwood. A stroke behind in third were Paul Casey, Rory McIlroy, and Henrik Stenson.
Venue.
St Andrews is considered to be the home of golf, and as such, the current Open Championship rota means that the Old Course plays host to the championship every five years. Given | at the Aircel PGTI Players Championship.
Professional career 2012.
Bhullar won the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship on 17 September 2012. The following month he won the Venetian Macau Open.
Professional career 2013.
Bhullar's 2013 season started on good note. In March, Bhullar finished runner-up at Avantha Masters, earning him prize money of $258,700. He scored 20-under 268, but lost to South African Thomas Aiken by three strokes.
In August, he became seventh golfer to receive the Arjuna Award since its introduction | 52,430 | triviaqa-train |
Which American Nobel Laureate wrote 'The Grapes Of Wrath' and 'East Of Eden'? | writing, giving many of his works a distinct sense of place.
Salinas, Monterey and parts of the San Joaquin Valley were the setting for many of his stories. The area is now sometimes referred to as "Steinbeck Country". Most of his early work dealt with subjects familiar to him from his formative years. An exception was his first novel, "", which concerns the pirate Henry Morgan, whose adventures had captured Steinbeck's imagination as a child.
In his subsequent novels, Steinbeck found a more | about poor, working-class people and their struggle to lead a decent and honest life. "The Grapes of Wrath", considered his masterpiece, is a strong, socially-oriented novel that tells the story of the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma and their journey to California in search of a better life.
Other popular novels include "Tortilla Flat", "Of Mice and Men", "Cannery Row", and "East of Eden". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in | 52,431 | triviaqa-train |
The Dove, Derwent, Erewash and Soar are all tributaries of which river, the third longest in the UK? | River Trent
The River Trent is the third-longest river in the United Kingdom. Its source is in Staffordshire on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through and drains most of the metropolitan central and northern Midlands south and east of its source north of Stoke-on-Trent. The river is known for dramatic flooding after storms and spring snowmelt, which in past times often caused the river to change course.
The river passes through Stoke-on-Trent, Burton upon Trent and Nottingham before joining | - River Meden
- River Ryton
- River Devon
- River Greet
- River Leen
- River Erewash
- River Soar
- River Wreake
- River Sence
- River Derwent
- River Amber
- River Wye
- River Lathkill
- River Bradford
- River Noe
- River Ashop
- River Alport
- River Westend
- River Dove
- River Manifold
- River Hamps
- River Tame
- River Blythe
- River Cole
- River Rea | 52,432 | triviaqa-train |
How is 'Hanna Glawari' known in the title of an enormously popular Franz Lehar operetta of 1905? | Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár (; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is "The Merry Widow" ("Die lustige Witwe").
Biography.
Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Komárno, Slovakia), the eldest son of Franz Lehár (senior) (1838–1898), an Austrian bandmaster in the Infantry Regiment No | The Tsarevich (1933 film)
The Tsarevich (German: Der Zarewitsch) is a 1933 German historical musical film directed by Victor Janson and starring Mártha Eggerth, Hans Söhnker and Ery Bos. It is based on the 1927 operetta "Der Zarewitsch" by Franz Lehar. It was one of a number of operetta film that Eggerth appeared in during the decade.
The film's sets were designed by Walter Haag and Franz Schroedter. A separate French-language version "" was also released.
Cast.
- | 52,433 | triviaqa-train |
Which American Nobel Laureate wrote 'The Sound And The Fury' and 'As I Lay Dying'? | The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including stream of consciousness. Published in 1929, "The Sound and the Fury" was Faulkner's fourth novel, and was not immediately successful. In 1931, however, when Faulkner's sixth novel, "Sanctuary", was published—a sensationalist story, which Faulkner later claimed was written only for money—"The Sound and the Fury" also became commercially successful, and | structure conceals multiple layers of meaning.) He also jumbled time sequences to show how the past – especially the slave-holding era of the Deep South – endures in the present. Among his great works are "Absalom, Absalom!", "As I Lay Dying", "The Sound and the Fury", and "Light in August".
The rise of American drama.
Although the American theatrical tradition can be traced back to the arrival of Lewis Hallam's troupe in the mid-18th century and was | 52,434 | triviaqa-train |
The Lugg, Marteg, Monnow and Trothy are all tributaries of which river, the fifth longest in the UK? | River Trothy
The River Trothy () is a river which flows through north Monmouthshire, in rural south east Wales.
The river rises on Campston Hill, northeast of Abergavenny. It flows southwards until Llanvapley, where it turns east. About south of Monmouth the river joins the confluence of the River Wye and the River Monnow.
See also.
- List of rivers of Wales | and again on the steep slopes at Cwmyoy in the Vale of Ewyas.
Quaternary Alluvium.
The floodplains of each of the major river valleys within the county are floored by fluviatile alluvium. The most extensive is that of the River Usk though this narrows for a couple of miles south of Llanfihangel nigh Usk. Those of the River Monnow and Afon Lwyd are up to 350m wide in places whilst that of the Trothy is rather narrower. In contrast there are wide spreads of these deposits around the smaller Olway Brook from Raglan | 52,435 | triviaqa-train |
Which British golfer finished runner-up to Oosthuizen at this year's Open Championship? | gorse bush, and wound up making triple bogey to give Oosthuizen an eight-shot lead. In the end, Oosthuizen shot 71 on Sunday, and 16-under-par 272 for the championship, to win by seven strokes. His 272 was the second lowest in St Andrews history. Casey eventually finished third with Lee Westwood taking second.
Oosthuizen became the fourth man from South Africa to win the Claret Jug – following Bobby Locke, Gary Player, and Ernie Els – and moved to 15th in the Official World Golf Ranking | Andries Oosthuizen
Andries Oosthuizen (born c. 1954) is a South African professional golfer. He played on the European Tour from 1974 to 1977 and finished tied for 12th place in the 1975 Open Championship.
Amateur career.
Oosthuizen won the 1973 South African Amateur Championship beating Coen Dreyer 3 & 2 in the final. Later in the year he finished runner-up to George Harvey at the South African Tour's Qualifying School and turned professional.
Professional career.
Oosthuizen played full-time on the European Tour | 52,436 | triviaqa-train |
Which city, known for its manufacture of swords and knives, is the capital of the Spanish region of Castile-La- Mancha? | Castilla–La Mancha
Castilla–La Mancha (, , ), or Castile–La Mancha, is an autonomous community of Spain. Comprised by the provinces of Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo, it was created in 1982. It is bordered by Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Extremadura. It is one of the most sparsely populated of Spain's regions. Albacete is the largest and most populous city. Its capital city is Toledo, and its | Manzanares in the centre of both the country and the Community of Madrid (which comprises the city of Madrid, its conurbation and extended suburbs and villages); this community is bordered by the autonomous communities of Castile and León and Castile-La Mancha. As the capital city of Spain, seat of government, and residence of the Spanish monarch, Madrid is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The current mayor is José Luis Martínez-Almeida from the People's Party.
The Madrid urban agglomeration | 52,437 | triviaqa-train |
Which Belorusian-born artist designed the scenery and costumes for Stravinsky's 'The Firebird'? | the ballet in Australia, during the 1936–37 tour.
The work was staged by George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet in 1949 with Maria Tallchief as the Firebird, with scenery and costumes by Marc Chagall, and was kept in the repertory until 1965. The ballet was restaged by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins in 1970 for the New York City Ballet with elaborated scenery by Chagall, and with new costumes by Karinska based on Chagall's for the 1972 Stravinsky Festival that introduced Gelsey Kirkland as the Firebird.
In 1970 | York City Ballet, Mr. Falconer designed scenery and costumes for "Scènes de Ballet" (1999), and Variations "Sérieuses" (2001), which were both choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. In 1999, he designed scenery and costumes for the Boston Ballet's production of "Firebird", which was also choreographed by Mr. Wheeldon. In 2003, Falconer designed sets and costumes for Stravinsky's "Jeu de Cartes", which was choreographed by Peter Martins.
Starting with the 2015 season, the Pacific Northwest Ballet's | 52,438 | triviaqa-train |
Which Latvian-born artist painted 'The Seagram Murals'? | Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (, ; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally identified as an abstract expressionist.
Childhood.
Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Governorate, in the Russian Empire (today Daugavpils in Latvia). His father, Jacob (Yakov) Rothkowitz, was a pharmacist and an intellectual who initially provided his children | Tim Conlon (artist)
Tim Conlon (born 1974 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American artist and graffiti writer known for large-scale murals and works on canvas. He was featured as one of several artists (including Kehinde Wiley and poet, Nikki Giovanni) in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibit, "Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture", which included four large graffiti murals painted by Conlon and collaborator, David Hupp in 2008. This marked the first modern graffiti ever to be in the Smithsonian Institution | 52,439 | triviaqa-train |
Elected in 2007, Cristina Kirchner is the female President of which country? | 2007 Argentine general election
Argentina held national presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, October 28, 2007, and elections for provincial governors took place on staggered dates throughout the year. For the national elections, each of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are considered electoral districts. Voter turnout was 76.2%.
Background.
Elections for a successor to President Néstor Kirchner were held in October. Kirchner had declined to run for a second term.
In addition to the President, each district elected a | after Néstor Kirchner was elected president.
Néstor Kirchner did not run for reelection. Instead, Cristina Kirchner was the candidate for the Front for Victory party, becoming president in the 2007 presidential election. Her first term of office started with a conflict with the agricultural sector, and her proposed taxation system was rejected. After this she nationalized private pension funds, and fired the president of the Central Bank. The price of public services remained subsidised, the country lost its self-supply of energy, and she renationalized energy firm | 52,440 | triviaqa-train |
Which city, known for its bull run, is the capital of the Spanish region of Navarre? | Navarre
Navarre (; ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( ; ), is an autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France. The capital city is Pamplona (or "Iruñea" in Basque).
Etymology.
The first documented use of a name resembling "Navarra", "Nafarroa", or "Naparroa" is a reference to "navarros", in Eginhard's early-9th-century | from La Liga.
The club is known for its policy of recruiting only players from the greater Basque Country, a region which includes Labourd, Soule and Lower Navarre in France as well as the Spanish provinces of Biscay, Guipúzcoa, Álava and Navarre. This policy, which for many years applied both to signings from other clubs and to youngsters admitted to the club's academy, has in recent years become more flexible, so that players whose career developed in the youth system of other clubs in the region are now acceptable | 52,441 | triviaqa-train |
In which city do the baseball team known as the 'Astros' play their home games? | fields built or remodeled since June 1, 1958, must have a minimum distance of from home plate to the fences in left and right field and to center. Major league teams often skirt even this rule. For example, at Minute Maid Park, which became the home of the Houston Astros in 2000, the Crawford Boxes in left field are only from home plate. There are no rules at all that address the height of fences or other structures at the edge of the outfield. The most famously idiosyncratic outfield boundary is | Greeneville Reds
The Greeneville Reds are a Minor League Baseball team of the Rookie-level Appalachian League. They are located in Tusculum, Tennessee, a city adjacent to Greeneville, and play their home games at Pioneer Park on the campus of Tusculum University. They are an affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. The Greeneville Reds replaced the Greeneville Astros (2004–2017) as the city's entry in the league; the Greeneville Reds are not a continuation of the Greeneville Astros and are instead a separate franchise. Paul Kleinhans-Schulz was | 52,442 | triviaqa-train |
In which Irish mountain range does the River Liffey rise? | Plurabelle" in "Finnegans Wake".
Course and system.
The Liffey rises in the Liffey Head Bog between the mountains of Kippure and Tonduff in the northern section of the Wicklow Mountains, forming from many streamlets at Sally Gap. It flows for through counties Wicklow, Kildare and Dublin before entering the Irish Sea at its mouth at the midpoint of Dublin Bay, on a line extending from the Baily lighthouse to the Muglin Rocks. It crosses from County Wicklow into County Kildare at Poulaphouca and from County Kildare into County | River Liffey
The River Liffey (Irish: "An Life") is a river in Ireland, which flows through the centre of Dublin. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the River Poddle and the River Camac. The river supplies much of Dublin's water and a range of recreational activities.
Name.
Ptolemy's "Geography" (2nd century AD) described a river, perhaps the Liffey, which he labelled Οβοκα ("Oboka"). Ultimately this led to the name of the River | 52,443 | triviaqa-train |
Which chemist discovered oxygen in 1774, calling it 'dephlogisticated air'? | theory to explain his results. The residue of air left after burning, in fact a mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, was sometimes referred to as "phlogisticated air," having taken up all of the phlogiston. Conversely, when Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen, he believed it to be "dephlogisticated air," capable of combining with more phlogiston and thus supporting combustion for longer than ordinary air.
History of phlogiston theory.
Empedocles had formulated the classical theory that there were four elements: water, earth, fire | chlorine gas was obtained by the Belgian chemist and physician Jan Baptist van Helmont. The synthesis and characterization of elemental chlorine occurred in 1774 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who called it "dephlogisticated muriatic acid air," having thought he synthesized the oxide obtained from the hydrochloric acid, because acids were thought at the time to necessarily contain oxygen, a number of chemists, including Claude Berthollet, suggested that Scheele's dephlogisticated muriatic acid air must be a combination of oxygen and the yet undiscovered element, and Scheele named the supposed | 52,444 | triviaqa-train |
The 'running of the bulls' is part of the San Fermin Festival held in which Spanish city? | Roman of senatorial rank in Pamplona in the 3rd century, who was converted to Christianity by Saint Honestus, a disciple of Saint Saturninus. According to tradition, he was baptised by Saturninus (in Navarre also known as Saint Cernin) at the spot now known as the "Small Well of Saint Cernin" Fermín was ordained a priest in Toulouse, and returned to Pamplona as its first bishop. On a later preaching voyage, Fermín was beheaded in Amiens, France; and is now considered a martyr in the Catholic Church. | located about 2 kilometers outside of the city.
Festivals.
Carnaval is the traditional festival of Alausí, and is celebrated with a special parade, in which the neighborhoods of the city and special invitees participate. The most important festival is the running of the bulls. Non-professional bullfighting and other festivals are also celebrated here.
A testament to the Spanish influence in South America, the Festival of San Pedro is celebrated from June 22 to July 2, and has been celebrated since the colonial era. Traditional dance | 52,445 | triviaqa-train |
To which 'Hogwarts' school house does 'Harry Potter' belong? | and preferences. After the Sorting Ceremony, the students and teachers enjoy a feast, prepared by the Hogwarts house-elves. If Dumbledore is feeling cheerful, he will lead the students in singing the school song.
Houses.
Hogwarts is divided into four houses, each bearing the last name of its founder: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff. Throughout the school year, the houses compete for the House Cup, gaining and losing points based on actions such as performance in class and rule | Film and television U.S. television.
Film and television U.S. television Animated.
- "Harry Potter" has been parodied several times on "The Simpsons".
- Nigel Planter is a recurring character on "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy". He first appeared in the episode "Toadblatt's School of Sorcery", which parodies "Animal House" as well as "Harry Potter". He reappeared in the episodes "Nigel Planter and the Chamber Pot of Secrets", "One Crazy Summoner" and "Order of | 52,446 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the US Space Shuttle that exploded upon take-off in 1986, killing all seven crew members? | many of the tiles that had been originally installed had to be replaced, requiring two years of installation before "Columbia" could fly.
On January 5, 1979, NASA commissioned a second orbiter. Later that month, Rockwell began converting STA-099 to OV-099, later named "Challenger". On January 29, 1979, NASA ordered two additional orbiters, OV-103 and OV-104, which were named "Discovery" and "Atlantis". Construction of OV-105, later named "Endeavour", began in February 1982, but NASA | Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
On February 1, 2003, the disintegrated during atmospheric entry, killing all seven crew members. The disaster was the second fatal accident in the Space Shuttle program, after , which broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff and killed the seven-member crew in 1986.
During the launch of STS-107, "Columbia"s 28th mission, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the left wing of the orbiter. A few previous shuttle launches had seen damage ranging from minor | 52,447 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of the US Space Shuttle that disintegrated over Texas during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in 2003, killing all 7 crew members? | the "Columbia" was upstream from the calculated value due to real-gas effects. On "Columbia"s maiden flight (STS-1), astronauts John W. Young and Robert Crippen had some anxious moments during reentry when there was concern about losing control of the vehicle.
An equilibrium real-gas model assumes that a gas is chemically reactive, but also assumes all chemical reactions have had time to complete and all components of the gas have the same temperature (this is called "thermodynamic equilibrium"). When air is processed | The Death of Jean DeWolff
"The Death of Jean DeWolff" is a four-part story arc featuring the popular Marvel Comics comic book superhero Spider-Man. It comprises the comics "Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man" #107–110 (October 1985 – January 1986). The story was written by Peter David, penciled by Rich Buckler, and inked by Brett Breeding, Josef Rubinstein, Kyle Baker and Pat Redding. It was the second professional comic book writing assignment for David and the beginning of | 52,448 | triviaqa-train |
Which batsman got the first ever Test century for England, when he scored 152 in a Test versus Australia at The Oval in 1876? | W. G. Grace
William Gilbert "W. G." Grace (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely considered one of its greatest-ever players. Universally known as "W. G.", he played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire, the Gentlemen, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the United South of England Eleven (USEE) | coincided with the sacking of coach Mickey Arthur and the naming of Darren Lehmann as his successor. After the first Ashes Test against England at Gabba, Clarke was fined by ICC for using abusive language towards James Anderson. He regained the coveted Ashes on 17 December 2013 at Perth after four years, and subsequently led Australia to a 5–0 whitewash of England in the 2013–14 Ashes series.
On 22 November 2012, Clarke scored a double century at the Adelaide Oval, making him the only Test batsman to ever achieve four double centuries | 52,449 | triviaqa-train |
In which German town has a month-long festival celebrating the music of Richard Wagner been held every summer since 1876? | textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas, or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His "Tristan und Isolde" is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.
Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features. The "Ring" and "Parsifal" were premiered | Ravello Festival
The Ravello Festival is also popularly known as the "Wagner Festival" and is an annual summer festival of music and the arts held in the town of Ravello on the Amalfi coast in the Campania region of Italy. The festival has been held yearly since 1953 when the town fathers decided to use the historical fact of the visit to Ravello in 1880 by German composer Richard Wagner as a way to promote tourism and bolster the economy of the area in the difficult years following the Second World War. The composer had | 52,450 | triviaqa-train |
Which ancient Greek mathematician, known as 'The Father Of Geometry', wrote the hugely influential book 'Elements' that dominated European mathematics until the 19th century? | 6th century BC. By the 3rd century BC, geometry was put into an axiomatic form by Euclid, whose treatment, Euclid's "Elements", set a standard for many centuries to follow. Geometry arose independently in India, with texts providing rules for geometric constructions appearing as early as the 3rd century BC. Islamic scientists preserved Greek ideas and expanded on them during the Middle Ages. By the early 17th century, geometry had been put on a solid analytic footing by mathematicians such as René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat. | , and the culture is assumed to have developed from a comparable amalgamation of elements.
However, Bernal emphasizes African elements in Ancient Near Eastern culture and denounces the alleged Eurocentrism of 19th and 20th century research, including the very slogan "Ex Oriente Lux" of Orientalists which, according to Bernal, betrays "the Western appropriation of ancient Near Eastern culture for the sake of its own development" (p. 423).
Bernal proposes instead that Greek evolved from the contact between an Indo-European language and culturally influential | 52,451 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the highest mountain in the Pyrenees? | Pyrenees
The Pyrenees (; ; ; ; ; ; ) is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between Spain and France. Reaching a height of altitude at the peak of Aneto, the range separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extends for about from the Bay of Biscay (Cap Higuer) to the Mediterranean Sea (Cap de Creus).
For the most part, the main crest forms a divide between Spain and France, with the microstate of Andorra sandwiched in | .
The Col du Tourmalet is the highest "paved mountain pass" in the "French" Pyrenees. However, in contrast to frequent claims (see for example ), it is neither the highest paved road in the French Pyrenees, nor the highest mountain pass in the French Pyrenees, nor the highest paved mountain pass in the Pyrenees. Paved roads leading to the mountain lakes Lac de Cap-de-Long and Lac d'Aumar in the same French Department Hautes-Pyrénées are higher, as these lakes are at altitudes | 52,452 | triviaqa-train |
Which French village is known for its exceptionally dense collection of megalithic standing stones that were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany? | .
Another type of megalithic monument, the single standing stone, or menhir as it is known in France, is very common throughout Europe, where some 50,000 examples have been noted. Some of these are thought to have an astronomical function as a marker or foresight. In some areas, long and complex alignments of such stones exist, the largest known example being located at Carnac in Brittany, France.
In parts of Britain and Ireland a relatively common type of megalithic construction is the stone circle, of which examples | Stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany
The stone circles in Britain, Ireland and Brittany are a megalithic tradition of monuments consisting of standing stones arranged in rings. These were constructed from 3300 to 900 BCE in Britain, Ireland and Brittany. It has been estimated that around 4,000 of these monuments were originally constructed in this part of north-western Europe during this period. Around 1,300 of them are recorded, the others having been destroyed.
Although stone circles have been erected throughout history by a variety of societies and | 52,453 | triviaqa-train |
Based on an idea by Steven Spielberg and created by Diablo Cody, which American TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 2009, stars Toni Collete as a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder? | United States of Tara
United States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama created by Diablo Cody, which aired on Showtime from 2009 to 2011. The series follows the life of Tara (Toni Collette), a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder.
The series was based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, who is the executive producer, under his DreamWorks Television label. Other executive producers include writers Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, director Craig Zisk, and showrunners Cody and Jill Soloway. Former | about a mother with dissociative identity disorder, starring Toni Collette. The series began filming in Spring 2008, and premiered on January 18, 2009.
In October 2007, Cody sold a script titled "Girly Style" to Universal Studios, and a horror script called "Jennifer's Body" to Fox Atomic. Released on September 18, 2009, "Jennifer's Body" starred Megan Fox as the title character and Amanda Seyfried as the supporting character. She revised writer-director Steven Antin's script for his musical film | 52,454 | triviaqa-train |
Considered one of the best examples of Roman ruins in North Africa and particularly noted for its Triumphal Arch, which archaeological site in Morocco is situated near to Meknes? | , a 19th-century palace built by sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah. It is currently home to the Royal Military Academy.
- Royal stables
- Agdal reservoir, built by Moulay Ismail. It measures 319 x 149 meters, with a depth of 2 m.
- Cara subterranean prison.
The ruins of the Roman town of Volubilis (Oualili) are about half an hour to the north.
Main sights Médina - Historic City Mosques.
Some of the historic mosques in Meknes include:
Main sights Médina - Historic | Union Trust Company Building (Springfield, Massachusetts)
The Union Trust Company Building is a historic bank building at 1351 Main Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1907, it is one of the city's best examples of Beaux arts architecture, and one of only a few designs in the city by the noted architectural firm Peabody & Stearns. It is particularly noted for its facade, which resembles a triumphal arch. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Description and history. | 52,455 | triviaqa-train |
The Berne Convention of 1886 was an international agreement that established rules governing what? | The Berne Convention requires its parties to treat the copyright of works of authors from other parties to the convention (known as members of the "Berne Union") at least as well as those of its own nationals. For example, French copyright law applies to anything published or performed in France, regardless of where it was originally created.
In addition to establishing a system of equal treatment that harmonised copyright amongst parties, the agreement also required member states to provide strong minimum standards for copyright law.
Copyright under | .
History 1886 - Berne Convention.
There were still some gaps in protection after the Paris Convention, so in 1886, there was the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. This meant that creative works, such as music, books, and paintings, were also given protections.
History 1893 - BIRPI established.
In 1893, the International Bureau established by the Paris Convention and the International Bureau established by Berne Convention, both to carry out administrative tasks, merged to form the BIRPI.
History 1960 | 52,456 | triviaqa-train |
The names of the command module and lunar module of Apollo 10 were named for the characters of what story that was told in nearly 18,000 strips? | Snoopy
Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. He can also be found in all of the "Peanuts" movies and television specials, like "The Peanuts Movie". Since his debut on October 4, 1950, Snoopy has become one of the most recognizable and iconic characters in the comic strip, and is considered more famous than Charlie Brown in other countries. The original drawings of Snoopy were inspired by Spike, one of Schulz's childhood dogs. | own jabs when verbally sparring with Patty and Shermy. Some early strips also involved romantic attractions between Charlie Brown and Patty or Violet. On September 1, 1958, Charlie Brown's father was formally revealed to be a barber (after earlier hints). In 1960, Hallmark Cards introduced the now popular line of Charlie Brown greeting cards. Charlie Brown and Snoopy reached new heights on May 18, 1969, as they became the names of the command module and lunar module, respectively, for Apollo 10.
As the years | 52,457 | triviaqa-train |
"Who is the icon of linguistics who composed the sentence ""Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"" to demonstrate the difference between structure and meaning?" | of rules, such as those pertaining to phonology (the organisation of phonetic sound systems), morphology (the formation and composition of words), and syntax (the formation and composition of phrases and sentences). Many modern theories that deal with the principles of grammar are based on Noam Chomsky's framework of generative linguistics.
In the early 20th century, Ferdinand de Saussure distinguished between the notions of "langue" and "parole" in his formulation of structural linguistics. According to him, "parole" is the | the language specification and the soundness of the implementation) result in an error on translation or execution. In some cases, such programs may exhibit undefined behavior. Even when a program is well-defined within a language, it may still have a meaning that is not intended by the person who wrote it.
Using natural language as an example, it may not be possible to assign a meaning to a grammatically correct sentence or the sentence may be false:
- "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." is grammatically | 52,458 | triviaqa-train |
What was the subject of French sociologist Émile Durkheim's 1897 work that studied Catholic and Protestant populations and that resulted in sociology getting established on its own? | . His first major sociological work was "The Division of Labour in Society" (1893). In 1895, he published "The Rules of Sociological Method" and set up the first European department of sociology, becoming France's first professor of sociology. In 1898, he established the journal "L'Année Sociologique". Durkheim's seminal monograph, "Suicide" (1897), a study of suicide rates in Catholic and Protestant populations, pioneered modern social research and served to distinguish social science from psychology and political philosophy. | Social fact
In sociology, social facts are values, cultural norms, and social structures that transcend the individual and can exercise social control. The French sociologist Émile Durkheim defined the term, and argued that the discipline of sociology should be understood as the empirical study of social facts. For Durkheim, social facts "... consist of manners of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual, which are invested with a coercive power by virtue of which they exercise control over him."
Durkheim's social fact. | 52,459 | triviaqa-train |
Can you connect the Dalai Lama with Curious George with a colorful 2-word term? | links between Chinese Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism and accused the Dalai Lama of "betraying southern Tibet to India". In 2008, the Dalai Lama said for the first time that the territory India claims as part of Arunachal Pradesh is part of India, citing the disputed 1914 Simla Accord.
Chinese criticisms Shugden controversy.
The Dorje Shugden Controversy reappeared in the Gelug school by the publication of the "Yellow Book" in 1976, containing stories about wrathful acts of "Dorje Shugden" against Gelugpas who also practiced Nyingma teachings. In | suffering. That is possible by removing the causes of suffering and living a happier life.
Chapter summaries Part III. Transforming Suffering Chapter 10: Shifting Perspective.
The chapter starts right off with lots of quotes from the Dalai Lama. He talks about how you can always change your perspective of something if you just step back and change your view. Also in this chapter he goes on to talk about your enemies in life. The Dalai Lama talks about how having enemies in life in the end helps you out, you just | 52,460 | triviaqa-train |
The writing system of Elder Futhark (that was later simplified to Younger Futhark) is the oldest form of what alphabet? | Elder Futhark
The Elder Futhark, Elder Fuþark, Older Futhark, Old Futhark or Germanic Futhark is the oldest form of the runic alphabets. It was a writing system used by Germanic tribes for Northwest Germanic dialects in the Migration Period, the dates of which are debated among scholars. Runic inscriptions are found on artifacts, including jewelry, amulets, tools, weapons, and, famously, runestones, from the 2nd to the 8th centuries.
In Scandinavia, beginning from the late 8th century, the script was simplified to | differentiates between one's children and one's siblings' children by the use of younger or elder, specifying whether the connecting parent is older or younger than ego.
Orthography.
Orthography Writing system.
The alphabet for the Kensiu language was constructed using the Thai script. The decision to use which Thai symbols or graphs were based on the principle of using symbols which most closely represent the value of the symbol in the Thai language. This minimized the number of symbols that would have been reassigned in the Kensiu writing system. | 52,461 | triviaqa-train |
Hibakusha is an Asian language term for the people effected by either of what violent incidents? | by radiation. "Hibakusha" are entitled to government support. They receive a certain amount of allowance per month, and the ones certified as suffering from bomb-related diseases receive a special medical allowance.
The memorials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki contain lists of the names of the "hibakusha" who are known to have died since the bombings. Updated annually on the anniversaries of the bombings, , the memorials record the names of almost 495,000 "hibakusha"; 314,118 in Hiroshima and 179,226 in Nagasaki.
In 1957, | Grievance-based violence
Grievance-Based Violence (GBV) is a term in security planning that describes violent acts committed by an individual (or a group of individuals), against another individual(s), which are specifically motivated by a grievance. Motivation for GBV incidents stands apart from other types of criminal behavior motives, such as personal gain. The term's importance is in affecting significant change in applied safety and security measures.
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GBV is a practical term that serves security planners in defending people from grievance | 52,462 | triviaqa-train |
Which entity headquartered in Lyon, France is the second largest intergovernmental organization after the UN by member states count (190)? | hub for international relations, France hosts the second largest assembly of diplomatic missions in the world and the headquarters of international organisations including the OECD, UNESCO, Interpol, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, and "la Francophonie".
Postwar French foreign policy has been largely shaped by membership of the European Union, of which it was a founding member. Since the 1960s, France has developed close ties with reunified Germany to become the most influential driving force of the EU. In the 1960s, France sought to exclude | . The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding international law. The UN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now .
On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which | 52,463 | triviaqa-train |
Pitman, Gregg and Teeline are all forms of what type of 'writing'? | or a phonetic writing system, which means it records the sounds of the speaker, not the English spelling. It uses the "f" stroke for the sound in "funnel", "telephone", and "laugh". All silent letters are omitted. The image on the right shows the strokes of Gregg Shorthand Simplified. The system is written from left to right and the letters are joined. "Sh" (= ) (and "zh" = ), "Ch" (= ), and "J | , dialectal, and linguistic additions to these."
Writing technique.
Teeline eliminates unnecessary letters, so that the remaining letters can be written in one swift, sweeping movement. People who use it daily will run words together: proficient users develop their own forms for common phrases, such as "more and more people" and "in the end".
It is possible to write most words using basic Teeline theory, which consists of the alphabet and vowel indicators, but learning advanced Teeline theory allows users to | 52,464 | triviaqa-train |
What type of relationship first explored in Symposium by a famous philosopher was described as 'Christian apology' of Greek love? | of friendship. Ficino maintained that men could use each other's beauty and friendship to discover the greatest good, that is, God, and thus Christianized idealized male love as expressed by Socrates.
During the Renaissance, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo used Plato's philosophy as inspiration for some of their greatest works. The "rediscovery" of classical antiquity was perceived as a liberating experience, and Greek love as an ideal after a Platonic model. Michelangelo presented himself to the public as a Platonic lover of men | 411 BC and carried his history to 362 BC. Xenophon's most famous work is his book "The Anabasis", a detailed, first-hand account of his participation in a Greek mercenary army that tried to help the Persian Cyrus expel his brother from the throne. Xenophon also wrote three works in praise of the philosopher Socrates: "The Apology of Socrates to the Jury", "The Symposium", and "Memorabilia". Although both Xenophon and Plato knew Socrates, their accounts are very different. Many comparisons | 52,465 | triviaqa-train |
The policy of Songun that emphasizes the role of military guides the political and economic life in what country? | Songun
Songun is the "military first" policy of North Korea, prioritizing the Korean People's Army in the affairs of state and allocation of resources. "Military first" as a principle guides political and economic life in North Korea, with "military-first politics" dominating the political system; "a line of military-first economic construction" acting as an economic system; and "military-first ideology" serving as the guiding ideology.
"Songun" elevates the Korean People's Army within North Korea | often denounce anti-war protesters and support the police and the military. They hold that military institutions embody core values such as honor, duty, courage, loyalty, and a willingness on the part of the individual to make sacrifices for the good of the country.
Social conservatives are strongest in the South and in recent years played a major role in the political coalitions of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Overview Fiscal conservatism and economic liberalism.
Fiscal conservatism is the economic and political policy that advocates restraint of progressive | 52,466 | triviaqa-train |
What ubiquitous feature of television sitcoms was invented by sound engineer Charley Douglass who noticed that live audiences were unreliable for providing something? | , this joke didn't get all that we wanted." After Douglass inserted a guffaw after a failed joke, Berle reportedly commented, "See? I told you it was funny." Douglass went from enhancing a soundtrack to orchestrating audience reactions. A team of "Laff Boys," technicians trained to operate Douglass's Laff Box, created extremely detailed textures designed to suggest specific ethical situations.
By the early 1960s, the recording of television sitcoms before audiences had fallen out of fashion, and Douglass was brought in | , dominating most prime-time sitcoms from the late 1950s to the late 1970s. Usage of the Douglass laughter decreased by the 1980s when stereophonic laughter was provided by rival sound companies as well as the overall practice of single-camera sitcoms eliminating audiences altogether.
U.S. history.
U.S. history Radio.
Before radio and television, audiences experienced live comedy performances in the presence of other audience members. Radio and early television producers used recordings of live shows and later studio-only shows attempted to recreate this atmosphere by introducing the | 52,467 | triviaqa-train |
Attention megalomaniacs! What theory popularized in the 1840s by Thomas Carlyle states that history can be explained by the impact of just a few? | and The Heroic in History", in which he was seen to compare a wide range of different types of heroes, including Odin, Muhammad, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, William Shakespeare, Dante, Samuel Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robert Burns, John Knox, and Martin Luther. These lectures of Carlyle's are regarded as an early and powerful formulation of the Great Man theory.
The book was based on a course of lectures he had given. "The French Revolution" had brought Carlyle fame, but | which is when one initially directs attention to threat, however then proceeds to avoid processing details and information in order to avoid an anxious state of mind. Conversely, others theorize that anxiety has little impact on initial detection of threats but has is more significant in modulating the maintenance of attention on the source of the threat. This can be explained by the alternative theory to the vigilance-avoidance pattern, which is that anxious individuals, once processing the threat, struggle to disengage attention from the threat stimuli due to reasons such as | 52,468 | triviaqa-train |
What school of philosophy of ancient Greece associated with Aristotle takes its name from a legend that he meandered while lecturing? | Aristotle
Aristotle (; "Aristotélēs", ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition. Along with his teacher Plato, he has been called the "Father of Western Philosophy". His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics and government. Aristotle provided a | The legend that the name came from Aristotle's alleged habit of walking while lecturing may have started with Hermippus of Smyrna.
Unlike Plato (428/7–348/7 BC), Aristotle (384–322 BC) was not a citizen of Athens and so could not own property; he and his colleagues therefore used the grounds of the Lyceum as a gathering place, just as it had been used by earlier philosophers such as Socrates. Aristotle and his colleagues first began to use the Lyceum in this way about 335 BC, after which Aristotle left Plato | 52,469 | triviaqa-train |
Loop, bight, elbow, standing end and working end are the components of what, the varieties of which are the subject of a 1944 encyclopedic work The Ashley Book of ___? | Knot
A knot is an intentional complication in cordage which may be useful or decorative. Practical knots may be classified as hitches, bends, splices, or knots. A "hitch" fastens a rope to another object; a "bend" unites two rope ends; a "splice" is a multi-strand bend or loop. A "knot" in the strictest sense serves as a stopper or knob at the end of a rope to keep that end from slipping through a grommet or eye. Knots have excited | Elbow Room (book)
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting is a 1984 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which Dennett discusses the philosophical issues of free will and determinism.
In 1983, Dennett delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford on the topic of free will. In 1984, these ideas were published in the book "Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting". In this book Daniel Dennett explored what it means for people to have free will. The title | 52,470 | triviaqa-train |
What popular assessment that is based on the theories of Carl Jung was created during WWII to help women identify the type of war-time jobs where they would be 'most comfortable and effective'? | psychological condition of Hitler. Dulles referred to Jung as "Agent 488" and offered the following description of his service: “Nobody will probably ever know how much Professor Jung contributed to the Allied Cause during the war, by seeing people who were connected somehow with the other side.” Jung's service to the Allied cause through the OSS remained classified after the war.
Legacy.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, and the concepts of socionics were developed from Jung's | of work for their character. She decided to join efforts with her mother. Katharine and Isabel were greatly influenced by Jung and decided his ideas could help people make better life choices and put individual differences in a positive light. From here they began a twenty-year period of type watching. In 1945, Katharine and Isabel, with the help of Lyman Briggs, ran the first assessment on George Washington Medical School students. Keeping in mind her mother's early work, during World War II, Isabel created a test that | 52,471 | triviaqa-train |
A 2003 book by Gian J. Quasar subtitled Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery focuses on a region with vertices at Florida, Puerto Rico and what other island? | to encourage settlement. In order to induce settlers to move to Florida, reports of its natural wealth were published in England. A large number of British settlers who were described as being "energetic and of good character" moved to Florida, mostly coming from South Carolina, Georgia and England. There was also a group of settlers who came from the colony of Bermuda. This would be the first permanent English-speaking population in what is now Duval County, Baker County, St. Johns County and Nassau County. The British | happened remains a mystery.
In late 2006, Bernstein's book "Digging for the Truth: One Man's Epic Adventure Exploring the World's Greatest Archaeological Mysteries" was published. In the book, Bernstein writes a bit about his past and BOSS, but it is mostly a behind-the-scene look at various episodes. | 52,472 | triviaqa-train |
What architectural term originated from the 16th century after Renaissance revived Classical construction and created a perception of past styles as a product of barbarous tribal cultures? | with capitals. There may be a section of entablature between the capital and the springing of the arch. Alberti was one of the first to use the arch on a monumental. Renaissance vaults do not have ribs; they are semi-circular or segmental and on a square plan, unlike the Gothic vault, which is frequently rectangular.
Renaissance artists were not pagans, although they admired antiquity and kept some ideas and symbols of the medieval past. Nicola Pisano (c. 1220–c. 1278) imitated classical forms by portraying scenes | diffusion of new Renaissance styles to makers of all sorts of object. As well as revived classical ornament, both architectural and the grotesque style derived from Roman interior decoration, these included new styles such as the moresque, a European adaptation of the Islamic arabesque (a distinction not always clear at the time).
As printing became cheaper, the single ornament print turned into sets, and then finally books. From the 16th to the 19th century, pattern books were published in Europe which gave access to decorative elements, eventually | 52,473 | triviaqa-train |
Who is the 1st century BC Roman architect who wrote that the figure of a man can be inscribed both in a circle and a square in his best known work De architectura? | of the Republic.
In the 1st century BC, Romans started to use concrete widely. Concrete was invented in the late 3rd century BC. It was a powerful cement derived from pozzolana, and soon supplanted marble as the chief Roman building material and allowed many daring architectural forms. Also in the 1st century BC, Vitruvius wrote "De architectura", possibly the first complete treatise on architecture in history. In the late 1st century BC, Rome also began to use glassblowing soon after its invention in Syria about 50 | ) of the Representation of the People Act (RPA), 1951 and we hold that it is ultra vires and that the disqualification takes place from the date of conviction."
Career Validity of "Advocate on Record" system.
Lily was one of the first lawyers to file a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the 'Advocate on Record' system on 14 January 1964. Under this system, only those advocates who have passed the AOR exam are eligible to file petitions. Lily believes that 'Section | 52,474 | triviaqa-train |
Following a famous crime, the United States Congress adopted a statute in 1932 that was dubbed the Lindbergh Law. The legislation made what act a federal offense? | Federal Kidnapping Act
Following the historic Lindbergh kidnapping (the abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh's toddler son), the United States Congress adopted a federal kidnapping statute—known as the Federal Kidnapping Act (a)(1) (popularly known as the Lindbergh Law, or Little Lindbergh Law)—which was intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed state lines with their victim. The Act became law in 1932.
The theory behind the Lindbergh Law was that federal law enforcement intervention was necessary because state and local | described" offenses against the law of nations. Congress had also created a civil offense against the law of nations in the Alien Tort Statute of the Judiciary Act of 1789.
Crimes established Exclusive federal jurisdiction.
Several offenses were limited to acts committed in places "under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States." Such regulations would have applied in the "Seat of the Government," federal enclaves, and federal territories.
Article One provides that Congress shall have the power "[t]o exercise exclusive Legislation in | 52,475 | triviaqa-train |
In 2008, Islamabad International Airport was renamed as a tribute to which person who passed away in 2007? | Benazir Bhutto International Airport
Benazir Bhutto International Airport (, ) is a defunct airport which formerly served the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan area. It was the second-largest airport by air traffic in Pakistan, until 3 May 2018 when it was replaced by the new Islamabad International Airport. Previously also known as the Islamabad International Airport, it was renamed after the late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in June 2008. The airport handled 4,767,860 passengers between 2015–16, compared to 3,803,060 in 2012-13.
The airport was located in | Railway land in Maryhill for £5,500. The stadium consists of three stands: the Main Stand which was built in 1927 and can seat around 2,900 supporters; the Jackie Husband Stand, which was built in 1994 and has a capacity of approximately 6,500; and the North Stand, renamed the "John Lambie Stand" in 2018 in tribute to the legendary club manager who passed away that year, which can house around 2,000 supporters. On the south side of the stadium there is a grass embankment, known to home fans as | 52,476 | triviaqa-train |
When dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, a Chinese businessman proposed the creation of an equivalent prize to 'promote world peace from an Eastern perspective.' In whose name was the prize created? (hint: not Buddha) | some cases due to heavy lobbying by China. Besides China, these countries included Russia, Kazakhstan, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, Venezuela, Egypt, Sudan, Cuba, and Morocco.
China also imposed travel restrictions on known dissidents ahead of the ceremony. A Chinese group announced that its answer to the Nobel Peace Prize, the Confucius Peace Prize, would be awarded to former Taiwanese Vice-President Lien Chan for the bridge of peace which he has been building between Taiwan and Mainland | Peace Prize originated as a response to the announcement that Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo had won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize; the awarding of the prize to Liu was viewed negatively in China, with some in the government arguing that Liu did not promote "international friendship, disarmament, and peace meetings", the stated goals of the Nobel Peace Prize. Competing groups staked claims to its founding, and some have links to the Ministry of Culture.
According to "The New York Times", Liu Zhiqin, a prominent Chinese | 52,477 | triviaqa-train |
In a 2005 vote, Father Damien, Jacques Brel, Mercator and Peter Paul Rubens all finished in the top-10 list of the greatest people of what country? | Father Damien
Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. or Saint Damien De Veuster ( or '; 3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889), born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious institute. He won recognition for his ministry from 1873 to 1889 in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi to people with leprosy (also known as Hansen's disease), who were required to live under a government-sanctioned | . Paul Janssen (1926-2003) (scientist)
4. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1560) (painter)
5. Jacques Brel (1929-1978) (singer)
6. Jan Decleir (1946-) (actor)
7. Ernest Claes (1885-1968) (author)
8. René Magritte (1898-1967) (painter)
9. Adolphe Sax (1814-1894) (musical instrument designer)
10. Victor Horta (1861-1947) | 52,478 | triviaqa-train |
Ahmed Yassin who was killed by an Israeli helicopter gunship in 2004 is best known as the founder of what organization? | Ahmed Yassin
Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (1937 – 22 March 2004) ( "") was a Palestinian imam and politician. He was a founder of Hamas, an Islamist Palestinian paramilitary organization and political party. Yassin also served as the spiritual leader of the organization. Hamas gained approval in Palestinian society by establishing charitable bodies to fund hospitals, education systems, libraries and other services, but it has also claimed responsibility for a number of suicide attacks targeting Israeli civilians, and was designated as a terrorist organization by the European | Union, Israel, Japan, Canada, and the United States.
Yassin, a quadriplegic who was nearly blind, had used a wheelchair since a sporting accident at the age of 12. He was killed when an Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile at him as he was being wheeled from early morning prayers. His killing, in an attack that claimed the lives of both his bodyguards and nine bystanders, was internationally condemned. Two hundred thousand Palestinians attended his funeral procession.
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Ahmed Yassin was born | 52,479 | triviaqa-train |
Kryptos is a 1990 sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn that is famous for its four encrypted messages, three of which have been solved. Where is it located? | Kryptos
Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the four encrypted messages it bears. Of the four messages, the first three have been solved, while the fourth message remains as one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world. The sculpture continues to be of interest to cryptanalysts, both amateur and professional, who are | Cyrillic Projector
The Cyrillic Projector is a sculpture created by American artist Jim Sanborn in the early 1990s, and was purchased by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1997. It is currently installed between the campus' Friday and Fretwell Buildings.
An encrypted family.
The encrypted sculpture "Cyrillic Projector" is part of an encrypted family of three intricate puzzle-sculptures by Sanborn, the other two named "Kryptos" and "Antipodes". The "Kryptos" sculpture (located at CIA headquarters in Langley, | 52,480 | triviaqa-train |
The JIM suit, which is designed to maintain a pressure of one atmosphere regardless of external conditions is used by members of which profession? | in early 1972. Two dives were conducted to depths in excess of , and were limited only by the depth of the ambient divers providing support. Further development and testing continued until March 4, 1974, when Mike Humphrey conducted a chamber dive to the equivalent of . The US Navy Experimental Diving Unit conducted tests in 1976.
In spite of the successful tests, the offshore petroleum industry still expressed little interest in the suit and it was not until 1975, when Oceaneering acquired DHB Construction and exclusive rights to the application of | valid from about −50 to 102 °C; however there are a very limited number of measurements of the vapor pressure of water over supercooled liquid water. There are a number of other formulae which can be used.
Under certain conditions, such as when the boiling temperature of water is reached, a net evaporation will always occur during standard atmospheric conditions regardless of the percent of relative humidity. This immediate process will dispel massive amounts of water vapor into a cooler atmosphere.
Exhaled air is almost fully at equilibrium with | 52,481 | triviaqa-train |
Dr. Conrad Murray whose trial started in September 2011 in the US was tried for giving a fatal dose of a sedative to which talented celebrity? | Death of Michael Jackson
On June 25, 2009, singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication at his home on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Physician Conrad Murray said that he found Jackson in his room not breathing and with a weak pulse; he administered CPR to no avail, and security called 9-1-1 at 12:21 p.m. Paramedics treated Jackson at the scene but pronounced dead at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
On August 28, 2009, the Los | up sooner, he went back to the company and asked to do a follow-up study. Dr. White said, "Some people call me the father of Monitored Anesthetic Care (MAC) (anesthesia awareness) sedation." "In January of this year, Mr. Flanagan contacted me and mentioned the name Conrad Murray. I wasn't sure if I wanted to get involved in a high-profile trial involving the death of a celebrity. I was perplexed how experts determined that Murray was infusing propofol. It was not | 52,482 | triviaqa-train |
Joseph Rotblat, the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project on moral grounds co-founded what Nobel Peace Prize winning organization that is named for a Canadian village? | between scientists from the West and East. For this reason, the Pugwash conferences were viewed with suspicion. Initially the British government thought them little more than "Communist front gatherings".
However, he persuaded John Cockcroft, a member of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, to suggest who might be invited to the 1958 conference. He successfully resisted a subsequent attempt to take over the conferences, causing a Foreign Office official to write that "the difficulty is to get Prof. Rotblat to pay any attention to what we think | two bombings.
On 18 August 1945, the "Glasgow Forward" published "The Bomb and Civilisation," the first known recorded comment by Bertrand Russell on atomic weapons, which he began composing the day Nagasaki was bombed. It contained threads that would later appear in the manifesto:
After learning of the bombing of Hiroshima and seeing an impending nuclear arms race, Joseph Rotblat, the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project on moral grounds, remarked that he "became worried about the whole future of mankind". | 52,483 | triviaqa-train |
What was the Soviet government agency that administered the country's forced labor camps which were compared to 'a chain of islands' by a Nobel Prize winning author? | of deaths; surviving kulaks were persecuted and many sent to Gulags to do forced labour. Social upheaval continued in the mid-1930s. Stalin's Great Purge resulted in the execution or detainment of many "Old Bolsheviks" who had participated in the October Revolution with Lenin. According to declassified Soviet archives, the NKVD arrested more than one and a half million people in 1937 and 1938, of whom 681,692 were shot. Over those two years there were an average of over one thousand executions a day. According to historian Geoffrey Hosking, | : The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR"
- Foreign forced labor in the Soviet Union
- Flight and expulsion of Germans from Romania during and after World War II
- Forced labor in Germany during World War II
- "Journey Back to Youth"
- OST-Arbeiter - Eastern workers - about foreign forced labor in Germany
- Polish Communist forced labor camps
- "The Hunger Angel", 2009 novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Herta Müller
- "As Far as | 52,484 | triviaqa-train |
You've surely heard about the Stockholm syndrome. But what is the opposite of this condition where the hostage takers become more sympathetic to the hostages? It is named after a South American city where it was observed after the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis in 1996. | to reform Cameron. Stan remained silent until Janice finally decided to turn Cameron over to the police.
History Sexual abuse victims.
There is evidence that some victims of childhood sexual abuse come to feel a connection with their abuser. They often feel flattered by the adult attention or are afraid that disclosure will create family disruption. In adulthood, they resist disclosure for emotional and personal reasons.
History Lima syndrome.
An inversion of Stockholm syndrome, called "Lima syndrome", has been proposed, in which abductors develop sympathy | 17 December 1996, hundreds of diplomats, businessmen, as well as government and military officers were taken hostage by the MRTA at the Japanese ambassadors residence, initiating the Japanese embassy hostage crisis. Over the year, some hostages were released, though 72 hostages remained. Peruvian Marines were then involved in a hostage rescue operation, Operation Chavín de Huántar, named after the Chavín de Huantar archaeological site due to the tunnels dug by troops to access the ambassadors compound. The operation resulted in two commandos and one hostage dead while all fourteen | 52,485 | triviaqa-train |
"What building whose construction started in 1792 was once described by one of its residents as ""... big enough for two emperors, one pope and the grand lama ...""?" | White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. The term "White House" is often used as a metonym for the president and his advisers.
The residence was designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban in the neoclassical style. Hoban modelled the building on Leinster House in Dublin, a building which today houses the Oireachtas | the population as 8,485.
Midway City is one of Orange County's oldest communities, and many of its homes are 1950s construction. The area includes two mobile home parks and the residents who live here are of moderate income, with many of them senior citizens. As described by Midway City local historian in 2008, "Midway City is desirable because of its large lots – typically over 8,000 square feet with many larger lots as well... The trend is that buyers are scraping the lots and building big homes or adding large | 52,486 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the photograph taken by Voyager 1 of the Earth against the vastness of space which lent itself to the title of a 1994 book by Carl Sagan? | universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect.
Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He wrote many popular science books, such as "The Dragons of Eden", "Broca's Brain" and "Pale Blue Dot", and narrated and co-wrote the | 1", which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan.
Background.
In September 1977, NASA launched "Voyager 1", a robotic spacecraft on a mission to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. After the encounter with the Jovian system in 1979 and the Saturnian system in 1980, the primary mission | 52,487 | triviaqa-train |
A lazaretto which can be an isolated island or a ship at anchor near a harbor is used for what purpose for maritime travelers? | months in quarantine at an HM Customs and Excise pound; this policy was abolished in 2000 in favour of a scheme generally known as Pet Passports, where animals can avoid quarantine if they have documentation showing they are up to date on their appropriate vaccinations.
Countries United Kingdom British maritime quarantine rules 1711-1896.
The plague had disappeared from England for more than thirty years before the practice of quarantine against it was definitely established by the Quarantine Act 1710 ("9 Ann.") The first act was called for due to | as "Lord Sandwich"; she was hired as a British troop transport during the American War of Independence and was scuttled in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island in 1778. Her wreck has not been precisely located but is thought to be one of a cluster of five in Newport Harbor. Relics are displayed at maritime museums worldwide, including six of her cannon and an anchor. In September 2018, marine archaeologists announced that they had located what they believed to be the wreck of the ship off the coast of Rhode | 52,488 | triviaqa-train |
In 2007, which celebrity started a charitable organization called SixDegrees.org? | SixDegrees.org
SixDegrees.org is a charity led by actor, musician, and philanthropist Kevin Bacon. Launched on January 18, 2007, the organization builds on the popularity of the "small world phenomenon" by enabling people to become "celebrities for their own causes" by donating to or raising money for any charity in the United States. In March, 2014, the organization celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game by announcing plans to connect local changemakers with recognized celebrities through "drop-ins" and " | shout-outs". Grassroots causes can submit events directly through the site and celebrities can contact the organization for help finding a cause anywhere in the world.
History.
To launch SixDegrees.org, Bacon attended the opening weekend of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT, where he and other celebrities encouraged charitable giving. By 2010, when Bacon was honored for his charitable activities by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, SixDegrees.org had raised nearly $3 million. Speaking at a Make a Difference Day appearance in 2012, | 52,489 | triviaqa-train |
While recovering from wounds received in World War I, Dewitt Wallace had the idea to gather a sampling of articles from various publications; this resulted in the birth of what popular magazine? | DeWitt Wallace
DeWitt Wallace (born William Roy DeWitt Wallace; November 12, 1889 – March 30, 1981), was an American magazine publisher.
Wallace co-founded "Reader's Digest" with his wife Lila Bell Wallace, publishing the first issue in 1922.
Life and career.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, where his father was on the faculty (and later president) of Macalester College, he attended Mount Hermon School as a youth (now Northfield Mount Hermon School). Wallace attended | Seven Days Leave (1930 film)
Seven Days Leave is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film produced and directed by Richard Wallace and starring Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer, and Daisy Belmore.
Based on the play "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" by J.M. Barrie, the film is about a young Canadian soldier (Gary Cooper) wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, a YMCA worker tells him that a Scottish widow (Beryl Mercer) without a son believes that | 52,490 | triviaqa-train |
In December 2010, which country unveiled a new passport design with a picture of a nude Aphrodite on it that raised many eyebrows? (hint: where was Aphrodite born?) | were Cythera, Cyprus, Corinth, and Athens. Her main festival was the Aphrodisia, which was celebrated annually in midsummer. In Laconia, Aphrodite was worshipped as a warrior goddess. She was also the patron goddess of prostitutes, an association which led early scholars to propose the concept of "sacred prostitution", an idea which is now generally seen as erroneous.
In Hesiod's "Theogony", Aphrodite is born off the coast of Cythera from the foam (') produced by Uranus's genitals, which his | known temple of Aphrodite (Venus) matching Corbo's design, and no archaeological evidence for Corbo's suggestion that the temple building was on a platform raised high enough to avoid including anything sited where the Aedicule is now; indeed Bahat notes that many temples to Aphrodite have a rotunda-like design, and argues that there is no archaeological reason to assume that the present rotunda was not based on a rotunda in the temple previously on the site.
Location.
The New Testament describes Jesus's tomb as being outside the | 52,491 | triviaqa-train |
What ubiquitous font created by designer Vincent Connare was said to have been inspired by the graphic novels The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen? | Vincent Connare
Vincent Connare (born 26 September 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a British-American type designer and former Microsoft employee. Among his creations are the Comic Sans font, and the Trebuchet MS font. Besides text typefaces, he finalized and hinted the font Marlett which has been used for scalable User Interface icons in Microsoft Windows since 1995 and created portions of the font Webdings that was first shipped with Internet Explorer.
Education.
Connare studied at Milford High School in Milford, Massachusetts and at the New | Best Seller list, along with "Maus", "Watchmen" and "The Dark Knight Returns". It was one of five graphic novels to make "Entertainment Weekly"s "100 best reads from 1983 to 2008," ranking at No. 46. Norman Mailer described the series as "a comic strip for intellectuals." The series is noted for having a large influence over the fantasy genre and graphic novel medium since then.
Various film and television versions of "Sandman" have been developed unsuccessfully since the 1990s | 52,492 | triviaqa-train |
What is the common name of the computational problem whose task, when given a list of cities and the distances between them is to find the shortest possible tour that visits each city once? | " and "B" in the original graph.
Special cases Euclidean.
When the input numbers can be arbitrary real numbers, Euclidean TSP is a particular case of metric TSP, since distances in a plane obey the triangle inequality. When the input numbers must be integers, comparing lengths of tours involves comparing sums of square-roots.
Like the general TSP, Euclidean TSP is NP-hard in either case. With rational coordinates and discretized metric (distances rounded up to an integer), the problem is NP | even for the case when the cities are in the plane with Euclidean distances, as well as in a number of other restrictive cases. Removing the condition of visiting each city "only once" does not remove the NP-hardness, since it is easily seen that in the planar case there is an optimal tour that visits each city only once (otherwise, by the triangle inequality, a shortcut that skips a repeated visit would not increase the tour length).
Computational complexity Complexity of approximation.
In the general case | 52,493 | triviaqa-train |
Which web application on Yahoo! that translates text between different languages is named after a fictional animal used for a similar purpose in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? | "Hitchhiker's" Appreciation society. Other items that first appeared in the mid-1980s were T-shirts, including those made for Infocom (such as one bearing the legend "I got the Babel Fish" for successfully completing one of that game's most difficult puzzles), and a Disaster Area tour T-shirt. Other official items have included "Beeblebears" (teddy bears with an extra head and arm, named after "Hitchhiker's" character Zaphod Beeblebrox, sold by the official Appreciation Society), an assortment of | blog, Trillian was discontinued from Google Pack on 19 May 2006.
History Trillian Astra (Trillian 4).
More than a year after the release of "Trillian 3.1", the Cerulean Studios blog began spreading news again and announced the next version of Trillian, to be named "Trillian Astra". The name for version 4, "Astra", is the nickname used by the same fictional character that is the namesake of the software, which is a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The | 52,494 | triviaqa-train |
Which great philosopher corresponded with Queen Christina of Sweden in his final years and died in 1650 in Stockholm where he had been invited as a teacher for her? | also had to teach Christina to move around more elegantly.
In 1646 Christina's good friend, ambassador Pierre Chanut, met and corresponded with the philosopher René Descartes, asking him for a copy of his "Meditations". Upon showing the queen some of the letters, Christina became interested in beginning a correspondence with Descartes. She invited him to Sweden, but Descartes was reluctant until she asked him to organize a scientific academy. Christina sent a ship to pick up the philosopher and 2,000 books. Descartes arrived on 4 | chairman of the tribunal convened to investigate the loss of the new warship "Vasa".
After the death of Gustavus Adolphus in Germany during 1632, Gyllenhielm was responsible for returning his half-brother's body to Sweden. In the following year, he was appointed to the regency government which ruled in the name of Queen Christina of Sweden during her minority, until 1644. He built Karlberg Palace to the northwest of Stockholm and spent his last years there. He died at Karlberg in 1650, and was buried at Strängnäs | 52,495 | triviaqa-train |
Biograph Theater in Chicago is notable as the site of the killing of which notorious personality in 1934? | Biograph Theater
The Biograph Theater, at 2433 North Lincoln Avenue, near Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions. It is notable as the location where bank robber John Dillinger was shot by FBI agents after watching a gangster movie on July 22, 1934. The theater is on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a Chicago Landmark on March 28, 2001.
History.
Designed by architect Samuel N. Crowen in 1914, the Biograph has many of the | Stadio Rubens Fadini.
External links.
- Unofficial site | 52,496 | triviaqa-train |
Groote Schuur estate in South Africa was the site for the signing of a historic agreement between Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk in 1990. The estate originally belonged to which tycoon? | In 2015, de Klerk wrote to "The Times" newspaper in the UK criticising moves to remove a statue to Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College, Oxford. He was subsequently criticized by some activists who described it as "ironic" that the last apartheid President should be defending a statue of a man labelled by critics as the "architect of apartheid". The Economic Freedom Fighters called for him to be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize.
Ideology.
De Klerk was widely regarded as a politically conservative figure in South | .
Botha subsequently served as Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs in South Africa's first post-apartheid government from 1994 to 1996 under President Nelson Mandela. Botha had first met Mandela in May 1990 at the historic Groote Schuur Minute, and was highly impressed by Mandela's knowledge of Afrikaner history.
Botha became deputy leader of the National Party in the Transvaal from 1987 to 1996. He retired from politics in 1996 when F. W. de Klerk withdrew the National Party from the government of national unity.
In 2000, | 52,497 | triviaqa-train |
Apart from writing Tom Jones, the English author Henry Fielding also founded which the organization the Bow Street Runners which is seen as the first attempt at creating what unit of London? | Ford, Sir John Fielding's successor at Bow Street, who secured a government grant of £600 to establish the force to deal with highway robbery. It was so successful in cutting crime that when funding stopped, highwaymen soon returned. The Patrol was not re-introduced until 1805 following Patrick Colquhoun's campaign. They wore a distinctive scarlet waistcoat under their blue greatcoats.
History Policing in the early 18th century.
Up to the early 18th century, Britain did not have an official policing system backed by the state. | ended the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748.
- 9 July – British settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded.
- 12 September – the first recorded game of baseball is played, by Frederick, Prince of Wales, at Kingston upon Thames.
Events Undated.
- Henry Fielding becomes magistrate at Bow Street, and first enlists the help of the Bow Street Runners.
Publications.
- The second part of John Cleland's erotic novel "Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) | 52,498 | triviaqa-train |
What is the American English term for a voting system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference, most commonly in single-winner elections? | runoff voting (IRV), approval voting, range voting, Borda count, and Condorcet methods (such as the Minimax Condorcet, Schulze method, and Ranked Pairs). Of these, plurality and runoff voting are the most common.
In some countries, such as Australia and India, members of the lower house of parliament are elected from single-member districts; and members of the upper house are elected from multi-member districts. In some other countries like Singapore, members of parliament can be elected from both | use of instant-runoff voting (IRV) in single-winner elections. Under this system, voters rank candidates in order of preference, in contrast to the more widely used plurality voting system. This is widely called "ranked-choice voting" (RCV) in the United States.
In 2002, FairVote backed a San Francisco ballot initiative amending Section 13.102 of the city charter to allow RCV in local elections. The city began using RCV to elect local officials on November 2, 2004. Subsequent ballot initiatives supported | 52,499 | triviaqa-train |
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