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3hqukb7lnfejrmeuu08p1a3gtx4hhz | Hello Sandy, We have just returned from our holiday. We went with our friends Edward Smith and his wife Tina to the Yorkshire Moors. This is a beautiful place. It is a natural park. There are lots of places to walk on the tops of the hills, miles of grassland with no people, just sheep and birds. Edward, who had just come out of hospital, could not walk as far as be used to. However this meant that we walked in the mornings, and then stopped at a cafe for lunch each day, before returning to the place we live. Edward and I slept in front of the fire all afternoon, while the ladies went for another walk. Very pleasant! I have taken lots of photos from the place we live, across the valley below us, of the morning sunrise, and the mist in the valley. Also, in England, the old steam powered trains are very popular. I have taken many photos of the train and from it. Yesterday we had the first snow of this winter. It is very early (we usually expect snow in January). It rained all day, then snowed in the evening. Today we have bright sunshine! Both Jenny and I are well I don't know if I told you, in the last e-mail, that Jenny is now working in a hotel. Although she has to work hard, people there are nice and she is enjoying the work. Please write to us to tell us your news. Yours, Victor | ['Where did the writer of the letter go on vacation?', 'Who did he go with?', 'What were their names?', 'Which of them had been unwell?', 'Was he able to walk well?', 'What did they do in the mornings?', 'What did the men do in the afternoon?', 'What did the women do while they did that?', 'Where did they eat?', 'What was below where they stayed?', 'Did the narrator take pictures of it?', 'What else did he photograph?', 'Were they common there?', "What is his wife's name?"] | {'answers': ['Yorkshire Moors', 'friends', 'Edward Smith and his wife Tina', 'Edward', 'No', 'walked', 'slept', 'went for another walk', 'a cafe', 'valley', 'Yes', 'old steam powered trains', 'Yes', 'Jenny'], 'answers_start': [116, 70, 78, 298, 342, 405, 528, 587, 448, 688, 625, 779, 757, 1058], 'answers_end': [131, 77, 108, 304, 376, 411, 533, 608, 455, 694, 652, 803, 820, 1063]} |
3eqhhy4hqsstbxzo9spyrdop9ey5gl | Going on a road trip? The St. Louis Arch, Statue of Liberty and Golden Gate Bridge are great tourist sites. But if you prefer _ destinations, check out the following roadside attractions.
World's Largest Ball of Paint
Alexandria, Ind.
In 1977, Michael Carmichael set out to create the biggest ball of paint anywhere. Starting with a baseball as center, he painted layer after layer of paint day after day, year after year. The ball weighs more than 1,300 pounds, with more than 20,000 coats of paint, which is recognized by Guinness World Records. Visitors can paint the ball themselves and become part of history.
The Museum of Dirt
Boston, Mass.
The museum is the idea of Glenn Johnson. Labeled glass bottles contain such treasures as dirt from the Great Wall of China, as well as sand from a desert in Saudi Arabia and Omaha Beach in France. Best of all, the cost of seeing this museum is dirt cheap: It's free.
Mount Horeb Mustard Museum
Mount Horeb, Wis.
It's heaven for hotdog lovers! This museum claims to have the world's largest collection of prepared mustard . Its more than 4, 100 bottles of spices come from 60 nations, including Turkey and China. Visitors learn the history of mustard, from how it's made to how it's advertised and sold. The museum's creator, Barry Levenson, loves mustard so much that he even puts it on ice cream!
Paper House
Rockport, Mass.
Swedish immigrant Ellis Stenman was much ahead of his time in 1922, when he started to build a two-room house almost entirely out of newspaper. At the time, people didn't give much, if any, thought to recycling paper. In fact, "recycling" wasn't even a word yet. The house is framed with wood, but the walls are made of 215 layers of newspaper. In all, he used about 100,000 newspapers. ks5u | ['What is the admission price for The Museum of Dirt?', 'What does Barry put on ice cream?', 'Where did the recycled home owner immigrate from?', 'How many containers of yellow condiment can visitors in Wisconsin see?', 'How do Museum of Dirt sight seers know where each sample comes from?', 'Who thought up the place in Massuchusetts?', 'What can everybody do at the Indiana place?', 'What from the Middle East has been contributed to the Massachusetts spot?', "What is Mr. Levenson's favorite condiment?", 'What can individuals find out in his Wisconsin place?'] | {'answers': ["it's free", 'mustard', 'Sweden', '4,100', 'Labeled bottles', 'Glenn Johnson', 'paint the ball', 'sand', 'mustard', 'the history of mustard'], 'answers_start': [889, 1291, 1398, 1089, 700, 660, 554, 795, 1291, 1178], 'answers_end': [925, 1362, 1429, 1148, 754, 699, 619, 829, 1362, 1215]} |
35l9rvqfcoiow8keuzfokps6n16hus | CHAPTER XXIV
REALITIES
Though there was bitter frost in the ranges, it had but lightly touched the sheltered forests that shut in Bonavista. The snow seldom lay long there, and only a few wisps of it gleamed beneath the northern edge of the pines. Mrs. Acton, as usual, had gathered a number of guests about her, and Violet Hamilton sat talking with one of them in the great drawing-room one evening. The room was brilliantly lighted, and the soft radiance gleamed upon the polished parquetry floor, on which rugs of costly skins were scattered. A fire of snapping pine-logs blazed in the big English hearth, and a faint aromatic fragrance crept into the room.
Miss Hamilton leaned back in a softly padded lounge that was obviously only made for two, and a pleasant-faced, brown-eyed young Englishman, who had no particular business in that country, but had gone there merely for amusement, sat at the other end of it, regarding her with a smile.
"After all," he said reflectively, "I really don't think I'm very sorry the snow drove us down from our shooting camp in the ranges."
Violet laughed. She had met the man before he went into the mountains, and he had been at Bonavista for a week or two now.
"It was too cold for you up there?" she queried.
"It was," answered the man, "at least, it was certainly too cold for Jardine, who came out with me. He got one of his feet nipped sitting out one night with the rifle on a high ledge in the snow, and when I left him in Vancouver the doctor told him it would be a month before he could wear a boot again." | ['What did Mrs. Acton usually do?', 'Where does the story take place?', 'Who was Violet speaking with?', 'was it a female?', 'What was the man doing there?', 'Was he there alone?', 'Who was he with?', 'Were they still up in the mountains?', 'why not?', 'how?', 'where?', 'was it cold?', 'will he be okay?', 'how long?', 'who told him this?', 'from where?', 'Was the Englishman in Bona vista for long?', 'Did the drawing room have rugs?', 'what was in the fireplace?', 'did the room have an aroma?'] | {'answers': ['Gathered guests around her', 'Bonavista.', 'One of the guests', 'No', 'Gone there for amusement', 'No', 'Jardine', 'No', 'Jardine got hurt', 'He got one of his feet nipped', 'On a high ledge', 'Yes', 'At some point.', 'A month', 'A doctor', 'Vancouver', 'two weeks', 'Yes', 'A fire', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [252, 71, 274, 1091, 856, 955, 1295, 1107, 1336, 1367, 1434, 1216, 1467, 1466, 1466, 1462, 1107, 405, 550, 617], 'answers_end': [317, 144, 365, 1126, 897, 1073, 1365, 1265, 1462, 1434, 1463, 1274, 1572, 1572, 1572, 1515, 1214, 550, 611, 665]} |
3skemfqbz35h01e9xhhg1pq9iv68k3 | CHAPTER VIII
Whilst Tallente, rejuvenated, and with a wonderful sense of well-being at the back of his mind, was on his feet in the House of Commons on the following afternoon, leading an unexpected attack against the unfortunate Government, Dartrey sat at tea in Nora's study. Nora, who had had a very busy day, was leaning back in her chair, well content though a little fatigued. Dartrey, who had forgotten his lunch in the stress of work, was devoting himself to the muffins.
"While I think of it," he said, "let me thank you for playing hostess so charmingly the other night."
She made him a little bow.
"Your dinner party was a great success."
"Was it?" he murmured, a little doubtfully. "I am not quite so sure. I can't seem to get at Tallente, somehow."
"He is doing his work well, isn't he?"
"The mechanical side of it is most satisfactory," Dartrey confessed. "He is the most perfect Parliamentary machine that was ever evolved."
"Surely that is exactly what you want? You were always complaining that there was no one to bring the stragglers into line."
"For the present," Dartrey admitted, "Tallente is doing excellently. I wish, though, that I could see a little farther into the future."
"Tell me exactly what fault you find with him?" Nora persisted.
"He lacks enthusiasm already. He makes none of the mistakes which are coincident with genius and he is a little intolerant. He takes no trouble to adapt himself to varying views, he has a fine, broad outlook, but no man can see into every corner of the earth, and what is outside his outlook does not exist." | ['Who forgot his lunch?', 'What he was eating instead?', 'Who is the hostess?', 'Is she exhausted?', 'why?', 'Who seemed to lack motivation?', 'Who is he?', 'Is he a tolerant person?', "Does he adapt to other's views?", 'Does is appear that he has a tunnel vision?', 'Is there anything good about him?', 'Who is kind of appreciative to him?', 'Did Dartery think the good things in him could be temporary?', 'Is he looking in the future to come up with actual assessment of him?', 'Who was in the House of Commons next afternoon?', 'Was he energized prior to that?', 'Who did he talk against in the House?', 'Where was Dartery sitting?', 'Was he drinking something?', 'Who did he thank?'] | {'answers': ['Dartrey', 'muffins', 'Nora', 'a little', 'had a very busy day', 'Tallente', 'member of the Parliment', 'no', 'No', 'Yes', 'The mechanical side', 'Dartrey', 'yes', 'He wishes he could', 'Tallente', 'no', 'the unfortunate Government', "in Nora's study", 'tea', 'Nora'], 'answers_start': [385, 473, 280, 366, 294, 1121, 908, 1392, 1415, 1560, 816, 1102, 1084, 1152, 22, 32, 215, 262, 259, 280], 'answers_end': [392, 480, 284, 383, 313, 1129, 922, 1410, 1467, 1595, 835, 1109, 1099, 1218, 30, 43, 243, 278, 262, 284]} |
33lkr6a5kekyskkbs5mtn6qxn10t1h | Washington (CNN) -- More than 42 years after Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger died on a Laotian mountaintop, President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded him the Medal of Honor, saying, "It's never too late to do the right thing. It's never too late to pay tribute to our Vietnam veterans and their families."
Etchenberg's three sons were at the White House for the ceremony. For decades they didn't know about their father's heroism.
Cory Etchberger was in third grade in 1968, when he was told that his father had died in a helicopter accident in Southeast Asia. At age 29 he learned the truth, when the U.S. Air Force declassified his father's story.
"I was stunned," he told CNN during a visit to his hometown of Hamburg, Pennsylvania.
During the Vietnam War, U.S. troops weren't supposed to be in neutral Laos, so Richard Etchberger and a handful of colleagues shed their uniforms and posed as civilians to run a top secret radar installation high on a Laotian cliff. Called Lima Site 85, it guided U.S. bombers to sites in North Vietnam and parts of Laos under communist control.
"Dick and his crew believed they could help turn the tide of the war, perhaps even end it," said Obama.
The North Vietnamese wanted to eliminate the installation, and early on the morning of March 11, 1968, its soldiers succeeded in scaling the 3,000-foot precipice and launching an attack.
Timothy Castle, of the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence, wrote the book "One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam." He calls Etchberger "a hero." | ['Who was in third grade?', 'When was he in 3rd grade?', 'Who died?', 'What was his ranking?', 'Did he have children?', 'how many?', 'What was he being awarded?', 'Who was awarding him with it?', 'How did he die?', 'Was that actually how he died?', 'When did he learn the truth of his fathers death?', "What was Richard's nickname?", 'Who wrote a book?', 'What was the book called?', 'Was Richard called a hero?', 'How did Richard exactly die?', 'What war did he die during?'] | {'answers': ['Cory Etchberger', 'in 1968', 'Richard L. Etchberger', 'Air Force Chief Master Sgt.', 'yes', 'three sons', 'Medal of Honor', 'Barack Obama', 'in a helicopter accident', 'no', 'when he was 29', 'Dick', 'Timothy Castle,', '"One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam."', 'yes', 'no', 'the Vietnam War'], 'answers_start': [453, 453, 73, 45, 326, 326, 160, 126, 519, 453, 581, 1111, 1405, 1472, 1560, 1319, 762], 'answers_end': [487, 495, 124, 94, 349, 349, 191, 172, 563, 672, 613, 1128, 1486, 1559, 1589, 1404, 784]} |
3skemfqbz35h01e9xhhg1pq9ilc8kp | Register in person, by phone 264-8833, or by mail. Use form given.
178 IN Winchester St, Chicago
Basic Photography
This is an eight-hour course for beginners who want to learn how to use a 35mm camera. The teacher will cover such areas as kinds of film, light, and lenses . Bring your own 35mm camera to class. Course charge: $50. Jan.10,12,17,19, Tues. & Thurs. 6:00~8:00 p.m. Marianne Adams is a professional photographer whose photographs appear in many magazines.
Understanding Computers
This twelve-hour course is for people who don't know very much about computers, but need to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can and can't do, and how to use them. Course charge:$75. Equipment charge:$10. Jan.14,21,28, Sat. 6:00~10:00 p.m. Joseph Saimders is Professor of Computer Science at New Urban University. He has over twelve years of experience in the computer field.
Typing
This course on week-days is for typing. You are tested in the first class and practice at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed. Each program lasts 20 hours. Bring your own paper. Course charge:$125. Materials charge:$25. Two hours each evening for two weeks. New classes begin every two weeks. This course is taught by a number of business education teachers who have effectively taught typing courses before.
Oil Painting
Oil paint is easy to use once you learn the basics. When you enroll in this oil painting course, you will learn to draw and paint using many oil painting techniques under complete guidance and instruction. Together--with the teacher's knowledge and your passion--we'll unlock your creativity and develop your potential! Course charge: $35. Jan. 5,12,19,26, Thurs. 2:00---5:00pm. Ralf Ericssion has taught beginners to masters and he has learned that everything builds on just a few basic concepts that he will show you here. | ['How much does the computer course cost?', 'How many skill levels of typing?', 'When does oil painting get easy?', 'What times are the photography class', 'Is the computer course 12 hours long?', 'Who teaches the oil painting class?', 'When do the new typing courses start?', 'What is the equpment charge for computer class', 'What areas do the photography class cover', 'what type of teachers are teaching the typing course?', 'what do you have to bring to the typing course?', 'where does the computer professor teach?', 'What days of the week are the typing courses?', 'Where did Mraianne have her photographs appear?', 'how long is the photography course?', 'What does the class cover?'] | {'answers': ['$50', 'eight', 'once you learn the basics', 'Tues. & Thurs. 6:00~8:00 p.m.', 'yes', 'Ralf Ericssion', 'every two weeks', '$10', 'film, light, and lenses', 'business education', 'paper', 'Computer Science', 'each evening', 'magazines', 'eight hours', 'film, light, and lenses'], 'answers_start': [331, 1016, 1414, 354, 507, 1768, 1239, 732, 254, 1293, 1134, 804, 1193, 463, 132, 254], 'answers_end': [335, 1021, 1439, 383, 525, 1782, 1254, 735, 277, 1311, 1139, 820, 1205, 472, 142, 277]} |
3rrcefrb7mcfoxndf1ealares09b4s | (CNN) -- NASCAR's Hall of Fame class for 2015 includes Bill Elliott, one of its most popular drivers ever, and Wendell Scott, the only African-American to win a top-level race, the auto racing sanctioning body announced Wednesday.
Three other drivers -- Fred Lorenzen, Joe Weatherly and Rex White -- will be inducted at a ceremony on January 30 at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Elliott won one Winston Cup title and 44 races in his 37-year career, including two victories at the Daytona 500. Known as "Awesome Bill from Dawsonville", a reference to his Georgia hometown, Elliott won the series top circuit championship in 1988. He was voted NASCAR's most popular driver a record 16 times.
In 1963, Scott became the only African-American to win a race at NASCAR's highest level, taking a 100-mile feature at Jacksonville, Florida, on December 1. He also was the first African-American to race full time in NASCAR's premier series, called the Grand National Series at the time.
Scott made the top 10 in 30% of the races in his 13-year Grand National career. He was portrayed in the 1977 movie "Greased Lightning" by Richard Pryor. He died in 1990.
Lorenzen was considered one of the sport's first superstars and won 26 races while running a part-time schedule in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Weatherly was a two-time champion, in 1962 and in 1963, when he raced for nine different teams.
White was a short-track specialist in the early days of NASCAR. And since there were few super speedways, White finished in the top five about half the time. He won the 1960 championship and 28 races in his career (only twice at tracks longer than a mile). | ['Who does the Hall of Fame class for 2015 include?', 'Which drivers will be inducted at a ceremony on January 30?', 'How many times has Elliot had a victory at Daytona 500?', 'Who was a racer for 9 different team?', "Who was the only African American to conquer at NASCAR'S highest level?", 'Which 1977 show was he portrayed in?', 'When did he die?', 'Where is Awesome Bill from?', 'Where is the hall of fame?', 'How many times did White win a race?'] | {'answers': ['Bill Elliott and Wendell Scott', 'Fred Lorenzen, Joe Weatherly, and Rex White', 'Two', 'Weatherly', 'Scott', 'Greased Lightning', '1990', 'Georgia', 'Charlotte, North Carolina', '28'], 'answers_start': [9, 232, 406, 1324, 719, 1087, 1160, 520, 354, 1527], 'answers_end': [230, 404, 519, 1420, 874, 1161, 1178, 654, 404, 1678]} |
3kyqyyshyv7c7nvfchkpuyljdhbodn | Few of us haven't read Cinderella , the story of a young woman living in poverty who meets the prince of her dreams. Some might not want to admit it, but there is a hidden Cinderella in everyone's heart--we all wish we could achieve recognition or success after a period of obscurity . Mary Santiago has that secret dream, too. Her story is featured in Another Cinderella Story, a film set in a US high school.
Mary is shy but loves to dance. Compared with other girls, she is invisible. However, her world changes completely when a famous teenager pop singer, Joey Parker, appears. Joey is everything the rest of the boys in her class are not--kind, handsome and desirable. Mary and Joey's paths cross at a ball. They meet and fall in love with each other. But when Mary has to rush back home, she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl of his dreams. Of course, there is a wicked stepmother, who turns out to be Dominique Blatt and she takes in Mary after her dancer mother dies. Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesn't get into the top dance school. Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey falling for Mary, even if that means embarrassing her.
The story, though it mostly follows Cinderella, does add a few modern day twists to the classic fairy tale. Refreshingly, the film, unlike many high school films, does not focus on looks, although the actors are all beautiful. There is also a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.
"The movie takes the Cinderella fairytale as its jumping off point," writes movie critic Amber Wilkinson, "The focus is firmly on following your dream." | ['What famous fairy tale is this movie about?', "what is this story's setting?", 'in what country?'] | {'answers': ["Few of us haven't read Cinderella Cinderella", 'high school.', 'a film set in a US high school, US'], 'answers_start': [0, 327, 379], 'answers_end': [33, 411, 410]} |
3kb8r4zv1e7v0dgxa2gbuzohjkrbgj | Danny lived for football. He played it, watched it, talked and dreamed about it. His favourite football star was Keith Connolly - Lowgate's captain. One day in January, after school, Danny hurried through his homework. He wanted to watch TV. Keith Connolly was doing an interview on the local news programme. Danny hoped that the television wouldn't go fuzzy*or lose the sound when Keith Connolly was talking. It was an old set, and it did things like that. It wasn't clear enough, but at last Keith Connolly's smiling face appeared on the screen. "What I really like about playing for Lowgate," he said, "is the fans. They're the best. They always support us. It's wonderful running on to the playground to all that cheering and chanting." Danny wished he could be in that crowd at the Lowgate ground, but the price of a single ticket was far above anything he could afford. There was no chance of the whole family going, or even just Danny and his little brother. "You won again on Saturday," said the reporter. "Did the team go out to celebrate?" "We went for a meal together," said Keith Connolly, "but I have to be careful about what I eat, because I want to stay fit. I love doughnuts* very much ..." Then the sound went fuzzy, and Danny jumped up and _ the top of the set heavily to make it come on again. He hadn't missed much. But he had missed something important. Keith Connolly had been saying "... but I'm not allowed to eat doughnuts." Danny hadn't heard that. All he heard was that Keith Connolly loved doughnuts. And at the end of Danny's street was a bakery*. It sold the biggest and the best doughnuts! When Danny went to bed, he lay wide-awake, making a plan. | ['What sports Danny liked?', 'What was his idol?', 'What Keith liked to eat?', 'What bakery sold the best doughnuts?', 'What team Keith captained?', 'What Danny was doing one day after school?', 'Why?', 'What program he wanted to watch?', 'Who would be on that program?', 'Did Danny have a new TV?', 'What was he fearing about that?', 'Did it do that?', 'What the star liked about playing his team?', 'Did he think they were the best?', 'What Danny wished hearing all these?', 'But can he afford it?', 'Why?', 'Did the team celebrate after win?', 'Did they eat together?', "Why the star didn't want to eat donuts?"] | {'answers': ['football', 'Keith Connolly', 'doughnuts', "a bakery at the end of Danny's street", 'Lowgate', 'Danny hurrying through his homework', 'He wanted to watch TV', 'the local news program', 'Keith Connolly', 'no', 'that the television would go fuzzy or lose the sound when Keith Connolly was talking', 'the sound went fuzzy', 'the fans', 'yes', 'that he could be in the crowd at the Lowgate ground', 'no', 'the price of a single ticket was far above anything he could afford', 'yes', 'yes', 'he wanted to stay fit'], 'answers_start': [0, 81, 1174, 1532, 113, 148, 219, 241, 242, 409, 309, 1207, 548, 549, 741, 802, 803, 1014, 1051, 1103], 'answers_end': [25, 127, 1201, 1574, 147, 217, 240, 307, 308, 427, 408, 1232, 617, 636, 801, 874, 874, 1102, 1101, 1173]} |
33fbrbdw6ozzh32l540id6d1c7h8cf | (CNN) -- Chinese pair Yuan Cao and Yanquan Zhang claimed gold in Monday's men's synchronized ten meter diving final. The reigning world champions scored 99.36 with a near faultless final dive to claim the Olympic title.
The silver medal went to Mexican pair Ivan Garcia-Navarro and German Sanchez-Sanchez, who pushed the American team of David Boudia and Nicholas McCrory into the bronze medal position with a strong final set of dives.
"We're very happy. Coming from China, of course, we hope we can win more medals," said Cao.
"If we are strong at diving it comes from good coaching, diving every day and hard work. Nothing more."
Tom Daley, icon of the British team, and his partner Pete Waterfield led after two rounds, but blew their chances of a medal with a poor dive in round four.
British Prime Minister David Cameron made his first trip to the aquatics center to see Daley and Waterfield in action, but he couldn't spur the pair to a podium finish.
Cao, 17, and Zhang, 18, had been favorites to take gold in London after a dominating display in February's world championships, also held at the Olympic aquatic center.
China now have two diving golds after Wu Minxia and He Zi won the women's synchronized three meter springboard diving on Sunday.
"We had the highest score we have ever got after the first three, but at this level of competition, you can't afford to miss a single dive," Daley said afterwards.
The 18 year old diver refused to blame a mistake from Waterfield, 31, in the fourth round for their failure to win a medal, declaring that "you win as a team and you lose as a team." | ['Who took the silver medal?', 'in which event?', 'what country are they from?', 'Which group did they beat?', 'Who are the members?', 'What kind of trophy did they get?', 'Who won?', 'Where are they from?', 'How do they feel about it?', 'What was their score?', 'What do the contribute their win to?', 'Who is David Cameron?', 'Where did he go?', 'Why?', 'Who made a mistake?', 'When?', 'Did the other diver accusing him of causing the loss?', 'Who is the oldest on that team?', 'According to Daley what do you win as?', 'And lose as?'] | {'answers': ['Ivan Garcia-Navarro and German Sanchez-Sanchez', "men's synchronized ten meter diving", 'Mexico', 'the American team', 'David Boudia and Nicholas McCrory', 'the bronze medal', 'Yuan Cao and Yanquan Zhang', 'China', 'Very happy', '99.36', 'good coaching, diving every day and hard work', 'the British Prime Minister', 'to the aquatics center', 'to see Daley and Waterfield in action', 'Waterfield', 'in the fourth round', 'No', 'Waterfield', 'as a team', 'as a team'], 'answers_start': [222, 22, 247, 308, 323, 319, 9, 9, 442, 117, 536, 800, 800, 823, 1439, 1478, 1439, 1439, 1579, 1601], 'answers_end': [307, 115, 306, 404, 373, 404, 61, 48, 532, 220, 638, 836, 879, 917, 1503, 1529, 1562, 1508, 1596, 1619]} |
37c0gnlmhf3mihpbclyvdyzsrcsd6n | (CNN) -- Venezuela's top election official said Thursday that authorities will complete a 100% audit of votes cast in Sunday's presidential election.
Tibisay Lucena, president of Venezuela's National Electoral Council, said officials decided on the audit after a lengthy debate.
Officials had already audited 54% of ballot boxes, and now will audit the remaining 46%, she said.
READ MORE: Why Venezuela is so divided
The decision comes after opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski filed complaints with election officials about thousands of alleged violations during Sunday's vote.
"The electoral power is making this decision in order to preserve a climate of harmony between Venezuelans, but also to isolate violent sectors that are irresponsibly trying to harm democracy," Lucena said.
Capriles said he accepted the council's decision Thursday because he believes that the problems his campaign spotted would be detected in the audit of the remaining 46%.
"I want to congratulate our people, because this was your fight," Capriles said late Thursday.
Earlier this week, Lucena certified the election results and declared Nicolas Maduro president-elect, despite Capriles' calls for a vote-by-vote recount.
Maduro secured 50.8% of votes in Sunday's election, while Capriles won 49%, election officials said earlier this week.
Maduro is scheduled to be sworn in at a ceremony in Caracas on Friday. It was unclear late Thursday whether the audit would impact plans for his inauguration.
The audit will take about 30 days and will involve comparing results from voting machines with printed reports and registries containing voters' signatures, Venezuelan constitutional lawyer Jose Vicente Haro told CNN en Español. | ['Which election is discussed?', 'When is it?', 'What is being claimed as having happened?', 'Who filed this?', 'Who is he?', 'How many did he win?', 'And his opponent?', 'Who is he?', 'When will he become president?', 'Where will that take place?', 'How long will it take to count the votes?', 'What will be compared?', 'Who announced the election results?'] | {'answers': ["Venezuela's", 'Sunday', "violations during Sunday's vote", 'Henrique Capriles Radonski', 'opposition candidate', '49%', '50.8%', 'Maduro', 'Friday', 'Caracas', '30 days', "results from voting machines with printed reports and registries containing voters' signature", 'Lucena'], 'answers_start': [9, 118, 544, 471, 450, 1302, 1235, 1235, 1356, 1394, 1517, 1578, 1098], 'answers_end': [20, 124, 597, 497, 470, 1309, 1264, 1241, 1425, 1415, 1550, 1671, 1135]} |
3nvc2eb65qzqj9xkpfnbjgx9z7l3y0 | John is a good boy. He studies hard and is never late for school. He has a lot of friends. And he often helps them and they like him. But he always thinks himself the cleverest in his class and looks down upon others. This term a new student, Fred, comes to his class. He's thin and short and never talks with the boys. So no children know him well. And John laugh at him.But he doesn't mind it at all. One day John goes to Mike's birthday party. He sings, dance and show all his talents to the children. After that he says to Fred, "What are you going to show us, my friend?" "I'm not clever," says Fred."Can you guess some of my riddles ?" "Certainly, I can,"says John. Fred tells some riddles, but John can't guess any.At last the boy says,"Now I'll tell the easiest riddle. Listen to me carefully. You'll guess it this time. An animal has two heads, six legs, a long nose and a short nose. Can you tell me what it is?" John thinks hard and hard, but can't guess it. His face turn red and says,"What's it?" "It's a man riding an elephant!" John doesn't say anything any longer at the party. | ["what color did John's face turn?", 'what was the answer to the riddle?', 'how many friends does John have?', 'who is the new student in his class?', 'does he talk to the others?', 'whose party does John go to?', 'is Fred there?', 'what does he tell the other kids?', 'does John guess any?', 'was the last riddle easy or hard?', 'does John say anything else for the rest of the party?'] | {'answers': ['red', "It's a man riding an elephant", 'John is a good boy. He studies hard and is never late for school. He has a lot of friends.', 'Fred', 'no', "Mike's", 'yes', 'riddles,', 'no', 'hard', "John doesn't say anything any longer at the party."], 'answers_start': [970, 1011, 0, 217, 268, 403, 445, 671, 672, 894, 1043], 'answers_end': [1010, 1093, 90, 269, 320, 446, 567, 696, 722, 970, 1093]} |
3d4ch1lgeatcck10ci2f3ttru6dg9a | Chapter Twenty-Four: Troston
I doubt if the name of this small Suffolk village, remote from towns and railroads, will have any literary associations for the reader, unless he be a person of exceptionally good memory, who has taken a special interest in the minor poets of the last century; or that it would help him if I add the names of Honington and Sapiston, two other small villages a couple of miles from Troston, with the slow sedgy Little Ouse, or a branch of it, flowing between them. Yet Honington was the birthplace of Robert Bloomfield, known as "the Suffolk poet" in the early part of the last century (although Crabbe was living then and was great, as he is becoming again after many years); while at Sapiston, the rustic village on the other side of the old stone bridge, he acquired that love of nature and intimate knowledge of farm life and work which came out later in his Farmer's Boy. Finally, Troston, the little village in which I write, was the home of Capel Lofft, a person of importance in his day, who discovered Bloomfield, found a publisher for his poems, and boomed it with amazing success.
I dare say it will only provoke a smile of amusement in readers of literary taste when I confess that Bloomfield's memory is dear to me; that only because of this feeling for the forgotten rustic who wrote rhymes I am now here, strolling about in the shade of the venerable trees in Troston Park-the selfsame trees which the somewhat fantastic Capel knew in his day as "Homer," "Sophocles," "Virgil," "Milton," and by other names, calling each old oak, elm, ash, and chestnut after one of the immortals. | ['Where was Robert Bloomfield born?', 'How did he feel about nature?', 'How far is Sapiston from Troston?', 'What waterway ran between the towns?', "What was Bloomfield's nickname?", 'What kind of bridge led to Sapiston?', 'What work did Bloomfield publish later?', 'Did his poems do well?', 'Who discovered him?', 'Is Sapiston near a railroad?', 'Was Bloomfield a major poet?', 'Where was Capel from?'] | {'answers': ['Honington', 'love of nature', 'a couple of miles from Troston', 'Little Ouse', '"the Suffolk poet"', 'old stone bridge', "Farmer's Boy", 'amazing success', 'Capel Lofft', 'unknown', 'amazing success', 'Troston'], 'answers_start': [499, 804, 389, 441, 559, 769, 892, 1105, 978, -1, 1104, 916], 'answers_end': [509, 819, 419, 452, 577, 786, 905, 1120, 989, -1, 1120, 923]} |
3c8hj7uop7uralfzrju9tmfh6zjmzi | London Thursday July 26(Reuters)--Ian Johnstone missed his girlfriend so much that he flew back to Britain from Australia to propose to her.The problem is that she flew in the opposite direction.
He and Amy Dolby even managed to miss each other when they sat in the same airport waiting-room in Singapore at the same time to wait for connecting flights.
Dolby,heartbroken when she arrived at Johnstone's Sydney apartment to find he had flown to London,told the Times:"It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on us.He is the most romantic person I have ever known.I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive people.We are always trying to surprise each other."
After an 11,000-mile flight across the globe,she was greeted by Johnstone's astonished flatmate asking what she was doing there.
"The terrible truth dawned when I found that Lan's rucksack and most of his clothes were missing.I sat on the end of his bed and cried my eyes out.And that really annoyed me,"she said.
Johnstone,a 27-year-old bricklayer,had taken a year off to travel round Australia.But he was missing Dolby,a 26-year-old secretary,so much he got a job on a Sydney building site and started saving for a surprise.
He then flew home to Britain and went to her apartment armed with an engagement ring,champagne and flowers.
"I really missed Amy and I'd been thinking about her all the time.I thought she was winding me up when she phoned me from Australia."he said.
Johnstone then asked Dolby to marry him on the phone."I didn't know whether to laugh or cry but I accepted,"she said.
Dolby was given a short tour of Sydney by Johnstone's friends and Johnstone had to stay in Britain for two weeks because he could not change his ticket. | ['How old was Ian?', 'Who did he miss?', 'Who was she?', 'Where did he travel from?', 'To where?', 'What was the reason?', 'What was the wrinkle in the situation?', 'How did Amy feel at realizing this?', 'How far was her flight?', "What was Ian's occupation?", 'Was Amy a bricklayer also?', 'What did she do?', 'How did Ian save extra money?', 'How did he actually propose?', 'What was the result?', 'What did Amy do while in Australia?', 'What did Ian do during his time in Britain?', 'How long was he there?', 'Why?'] | {'answers': ['27', 'Amy', 'his girlfriend', 'Australia', 'Britain', 'to propose to her.', 'she flew in the opposite direction', 'annoyed', '11,000 miles', 'bricklayer,', 'no', 'she was a secretary,', 'he got a job on a Sydney building site', 'Jon the phone', 'she accepted', 'she was given a tour of Sydney', 'He went to her apartment', 'two weeks', 'because he could not change his ticket.'], 'answers_start': [1006, 1332, 34, 34, 83, 86, 140, 915, 688, 1006, 358, 1107, 1041, 1475, 1543, 1595, 1221, 1671, 1694], 'answers_end': [1041, 1352, 69, 121, 121, 140, 194, 992, 716, 1041, 472, 1137, 1184, 1527, 1581, 1633, 1275, 1708, 1747]} |
35usikebnrgv4tgo1fcy93bm5g36n7 | (CNN) -- Audiences will be getting a new look at Abraham Lincoln this weekend with the wide release of director Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," and they'll be seeing a lot of America, too.
The film, which recreates the former president's life through the crucible of the Civil War, was filmed at several historic locations. Lincoln's life took him through a number of states before and during the war, which gave Spielberg and his crew a wide geographic canvas.
It was while shooting "War of the Worlds" in Rockbridge County, Virginia, that Spielberg began discussing returning to the state, said Andy Edmunds, interim director of the Virginia Film Office. Edmunds worked with production designer Rick Carter for nine years, helping him scout locations across the state.
Yet there is so much more to Lincoln than the movie that bears his name.
For history and film buffs looking to explore Lincoln's life, here are five locales that go beyond a trek to the National Mall.
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City Point: Hopewell, Virginia
One of Spielberg's Virginia stops was City Point, now Hopewell, which served as Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters during the Siege of Petersburg.
Lincoln spent two weeks there in 1865 with his family, traveling aboard the war ship River Queen, which filmmakers replicated in full, said Rita McClenny, chief executive officer of the Virginia Tourism Board.
From there, Lincoln watched the fall of Petersburg, later visiting the city, which was also shot on location, Edmunds said.
Indeed, many pivotal wartime decisions "were made on Virginia soil," McClenny said. | ['Where was "War of the Worlds" shot?', 'In what city?', 'What is the last name of the director at the film office?', 'And his first name?', 'Is he the permanent director?', 'What term described his position specifically?', 'Who was at the helm of "Lincoln"?', 'What is the first name of the man that the film is about?', "What war was occurring at the time of the film's setting?", 'Were famously known locals used in the filming?', 'What is the surname of the production designer?', "What city was Grant's base at one point?", 'Is that city called something different now?', 'What?', 'What sort of release was the film given?', 'From what news outlet is this press release?', 'For how long did Edmunds collaborate with Carter?', 'How many?', 'How long did Lincoln stay in City Point?', 'In what year?'] | {'answers': ['Virginia', 'Rockbridge County', 'Edmunds', 'Andy', 'No', 'Interim', 'Steven Spielberg', 'Abraham', 'Civil War', 'Yes', 'Carter', 'City Point', 'Yes', 'Hopewell', 'Wide', 'CNN', 'Years', 'Nine', 'Two weeks', '1865'], 'answers_start': [464, 464, 594, 593, 594, 593, 9, 9, 189, 189, 660, 1054, 1054, 1054, 9, 0, 659, 657, 1054, 1054], 'answers_end': [537, 536, 658, 658, 659, 658, 141, 142, 282, 323, 710, 1198, 1198, 1198, 100, 187, 773, 774, 1238, 1410]} |
3mmn5bl1wz4qps866cz0pla2r5cm3f | Soccer star David Beckham will be there with his pop star wife Victoria. Elton John is attending with partner David Furnish.
The guest list for the April 29 union of Prince William and Kate Middleton is still being kept secret, but details have begun to leak out, with some coming forward to say they are attending and the Mail on Sunday newspaper claiming to have the official invitation roster .
The palace dismissed the newspaper's list as speculation Sunday.
It won't be clear until the day how the royal couple has balanced the protocol demands that they invite statesmen, diplomats, religious leaders, politicians and the like with invitations to the people they really want to see, particularly the crowd they made friends with when they met and fell in love at St. Andrews University in Scotland.
Kate Reardon, editor of high-society magazine Tatler, said many _ Britons acted as if they didn't really care about receiving an invitation while secretly checking the mail every day to see if the invitation had arrived.
"Everyone's been hoping," she said.
William and Middleton have showed their modern side by inviting a number of close friends, including some former sweethearts, the newspaper said.
The wedding is not technically a state event, which somewhat limits the protocol requirements applied to the guest list. But royal obligations still order that a large number of the 1,900 or so seats go to guests from the world of politics, not actual friends of the couple.
The couple have also invited many guests from the charities they work with, and Middleton has used her influence to invite the butcher, shopkeeper and pub owner from her home village of Bucklebury.
President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were not invited and many other international leaders are also expected to be watching on TV, not from a seat at Westminster Abbey.
It is not clear if treasured Brits from the world of stage and screen and pop music will be on the list. | ['Who is Elton John attending with?', 'How have William and Middleton shown they are modern?', 'Royal obligations order how many seats?', 'Where did the two meet?', 'Is pop music included?', 'What source claims to have the official roster?', 'Was the Obama family included?', 'Who did Middleton use her influence to invite?', 'Did Britons display eagerness to be invited?', 'Many guests are from what?'] | {'answers': ['his partner David Furnish', 'by inviting a number of close friends, including some former sweethearts', 'a large number', 'St. Andrews University', 'Yes', 'the Mail on Sunday newspaper', 'No', 'the butcher, shopkeeper and pub owner from her home village', 'Yes', 'the charities they work with'], 'answers_start': [102, 1125, 1382, 775, 1952, 321, 1749, 1622, 1036, 1545], 'answers_end': [123, 1198, 1396, 797, 1961, 349, 1760, 1681, 1061, 1573]} |
3w2lolrxlbfni6t5wqngs6le78crkl | (CNN) -- A Boston grand jury has subpoenaed two more men to testify Thursday in its ongoing investigation into whether former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez is connected to an unsolved double homicide in Boston last year.
Alexander Bradley and John Alcorn Jr. were ordered to answer the questions of a grand jury investigating the fatal drive-by shooting of Daniel Abreu, 29, and Safiro Furtado, 28, outside a Boston nightclub in July 2012.
Bradley, however, failed to appear before Superior Court Judge Joan Alexander in Hartford, Connecticut, on Tuesday to respond to the subpoena, and the judge issued an arrest warrant for him, according to court officials.
Hernandez pleads not guilty
Bradley's New York-based attorney, David Jaroslawicz, told CNN he wasn't aware of the warrant or the subpoena and declined to say whether he has talked with his client about the grand jury matter.
Bradley filed a civil suit against Hernandez in federal court, saying the former football player shot him in the face, causing Bradley to lose sight in one eye, after the men visited a strip club in Miami earlier this year, according to the lawsuit.
In July, Bradley testified before a separate grand jury in Fall River, Massachusetts, that later indicted Hernandez on a charge of murder in the death of a friend, Odin Lloyd, June 17.
Hernandez pleaded not guilty last week to that charge and weapons counts.
Alcorn, 21, from Hernandez's hometown of Bristol, Connecticut, became involved in the investigation last month, when a friend of his, Jailene Diaz, told police a gun found in her car after a crash may have belonged to Alcorn and his friends, according to police documents obtained by CNN. | ['From what city is the jury from?', 'Who did they request to testify?', 'for when?', 'and about what?', 'when did that occur?', 'What are the names of the people that have to testify?', 'Who was killed?', 'WHere did it occur?', 'What was the date?', 'Did both show up when scheduled?', 'what happened then?', 'how has the defendant pled?', 'was someone else shot but not killed?', 'who?', 'did he take legal action as a result of this happening?', 'what action did he take?', 'what resulted from the injury?'] | {'answers': ['Boston', 'two more men', 'Thursday', 'whether former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez is connected to an unsolved double homicide', 'last year', 'Alexander Bradley and John Alcorn Jr', 'Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado', 'outside a Boston nightclub', 'July 2012', 'no', 'the judge issued an arrest warrant for him', 'not guilty', 'yes', 'Alexander Bradley', 'yes', 'filed a civil suit', 'causing Bradley to lose sight in one eye'], 'answers_start': [11, 44, 68, 111, 216, 229, 365, 406, 437, 450, 597, 690, 902, 229, 902, 909, 1021], 'answers_end': [17, 56, 76, 205, 225, 265, 401, 433, 446, 484, 639, 701, 1020, 246, 947, 928, 1061]} |
3txd01zld4hukwwjfsv5q0j2irp4uo | Probably no other musical instrument is as popular as the guitar around the world. Musicians use the guitar for almost all kinds of music. Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco could not exist without a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar. And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument.
Music experts do not agree about where the guitar was first played. Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than 1,000 years ago. Most experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the 12thcentury. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the 1700s it became similar to the instrument we know today.
Many famous musicians played the instrument. The famous Italian violins Niccole Paganism played and wrote music for the guitar in the early 1800s. Franz Schubert used the guitar to write some of his famous works. In modern times Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia helped make the instrument extremely popular.
In the 1930s, Les Paul began experimenting to make an electric guitar. He invented the solid-bodied electric guitar in 1946. The Gibson Guitar Company began producing its famous Les Paul Guitar in 1952. It became a powerful influence on popular music. The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different. Les Paul produced a series of extremely popular recordings that introduced the public to this music. Listen to this Les Paul recording. It was the fifth most popular song in the United States in 1952. It is called "Meet Mister Callaghan." | ['What muscial instrument is being talked about here?', 'What kind of music you usually hear a guitar?', 'Where was it first played?', 'What about the modern guitar?', 'Did any famous muscians play the guitar in those times?', 'Who?', 'When was the electric guitar famous?', 'who was les paul', 'Did he use a special guitar?', 'What did it look like', 'Did Les have any popular songs?'] | {'answers': ['the guitar', 'all kinds of music', 'Egypt', 'Spain', 'yes', 'Niccole Paganism', '1952', 'A guitar player', 'Yes', 'Like a traditional guitar?', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [97, 117, 621, 1110, 953, 953, 1388, 1204, 1443, 1443, 1559], 'answers_end': [106, 137, 627, 1117, 969, 969, 1392, 1260, 1556, 1527, 1658]} |
3j2uybxqqlcsjxoh09a0yrf9ytz60g | Rob Kalin learned the secret to success while he was still in his baby bed. At age one, the Boston-bom teacher's son dragged around a stuffed rabbit that had been lovingly sewn by one of his mother's students. True, one of the ears was sewn on backward, but that just added to its magic. "It was always special to me," Kalin remembers of his first handmade craft .
Kalin's appreciation for the simple and the simply eccentric inspired him to create etsy. com, an online craft fair, probably the largest market for handmade goods in the world. Last year, 350,000 woodworkers and other craftsmen sold their one-of-a-kind crafts on the four-year-old site.
They sell everything from hand-knit sleeves for Macbooks ($32) to myrtle-wood electric guitars ($3,200). And in an age of chain stores, it seems there's still a big market. More than three million consumers in 150 countries purchased about $87.5 million worth of crafts on Etsy last year.
Emily Worden, founder of Elemental Threads, a custom handbag and jewelry company, signed up with Etsy when she started her company two years ago. She pays Etsy a 20-cent standard fee for each item she lists on the site, plus a 3.5 percent commission on everything sold. Etsy allows her to track the number of times customers click on a particular item to view it. "We can see that our necklaces are a popularly viewed item and which color1s and sizes get the most views," she says. "That is a guide to evolving our product lines."
Today, Etsy's staff has ballooned to 70 employees, and the company reportedly earns more than $12 million a year.
Kalin's father was a carpenter and taught him early on how to use his hands. Indeed, in high school, he put his skills to work -- developing the photos of his classmates and handcrafting a graduate ID to attend design classes. Eventually, he was admitted to New York University, studying classics and working as a carpenter.
Kalin has also started sewing some of his own clothes. "I have to make something physical at least once a month," says Kalin, "or I go crazy." | ['where was Rob born?', 'when did he learn how to succeed?', 'how old was he?', 'what business did he start?', 'what was his inspiration?', 'what was his special handmade item he had as a child?', 'what made it "magical" to him?', 'who made it?', 'was his mom a techer?', 'what is sold on his website?', 'how many employees does he have?', 'how much does the company make?', 'did Kalin go to college?', 'where?', 'what did he study?', 'what else?'] | {'answers': ['Boston', 'while he was still in his baby bed.', 'One', 'etsy. com', "Kalin's appreciation for the simple and the simply eccentric", 'a stuffed rabbit', 'one of the ears was sewn on backward', "one of his mother's students.", 'yes', 'one-of-a-kind crafts', '70', 'more than $12 million a year', 'yes', 'New York University', 'classics', 'working as a carpenter'], 'answers_start': [92, 0, 76, 367, 367, 134, 210, 142, 103, 607, 1488, 1558, 1836, 1854, 1876, 1898], 'answers_end': [102, 75, 86, 460, 440, 208, 287, 209, 116, 628, 1529, 1593, 1874, 1874, 1893, 1920]} |
3k4j6m3cxetqh3b54ogfzo4b1q8ag1 | Egypt (i/ˈiːdʒɪpt/; Arabic: مِصر Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic: مَصر Maṣr, Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ Khemi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia, via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is the world's only contiguous Eurafrasian nation. Most of Egypt's territory of 1,010,408 square kilometres (390,000 sq mi) lies within the Nile Valley. Egypt is a Mediterranean country. It is bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the Red Sea to the east and south, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.
Egypt has one of the longest histories of any modern country, arising in the tenth millennium BC as one of the world's first nation states. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt experienced some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. Iconic monuments such as the Giza Necropolis and its Great Sphinx, as well the ruins of Memphis, Thebes, Karnak, and the Valley of the Kings, reflect this legacy and remain a significant focus of archaeological study and popular interest worldwide. Egypt's rich cultural heritage is an integral part of its national identity, having endured, and at times assimilated, various foreign influences, including Greek, Persian, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and European. Although Christianised in the first century of the Common Era, it was subsequently Islamised due to the Islamic conquests of the seventh century. | ['What part of the African continent is Egypt in?', 'Is it part of Asia?', 'What distinguishes it from other nations of the world?', 'Does it have a long history?', 'What kind of foreign influences has it encountered?', 'What river valley is it part of?', 'How large is the country?', 'What country borders it to the northeast?', 'the south?', 'the west?', 'What is its official name?', 'How is it connected to Asia?', 'called what?', 'Is it a Mediterranean country?', 'When did civilization begin there?', 'What are some of the monuments in Egypt?', 'and?', 'and?', 'Does it have a rich cultural identity?', 'Was it ever a christian nation?', 'What is its primary religion now?'] | {'answers': ['the northeast', 'yes', "It is the world's only contiguous Eurafrasian nation", 'yes', 'Greek, Persian, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and European.', 'the Nile Valley', '1,010,408 square kilometres', 'the Gaza Strip and Israel', 'Sudan', 'Libya', 'Arab Republic of Egypt', 'a land bridge', 'the Sinai Peninsula', 'yes', 'the tenth millennium BC', 'the Giza Necropolis', 'the Great Sphinx', 'The ruins of Memphis, Thebes and Karnak', 'yes', 'yes', 'Islam'], 'answers_start': [121, 121, 277, 639, 1326, 331, 331, 433, 595, 614, 89, 198, 197, 433, 639, 958, 958, 957, 1206, 1416, 1416], 'answers_end': [197, 226, 330, 700, 1415, 431, 403, 528, 614, 637, 126, 275, 275, 465, 735, 1099, 1099, 1100, 1282, 1478, 1561]} |
3k3r2qnk8b3vh22vwnrw78ui3ct9u0 | Philadelphia (CNN) -- The inspector of a downtown building that collapsed last week has killed himself, city officials said Thursday.
Ronald Wagenhoffer, 52, who worked with the Department of Licenses and Inspections, was found shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday, Everett Gillison, deputy mayor for public safety for the city of Philadelphia, told reporters.
Although the probe into the collapse, which killed six people, is now a criminal investigation, Wagenhoffer was not a target, Gillison said.
"This man did nothing wrong," he said. "The department did what it was supposed to do under the code at the time."
Wagenhoffer was found inside a pickup truck in a wooded area along Shawmont Avenue in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.
According to sources with knowledge of the investigation, Wagenhoffer's wife, Michelle, alerted police after he sent her a text message.
He also is survived by a son.
Wagenhoffer, who spent 16 years with the Department of Licenses and Inspections, last inspected the site of fatal building collapse on May 14 after the department received citizen complaints. He inspected the site alone, Gillison said.
Carlton Williams, commissioner for licenses and inspections, described Wagenhoffer as "dedicated" and a man who "loved his job."
"He worked extremely hard before the tragedy and after the tragedy," Williams said. "We were all shocked. He was an outstanding employee."
City officials say there were no obvious signs Wagenhoffer was distraught, adding that he worked Wednesday, leaving shortly after 3 p.m.
Authorities charged crane operator Sean Benschop, 42, with involuntary manslaughter and other related charges after a four-story wall of the vacant building collapsed onto an adjacent Salvation Army thrift store on June 5, killing six people and injuring 13. | ['Who committed suicide?', 'What was his profession?', 'What happened to the structure he was in charge to inspect?', 'Was anyone in it?', 'When was his death announced to the public?', 'Was he married?', 'Any children?', 'How many?', 'How long was did he inspect structures?', 'Was he known for being a bad worker?', 'Did his coworkers believe there was anything wrong with him when he left work that day?', 'What time did he leave the office?', 'Who else has been involved in a structure crumbling to the ground?', 'What was his profession?', 'How old was he?', 'How many were injured?', 'Any deaths?', 'What date did this happen?', 'Did the one whom committed suicide enjoy his profession?', 'Did he alert his spouse in any way before committing suicide?'] | {'answers': ['Ronald Wagenhoffer', 'inspector', 'it collapsed', 'no', 'Thursday', 'yes', 'yes', 'one', 'unknown', 'no', 'no', 'shortly after 3 p.m.', 'Sean Benschop', 'crane operator', '42', '13', 'six', 'June 5', 'yes', 'no'], 'answers_start': [136, 22, 41, 1704, 104, 805, 886, 909, -1, 1288, 1428, 1544, 1567, 1586, 1601, 1812, 1790, 1782, 1156, 1447], 'answers_end': [260, 102, 73, 1723, 132, 884, 914, 914, -1, 1369, 1564, 1564, 1734, 1615, 1619, 1824, 1808, 1788, 1285, 1501]} |
3o7l7bfshep737ycahi4gj7i1qrie5 | CHAPTER XXIII.
THE TOWN ORDINANCE.
The news which Dick carried to Sawyer was sufficient to create a great excitement in that naturally quiet little town. In addition to what looked like an attempted murder, was the fact that George Harnett, whom they had all respected before the conflagration, and admired after it, was the intended victim.
There was no need for Dick to urge that officers be sent to try to effect the capture of the scoundrels, for almost before he had finished telling the story, a large party of citizens started in search of the men, determined that they should answer for their crime.
Therefore, when Dick returned, it was with so large a following that the physicians rushed out in the greatest haste to insist on their keeping at a respectful distance from the house, lest the noise might affect their patient.
Bob and his partners were anxious to join in the search, and urged Ralph to accompany them, since he could do no good to George by remaining; but he refused to leave his friend, even though he could not aid him, and the party started without him, a look of determination on their faces that boded no good to the professed oil prospectors in case they should be caught.
During all of that night Ralph remained with George, listening to his delirious ravings, as he supposed he was still battling for his life with the men, and just at daybreak Bob returned alone. The search had been even more successful than any of the party had dared to hope for when they set out, for the men had been captured in the woods about four miles from the place where the assault had been made and in the pocket of one of them was the paper from which one corner had been left in George's hand. | ['Who stayed with George?', 'When?'] | {'answers': ['Ralph', 'all of that night'], 'answers_start': [1217, 1217], 'answers_end': [1269, 1269]} |
3tmfv4nep8e8v18qmv0jp0k45vvw8p | (CNN) -- Rafael Nadal may be most at home on a clay tennis court, but he has always found comfort on the sea.
The "King of Clay" has racked up countless titles on his favored surface, but hailing from the island of Majorca, the Balearic Sea has also been the scene for much personal enjoyment.
There was no better way, then, for Nadal to gear up for this week's ATP Monte-Carlo Masters than to sail around Monaco's harbor while being treated to spectacular views of the Cote d'Azur coastline.
The world No. 1 -- who is looking to reclaim his title in the Principality after Novak Djokovic ended his eight-year reign in 2013 -- jumped on board the Tuiga, manning the rudder and learning the ropes of how to sail the Yacht Club de Monaco's flagship.
"It was a wonderful way to enjoy an afternoon," Nadal told the ATP World Tour's official website. "It was a special experience for me. I am from an island, so the sea, the sails and everything involved means a lot to me."
Nadal, who will also be looking to avenge last month's Miami Masters final defeat to Djokovic, still lives in the Majorcan town of Manacor where he was born.
But while the 27-year-old is more likely to be found on a motor boat than a sailing ship in the waters outside his house, his experience in Monte Carlo has left a lasting impression on him.
"I spend a lot of time on the sea when I'm at home, especially in the summer. I live in front of the sea and the port is three minutes from my home," he said. | ['Where does Nadall find comfort?', 'Where is most at home though?', 'Does he have a royal nickname?', 'Where is he from?', 'Has the Baltic Sea been a source of pleasure for him?', 'Where is he planning to take a trip to?', 'What event is he getting ready for?', 'Is he ranked tenth in something?', 'What is he seeking vengeance for?', 'What vessel is he saling on?'] | {'answers': ['the sea', 'tennis court', 'The "King of Clay"', 'Majorca', 'yes.', 'sailing around Monaco', 'ATP Monte-Carlo Masters', 'no', "efeat in Miami Master's", 'Tuiga'], 'answers_start': [84, 19, 112, 206, 225, 389, 365, 499, 987, 642], 'answers_end': [110, 64, 131, 224, 296, 497, 390, 605, 1049, 660]} |
3b837j3ldowl6p6d1zwijscopa6rs0 | Darren Wilson was just one of 53 officers in a small-town police department until his encounter with an 18-year-old August 9 on a street in Ferguson, Missouri.
"He was a gentle, quiet man," Police Chief Thomas Jackson said Friday, referring to Wilson. "He was a distinguished officer. He was a gentleman. ... He is, he has been, an excellent officer."
Authorities, citing death threats, had until Friday refused to release Wilson's name after he fatally shot Michael Brown.
A resident of the St. Louis area, Wilson, 28, has been staying at a secure location since the shooting.
It was not known whether Wilson -- an officer for six years, including four in Ferguson -- had been placed on modified assignment. Jackson told reporters the officer had faced no disciplinary action during his time on the job.
Wilson lives in a neighborhood of modest homes about 20 miles from Ferguson. Neighbors, who seemed angry and worried about the sudden attention on their quiet community, were reluctant to talk about Wilson. Several said the officer left his home days ago.
Brown was African-American; Wilson is white.
One of Wilson's friends, Jake Shepard, said he couldn't imagine the officer killing somebody.
"I can say -- without speaking to Darren, without even having heard his statements -- that, at that moment in time, he was scared for his life," Shepard said.
"I am 100% positive of that because I could never imagine him even in that situation -- taking someone's life, let alone taking someone's life with malicious intent. He's just the last person on Earth that you would think to do something like that. It's just shocking. | ['Who died?', 'What race was Brown?', 'How old was he?', 'How did Brown die?', 'Who shot him?', 'What profession was Wilson?', 'How long had he been an officer?', 'What police force was he currently an officer for?', 'How long had he been with them?', 'How old was he?'] | {'answers': ['Michael Brown', 'African-American', 'unknown', 'shot', 'Darren Wilson', 'officer', 'six years', 'Ferguson', 'four years', '28'], 'answers_start': [449, 1073, -1, 447, 0, 0, 586, 611, 621, 513], 'answers_end': [478, 1099, -1, 478, 478, 41, 645, 673, 673, 525]} |
304sm51wa34yqipo52asjd7k6eubsd | For many girls, having long beautiful hair is something to beproud of. Rachel Barrett, 15, recently cut her long hair and lookedlike a boy. But she was also proud of herself. She donated herhair to a charity and raised a lot of money.Barrett is a middle school student in Britain. On Nov. 16 at her school's talent contest, Barrett had her hair cut off in front of around 300 students. The hair would be used to make wigs for children with cancer. She has raised several thousand pounds and the money will help people with breast cancer . Barrett got the idea when she visited her friend's mom with cancer. "All of her hair had fallen out, and it really made me want to do something," Barrett said. When she found out that the charity Little Princess Trust could make wigs for children with cancer, she decided to donate her own hair, even though she loved it. "I saw how sad it was for my friend's mom to lose her hair. So if my hair can go to help a young child with cancer then it's worth it," she said. Cath Stanton, a teacher, felt proud of the girl. "She's always been very well groomed , so for her to cut all her hair off really moves us," she said. "She has done a moving job." Many students were moved by her courage and donated money. | ['Why did Rachel cut her hari?', 'Where is she a middle school student at?', 'Who did the charaty she donate to benifit?', 'Who is the insperation behind her donation?', 'At what event did she get her hair cut off at?', 'What was the date of the event?', 'Was Cath Stanton impressed by the guesture?', 'Did other students get inspired to donate in any way?', 'What is it that was donated by them?', 'How old was Rachel when all this took place?'] | {'answers': ['to donate it', 'in Britain', 'children with cancer', "her friend's mom", "her school's talent contest", 'Nov. 16', 'yes', 'yes', 'money', '15'], 'answers_start': [175, 269, 425, 577, 294, 283, 1007, 1187, 1239, 87], 'answers_end': [207, 279, 446, 593, 322, 291, 1054, 1245, 1244, 89]} |
33lkr6a5kekyskkbs5mtn6qxnpg1th | In 1059, the right of electing the pope was reserved to the principal clergy of Rome and the bishops of the seven suburbicarian sees. In the 12th century the practice of appointing ecclesiastics from outside Rome as cardinals began, with each of them assigned a church in Rome as his titular church or linked with one of the suburbicarian dioceses, while still being incardinated in a diocese other than that of Rome.[citation needed]
The term cardinal at one time applied to any priest permanently assigned or incardinated to a church, or specifically to the senior priest of an important church, based on the Latin cardo (hinge), meaning "principal" or "chief". The term was applied in this sense as early as the ninth century to the priests of the tituli (parishes) of the diocese of Rome. The Church of England retains an instance of this origin of the title, which is held by the two senior members of the College of Minor Canons of St Paul's Cathedral. | ['How was it in 1059?', 'Who elected the Pope in 1059?', 'When did it change?', 'What changed then?', 'What is a cardinal?', 'where does the name come from?', 'Do other churches besides Catholic use it?'] | {'answers': ['unknown', 'the principal clergy of Rome and select bishops', 'the 12th century', 'ecclesiastics were appointed from outside Rome as cardinals', 'the senior priest of an important church', 'the Latin cardo (hinge)', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [-1, 9, 134, 158, 455, 600, 795], 'answers_end': [-1, 132, 231, 231, 664, 664, 864]} |
340ugxu9dy1te9fyzowszqjfvk3vuq | CHAPTER XLII
LOVE REMAINS
Wrayson rode slowly up the great avenue, and paused at the bend to see for the first time at close quarters the house, which from the valley below had seemed little more than a speck of white set in a deep bower of green. Seen at close quarters its size amazed him. With its cluster of outbuildings, it occupied nearly the whole of the plateau, which was like a jutting tableland out from the side of the mountain. It was of two stories only, and encircled with a great veranda supported by embowered pillars. Free at last from the densely growing trees, Wrayson, for the first time during his long climb, caught an uninterrupted view of the magnificent panorama below. A land of hills, of black forests and shining rivers; a land uncultivated but rich in promise, magnificent in its primitivism. It was a wonderful dwelling this, of which the owner, springing down from the veranda, was now on his way to meet his guest.
The two men shook hands with unaffected heartiness. Duncan Fitzmaurice, in his white linen riding clothes, seemed taller than ever, a little gaunt and thin, too, from a recent attack of fever. There was no doubt about the pleasure with which he received his guest.
"Where is Louise?" he asked, looking behind down the valley.
"Coming up in the wagons," Wrayson answered. "She has been riding all day and was tired."
A Kaffir boy came out with a tray and glasses. Wrayson helped himself to a whisky and soda, and lit a cigar. | ['Who was being greeted?', 'What was his name?', 'And the man doing the greeting?', 'How did they greet?', 'Was it exuberant?', 'Had the greeter been recently ill?', 'What was his stature?', 'And fat?', 'Was his home on a hill or in between hills?', 'Big or small?', 'How tall was it?', 'Is there a desert all around?', 'What then?', 'Any bodies of water?', 'Such as?', 'bland or sparkly?', "Who hadn't gotten there yet?", 'What did they have to drink?', 'And?', 'Who brought it?'] | {'answers': ['his guest', 'Wrayson', 'Duncan Fitzmaurice', 'The two men shook hands', 'yes', 'yes', 'tall', 'no', 'on a hill', 'big', 'two stories', 'no', 'A land of hills', 'yes', 'rivers', 'sparkly', 'the owner', 'whisky', 'soda', 'A Kaffir boy'], 'answers_start': [1207, 30, 1004, 954, 954, 1114, 1067, 1088, 30, 250, 454, 541, 699, 737, 745, 737, 870, 1451, 1462, 1376], 'answers_end': [1217, 37, 1024, 978, 1004, 1146, 1086, 1110, 252, 294, 466, 700, 715, 752, 752, 752, 879, 1458, 1466, 1389]} |
3e13vnj1nnv8j640ytnp9zooci3i14 | CHAPTER XIV. FORTEMANI DRINKS WATER
The thing had begun with the lowering glances that Francesco had observed, and had grown to gibes and insults after he had disappeared. But Lanciotto had preserved an unruffled front, being a man schooled in the Count of Aquila's service to silence and a wondrous patience. This insensibility those hinds translated into cowardice, and emboldened by it--like the mongrels that they were--their offensiveness grew more direct and gradually more threatening. Lanciotto's patience was slowly oozing away, and indeed, it was no longer anything but the fear of provoking his master's anger that restrained him. At length one burly ruffian, who had bidden him remove his head-piece in the company of gentlemen, and whose request had been by Lanciotto as disregarded as the rest, advanced menacingly towards him and caught him by the leg, as Ercole had caught his master. Exasperated at that, Lanciotto had swung his leg free, and caught the rash fellow a vicious kick in the face that had felled him, stunned and bleeding.
The roar from the man's companions told Lanciotto what to expect. In an instant they were upon him, clamouring for his blood. He sought to draw his master's sword, which together with the Count's other armour was slung across his saddle-bow; but before he could extricate it, he was seized by a dozen hands, and cropped, fighting, from the saddle. On the ground they overpowered him, and a mailed hand was set upon his mouth, crushing back into his throat the cry for help he would have raised. | ['Who did Lanciotto work for?'] | {'answers': ["Count of Aquila'"], 'answers_start': [250], 'answers_end': [266]} |
3z9wi9eozzoatcf20lbme2j8ld5hky | (CNN) -- After months of bloodshed, intrigue and revenge that made Yemen seem like an Arabian version of Hamlet, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally transferred his powers to his vice president, and elections are to be held in three months.
At the ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to seal the transition deal worked out by the Gulf Cooperation Council, Saleh seemed relaxed and even chuckled as he signed several copies of the agreement, the result of intense diplomatic shuttling by U.N. envoy Jamal bin Omar and growing pressure from the international community.
But Saleh also took a parting shot at his opponents, saying they had destroyed in months everything that had been built over years.
April Longley Alley, Yemen analyst at the International Crisis Group, says the Riyadh deal offers an "opportunity to move past the current political impasse and to deal with critical issues like deteriorating economic and humanitarian conditions as well as the very difficult task of institutional reform."
Even so, Longley Alley and other analysts expect the epilogue to be anything but predictable. There are plenty of competing elements left behind: the thousands of mainly young demonstrators who took to the streets of Sanaa and other cities in January to demand democratic change, the tribal alliance that took up arms against Saleh, secessionists in the south and a Shiite rebellion in the north, well-organized Islamist groups and a budding al Qaeda franchise.
Perhaps the most powerful figure in Yemen now is Brig. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, commander of the 1st Armored Division. He defected in March and took a chunk of the army with him. His units now control northern districts of the capital and are facing off against powerful remnants of the Saleh clan. The president's son, Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, long groomed to be his successor, and his nephew, Yahya Muhammad Saleh, command the most effective units. | ['Where did the bloodshed occur', 'Name the president who transferred his power?', 'to who?', 'When will the election take place?', 'What was happening at the ceremony?', "How was Saleh's reaction?", 'did he sign papers?', 'Did he blame his opponents?', 'What did he say?', 'Name the UN envoy?'] | {'answers': ['unknown', 'President Ali Abdullah Saleh s', 'to his vice president', 'three months.', 'to seal the transition deal worked out by the Gulf Cooperation Council', 'seemed relaxed', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'they had destroyed in months everything that had been built over years.', 'Jamal bin Omar'], 'answers_start': [-1, 113, 177, 199, 288, 361, 402, 575, 627, 492], 'answers_end': [-1, 177, 198, 247, 359, 381, 445, 627, 707, 517]} |
3rgu30dzta81a6av9xrn5srrmxbjmq | During the 14th century in the northeastern part of the state nomad tribes by the name of Jornado hunted bison along the Rio Grande; they left numerous rock paintings throughout the northeastern part of the state. When the Spanish explorers reached this area they found their descendants, Suma and Manso tribes. In the southern part of the state, in a region known as Aridoamerica, Chichimeca people survived by hunting, gathering, and farming between AD 300 and 1300. The Chichimeca are the ancestors of the Tepehuan people.
During the Napoleonic Occupation of Spain, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest of progressive ideas, declared Mexican independence in the small town of Dolores, Guanajuato on September 16, 1810 with a proclamation known as the "Grito de Dolores". Hidalgo built a large support among intellectuals, liberal priests and many poor people. Hidalgo fought to protect the rights of the poor and indigenous population. He started on a march to the capital, Mexico City, but retreated back north when faced with the elite of the royal forces at the outskirts of the capital. He established a liberal government from Guadalajara, Jalisco but was soon forced to flee north by the royal forces that recaptured the city. Hidalgo attempted to reach the United States and gain American support for Mexican independence. HIdalgo reached Saltillo, Coahuila where he publicly resigned his military post and rejected a pardon offered by Viceroy Francisco Venegas in return for Hidalgo's surrender. A short time later, he and his supporters were captured by royalist Ignacio Elizondo at the Wells of Baján (Norias de Baján) on March 21, 1811 and taken to the city of Chihuahua. Hidalgo forced the Bishop of Valladolid, Manuel Abad y Queipo, to rescind the excommunication order he had circulated against him on September 24, 1810. Later, the Inquisition issued an excommunication edict on October 13, 1810 condemning Miguel Hidalgo as a seditionary, apostate, and heretic. | ['Who was the progressive Catholic?', 'What did he do in Dolores?', 'When?', 'What was the document called that made declaration?', 'How many groups did he get help from?', 'Did he start his journey in Guadalupe?', 'Where did he start it?', 'Did he ever resign his spot in the military?', 'Where?', 'Was he excommunicated?', 'When?', 'By who?', 'Did they give four reasons for this?', 'How many?', 'What were they?', 'Are other wanders mentioned?', 'Who was the capturer?', 'Where did this happen?', 'On what date?', 'Were the detainees moved to Tijuana?'] | {'answers': ['Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla', 'He fought to protect the rights of the poor and indigenous population', 'September 16, 1810', 'Grito de Dolores', 'Three', 'No', 'Dolores, Guanajuato', 'Yes', 'Saltillo, Coahuila', 'Yes', 'October 13, 1810', 'The Inquisition', 'No', 'Three', 'a seditionary, apostate, and heretic.', 'unknown', 'Ignacio Elizondo', 'Wells of Baján (Norias de Baján)', 'March 21, 1811', 'No'], 'answers_start': [571, 880, 712, 765, 821, 698, 689, 1384, 1359, 1872, 1907, 1855, 1955, 1955, 1953, -1, 1585, 1609, 1645, 1664], 'answers_end': [596, 947, 730, 781, 871, 708, 708, 1422, 1377, 1903, 1924, 1871, 1990, 1990, 1990, -1, 1601, 1641, 1659, 1694]} |
3b1nlc6ugzwx47h7t7ycpjt60fdpg7 | When it comes to relationship, we spend a lot of time discussing their joys, but rarely talk about the pain when they break down. Yet most people have a story about a broken relationship.
For Jane Black, a six-year friendship ended when her friend was rude to one of her children. "After quite a few drinks at a party in my house, she said something rude to my child. I ended the friendship face to face at the party," she says. "I didn't realize what I was doing at the time, I was simply standing up for my child, but in her eyes any challenge was a betrayal."
When Angela Thompson noticed a seven-year friendship disappearing, she let it go. "I didn't know how to deal with the issue. I didn't sit down for a grown-up conversation; I just walked away quietly." The decision caused a reaction among Thompson's other friends. "The other friends in the circle are the worst people when you are trying to break up with a friend," she says. "They don't want you to stop being friends, because it puts them in a difficult position. You get told to just get it over."
Though we have plenty of measures for handling conflict at work or family fight, we still don't have good ways of ending friendships. Do we sit down and properly break up, or just walk away? Psychologist Serena Cauchy has the following advice.
Don't blame.
Talk about your needs and feeling rather than talking like a Dutch uncle.
Do talk about your needs.
Talk about why the friendship is not working for you--about how your needs aren't being met.
Don't gossip.
Negative talk hurts everyone involved and in some cases can make matters worse.
Don't be so accessible.
If there is a common wish to conclude the friendship, then you can remove it. | ['What is the profession of the person who gives advice in the story?', 'Is it a man or woman?', 'What is her first name?', 'And last?', 'What is her 1st piece of advice?', 'What does she compare talking about your needs and feelings to?', 'Does she recommend you gossip?', 'How does she feel about being accessible?', 'How long was the friendship that Jane Black ended?', 'Why did she end it?', 'Had her friend had anything to drink?', 'How many?', 'Did she end the friendship via email?', 'How then?', 'Did she realize what she was doing?', 'How did her friend see the challenge?', 'What did Angela Thompson do when she noticed a friendship disappearing?', 'Did she know how to deal with the issue?', 'Did she run away?', 'What did her decision cause among other friends?'] | {'answers': ['Psychologist', 'woman', 'Serena', 'Cauchy', "Don't blame", 'a Dutch uncle', 'no', "Don't be", 'six years', 'her friend was rude', 'yes', 'quite a few', 'no', 'face to face', 'no', 'as a betrayal', 'let it go', 'no', 'no', 'a reaction'], 'answers_start': [1261, 1261, 1261, 1260, 1316, 1331, 1530, 1628, 190, 239, 284, 283, 369, 370, 431, 480, 567, 650, 739, 768], 'answers_end': [1314, 1314, 1312, 1314, 1327, 1403, 1544, 1651, 233, 281, 332, 331, 421, 419, 477, 565, 647, 690, 765, 830]} |
3zy8ke4isj31mg8hifcnppmqss9vqj | (CNN) -- CNN marked a milestone Monday. Just before noon, the @cnnbrk account topped 10 million followers on Twitter. That puts our Twitter account in the company of Lady Gaga, President Barack Obama and Cristiano Ronaldo.
To mark the occasion, it's worth reflecting how we got here.
The first tweet on @cnnbrk wasn't news, and it wasn't written by an employee of CNN.
"Testing" is what James Cox tweeted in January 2007.
Cox said he started the account as a way to receive CNN's breaking news alerts on his phone. The account started to grow and gain attention. Journalist and fellow developer Brian Boyer posted this to his blog back in 2008: "@cnnbrk ain't CNN but with >30K followers, he owns the brand."
Cox wrote a response to that post: "I've been in contact with CNN -- they won't sue, i'm fairly sure, however i'm constantly dealing with the problem of confusion -- users still think that @cnnbrk is an official feed, therefore making me a defacto CNN employee, which is a problem."
We didn't sue, but we did work out a deal to get the handle.
As we celebrate reaching the 10-million-follower mark, Cox is the first person we should thank.
The second person to thank, naturally, is Ashton Kutcher. In 2009, he challenged CNN to a competition to see who could first reach 1 million followers. Kutcher won. At more than 13 million followers, @aplusk is still in the lead. And we're still coming after him.
We have a simple approach to @cnnbrk, and we believe that's one of the keys to its success. Breaking news, from an organization that built its brand on breaking news. Straight up. | ['When did the cable network mark a milestone?', 'What was it?', 'Do they have more followers than Lady Gaga?', 'Who penned their first tweet?', 'Why did he create the account?', 'How many followers did they have in 2008?', 'Does Cox work for CNN?', 'Did they file a lawsuit against him?', 'Who else does the network thank?', 'Why?'] | {'answers': ['Monday', '10 million followers on Twitter', 'No', 'James Cox', "a way to receive CNN's breaking news alerts on his phone", '>30k', "No@cnnbrk ain't CNN but with >30K followers, he owns the brand", 'No', 'Ashton Kutcher.', 'Challenged them to a competition'], 'answers_start': [9, 39, 118, 376, 430, 603, 654, 1004, 1165, 1165], 'answers_end': [39, 117, 223, 428, 521, 718, 714, 1065, 1222, 1429]} |
3qapzx2qn4d41w5gd7yx8eyxho8205 | There was once a leprechaun named Tony who spent his days at the end of a rainbow guarding his golden bowl of cereal. Tony was one of the toughest leprechauns in all the land, so no one dared to mess with him or try to take his bowl. That is, until an angel named Jess fell from Heaven. Jess had broken her wing, so she had no choice but stay on Earth, and could not return to the sky. So she chose to make the best of it and went to see all of the beautiful and interesting things on Earth. One day, she came across Tony's rainbow, and was amazed by it. She followed the rainbow to the end, wondering what could be there. Then she saw it: Tony's golden bowl. From the time she saw the bowl, she knew she wanted it. She had heard about how tasty cereal was when she lived in Heaven, but she never tried it for herself. When she went to have some of the cereal, Tony the Leprechaun popped out from behind the rainbow and laughed at her. "Don't you know," he said, "that I'm the toughest leprechaun in all the land? What makes you think you can eat a box of cereal from my golden bowl?" The angel saw that he was right, and she couldn't argue with him. So she left to find something to trade. She came across a seesaw which looked very interesting. She thought that Tony might like it, so she brought the seesaw to his rainbow and said, "I've come bearing a seesaw." When Tony saw the seesaw, he loved it. He didn't argue or laugh at Jess, and traded for his bowl right there. Jess ate from it, and it was delicious. | ['What was Tony?', 'Where did he spend his day?', 'Doing what?', 'Was he weak?', 'Who was Jess?', 'Why did she have to stay on Earth?', 'What happened when she came across the rainbow?', 'What did she find at the end of it?', 'Did she want it?', 'What did she hear about in Heaven?'] | {'answers': ['a leprechaun', 'end of a rainbow', 'guarding his golden bowl of cereal.', 'no', 'an angel', 'Jess had broken her wing', 'was amazed by it', 'golden bowl', 'yes', 'how tasty cereal was'], 'answers_start': [15, 65, 82, 128, 249, 287, 537, 647, 692, 736], 'answers_end': [27, 81, 117, 175, 257, 311, 553, 658, 724, 755]} |
3pq8k71nhxkp7cy2ioo532t83xnaal | Boxing was long viewed sickly. Generally forbidden by law in earlier days, the fighting was usually done with bare fists, and matches often lasted forty or fifty rounds.
In 1882 John L. Sullivan, a fighter of great power, won the world heavyweight championship from Paddy Ryan in a bare fisted battle marked by hitting, scratching, and biting without any rule. Five years later, while fighting Patsy Cardiff at Minneapolis, Sullivan broke his right arm in the third round, but he continued fighting to the sixth round and won. In 1889, Sullivan defeated Jade Kilrain with his bare fists in another championship fight, winning twenty thousand dollars and a diamond prize medal. His admirers talked then of running him for the next governor, but he traveled to Australia for a boxing tour instead, coming back only to lose his title in a twenty-one-round match with a young Californian named James J. Corbett.
"Gentleman James" victory in this match marked a turning point, for it showed scientific boxing was over strength. But Corbett's title ended in 1897, when another boxer, Bob Fitzsimmons, in less than three seconds, achieved his feats and then Fitzsimmons knocked out an Irishman, won the heavyweight championship of the world, and invented the terrible "solar plexus punch." | ['How was boxing viewed?', 'Was it allowed by law?', 'How many rounds do matches last?', 'Who won the 1882 world heavyweight championship?', 'What happened to Sullivan five years later?', 'Was he defeated?', 'How did he fight?', 'How much did he win?', 'What else?', "When did Corbett's title end?", 'Who beat him?', 'What did he create?'] | {'answers': ['sickly', 'no', 'forty or fifty', 'John L. Sullivan', 'he broke his right arm in a match', 'no', 'with his bare fists', 'twenty thousand dollars', 'a diamond prize medal', '1897', 'Bob Fitzsimmons', 'the "solar plexus punch."'], 'answers_start': [23, 31, 147, 180, 435, 426, 538, 627, 656, 1056, 1082, 1265], 'answers_end': [29, 73, 161, 196, 454, 527, 588, 651, 677, 1060, 1097, 1286]} |
3hpzf4ivnmtew9t3i8yccj136okcy2 | The motif of the England national football team has three lions passant guardant, the emblem of King Richard I, who reigned from 1189 to 1199. The lions, often blue, have had minor changes to colour and appearance. Initially topped by a crown, this was removed in 1949 when the FA was given an official coat of arms by the College of Arms; this introduced ten Tudor roses, one for each of the regional branches of the FA. Since 2003, England top their logo with a star to recognise their World Cup win in 1966; this was first embroidered onto the left sleeve of the home kit, and a year later was moved to its current position, first on the away shirt.
Although England's first away kits were blue, England's traditional away colours are red shirts, white shorts and red socks. In 1996, England's away kit was changed to grey shirts, shorts and socks. This kit was only worn three times, including against Germany in the semi-final of Euro 96 but the deviation from the traditional red was unpopular with supporters and the England away kit remained red until 2011, when a navy blue away kit was introduced. The away kit is also sometimes worn during home matches, when a new edition has been released to promote it. | ['Which team uses the emblem of past royalty as their motif?', 'what is on it?', 'what royalty did it belong to?', 'when did he rule?', 'what color are the lions?', 'what changes have been made?', 'when?', 'why?', 'by who?', 'what was added to the motif?', 'what was the significance?', 'what color uniform do they usually wear?', 'has it always been that color?', 'what have they been before?', 'what did the star symbolize that was added to the logo?', 'when?', 'where is the logo worn?'] | {'answers': ['the England national football team', 'three lions passant guardant', 'King Richard I', '1189 to 1199', 'blue', 'a crown was removed', '1949', 'they were given an official coat of arms', 'the College of Arms', 'ten Tudor roses', 'one for each of the regional branches of the FA', 'grey shirts, shorts and socks', 'no', 'blue and then red', 'their World Cup win', '1966', 'the left sleeve'], 'answers_start': [12, 52, 96, 129, 159, 244, 264, 277, 318, 355, 372, 823, 689, 695, 481, 505, 543], 'answers_end': [47, 80, 110, 141, 164, 260, 268, 315, 338, 371, 420, 852, 699, 743, 501, 509, 558]} |
3ijxv6uz1xjwcb3hwn24fq61f3pir1 | Travelling around the world is a dream for many people, but a young couple from China has made his dream come true. They drove along the ancient Silk Road, from China to the UK. Luo Chang and Ding Jie, a young couple from China's Guizhou Province, spent two months drving from their home in Shanghai all the way to London. The journey covered about 20,000 kilometer, and they crossed 14 countries and regions . Ding Jie said, " People were excited to see two travelers driving a foreign license car, appearing on their streets. We were stopped many times to take photos with them. Sometimes, when we couldn't understand each other's language, they would express their ideas with gestures . During their driving trip, they also spent many nights in local people's homes. Luo Chang said, "This is an amazing experience. We were driving on a highway or a country road to someone's home. Someone you've never met but was already preparing dinner for you. We feelwe have friends all over the world. During the trip, Luo and Ding took nearly 10,000 photos and kept diaries to record the beautiful scenery , the friendly people and the different customs on the way. ,. | ['What is a dream for many people?', 'Where are the young people from?', 'How long did they spend traveling from home?', 'How many countries did they drive through?', 'Where did they sleep during their travels?', 'How many pictures did they get?', 'What was the distance of their trip?', 'What were people excited to see?', 'Who was cooking a meal for them?', "What did they do when they couldn't understand eachother?"] | {'answers': ['Travelling around the world', 'China', 'two months', '14', "local people's homes.", '10,000', '20,000 km', 'two travelers driving a foreign license car', "Someone they've never met", 'use gestures'], 'answers_start': [0, 0, 178, 322, 690, 992, 323, 427, 884, 581], 'answers_end': [55, 116, 321, 408, 769, 1161, 409, 526, 950, 689]} |
31lm9edvols7sovvly6ni7grrnbjng | CHAPTER VI
SEWATIS
Stephen was naturally surprised when, on being awakened, he was informed of the departure of Sewatis with the prisoner; but he did not regard it as a matter of any very great importance, save as it indicated that the disreputable half-breed would not probably be seen in Portsmouth again.
"Most likely Jim Albert did some wrong to the members of Sewatis's tribe, and that is why the old fellow hung around here, waiting for just such a chance as he finally got. I don't see why we should trouble our heads about it."
"I am sorry Sewatis has gone. In addition to being of great assistance to me, he was a companion, and now I shall be entirely alone."
"In that way it has worked you an injury," Stephen replied, carelessly; "but on the other hand, you need not fear the half-breed will hunt you down again in behalf of Sam Haines, which is more than a fair off-set."
Walter made no reply; a sensation of utter loneliness such as he never before experienced had come over him, and he would have been better pleased to know James Albert was seeking an opportunity to arrest him, providing that by such a change in the situation of affairs Sewatis had remained.
It was useless to give words to his troubles, however, and he did his best to appear contented, lest Stephen should carry to his mother the report that her son had lost courage.
Walter prepared the morning meal; Stephen did full justice to it, and then made ready to take his departure. | ['Who left?', 'Who with?', "Who did wrong against the man's group?", 'How did Stephen feel about Sewatis leaving?', 'Why?', 'How was Walter feeling?', 'Did he show it?', 'How did he appear?', 'How cooked breakfast?', 'Who was preparing to leave?'] | {'answers': ['Sewatis', 'the prisoner', 'Jim Albert', 'sorry', 'he was great assistance to him', 'lonely', 'no', 'contented', 'Walter', 'Stephen'], 'answers_start': [103, 116, 327, 545, 586, 897, 1246, 1250, 1371, 1405], 'answers_end': [123, 141, 367, 574, 640, 950, 1285, 1286, 1403, 1479]} |
3vsolarpkb9bi8pch3vvkz4irc4398 | CHAPTER I.
SIR LIONEL GOES TO HIS WOOING.
Yes, they were off. All the joys of that honeymoon shall be left to the imagination of the reader. Their first conversation, as it took place in the carriage which bore them from Mr. Bertram's door, has been given. Those which followed were probably more or less of the same nature. Sir Henry, no doubt, did strive to give some touch of romance to the occasion; but in no such attempt would his wife assist him. To every material proposition that he made, she gave a ready assent; in everything she acceded to his views; she would dine at two, or at eight, as he pleased; she was ready to stay two weeks, or only two days in Paris, as best suited him; she would adapt herself to pictures, or to architecture, or to theatres, or to society, or to going on and seeing nothing, exactly as he adapted himself. She never frowned, or looked black, or had headaches, or couldn't go on, or wouldn't stay still, or turned herself into a Niobean deluge, as some ladies, and very nice ladies too, will sometimes do on their travels. But she would not talk of love, or hold his hand, or turn her cheek to his. She had made her bargain, and would keep to it. Of that which she had promised him, she would give him full measure; of that which she had not promised him--of which she had explained to him that she had nothing to give--of that she would make no attempt to give anything. | ['Was she in love?', 'Did they hold hands?', 'Why?', 'What happened on the Honeymoon?', 'Who is the first person mentioned by name?', 'And the second?', 'Was he romantic?', 'Did his wife help?', 'Who Chose when they ate?', 'Where was the Honeymoon?'] | {'answers': ['No', 'No', 'She had not promised him that', 'unknown', 'Mr. Bertram', 'Sir Henry', 'Yes', 'No', 'Sir Henry', 'Paris'], 'answers_start': [1067, 1066, 1192, -1, 145, 262, 329, 329, 567, 618], 'answers_end': [1142, 1142, 1415, -1, 244, 338, 407, 456, 616, 696]} |
3kxir214i4gl0knhw8lzkhoazwd243 | Tristan da Cunha /ˈtrɪstən də ˈkuːnjə/, colloquially Tristan, is both a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) from the nearest inhabited land, Saint Helena, 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) from the nearest continental land, South Africa, and 3,360 kilometres (2,090 mi) from South America. The territory consists of the main island, also named Tristan da Cunha, which has a north–south length of 11.27 kilometres (7.00 mi) and has an area of 98 square kilometres (38 sq mi), along with the smaller, uninhabited Nightingale Islands and the wildlife reserves of Inaccessible and Gough Islands.
Tristan da Cunha is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. This includes Saint Helena and equatorial Ascension Island some 3,730 kilometres (2,318 mi) to the north of Tristan. The island has a population of 267 as of January 2016. | ['Which ocean are they located in?', 'Are they close to land?', 'How far away are they?', 'How many people live there?', 'What nation calls them their own?', 'How big is the largest?', 'What is the total size?', 'Are all of them populated?', "Which aren't?", 'How were they formed?'] | {'answers': ['Atlantic Ocean', 'No', '2,000 kilometres from the nearest inhabited land', '267', 'Britain', '11.27 kilometres', '98 square kilometres', 'No', 'Nightingale Islands, Inaccessible and Gough Islands.', 'unknown'], 'answers_start': [72, 168, 226, 965, 740, 462, 569, 705, 657, -1], 'answers_end': [132, 211, 291, 1000, 798, 558, 608, 738, 738, -1]} |
3zpbjo59kp12f69s84pzapoi1y9dh6 | Baltimore (CNN) -- Erika Brannock, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing, anxiously purses her lips.
Her eyes jump and she is quick to smile and laugh.
This is what someone looks like waiting to meet the person, a stranger, who she believes saved her life.
"I told my cousin last night that it's kind of like the night before Christmas, where you're so excited, but nervous at the same time and you can't sleep," Brannock told CNN's AC360 on Wednesday.
'Ready to go home': Last victim, Brannock, leaves the hospital
Brannock is about to meet Amanda North, a woman who took her hand and did not let go.
The day of the marathon, the two women were standing near the finish line when the bombs went off.
North was there to watch her daughter run, while Brannock was supporting her mom.
Brannock was seriously injured. She suffered bone and tissue damage, eventually requiring the amputation of her lower left leg.
North was also injured. Like Brannock, her eardrums were busted.
She had cuts and lacerations on her leg. But in the immediate aftermath of the blast, North was unaware of her own injuries.
She just saw Brannock, who was clearly hurt more than she, and jumped in to help, offering her belt as a tourniquet for Brannock's leg.
Boston bombings destroy dancer's foot, but not her spirit
"She had heard me screaming for help and she said, 'My name is Joan from California, and I'm not going to let you go.' And she stayed with me the whole time," Brannock recalled. | ['Was Brannock seriously injured?', 'What type of damage did she sustain?', 'What did this eventually require?', 'How about North, was she injured?', 'Where were her injuries?', 'Was she aware of them?', 'Who was hurt worst, Brannock or North?', 'Did anyone offer to help?', 'How?', 'Where is Joan from?', 'How long did she stay with Brannock?', 'Who did Brannock grant an interview for on Wednesday?', 'How did she feel about the interview?', 'Did she relate it to a holiday?', 'Which one?', 'The day after?', 'Who was reunited on the show?', 'Where were they standing when the bombs went off?', 'Who was North there to watch?', 'What about Brannock?'] | {'answers': ['yes', 'bone and tissue damage', 'amputation of her lower left leg', 'yes', 'on her leg', 'no', 'Brannock', 'North', "offered her belt as a tourniquet for Brannock's leg", 'California', 'the whole time', "CNN's AC360", 'excited, but nervous', 'yes', 'Christmas', 'the night before', 'Brannock and North', 'near the finish line', 'her daughter', 'her mom'], 'answers_start': [803, 848, 897, 933, 1029, 1041, 1140, 1191, 1209, 1398, 1467, 437, 363, 306, 336, 319, 530, 671, 744, 792], 'answers_end': [833, 870, 929, 955, 1039, 1125, 1184, 1263, 1263, 1408, 1481, 448, 383, 345, 345, 335, 568, 691, 756, 799]} |
3d8you6s9ek8zj0xygokny3gep1u6j | Shanghai is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world with a population of more than 24 million . It is a global financial centre and transport hub, with the world's busiest container port. Located in the Yangtze River Delta, it sits on the south edge of the estuary of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the East China coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.
As a major administrative, shipping and trading city, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to trade and recognition of its favourable port location and economic potential. The city was one of five treaty ports forced open to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War. The subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking and 1844 Treaty of Whampoa allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement and the French Concession. The city then flourished as a centre of commerce between China and other parts of the world (predominantly Western countries), and became the primary financial hub of the Asia-Pacific region in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was limited to other socialist countries, and the city's global influence declined. In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city. | ['What is next to Shanghai on the east?', 'And one of the provinces on the the other sides?', 'And another?', 'What is its population?', 'What river is close to it?', 'After what event was it open to foreign trade?', 'Were there some treaties after that?', 'What was one of them?', 'And another?', 'When did the Communist Party come in?', 'What happened to international trade then?', 'Did it ever have a resurgence?', 'When?', 'Who was in charge then?', 'In the first place, what was one of the reasons for its growht?', 'How many ports had to open after the Opium War?', 'What did Deng Xiaoping do that let to better trade?', 'Can you name one thing that those two treaties we mentioned allowed?', 'Name another?', 'When did Shanghai become the most important financial center in its area?'] | {'answers': ['East China Sea.', 'Jiangsu', 'Zhejiang', 'more than 24 million', 'Yangtze', 'The British defeated China in the First Opium War', 'yes', 'the 1842 Treaty of Nanking', '1844 Treaty of Whampoa', '1949', 'it was limited', 'yes', 'in the 1990s', 'Deng Xiaoping', 'it had a favorable port location and economic potential', 'Five', 'economic reforms', 'the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement', 'the French Concession', 'the 1930s'], 'answers_start': [516, 393, 446, 123, 311, 776, 856, 863, 898, 1238, 1288, 1385, 1378, 1404, 644, 724, 1393, 929, 988, 1143], 'answers_end': [535, 458, 468, 159, 391, 855, 947, 893, 920, 1288, 1335, 1491, 1424, 1442, 724, 856, 1443, 987, 1013, 1219]} |
3snvl38ci4sjc44metxl3bms8i3ckh | CHAPTER XXV.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
At first Jimmy thought they were the perpetrators of the deed, but almost immediately he recognized one of them as O'Donnell, the erstwhile traffic officer who had been promoted to a detective sergeancy since Jimmy had first met him.
"Compton has been murdered," said Jimmy dully. "He is dead."
"Put up your hands," snapped O'Donnell for the second time, "and be quick about it!"
It was then for the first time that Jimmy realized the meaning that might be put upon his presence alone in the office with his dead employer. O'Donnell's partner searched him, but found no weapon upon him.
"Where's the gat?" he asked.
"Whoever did this probably took it with him," said Jimmy. "Find the watchman."
They made Jimmy sit down in a corner, and while one of them guarded him the other called up central, made his report, and asked for an ambulance and the wagon. Then O'Donnell commenced to examine the room. A moment later he found an automatic behind the door across the room from where Compton's body lay.
"Ever see this before?" asked O'Donnell, holding the pistol up to Jimmy.
"If you're asking me if it's mine, no," said Jimmy. "I have a gun, but it's home. I never carry it. I didn't do this, O'Donnell," he continued. "There was no reason why I should do it, so instead of wasting your time on me while the murderer escapes you'd better get busy on some other theory, too. It won't do any harm, anyway." | ["What is the protagonist's name?", 'Who did he recognize?', 'What were his first thoughts about them?', "What was O'Donnell's job?", 'And his current rank?', 'Had he been demoted?', 'What did the sergeant order him to do?', 'Did the officer say he could take his time?', 'What crime had been committed?', 'What was the name of the victim?', 'Had Jimmy been with him in the company of others?', 'What did the police do to him?', 'Did they locate a weapon on him?', 'Did the police ask him about a gun?', 'Where did Jimmy think it might be?', 'What did he suggest the police do?', 'What did the cops make him do next?', 'Who did they call?', 'What did they request?', 'Where did they finally locate the handgun?'] | {'answers': ['Jimmy', "O'Donnell", 'they were the perpetrators', 'traffic officer', 'detective sergeant', 'No.', 'Put up his hands', 'No.', 'murder', 'Compton', 'No.', 'searched him', 'No.', 'Yes.', 'Whoever did this probably took it with him.', 'Find the watchman', 'sit down in a corner', 'central', 'an ambulance and the wagon', 'behind the door'], 'answers_start': [51, 157, 65, 181, 225, 201, 342, 406, 296, 279, 514, 591, 609, 637, 669, 727, 765, 841, 881, 992], 'answers_end': [57, 166, 91, 198, 244, 220, 359, 423, 304, 287, 534, 603, 624, 654, 711, 744, 785, 848, 907, 1007]} |
3vnxk88kkcivuhrv1d113uw1hka9vz | CHAPTER 15
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice.
When Arthur went with his regiment to Windsor, the ladies intended to spend their evenings at home, a rule which had many exceptions, although Violet was so liable to suffer from late hours and crowded rooms, that Lady Elizabeth begged her to abstain from parties, and offered more than once to take charge of Theodora; but the reply always was that they went out very little, and that this once it would not hurt her.
The truth was that Theodora had expressed a decided aversion to going out with the Brandons. 'Lady Elizabeth sits down in the most stupid part of the room,' she said, 'and Emma stands by her side with the air of a martyr. They look like a pair of respectable country cousins set down all astray, wishing for a safe corner to run into, and wondering at the great and wicked world. And they go away inhumanly early, whereas if I do have the trouble of dressing, it shall not be for nothing. I ingeniously eluded all going out with them last year, and a great mercy it was to them.'
So going to a royal ball was all Theodora vouchsafed to do under Lady Elizabeth's protection; and as her objections could not be disclosed, Violet was obliged to leave it to be supposed that it was for her own gratification that she always accompanied her; although not only was the exertion and the subsequent fatigue a severe tax on her strength, but she was often uneasy and distressed by Theodora's conduct. Her habits in company had not been materially changed by her engagement; she was still bent on being the first object, and Violet sometimes felt that her manner was hardly fair upon those who were ignorant of her circumstances. For Theodora's own sake, it was unpleasant to see her in conversation with Mr. Gardner; and not only on her account, but on that of Lord St. Erme, was her uncertain treatment of him a vexation to Violet. | ['What spirit was referenced in the beginning of the chapter?', 'Who in the beginning of the story is travelling?', 'Was he alone?', 'Who was with him?', 'Who liked to venture to gatherings?', 'How many women were left behind when Arthur left?', 'What are their names?'] | {'answers': ['self-sacrifice.', 'Arthur', 'no', 'his regiment', 'unknown', 'Two', "Theodora had expressed a decided aversion to going out with the Brandons. 'Lady Elizabeth"], 'answers_start': [58, 80, 81, 98, -1, 1112, 516], 'answers_end': [74, 87, 121, 110, -1, 1160, 605]} |
32svav9l3f9pnrzh999vguf2wij3av | (CNN) -- Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan pathologist who put assisted suicide on the world's medical ethics stage, died early Friday, according to a spokesman with Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. He was 83.
The assisted-suicide advocate had been hospitalized for pneumonia and a kidney-related ailment, his attorney had said.
He had struggled with kidney problems for years and had checked into a hospital earlier this month for similar problems, his lawyer, Mayer Morganroth, said. He checked back into the hospital in the Detroit suburb on May 18 after suffering a relapse, Morganroth said.
Kevorkian, dubbed "Dr. Death," made national headlines as a supporter of physician-assisted suicide and "right-to-die" legislation. He was charged with murder numerous times through the 1990s for helping terminally ill patients take their own lives.
He was convicted on second-degree murder charges in 1999 stemming from the death of a patient who suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease. He was paroled in 2007.
After his release, he said he would not help end any more lives.
Morganroth told CNN Friday that he was summoned to the hospital Thursday night, with doctors telling him "the end was near" for Kevorkian.
1998 video sparked criminal case against Kevorkian
"The doctors and nurses were extremely supportive," Morganroth said. They played music by Kevorkian's favorite composer -- Bach -- in his room, and Kevorkian died about 2:30 a.m., Morganroth said.
Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who was Kervorkian's lawyer on several assisted-suicide cases, described Kevorkian as a "historic man." | ['Who died?', 'In what building?', 'Which is where?', 'What was his specialty?', 'What was he best known for?', 'Was he in jail?', 'When was he paroled?', 'What was his hickname?', 'Why was he in the hospital?', 'When did he check in for the last time?'] | {'answers': ['Dr. Jack Kevorkian', 'Beaumont Hospital', 'Royal Oak, Michigan.', 'pathology', "putting assisted suicide on the world's medical ethics stage.", 'no', 'in 2007.', '"Dr. Death,"', 'kidney problems', 'May 18'], 'answers_start': [8, 58, 99, 9, 0, 1043, 1042, 610, 341, 497], 'answers_end': [54, 206, 206, 115, 219, 1134, 1067, 641, 461, 608]} |
37z929rlg98ym4j55o1dj7d6cmptsi | 17-year-old Tibetan boy climbs 40 meters up a tall tree only to get some honey as an ingredient for a traditional local drink. The money he makes from selling the honey will be used to pay for his younger brother's tuition fee . This is only a scene from the first episode of CCTV's new documentary, A Bite of China 2(2), which appeared on April 18, 2014. But they are enough reasons for viewers to spend an hour every Friday until June 6 enjoying in front of their television sets. Viewers have had to wait a long time since A Bite of China 1 came out in 2012. Back then, the seven-episode documentary was considered the best one ever produced by CCTV, with its good effects and rich food culture. A famous foreigner praised it, saying "it's the best TV show I've ever seen about food. I'm sure it's the best one ever made. " The new season includes eight episodes, covering 300 types of food. According to CCTV, every minute of the show was edited out of 150 minutes of footage . Finding their subjects was often the hardest part of the film team's job. It took them six months to film a beekeeping couple , which included a journey of more than 2,000 kilometers. Food is a personal thing, in that no dish suits all tastes. However, the program has still managed to move all sorts of viewers. "Compared with A Bite of China 1, the new season has a more human touch, which makes viewers cover some tears while their mouths are watering," said Sina Entertainment. As always, the people are the most interesting part. A Bite of China 2 shows a greater dream--through homemade food, it tells the joys and _ of common Chinese in changing times, according to director Chen Xiaoqing of the documentary series . "I was moved by the people in each simple story," said Li Weifang, 17, of Beijing No 3 High School. "Their work helps enrich China's food culture. " In fact, that is exactly what the new season hopes to deliver . Through the program, "the listeners will see the characteristics of the Chinese people: save and tenacity ," Chen told Xinhua Internet. ,,. (2,10) | ['How old was the boy?', 'What does he sell?', 'What is the name of the documentary?', 'What night does it air?', 'What day of the week is that?', 'When did first come out?', 'How long did it take to find beekeepers?', 'How many types of food did they feature?', 'What country is featured?', 'How high is the Tree the boy climbs?', 'Where is he from?'] | {'answers': ['17 years old.', 'Honey', 'A Bite of China', 'April 18, 2014.', 'Friday', '2012.', 'Six months', '300', 'China.', '40 meters', 'Tibet'], 'answers_start': [0, 127, 229, 300, 356, 526, 1058, 866, 127, 31, 0], 'answers_end': [23, 226, 320, 355, 482, 561, 1107, 894, 355, 55, 23]} |
3wakvudhuwgr3je2hqtctc3c9s5u7m | When I was at University I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn't do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time playing than working in the library.
Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write "True" or "False". While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Thenhe told me of his plan. "It's very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I'll just toss the coin to decide the answers. That way, I'm sure I'll get half the questions right."
The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.
The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. "Oh, good," he said to the teacher, "Have you got the result of the test?" The teacher reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.
"I'm terribly sorry, Fred," he said, "You failed!" | ['Did Fred do enough work?', 'Where was he supposed to work?', 'What did he do instead?', 'What was Fred doing the night before the test?', 'Did Fred plan to guess his way through the test?', 'By flipping what?', 'How many questions did he have to get right to pass?', 'What fraction of the total number of test questions was this?', 'Who did Fred see in the hallway?', 'True or False: Fred passed his test.', 'How did the professor determine this?', 'Where did he get the coin from?', 'True or False: The test was multiple-choice.', 'Was Fred confident in the testing room?', 'How long did it take him to finish his test.', 'What was the narrator doing the night before the test?', 'True or False: It was a beginning-of-term test.', "What is Fred's surname?", 'Was the narrator a dedicated student?', 'How many of his friends worked hard like he did?'] | {'answers': ['no', 'in the library', 'played', 'watching TV', 'yes', 'a coin', 'fifty', 'half', 'the professor', 'False', 'flipped a coin', 'his pocket', 'false', 'yes', 'half an hour before the rest', 'studying', 'False', 'Baines', 'yes', 'very few'], 'answers_start': [188, 219, 197, 444, 715, 717, 669, 782, 1008, 1256, 1131, 1151, 377, 833, 956, 424, 246, 159, 0, 46], 'answers_end': [244, 242, 214, 491, 761, 739, 705, 815, 1054, 1306, 1254, 1166, 410, 941, 990, 443, 273, 170, 45, 126]} |
392cy0qwg1rpb51jlb6r7xvro4v4ip | (CNN) -- If they were handing out awards for courage in the face of personal trauma, 70-year-old Bob Yelton would scoop the lot at this week's World Amateur Handicap Championships.
Yelton is one of just 13 golfers who have played in all 28 previous editions of the biggest tournament of its type in the world, which brings nearly 3,100 players from 25 countries and 49 states of the U.S. to the Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina.
His streak was nearly broken last year, and in the circumstances nobody would have held it against him if he had taken time out.
Just before the tournament, Martha, his wife of 22 years, was taken ill and passed away just a week later.
There had been no hint of a problem -- Martha taught at a community school in Shelby in North Carolina and played a bit of golf herself.
"She mostly just walked the course with me," recalled Bob.
Her death hit him hard and he was left with the prospect of raising his then 15-year-old son Porter alone. In the circumstances, his annual pilgrimage to Myrtle was low priority. "I had no interest in playing golf."
But with encouragement from his brother Don, who has also played in every World Am, and crucially an intervention from his son, Bob did indeed pitch up.
"Dad, Mum would have wanted you to play," said Porter and he did, thinking about Martha just about every step of the way.
In retrospect, the stress of dealing with his wife's premature death and continuing to practice as a business lawyer may well have taken a bigger toll on Bob than he was to realize. | ['What sport does Yelton play?', 'did he play in a tournament?', 'is it a small tournament?', 'where is the tournament?', 'did his wife play golf also?', 'what happened to her?', 'was she sick for a while?', 'did they have children?', 'a boy?', 'what was his name?', 'what does Yelton hold a streak in?', 'is he the only one?', 'how many others have it?', "Did he lose his streak after his wife's death?", 'who encouraged him?', 'does he play golf also?', 'where is the tournament?', 'do many people play?', 'how many?', 'from just the US?'] | {'answers': ['golf', 'yes', 'no', 'Myrtle Beach', 'yes', 'passed away', 'no', 'yes', 'yes', 'Porter', 'played in all 28 previous editions', 'no', '12', 'no', 'his brother Don', 'yes', 'Myrtle Beach', 'yes', '3,100', 'no'], 'answers_start': [183, 183, 263, 397, 783, 595, 629, 943, 965, 965, 224, 193, 190, 436, 1103, 1139, 397, 318, 332, 351], 'answers_end': [215, 310, 285, 432, 811, 672, 671, 981, 981, 975, 259, 215, 215, 474, 1137, 1176, 409, 344, 345, 363]} |
31qtrg6q2tdxqy27ndkiwj0a5gspy4 | CHAPTER XX
Valentin de Bellegarde died, tranquilly, just as the cold, faint March dawn began to illumine the faces of the little knot of friends gathered about his bedside. An hour afterwards Newman left the inn and drove to Geneva; he was naturally unwilling to be present at the arrival of Madame de Bellegarde and her first-born. At Geneva, for the moment, he remained. He was like a man who has had a fall and wants to sit still and count his bruises. He instantly wrote to Madame de Cintre, relating to her the circumstances of her brother's death--with certain exceptions--and asking her what was the earliest moment at which he might hope that she would consent to see him. M. Ledoux had told him that he had reason to know that Valentin's will--Bellegarde had a great deal of elegant personal property to dispose of--contained a request that he should be buried near his father in the church-yard of Fleurieres, and Newman intended that the state of his own relations with the family should not deprive him of the satisfaction of helping to pay the last earthly honors to the best fellow in the world. He reflected that Valentin's friendship was older than Urbain's enmity, and that at a funeral it was easy to escape notice. Madame de Cintre's answer to his letter enabled him to time his arrival at Fleurieres. This answer was very brief; it ran as follows:--
"I thank you for your letter, and for your being with Valentin. It is a most inexpressible sorrow to me that I was not. To see you will be nothing but a distress to me; there is no need, therefore, to wait for what you call brighter days. It is all one now, and I shall have no brighter days. Come when you please; only notify me first. My brother is to be buried here on Friday, and my family is to remain here. C. de C." | ['Who was similar to a man who fell?', 'Who did he write to?', "Who was Valentin de Bellegarde's sister?", 'What did the letter include?', 'Anything else?', 'Come for what?', 'When did Valentin die?', 'Was it a tranquil death?', 'Who was there?', 'Where did Newman go?', 'When?', 'Who did he want to avoid?', 'What did Valentin need to get rid of?', 'Where was he to be buried?', 'Where?', 'When did his sister say the burial would be?', 'Would seeing Newman be a delight for her?', 'What did she say about it?', 'What did she say about brighter days?', 'Should he notify her of his arrival?'] | {'answers': ['Newman', 'Madame de Cintre', 'Madame de Cintre', "the circumstances of her brother's death", 'also asked her when she could come', 'to see him', 'in March', 'yes', 'friends', 'to Geneva', 'An hour after Valentin died', 'Madame de Bellegarde and her first-born', 'personal property', 'near his father', 'the church-yard of Fleurieres', 'Friday', 'no', 'that it will be nothing but a distress', 'that there is no need to wait for brighter days', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [193, 480, 480, 513, 585, 671, 78, 42, 139, 224, 175, 294, 794, 872, 890, 1746, 1513, 1492, 1543, 1689], 'answers_end': [200, 496, 496, 554, 681, 681, 83, 52, 146, 233, 193, 333, 811, 887, 920, 1752, 1535, 1541, 1611, 1710]} |
3amw0rghod23ezytgbb7f3231nwpn4 | Chinese political philosophy dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period, specifically with Confucius in the 6th century BC. Chinese political philosophy was developed as a response to the social and political breakdown of the country characteristic of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period. The major philosophies during the period, Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, Agrarianism and Taoism, each had a political aspect to their philosophical schools. Philosophers such as Confucius, Mencius, and Mozi, focused on political unity and political stability as the basis of their political philosophies. Confucianism advocated a hierarchical, meritocratic government based on empathy, loyalty, and interpersonal relationships. Legalism advocated a highly authoritarian government based on draconian punishments and laws. Mohism advocated a communal, decentralized government centered on frugality and ascetism. The Agrarians advocated a peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism. Taoism advocated a proto-anarchism. Legalism was the dominant political philosophy of the Qin Dynasty, but was replaced by State Confucianism in the Han Dynasty. Prior to China's adoption of communism, State Confucianism remained the dominant political philosophy of China up to the 20th century. | ['When does Chinese politics date back to?', 'What broke down causing its development?', 'To which periods does this date back?', "Which philosophers' focus was political unity?", 'What else did they seek in politics?', "What was Confucianism's goverment based on?", 'What did it advocate?', 'How many major philosophies were there?', 'What were they?', 'What did Mohism advocate?', 'Which was the dominant philosophy in Qin Dynasty?', 'What was the main politics before communism?', 'Until what century?'] | {'answers': ['6th century BC', 'social and political status of the country', 'Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States period', 'Confucius, Mencius, and Mozi', 'stability', 'empathy, loyalty, and interpersonal relationships', 'an authoritarian government', 'Five', 'Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, Agrarianism and Taoism', 'a communal, decentralized government', 'Legalism', 'State Confucianism', 'the 20th'], 'answers_start': [0, 124, 234, 490, 521, 618, 741, 354, 312, 835, 1035, 1201, 1272], 'answers_end': [122, 233, 310, 547, 616, 739, 793, 408, 408, 923, 1100, 1271, 1295]} |
3ls2amnw5fq6wwzkh3q9uxsiwzdqod | New York (CNN) -- Rapper Lil Wayne will go directly to jail after he is sentenced by a Manhattan judge Tuesday afternoon for a gun conviction, according to a person familiar with the case.
Dwayne Carter, as he is known legally, pleaded guilty to felony gun charges in a deal with prosecutors October 2009. He is expected to get a one-year prison sentence.
His sentencing was delayed three weeks so he could get some dental work done, including removal of his diamond-studded braces.
The person familiar with the case would not confirm where Wayne would serve his sentence.
The plea agreement was a result of the rapper's 2007 arrest outside New York's Beacon Theater.
According to police, Wayne had a .40-caliber pistol on his tour bus.
"It's not his gun, they know whose gun it is," Wayne's attorney, Stacey Richman, said after a hearing last month.
In an unrelated case, Wayne also faces felony drug possession and weapons charges in the state of Arizona.
Lil Wayne is a multiplatinum-selling and Grammy-winning rap artist. His hits include "The Block is Hot" and "Lollipop," and his album "Tha Carter III" was the top-selling disc of 2008. His latest album, "Rebirth," was released last month.
CNN's Jennifer Rizzo contributed to this report.
| ['WHO WILL GO TO JAIL?', 'WHAT IS HIS REAL NAME?', 'WHAT IS HE BEING ACCUSED OF?', 'WHAT JUDGE IS SENTENCING HIM?', 'ON WHAT DATE DID HE PLEAD GUILTY?', 'WHAT YEAR?', 'WHERE WAS HE ARRESTED IN 2007?', 'WHERE IS THAT LOCATED?', 'WHAT DID HE HAVE?', 'WHAT KIND?', "WHO'S HIS ATTORNEY?", 'HOW LONG ARE THEY EXPECTING HIS SENTENCE TO BE?', 'WHY WAS HIS SENTENCING DELAYED?', 'HOW LONG DID THAT TAKE>', 'WHERE WAS THE PISTOL FOUND?', 'HAS HE BEEN CHARGED FOR OTHER CRIMES?', 'WHAT KIND?', 'IS THAT IT?', 'WHAT ELSE HAS HE DONE?', 'WHAT DOES LIL WAYNE DO FOR A LIVING?'] | {'answers': ['Lil Wayne', 'Dwayne Carter', 'gun charges', 'A Manhattan judge', 'October', '2009', 'Outside Beacon Theater.', 'New York', 'A pistol', '.40-caliber', 'Stacey Richman', 'One-year', 'For his dental work', 'Three weeks', 'His tour bus', 'Yes', 'drug possession', 'No', 'He faces weapons charges', 'rap artist'], 'answers_start': [52, 215, 254, 85, 294, 302, 640, 649, 722, 710, 814, 331, 420, 387, 737, 893, 911, 931, 931, 1030], 'answers_end': [59, 229, 266, 102, 306, 306, 676, 660, 729, 722, 828, 340, 431, 398, 745, 903, 926, 946, 946, 1040]} |
35h6s234sa0re4aixfgcfmb0f8n65s | CHAPTER XXVII. LEONARD DE CARTIENNE.
We all three stood and looked at one another for a moment, Milly Hart with her finger still pointing to the vacant place where the photograph had been. Then Cecil broke into a short laugh.
"We're looking very tragical about it," he said lightly. "Mysterious joint disappearance of Leonard de Cartienne and a photograph of Mr. Hart. Now, if it had been a photograph of a pretty girl instead of a middle-aged man, we might have connected the two. Hallo!"
He broke off in his speech and turned round. Standing in the doorway, looking at us, was Leonard de Cartienne, with a slight smile on his thin lips.
"Behold the missing link--I mean man!" exclaimed Cecil. "Good old Leonard! Do you know, you gave us quite a fright. We expected to find you here and the room was empty. Are you better?"
"Yes, thanks! I'm all right now," he answered. "I've been out in the yard and had a blow. What's Milly looking so scared about? And what was it I heard you say about a photograph?"
"Father's likeness has gone," she explained, turning round with tears in her eyes. "It was there on the mantelpiece this afternoon and now, when we came in to look at it, it has gone!"
"I should think that, if it really has disappeared," de Cartienne remarked incredulously, "the servant must have moved it. Ask her."
Miss Hart rang the bell and in the meantime we looked about the room. It was all in vain. We could find no trace of it, nor could the servant who answered the summons give us any information. She had seen it in its usual place early in the morning when she had been dusting. Since then she had not entered the room. | ['Who started laughing?', "Where was Milly Hart's finger pointing at?", 'Whose disappearance were they talking about?', 'And whose photograph did they have?', 'Who was standing in the doorway?', 'Was he smiling?', 'Who said Good old Leaonard?', 'Did Cecil say the room was empty?', 'Where was he?', 'Did he say he was okay?'] | {'answers': ['Cecil', 'the vacant place', 'Leonard de Cartienne', "the Father's", 'Leonard de Cartienne,', 'Yes', 'Cecil', 'Yes', 'the yard', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [191, 98, 287, 1018, 541, 541, 647, 763, 881, 835], 'answers_end': [228, 189, 342, 1047, 646, 645, 721, 814, 908, 882]} |
369j354ofdapu1z2ebz3jj2p59dg6g | American sign language has an interesting history. Although there have always been deaf individuals in America, the history really begins in 1817. Before 1817 deaf people communicated by using "home signs". Gestures were individually created and used within the home for simple communication. There were no schools or formal sign language training for the deaf.
So, why was 1817 an important date? Well, the story begins with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Gallaudet met his neighbor's daughter Alice Cogswell. Alice was the young deaf daughter of Dr. Mason Cogswell from Hartford, Connecticut. Gallaudet began teaching Alice to read and write a few simple words. Excited by the success Dr. Cogswell encouraged Gallaudet to establish a school for the deaf. Cogswell raised the money and Gallaudet traveled to Britain to learn the methods used there. However, the schools refused to share their instructional techniques and methods.
While in London, there happened to be a demonstration of the French method of deaf education. Britain was using an oral method of instruction; however, the French method used signs. Gallaudet was fascinated with the method and was able to meet with the instructor, Sicard, and his two deaf pupils, Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc. Sicard agreed to teach Gallaudet his method and Gallaudet went to Paris to learn French signs. After a while, Gallaudet wished to return home and convinced Clerc to go with him and help him establish the school. The trip home was a 52-day voyage during which Clerc taught Gallaudet French signs and Gallaudet taught Clerc English.
On April 15, 1817, Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet established what is currently known as the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. The opening of the first school for the deaf can be viewed as one of the most important events in current deaf culture. | ['When did the sign language begin?', 'How did deaf people communicate before that?', 'What were those exactly?', "Why couldn't they just take a class on it?", 'Who was Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet?', 'Was he successful?', 'What did he do after that?', 'What happened while he was over there?', 'What method did Britain use?', 'What was different about the French?', 'What did he think about it?', 'Who did he meet there?', 'Was there anyone else?', 'Who?', 'Were they instructors also?', 'Who were they?', 'Was he able to learn their method?', 'Where?', 'Did he go back to Ameria after that?', 'How long did that take?', 'Did he ever start a school?', 'When?', 'Where?'] | {'answers': ['1817', 'by using "home signs"', 'Gestures were created and used within each home.', 'There were no schools or formal training', 'He met his neighbors daughter Alice and taught her to read and write.', 'Yes', 'He traveled to Britain to learn their methods but they refused to share.', 'There was a demonstration of the French method', 'Oral method', 'They used signs.', 'He was fascinated.', 'The instructor Sicard', 'Yes', 'Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc', 'No', 'his two deaf pupils', 'Yes', 'Paris', 'Yes', '52 days', 'Yes', 'On April 15, 1817', 'in Hartford, Connecticut'], 'answers_start': [112, 147, 207, 293, 453, 661, 784, 931, 1025, 1082, 1113, 1170, 1208, 1208, 1207, 1208, 1261, 1309, 1371, 1473, 1613, 1594, 1728], 'answers_end': [146, 205, 292, 362, 661, 752, 929, 1023, 1074, 1112, 1153, 1260, 1259, 1260, 1227, 1227, 1304, 1332, 1403, 1506, 1728, 1611, 1752]} |
3pb5a5bd0v68y1d7xl4vpx2lzf0g77 | CHAPTER XXXVI
Norgate set down the telephone receiver and turned to Anna, who was seated in an easy-chair by his side.
"Selingman is down-stairs," he announced. "I rather expected I should see something of him as I didn't go to the club this afternoon. You won't mind if he comes up?"
"The man is a nuisance," Anna declared, with a little grimace. "I was perfectly happy, Francis, sitting here before the open window and looking out at the lights in that cool, violet gulf of darkness. I believe that in another minute I should have said something to you absolutely ravishing. Then your telephone rings and back one comes to earth again!"
Norgate smiled as he held her hand in his.
"We will get rid of him quickly, dearest," he promised.
There was a knock at the door, and Selingman entered, his face wreathed in smiles. He was wearing a long dinner coat and a flowing black tie. He held out both his hands.
"So this is the great news that has kept you away from us!" he exclaimed. "My congratulations, Norgate. You can never say again that the luck has left you. Baroness, may I take advantage of my slight acquaintance to express my sincere wishes for your happiness?"
They wheeled up a chair for him, and Norgate produced some cigars. The night was close. They were on the seventh story, overlooking the river, and a pleasant breeze stole every now and then into the room.
"You are well placed here," Selingman declared. "Myself, I too like to be high up." | ['Whose hand did Norgate hold?', 'What is his first name?', 'Who does Anna find annoying?', 'What was his attire when he came into the room?', 'What does Norgate pull out when they are seated?', 'What level of the building are they in?', 'Is Selingman happy with that?', 'How soon is Anna assured he will be there?', 'What snapped Anna out of her gazing at the scenery?', 'What does Selingman call Anna?', "What was Seligman's attitude when he knocked on the door?"] | {'answers': ['Anna', 'Francis', 'Selingman', 'long dinner coat and a flowing black tie', 'cigars', 'seventh story', 'Yes', 'quickly', 'telephone rings', 'a nuisance', 'Happy'], 'answers_start': [70, 378, 124, 851, 1246, 1292, 1443, 716, 582, 302, 825], 'answers_end': [75, 385, 133, 890, 1252, 1305, 1477, 723, 608, 313, 831]} |
3g0wwmr1uvkoebz8goqwf8sd6usnqp | MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated as MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV) is an American television network/syndication service that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox, and operated by subsidiaries Fox Television Stations and 20th Television. MyNetworkTV began operations on September 5, 2006 with an initial affiliate lineup covering about 96% of the country, most of which consisted of stations that were former affiliates of The WB and UPN that did not join the successor of those two networks, The CW.
On September 28, 2009, following disappointment with the network's results, MyNetworkTV dropped its status as a television network and transitioned into a programming service, similar to Ion Television, relying mainly on repeats of recent broadcast and cable series.
MyNetworkTV arose from the January 2006 announcement of the launch of The CW, a television network formed by CBS Corporation and Time Warner which essentially combined programming from The WB and UPN onto the scheduling model of the former of the two predecessors. As a result of several deals earlier in the decade, Fox Television Stations owned several UPN affiliates, including the network's three largest stations: WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey (part of the New York City market), KCOP-TV in Los Angeles and WPWR-TV in Chicago. Fox had acquired WWOR and KCOP after purchasing most of the television holdings of UPN's founding partner Chris-Craft Industries, while WPWR was purchased by the company in 2003 from Newsweb Corporation. Despite concerns about UPN's future that came up after Fox purchased the Chris-Craft stations, UPN signed three-year affiliation renewals with the network's Fox-owned affiliates in 2003. That agreement's pending expiration, along with those involving other broadcasting companies, in 2006 as well as persistent financial losses for both it and The WB gave CBS Corporation (the parent company of UPN) and Time Warner (parent of The WB) the rare opportunity to merge their respective struggling networks into The CW. | ['When did MyNetworkTV begin?', 'How much of the country did they cover?', 'DId the network have promising results?', 'Did it remain as a TV network in 2009?', 'What did it become instead?', 'True or False: During that time, it aired original content.', 'What did it mainly air?', "What was one of Fox's 3 largest stations?", 'And another?', 'And the last?', "What was UPN's founding partner?", 'Who bought their stations?'] | {'answers': ['January 2006', 'about 96%', 'no', 'no', 'a programming service', 'false', 'repeats of recent broadcast and cable series', 'WWOR-TV in Secaucus', 'KCOP-TV in Los Angeles', 'WPWR-TV in Chicago', 'Chris-Craft Industries', 'UPN'], 'answers_start': [804, 353, 556, 535, 670, 738, 737, 1198, 1198, 1199, 1421, 1637], 'answers_end': [843, 387, 609, 641, 709, 802, 802, 1242, 1313, 1336, 1466, 1679]} |
3wmoan2srbxgjjvp2nk6lvrlnkjnvr | An organic compound is virtually any chemical compound that contains carbon, although a consensus definition remains elusive and likely arbitrary. Organic compounds are rare terrestrially, but of central importance because all known life is based on organic compounds. The most basic petrochemicals are considered the building blocks of organic chemistry.
For historical reasons discussed below, a few types of carbon-containing compounds, such as carbides, carbonates, simple oxides of carbon (for example, CO and CO), and cyanides are considered inorganic. The distinction between "organic and inorganic" carbon compounds, while "useful in organizing the vast subject of chemistry... is somewhat arbitrary".
Organic chemistry is the science concerned with all aspects of organic compounds. Organic synthesis is the methodology of their preparation.
For many centuries, Western physicians and chemists believed in vitalism. This was the widespread conception that substances found in organic nature are created from the chemical elements by the action of a "vital force" or "life-force" ("vis vitalis") that only living organisms possess. Vitalism taught that these "organic" compounds were fundamentally different from the "inorganic" compounds that could be obtained from the elements by chemical manipulations.
Vitalism survived for a while even after the rise of modern ideas about the atomic theory and chemical elements. It first came under question in 1824, when Friedrich Wöhler synthesized oxalic acid, a compound known to occur only in living organisms, from cyanogen. A more decisive experiment was Wöhler's 1828 synthesis of urea from the inorganic salts potassium cyanate and ammonium sulfate. Urea had long been considered an "organic" compound, as it was known to occur only in the urine of living organisms. Wöhler's experiments were followed by many others, in which increasingly complex "organic" substances were produced from "inorganic" ones without the involvement of any living organism. | ['What is the main topic of this article?', 'What did Wöhle do in 1828?', 'From what?', 'What type of compound had is always been considered?', 'What did Wöhle do in 1824?', 'From what?', 'What is organic chemistry concerned with?', 'What is organic synthesis?', 'What is one inorganic compound that contains carbon?', 'What school of thought taught that inorganic and organic compounds were different because of how they were created?', 'Is vitalism currently considered a correct or valid idea?'] | {'answers': ['chemistry', 'synthesized urea', 'inorganic salts', 'organic', 'synthesized oxalic acid', 'cyanogen', 'organic compounds', 'the methodology of their preparation', 'CO', 'Vitalism', 'no'], 'answers_start': [714, 1619, 1633, 1716, 1464, 1496, 714, 796, 516, 1145, 1436], 'answers_end': [853, 1650, 1676, 1767, 1519, 1586, 794, 853, 559, 1321, 1472]} |
308q0pevb8dq8b7v262io567atti9d | Suspicion that a Norwegian citizen was involved in the deadly Westgate Mall attack in Kenya last month "has been strengthened" but is not yet confirmed, Norway's security service said.
The Norwegian citizen, said to be of Somali origin, is believed to have ties to Mohamed Abdikadir Mohamed, known as Ikrima, who is regarded as one of the most dangerous commanders in the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab.
The Norwegian security service, PST, said its investigations in Norway and Kenya were ongoing, and that despite some media outlets reporting a name for the possible Norwegian suspect, it was not ready to confirm his identity.
"It has not yet been determined whether a named Norwegian citizen actually took part in the attack or not," a PST statement said Friday.
"Based on the information that we have uncovered this far in the investigation, however, the suspicion of his involvement has been strengthened."
It has also not yet been determined whether the person in question is still alive, the statement said.
Kenyan counter terrorism sources said Norwegian intelligence services in Kenya were investigating both Ikrima and the Norwegian citizen and have spoken to the latter's sister in Norway.
But Trond Hugubakken, head of communications for the PST, told CNN on Saturday that the two Norwegian officers currently in Kenya are not investigating Ikrima, only the Norwegian citizen and his connections with Al-Shabaab, as they seek to establish whether he was in Kenya.
He said the citizen's name would be disclosed by Norwegian authorities only if he's confirmed to be one of the gunmen killed in the mall attack, or if they have sufficient evidence to issue an international warrant for his arrest. | ['Who leads PST?', 'And his title?', 'What is it?', 'Who is suspected?', 'What did he do?', 'What?', 'Where?', 'When?', 'Is there a confirmation?', 'Is he from Norway?', 'What is his nationality?', 'Is he tied to terrorists?', 'Which group?', 'Who is the leader?', 'Does he have an alias?', 'What is it?', 'Which officials are working with the Norwegians?', 'Who is under investigation?', 'Has his name been disclosed?', 'Does he have relatives?', 'What relationship?'] | {'answers': ['Trond Hugubakken', 'head of communications', 'Norwegian security service', 'Norwegian citizen', 'attack', 'Westgate Mall', 'Kenya', 'last month', 'No?', 'Yes', 'Somali', 'yes', 'Al-Shabaab', 'Mohamed Abdikadir Mohamed', 'Yes', 'Ikrima', 'Kenyan', 'Ikrima', 'No', 'Yes', 'sister'], 'answers_start': [1220, 1238, 412, 17, 76, 62, 86, 92, 0, 187, 224, 187, 394, 267, 187, 303, 1028, 1131, 1493, 1028, 1196], 'answers_end': [1236, 1260, 438, 34, 82, 75, 91, 102, 185, 407, 230, 407, 404, 292, 407, 309, 1034, 1138, 1723, 1214, 1202]} |
3ywrv122cszv3xjlrvli7cz7kitu83 | A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that The term "planet" is ancient, with ties to history, astrology, science, mythology, and religion. Several planets in the Solar System can be seen with the naked eye. These were regarded by many early cultures as divine, or as emissaries of deities. As scientific knowledge advanced, human perception of the planets changed, incorporating a number of disparate objects. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially adopted a resolution defining planets within the Solar System. This definition is controversial because it excludes many objects of planetary mass based on where or what they orbit. Although eight of the planetary bodies discovered before 1950 remain "planets" under the modern definition, some celestial bodies, such as Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta (each an object in the solar asteroid belt), and Pluto (the first trans-Neptunian object discovered), that were once considered planets by the scientific community, are no longer viewed as such.
The planets were thought by Ptolemy to orbit Earth in deferent and epicycle motions. Although the idea that the planets orbited the Sun had been suggested many times, it was not until the 17th century that this view was supported by evidence from the first telescopic astronomical observations, performed by Galileo Galilei. At about the same time, by careful analysis of pre-telescopic observation data collected by Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler found the planets' orbits were not circular but elliptical. As observational tools improved, astronomers saw that, like Earth, the planets rotated around tilted axes, and some shared such features as ice caps and seasons. Since the dawn of the Space Age, close observation by space probes has found that Earth and the other planets share characteristics such as volcanism, hurricanes, tectonics, and even hydrology. | ['Is the term planet new?', 'Who thought planets orbited the Earth?', 'In what type of motions?', 'Was there another idea that had been suggested before?', 'Once or many times?', 'Did that idea say the Earth orbited a black hole?', 'What, then?', 'When was that view supported by some actual evidence?', 'What type of observations was the evidence from?', 'Who obtained the evidence?', 'Was anyone else making analysis at the same time?', 'Who?', 'Who collected the data Kepler was looking at?', "Did he find that the planets' orbits were circular?", 'What type of orbits did they have, then?', 'What type of axis do planets rotate around?', 'Do many planets share features with the Earth?', "What's an example of one?", 'When was a resolution adopted defining planets within the solar system?', 'By who?'] | {'answers': ['No', 'Ptolemy', 'deferent and epicycle motions', 'Yes', 'many times', 'No.', 'That the planets orbited the sun', '17th century', 'telescopic astronomical observations', 'Galileo Galilei', 'Yes', 'Johannes Kepler', 'Tycho Brahe', 'No.', 'elliptical', 'tilted', 'Yes.', 'Volcanism', '2006', 'International Astronomical Union'], 'answers_start': [72, 1052, 1052, 1137, 1137, 1137, 1137, 1216, 1268, 1308, 1377, 1377, 1377, 1482, 1482, 1625, 1719, 1719, 440, 440], 'answers_end': [101, 1102, 1135, 1217, 1217, 1217, 1217, 1294, 1345, 1375, 1480, 1497, 1480, 1542, 1556, 1663, 1913, 1869, 566, 566]} |
3p529iw9kyl1zm6eqvznqhkatimlfz | Hi, I'm Harry. I'm fourteen years old. I live in Taipei, Taiwan. I am a second grader in a junior high school. I'm interested in playing computer games and watching TV. My favorite food is pizza. Hello, my name is Dolly. I was born on January 12th. There are four people in my family -- my mother, my father, my sister and me. My favorite food is green tea. Now, I am a junior high school student. My hobbies are watching TV and climbing mountains. My best friend Tom lives in Canada. Maybe some day, you will be her friends, too! My name is Eric. My hobbies are fishing, reading books and playing computer games. My favorite subject is History, because my dad is a History teacher and I read a lot of books about history. I'm very bad at English, because it's hard for me. My favorite sport is ping-pong. I play ping-pong with my dad and my cousins every weekend. | ['How old is Harry?', 'What does he like to eat?', 'What are his hobbies?', 'What kind of school does he attend?', 'What grade?', 'Where is he from?', 'What subject does Eric like?', 'Why?', 'What kind of books does he like?', 'What are his hobbies?', 'Any others?', 'What does he find difficult?', 'Who does he play ping pong with?', 'What food does Dolly like?', 'What are her hobbies?', 'How many sisters does she have?', 'Any brothers?', 'Who is her best friend?', 'Where is he from?', 'When was she born?'] | {'answers': ['fourteen', 'pizza', 'playing computer games and watching TV.', 'junior high', 'second', 'Taiwan', 'History', 'his dad is a History teacher', 'ones about history', 'ping-pong', 'fishing, reading books and playing computer games', 'English', 'his dad and cousins', 'green tea', 'watching TV and climbing mountains', 'one', 'no', 'Tom', 'Canada', 'January 12th.'], 'answers_start': [19, 188, 128, 91, 72, 57, 637, 654, 713, 812, 562, 739, 831, 348, 413, 307, 249, 464, 477, 235], 'answers_end': [27, 194, 168, 102, 79, 63, 644, 682, 721, 823, 612, 746, 849, 356, 447, 325, 327, 467, 483, 248]} |
308q0pevb8dq8b7v262io567aop9iq | SAN FRANCISCO--A phone app in San Francisco gives information about open parking spots. City officials in San Francisco introduced the app to try to reduce traffic jams in the city, but some say it raises safety concerns.
In this city, drivers searching for parking spots lead to 30 percent of all downtown jams, city officials think. Now San Francisco has found a solution--a phone app for spot-seekers that displays information about areas with available spaces. The system, introduced last month, relies on wireless sensors fixed in streets and city garages that can tell within seconds if a spot has opened up.
Monique Soltani, a TV reporter, said she and her sister spent 25 minutes on Friday trying to park. "We were praying to the parking god that we'd find a spot," she said. "If we had the app, we would not have to pray to the parking god." But the system could come with serious consequences.
Some people say that drivers searching for parking could end up focusing on their phones, not the road. "It could be really distracting ," said Daniel Simons, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois.
City officials acknowledge the potential problem. They are urging drivers to pull over before they use the city's iPhone app, or to do so before they leave home. Nathaniel Ford, executive director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, said safety could actually improve if drivers quickly found a spot instead of circling and getting frustrated.
San Francisco has put sensors into 7,000 parking spots and 12,250 spots in city garages. If spaces in an area open up, the sensors communicate wirelessly with computers that in turn make the information available to app users within a minute, said Mr. Ford, of the transportation agency. On the app, a map shows which blocks have lots of places (blue) and which are full (red).
More than 12,000 people have downloaded San Francisco's app, which is available now only for the iPhone but which city officials say they hope to bring to all similar devices.
When it is started up, the city's parking app warns drivers not to use the system while in motion. But safety advocates said that might not be sufficient. After all, they say, texting while driving is illegal in California and in many states, but a number of surveys, including one by the Pew Research Center, show that many Americans do it anyway.
Elizabeth Stampe, executive director of Walk San Francisco, a pedestrian advocacy group, said she hoped the new parking app would lead to fewer accidents.
"It's an innovative idea," she said. "The safe way for people to use the device is for them to pull over, which they know they should do. The question is whether they will."
But Ms. Soltani, the TV reporter, said using the app would probably join the group of activities already performed by drivers.
"We're already looking at Google Maps and Facebook on the phone while we drive," she said. "Aren't we always looking at something on our phone, or changing the radio, or drinking coffee? You're always slightly distracted when you're driving." | ['How long did it take Monique to park?', 'What is her profession?', "What is Daniel Simon's concern about the app?", 'Where does he work?', 'What does he teach?', 'What does the app hope to reduce?', 'What percentage of jams are caused by parking?', 'According to whom?', 'How many sensors has San Francisco installed?', 'How long does it take to transmit an opening to the app?', 'According to who?', 'Which color indicates a parking spot is open?', 'Is the app available on Android?', 'How many people have downloaded it?', 'Is texting and driving legal in California?', 'What organization says that drivers might do it anyway?', 'What might they be doing, according to Ms. Soltani?', "What other apps does she think users look at while they're driving?"] | {'answers': ['25 minutes', 'TV reporter', 'It could be really distracting', 'University of Illinois.', 'f psychology', 'traffic jams', '30 percent of all downtown jams', 'city officials', '7,000', 'within a minute', 'Mr. Ford', 'blue', 'no', 'More than 12,000', 'no', 'Pew Research Center', 'using the app', 'Google Maps and Facebook'], 'answers_start': [619, 619, 1014, 1054, 1054, 141, 259, 282, 1492, 1668, 1707, 1781, 1960, 1872, 2225, 2293, 2768, 2864], 'answers_end': [717, 649, 1067, 1127, 1094, 169, 313, 336, 1546, 1734, 1779, 1871, 2046, 1888, 2272, 2399, 2830, 2942]} |
3jaoywh7vi4sycf1n9zvglyzr18l9n | It was just three degrees above zero."That's cold", thought Jane as she got ready to deliver her morning papers . Jane had 50 customers ,and on cold mornings when she couldn't ride her bicycle , it took her more than an hour to make her rounds. As she collected her papers and put them into a big canvas bag , Jane regretted that she hadn't finished her maths homework the night before . There was still time . She would hurry with the papers and finish the maths before breakfast. Less than an hour later Jane nearly finished. She had only five customers to go. She could then go home to finish her maths homework while her Mom cooked breakfast . As she rounded the corner , she saw a car in the middle of the street . It was Mr Zimmerman , the elderly man who walked with a walking stick . His car was out of gas . "I'd like to help Mr Zimmerman," thought Jane ,"but if I do , I won't have time to do my homework." She hated to think what Mr Robert would say if she didn't finish papers. "It's his own fault for running out of gas," Jane talked to herself. "The station is only a half mile down the street . Surely Mr Zimmerman can walk that far, even on a cold morning like this...can't he?" As she walked down the street , Jane still wondered what to do. | ['What dilemma does she face?', 'Is it hot outside?', 'How cold is it?', 'How does she earn money?', 'How many does she have to do?', 'Does she use her bike today?', 'How long will her route take?', 'Who does she see?', 'What happened to him?', 'What did she want to do at home?', 'What kind?', 'Was the gas station close?'] | {'answers': ['Do homework or help the man', 'No', 'three degrees above zero', 'deliver morning papers', '50 customers', 'No', 'more than an hour', 'Mr Zimmerman', 'His car was out of gas', 'homework', 'math', 'half mile'], 'answers_start': [861, 10, 11, 85, 123, 157, 207, 727, 792, 905, 354, 1081], 'answers_end': [1196, 36, 36, 111, 135, 192, 225, 739, 814, 914, 359, 1091]} |
3te3o857308s1qpf7khcsazkraw2rl | The region, as part of Lorraine, was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and then was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century, and formalized as one of the provinces of France. The Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse, known as Stadtrepublik Mülhausen, became a part of Alsace after a vote by its citizens on 4 January 1798. Alsace is frequently mentioned with and as part of Lorraine and the former duchy of Lorraine, since it was a vital part of the duchy, and later because German possession as the imperial province (Alsace-Lorraine, 1871–1918) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries; France and Germany exchanged control of parts of Lorraine (including Alsace) four times in 75 years.
With the decline of the Roman Empire, Alsace became the territory of the Germanic Alemanni. The Alemanni were agricultural people, and their Germanic language formed the basis of modern-day dialects spoken along the Upper Rhine (Alsatian, Alemannian, Swabian, Swiss). Clovis and the Franks defeated the Alemanni during the 5th century AD, culminating with the Battle of Tolbiac, and Alsace became part of the Kingdom of Austrasia. Under Clovis' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized. Alsace remained under Frankish control until the Frankish realm, following the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia, which was ruled by the youngest grandson Lothar I. Lothar died early in 855 and his realm was divided into three parts. The part known as Lotharingia, or Lorraine, was given to Lothar's son. The rest was shared between Lothar's brothers Charles the Bald (ruler of the West Frankish realm) and Louis the German (ruler of the East Frankish realm). The Kingdom of Lotharingia was short-lived, however, becoming the stem duchy of Lorraine in Eastern Francia after the Treaty of Ribemont in 880. Alsace was united with the other Alemanni east of the Rhine into the stem duchy of Swabia. | ['What happened to Alsace during the decline of the Roman Empire?', 'Who were the Alemanni?', 'When was it taken over by the Kingdom of Austrasia?', 'who vanquished them?', 'What happened to the local population?', "When did the Frank's rule end?", 'why did it end?', 'what happened to Alsace?', 'who ruled it?', 'who was he?'] | {'answers': ['it became a territory of Germanic Alemanni', 'an agricultural people', 'during the 5th century', 'Clovis', 'they were Christianized', '843', 'the Frankish Realm was dissolved', 'it formed part of middle Francia', 'Lothar 1', "Charlemagne's youngest grandson"], 'answers_start': [709, 815, 999, 977, 1141, 1320, 1253, 1440, 1453, 1440], 'answers_end': [801, 843, 1047, 999, 1213, 1373, 1349, 1481, 1532, 1600]} |
3hmvi3qicjsu96j52b9svnic24ay15 | CHAPTER II
PYRAMUS AND THISBE
The two men turned up the street. They walked in silence. Arthur Mifflin was going over in his mind such outstanding events of the evening as he remembered--the nervousness, the relief of finding that he was gripping his audience, the growing conviction that he had made good; while Jimmy seemed to be thinking his own private thoughts. They had gone some distance before either spoke.
"Who is she, Jimmy?" asked Mifflin.
Jimmy came out of his thoughts with a start.
"What's that?"
"Who is she?"
"I don't know what you mean."
"Yes, you do! The sea air. Who is she?"
"I don't know," said Jimmy, simply.
"You don't know? Well, what's her name?"
"I don't know."
"Doesn't the Lusitania still print a passenger-list?"
"She does."
"And you couldn't find out her name in five days?"
"No."
"And that's the man who thinks he can burgle a house!" said Mifflin, despairingly.
They had arrived now at the building on the second floor of which was Jimmy's flat.
"Coming in?" said Jimmy.
"Well, I was rather thinking of pushing on as far as the Park. I tell you, I feel all on wires."
"Come in, and smoke a cigar. You've got all night before you if you want to do Marathons. I haven't seen you for a couple of months. I want you to tell me all the news."
"There isn't any. Nothing happens in New York. The papers say things do, but they don't. However, I'll come in. It seems to me that you're the man with the news." | ['Who was having a conversation?', "How long had it been since they'd seen each other?", 'Where had Arthur come from?', 'How did he travel to get to Jimmy?', 'How did he get from New York?', 'What floor does Jimmy live on?', 'What does Jimmy want to Arthur to go inside with him and do?', 'And what else?', 'Did Jimmy have any news to tell him about?', 'Does he think anything happens in New York?'] | {'answers': ['Jimmy and Arthur Mifflin', 'a couple of months', 'New York.', 'walked', 'unknown', '2nd', 'Tell him all the news', 'smoke a cigar.', 'Arthur thinks he does', 'No'], 'answers_start': [422, 1229, 1330, 68, -1, 929, 1273, 1141, 1424, 1313], 'answers_end': [457, 1272, 1359, 90, -1, 1013, 1311, 1169, 1476, 1358]} |
3wleiwsyhohfcwbcbf5ie6xe30n2ha | CHAPTER XI
After nearly six months in the Nueces gorge the loneliness and inaction of his life drove Duane out upon the trails seeking anything rather than to hide longer alone, a prey to the scourge of his thoughts. The moment he rode into sight of men a remarkable transformation occurred in him. A strange warmth stirred in him--a longing to see the faces of people, to hear their voices--a pleasurable emotion sad and strange. But it was only a precursor of his old bitter, sleepless, and eternal vigilance. When he hid alone in the brakes he was safe from all except his deeper, better self; when he escaped from this into the haunts of men his force and will went to the preservation of his life.
Mercer was the first village he rode into. He had many friends there. Mercer claimed to owe Duane a debt. On the outskirts of the village there was a grave overgrown by brush so that the rude-lettered post which marked it was scarcely visible to Duane as he rode by. He had never read the inscription. But he thought now of Hardin, no other than the erstwhile ally of Bland. For many years Hardin had harassed the stockmen and ranchers in and around Mercer. On an evil day for him he or his outlaws had beaten and robbed a man who once succored Duane when sore in need. Duane met Hardin in the little plaza of the village, called him every name known to border men, taunted him to draw, and killed him in the act. | ['Where has Duane been?', 'For how long?', 'Was he lonely?', 'What did he do to combat the loneliness?', 'What was the name of the first village?', 'Did Mercer owe him something?', 'What was just outside the village?', 'Was anything on it?', 'What?', 'Was anything written on the post?', 'Had Duane ever read it?', 'Who did Duane think of?', 'Who had Hardin bothered?', 'Where had they met?', 'What did Duane do to him?', 'Then what?', 'And then?'] | {'answers': ['Nueces gorge', 'nearly six months', 'yes', 'prey to the scourge of his thoughts.', 'Mercer', 'yes', 'a grave', 'yes', 'brush', 'yes', 'no', 'Hardin,', 'the stockmen and ranchers', 'in the little plaza of the village,', 'called him every name known to border men,', 'taunted him to draw', 'killed him in the act.'], 'answers_start': [43, 13, 153, 180, 707, 777, 814, 851, 844, 845, 974, 1009, 1082, 1276, 1329, 1372, 1398], 'answers_end': [56, 36, 178, 218, 749, 811, 862, 881, 882, 912, 1008, 1038, 1144, 1329, 1372, 1392, 1421]} |
3rrcefrb7mcfoxndf1ealaret6l4ba | When an NBA player is young he thinks he can win the championship by himself. It is only later when he has aged and been through many battles that he learns an important lesson: there is no "I " in "team".
There is no better example of the value of teamwork than the Boston Celtics. Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett were all superstars on three different teams. Yet, none of them had any titles to show for it. Then, last season, they decided to sacrifice money and individual statistics to play together. Garnett and Allen joined Pierce on the Celtics and changed the NBA in the process.
It started in simple ways. Garnett and Allen are two of the most intense athletes in the world. They treat every second of every practice like it is the NBA championship. If you want to play alongside them then you will have to do the same. So, the young guys on the Celtics started giving their full effort too.
Pierce had been the star of the Celtics for many years. He used to shoot the ball many times a game. But with the addition of Allen and Garnett he shot less and focused on defense. His selflessness showed the young players that doing what made the team better was the only thing that mattered.
When the Celtics were winning and the game was almost over, Garnett, Pierce and Allen would come out of the game. But they wouldn't just sit on the bench. Instead, they stood and cheered and screamed for their teammates. They wanted to support their friends and teammates.
Now, the guys who don't play know they can still affect the game by cheering so they scream and cheer when Garnett, Allen and Pierce are playing. The Celtics have developed a strong relationship. They are more than just teammates. They are brothers.
The result: the Boston Celtics won the championship and are considered the favorites to win the Eastern Conference championship again this year.
There is a saying that goes, "A successful team beats with one heart." If that is the case, the Celtics may have the biggest heart in the NBA. | ['What is the important thing to learn?', 'Which one?', "Who doesn't know this?", 'how so?', 'Does he ever learn this lesson?', 'When?', 'Who are Paul, Ray, and Kevin?', 'Are they on the same team?', 'What did they do?', 'how did they do that?', 'Was Pierce soon to follow?', 'Why not?', 'Was he a bench player?', 'Did he get the ball as much when the others joined the team?', 'What did he do then?'] | {'answers': ['A lesson', 'There is no "I " in "team".', 'A young NBA player', 'he thinks he can win the championship by himself', 'Yes', 'Later, when he has aged', 'NBA players.', 'Three different teams.', 'Sacrificed their records and money to play together.', 'Garnet and Allen left their teams to go to the Celtics.', 'No', 'He already played for the Celtics.', 'No, a star player.', 'No', 'Shot less and focused on defense.'], 'answers_start': [78, 77, 0, 0, 77, 78, 208, 208, 421, 516, 372, 516, 916, 916, 947], 'answers_end': [206, 207, 78, 76, 207, 204, 419, 599, 515, 599, 600, 599, 1015, 1095, 1096]} |
3zak8w07i4edl8eiwr83extp1n50ug | Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- The European Union announced a recovery package of 180 million euros for the Ivory Coast on Tuesday as residents of the African nation attempted to adjust to life with a clear leader and relative stability after months of bloodshed.
Forces arrested former President Laurent Gbagbo after storming his residence on Monday. Gbagbo defied calls to step down after an electoral commission declared he lost a presidential election in November to Alassane Ouattara. Ouattara has been recognized internationally as the legitimate winner.
A violent power struggle followed the standoff, with supporters loyal to both sides taking to the streets in protests since December. Hundreds have been killed, according to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Andris Piebalgs, EU commissioner for development, announced the recovery package on Tuesday.
"We will stand by Ivory Coast and its people by immediately starting to work with the government of President Ouattara to support him in getting the country on the right track towards reconciliation, democracy, economic recovery and sustainable development," he said.
The funding will provide support to ensure basic needs for citizens such as health, water, sanitation and to support the agricultural sector, Piebalgs said in a statement. It also will clear the Ivory Coast's debt accumulated through the European Investment Bank.
Top military brass pledged their support to Ouattara in a ceremony Tuesday at a hotel in Abdijan. Gen. Phillipe Mangou, Gbagbo's former army chief of staff, said on state television that the generals were received by Ouattara and given orders to take measures to restore order in the country. | ['What political figure was arrested?', 'What was his previous position?', 'What did he refuse?', 'Who did he lose to?', 'Which of them is considered legitimate?', 'Who gave an announcement of aid?', 'When?', 'What is his position?', 'What is the aid intended to provide?', 'For what?', 'For whom?', 'In what areas?', 'Will it help with agriculture?', 'How about in terms of indebtedness?', 'Who swore allegiance to the new president?', 'Where did they do this?', 'Which officer made the proclamation about this?', 'How much money was the package?', 'Was the aftermath of the electoral procedures peaceful?', 'How many died, if any?'] | {'answers': ['Laurent Gbagbo', 'President', 'to step down', 'Alassane Ouattara', 'Ouattara', 'Andris Piebalgs', 'Tuesday', 'EU commissioner for development', 'support', 'basic needs', 'citizens', 'the Ivory Coast', 'yes', 'yes', 'Top military brass', 'Abdijan', 'Gen. Phillipe Mangou', '180 million euros', 'no', 'Hundreds'], 'answers_start': [265, 281, 353, 425, 491, 809, 859, 809, 1174, 1198, 1217, 81, 1276, 1345, 1440, 1459, 1538, 59, 564, 697], 'answers_end': [312, 312, 385, 489, 560, 900, 900, 857, 1239, 1241, 1241, 118, 1314, 1436, 1492, 1536, 1602, 98, 610, 723]} |
39ghhavomfrl6glp3trrjyar0474jt | Spiderman is one of the most famous comic book heroes of all time.He was created by Stan Lee in 1963 and was first introduced to the world in the pages of Marvel comic books. Spiderman's story is the story of Peter Parker,a child who lost his parents and lives with his aunt and uncle.Peter is a shy,quiet boy wearing glasses and has few friends.One day,on a high school class trip to a science lab,he gets bitten by a special spider.Soon Peter realizes he has amazing powers:he is as strong and quick as a spider and also has a type of sixth sense.He no longer needs his glasses and he can use his super power to fly through the city streets! Remembering something his Uncle Ben has told him,that"with great power,there must also come great responsibility ,"Peter decides to use his powers to fight enemies who do cruel things to people.And so,Spiderman is born. Life is not easy for Peter even though he is a superhero.He is in love with Mary Jane but cannot tell her about his amazing powers.Besides,his best friend Harry hates Spiderman! Peter is also short of money and time.He has to sell photos of Spiderman(himself!)to a newspaper and he keeps losing his other jobs because he's so busy saving people! Yet he has to fight different kinds of cruel enemies. | ['What did Stan Lee create?', 'What is that?', 'about what?', 'Who was he?', 'What does he look like?', 'Who does he live with?', 'Why?', 'What happened to him in high school?', 'by what?', 'Why was it special?', 'Like what?', 'What sixth sense?', 'where did he fly?', 'How did he use his powers?', 'Who was Ben?', 'What did he tell him?', 'Was his life easy?', 'Did he have any friends?', 'Did they like Spiderman?', 'Does he have a girlfriend?'] | {'answers': ['Spiderman.', 'A comic book.', 'The story of Peter Parker.', 'A shy boy.', 'He wears glasses.', 'His aunt and uncle.', 'He lost his parents.', 'He was bit.', 'A special spider.', 'It gave him amazing powers.', 'Strength and quickness, and a sixth sense.', '.To fly.', '.The city streets!', 'To fight enemies.', 'His Uncle.', 'With great power comes great responsibility.', 'No.', 'few.', 'His best friend Harry hates Spiderman!', '.He is in love with Mary Jane'], 'answers_start': [0, 0, 175, 285, 285, 208, 209, 346, 345, 433, 476, 548, 548, 758, 666, 666, 864, 285, 995, 920], 'answers_end': [93, 65, 284, 434, 344, 285, 251, 434, 434, 514, 549, 643, 643, 837, 693, 757, 891, 345, 1041, 949]} |
30zx6p7vf8vb3262zf83qjdth22j2s | Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. The network is headquartered at 20th Century Fox studio on Pico Boulevard in Century City of Los Angeles with additional major offices and production facilities at the Fox Television Center in nearby West Los Angeles and Fox Broadcasting Center in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is the third largest major television network in the world based on total revenues, assets and international coverage.
Launched on October 9, 1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks (ABC, NBC and CBS), Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network. It was the highest-rated broadcast network in the 18–49 demographic from 2004 to 2012, and earned the position as the most-watched American television network in total viewership during the 2007–08 season. Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U.S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U.S.-based Fox affiliate, either over-the-air or through a pay television provider, although Fox's National Football League telecasts and most of its prime time programming are subject to simultaneous substitution regulations for cable and satellite providers imposed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to protect rights held by domestically based networks. | ['Where is Fox headquartered?', 'On what street?', 'Does it have other buildings in L.A.?', 'Where?', 'What kind of buildings?', 'Does it have buildings outside of L.A.?', 'In what state?', 'True or False: The Fox Broadcasting Center is in Queens.', 'What city is it in?', 'And what neighborhood?', 'Is Fox a Big Three network?', 'Is it a reasonably prosperous competitor?', 'Name one of the Big Three.', 'And another?', 'How does Fox stylize its name?', 'Are Canadians usually able to watch a Fox affiliate?', "Do Fox's international channels air the same content as U.S. channels?", 'How many channels does Fox have?', 'How many exactly?', 'Which demographic favored Fox in 2004?'] | {'answers': ['Los Angeles', 'Pico Boulevard', 'Yes', 'West Los Angeles', 'Major offices and production facilities', 'Yes', 'New York', 'False', 'Manhattan', 'Yorkville', 'No', 'Yes', 'ABC', 'CBS', 'FOX', 'Yes', 'Not necessarily', 'Many channels in international markets', 'unknown', 'The 18–49 demographic'], 'answers_start': [193, 193, 298, 298, 298, 298, 298, 413, 414, 414, 621, 722, 668, 668, 0, 1185, 1010, 1010, -1, 804], 'answers_end': [297, 297, 409, 409, 409, 496, 496, 496, 495, 495, 720, 803, 720, 720, 69, 1260, 1183, 1103, -1, 889]} |
3nl0rfnu0fngh0r7ler3kda4fuy4kl | (CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama formally announced Sunday that retired Army Gen. Eric Shinseki, a decorated veteran and popular figure among critics of the Bush administration, is his pick to be secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Retired Gen. Eric Shinseki Sunday promised to work for veterans "each and every day."
"There is no one more distinguished, more determined, or more qualified to build this VA than the leader I am announcing as our next secretary of Veterans Affairs -- Gen. Eric Shinseki," Obama said at a press conference.
"No one will ever doubt that this former Army chief of staff has the courage to stand up for our troops and our veterans. No one will ever question whether he will fight hard enough to make sure they have the support they need," Obama added.
Obama said the nation must focus on helping troops who have served their country especially during bad economic times.
"We don't just need to better serve veterans of today's wars. We also need to build a 21st century VA that will better serve all who have answered our nation's call," Obama said. Watch Obama talk about Shinseki »
Obama said Shinseki, who served two combat tours in Vietnam and lost part of his foot, "understands the changing needs of our troops and their families. And he will be a VA secretary who finally modernizes our VA to meet the challenges of our time."
Shinseki, who spoke after Obama, made a vow to his fellow veterans. If confirmed, he said, he will "work each and every day" to ensure the nation is serving them "as well as you have served us." | ['Who made the announcement?', 'When was it?', 'Who is the selection?', 'What did he promise?', 'Where did he deploy overseas?', 'How many times?', 'What did he promise if selected?', 'When did he promise?', 'What did he lose?', 'Where did he lose it?'] | {'answers': ['President-elect Barack Obama', 'Sunday', 'retired Army Gen. Eric Shinseki', 'to work for veterans "each and every day."', 'Vietnam', 'two', '"work each and every day" to ensure the nation is serving them', 'Sunday', 'part of his foot', 'Vietnam'], 'answers_start': [9, 57, 69, 268, 1146, 1150, 1476, 57, 1189, 1174], 'answers_end': [57, 63, 101, 320, 1184, 1184, 1538, 64, 1211, 1210]} |
3nlzy2d53ppyqbwn4bah2goo1xlqlf | In mathematics, a plane is a flat, two-dimensional surface that extends infinitely far. A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero dimensions), a line (one dimension) and three-dimensional space. Planes can arise as subspaces of some higher-dimensional space, as with a room's walls extended infinitely far, or they may enjoy an independent existence in their own right, as in the setting of Euclidean geometry.
When working exclusively in two-dimensional Euclidean space, the definite article is used, so, "the" plane refers to the whole space. Many fundamental tasks in mathematics, geometry, trigonometry, graph theory, and graphing are performed in a two-dimensional space, or, in other words, in the plane.
Euclid set forth the first great landmark of mathematical thought, an axiomatic treatment of geometry. He selected a small core of undefined terms (called "common notions") and postulates (or axioms) which he then used to prove various geometrical statements. Although the plane in its modern sense is not directly given a definition anywhere in the "Elements", it may be thought of as part of the common notions. Euclid never used numbers to measure length, angle, or area. In this way the Euclidean plane is not quite the same as the Cartesian plane. | ['How is a plane described in mathmatics?', 'Who set fourth the first great landmark of mathmatical thought?', 'What was it?', 'In what aspects of mathematics are performed in two-dimensional space in other words in the plane?', 'Did Euclid ever use numbers to measure length, angle or area?', 'Is that the same as a Cartesian plane?', 'How can a plane arise?', 'What article is used when working exclusivley in two-dimensionial Euclidean space?', 'Then what does the plane refer to?', 'What did Euclid use to prove various geometric statements?'] | {'answers': ['a plane is a flat, two-dimensional surface that extends infinitely far', 'Euclid', 'an axiomatic treatment of geometry', 'geometry, trigonometry, graph theory, and graphing are performed in a two-dimensional space, or, in other words', 'No', 'no', 'as subspaces of some higher-dimensional space', 'the definite article is used', 'the whole space', 'He selected a small core of undefined terms (called "common notions") and postulates (or axioms)'], 'answers_start': [0, 730, 730, 562, 1143, 1144, 210, 428, 523, 832], 'answers_end': [86, 796, 831, 712, 1204, 1281, 272, 517, 560, 989]} |
34t446b1c0ehzexia0n3kr7jukuc08 | Northumberland (abbreviated Northd) is a county in North East England. The northernmost county of England, it borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham and Tyne and Wear to the south and the Scottish Borders to the north. To the east is the North Sea coastline with a long distance path. The county town is Alnwick, although the county council is in Morpeth.
The county of Northumberland included Newcastle upon Tyne until 1400, when the city became a county of itself. Northumberland expanded greatly in the Tudor period, annexing Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1482, Tynedale in 1495, Tynemouth in 1536, Redesdale around 1542 and Hexhamshire in 1572. Islandshire, Bedlingtonshire and Norhamshire were incorporated into Northumberland in 1844. Tynemouth and other settlements in North Tyneside were transferred to Tyne and Wear in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.
Lying on the Anglo-Scottish border, Northumberland has been the site of a number of battles. The county is noted for its undeveloped landscape of high moorland, now largely protected as the Northumberland National Park. Northumberland is the most sparsely populated county in England, with only 62 people per square kilometre.
Northumberland originally meant 'the land of the people living north of the River Humber'. The present county is the core of that former land, and has long been a frontier zone between England and Scotland. During Roman occupation of Britain, most of the present county lay north of Hadrian's Wall, and was only controlled by Rome for the brief period of its extension north the Antonine Wall. The Roman road Dere Street crosses the county from Corbridge over high moorland west of the Cheviot Hills into present Scotland to Trimontium (Melrose). As evidence of its border position through medieval times, Northumberland has more castles than any other county in England, including those of Alnwick, Bamburgh, Dunstanburgh, Newcastle and Warkworth. | ['what is this about ?', 'it lies on what border ?', 'and noted for what ?', 'what is the perple per sq kilo ?', 'what is the core of the land before ?', 'what is the abbrevation ?', 'located where ?', 'what sea is by it ?', 'Alnwick is what ?', 'the concil is what ?', 'the city became a independent area when ?', 'what did it incluse ?', 'what park is protected ?', 'how many area are castles mentioned ?', 'name 2', 'name 2 more ?', 'is denmark the last one ?', 'what is the last one ?', 'what happened in the Tudor period', 'witch one in 1495 ?'] | {'answers': ['Northumberland', 'Anglo-Scottish', 'undeveloped landscape', '62', 'present county', 'Northd', 'North East England', 'North Sea', 'The county town', 'Morpeth', '1400', 'Newcastle', 'Northumberland National Park', 'Five', 'Alnwick, Bamburgh', 'Dunstanburgh, Newcastle', 'no', 'Warkworth', 'Northumberland expanded', '1495'], 'answers_start': [0, 883, 991, 1165, 1294, 28, 51, 242, 289, 351, 426, 400, 1060, 1890, 1890, 1909, 1937, 1937, 473, 575], 'answers_end': [14, 897, 1012, 1168, 1308, 34, 69, 251, 304, 358, 430, 409, 1088, 1947, 1907, 1932, 1946, 1946, 496, 579]} |
3glb5jmzfxvofaehoy7hppchlrrdgn | CHAPTER III
THE WANDERER'S NECKLACE
On the morrow early I lay awake, for how could I sleep when Iduna rested beneath the same roof with me--Iduna, who, as her father had decreed, was to become my wife sooner than I had hoped? I was thinking how beautiful she looked, and how much I loved her; also of other things that were not so pleasant. For instance, why did not everybody see her with my eyes? I could not hide from myself that Ragnar went near to hating her; more than once she had almost been the cause of a quarrel between us. Freydisa, too, my nurse, who loved me, looked on her sourly, and even my mother, although she tried to like her for my sake, had not yet learned to do so, or thus it appeared to me.
When I asked her why, she replied that she feared the maid was somewhat selfish, also too fond of drawing the eyes of men, and of the adornment of her beauty. Of those who were dearest to me, indeed, only Steinar seemed to think Iduna as perfect as I did myself. This, so far as it went, was well; but, then, Steinar and I had always thought alike, which robbed his judgment of something of its worth.
Whilst I was pondering over these things, although it was still so early that my father and Athalbrand were yet in bed sleeping off the fumes of the liquor they had drunk, I heard Steinar himself talking to the messengers from Agger in the hall. They asked him humbly whether he would be pleased to return with them that day and take possession of his inheritance, since they must get back forthwith to Agger with their tidings. He replied that if they would send some or come themselves to escort him on the tenth day from that on which they spoke, he would go to Agger with them, but that until then he could not do so. | ['Who did the mother not like?', 'What was her name?', 'What was the problem?', 'She she the only one who disliked her?', 'How many other people?', 'Who?', 'Did it create issues with anyone?', 'With who?', 'Did anyone approve of her?', 'Who?', 'Was this a great comfort?', 'Why not?', 'Why did her dad disapprove of the engagement?', 'Who was his dad napping with?', 'Why were they napping at the time?', 'Was Agger there?', 'Who were they speaking to?', 'About what?', 'Did he leave with them?', 'When would he leave then?'] | {'answers': ['the maid', 'Iduna', 'she feared the maid was selfish and too fond of drawing the eyes of men', 'No', 'Two', 'Ragnar and Freydisa', 'Yes', 'Ragnar', 'Yes', 'Steinar', 'No', 'Steinar and he had always thought alike, which robbed his judgment of something of its worth', "He didn't", 'Athalbrand', 'They were sleeping off the fumes of the liquor they had drunk', 'No, he sent messengers.', 'Steinar', 'to return with and take possession of his inheritance', 'No', 'on the tenth day from that on which they spoke'], 'answers_start': [745, 144, 761, 437, 437, 437, 437, 437, 928, 928, 1032, 1032, 156, 1178, 1239, 1323, 1299, 1395, 1556, 1629], 'answers_end': [802, 204, 880, 467, 598, 599, 537, 537, 984, 984, 1123, 1123, 228, 1254, 1297, 1371, 1348, 1490, 1747, 1675]} |
304sm51wa34yqipo52asjd7k7u4sb1 | Brooklyn () is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,629,150 residents in 2016. It borders the borough of Queens at the southwestern end of Long Island, and has several bridge connections to the nearby boroughs of Staten Island and Manhattan. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, the most populous county in the U.S. state of New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after the county of New York (which is coextensive with the borough of Manhattan).
With a land area of and water area of , Kings County is New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third-smallest by total area, though it is the second-largest among the city's five boroughs. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U.S., behind Los Angeles and Chicago.
Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city (and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution) until January 1, 1898, when, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s, according to the new Municipal Charter of "Greater New York", Brooklyn was consolidated with the other cities, boroughs, and counties to form the modern "City of New York," surrounding the Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs. The borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves. Brooklyn's official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is which translates from early modern Dutch as "Unity makes strength". | ['what city is the most populous in New York', 'how many people live there', 'what does it border', 'who does it have the same boundaries as', 'since when', 'is it the most densely populated county', 'which is', 'which county is the 4th smallest', 'with new york gone, what rank would Brooklyn have under most populous in US', 'After who', 'and who else', 'Brooklyn was independent until what year', 'what is there official motto'] | {'answers': ['Brooklyn', '2,629,150 residents', 'the borough of Queens at the southwestern end of Long Island', 'Kings County', '1896', 'no', 'New York', 'Kings County', 'third', 'Los Angeles', 'Chicago', '1898', 'Unity makes strength'], 'answers_start': [0, 59, 112, 275, 275, 396, 463, 588, 756, 784, 849, 1034, 1494], 'answers_end': [57, 102, 183, 339, 339, 440, 491, 637, 846, 879, 881, 1061, 1630]} |
30og32w0subzh8937xvwlr3zmd4nek | I was the typical"I can't"child-whatever my mother told or asked me to do was immediately followed by my cry,"I can't."As a result,very few tasks or goals that I set out to achieve were ever completed. One evening,my mother called me into the family room."I want you to read this article,"Mother began."It's about Marlo Thomas.She tells how a simple poem that she was forced to learn by her father changed her life*She went from saying'I can't'to'I can'*According to this article,she was able to reorganize her life and her career by learning the principles in the poem." I took the small magazine from Mother and looked down at the pages.There was Marlo-my idol. Beside her photo was the poem my mother had spoken of,a simple poem entitled,"I Can"."I want you to memorize that poem,"Mother said firmly."Mama," _ ."I can't learn that poem.It's too long." "It's not too long and you can learn it.1 want you to know it perfectly by this time tomorrow,"said my mother. Unwillingly,I went back to my bedroom with the magazine.With a heavy heart,I threw myself into the bed and began my task. "Can't is a word that is the enemy to ambition,"I began.I repeated the line.I repeated it again and again."An enemy ambush to shatter your will..."I continued the process until I proudly recited the poem the following evening. It has now become my principle.Marlo 1 homas did not know me,but her story forever changed my life. Saying "I can" helped me to get through the worst moments of my life: Saying "I can" encouraged me to complete things I would have otherwise seen as out of my reach. A simple poem learned at seven is a poem that will support me to seventy-seven,maybe even longer. | ['What happened hen the mother asked something usually?', 'Did he complete a lot?', 'What did his mother do?'] | {'answers': ['The cry,"I can\'t.', 'No', 'Called me into the family room'], 'answers_start': [74, 131, 214], 'answers_end': [118, 200, 254]} |
32vnztt0a7424442by00lpwibswr4i | Yves Gomes is now a university student in Maryland, but he may soon have to leave the country. "I still want to continue with my college education and I want to be able to study here and go to medical school," he said.
Gomes is one of thousands of young illegal immigrants who grew up in the United States and are now studying at American colleges and universities. He is doing well in his studies, but he is fighting deportation to India, a country he left with his parents when he was just 14 months old. They were deported more than a year ago.
"If I was to go back to India I would just feel like all of that would have gone to waste because here at least I am still able to go to college," he said.
Immigration is a divisive political issue in the United States with some 11 million people in the country illegally. One element of the debate is the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States before the age of 16. Pending legislation know as the DREAMAct would give them a chance to become legal residents if they complete two years of college or join the military.
Milanie Schwartz, a politically conservative student at the University of Texas, explains why some Americans oppose the legislation.
"We think it's unfair that students who are illegal immigrants would get a fast track to citizenship, while people who did come here legally wouldn't have those same opportunities," she said.
"The question is legalization or not, " said Jon Feere, who also opposes the DREAM Act. He is a policy analyst with the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington and is concerned about the act's effect on the economy. "There's a lot of unemployment in the United States right now. And there are already many legal immigrants who are already here who are desperate for those jobs," he said.
But supporters of the DREAMAct say well-educated immigrants would help the economy. Raul Hinojosa is an immigration research analyst at UCLA." Not letting them contribute to the economy would not only lose all the financial investment we have already made in these youths, but we would lose literally trillions of dollars of potential value because they want and are ready to contribute to the US economy," he said.
That's exactly what Yves Gomes wants to do -- finish school and become a doctor. He says without the DREAMAct, many students' dreams will be lost. "They are studying at Harvard, they are studying at UCLA--the top universities -- and they all have bright futures and because of the system they are going to be told to go home, go back to a country they don't even know, " he said.
The DREAMAct has failed to win passage in Congress since it was first introduced 10 years ago. Now time is running out for passage this year, and opposition Republicans have threatened to block it. Yves Gomes hopes that won't happen. He wants to finish school and eventually become a US citizen. | ['Is Gomes an immigrant?', 'What kind?', 'Where did he grow up?', 'How is he doing in his studies?', 'Where might he sent back to?', 'At what age did he leave there?', 'Have his parents been sent back to India?', 'How long ago?', 'In what state is Gomes studying?', 'What kind of school does he hope to eventually go to?', 'How many people are in the U.S. illegally?', 'What bit of legislation would let the illegals a chance to gain citizenship?', 'Under what conditions?', 'At what school does MIlanie Schwartz study?', 'What is her political orientation?', 'Does she oppose the DREAMAct?', 'What is the occupation of Jon Feere?', 'With what organization?', 'Where?', 'How long ago was the DREAMAct first proposed?'] | {'answers': ['Yes', 'Illegal', 'United States', 'Well', 'India', '14 months old', 'Yes', 'More than a year ago.', 'Maryland', 'Medical', '11 million', 'DREAMAct', 'Complete two years of college or join the military.', 'University of Texas', 'Conservative', 'Yes', 'Policy analyst', 'The Center for Immigration Studies', 'Washington', '10 years ago'], 'answers_start': [221, 221, 221, 221, 400, 401, 372, 509, 0, 0, 710, 826, 959, 1114, 1114, 1114, 1444, 1443, 1443, 2638], 'answers_end': [275, 274, 307, 399, 441, 507, 551, 550, 50, 219, 826, 1112, 1112, 1247, 1246, 1440, 1607, 1607, 1663, 2732]} |
3mtmreqs4vimep15jtkxlrqzvqswa4 | A new camera made by a company named Netatmo has facial recognition software that can tell parents at work that their children have returned from school, or that a package has been taken to their home. It can also tell them if a stranger has entered their home. Janina Mattausch is a product marketing manager for Netatmo. "The common security cameras at present are not that smart. So, they can tell you if something is moving but they don't necessarily know if it's a human being or, ah, if it's your kids --they don't know the difference, so they will warn you all the time. " When family members enter a home, the new camera "recognizes" ( ) them and sends information to the owner's smartphone. The owner can choose to see the video then or latcr. But if an unknown person enters a home, the camera will send the owner a warning that will cause an alarm to sound on the owner's smartphone. That is what happened recently to a smart home camera owncr named Darrmen. He lives in Paris. "On a Friday I was at work,atending a big monthly meeting when my phone warned. At first I told myself 'Oh, it must be a mistake, maybe I have to set the systcm again. ' -but the notice on my phone was telling me that there was a movement in my flat and also a face that the software did not recognize. " He watched the video and was very surprised by what he saw. "I saw a person I did not know with his shoes on. I was watching it live on vidco. So I felt totaly unbelievable, frozen. I asked a workmate to take me back home as fast as possible and I callcd the police on the way. " With the help of the video, the police found the intruder later that day. | ['What can the new camera tell parents?', 'What else?', 'What else?', 'Where does the camera send information?', 'What special kind of recognition does the camera have?', 'Who is Janina?', 'For what company?', "True or False: The new camera can't tell individual people apart.", 'What happens if the camera senses a stranger?', 'What does the alarm sound like?'] | {'answers': ['children have returned', 'a package has been taken', 'stranger has entered t', "to the owner's smartphone", 'facial', 'manager', 'Netatmo', 'true', 'phone warned', 'an alarm'], 'answers_start': [118, 162, 229, 673, 49, 302, 314, 510, 1055, 850], 'answers_end': [141, 186, 251, 698, 56, 310, 321, 540, 1067, 859]} |
3copxfw7xbc26tdqjyjrnblz7yapku | Washington (CNN) -- For political junkies, 2013 was expected to be a quiet year following the presidential election and it basically followed the script.
Nonetheless, there were some interesting developments at the ballot box.
New Jersey, as expected, returned Gov. Chris Christie to office and also sent Cory Booker to the U.S. Senate. Bill de Blasio became the first Democrat elected New York City Mayor in two decades, and Democrats, led by Terry McAuliffe, swept the top three executive offices in Virginia for the first time in recent memory.
Were these outcomes isolated or do they mean anything for 2014, when candidates will heat up the campaign trail big time ahead of next November's congressional midterms and key gubernatorial elections?
In the new year, 435 House seats are up as are 35 in the Senate. There will be 36 gubernatorial races as well. Most of these campaigns won't be nail biters, but there could be collective power shifts in Washington and in state houses.
Here, CNN Politics focuses on the Senate, where Republicans aim to retake control. Republicans must pick up six seats to claim the majority and key races are wide open at this point.
The top 12 campaign questions of 2014
Five key races:
Kentucky
The incumbent is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is under pressure from two fronts: Democrats, naturally, and from a tea party challenger within his own Republican Party who says he's not conservative enough.
While McConnell is likely to defeat his primary opponent, Matt Bevin, he is expending money and other resources he'd rather use in a general election campaign against Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. | ['what was 2013 expected to be?', 'What would be the interesting developments?', 'What happened in New Jersey?', 'Who was the first Democrat elected mayor in two decades?', 'How many house seats were up in the new year?', 'who plans on retake control?', 'How many seats do theyneed to pick up?', 'what were the top 12 campaign questoins of 2014', 'Who is Mitch McConnell?', 'Who was Matt Bevin?', 'What is he expending money on?', 'against who?', 'What is her name?'] | {'answers': ['a quiet year', 'Mayoral and Gubernatorial elections', 'Gov. Chris Christie returned to office', 'Bill de Blasio', '435', 'Republicans', 'six', 'unknown', 'Senate Minority Leader', 'his primary opponen', 'a general election campaign', 'Kentucky Secretary of State', 'Alison Lundergan Grimes'], 'answers_start': [67, 231, 265, 340, 774, 1077, 1102, -1, 1265, 1506, 1603, 1638, 1667], 'answers_end': [80, 552, 294, 355, 778, 1089, 1107, -1, 1289, 1527, 1630, 1666, 1690]} |
3qavnhz3em463vp6ffdvcg9jxjnalo | As prices and building costs keep rising, "the do-it-yourself"(DIY)trend in the US continues to grow. "We needed furniture for our living room," says John Kose, "and we didn't have enough money to buy it." So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs. John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home when the cost of living is very high. The Koses took a 2-week course for $ 280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house. Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe-making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. "I was very upset about it. Now I've finished a car repair course. I should be able to fix the car myself. " John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a "do-it-yourself", you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don't have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how to do things yourself. | ['What does DIY stand for?', 'Is this a growing trend?', 'How can one take part in this movement?', 'Any other way?', 'what?', 'What is prompting people to learn to do their own repairs?', 'What did John Kose learn to do?"', 'When was he married?', 'Did his spouse also take the class?', 'what did they build forst?', "What happened to Jim hatfield's spouse?", 'did they have children?', 'how many?', 'What prompted him to look into DIY?', 'what does he do for employment', 'How much did the class taken by the Koses cost?', 'How long did it run for?', 'Is Jim confident in his automotive abilities?', 'Are the John and Jim atypical?', 'What did the Koses need that prompted them to take a class?'] | {'answers': ['do-it-yourself', 'yes', 'you can go to DIY classes.', 'yes', 'there are books that tell you how to do things yourself.', 'prices and building costs keep rising', 'build furniture and make repairs around the house', 'six months ago', 'yes', 'a few tables and chairs.', 'died', 'yes', 'three', 'he received a car repair bill for $420', 'He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe-making factory.', '$ 280', '2-week', 'yes', 'no', 'furniture for living room'], 'answers_start': [41, 0, 959, 1002, 959, 0, 403, 258, 403, 150, 533, 533, 534, 649, 534, 403, 403, 534, 810, 101], 'answers_end': [72, 101, 1029, 1137, 1137, 101, 532, 290, 462, 258, 579, 580, 561, 767, 648, 444, 444, 807, 845, 160]} |
3wetl7aqwt8shln0edie8jzg42a35d | Sam hated doing chores. And he had many chores. For example,on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays he took out the rubbish. And on weekends he always washed his father's car. He also cleaned his own room once a week. What a chore that was! Sometimes he even had to look after his little sister and brother. Sam had a foreign friend at school. His name was Kumar. Doing chores in Kumar's family was very different. In the house only the girls did chores. His sisters made all the beds and cleaned all the rooms too, even his bedroom.His mother always cooked the meals, and his sisters helped her to go shopping, and prepare the food. They worked hard at home,doing all the chores with their mother. So when Kumar talked to his friend Sam about chores, he felt very lucky. One day, Sam had an idea. He asked Kumar,"Could I borrow your sisters? " He wanted them to help him clean his room,but they said " no " Instead, they asked Sam to teach their brother how to do chores, so he could make his own bed. Sam and Kumar are very good at science. They are going to be scientists after university. They want to make a robot to do the chores. Then everyone-mothers and fathers, sons and daughters-will be happy! | ['What did sam hate?', 'What was his biggest chore?', 'Did he have a lot of chores?', 'What did he have at school?', 'What was his name?', 'Did he have a lot of chores?', 'Why?', 'Everything?', 'What did his mother do?', "What was Sam's idea?", 'Why?', 'what did they say?', 'What did they want?', 'Did Sam even have chores on the weekend?', 'What did he do?', 'Who is good at science?', 'How will this help them?', 'to do what?', 'Why?', 'Even the girls?'] | {'answers': ['Doing chores.', 'Cleaning his own room.', 'He had many chores', 'A foreign friend.', 'Kumar.', 'None.', 'Only the girls did chores in his house.', 'Yes, even his bedroom.', 'Cooked the meals.', "He asked to borrow Kumar's sisters.", 'His sisters made all the beds and cleaned all the rooms', 'they said " no "', 'Sam to teach their brother how to do chores', 'Yes.', "He washed his father's car.", 'Sam and Kumar are.', 'They want to make a robot.', 'To do the chores.', 'So everyone will be happy!', 'Everyone-mothers and fathers, sons and daughters'], 'answers_start': [0, 171, 24, 303, 339, 359, 359, 450, 528, 793, 450, 886, 923, 120, 136, 998, 1088, 1088, 1146, 1137], 'answers_end': [23, 235, 46, 337, 358, 449, 449, 528, 562, 839, 506, 903, 966, 169, 170, 1038, 1113, 1131, 1200, 1185]} |
3a1cohj8njvqybd1rwejoxahp6m8h2 | David bought a new house and wanted to start a garden in his backyard. He asked his friend Anthony to go with him to the store. David and Anthony went to the store on Saturday to pick out soil and seeds. They went into the big store and passed by many other things like jewelry, books, and movies, and then they reached the garden section. The store's garden section was huge! They had vegetable seeds, plant seeds, and flower seeds. David wanted to grow cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, corn, and potatoes. Anthony helped him find those vegetable seeds. The next day, David started to plant the seeds. In a few weeks, there were lots of vegetables growing in his garden! He began to pick the vegetables and use them when he cooked. He also gave them away as gifts to his family and friends. They loved his vegetables! Soon, David wanted to make his garden even bigger. He went back to the garden store and bought seeds to plant more vegetables. Soon his whole backyard was full of delicious vegetables! | ['Who bought a new house?', 'What did he want to start?', 'Where?', 'What', 'Who is his friend?', 'Where did they go?', 'When?', 'What for?', 'Was it a big store?', 'What section did they go to?'] | {'answers': ['David.', 'A garden.', 'In his backyard.', 'unknown', 'Anthony.', 'To the store.', 'Saturday.', 'Soil and seeds.', 'Yes.', 'The garden section.'], 'answers_start': [0, 0, 0, -1, 71, 128, 128, 128, 204, 203], 'answers_end': [24, 69, 69, -1, 126, 202, 202, 203, 338, 339]} |
3kxir214i4gl0knhw8lzkhoaz9q246 | CHAPTER XVI
Mr. William Hayter, in the solitude of his chambers at the Milan Court, was a very altered personage. He extended no welcoming salutation to his midnight visitor but simply motioned him to a chair.
"Well," he began, "is your task finished that you are in London?"
"My task," Lessingham replied, "might just as well never have been entered upon. The man you sent me to watch is nothing but an ordinary sport-loving Englishman."
"Really! You have lived as his neighbour for nearly a month, and that is your impression of him?"
"It is," Lessingham assented. "He has been away sea-fishing, half the time, but I have searched his house thoroughly."
"Searched his papers, eh?"
"Every one I could find, and hated the job. There are a good many charts of the coast, but they are all for the use of the fishermen."
"Wonderful!" Hayter scoffed. "My young friend, you may yet find distinction in some other walk of life. Our secret service, I fancy, will very soon be able to dispense with your energies."
"And I with your secret service," Lessingham agreed heartily. "I dare say there may be some branches of it in which existence is tolerable. That, however, does not apply to the task upon which I have been engaged."
"You have been completely duped," Hayter told him calmly, "and the information you have sent us is valueless. Sir Henry Cranston, instead of being the type of man whom you have described, is one of the greatest experts upon coast defense and mine-laying, in the English Admiralty." | ['What time is it?', 'Who is visiting?', 'Who is being visited?', 'Where are they?', 'Which is where?', 'Was it a warm welcome?', 'Who was being watched?', 'For how long?', 'Is he really good at anything?', 'Anything else?', 'Like what?', 'Did the watcher think this about him?', 'Where did he seem to spend a bunch of his time?', 'Doing what?', 'Was his home looked through?', 'What was found?', 'Of what?'] | {'answers': ['midnight', 'Lessingham', 'William Hayter', "Hayter's chambers", 'the Milan Court,', 'No', 'Sir Henry Cranston', 'nearly a month', 'coast defense', 'Yes', 'mine-laying,', 'he is an ordinary sport-loving Englishman', 'at sea', 'fishing', 'Yes', 'charts', 'the coast'], 'answers_start': [159, 155, 17, 25, 57, 115, 1352, 474, 1430, 1433, 1444, 395, 578, 578, 623, 762, 763], 'answers_end': [167, 175, 32, 65, 85, 151, 1370, 506, 1479, 1524, 1496, 442, 621, 606, 666, 782, 782]} |
38ymoxr4muzlrnp2tg3l5modz39w6d | Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital, the center of the Greater Caracas Area, and the largest city of Venezuela. Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa). Terrain suitable for building lies between 760 and 1,140 m (2,490 and 3,740 ft) above sea level. The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep 2,200-metre-high (7,200 ft) mountain range, Cerro El Ávila; to the south there are more hills and mountains.
The Metropolitan District of Caracas is made up of five municipalities: Libertador Municipality which is the only administrative division of the Venezuelan Capital District, and four other municipalities, which are within in Miranda State: Chacao, Baruta, Sucre, and El Hatillo. Libertador holds many of the government buildings and is the Capital District ("Distrito Capital"). The Distrito Capital had a population of 2,013,366 , while the Metropolitan District of Caracas was estimated at 3,273,863 as of 2013. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of 5,243,301.
Businesses in the city include service companies, banks, and malls. Caracas has a largely service-based economy, apart from some industrial activity in its metropolitan area. The Caracas Stock Exchange and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) are headquartered in Caracas. PDVSA is the largest company in Venezuela. Caracas is also Venezuela's cultural capital, with many restaurants, theaters, museums, and shopping centers. Some of the tallest skyscrapers in Latin America are located in Caracas. | ['What country is Caracas the capital of?', "WHat is it's full name?", "What is it's economy focused on?", 'What kind of business do you find there?', 'Are any major organizations based there?', 'WHat is one?', 'WHat does that stand for?', 'How is the city divided up?', 'WHat is one?', 'What district is it in?', 'How many people live there?', 'WHat is the other district called?', 'How many people live there?', 'WHen were those figures calculated?', 'Is Caracas a large city?', 'What part of the country is it in?', 'Are there any major geographical features nearby?', 'Is it near any water?', 'Like what?', 'It the city above sea level?'] | {'answers': ['Venezuela.', 'officially Santiago de León de Caracas', 'its a service-based economy', 'banks and malls', 'yes', 'PDVSA', 'Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)', 'into five municipalities', 'Libertador Municipality', 'the Capital District', 'The Distrito Capital had a population of 2,013,366', 'the Metropolitan District', '3,273,863', 'as of 2013.', 'yes', 'in the northern part of the country', 'the Venezuelan coastal mountain range', 'yes', 'the Guaire River', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [0, 7, 1285, 1217, 1422, 1484, 1392, 624, 695, 902, 1002, 1062, 1066, 1099, 105, 140, 271, 435, 139, 338], 'answers_end': [140, 47, 1366, 1285, 1482, 1526, 1454, 694, 827, 1001, 1136, 1126, 1125, 1138, 139, 217, 337, 476, 181, 433]} |
3nl0rfnu0fngh0r7ler3kda4f2gk4z | The first grade class went on a bus to visit a farm. The farm was a long ways from their school. The farm was also far away from any other farms or houses. The farmers who lived there were the Nixon family. They grew corn. Sometimes when the weather was right, they would plant wheat, too. The fields were so large that the class could not see where they ended. Mr. Nixon gave all of the children a long ride in the fields on his tractor. The Nixon family also had a lot of farm animals. In the red barn next to their home, they kept a few cows and horses. Everyone fed hay to some of the cows. The farmers got milk from their cows. Some of the class got small bottles of fresh milk to take home with them. All the kids got to ride on the big brown horses the Nixons had. They went up into the nearby hills, where they could look down on the farm below. Around the farmyard there were many goats and chickens, who wandered around as they wished. The Nixon children liked to play with their goats, feed them peanut shells and pet them, like the first grade kids did with their dogs and cats. The smallest tried to bump the children with their hard heads and tiny horns! When it was almost dark, the school kids got back on the bus to go home. They were a little sad to leave the fun life of the farm children. But they brought back stories for all the rest of the school to hear. | ['who went on a bus?', 'to do what?', 'How far was it?', 'Was it close to other farms?', 'how about homes?', 'Who lived their?', 'were they farmers?', 'Did they grow things?', 'what?', 'anything else?', 'what?', 'what did they ride in?', 'Did they have animals?', 'what kind?', 'any others?', 'what did they do?', 'Was it large?', 'When did they leave?', 'How did they get back?', 'Were they sad to go?'] | {'answers': ['The first grade class', 'visit a farm', 'a long ways', 'no', 'no', 'the Nixon family', 'yes', 'yes', 'corn', 'yes', 'wheat', 'tractor', 'yes', 'cows and horses', 'goats and chickens', 'wandered around', 'yes', 'When it was almost dark', 'bus', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [0, 36, 53, 98, 96, 156, 156, 207, 207, 260, 261, 397, 439, 524, 854, 910, 290, 1169, 1194, 1242], 'answers_end': [35, 51, 95, 144, 154, 205, 183, 221, 221, 288, 288, 437, 486, 555, 908, 944, 360, 1240, 1240, 1273]} |
3p529iw9kyl1zm6eqvznqhkauxflfn | Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. CNN was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel. Upon its launch, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage, and was the first all-news television channel in the United States.
While the news channel has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from the Time Warner Center in New York City, and studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta is only used for weekend programming. CNN is sometimes referred to as CNN/U.S. (or CNN Domestic) to distinguish the American channel from its international sister network, CNN International. As of August 2010, CNN is available in over 100 million U.S. households. Broadcast coverage of the U.S. channel extends to over 890,000 American hotel rooms, as well as carriage on cable and satellite providers throughout Canada. Globally, CNN programming airs through CNN International, which can be seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories.
As of July 2015, CNN is available to about 96,374,000 cable, satellite, and telco television households (82.8% of households with at least one television set) in the United States. | ['What does CNN stand for?', 'How many households is it available in?', 'Has it always provided 24/7 news coverage?', 'Where does CNN broadcast from?', 'Where is that?', 'Who is it owned by?', 'Is that owned by another company?', 'Does it have an international network?', 'Where is CNN headquartered?', 'Does it ever broadcast from there?', 'When?', 'How many countries is CNN available in?', 'When was CNN founded?', 'Before CNN launched, did any other TV channel provide news only?'] | {'answers': ['Cable News Network', 'over 100 million', 'yes', 'the Time Warner Center', 'New York City,', 'Turner Broadcasting System', 'yes', 'yes', 'Atlanta', 'yes', 'On the weekend', '212', '1980', 'no'], 'answers_start': [0, 838, 254, 413, 494, 0, 95, 892, 581, 580, 581, 1074, 158, 254], 'answers_end': [18, 889, 411, 513, 531, 129, 155, 1047, 626, 664, 663, 1175, 181, 411]} |
3ovr4i9uspj2s3p2yjb0gzmdfbdq49 | CHAPTER XXXI
MISS LENEVEU'S MESSAGE
The two men stepped back into the hotel. The cashier had returned to his desk, and the incident which had just transpired seemed to have passed unnoticed. Nevertheless, Laverick felt that the studied indifference of his companion's manner had its significance, and he endeavored to imitate it.
"Shall we go through into the bar?" he asked. "There's very seldom any one there at this time."
"Anywhere you say," Bellamy answered. "It's years since we had a drink together."
They passed into the inner room and, finding it empty, drew two chairs into the further corner. Bellamy summoned the waiter.
"Two whiskies and sodas quick, Tim," he ordered. "Now, Laverick, listen to me," he added, as the waiter turned away. "We are alone for the moment but it won't be for long. You know very well that it wasn't to renew our schoolboy acquaintance that I've asked you to come in here with me."
Laverick drew a little breath.
"Please go on," he said. "I am as anxious as you can be to grasp this affair properly."
"When we left school," Bellamy remarked, "you were destined for the Stock Exchange. I went first to Magdalen. Did you ever hear what became of me afterwards?"
"I always understood," Laverick answered, "that you went into one of the Government offices."
"Quite right," Bellamy assented. "I did. At this moment I have the honor to serve His Majesty."
"Two thousand a year and two hours work a day," Laverick laughed. "I know the sort of thing." | ['What was the excuse that Bellamy used to bring Laverick with him?', "What was Laverick's plan after school?", 'Where did Bellamy go?', 'And then where?', 'Does he still work there?', 'What does Laverick say about that?', 'What did they order to drink?', 'How long had the two been friends?', "What was the waiter's name?", 'Was the bar busy?'] | {'answers': ['"It\'s years since we had a drink together."', 'he was destined for the Stock Exchange.', 'to Magdalen', 'to the Government offices', 'yes', 'Two thousand a year and two hours work a day,', 'Two whiskies and sodas', 'since school', 'Tim', 'no'], 'answers_start': [433, 1099, 1142, 1271, 1356, 1414, 646, 854, 675, 763], 'answers_end': [516, 1142, 1166, 1310, 1408, 1459, 668, 886, 679, 775]} |
3zak8w07i4edl8eiwr83extp1k4u03 | CHAPTER XXII
PATERNAL ANXIETY
M. le Duc d'Aumont, Prime Minister of His Majesty King Louis XV of France, was exceedingly perturbed. He had just had two separate interviews, each of half an hour's duration, and he was now busy trying to dissociate what his daughter had told him in the first interview, from that which M. de Stainville had imparted to him in the second. And he was not succeeding.
The two sets of statements seemed inextricably linked together.
Lydie, certainly had been very strange and agitated in her manner, totally unlike herself: but this mood of course, though so very unusual in her, did not astonish M. le Duc so much, once he realized its cause.
It was the cause which was so singularly upsetting.
Milor Eglinton, his son-in-law, had sent in his resignation as Comptroller-General of Finance, and this without giving any reason for so sudden and decisive a step. At any rate Lydie herself professed to be ignorant of milor's motives for this extraordinary line of action as she was of his future purpose. All she knew--or all that she cared to tell her father--was that her husband had avowedly the intention of deserting her: he meant to quit Versailles immediately, thus vacating his post without a moment's notice, and leaving his wife, whom he had allowed to conduct all State affairs for him for over a year, to extricate herself, out of a tangle of work and an anomalous position, as best she might.
The only suggestion which milor had cared to put forward, with regard to her future, was that he was about to make her a free gift of his château and lands of Vincennes, the yearly revenues of which were close upon a million livres. This gift she desired not to accept. | ['who was prime minister?', 'to who?', 'how many interviews did he have?', 'how long?', 'how many statements?', 'was lydie acting normal?', 'who was his son in law?', 'who told him something during the first interveiw?', 'what was his son in laws occupation?', 'is he still in that occupation?', 'was lydie married?', 'did he give reason for his quitting?', 'did his son in law take his wife?', 'who conducted the affairs?', 'for how long?', 'did she receive a gift?', 'from who', 'of what?', 'did she want this gift?', 'was lydie behavior shocking to anyone?'] | {'answers': ["M. le Duc d'Aumont", 'His Majesty King Louis XV of France', 'Two', '30 minutes each', 'two sets of statements', 'no', 'Milor Eglinton', 'his daughter', 'Comptroller-General of Finance', 'no', 'yes', 'no', 'no', 'his wife', 'for over a year', 'yes', 'Milor Eglinton', 'his château and lands of Vincennes', 'no', 'no'], 'answers_start': [34, 71, 250, 177, 403, 469, 736, 251, 785, 777, 1109, 840, 1124, 1268, 1326, 1555, 736, 1580, 1679, 469], 'answers_end': [69, 107, 400, 208, 429, 507, 767, 304, 829, 795, 1126, 865, 1163, 1350, 1350, 1591, 750, 1614, 1714, 680]} |
3u4j9857oebc7k5whzchombokeob7q | CHAPTER XXII. A FATAL SPARK.
And so it chanced; which in those dark And fireless halls was quite amazing, Did we not know how small a spark Can set the torch of love ablazing. T. MOORE.
Aurelia rode home in perplexity, much afraid of the combustibles at her girdle, and hating the task her sister had forced on her. She felt as if her heedless avowals had been high treason to her husband; and yet Harriet was her elder, and those assurances that as a true woman she was bound to clear up the mystery, made her cheeks burn with shame, and her heart thrill with the determination to vindicate her husband, while the longing to know the face of one who so loved her was freshly awakened.
She was strongly inclined to tell him all, indeed she knew herself well enough to be aware that half a dozen searching questions would draw out the whole confession of her own communication and Harriet's unworthy suspicions; and humiliating as this would be, she longed for the opportunity. Here, however, she was checked in her meditations by a stumble of her horse, which proved to have lost a shoe. It was necessary to leave the short cut, and make for the nearest forge, and when the mischief was repaired, to ride home by the high road.
She thus came home much later than had been expected; Jumbo, Molly, and the little girls were all watching for her, and greeted her eagerly. The supper was already on the table for her, and she had only just given Fay and Letty the cakes and comfits she had bought at Brentford for them when Jumbo brought the message that his master hoped that madam, if not too much fatigued, would come to him as soon as her supper was finished. | ['Who was suspicious?', 'Did she have cause?', 'Who was she relatedto?', 'How?', 'Who was older?', 'Was Aurelia married?', 'Did she hide something in her underwear?', 'What?', 'Did someone make her do it?', 'Who?', 'Did she make it back to her house on time?', 'Was anybody waiting?', 'Who?', 'Were they sad to see her?', 'Was dinner ready?', 'Where were the pastries from?', 'Who got to eat them?', 'Who was asked to meet the head of household after eating?', 'What did the equine lose?', 'Who is quoted?'] | {'answers': ["Harriet'", "Aurelia didn't think so", 'harriet', 'sisters', 'Harriet', 'yes', 'yes', 'combustibles', 'yes', 'Her sister', 'no', 'yes', 'Jumbo, Molly, and the little girls were all watching for her,', 'no', 'yes', 'Brentford', 'Fay and Letty', 'Aurelia', 'a shoe.', '. T. MOORE.'], 'answers_start': [886, 886, 190, 190, 397, 334, 190, 238, 270, 282, 1236, 1290, 1290, 1352, 1377, 1439, 1449, 1527, 1039, 176], 'answers_end': [917, 917, 319, 311, 425, 393, 269, 268, 318, 317, 1288, 1351, 1351, 1377, 1421, 1514, 1500, 1667, 1094, 188]} |
3qecw5o0kh1xg2lutso5qw3ezgy5t2 | CHAPTER VII
HOW JOB HASKERS WENT SLEIGH-RIDING
On the instant the noise in Dormitory No. 12 came to an end. Shadow Hamilton dropped the chair and sat upon it and Luke Watson swung his banjo out of sight under a bedspread. Dave remained on one knee, picking up the books that had been scattered.
"You--you young rascals!" spluttered Job Haskers, when he could speak. "How dare you throw books at me?"
He glared around at the students, then strode into the dormitory and caught Dave by the shoulder.
"I say how dare you throw books at me?" he went on.
"I haven't thrown any books, Mr. Haskers," answered Dave, calmly.
"What!"
"I threw that book, Mr. Haskers," said Roger, promptly. "But I didn't throw it at you."
"Ahem! So it was you, Master Morr! Nice proceedings, I must say. Instead of going to bed you all cut up like wild Indians. This must be stopped. Every student in this room will report to me to-morrow after school. I will take down your names." The teacher drew out a notebook and began to write rapidly. "Who knocked over that stand?"
"I did," answered Shadow. "It was an--er--an accident."
"Who was making that awful noise dancing?"
"I was dancing," answered Sam. "But I don't think I made much noise."
"It is outrageous, this noise up here, and it must be stopped once and for all. Now go to bed, all of you, and not another sound, remember!" And with this warning, Job Haskers withdrew from the room, closing the door sharply after him. | ['Who was Mr. Haskers?', "Who said he hadn't thrown any books?", 'What number Dormitory were people in?', 'Did someone have a banjo?', 'Who?', 'What did he do with it?', 'Who said he threw the book?', 'What did the teacher tell everyone they had to do tomorrow?', 'What did Haskers start to write in?', 'Was someone dancing?', 'Who?', 'Whose last name was Morr?', 'What did Haskers compare the noisy students to?', 'Who felled the stand?', 'Was someone cleaning up the books?', 'Who?', 'Where exactly did Luke hide the banjo?', 'Who was bent down cleaning up?', 'Who dropped a chair?', 'And who was taken by the shoulder?'] | {'answers': ['the teacher', 'Dave', 'No. 12', 'yes', 'Luke Watson', 'swung it out of sight', 'Roger', 'report to him', 'a notebook', 'yes', 'Sam', "Roger's", 'wild Indians', 'Shadow', 'yes', 'Dave', 'under a bedspread', 'Dave', 'Shadow Hamilton', 'Dave'], 'answers_start': [974, 562, 51, 165, 166, 166, 640, 875, 974, 1170, 1170, 640, 795, 1067, 225, 225, 165, 226, 111, 408], 'answers_end': [1065, 628, 95, 193, 193, 225, 684, 943, 1033, 1201, 1200, 764, 853, 1123, 299, 299, 225, 299, 146, 507]} |
33ppungg385i71srwrqqfl9rcntrzo | James lives in Hawaii and his mother lives in Korea. James speaks English (he never learned Korean), and his mom only speaks Korean. They communicate perfectly.
Eric is from Honduras, but he lives in the U.S. Eric just started learning English and speaks very little. But, everyday Eric reads the latest local US news on the Web, with no problem.
What these people (and close to 60 million others around the world) share is a remarkable, free software program called Babylon.
Babylon may well be the most advanced translation software in the world, and it's a must-have for anyone whose life goes beyond the borders of their own language or those who want it to.
Once you download it, you can simply highlight the part in practically any format, and it's instantly translated into the language of your choice. You can use it to translate a website, email, word doc, pdf, and actually any document in any format you can think of.
You can write a document in your native language, and Babylon will instantly translate it into another before you send it.
The program translates 75 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Indian, and Russian. It also includes up-to-date encyclopedias , dictionaries, and spell checkers.
Babylon is a long way from early translation software that would, more often than not, make an unreadable text with grammar errors that was better suited for making laughs than comprehension. Babylon's ability to understand and translate is perfect. In fact, businesses are adopting Babylon as the standard when it comes to translating commercial communications and other important documents.
Babylon is also a great tool for people who are learning another language. Use it anytime you come across a word or passage you don't understand.
What users enjoy most is the program's ability to open up a different world to them. Whether it's surfing a news site in a different country, or being able to properly communicate with a family member or friend overseas, Babylon can make it happen.
Best of all, Babylon is free! To get your free copy, visit Babylon.com. | ['What is the name of the software program?', 'How much does it cost?', 'How many people use it?', 'What will it do if you write a story in your native language?', 'How many languages does it include?', 'Does it have an encyclopedia?', 'Does it have spell check?', 'Does it have a dictionary?', 'ARe businesses using it?', 'Where does James live?', 'What language does he s peak?', 'Where does his mom live?', 'What does she speak?', 'Where is Eric from?', 'Where does he live?', 'Is he fluent in English?', 'What does he read every day?', 'Where does he read it?', 'What is one language it translates?', "What's another?"] | {'answers': ['Babylon.', "It's free.", 'Close to 60 million.', 'Translate it.', '75.', 'Yes.', 'Yes.', 'Yes.', 'Yes.', 'Hawaii.', 'English.', 'Korea.', 'Korean.', 'Honduras.', 'U.S.', 'No.', 'US news.', 'The Web.', 'Spanish.', 'Chinese.'], 'answers_start': [447, 442, 354, 939, 1064, 1157, 1157, 1158, 1488, 0, 53, 26, 105, 163, 189, 211, 275, 289, 1067, 1068], 'answers_end': [481, 463, 418, 1029, 1099, 1199, 1236, 1237, 1528, 22, 73, 52, 133, 184, 211, 268, 319, 331, 1118, 1127]} |
3p4rdnwnd56fenk4oitvdzka6sqijh | If you need any help in planning your future, call in at the Education and Careers Expo , which opened at the City Convention and Exhibition Centre yesterday. Expo gives you a unique opportunity to meet leading industrialists and educators.
I spoke to several young people at Expo, and they all agreed how useful it was to have so much information under one roof.
Duncan Kelly intends to take a university course in design after he leaves school. He was collecting some of the free literature when I spoke to him. "I'm not in a hurry to make a choice at the moment. I want to get all the information before I make up my mind."
One feature of Expo is the careers seminars , at which expert speakers outline their respective fields. Barbara Watts is already at university, in the second year of a law degree. She's decided to keep on studying after she graduates. She attended a seminar on international law. "The speaker was really good at getting across his message," said Barbara. "It was very helpful."
But Expo isn't just for people who are still in education. It also offers help to those in employment, and to people who are considering retraining or a change of career.
One advantage of Expo in that you can meet many prospective employers face to face, and talk to them frankly about your plans. As Charles Li told me, "Normally I wouldn't dare to go and talk to the manager of a company. But today I have talked to several managers. It's easy to meet them here, in a relaxed environment." He left school after Junior High and went to work in a factory to earn a living. He's looking at changing his career and perhaps tidying to be an accountant.
The organizers expect over 200,000 young people to visit Expo, and there's no doubt that it's a bit of a squash . But the opportunities available here certainly make up for any discomfort. So, if you need any help with your future, come along to Expo. You don't need a ticket. It's open today, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm, and entry is free to all. | ['How many people are expected to attend this event?', 'Are they old?', 'How much does it cost?', 'With whom did Charles meet?', 'Is that something he generally does?', 'Why was he able to today?', 'Is the atmosphere tense?', 'Did he go to university?', 'How much education does he have?', 'What did he do after that?', 'What did he do immediately after school?', "What are Duncan's plans?", 'In what field?', 'Does he have all the details worked out already?', 'What is he acquiring to aid in his decision?', 'How many were interviewed/quoted?', "Who's the third?", 'Was there a woman quoted?', "What's her name?", 'Is she in school?', 'What course is she pursuing?', 'How long has she been doing that?', 'Did she go to a program at this event?', 'What did she attend?'] | {'answers': ['200,000', 'no', 'free', 'several managers', 'no', 'easy to meet them here', 'no, not at all', 'no', 'Junior High', 'changing his career', 'work in a factory', 'take a university course', 'design', 'no', 'free literature', 'Three', 'Charles Li', 'yes', 'Barbara Watts', 'yes', 'law', 'Two', 'yes', 'seminar on international law'], 'answers_start': [1694, 1702, 1923, 1433, 1356, 1456, 1485, 1528, 1528, 1604, 1552, 392, 420, 592, 480, 1316, 1316, 737, 737, 765, 800, 784, 872, 883], 'answers_end': [1701, 1707, 1942, 1449, 1367, 1478, 1492, 1539, 1539, 1623, 1569, 416, 426, 603, 496, 1323, 1326, 744, 750, 775, 804, 794, 911, 911]} |
3018q3zvoiqh6tkjkzarysii34aary | (CNN) -- Five-time winner Roger Federer opened his U.S. Open account Monday with a straight sets win over Santiago Giraldo in New York.
Despite surrendering his serve three times, the 30-year-old Swiss enjoyed a relatively comfortable match against the Colombian, ranked 54 in the world, winning 6-4 6-3 6-2 on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court.
Leading 5-1 in the opening set, a number of uncharacteristic errors from Federer saw him squander a double-break advantage before he finally rallied to win 6-4.
The second and third sets were more straight-forward, though the world number three will be concerned about his winners-to-unforced errors ratio -- he finished with 36 winners and 35 unforced errors.
"It was quite up and down, getting used to the conditions," admitted Federer, in quotes carried by usopen.org.
"I don't think I've ever played my best in the first round but it's important to come through them and come up with a good feeling."
Home favorite Mardy Fish was ruthlessly efficient as he easily dispatched Germany's Tobias Kamke 6-2 6-2 6-1.
However fellow American Ryan Harrison was not so fortunate. The 19-year old lost out to big-serving Croat Marin Cilic, 6-2, 7-5, 7-6 (8/6).
Seventh seed Gael Monfils ruined the U.S. Open debut of Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria with a battling 7-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory, while Czech Tomas Berdych, the number nine seed, beat French qualifier Romain Jouan 6-2, 7-6 (7/4), 6-1.
Elsewhere, French 13th seed Richard Gasquet trounced Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-4 6-4 6-0, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic ousted France's Augustin Gensse 6-2 7-5 6-0, while Czech Radek Stepanek beat Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4 6-1 6-3. | ['What sport are they playing?', 'What event was it?', 'where?', 'Who is the five time winner mentioned?', 'Who does he defeat?', 'how did federer describe the conditions', 'How did he describe his playing', 'who is the home favorite?', 'who is the american?', 'how old is he?', 'did he win?'] | {'answers': ['tennis', 'the U.S. Open', 'in New York.', 'Roger Federer', 'Santiago Giraldo', '"It was quite up and down, getting used to the conditions,"', '"I don\'t think I\'ve ever played my best in the first round but it\'s important to come through them and come up with a good feeling."', 'Mardy Fish is', 'Ryan Harrison', '19', 'no'], 'answers_start': [9, 9, 97, 8, 96, 712, 825, 959, 1071, 1130, 1130], 'answers_end': [60, 60, 137, 40, 137, 787, 957, 983, 1109, 1211, 1211]} |
3jv9lgbjwtefj756e7lx0jogqj9gor | Once upon a time in Greece, there lived a young man called Narcissus. He lived in a small village on the sea and was famous in the land because he was quite handsome. Villagers would turn up on the streets to stare at the beautiful child . When he grew up , people always said "How handsome Narcissus is!" Villagers thought that Narcissus could not be any more handsome than he already was. But as years passed Narcissus became a teenager. His beauty grew and became so great that he was known all over country of Greece. As he grew ,Narcissus was very proud of his good-looking face. "Oh! You are so handsome ,Narcissus!" Narcissus said one day as he looked into a pool."There's nobody more handsome in the whole world ! I'd love to kiss you . And that's just what I'll do!" He leaned closer to the water . Suddenly he lost his balance and fell into the pool . Narcissus tried to reach the bank of the pool, but he could not swim and he drowned. | ['Did somebody did?', 'How?', 'Was he able to swim?', 'What nation is this?', 'Was somebody conceited?', 'Who?', 'Was he old?', 'Where did he live?', 'Was he well-known?', 'Was he prideful?', 'Why?', 'Did anybody look better than him?', 'Did he try to kiss someone?', 'Who?', 'What did he get nearer to?', 'Was he well-balanced?', 'Did he take a fall?', 'Where?', 'Was he able to get out?', 'Did his looks improve as he aged?'] | {'answers': ['Yes', 'he drowned.', 'No', 'Greece,', 'Yes', 'Narcissus', 'No', 'a small village on the sea', 'yes', 'Yes', 'Because of his good-looking face', 'No', 'Yes', 'Himself', 'to the water', 'No', 'Yes', 'into the pool .', 'No', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [860, 907, 908, 0, 522, 521, 388, 70, 109, 534, 532, 672, 722, 623, 773, 808, 836, 836, 861, 438], 'answers_end': [946, 946, 930, 27, 584, 585, 438, 108, 136, 584, 583, 719, 743, 742, 805, 837, 860, 861, 930, 475]} |
3jnqlm5ft4mhysu220kg6yqllvj2lx | CHAPTER XIII: Lightfoot And Paddy Become Partners
The instant Lightfoot saw Paddy the Beaver he knew that for the time being, at least, there was no danger. He knew that Paddy is one of the shyest of all the little people of the Green Forest and that when he is found working in the daytime it means that he has been undisturbed for a long time; otherwise he would work only at night.
Paddy saw Lightfoot almost as soon as he stepped out on the bank. He kept right on swimming with the branch of a poplar-tree until he reached his food pile, which, you know, is in the water. There he forced the branch down until it was held by other branches already sunken in the pond. This done, he swam over to where Lightfoot was watching. "Hello, Lightfoot!" he exclaimed. "You are looking handsomer than ever. How are you feeling these fine autumn days?"
"Anxious," replied Lightfoot. "I am feeling terribly anxious. Do you know what day this is?"
"No," replied Paddy, "I don't know what day it is, and I don't particularly care. It is enough for me that it is one of the finest days we've had for a long time."
"I wish I could feel that way," said Lightfoot wistfully. "I wish I could feel that way, Paddy, but I can't. No, Sir, I can't. You see, this is the first of the most dreadful days in all the year for me. The hunters started looking for me before Mr. Sun was really out of bed. At least one hunter did, and I don't doubt there are others. I fooled that one, but from now to the end of the hunting season there will not be a single moment of daylight when I will feel absolutely safe." | ['What kind of animal is Paddy?', 'How many characters are speaking in this passage?', 'Who is the other?', 'Is Lightfoot excited about the day?', 'How does he feel?', 'Is Paddy an extrovert?', 'Where does he live?', 'Does Lightfoot feel safe when he sees paddy?', 'What was Paddy doing?', 'Does he usually work during the day?', 'What kind of tree branch was Paddy carrying?', 'Where is his food pile?', 'Who approached who at that point?', 'Is it springtime?', 'What is it?', "What does Paddy think of his friend's appearance?"] | {'answers': ['Beaver', 'Two', 'Lightfoot', 'No', 'Anxious', 'No', 'Green Forest', 'Yes', 'working in the daytime', 'No', 'poplar', 'in the water', 'Paddy approached Lightfoot', 'No', 'autumn', 'That he looked handsomer than ever'], 'answers_start': [88, 870, 399, 883, 853, 158, 231, 137, 270, 348, 502, 566, 389, 836, 836, 768], 'answers_end': [94, 880, 408, 912, 860, 198, 243, 157, 292, 387, 508, 578, 408, 842, 842, 803]} |
3kakfy4pgu24t9iflx18xs3laz9i3i | (CNN) -- Susie Wolff put the disappointments of Silverstone behind her on Friday with an impressive run in the first free practice session ahead of Sunday's German Grand Prix.
The Williams development driver only managed four laps during practice at the British Grand Prix a fortnight ago before engine problems curtailed her involvement.
But it was a happier story at Hockenheim as the 31-year-old Scot completed 20 laps finishing a highly respectable 15th.
Her best lap time of one minute 20.769 seconds was just 0.227 seconds behind Williams' driver Felipe Massa who finished the session in 11th place.
Things had not looked so promising for Wolff earlier in the day as she crawled round her out lap in first gear before returning to the pits.
Thankfully, it wasn't long before the mechanical problems were resolved and she was back on track -- even briefly clocking the fastest lap of the session.
Wolff has been a development driver for Williams since 2012 and is the first female driver to participate in a F1 race weekend since Italy's Giovanna Amati attempted to qualify for three races during the 1992 season.
Lewis Hamilton, speaking ahead of his recent victory at Silverstone, said Wolff's participation at two practice sessions this season was fully deserved.
"She's very, very talented," said the Mercedes driver, who raced against her in his junior career in karting and Formula Renault. "It's really cool to see her in a Formula One car.
"I didn't race against many girls. Susie was one of the very few, if not the only one, I raced against. We shared a podium together a couple of times." | ['What did they share?', 'Who drove a Mercedes?', 'And how does he describe her?', 'Have they competed against each other before?', 'Where?', 'Has he competed with other females?', 'Where was she under development?', 'Since when?', 'Has a woman driven in F1 before?', 'What female driver raced in 1992?', 'Where is she from?', 'Did she qualify?', 'How many times did she try?', 'How old is Susie?', 'Where is she from?', 'What caused difficulties two weeks ago?', 'At which race?', 'DId she get any practice runs in?', 'How many?', 'What was her best time?'] | {'answers': ['a podium', 'Lewis Hamilton', 'very talented', 'yes', 'karting, Formula Renault', 'yes', 'Williams', '212', 'no', 'Giovanna Amati', 'Italy', 'no', 'three', '31', 'Scotland', 'engine problems', 'British Grand Prix', 'yes', '4e engine', 'one minute 20.769 s'], 'answers_start': [1538, 1133, 1288, 1343, 1367, 1471, 914, 951, 988, 1055, 1046, 1064, 1070, 390, 393, 291, 256, 214, 216, 468], 'answers_end': [1622, 1148, 1316, 1418, 1417, 1505, 963, 978, 1131, 1069, 1070, 1131, 1107, 463, 463, 315, 341, 248, 304, 505]} |
3irik4hm3akcdpjxcp3ktsha7p6c63 | CHAPTER XIV
DICK AND SAM IN CHICAGO
"Get some water, Songbird, quick!"
"Oh, Sam, shall I get some smelling salts!" cried Grace.
"I guess the water will do, Grace. Here, stand on this side, so those other girls can't see Nellie," went on the boy. "No use of letting them know everything."
Grace understood and she and Sam shielded Nellie and carried her to a campus bench. Then Songbird arrived with a cup of water from a well. Just as he handed it over, Nellie opened her eyes.
"Oh! I--I--what happened?" she murmured. "Oh, I remember now!" And a look of pain crossed her face.
"Take a drink of water, dear," said her sister, and held the cup. Nellie took a sip and then Grace bathed her forehead with some water poured on a handkerchief that Sam passed over. Soon the girl sat up straight.
"I--I'm all right now," she faltered. "It--it was such a--a shock. Oh, Sam, do you really think Tom is bound for Alaska?"
"It looks like it, Nellie," he answered. "I'll tell you all about it, if you'll walk down the road, away from those other students." And then, as they walked away slowly, Sam and Songbird told their story, the two girls hanging on their every word.
"It's awful, terrible!" murmured Grace. "Poor Tom, he must be clear out of his mind!"
"That's the only explanation," answered Sam. "He'd never do such a thing if he was in his right senses."
"Oh, but he may lose his mind entirely," gasped Nellie. "I've read of such cases in the newspapers. A person wanders off and forgets who he is, or where he came from, and all that! Supposing Tom went to Alaska and that happened to him! Why, we might never be able to find him!" And the tears began to course down Nellie's cheeks. | ['Who fainted?', 'How were Grace and Nellie related?', 'Who ordered songbird to get water?', 'Who suggested smelling salts?', 'Did him and Grace hide Nellie?', 'Why so?', 'Where did they carry her to?', 'Who was going to Alaska?', 'Was it the reason that Nellie was upset?', 'Did songbird get the water?'] | {'answers': ['Nellie', 'sisters', 'Sam', 'Grace', 'yes', "so the girls couldn't see her", 'a campus bench', 'Tom', 'yes', 'yes'], 'answers_start': [438, 593, 40, 87, 298, 197, 327, 883, 807, 381], 'answers_end': [486, 690, 87, 132, 346, 234, 380, 927, 929, 436]} |
3gdtjdapvubcqpecituwg2id7x88m9 | CHAPTER I
GUY POYNTON AGAIN
"I Suppose," the boy said thoughtfully, "I must seem to you beastly ungrateful. You've been a perfect brick to me ever since that night. But I can't help being a bit homesick. You see, it was really the first time I'd ever been away from home for long, and though my little place isn't a patch on this, of course, still, I was born there, and I'm jolly fond of it."
His companion nodded, and his dark eyes rested for a moment upon the other's face. Guy Poynton was idly watching the reapers at work in the golden valley below, and he did not catch his friend's expression.
"You are very young, _mon cher ami_," he said. "As one grows older one demands change. Change always of scene and occupation. Now I, too, am most hideously bored here, although it is my home. For me to live is only possible in Paris--Paris, the beautiful."
Guy looked away from the fields. He resented a little his friend's air of superiority.
"There's only a year's difference in our ages!" he remarked.
Henri de Bergillac smiled--this time more expressively than ever, and held out his hands.
"I speak of experience, not years," he said. "You have lived for twenty years in a very delightful spot no doubt, but away from everything which makes life endurable, possible even, for the child of the cities. I have lived for twenty-one years mostly in Paris. Ah, the difference!"
Guy shrugged his shoulders, and leaned back in his chair. | ['What was Poynton watching in the valley below?', 'Where did Bergillac say he wants to live?', 'Does he live there?', 'What is the difference in ages between the friends?', 'Does Bergillac say Poynton is very young?', 'Does Bergillac want to live in the present location?', 'Is Poynton fond of where he was born?', 'Is he a little homesick?', 'What does Poynton call Bergillac?', 'What does Bergillac say happens when one grows older?', 'Did Poynton feel resentful about this?'] | {'answers': ['the reapers', 'Paris', 'no', 'one year', 'yes', 'no', 'yes', 'yes', 'a perfect brick', 'demands change', 'yes, a little'], 'answers_start': [483, 801, 735, 957, 609, 735, 169, 169, 111, 655, 901], 'answers_end': [524, 841, 775, 1018, 655, 841, 396, 285, 142, 695, 955]} |
3qbd8r3z21jz7rcmj6jwrurd0514ob | Passage 1
The information Highway is the road that links computer users to a large number of on-line services; the Web, e-mail, and software, to mention just a few. Not long ago, the information Highway was a new road, with not many users. Now, everyone seems to want to take a drive, with over 30 million families connected worldwide. Not surprisingly, this well-traveled highway is starting to look like a well-traveled highway. Traffic jams can cause many serious problems, forcing the system to close down for repair. Naturally, accidents will happen on such a crowed road, and usually victims are some files, gone forever. Then, of course, there's Mr. Cool, with his new broad-band connection, who speeds down the highway faster than most of us can go. But don't trick yourself; he pays for that speeding.
Passage 2
Want to know more about global warming and how you can help prevent it? Doctor Herman Friedman, who is considered a leading expert on the subject, will speak at Grayson Hall next Friday. Friedman studied environmental science at three well-known universities around the world before becoming a professor in the subject. He has also traveled around the world observing environmental concerns. The gradual bleaching of the Grate Barrier Reef, which came into the public eye in 2002, in his latest interest. Signed copies of his colorful book, which was published just last month, will be on sale after his talk. | ['How many families are connected to this roadway?', 'Who has a new broad-band connection?', 'Is he going a lot quicker than we are?', 'But does that come with a cost?', 'Does is seem like everybody wants to travel this road?', 'Does the road need to shut down for repair sometimes?', 'Due to minor or major problems?', 'When wrecks occur, who vanishes?', 'When was the road new?', "Who's giving a talk at Grayson Hall next Friday?", "What's the main idea of the talk?", 'How many schools did that guy attend?', 'What did he major in?', 'Did he travel far?', 'What was he watching on those trips?', 'How long has his new book been on the shelves?', 'Is it plain and drab?', "What's happening to the reef?", 'When did that hit the news?', 'Is that his newest worry?'] | {'answers': ['over 30 million', 'Mr. Cool', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Major problems', 'usually some files', 'Not long ago', 'Doctor Herman Friedman', 'global warming and how you can help prevent it', 'three', 'environmental science', 'Yes', 'He was observing environmental concerns', 'It was published just last month', 'No', 'gradual bleaching', 'in 2002', 'Yes'], 'answers_start': [292, 655, 729, 786, 247, 501, 461, 584, 167, 899, 851, 1056, 1031, 1159, 1185, 1374, 1353, 1223, 1299, 1308], 'answers_end': [307, 663, 745, 802, 285, 522, 477, 614, 179, 921, 897, 1061, 1052, 1184, 1217, 1403, 1366, 1240, 1306, 1330]} |
3ccz6ykwr7jewncgvmjozw224wt95d | (CNN) -- NASCAR's Hall of Fame class for 2015 includes Bill Elliott, one of its most popular drivers ever, and Wendell Scott, the only African-American to win a top-level race, the auto racing sanctioning body announced Wednesday.
Three other drivers -- Fred Lorenzen, Joe Weatherly and Rex White -- will be inducted at a ceremony on January 30 at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Elliott won one Winston Cup title and 44 races in his 37-year career, including two victories at the Daytona 500. Known as "Awesome Bill from Dawsonville", a reference to his Georgia hometown, Elliott won the series top circuit championship in 1988. He was voted NASCAR's most popular driver a record 16 times.
In 1963, Scott became the only African-American to win a race at NASCAR's highest level, taking a 100-mile feature at Jacksonville, Florida, on December 1. He also was the first African-American to race full time in NASCAR's premier series, called the Grand National Series at the time.
Scott made the top 10 in 30% of the races in his 13-year Grand National career. He was portrayed in the 1977 movie "Greased Lightning" by Richard Pryor. He died in 1990.
Lorenzen was considered one of the sport's first superstars and won 26 races while running a part-time schedule in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Weatherly was a two-time champion, in 1962 and in 1963, when he raced for nine different teams.
White was a short-track specialist in the early days of NASCAR. And since there were few super speedways, White finished in the top five about half the time. He won the 1960 championship and 28 races in his career (only twice at tracks longer than a mile). | ["Who was part of Nascar's Hall of Fame for 2015?", 'Who was the driver that most people liked the most?'] | {'answers': ['Bill Elliott', 'Bill Elliott'], 'answers_start': [9, 655], 'answers_end': [67, 715]} |
38bquhla9w0fbh1spajsdo8dm2vmo9 | Chapter 12: Harry Carried Off.
Early in September, Stanley was sent to purchase cattle from some of the villages near the foot of the hills and, at the same time, to make inquiries as to the movements of a large band of marauders who had been making raids in that neighbourhood. He had with him four troopers of the bodyguard. Harry Brooke accompanied him. Although from the healthier situation of Prome, the amount of illness during the wet season did not approach that which had been suffered at Rangoon, a great many men were in hospital, and there were many deaths. Harry had had a sharp attack of fever and, as he had now recovered, to a certain extent, the medical officer of his regiment strongly recommended that he should have a change; and he therefore, without difficulty, obtained his colonel's leave to accompany Stanley, as the ground would be much higher than that on the river, and the mere fact of getting away from a camp where so many deaths took place every day would, in itself, be of great value.
Stanley's daily journeys were not likely to be long ones, as he had instructions to stop at all villages; and to see how things were going on, and whether the people had any complaints to make of oppression and exaction by their local authorities.
"It is a tremendous pull, your being able to speak the language, Stanley," Harry said. "If it hadn't been for that, you would have been stuck at Prome, like the rest of us. Instead of that, you are always about; and you look as fresh and healthy as if you were at a hill station, in India." | ['Who was going on trips every day?', 'Are they short?', 'Where is he supposed to be stopping?', 'For what purpose?', 'What was he supposed to learn from the villagers?', 'About what?', 'Who speaks the local dialect?', "Where would he be if he couldn't?", 'Does he appear sickly?', "Who's with him?", 'Had Harry been sickly?', 'With what?', 'What did the doctor recommend?', 'An example of that?'] | {'answers': ['Stanley', 'Yes', 'all villages', 'to see how things were going on', 'whether the people had any complaints', 'of oppression and exaction', 'Stanley', 'Prome', 'No', 'Harry', 'Yes', 'fever', 'a change', 'getting away from a camp where so many deaths took place'], 'answers_start': [1023, 1023, 1023, 1084, 1084, 1084, 1299, 1360, 1485, 1348, 572, 572, 665, 917], 'answers_end': [1047, 1079, 1127, 1164, 1207, 1271, 1346, 1423, 1563, 1359, 609, 609, 746, 990]} |
3kakfy4pgu24t9iflx18xs3layoi3v | Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Haiti's former dictator, returned unexpectedly Sunday to the country after some 25 years in exile, adding uncertainty into an already turbulent situation.
Duvalier remained huddled inside his hotel Monday, as the reasons behind his visit and what he hoped to accomplish remained unclear.
A scheduled press conference at his hotel was canceled at the last minute because the hotel was not equipped to handle the crowd, and no other location could be found, Henry Robert Sterlin, a Duvalier associate, told reporters.
Sterlin said that the former dictator had returned because he was moved by the anniversary of last year's tragic earthquake, and because he missed his homeland.
The associate said he did not know how long Duvalier was staying, and added that he was not afraid to come back.
He arrived in the Haitian capital as the nation is grappling with a political crisis, sparked by fraud allegations in a presidential election.
Duvalier, wearing a dark suit and tie, greeted supporters at the busy Port-au-Prince airport. He was traveling with his wife.
The Duvalier family ruled Haiti for three decades starting in 1957, when Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier was elected president. He later declared himself president for life. When he died in 1971, he was succeeded by his 19-year-old son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
The younger Duvalier held onto power for 15 years before a revolt forced him to flee the country. Widely accused of corruption, Duvalier has been living in France.
Upon arriving in Haiti, the former dictator and his wife went to the Karibe Hotel, according to Ryan Flaherty, head of security for Project Medishare. Duvalier's wife was swarmed by people as she approached the hotel and said that her husband had decided to return to Haiti some time ago, Flaherty reported. | ['Who had a mysterious return to Haiti?', "What's his name?", 'What day did he arrive?', "Why'd he cancel his press meeting?", "They couldn't find anyplace else to do it?", 'How long had he been away?', 'Was he scared to be back?', 'Who went with him to Haiti?', 'When did his reign begin?', 'Who was the leader before him?', 'How long did Baby Doc lead?', 'Was he overthrown?', 'Where did he flee to?', 'Where did he greet people when he arrived?', 'What hotel did he go to?', 'Says who?', 'What allegations are circling the Haiti elections?', "How many decades was Baby Doc's family in charge of Haiti?", 'What kind of suit was he wearing when he arrived?', "Does anyone know how long he's going to be in Haiti?"] | {'answers': ["Haiti's former dictator", 'Jean-Claude Duvalier', 'Sunday', 'the hotel was not equipped to handle the crowd,', 'No', '25 years', 'No', 'His wife', '1957', 'Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier', '15 years', 'No, he fled', 'France', 'the airport.', 'the Karibe Hotel', 'head of security for Project Medishare', 'fraud', 'three', 'a dark suit', 'No'], 'answers_start': [0, 31, 30, 356, 356, 112, 749, 1573, 1137, 1137, 1406, 1406, 1406, 1009, 1572, 1572, 864, 1137, 1009, 749], 'answers_end': [219, 88, 117, 485, 584, 218, 863, 1652, 1203, 1260, 1502, 1567, 1569, 1136, 1654, 1721, 1008, 1203, 1046, 862]} |
3kv0ljbbh2li8ut8h20w7jdiwd4rmn | CHAPTER XIII
IN WHICH SOME SHOES ARE MISSING
"What do you think of it?"
"Who took them?"
"We can't go downstairs in our bare feet."
Such were some of the remarks made, as the lads of dormitories Nos. 11 and 12 looked at each other. The closets had been searched thoroughly but without success.
"See here, if anybody in these rooms hid those shoes, I want to know it!" demanded Sam, gazing around sharply.
"I hardly think a fellow would hide his own shoes, too," answered Luke.
"He might,--just to hide his own guilt."
"I believe this is the work of some outsider," declared Dave. "Most likely Nat Poole and his crowd."
"By Jove, Dave, I believe you are right!" exclaimed Phil. "It would be just like them to do it, if they got the chance."
"Did you say Nat Poole?" queried Shadow, scratching his head thoughtfully.
"I did. Most likely Nat heard of our feast, and it made him extra sore to think we were having a good time and he wasn't invited."
"That is true, and I guess----" Shadow stopped short, and a curious look crossed his face.
"What is it, Shadow? Do you know anything of this?" asked Roger.
"Why, I--er--that is, I had a dream last night," stammered the story-teller of the school. "Or, maybe it wasn't a dream after all," he went on, in confusion.
"See here, Shadow, have you been sleep-walking again, and did you make off with our shoes?" demanded Phil. He remembered only too well how poor Shadow was addicted to walking in his sleep, and how he had once walked off with a valuable collection of rare postage stamps belonging to Doctor Clay. | ['What is missing?', 'Where do the owners of the shoes live?', 'Who do they think may have taken the shoes?', 'Are they part of the group?', 'What would have made Nat jealous?', 'Was he invited?', 'Do they think he might have found out about it?', 'How does Sam feel about the situation?', 'Does he have a kind look on his face?', 'Who was he looking at?'] | {'answers': ['shoes', 'dormitories Nos. 11 and 12', 'at Poole and his crowd.', 'no', 'our feast,', 'no', 'Most likely', 'He wanted to know who took them', 'No, he was gazing around sharply', 'everyone one around'], 'answers_start': [307, 180, 598, 537, 872, 945, 847, 360, 394, 393], 'answers_end': [359, 219, 635, 581, 882, 970, 883, 392, 415, 415]} |