Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

today , every baseball roster is stronger , down through the 23rd or 24th man , than they used to be . ''


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

he and his wife , residents of fullerton , have five children , 15 grandchildren and a great grandchild , most of them baseball fans .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

along with most old-timers , patterson ranks the 1927 yankees as the century 's no. 1 ballclub , in large part because ruth hit his 60 home runs that year , and gehrig hit 47 and batted in 175 runs .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

`` in 1927 , the yankees won 110 games in a 154 -game season .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

for the second of many times , first baseman gehrig played every game .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

by contrast there was a rookie reliever , wilcy moore , who in his only big season in baseball had a 19-7 record with a 2.28 earned-run average in 50 appearances .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

ruth came back to hit 54 home runs in 1928 , when he and gehrig led the league with 142 runs batted in apiece .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

`` gehrig was still a force on the club when the yankees started another streak under -lrb- manager -rrb- joe mccarthy , and this time they won pennants in 1932 , '36 , '37 , '38 , '39 , '41 , '42 and '43 .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

`` baseball had never seen such a dominant team .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

red ruffing -lrb- 21-7 -rrb- matched his peak season on a staff with four other pitchers who each won 12 or 13 games -- atley donald , lefty gomez , bump hadley and monte pearson .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

`` the most poignant of baseball stories began one night in the spring of 1939 when joe mccarthy walked in to talk to the writers in the dining room of the book cadillac hotel in detroit .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

lou gehrig has asked to come out of the lineup . '


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

even with babe dahlgren instead of gehrig at first base , that became the greatest yankee team of my time .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

`` so the 1974 a 's were baseball 's last great team .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

finley , who did much of the scouting himself , helped round up a group that won a record five straight division championships for oakland starting in 1971 .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

the string only ended in 1976 when the entrepreneurial era ended in baseball as the draft and free agency took hold , balancing up the teams .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

in fact they won pennants and three world series in three consecutive years , in addition to winning five straight division titles .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

hunter , ken holtzman and john -lrb- blue moon -rrb- odom won the last three straight that october , after which neither the a 's nor baseball was ever the same .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

relief star rollie fingers appeared in a league-leading 76 games in 1974 , and in three years averaged 20 saves .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

`` casey , i feel , has been under-appreciated as a baseball man .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

he was n't just the most colorful baseball character of the last 50 years , he lived the game 24 hours a day .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

one of the other pall bearers saw it at the same time i did and whispered , 'i see casey 's at it already . '


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

`` usually , baseball players straggle out two or three at a time -- but not those yankees .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

1955 dodgers : after losing five world series to the yankees in '41 , '47 , '49 , '52 , and '53 , the dodgers , then in brooklyn , lost the first two games of the '55 series .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

1907 chicago cubs : baseball 's first great team , with manager frank chance , the peerless leader , at first base , won consecutive pennants and two world series in 1906-07-08 .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

on the 1907 team , a four -straight world series winner , the answer to baseball 's most enduring trivia question was harry steinfeldt .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

when he took the field against the toronto blue jays at memorial stadium , ripken did n't set a record , but he established a baseball endurance standard unequaled in the last half century .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

with thursday night 's game , ripken moved past steve garvey into third place on baseball 's all-time list , leaving only everett scott -- and 922 games -- between him and gehrig .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

the debate over the advisability of ripken 's streak has subsided considerably since his streak of 8,243 consecutive innings was stopped two years ago , when his father , cal ripken sr. , the orioles ' manager at the time , decided it was creating too much attention .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

ripken long ago learned to explain his durability by insisting his string of games was nothing more than a series of 162 -game streaks .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

amazingly , ripken , who turns 29 next thursday , recovered and it was n't until 1987 that his streak of consecutive innings was halted , as much to stem the publicity as anything else .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

`` i do n't play games because of the streak , '' said ripken .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

ripken was asked if he could perceive himself playing just to keep the streak alive -lrb- something even gehrig did on occasion -rrb- .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

to put gehrig 's streak , and what ripken already has accomplished , into perspective , consider that ripken will own the third longest streak in baseball history when he plays one more game .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

to catch gehrig he would have to put together another streak that would be the equivalent of the seventh longest in history .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

nobody knows , of course , whether the baltimore oriole shortstop can catch the iron horse , but if he does , he will be younger than gehrig was when gehrig 's remarkable streak ended .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

gehrig was 35 when he stepped out of the yankee lineup .


Question: how many consecutive baseball games did lou gehrig play ?

either they were getting busted up or were sent home because they did little else but run in the ring .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

in 1898 , during the spanish - american war , the u.s. cruiser charleston captured the spanish -ruled island of guam .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

san juan hill is in cuba , of course , but the outcome of the spanish american war was to cede the island of puerto rico to the united states under the terms of the treaty of paris _ on dec. 10 , 1898 .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

vieques , an arid , wind-swept 33 , 000-acre island lying eight miles east of the puerto rican mainland , lies at the heart of an escalating struggle between the navy and puerto rico , a spanish-speaking territory of 3.8 million u.s. citizens that came under american jurisdiction during the spanish - american war in 1898 .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

statehooders are already running television advertisements assuring puerto ricans that they would retain their culture and spanish language after joining the union .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

puerto ricans are u.s. citizens and receive limited federal benefits , but they can not vote for president , have no vote in congress and do not pay federal taxes .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the island was ceded to the united states by spain as part of the treaty that ended the spanish - american war in 1898 .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

by starting with the words , `` my fellow americans , '' president bill clinton was a cinch to hit if off with the thousands of guamanians who waited for hours under a searing sun to see him .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

he and others made a pitch for a greater right to self-determination for the island people .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

`` no american citizen should have to choose between voting for their president and voting for their representative in congress , '' underwood said to a roar of applause .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

he met at hickam with adm. joseph preuher , commander of u.s. pacific command .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

he posed for pictures , shook hands , cuddled a baby or two , accepted a few kisses from adoring women , and apparently enjoyed it so much he did it again , doubling back for a second dose of the adulation .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

a u.s. park service guide pointed to a beach below the hilltop memorial where the 3rd marine division spearheaded the u.s. landing on july 21 , 1944 .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the spanish - american war centennial year is slipping by with little fanfare other than a u.s. commemorative stamp despite its historical significance for the united states , spain and the islands they fought over .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the group of writers , philosophers , scientists and artists known as the generation of 98 created one of the most dynamic periods in spanish culture .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

`` defeat forged the image of a dead and powerless nation and encouraged a profound pessimism , but there was also a sense of relief from the impossible task of keeping the empire , '' spanish historian santos julia said in an interview .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

although he views the collapse of a 400-year-old empire as key to modern spanish history , sebastian balfour from the london school of economics believes the trauma has now been overcome .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

meanwhile , in the u.s. commemorations of 1898 have focused on the sinking of the uss maine in havana harbor on feb. 15 , killing 267 officers and sailors .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

although the cause of the ship 's destruction has always been disputed , 100 years ago the war-thirsty `` yellow press '' insisted on blaming the `` perfidious spanish , '' and so increased the pressure on the u.s. government to go to war .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

`` one of the conflicts with the greatest implications for americans even today has all but faded from the modern american mind , '' wrote historian patrick mcsherry on the half finished spanish - american war centennial website .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the americans fought in the name of freeing the spanish caribbean and pacific from the shackles of arcane spanish colonialism .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

one hundred years after the u.s. navy quashed the spanish armada in the name of cuban independence , a visit to the caribbean island by a u.s. president is unthinkable .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

ten years ago : south african black nationalist nelson mandela and his wife , winnie , arrived in new york city for a ticker-tape parade in their honor as they began an eight -city u.s. tour .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

five years ago : u.s. air force captain jim wang , a radar officer , was cleared of wrongdoing in a friendly-fire attack on two u.s. helicopters over northern iraq in 1994 that resulted in 26 deaths .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

golfer payne stewart won his second u.s. open title , by one stroke over phil mickelson .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

john cage , american composer -lrb- 1912-1992 -rrb- .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

yet in this war an american president sent troops outside the hemisphere for the first time .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

but the spanish - american war also marked the start of a strain of american foreign policy guided by crusader or missionary impulses .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

spanish bullets were chin music to him .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the latter exchange completed the remarkable acquisition of big pieces of the spanish empire : 50 years earlier , for $ 15 million , america had gained a third of mexico after a brief war .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the surrender may have been hard on spanish national self-esteem , but it was also a positive turning point for a country that had been in steep political decline .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

`` the spanish look back on 1898 as a moment of regeneration. ''


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the american century started with seven world powers and ends with one superpower .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the vote is the brainchild of governor pedro rosello , who saw that the island economy was going nowhere fast .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

during the 1950s and 1960s , `` operation bootstrap , '' directed by the planning agency fomento -lrb- meaning `` promotion '' in spanish , -rrb- did all the things that planning agencies did in those days : built industrial parks , targeted `` winners '' and `` losers '' among local businesses , and offered tax breaks to us industries .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the offshore tax subsidy found in section 936 of the us tax code dated as far back as the 1920s , hexner discovered ; initially it had been intended to spur labor-intensive manufacturing on the island that otherwise would not have located there .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

but remember this : no group of citizens in american territories yet has organized to seek statehood _ and failed to get it .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

but unlike the imperialist nations of old , america did not simply take from other lands .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

in those days , most american homes depended on water from wells for drinking and bathing .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

his wife stayed home , cooked the meals , did the laundry and reared the children .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

it was rare for a woman to work outside the home , but some _ who were teachers , nurses , secretaries and seamstresses _ did so .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

social security did not become law until 1935 , and its first payments were not made until 1940 .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the april accident underscored the problems facing vieques , a 51-square-mile island _ about twice the size of manhattan _ whose towns of isabel segunda and esperanza are within a dozen miles of the live-impact range used by the navy about 180 days of the year .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

vieques also offers a sophisticated infrastructure , the officials said , including an underwater training range between vieques and the u.s. virgin islands of st. croix and st. thomas for submarines .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

in a june 9 letter to rossello , clinton stressed that the small island was `` a vital part of our national defense and regional security readiness training. ''


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

but only here does the navy conduct large-scale exercises involving all navy war resources and only here has the navy 's presence been entangled with the politics of a u.s. territory where a small segment of its 3.8 million residents want independence and consider the military a symbol of colonialism .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

but eric morales , 28 , says the navy is an important source of income for some of the 9,300 islanders who live on civilian land sandwiched between a navy ammunition depot on the western end of the island and the firing range at the eastern end , within sight of the islands of st. thomas and st. croix .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

and roberto c. nelson , a navy spokesman , worries that unless the navy resumes target practice on vieques by september when the next aircraft carrier battle group comes through for training , the lives of american aviators and marines will be in jeopardy if they face combat .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

first lady hillary rodham clinton is confronting the issue in her exploratory u.s. senate campaign in new york , where puerto ricans and other hispanics make up 14.2 percent of the state 's population .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the 22-mile long island , covered with wind-blown vegetation and surrounded by the glistening waters of the caribbean , was used for centuries by spanish colonial overlords to raise sugar cane .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

the navy began buying 22,000 of the island 's 33,000 acres in 1941 for $ 47 an acre to establish a training area and ammunition depot .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

but island life has changed since the bombing mishap .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

1900 : bryan , a former u.s. representative from nebraska , runs against president mckinley _ for the second time _ on an anti-imperialism platform .


Question: what island did the u.s. gain after the spanish american war ?

manila is viewed as the gateway to china , a flowering economic opportunity just waiting to be plucked by american coal , oil and railroad barons with money to burn .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

built in 1803 , buckingham palace has been the london home for the royal family since 1837 .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

traces of the potentially fatal legionnaires ' disease bacteria were found in the buckingham palace water supply , the sun reported on friday .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

the bacteria , which causes pneumonia -like symptoms , was discovered during routine checks of queen elizabeth ii 's london residence on oct. 13 , a palace spokesman said , confirming the sun 's story .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

he said the queen and her husband , prince philip , remained at the palace throughout the scare because the bacteria was only found in an isolated section of the water system .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

'' nobody had to flee buckingham palace and there were no reported cases of the disease , '' the spokesman said .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

during the scare , all 335 palace staff were put on alert to check with doctors immediately if they came down with any symptoms , the sun reported .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

'' we were all scared , '' the sun , britain 's largest selling daily tabloid , quoted an unnamed palace source as saying .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

in february 1997 , parts of the palace became infested with mice and beetles and the palace had to call in a commercial pest control company .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

to most people , buckingham palace is that big , imposing place at the end of the mall , where green park and st. james park meet , and where soldiers with big black furry hats walk around like robots behind iron gates that are normally crammed with the faces of tourists .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

in 1993 , queen elizabeth opened buckingham palace to the public to raise money to repair windsor castle , another of the royal family 's digs , which was destroyed by fire .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

it is widely believed that once those repairs are paid for , the palace will again be closed to the public .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

but the public is only allowed into 18 of the palace 's 661 rooms , and they are not let into the garden .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

conscious of such feeling , since taking the throne in 1952 queen elizabeth has used the garden parties as a way to make the palace more accessible to ordinary people , with about 8,000 attending each of the three parties she hosts every july .


Question: when was the buckingham palace built in london , england ?

a group of men wearing formal dress , described by palace officials as gentlemen at arms but looking more like royal bouncers , form lanes for the royal family to move through the garden .


Question: where are the british crown jewels kept ?

london _ the crown jewels of england , used at every coronation of a british monarch and viewed by 2 million visitors each year at the tower of london , are getting their own definitive book at last .


Question: where are the british crown jewels kept ?

he said in a statement that this was to lodge its protest against the british government not returning the crown jewels which are on display in london tower over the thames river .


Question: where are the british crown jewels kept ?


Question: where are the british crown jewels kept ?


Question: where are the british crown jewels kept ?

new delhi , may 21 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- india 's janata party president s. swamy said here today that his party would hold black flag demonstration against the queen of england and the british prime minister if they visited the country to attend the 50th year independence celebrations .


Question: where are the british crown jewels kept ?

the crown jewels were taken away from india by the british , who ruled the country for more than two hundred years .


Question: where are the british crown jewels kept ?

india won independence in 1947 after a long-standing struggle against the british colonial rule .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

on aug. 5 , 1962 , actress marilyn monroe , 36 , was found dead in her los angeles home ; her death was ruled a `` probable suicide '' from an overdose of sleeping pills .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

but , as surreal as it seems , the marilyn monroe of burlesque is a professional .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

then there was evans , whose marilyn monroe visage and voice were so definitive , the screen siren 's attorney wrote a threatening letter .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

evans ' show went on , though , featuring revamped scenes from monroe films such as `` the prince and the pauper . ''


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

q : did any of the cockpit crew survive the recent crash of the airbus in thailand ?


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

`` we talked , but i do n't think joe would want me to say anything about that , '' berniece miracle , marilyn monroe 's half - sister , said softly when asked if she and dimaggio had stayed in touch over the years .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

miracle , as staunch a defender of her privacy as dimaggio was of his , did reveal that she 's certain the love between marilyn and joe continued long after their 10-month marriage in 1954 ended .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

in `` my sister marilyn : a memoir of marilyn monroe '' -lrb- algonquin books , 1994 -rrb- , miracle and her daughter , mona rae miracle , touch on the romance , marriage and breakup of monroe and dimaggio .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

the union could n't withstand the incessant glare of the limelight and the demands of monroe 's career , the authors write .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

but their love , berniece miracle is certain , did survive .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

milo a. speriglio , a tireless private detective with an unquenchable thirst for publicity and an obsession with the death of marilyn monroe , died april 30 at his home in encino , calif .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

he wrote two more books about monroe 's death , which he insisted added more evidence to support his controversial contentions .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

he said his last book on the subject , `` crypt 33 : the saga of marilyn monroe _ the final word , '' which was written with adela gregory and published by birch lane press in 1993 , should have silenced his critics and led to arrests .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

but it was speriglio 's two-decade interest in marilyn monroe 's death that received the most attention .


Question: when did marilyn monroe commit suicide ?

`` i 'm not a fan of marilyn 's , '' he pronounced on a book promotion tour .


Question: when is mexico 's independence ?

the ban lasted until mexico 's independence in 1810 .


Question: when is mexico 's independence ?

in 1821 , mexico declared its independence from spain .


Question: when is mexico 's independence ?

after the army of hidalgo , largely made up of indians , swept through central mexico , razing haciendas and killing spaniards , he was captured , shot and beheaded in chihuahua in 1811 , and spanish loyalists put his head on display until mexico won its independence in 1821 .


Question: when is mexico 's independence ?

after mexico won its independence from spain in 1821 , the government and church battled for power .


Question: when is mexico 's independence ?

since mexico 's independence from spain in 1821 , its judicial system has been hobbled by frequent presidential interference , and three presidents in this century have simply dismissed the entire high court .


Question: who were the architects who designed the empire state building ?

general motors moved in 1927 to its own building , 1775 broadway , at the northwest corner of 57th street , designed by shreve & lamb , later the architects of the empire state building .


Question: who were the architects who designed the empire state building ?

this structure was an annex to a far more sumptuous eight -story clubhouse at 247 w. 54th st. , built in 1907 and designed by ernest flagg , the architect of the scribner building at 597 fifth avenue .


Question: who were the architects who designed the empire state building ?

the structure is now the state labor department community service center . -rrb-


Question: who were the architects who designed the empire state building ?

festooned with decorative details _ lion's-head brackets , grotesques and stars -and-stripes shields _ the structure was designed by francis hatch kimball to harmonize with the broadway tabernacle church , which once stood next door at broadway and 56th street .


Question: who were the architects who designed the empire state building ?

actually , kimball designed two harmonious structures in 1909 : the a.t .


Question: who were the architects who designed the empire state building ?

carrere & hastings , the architects of the new york public library on fifth avenue , designed the building .


Question: who were the architects who designed the empire state building ?

next door , at 1780 broadway , is another potential landmark , the 12 -story former b.f. goodrich co. building , completed in 1909 and designed by howard van doren shaw .


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

a diary account claiming that davy crockett was captured and executed at the battle of the alamo -- contrary to texas folklore -- seems to be authentic , one of the state 's leading archivists said saturday .


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

the diary was written by lt. col. jose enrique de la pena , who served in santa anna 's army and fought at the alamo during texas ' war for independence .


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

texas history buffs are worried that a mexican officer 's myth-shattering account of davy crockett 's capture and execution after the battle of the alamo may fall into the hands of a dreaded yankee .


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

alamo-diary -lrb- austin , texas -rrb- _ the memoir of a mexican army officer , which includes his eyewitness report on the battle of the alamo and a controversial account of the death of legendary figure davy crockett , is being donated to the university of texas .


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

`` remember the alamo '' became a battle cry used by houston 's forces as they vanquished santa anna 's army at san jacinto , thereby giving birth to a new nation _ the republic of texas .


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

after the alamo battle , the struggle shifted to one of texas independence .


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

hispanics fought and died alongside anglo defenders of the alamo and later in the struggle for texas independence .


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

amelia w. williams , a texas history scholar and graduate student at the university of texas , performed what once was regarded as the definitive research on who fought at the alamo .


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

on tuesday , knopf will publish `` the gates of the alamo , '' a grandiose 577 -page novel of the texas revolution that centers on the famous battle fought in san antonio on march 6 , 1836 .


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

when santa anna was later defeated in the battle of san jacinto , thus liberating texas from mexico , the victorious texas army famously shouted , `` remember the alamo ! ''


Question: where was the battle of alamo fought ?

the diary 's account of crockett 's death states that he and six other defenders were captured and executed shortly after the battle -- a claim that prompted an indignant response from patriotic texans after it was first translated in 1975 .


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crockett 's diehard fans have denounced it as a 20th century forgery , an elaborate hoax that disputes their belief that the coonskin-capped frontiersman went down fighting at the alamo in march 1836 .


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according to de la pena , crockett and six others were captured after the alamo `` skirmish '' and brought before gen. antonio lopez de santa anna , who immediately ordered them executed .


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also spawned was an entire book aimed at exposing the account as a fraud , the 1994 `` defense of a legend : crockett and the de la pena diary '' by bill groneman , a new york city fire department captain and respected alamo researcher .


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among other things , jose enrique de la pena , who fought on the winning side at the alamo , said that davy crockett did not go down swinging , as popular myth would have it , but was captured and tortured to death .


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but others , many of them alamo hobbyists , believe just as fervently that it 's a fake , citing apparent anachronisms and plagiarisms .


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as a native texan , i 've been distressed by the way some people are attempting to rewrite the history of the alamo .


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for texans , the alamo is more than a historical building .


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for texans , the alamo is sacred symbol of freedom , independence and courage .


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`` be quiet and take off your hat , son , '' my grandfather instructed me on my first visit to the alamo .


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technically , the 187 texans who defended the alamo against gen. antonio lopez de santa anna 's 5,000 mexican troops were not the winners .


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the flag they flew over the alamo now is under lock and key in mexico city .


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mexican historians have a slightly different view of the events at the alamo .


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they question whether santa anna , mexico 's dictator , really had 5,000 men under arms during the 13-day siege and whether all alamo defenders died in battle .


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they flew a red-white-and-green mexican flag over the alamo with `` 1824 '' on it .


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the alamo will always be an inspiration for texans and freedom-loving people worldwide .


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it was 163 years ago today , on march 6 , 1836 , that the alamo fell to mexican forces .


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her research led to her being empowered to decide what names should be listed on a monolith honoring those killed defending the alamo .


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numerous texans have contended they had forebears at the alamo whose names williams omitted , and some others have charged she mistakenly listed some who were n't there .


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that also is the figure reported by col. juan n. almonte , a much-respected mexican officer later captured at the battle of san jacinto .


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lindley makes his case in the manuscript for a book he has titled `` alamo traces , the historiography of the siege and storming of the texian alamo . ''


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in this work , he joins others in pillorying the alamo research of williams .


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according to his research , about 70 texan reinforcements succeeded in getting through the mexican forces besieging the alamo on march 4 , two days before it was overwhelmed .


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lindley and others say williams ' miscount stemmed from her mistaken belief that the list of alamo defenders should be based solely on the number of land grants issued to their survivors .


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a more accurate way to compile the list of defenders , he said , was to go to the alamo muster rolls created before the battle .


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additionally , he said , williams not only eliminated genuine alamo veterans `` for no good reason '' but also mistakenly identified others as veterans of the historic battle .


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for example , lindley said , she identified manuel martinez y marquis as dying at the alamo .


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actually he had participated in the capture of the alamo from mexican forces in 1835 and received a pension for that service in 1870 .


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in addition to his own reservations about williams ' research , lindley cites other criticisms such as those of walter lord , author of `` a time to stand , '' an account of the battle for the alamo .


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he described williams ' doctoral dissertation on the alamo 's fall as `` of stunningly poor quality. ''


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on the whole , hutton said , the story of the alamo has fallen to `` popularizers and propagandists '' who have `` simply repeated false stories. ''


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despite her errors , williams is not the only texan who has been confused about the alamo .


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when asked to name three of the texan heroes at the alamo , only 13 percent of the 403 polled could do so , even with such notables as davy crockett , william b. travis and jim bowie as possibilities .


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bruce winders , the alamo 's staff historian , said that while he agrees with lindley that names should be added to the roster of defenders , he also thinks that `` amelia williams , for the time in which she was working , was doing the best she could do. ''


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if `` the gates of the alamo '' makes it as expected to the top of every bestseller list , if harrigan and his agent can parlay that success into a megabucks movie deal , then middle-aged , unassuming steve harrigan may actually , finally , become rich and famous .


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`` the only thing i 'm sure of , i guess , is that i 've wanted to write this book about the alamo for a long , long time. ''


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that year , he recalls , disney released `` davy crockett : king of the wild frontier '' and , like kids everywhere , harrigan was mesmerized by actor fess parker fighting to the bitter end at a movie-set alamo .


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`` after that , my parents took me to the real alamo , and it was just an epiphany , '' harrigan says during lunch at an unpretentious mexican restaurant in north austin .


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by the time i was 14 or 15 and wanted to be a writer , i thought some day i would write a book about the alamo . ''


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but his favorite endeavor remained writing books , and there was always , in the back of his mind , that one he wanted to write about the alamo .


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`` the reason `the gates of the alamo ' took me eight years was that i never had more than one or two days in a row to work on it .


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harrigan first pitched an alamo -themed novel to a publisher in 1990 `` as a book steeped in natural history , and with jim bowie and davy crockett as protagonists .


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i started reading and thinking and talking to alamo historians .


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terrell mott , the fictional teen-aged boy who eventually finds himself in the middle of the alamo tussle , is human enough to soil himself when the first bombardment begins ; his mother , a widow , makes the mistake of falling in love with a decent , but weak , botanist .


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but in `` the gates of the alamo , '' harrigan makes readers care about the motts , and about the mexican soldiers under santa anna and the comanches being forced off their land by encroaching settlers .


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knopf is ready to send him around the country touting `` the gates of the alamo . ''


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`` the gates of the alamo '' could do the same for harrigan .


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`` but if , let 's say , `the gates of the alamo ' sells 40,000 copies instead of 400,000 , that 's still 10 times more than any of my other books have sold , '' harrigan says .


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`` the gates of the alamo '' has already provided one lasting career benefit for its author .


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`` the alamo still resonates with everybody .


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he visited the alamo as a 7-year-old on a family trip and left transformed .


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when he decided as a teen-ager to become a novelist , he concluded that he would write about the alamo .


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`` everybody thinks it 's hackneyed , '' harrigan said recently over lunch at the menger hotel , a block from the alamo .


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`` when i would tell people i was writing a book about the alamo , they would tend to roll their eyes : has n't that story been done to death ?


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perhaps the most famous alamo story is of travis gathering his men inside the besieged garrison , informing them that reinforcements were not coming and drawing a line in the sand with his sword and challenging his men to cross it and fight to the death for freedom .


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it is a stirring anecdote but one considered a fabrication by many modern alamo scholars .


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`` that moment to me is the linchpin of the alamo myth , '' he said .


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`` once that is gone and once that idea of deliberate self-sacrifice is gone , the alamo story becomes a human story and not a mythological one .


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one problem in plotting a novel around the real events of the alamo is that the end is something of downer : everyone dies .


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bruce winders , the resident historian and curator of the alamo , credits harrigan with creating a vivid story but one based on credible historical assumptions he described as `` extremely current. ''


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recent new research suggests that reinforcements were en route to the alamo , winders said , and that travis , contrary to popular interpretation , knew it .


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he began `` the gates of the alamo '' eight years ago , working weekends , nights and mornings around his `` day job '' of writing screenplays .


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when he finally finished the book , he struggled with a title , dismissing `` remember the alamo ! , ''


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one day as he drove down the highway groping with different titles , he looked up and saw a sign that read , `` alamo title co. '' he considered it but thought otherwise .


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even today , the alamo remains the most visited historical site in the state , with more than 3 million visitors every year .


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and harrigan believes that even if the real story of the alamo is something less than the legend , it is no less powerful , or to him , inspiring .


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`` the alamo as an icon speaks to an ideal that i think is very legitimate and very alive and transcends all sorts of cultural and ethnic boundaries , '' he said .


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that 's why people remember the alamo , because that ideal is worth remembering. ''


Question: what city does the tour de france end in ?

jean-marie leblanc , director of the tour de france , which ends aug. 2 in paris , said the team was being excluded in part to `` end the unhealthy climate '' that has pervaded the competition since it got underway in dublin , ireland , july 11 .


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sunday , august 2 : paris _ tour de france ends on champs-elysees .


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a day after the tour de france ended in paris , members of the dutch team tvm were being questioned by police monday about banned drugs found in their possession .


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the tour de france ends july 25 in paris on the famed champs-elysees .


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tour-de-france -lrb- paris -rrb- _ the tour de france ends its drug-plagued journey .


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tour-de-france-react -lrb- paris -rrb- _ reaction in france to the conclusion of the tour de france .


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paris _ the tour de france , one of europe 's legendary sporting events , will draw 180 of the finest bicycle riders in the world saturday to a theme park in western france .


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paris , august 3 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- members of dutch team tvm were being questioned by police on monday about banned drugs in reims , north of paris , a day after the tour de france ended in paris .


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the festina cycling team was expelled from the tour de france on friday , hours after the team director and doctor were placed under formal investigation in a doping scandal that has rocked the cycling world .


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`` it seems to me that the sports ethic , the morality of the tour are the most important things ... .


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we have taken the decision to exclude the festina team starting on this day , '' leblanc told a news conference in brive-la-gaillarde , the town in central france where the sixth stage ended friday .


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leblanc said the decision was `` difficult '' but `` indispensable '' for the tour and for the sport .


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`` the object was to optimize performances under strict medical control , '' said the statement read by thibault de montbrial , `` in order to avoid cyclists personally and uncontrollably supplying themselves under conditions that could be bad for their health. ''


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prosecutor jean-philippe joubert said earlier that festina cyclists would be questioned as witnesses in the case after the tour de france ends .


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but one festina cyclist , pascal herve , of france , said he has `` never used epo or other things. ''


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`` there is more and more of it , '' he said on france 2 television .


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a tearful richard virenque , the star of the troubled festina team that was kicked out of the tour de france said saturday that he and his teammates will leave the tour .


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`` today we have taken the decision , all the team , all the riders , to pull out of the tour by the pressures on us from all sides , '' virenque said .


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`` at the request of the tour de france we have to leave the tour . ''


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`` it 's better we stop the tour now , '' virenque said .


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festina riders will not race in saturday 's time trial , the seventh stage of the three-week long race that began july 11 in ireland and will end aug. 2 .


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the director of the tour de france jean-marie leblanc made the announcement friday evening that the festina team was excluded from the tour after the director of the team , bruno roussel , admitted a practice of supplying illegal drugs with medical supervision to improve performances .


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the tour de france tried to recover saturday from the shock that was a bombshell to the race .


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the festina team was leading the tour de france and also had two of the individual favorites , in virenque and alex zuelle .


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virenque , second and third in the tour the last two years , threatened legal action to pursue racing after first hearing of the ban but then backed down .


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`` i do n't know what the tour will do without festina .


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virenque had won the top climber award of the tour the last four years with voet as his personal trainer .


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the remaining racers hit the pyrenees on tuesday then cross southern france before getting to the alps a week from sunday .


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st. george 's , grenada _ cuban president fidel castro wraps up his six-day caribbean tour and returns to cuba .


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universal city , california _ world pornography conference .


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some key dates in the doping scandal surrounding the tour de france : july 8 _ a masseur for the festina team , willy voet , is stopped at the france - belgium border .


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july 10 _ a court in the northern city of lille puts voet under formal investigation _ one step short of being charged .


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july 11 _ tour de france begins in dublin , ireland .


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at the start of the 12th stage , the remaining tour riders protest , delaying the start two hours .


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july 29 _ the remaining tour riders stop the stage to aix -les-bains twice to protest the treatment of tvm .


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massi , who was the leading mountain climber in the tour , does not start in the 18th stage , the first time a rider is barred from competing due to police questioning .


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lance armstrong remained in command of the tour de france on sunday , with russia 's dimitri konyshev winning the 14th stage as riders reached the foothills of the pyrenees .


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riding for u.s. postal service , armstrong won the tour 's prologue july 3 , a time trial and a grueling mountain stage in the alps .


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an air of profound pessimism hangs over the sport of cycling , and it hangs heavier than usual with the tour de france about to begin , for it was during last year 's race that the depths of the sport 's drug problem was laid bare .


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last year 's tour de france champion , marco pantani of italy , was recently thrown out of the tour of italy because of suspected drug use , and weeks after that , four cyclists failed blood tests during the tour of switzerland .


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perhaps most dispiriting , 11 riders competing in last month 's tour of italy amateur race , which is used as a kind of prep race for young cyclists , also failed blood tests that indicate drug use .


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as a consequence , nearly a dozen commercial sponsors of cycling teams and races across europe have formally expressed concern that the sport is in peril , and two , coca-cola and the french bank credit lyonnais , have threatened to end their millions of dollars in financing .


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meanwhile , criminal investigations aimed at cracking continent-wide drug rings go on in france , and earlier this year the no. 1 book on france 's list of best-selling nonfiction was a tell-all book by willy voet , a former employee of france 's top cycling team , that details how riders bought drugs , cheated on drug tests and undermined the notion of pure competition in one of europe 's revered sports .


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`` the people in cycling took everybody for fools and treated them like fools _ the journalists and the fans , '' said voet , the former masseur for the festina team who was caught by french authorities last year in possession of banned drugs days before the start of the tour .


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`` every day it 's something new , '' said bobby julich , the american rider who finished third in last year 's tour de france .


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`` it 's pretty hard to stay serious and motivate yourself for the tour . ''


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of the recent disclosure that young riders in the amateur division of the tour of italy had failed drug tests , julich said : `` they are 21 , 22 , 18 even .


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jean-marie leblanc , the director of the tour , agreed that the sport 's state of crisis was real and deep .


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leblanc had attempted to bar four french riders and an entire dutch team from the tour because of concerns about drugs , but because of a rules technicality , he was ordered by the world cycling federation to permit richard virenque , a former rider for festina , to compete .


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`` we have been prevented from completing our attempt to restore the image of the tour , '' leblanc said of the decision by the international cycling union .


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in 1967 , tommy simpson , a british cyclist , died while competing in the tour de france , his death ultimately linked to his use of amphetamines .


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`` as a rider , you feel tied into the system , '' zulle , one of the six riders for festina who confessed to epo use during the 1998 tour de france , told reporters last year .


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the tour de france , for instance , covers more than 2,000 miles , many of them in the alps .


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last month , with two stages remaining in the tour of italy , marco pantani , the bald , bold climber who had won last year 's tour de france after weeks of drug raids , police interrogations and rider protests , was comfortably in the lead .


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police in france have been extremely aggressive in detaining , searching and questioning riders .


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`` bicycle riders have become easy prey , '' said laurent jalabert , a french rider who competes for the spanish team once , but who is refusing to race in the tour de france this year .


Question: what is the name of abbott and costello 's famous routine ?

a : ernie said the line to bert many times in the `` sesame street '' version of abbott and costello 's classic comedy routine `` who 's on first ? ''


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beforehand , speakers played `` take me out to the ball game , '' and abbott and costello 's famous routine , `` who 's on first ? ''


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q : what is snuffleupagus ' first name and why was his debut seen by only one character on `` sesame street '' ?


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can you name five of bert and ernie 's top 10 songs ?


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it is not dealt with on the show , but parents and other grown-up fans mourn the death of muppet founder jim henson , who voiced ernie , kermit and guy smiley , to name a few .


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his arm remained snuggled around his girlfriend , amanda abbott , who works in the same laboratory at washington university .


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ettinger said he had not recognized the name of the winning bidder when he registered , but that others in his company had .


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he knew she remembered abbott and costello .


Question: what year was ebbets field , home of brooklyn dodgers , built ?

the brooklyn dodgers lost to the philadelphia phillies , 1-0 , on opening day in 1913 , in the first regular-season game ever played at ebbets field .


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con ed and baseball historians say the wall came from washington park , home of the brooklyn dodgers for 14 years before the team moved to ebbets field in 1913 .


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the dodgers ' owner , charles hercules ebbets , had financially overextended himself building the park that bore his name , and he was soon forced to sell a controlling interest in the team to the mckeever brothers .


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ebbets died on opening day of the 1925 season .


Question: what year was ebbets field , home of brooklyn dodgers , built ?

at the funeral , workers struggled to widen ebbets ' grave because it was too narrow for his oversize coffin .


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at the yankee stadium inaugural in 1923 , babe ruth slammed the first home run in its history _ a three-run shot off howard ehmke to help pitcher bob shawkey and the yankees capture a 4 - 1 victory over the red sox .


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when the renovated yankee stadium was unveiled for the 1976 home opener , bob shawkey , now 85 , threw out the first ball .


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at the yankee stadium home opener in 1946 , feller also pitched a 1 -0 no-hitter .


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the only run was scored by feller 's catcher , frankie hayes , who hit a home run in the top of the ninth inning .


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new york giants pitcher red ames worked nine innings without allowing a hit in the 1909 opener at the polo grounds against the brooklyn dodgers .


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but ames surrendered a hit in the 10th and lost in the 13th when brooklyn scored three runs .


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many of the 25,000 fans at ebbets field for the april 15 , 1947 , season opener between the brooklyn dodgers and boston braves wore `` i 'm for jackie '' buttons , signifying the historic debut of the first black man to play major league baseball .


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as the indians ' player - manager , he stroked a first -inning home run off yankees pitcher doc medich for his 575th career home run .


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talk about bad omens : the mets ' home opener was played at the polo grounds two days later , on friday the 13th .


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the yankees ' home opener in 1978 was when roger maris ended his 12-year self-exile by returning to the bronx .


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in the game 's first inning , reggie jackson , who had homered on his last three swings of the 1977 world series at yankee stadium , connected again on his first cut of the home season , smashing a three-run homer off chicago 's wilbur wood in the yankees ' 4 - 2 victory over the white sox .


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new york _ the lights of ebbets field , which gazed down on a golden past of robinsons and reeses and walkers and furillos , found a home in downing stadium when the wrecking ball tore into the home of the dodgers and stilled the heart of brooklyn .


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downing stadium faces demolition this fall as part of a $ 200 million renovation of randalls island , its home near the triborough bridge and at the conjuncture of manhattan , queens and the bronx .


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`` if these are the lights from ebbets field , they have to be preserved .


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the dodgers are still such a powerful presence in brooklyn that the design for the proposed new york mets stadium consciously evokes ebbets field , and a dodger flag flies over brooklyn borough hall .


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another stadium , the polo grounds of the new york giants , was done in four years after the same wrecking ball demolished ebbets field in 1960 .


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over on utica avenue in east flatbush , in front of canarsie casket co. , stands the center field flagpole from ebbets field .


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the pole is a source of pride for samuel m. romano , an owner of the casket company , who worked as a maintenance man at ebbets field and still loves his old team .


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that 's the brooklyn dodgers , please understand .


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kratter also donated about 2,200 ebbets seats to a ball field for inmates at the old workhouse on hart island .


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some were salvaged and presented by the brooklyn dodger hall of fame to former dodger players .


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old ebbets field seats , in fact , are everywhere .


Question: what year was ebbets field , home of brooklyn dodgers , built ?

the national baseball hall of fame and museum in cooperstown has one , plus two benches from a grandstand , the cornerstone and home plate .


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four seats reside at the brooklyn historical society , along with another home plate , a base , a section sign , a brick and the 1955 world series pennant .


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william l. gladstone , a collector and the owner of the class a minor-league team in pittsfield , mass. , owns a bronze plaque that hung in the ebbets field rotunda and lists the team 's ownership .


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near the gowanus canal in brooklyn , a brick wall on third avenue between first and third streets forms part of a consolidated edison warehouse .


Question: what year was ebbets field , home of brooklyn dodgers , built ?

the ebbets field clock was long believed to have rested atop the minor-league park in asheville , n.c. , home of the asheville tourists .


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`` someone drove through the state with a van full of ebbets field clocks , selling them to minor-league stadiums . ''


Question: what 's the formal name for lou gehrig 's disease ?

fifty years ago this week , lou gehrig ended a remarkable string of playing in 2,130 consecutive games , from june 1 , 1925 to may 2 , 1939 .


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on june 2 , 1925 , wally pipp had a headache and was replaced at first base in the new york yankee lineup by a quiet hometown kid named lou gehrig .


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the next best is the mark gehrig broke -- 1,307 straight games by everett scott , 823 games -lrb- more than five seasons -rrb- short of gehrig 's mark .


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`` i do n't think anyone will ever break lou gehrig 's record , '' garvey said .


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but the world has come to know it as lou gehrig 's disease .


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Question: what 's the formal name for lou gehrig 's disease ?

`` i remember the first time i played first base at yankee stadium thinking i was in the same place lou gehrig played , '' first baseman don mattingly said .


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soon thereafter , gehrig was discovered to have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , the incurable ailment now known as lou gehrig 's disease .


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day , 71 , a tenor known for his recordings of irish ballads such as `` danny boy , '' was diagnosed last july as having amyotropic lateral sclerosis , also known as lou gehrig 's disease .


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doctors discovered last summer that day had amyotropic lateral sclerosis , the nerve disorder known as lou gehrig 's disease that causes gradual loss of muscle control .


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wedemeyer was 30 when he learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , called lou gehrig 's disease after the famous new york yankee first baseman who was also stricken .


Question: what 's the formal name for lou gehrig 's disease ?

lou gehrig 's disease , or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , is a progressive degeneration of the nerve cells that govern muscular movement .


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later the duchess , the former sarah ferguson , visited a rehabilitation center in adjacent ottawa and spoke to victims of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis _ a degenerative neuro -muscular affliction also known as lou gehrig 's disease .


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an 82-year-old man with the debilitating and ultimately fatal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis _ lou gehrig 's disease _ was becoming increasingly helpless .


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wedemeyer of los gatos , calif. , is paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also known as lou gehrig 's disease .


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wedemeyer , of los gatos , calif. , is paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -lrb- als -rrb- , also known as lou gehrig 's disease .


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according to both davis and local death records , motaghed died june 9 in his omaha apartment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , or lou gehrig 's disease .


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he had been hospitalized since oct. 27 for treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , known as lou gehrig 's disease .


Question: what 's the formal name for lou gehrig 's disease ?

her spirit was challenged but never dominated by the ravaging effects of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -lrb- als -rrb- , a degenerative neuromuscular disorder also known as lou gehrig 's disease .


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disabled by the neurological disorder , amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -lrb- or lou gehrig 's disease -rrb- , hawking is confined to a wheelchair and to a body that provides only minimal support to his celebrated brain .


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del webber said her husband died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , known as lou gehrig 's disease , wednesday after being diagnosed with the fatal illness seven months ago .


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while the first half of the book deals with doctors and patients and the relationship between the two , the second half deals in detail with three serious neurological problems : amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -lrb- lou gehrig 's disease -rrb- , which affects movement ; aphasia , which affects speech , and schizophrenia , which affects thought .


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they may eventually aid those who suffer from such muscle-weakening diseases as multiple sclerosis , myasthenia gravis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -lrb- lou gehrig 's disease -rrb- .


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the year just past was the biggest yet for lou gehrig licensing , because of the 50th anniversary of his emotional retirement from baseball and major league baseball 's dedication of the season to the als foundation , which raises funds to research a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , or lou gehrig 's disease .


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but doctors cautioned that they are still far from a cure. ; 'unraveling the mysteries ' ; the findings `` represent an important first step in unraveling the mysteries of this well-studied , but little-understood disorder , '' wrote dr. p. michael conneally of indiana university in an editorial published with the study in today 's new england journal of medicine . ; until now , lou gehrig 's disease -- what doctors call amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , or als -- has been an almost complete mystery .


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stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -lrb- now known as lou gehrig 's disease -rrb- , an invariably fatal illness that was already sapping his strength , he declared himself `` the luckiest man on the face of the earth '' when he tipped his cap to the crowd for the last time .


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fourteen months ago , mrs. murray contracted bulbar palsy , a strain in the neuromuscular family of disorders known as lou gehrig 's disease , or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis . ;


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he has been national chairman for the campaign against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -lrb- lou gehrig 's disease -rrb- .


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in particular , regeneron said its experimental protein therapy may be useful in treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , or als , a deadly muscle-destroying illness also known as lou gehrig 's disease .


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regeneron said it plans to file for fda approval to begin human testing of cntf in treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , or lou gehrig 's disease , in the second quarter .


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during a vacation in hawaii last year , day became aware of a muscle-control problem and returned to the scripps clinic in la jolla , where doctors diagnosed lou gehrig 's disease .


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dennis day , the irish tenor best known as jack benny 's comic sidekick , was remembered thursday as a loving man devoted to helping himself and others battle lou gehrig 's disease .


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when he found out that he had als _ the disease that led inexorably to his death _ he put all the remaining energy he had into helping mda fight this tragic disorder. ''


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he assumed the name dennis day when he joined benny 's radio show as a singer in 1939 .


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the story of a football coach stricken in the prime of life by lou gehrig 's disease is n't exactly light-hearted viewing , but pam dawber , who plays the coach 's wife , found the movie `` happy. ''


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mrs. wedemeyer helps her husband , charlie wedemeyer -lrb- michael nouri -rrb- , continue his coaching career despite the disease that leaves him unable to speak or move .


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iron man lou gehrig will be featured on a new commemorative postage stamp this summer , the postal service reported tuesday .


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that disease has since come to be known as lou gehrig 's disease .


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robert webber , a prolific character actor whose face was as recognizable as his name was unknown , has died from lou gehrig 's disease .


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corporations contributed an additional $ 36,228 , 846 during the 21 -lcb- -hour event , which featured a parade of top name entertainers and poignant stories from muscular dystrophy victims and their families to push the total telethon donations since 1966 to $ 526,524 , 210 .


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united airlines executive bob sampson drew a standing ovation from 2,000 people in the jerry lewis theater at the cashman field center when he said : `` there 's been enough of this disease killing children and devastating families . ''


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sampson , who has suffered from muscular dystrophy since he was a teen-ager and has lost two grandchildren to the disease , appeared in a poignant appeal and encouraged viewers to keep up the fight until the disease is beaten .


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jerry lewis drew a record $ 42,209 , 727 in pledges from viewers of his 24th annual labor day telethon , with muscular dystrophy victims appealing for help in fighting the deadly disease that devastates families .


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`` there 's been enough of this disease killing children and devastating families , '' the united airlines executive said , drawing a standing ovation from the 2,000 people in the jerry lewis theater .


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porter took his last photograph in 1986 , the same year he was diagnosed with lou gehrig 's disease .


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robert r. hurwitz , who co-founded a newport beach law firm four decades ago and served as an officer of the national council of christians and jews , died tuesday after a long struggle against lou gehrig 's disease .


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he continued to work , however , until the disease robbed him of his ability to speak .


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`` with lou gehrig 's disease , you never lose your mind .


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that determination to help people -- even in her last days as she struggled with a debilitating disease -- is the subject of a video documentary , `` a question of balance , the life of joan orr . ''


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weeks passed , and with each monday session , orr 's disease weakened first her voice , then her other muscles .


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but the weather had nothing to do with gehrig 's problems .


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newspaper accounts of gehrig 's dramatic demise were at first attributed to old age .


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webber was the quintessential hollywood character actor -- a face familiar to thousands and a name known to few .


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his wife suggests contributions in his name to als program , 810 7th ave. ,


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the chapter on lou gehrig 's disease , for example , contains an extended discussion of lou gehrig 's baseball career .


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the chapter on lou gehrig 's disease includes a profile of lance meagher , a physician who has lived with als for 13 years and , though virtually paralyzed , continues in limited practice and is making plans to fly solo around the world .


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if we can monitor the biochemical processes of a disease noninvasively , it will surely give us an early insight into the nature of the disease and its response to treatment . ''


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ross suspected mcardle 's syndrome , a rare genetic disease in which the muscles ca n't break down the sugar glycogen , used as a source of energy to fuel contraction .


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the disease could have been confirmed by biopsy or complex chemical tests .


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forty-one years after his death , ruth 's name and visage are licensed to more than 100 companies and products -- banks , car companies , retailers , trading card firms , teddy bears , and a maker of trapping knives -- avidly trying to profit from his powerful , mythic and mischievous appeal .


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history : for the marketers at united valley bank in philadelphia , ruth 's image , teamed with that of teammate lou gehrig , provided a touchstone for its target group : depositors 55 and older .


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said frost : `` this is the era of name recognition , and we 've gone this route to promote our merchandise .


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in gehrig 's case , said roesler : `` we respect eleanor gehrig 's wish not to use lou gehrig for fund-raising purposes .


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he 's not licensed for any als research group except the one at columbia presbyterian medical center -lrb- the eleanor and lou gehrig als center -rrb- , though we allowed the als foundation to do a few specific things this year . ''


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even when the 50-year bell tolls on babe ruth in 1998 , there are other legal ways to protect his name and likeness .


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curtis has secured trademark protection in categories such as paper goods , gifts , apparel and footwear that will protect the family 's rights as long as their legacy 's name and image stay in continual use .


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`` a hundred years of research has not yielded a clue as to what causes the disease or how to treat it .


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pooled information ; two research groups -- one at duke university , where siddique worked until recently , and the other at massachusetts general hospital -- pooled their information on 510 members of 23 families in which the disease was inherited. ;


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only 5 percent to 10 percent of cases of lou gehrig 's disease are thought to run in families .


Question: what 's the formal name for lou gehrig 's disease ?

and who can forget lou gehrig 's farewell speech of july 4 , 1939 ?


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the disease is usually fatal in three to five years , but it moved swiftly against mrs. murray .


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fed up , rivers once shot back : `` oh , 160 , huh -- what 's that , out of a thousand ? '' ;


Question: what was the name of fdr 's dog ?

no , not content with that , they now include my little dog fala , '' fdr said , igniting laughter and allowing him to slow down even more .


Question: what country was formed in 1948 ?

fifty years ago on the very day in 1947 before myanmar regained independence from britain , the then myanmar leaders led by general aung san , national hero , and representatives of all the national races met in panglong and signed the panglong agreement to strive for an end to the british colonialists ' rule in the country and formed the union of burma -lrb- myanmar -rrb- .


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when the state was formed in 1948 , it had 806,000 residents .


Question: what country was formed in 1948 ?

suu kyi , the nobel prize winner , and nine colleagues announced last week that they would function as the country 's parliament to fill in for representatives elected in 1990 , but never allowed to take their seats .


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the country has been ruled by military governments in various forms ever since .


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before sitting down first with israeli prime minister ehud barak and then syrian foreign minister farouk al-sharaa , the president strolled with them across a bridge that spanned a dry creek , pointing out some of the sights and exchanging inaudible pleasantries .


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al-sharaa is a close , trusted aide and has represented syria in previous negotiations with the israelis .


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security is a prime issue for the israelis .


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in addition to the israeli and syrian track , clinton is pressing for a resumption of talks between the israelis and palestinians to implement the wye river peace accords , over which he presided in october 1998 .


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after nearly 15 months in prison , several confessed to giving information to israelis during secret trips to visit relatives .


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`` there are a lot of jews leaving the country now , '' said morris mottamed , a tehran engineer who represents the country 's jews in the iranian parliament , where religious minorities are each allotted one seat .


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that 's one reason why many people are thinking of leaving the country . ''


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negotiators at the camp david peace talks this weekend will reportedly discuss sharing or dividing the city among palestinians and israelis .


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palestinians want a piece of a city that israelis say is entirely theirs , forever _ their `` eternal , undivided , capital. ''


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arab areas get short shrift _ even by israeli officials ' estimates _ to city services like road work and trash pick-up .


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in the primarily arab old city , the religious symbols and exotic bazaars draw israeli worshippers and shoppers by the thousands .


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but , in other areas , troops in flak jackets are about the only regular israeli visitors .


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israeli peace activists say separate and joint political arrangements could be set up in different areas of the city .


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`` all those declarations by your leaders about israeli sovereignty in east jerusalem are nonsense , '' palestinian cabinet minister ziad abu zayyad told the israeli newspaper yedioth ahronoth .


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jews can pray at the wall , but access for israelis to the campus above is tightly controlled .


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an israeli building program put 10 neighborhoods and about 150,000 jews on the east side to divide the arab population there .


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they can not vote in israeli national elections but were allowed to vote in palestinian authority elections in 1996 .


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when he wanted to add on to his house , he borrowed money not from an israeli bank but from the orient house , the office in jerusalem that acts as a branch of the plo .


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but , if israeli leaders might exaggerate their control over the city , palestinian leaders may overstate the desire of jerusalem arabs to join the palestinian authority .


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many jerusalem palestinians say they enjoy israeli health insurance and fear paying higher taxes to arafat 's authority .


Question: what country was formed in 1948 ?

most feel mistreated by the israelis , but wary of the incipient and somewhat chaotic palestinian authority .


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as news of the failure in washington spread across this ancient city , from television sets in cafes and bars , from radios in the bazaars of the old city , and across the network of mobile phones that have israelis and palestinians engaging in seemingly nonstop talk even on days when there is no major news , the more common reaction seemed to be one of disappointment , confusion and even of fear .


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they were forced by israeli rules , he said , to come by bus rather than by car , held up for repeated scrutiny of identity papers at israeli checkpoints , and denied , in abdelhadi 's case , the right to bring his 17-year-old son , who lacked the right papers , to jerusalem with them .


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last year , royal jordanian started to fly through israeli airspace on its european flights via mediterranean in accordance with the aviation agreements signed between the two countries following the signing of the 1994 jordanian - israeli peace treaty .


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`` traitorous elements with negative views in the country , who are cohorts of the colonialists , at the same time , are offering their support to the neo-colonialists , to enable them to meddle in the internal affairs of our country , '' he said .


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ankara , august 7 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- israeli public security minister shlomo ben-ami will visit turkey this weekend to update turkish leaders with the issues taken up at last month 's camp david peace summit , anatolia news agency reported on monday .


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turkish leaders have assured during meetings with israeli officials that they will stress ankara 's sensitivity over the jerusalem issue and urge the israeli government to review its policies over the holy sites in the city .


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israeli officials said turkey is in favor of maintaining negotiations and refraining from unilateral moves , an attitude in parallel with a tripartite declaration issued at the end of the camp david summit which failed to produce any agreement .


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they told the agency that they hope ankara will recommend arafat to keep from taking unilateral actions , adding israeli prime minister ehud barak has sent a letter to his turkish counterpart bulent ecevit to this end .


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it was reported that the israeli government does not want turkey 's direct intervention in the middle east peace process , but appreciates ankara 's moderate advice to arafat while arab countries are reluctant to pressure arafat to make concessions in the peace talks .


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beirut , september 8 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- lebanese president emile lahoud friday reaffirmed that palestinian refugees should go back to their country , warning that `` there will not be a peace without their return . ''


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their return is a key issue in the palestinian - israeli final status talks .


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the president reiterated that his country does not agree to discriminate against refugees .


Question: what is the state song of kansas ?

should the bill become law , on july 1 the fish will find its place on the state 's official list naming the buffalo as state animal ; sunflower , state flower ; `` home on the range , '' state song ; ornate box turtle , state reptile ; honeybee , state insect ; cottonwood , state tree ; meadowlark , state bird ; and barred tiger salamander , state amphibian .


Question: what is the state song of kansas ?

the channel catfish , a favorite of anglers , is on its way to becoming the official kansas state fish , thanks to the urging of seventh -graders in the town of olpe .


Question: what is the state song of kansas ?

jim beam , chief of hatcheries for the state , is in charge of replenishing the channel catfish in state waters as fishermen fill their stringers .


Question: what is the state song of kansas ?

last year , state hatcheries produced more than a million 3- to 6-inch fingerlings .


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at the same time , 205,000 channel cats between 10 inches and 11 inches were released , mostly in state fishing lakes .


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the genetic strain of channel catfish reared in the state is known nationally as the kansas strain , and it results in fast-growing and relatively disease-resistant fish , beam said .


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`` it 's time we stand up and be responsible and deal only with the state 's business , '' he said .


Question: in what month are the most babies born ?

if 1999 follows the pattern of the past decade , more babies will have been born in august than in any other month , which means that in september and october , there are more nervous parents in our midst than at any other time of year .


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some babies like to be tightly nestled , others do n't ; experiment to find what 's comfortable for you both . -rrb-


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-lrb- to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome , place babies on their back or side to sleep .


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-lrb- some babies cry more than others , and it has nothing to do with your ability as a parent .


Question: what province is calgary located in ?

but melanie anderson , part of alberta 's left-of-center minority and head of its planned parenthood chapter in calgary , says critics of the province are on target .


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we flew into calgary , the capital of the province of alberta and a charming city best known for its annual stampede .


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this is the fourth album by brandt , whose hometown is calgary , in the province of alberta , canada .


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ralph klein , premier of the canadian province of alberta , and calgary mayor al buer , were present at the ceremony .


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victoria , canada , april 18 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- visiting chinese premier zhu rongji arrived here sunday night from calgary , capital of alberta province , to continue his seven-day official visit to canada .


Question: what province is calgary located in ?

prior to his arrival in victoria , capital of british columbia province , premier of alberta province ralph klein held a reception in honor of the chinese premier in calgary on sunday afternoon .


Question: what province is calgary located in ?

lake placid , n.y , february 19 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- calgary , a city in the canadian province of alberta , will host the 2005 winter goodwill games , turner sports and time warner inc. announced here saturday .


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a seven -building complex that used to be calgary 's leading hospital was blasted into rubble by demolition experts sunday , just a few months after it was closed to save money .


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while thousands of residents watched from their homes and from hillside parks , calgary general hospital tumbled down in a span of about nine seconds after the first charge of dynamite exploded .


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but calgary general was the first major hospital in the country to be demolished .


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it was of three hospitals in calgary to be closed recently .


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after calgary took a 2 - 1 lead in the game 's 13th minute , the 21-year-old giguere took over the game .


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he was especially strong in the second period when the avalanche outshot calgary 20-3 but failed to score .


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theoren fleury , jeff shantz and jarome iginla scored for calgary .


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the win was calgary 's first of the season at home after an 0-3-2 start .


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it was only a tongue-in-cheek letter to a newspaper .


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`` clearly the time has come to expel this right-wing cuckoo from the canadian nest , '' wrote firth , who proposed trading the province to the united states for `` one of the more civilized border states '' _ preferably minnesota or vermont .


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many albertans would link those two achievements .


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_alberta initiated a legal challenge to federal gun control legislation that will require registration of all 7 million firearms in canada .


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_alberta has been a pioneer in providing public funds to private schools , several of them run by conservative christian churches .


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the supreme court ruled against the province in april , rejecting its claim that the issue should be decided by politicians , not judges .


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`` this is a province that was 20 years behind the times , guilty of state-sanctioned discrimination , '' he said .


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now , says flanagan , albertans see themselves as economic victims , sacrificing part of their prosperity so federal authorities can finance welfare and social programs in less affluent provinces .


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a day after anti-homelessness protesters hurled bricks , paint bombs and molotov cocktails at police in a violent clash at the ontario legislature , activists were unapologetic friday for one of the worst riots in the province 's history .


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tobin , who is in iceland to promote the province 's viking festivities this summer , could n't be immediately reached for comment .


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dhaliwal 's decision , handed down thursday , has infuriated many newfoundlanders and damaged the reputations of the province 's five liberal mps .


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calgary man accused in brink 's robbery found guilty


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a former military reservist was convicted friday in the botched , commando -style robbery of two brink 's guards that ended in a hail of bullets at a calgary shopping mall .


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the green acres campground beside pine lake , about 90 miles north of calgary , '' looked like a bomb went off , '' one witness said .