Question: who won the battle of gettysburg ?

`` we can not permit the visual desecration of one of the most hallowed sites in america , '' said rep. peter kostmayer , d - pa. , co-sponsor of 1990 legislation that significantly expanded the boundaries of the military park . `` there are plenty of places in which to build shopping centers , but allowing one to be built within sight of the gettysburg battlefield would be a tragic mistake. '' ;


Question: who won the battle of gettysburg ?

keep view open ; walter l. powell , gettysburg borough 's preservation officer , said : `` that view is critical .


Question: who won the battle of gettysburg ?

three years ago , when schmoyer arrived , he warned that when widening of u.s. route 15 near gettysburg was completed , there would be massive development pressure at the four local interchanges. ;


Question: who won the battle of gettysburg ?

now , with route 15 serving as a major four-lane highway between harrisburg and frederick , md. , the gettysburg area has become attractive as a bedroom community for those cities , as well as baltimore and even washington , 90 driving minutes away. ;


Question: who won the battle of gettysburg ?

`` people these days are looking for more than gettysburg has to offer , '' he said .


Question: who won the battle of gettysburg ?

and although the civil war has long since ended , the battle to carry on our cherished beliefs is fought anew each day in our courts , our legislatures and our own lives. ;


Question: what is the largest snake in the world ?

reticulated pythons are the world 's largest snakes , reaching lengths of up to 36 feet .


Question: what is the largest snake in the world ?

the seventh large python snake found slithering around the same neighborhood has officials puzzled , but not panicked .


Question: what is the largest snake in the world ?

he said such a snake would have to be starving before it would attack a child for food .


Question: what is the largest snake in the world ?

`` i do n't think there 's too many people in this world we have to tell to stay away from them , '' said sheriff 's office spokesman john bocchichio .


Question: where was ulysses s. grant born ?

now a three -room frame cottage , grant 's birthplace has been furnished with period items and pieces owned by the family .


Question: where was ulysses s. grant born ?

the house later was returned to its original foundation , about 27 miles southeast of cincinnati in the clermont county village of point pleasant off ohio 52 .


Question: where was ulysses s. grant born ?

the birthplace is open april 1 through oct. 31 , wednesday through saturday , 9 : 30 a.m. to 5 p.m. -lrb- closed noon to 1 p.m. -rrb- , and sunday , noon to 5 p.m. it is on ohio 232 , point pleasant , ohio , about 15 miles from cincinnati .


Question: where was ulysses s. grant born ?

ulysses s. grant -lrb- 18th president -rrb- : born april 27 , 1822 , in a one -room , 16x19-foot home in point pleasant , ohio , overlooking the ohio river .


Question: where was ulysses s. grant born ?

ronald reagan -lrb- 40th president -rrb- : born feb. 6 , 1911 , in an apartment above a bakery at 111 s. main st. in tampico , ill .


Question: where was ulysses s. grant born ?

seven u.s. presidents -- ulysses s. grant , rutherford b. hayes , james a. garfield , benjamin harrison , william mckinley , william howard taft and warren g. harding -- were born in ohio .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

luxor is famed for its valley of the kings pharaonic necropolis and the karnak temple complex .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

romer lives in italy but also has a home in the valley of the kings in egypt .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

it took carter 11 years more to document the hoard of gold , semiprecious stones , furniture and knickknacks stuffed into the makeshift tomb dug into the hills of southern egypt 's valley of the kings .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

his tomb was discovered in the valley of the kings at luxor in 1922 .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

osman 's first book in 1987 , `` stranger in the valley of kings , '' theorized that the mummy of a royal official named yuya was joseph , the biblical figure with the coat of many colors who led the tribe of israel into egypt .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

eileen harsch , manager of the explorers club , the new york institution founded in 1906 , says noteworthy expeditions went to the arctic , mount everest , the south china sea , egypt 's valley of the kings and elsewhere .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the short answer is that he was well respected but out of work in 1909 , when lord carnarvon hired him to dig in the valley of the kings on the west bank of the nile opposite luxor .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

in upper egypt , there is luxor where , last october , to boost falling revenue , tutankhamen 's tomb was reopened in the valley of the kings .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

luxor , which is almost 100 per cent reliant on the industry via tours of the valley of the kings , tutankhamen 's tomb and the karnak and luxor temples , is empty and tense with only 38 per cent occupancy .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

resins clinging to the etched fragment indicate it may have been attached originally to her missing mummy , egyptian and american officials said tuesday in announcing the find .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the only other surviving legacy of nefertari is the lid of her sarcophagus , on exhibit at the turin egyptian museum in italy .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

egyptian culture minister farouk hosni called the jewelry , which is 1 -lcb- inches long and an inch wide , `` a significant discovery _ only the second object ever found that probably belonged to nefertari . ''


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

sponsored by the egyptian antiquities organization and the getty conservation institute of marina del rey , calif. , the project began 18 months ago and is expected to last another 3 -lcb- years .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

los angeles -based british egyptologist helen strudwick , who studied the piece for getty , found significance in the ritual inscription `` true of voice , '' a phrase ancient egyptians normally used after the name of the person who died .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

fruits , spices and grains entombed with the ancient egyptian boy king tutankhamun for his journey to the afterlife have been rediscovered after 56 years in a musty storeroom , a newspaper reported today .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

arthur bell , director of the gardens at kew in south london , was quoted as saying the remains recently were identified by christian tutundjian de vartavan , a 23-year-old french student working on a master of science degree in ancient egyptian plants at london 's university college .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the newspaper said officials at kew are willing to return the specimens to the egyptian government , but would like to put some on display .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the independent newspaper said tutundjian de vartavan came across the tutankhamun remains while studying ancient egyptian plant remains .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

a student rediscovered a forgotten hoard of grain , dried fruit , spices and insects from the 3 , 300-year-old tomb of the egyptian king tutankhamun , archaeologists said thursday .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

scientists said the material is well preserved and could provide best evidence to date of the diet and lifestyle of the egyptians at the time of tutankhamun 's death in 1323 b.c .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

he acknowledged that one reason for the secrecy was concern that the egyptian government might demand possession before the institute had completed its analysis .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

last week , the institute informed the egyptian embassy in london about the discovery and offered to return the material .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

they were identified as six italian tourists and four egyptians .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

ten italian nationals and 13 egyptians were missing , the state-owned news agency said .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

it was carrying 51 italians and an egyptian crew of 45 .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the spokesman , who spoke on condition of anonymity , said the remaining 16 italians were missing , and egyptian police said they were presumed dead .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

twenty-seven egyptian crewmen also were rescued wednesday and the body of one was picked up from the water .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

thursday 's recovery of the bodies of four egyptians left 13 egyptian crewmen missing .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the second , `` chronicles and kings , '' airing jan. 8 , examines the accuracy of the old testament as history .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

`` the way this great book has been treated by kings and princes is a gruesome tale .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the overall find is as significant as the discovery of the tomb of tutankhamun in 1922 , which yielded enormous amounts of gold and other precious objects , said sayed tawfik , chairman of the egyptian antiquities organization .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

tawfik and other egyptian officials said workers trying to take the search deeper hit underground water at the 10-foot level that makes digging more difficult .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

on jan. ound the first of the original five beautifully preserved statues from the new kingdom , a golden age of wealth and power for egyptian kings .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

this quiet , bone-dry ravine of death , overshadowed since antiquity by the valley of the kings just over the hills , slowly is shedding its mystery .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

ancients called the valley ta-set neferu , the place of beauty .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

egyptologists and guidebooks perpetuate the homage to entombed royal women : the valley of the queens .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

this valley has been misunderstood and misnamed by all egyptologists , '' said christian leblanc , field director for a continuing 17-year french - egyptian project to record and study its history .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

`` we should be calling it the valley of the royal children .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

they were here first , but the valley became tied only to the queens and named by tradition rather than history. ''


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the 18th dynasty , when the graveyard for royal children began , was a time when queens traditionally shared their pharaoh 's tombs in the valley of the kings .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the 18th dynasty , when the graveyard for royal children began , was a time when queens traditionally shared their pharaoh 's tombs in the valley of the kings .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

that discovery brought international fame to the valley of the kings .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

but to the world , the glory of the pharaohs meant the valley of the kings _ not the valley of the queens , the valley of the monkeys or the tombs of the nobles .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

for tourist agencies , the valley of the queens became an afterthought , a place to fill a half-hour after an exhausting visit to the valley of the kings .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

`` today , we 've uncovered all the major tombs and have returned the valley to the way it would have looked when burials began .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

as leblanc talked , he and fathy hassanein , director of the egyptian antiquities organization 's national documentation center , walked through scores of excavators digging toward the valley 's bedrock .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

an aim of the project is to restore tombs in the valley so that more can be opened to tourists .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the valley 's most beautiful tomb , the fabulous burial chambers of ramses ii 's powerful queen nefertari , is among those so deteriorated that they remain off-limits .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

typical of the tales leblanc has faced in rewriting a new history for the valley is the story of a mummified fetus inside the tomb of 9-year-old prince amon-hir-khopshef , son of ramses iii .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

early this century , the italian excavator ernesto schiaparelli found the fetus in a rubbish pile outside the valley of the queens .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

generations of later egyptians worshipped imhotep as a god .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

egyptian officials realize the historical value that any of those finds would entail .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

`` i 'm trying to keep what 's standing , standing , '' said sayed tawfik , chairman of the egyptian antiquities organization .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

`` we 've got too much evidence , '' he said : `` kings without tombs , places we know existed but never were found. ''


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

researchers on the project also will examine ancient egyptian hieroglyphics , tomb models and written material for clues to making the beer .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

`` the ancient egyptians baked a kind of bread first , then used it as a mash from which to brew the beer . ''


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the author of a new book claims the jewish prophet moses was known to ancient egyptians as ikhnaton , the ruler and religious reformer .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

osman , 55 , an egyptian who has pursued research in egyptology and the bible in london for 25 years , is regarded by academics as a controversial but respected outsider .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

younes ahmed el-batrik , cultural counselor at the egyptian embassy , held a reception thursday night to launch osman 's book .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

osman said in an interview that scholars had always had difficulty establishing links between any of the important figures in the old testament and egyptian history .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

`` i believe that moses had an israelite mother and an egyptian father , '' he said .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

eric uphill , an egyptologist at london 's university college , said he helped and supported osman 's research because he regarded osman as a serious student with extensive knowledge .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

osman 's manuscript was based on the right sources for egyptian history , uphill said , but he would not comment on the conclusions without further study .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

editor 's note - it sounds like something disney would do , build replicas of the tombs of egyptian pharaohs for the tourists to look at .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

`` it 's a wonderful project , the answer we 've been searching for , '' says sayed tawfik , chairman of the egyptian antiquities organization .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

abt , a zurich psychoanalyst , says engineers have selected the bone-dry , fault-filled western valley for the reproductions , lying just over the hills from the tombs of tutankhamen and fellow pharaohs .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the western valley was chosen because of `` its beauty and emptiness .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

the west bank 's most popular tourist spot is the valley of the kings , where new kingdom rulers were buried for 500 years .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

but ancient architects originally gave the royal nod to the western valley , where they placed the mummy of pharaoh amenophis iii in 1353 b.c .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

abt says duplicate tombs will be low-slung , built to disguise their locations and decorated by egyptians using techniques of the ancients .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

tgh james , retired keeper of egyptian antiquities at the bm , gives the long answer in his judicious , leisurely biography , which fits many strange details in to their context -lrb- even if it omits almina carnarvon 's re-marriage within nine months of the earl 's death . -rrb-


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

within three years -lrb- and still a minor -rrb- he had changed for ever how draughtsmen drew egyptian tombs .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

in the meantime he started a lifelong career of part-time dealing in antiquities , using his keen eye and knowledge of arabic and the egyptians which today would be quite improper for a field archaeologist .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

carter tackled the job practically , fitting gates and installing electric light in the tombs in the valley of the kings so that visitors at last could see them .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

in 1914 carnarvon secured the concession for the valley of the kings , where it seemed that only one royal tomb had not been found .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

in the valley , carter mapped everything that he - or anybody else - had found .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

if in doubt , go to the egyptian museum in cairo , and in the bm exhibition look at carter 's catalogue cards and records to see with what superb professionalism this awkward and , i assume , resentful man did the job .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

from earl 's court in london and swaffham in norfolk it is a long way to the valley of the kings .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

winter is peak season and , even now , karnak , thebes and the valley of the kings are far from deserted , especially if you dawdle in the morning or coincide with a cruise ship .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

driving is best left to the egyptians , particularly at night , when the practice is to switch off headlights and then flash them wildly at oncoming traffic .


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egyptians appear totally relaxed about non- moslems in mosques , providing they are modestly dressed -lrb- no shorts -rrb- and remove their shoes .


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the most unpleasant experience was a glass of omar khayyam rose - egyptian wine can be lethal .


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all the guidebooks comment on egyptians ' warmth and kindness towards foreigners , and they are right .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

instead of letting these customs get under your skin , it is better to ignore them as an inconvenience more than compensated for by the egyptians ' good manners and love of a joke .


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inshallah - as pious egyptians frame every future wish - i will return to the nile .


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patricia morison 's trip was organised by the egyptian state tourist office : 168 piccadilly , london w1 .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

he believes visitors will get used to the idea that 'egypt is no longer 100 per cent safe .


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

they were here first , but the valley became tied only to the queens and named by tradition rather than history . ''


Question: where is the valley of the kings ?

but to the world , the glory of the pharaohs meant the valley of the kings -- not the valley of the queens , the valley of the monkeys or the tombs of the nobles .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

on wednesday , oct. 5 , the 7 million registered voters among chile 's 12 million people will be asked to decide in a yes-no referendum whether they want the 72-year-old pinochet to stay on as their leader for eight more years _ until 1997 .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

its largest cities are santiago , the capital , where nearly 5 million of the nation 's 12 million people live ; valparaiso , its largest port , 75 miles north west of santiago , and concepcion , an industrial center 350 miles south .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

in santiago , the capital city where more than one-third of the nation 's 12 million people live , some voters showed up an hour before polls began opening at 8 a.m .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

the blasts knocked out power to a 400-mile expanse including this capital city , where more than 4 million of the country 's 12 million people live .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

in chile , 38 percent of the 12 million people live below the poverty line , according to ernesto tironi of the economic commission for latin america .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

about 38 percent of the country 's 12 million people live below the poverty line and 22 percent live in extreme poverty , according to the center for studies on development , a private resesarch institute .


Question: how many people live in chile ?


Question: how many people live in chile ?

a geographical stringbean between the andes and the sea , chile always seemed separate and distinct from other countries in south america .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

its schools and universities forged a highly literate society : more than 90 percent of its people can read and write .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

in contrast to its neighbors who lurched from one military dictator or civilian strongman to another , chile lived in relatively prosperous stability in the years after achieving independence from spain in 1818 .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

on the morning of sept. 11 , 1973 , chile 's long tradition of elected , representative government came to an end .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

`` the marxists are coming , '' counters a pro- pinochet television advertisement , meaning a vote against pinochet would set chile back to the allende years of the early 1970s .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

chile stands this week on the doorstep of a future blurred by two radically distinct ideological visions .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

it also found that the international telephone and telegraph corp. , which had substantial investments in chile , financed efforts to prevent allende from taking office after he was elected .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

allende nationalized itt after assuming the presidency and the corporation left chile long before pinochet 's coup in 1973 .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

pinochet and his supporters say the coup saved chile , even though it snapped a decades -long chain of democratically elected governments .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

pinochet 's supporters talk of a `` silent revolution '' in which chile has become a modern , efficient nation with a stable economic base .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

here are some facts and figures on chile : the land _ chile is a long , narrow territory of 292,000 square miles extending 2,670 miles along the southwestern coast of south america .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

the people _ the population is predominantly a mixture of the local araucano indians and descendants of the spanish conquerors .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

while chile has no official religion , more than 90 percent of chileans call themselves roman catholics .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

the economy _ chile is the world 's second biggest producer of copper , after the united states .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

history _ chile launched a struggle for independence from spain on sept. 18 , 1810 , and finally attained it in 1818 , becoming a republic and establishing a reputation as one of latin america 's most stable democracies .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

a few hundred people danced in the streets of la victoria slum in southern santiago , waving banners and celebrating an anticipated `` no '' victory .


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he said six people were arrested for carrying arms and a public bus was burned and its driver beaten .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

there are some people who have seen individuals wearing ski-masks. ''


Question: how many people live in chile ?

he gave no details. leftist urban guerrillas commonly employ ski masks , but both of chile 's guerrilla groups have publicly announced a truce until after the voting day .


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two people , possibly leftist extremists , were killed and two others injured in a late-night bombing of several electrical towers that blacked out much of central chile , police said sunday .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

in telephone calls to local newspapers , the country 's principle urban guerrilla group , the manuel rodriguez patriotic front , claimed responsibility for blowing up at least eight high-voltage towers in central chile shortly after 10 p.m. saturday .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

also sunday , an anti-government street rally called by labor unions to demand pinochet 's resignation drew only a few thousand people .


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in chile , the military paid import bills .


Question: how many people live in chile ?

inflation is projected at 10,000 percent this year and one in every three people does n't have a steady job .


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if creditors do not write off part of what is owed `` democracy will be threatened and leftist alternatives will start looking attractive to the people , '' says brazil 's president sarney .


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thousands of people filled a large arena sunday for an enthusiastic opposition rally that opened chile 's first presidential election campaign in 19 years .


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patricio aylwin , the candidate put forward by a coalition of 17 opposition parties , spoke to the estimated 10,000 people who crammed the caupolican theatre .


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aylwin stressed the need for a united opposition to restore democracy in chile .


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although the civilian government in chile will inherit an economy that is one of the strongest in south america , wages have dropped by 35 percent since 1981 .


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church and human rights groups have said at least 750 people disappeared after being arrested following the coup .


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aylwin on monday was to fly to arica in northern chile , where he was to begin a campaign tour of the provinces .


Question: when was the first flush toilet invented ?

the first patent for a flush toilet was issued in england in 1775 to alexander cummings , kula said .


Question: when was the first flush toilet invented ?

a paper on the history of the toilet has earned a high school student a $ 4,000 scholarship , according to a university of evansville spokeswoman .


Question: when was the first flush toilet invented ?

the paper traced the toilet from ancient greece to modern times .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

poets on the telegraph list included john keats , william wordsworth , samuel t. coleridge , lord byron , alfred tennyson , t.s .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

`` ireland has been suffering for hundreds of years , and the problems do n't seem to have been solved by any other means , '' said agnes mcshane , of hastings-on-hudson , n.y. `` -lrb- english poet william -rrb- wordsworth said , `more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams . '


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picturesque lake windermere , which inspired poets william wordsworth , robert southey and samuel coleridge , is this country 's largest lake .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

still , he likes `` all the coherent poets , '' particularly william wordsworth , the english romantic .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

a steady ascent from the tourist village where the poet william wordsworth lived led to grisedale tarn ; it provided , in blazing sun , a collective swimming pool below the mighty bulk of the mountain helvellyn .


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krusoe exposes the students to model nature writers as disparate as romantic poet william wordsworth and contemporary environmental activist edward abbey .


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even famous poets like -lrb- william -rrb- wordsworth wrote some dire stuff at times , '' he said. ;


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the times went by age group and stuck to fiction , while the telegraph cast a wider net : modern fiction , classics , translations , poetry , drama and entertainment .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

there was robert louis stevenson 's `` treasure island '' alongside `` the lord of the flies , '' william golding 's frightening tale of power-corrupted children .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

its recommended plays were moliere 's `` tartuffe , '' william congreve 's `` love for love , '' richard brinsley sheridan 's `` the school for scandal , '' oscar wilde 's `` the importance of being earnest , '' henrik ibsen 's `` the master builder , '' anton chekhov 's `` the cherry orchard , '' george bernard shaw 's `` saint joan '' and samuel beckett 's `` waiting for godot . ''


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Question: who is william wordsworth ?

the americans have a project to put the whole of english poetry , from langland to larkin , on to computer disc , and some classical texts studied in the oxford greats school are available as software .


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this consists of the complete works of jane austen -lrb- pounds 60 -rrb- , the riverside chaucer -lrb- pounds 75 -rrb- , the poetical works of samuel coleridge -lrb- pounds 60 -rrb- , and the poetical works of william wordsworth -lrb- pounds 60 -rrb- .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

the controversial modern spelling edition of william shakespeare : the complete works , edited by wells and taylor and published in 1986 , is now available to pc users at pounds 95 .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

keys worked hard at his poetry and had developed a mature voice and manner by the time of his death .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

in fact , his poetry as a whole wrestles as much with ghosts and angels as it does with men - which strikes the reader as strangely , if not disturbingly , premonitory .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

'poets who die in battle tend to get praised for the wrong reasons , especially by elderly non- combatants , ' quipped meyer .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

sidney keys , though sentimentalised after his death , has not so much been praised for the wrong reasons as largely forgotten , which is an injustice because his poetry at its best has enduring qualities and his war poetry , though none of it written during his brief period of active service , was driven , like wilfred owen 's , by an identification with the helpless conscript .


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it is three years since sinclair-stevenson launched its own poetry list , and the publication of four new titles was celebrated by a reading - also at the poetry society - this month .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

roy fuller 's last poems and william scammell 's five easy pieces are published by sinclair-stevenson at pounds 14.99 and pounds 7.99 respectively .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

would any modern publisher be able to produce what was hugely successful in the last century - a guide to the lake district , combining the geological analyses of sedgwick with the poetical topography of william wordsworth ?


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

i had received a letter from a landscaper , leo snider , saying he had installed an english trysting garden , and finding no suitable poem with `` tryst '' in it , he had written one himself and attributed it to william wordsworth :


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

`` my question , '' he said , `` is whether it is illegal to so attribute a saying to another , and if so , is it so if the person is dead or only so if it is really awful poetry ? ``


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

i told him i did n't think wordsworth would sue , though he might turn over in his grave .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

i 'm attributing it to william shakespeare .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

krusoe said he wanted to teach the course with selby in order to learn more about physical southern california and `` to learn how to write nature poetry that would interest me . ''


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

he said the work stopped at 1900 because of copyright difficulties with 20th century poetry. ; publication is scheduled for three installments , one disc each for the periods 600 to 1660 and 1661 to 1800 and the last two for the 19th century , which contains as much verse as the other two periods together , pocock said. ;


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

even one of wordsworth 's worst lines will be included : `` this piteous news so much it shocked her , she quite forgot to send the doctor . '' ;


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

besides the great masters like william shakespeare , john milton and lord byron , the project will include little-known versifiers. ;


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

one is william tennant , whose epic 1822 poem `` the thane of fife `` has some memorable imagery like , `` now , in the very navel of the sky '' and `` morning 's golden-tassell 'd shoes , had leapt from sea and now in heaven walk dry. '' ;


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

in 1792 , young william wordsworth , in paris and all heated up with revolutionary ardor , was ready to offer his words , his self , his very life to the girondist party .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

now this near- martyr who is more often remembered as the fuddy-duddy who lived in cozy comfort at dove cottage with his doting sister dorothy , is the hero of a new show at the new york public library : `` william wordsworth and the age of english romanticism . ''


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

wordsworth , who thought poetry should be accessible to clodhoppers and to academics , would like this show .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

but to hear with what boundless joy revolutionary france was regarded just a few years earlier you can count on wordsworth .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

in the primmest of scripts , she begs her hotly missed william not to forget `` your annette who kisses you a thousand times on the mouth . ''


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

an exquisite little painting by jean-jacques hauer shows another french lady friend of wordsworth who did not : madame rolland sits in her drawing room with her harp , pet dog and lafayette .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

proof is all around you in this show , with its splendid landscapes by john sell cotman , samuel palmer and most of all , john constable , who shared wordsworth 's feelings for the simple felicities of the countryside .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

`` for i have learned , '' wrote wordsworth , `` to look on nature not as in the hour /of thoughtless youth , but hearing often times/the still , sad music of humanity . ''


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

more often , as he got older , wordsworth explored a more private landscape -- the topography of his mind , searching `` memory 's cells '' for inspirational scenes that would billow his sails .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

written in the 1830s and my favorite worst wordsworth passage , will know why he did .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

recently , tv viewers also have heard actress elizabeth taylor reciting passages from william shakespeare and john dryden in commercials for her passion perfume .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

and print ads for the sterling car include poetry by robert louis stevenson , william wordsworth and andrew marvell .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

more than the grim and prosey wordsworth , perhaps even more than the flamboyant byron or the ethereal shelley , coleridge incarnated the spiritual aspirations of his age .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

he chronicles , in other words , the career of the visionary coleridge : the radical utopian schemer and poetic innovator who dreamed of a commune by the susquehanna river in america and who collaborated with wordsworth on `` lyrical ballads . ''


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

in this , coleridge could not have been more different from wordsworth .


Question: who is william wordsworth ?

while wordsworth was composing his great immortality ode , with its vision of the past as a `` perpetual benediction , '' coleridge wrote `` dejection : an ode , '' meditating on `` a stifled , drowsy , unimpassioned grief , / which finds no natural outlet , no relief . ''


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

re aug. 25 article `` quayle spikes talk of move to county `` : the official bird of the state of california is the valley quail .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

here you 'll find a quail guzzler , which stores rainwater to aid california 's state bird during the hot summer months .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

i 'm not wed to the necessity of a state bird -lrb- california valley quail -rrb- or a state reptile -lrb- california desert tortoise -rrb- or a state marine mammal -lrb- california gray whale -rrb- , but live and let live .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

in addition to the standard state flower -lrb- golden poppy -rrb- and bird -lrb- california valley quail -rrb- , california has , among other official designations , a state insect -lrb- the dog-face butterfly -rrb- , a state rock -lrb- serpentine -rrb- and two state dances -lrb- the west coast swing and the square dance -rrb- .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

now comes the revelation that we have no official state prehistoric artifact .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

this , after all , has to pass the california legislature . ; remember , if you will , the historic battle in 1988 over an official state mollusk .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

but secretary of state march fong eu and her minions still impress this original , earnest seal on state documents , using the same two -fisted , wheel-driven press that secretaries of state have used since the 19th century .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

we can all venerate the state mineral , gold , the state animal , the grizzly bear -lrb- ursus horribilis , which was quickly hunted and hounded right out of the state -rrb- , and the state tree , the redwood .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

and i 'm a big fan of the state flower , the golden poppy .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

i start to lose interest down around state insect -lrb- california dog -face butterfly -- zerene eurydice -rrb- , the state fossil -lrb- saber-toothed cat -rrb- and the state rock -lrb- serpentine -rrb- .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

and if we have a state mineral and a state rock , do we really need a state gemstone ?


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

you 'd expect to pay much more than $ 19.95 for this assortment of official state symbols .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

if you act now you get two official state dances .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

421.5 of the government code : `` -lrb- a -rrb- west coast swing dance is the official state dance .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

-lrb- b -rrb- the square dance is the official state folk dance . ''


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

and then there 's the official song , `` i love you , california , '' which no one i know has ever heard sung. ; yes , this business of state symbols can get pretty silly anywhere , and yes , the mascot of massachusetts is `` the sacred cod `` -- a 4-foot-11 1/2-inch carved fish that hangs in the state senate chambers -- to which none of california 's emblems can compare .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

i say let california 's dances be danced without official state certification , and give the sierra nevada back to the grizzlies .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

after all , the bear , not the human , is the official state animal .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

simply designating a state prehistoric artifact `` focuses too much on the trivial , frivolous , giddy aspects of archaeology , '' says sonia tamez , immediate past president of the society for california archaeology .


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

`` the state has some of the richest archaeological sites in the world , '' she says , adding : `` california has been a great place to live for 15,000 years . ''


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

a plus , he says , is that `` anyone who wants to reproduce it '' for promotional purposes would `` have to pay a license fee to the state . ''


Question: what is california 's state bird ?

the golden state 's early days are already represented by its official fossil , the `` saber-toothed cat . ''


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

i 'm not wed to the necessity of a state bird -lrb- california valley quail -rrb- or a state reptile -lrb- california desert tortoise -rrb- or a state marine mammal -lrb- california gray whale -rrb- , but live and let live .


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

but secretary of state march fong eu and her minions still impress this original , earnest seal on state documents , using the same two -fisted , wheel-driven press that secretaries of state have used since the 19th century .


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

we can all venerate the state mineral , gold , the state animal , the grizzly bear -lrb- ursus horribilis , which was quickly hunted and hounded right out of the state -rrb- , and the state tree , the redwood .


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

and i 'm a big fan of the state flower , the golden poppy .


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

i start to lose interest down around state insect -lrb- california dog -face butterfly -- zerene eurydice -rrb- , the state fossil -lrb- saber-toothed cat -rrb- and the state rock -lrb- serpentine -rrb- .


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

and if we have a state mineral and a state rock , do we really need a state gemstone ?


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

you 'd expect to pay much more than $ 19.95 for this assortment of official state symbols .


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

if you act now you get two official state dances .


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

421.5 of the government code : `` -lrb- a -rrb- west coast swing dance is the official state dance .


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

-lrb- b -rrb- the square dance is the official state folk dance . ''


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

and then there 's the official song , `` i love you , california , '' which no one i know has ever heard sung. ; yes , this business of state symbols can get pretty silly anywhere , and yes , the mascot of massachusetts is `` the sacred cod `` -- a 4-foot-11 1/2-inch carved fish that hangs in the state senate chambers -- to which none of california 's emblems can compare .


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

i say let california 's dances be danced without official state certification , and give the sierra nevada back to the grizzlies .


Question: what is california 's state tree ?

after all , the bear , not the human , is the official state animal .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

many egyptologists think the face belonged to chephren , son of cheops and builder of the second pyramid on giza plateau next to cheops ' great pyramid .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

many egyptologists think the face is that of chephren , son of cheops and builder of the second pyramid on giza plateau next to cheops ' great pyramid .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

hawass said many people , especially in the united states , have ideas and theories about the giza pyramids , particularly cheops ' great pyramid .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

giza plateau has two great cemeteries : the eastern , between the great pyramid and the sphinx , and the western , wedged between the pyramids of cheops and chephren .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

two tiny feet on a base are what remain of a small statue of king cheops , builder of the great pyramid at giza .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

the limestone slab fell from the sphinx feb. 7 , six days after a sandstorm buffeted giza plateau .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

the limestone slab fell from the sphinx 's right shoulder on feb. 7 , six days after a sandstorm buffeted giza plateau .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

`` in the past the monuments were safe from many factors that destroy them because they were buried in the sand .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

`` why did the ancient egyptians disassemble and bury two full-size royal ships at the base of the great pyramid ? '' the announcement asks .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

but the risks , including that the heart wo n't restart , are too great to use the procedure where normal anesthesia can adequately do the job .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

information that may enable scientists to predict eruptions accurately at augustine may be of great value to other parts of the world where millions of people live in the shadows of volcanoes _ or on them .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

work began inside the great pyramid last winter to remove salt that oozed through the limestone onto inside walls .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

from a distance , the pyramid appears fine .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

egyptologists expressed surprise at thursday 's discovery , noting the giza pyramids area has been looted repeatedly since antiquity and excavated by some of the greatest archaeologists of the last two centuries .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

the mummy was not identified , but hassan said the woman 's nobility was established both by the finery buried with her and the site of her burial , a cemetery reserved for officials of the ruling court .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

zahi hawass , director general of the giza area , said the new mummy might have been an important person reburied for safekeeping in the shaft where she was found .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

`` any find in the giza area in such a condition is a great addition to archaeology , '' said hassan .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

`` when i 'm asked if there 's another tut 's tomb out there , i always answer at least one , maybe more , '' said zahi hawass , director of the giza pyramids area outside cairo and the huge ancient cemetery of sakkara , 11 miles to the south .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

but tutankhamun was a lesser king and the discovery of his tomb left archaeologists to wonder what treasures might have accompanied ancient egypt 's great monarchs into the afterlife .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

_the tomb of alexander the great , the young macedonian conqueror who died at the age of 33 in 323 b.c .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

records say he wanted to be buried in egypt 's siwa oasis , near libya , but finally was encased in a gold coffin in alexandria , the mediterranean city he founded .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

`` what i 'd like to do is to keep what 's buried , buried until we can deal with it .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

giza director hawass said the results give a glimpse of what lies ahead when archaeologists begin anew in september .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

in march a mummy of a young woman , her mona lisa smile frozen in a gypsum mask , was found on giza plateau a few feet from a roadway through the pyramids .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

hawass thinks chance also may locate the long-sought tomb of alexander the great in alexandria .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

pyramid power is said to cure a host of ills , give glimpses into the future , provide a better night 's sleep , even halt aging _ all for the price of admission , three egyptian pounds -lrb- $ 1.20 -rrb- .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

under new rules , pyramid groupies are going to have to pay more _ a lot more .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

zahi hawass , giza plateau 's director general , said groups of up to 15 now are allowed `` to meditate or seek extrasensory powers '' in the pyramids for 1,000 egyptian pounds -lrb- $ 400 -rrb- and only outside normal tourist hours .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

cayce taught that the secrets of atlantis and knowledge of the future are buried under the right front paw of the sphinx at the foot of giza plateau .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

in addition to americans , theme cruises are organized in europe and growing numbers of japanese tours come to giza especially to `` tap pyramid power , '' hawass said .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

`` this pyramid power stuff is really big , '' he said .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

i 'm sure if i called myself the pyramid prophet i could have a following larger than the most famous indian guru . ''


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

as generations of scientists and tourists , eccentrics and treasure hunters followed him , pyramid mystique grew over the ages .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

he said more than 200 books about pyramid power have been published in the united states , `` but fewer than half a dozen contain any science of value. ''


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

hawass , who has a doctorate in egyptology from the university of pennsylvania and has lectured throughout north america about the pyramids , said he 'd never heard of pyramid power until he went there in 1977 .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

`` i was speaking to an audience in hartford , conn. , and as i began to talk everyone in the front row held a pyramid above his head .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

a tomb built 4,300 years ago for a palace official and his two wives has been found in the shadow of the giza pyramids , the first unknown tomb discovered on the plateau since the mid-1950s .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

giza inspector mahmoud hassan afife found the new tomb in october when he chanced upon the edge of a limestone wall .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

excavating leftovers is `` never a waste of time , never busywork , '' said amal samuel , giza 's chief inspector , who estimates that as many as 4,000 tombs and pits exist in the area known as the western cemetery .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

generally , queens and royal offspring are buried in the eastern cemetery , officials and their families in the western .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

everybody wanted to be buried in the pyramids area , seeking special benefits in life after death .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

`` at the top of his pyramid is the pharaoh , the head of his country .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

the discovery this month of cheop 's valley temple confirms theories about the layout of giza plateau for the 70-year period in which the pharaoh , his son and grandson built their three pyramids and monuments nearby .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

the giza pyramids and the structures around them are thought by some egyptologists to be part of an elaborate blueprint for the dead , precisely planned and executed .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

pyramid power is said to cure a host of ills , give glimpses into the future , provide a better night 's sleep , even halt aging -- all for the price of admission , three egyptian pounds -lrb- $ 1.20 -rrb- .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

under new rules , pyramid groupies are going to have to pay more -- a lot more .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

he said more than 200 books about pyramid power have been published in the united states , `` but fewer than half a dozen contain any science of value . ''


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

hawass , who has a doctorate in egyptology from the university of pennsylvania and has lectured throughout north america about the pyramids , said he had never heard of pyramid power until he went there in 1977 .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

eager to avoid chores in the after-life , taharqa was buried with more than 1,000 of the statues .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

though of great interest to scholars , the entire group has never been displayed .


Question: who is buried in the great pyramid of giza ?

both are on view here , among similar pairings of the great and not-so-great .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

information that may enable scientists to predict eruptions accurately at augustine may be of great value to other parts of the world where millions of people live in the shadows of volcanoes _ or on them .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

the entries unveiled this week include a giant transparent bird and a 4 -block-long dollar bill , but they seem unlikely to knock the pyramids off the seven wonders of the world list .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

of the seven monuments listed as wonders of the world by greeks of the second century b.c. , only cheops and the other two large giza pyramids remain intact .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

king who built the legendary hanging gardens of babylon , one of the seven wonders of the world .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

on the horizon is the 10th-century fortress of qait bey , built where one of the seven wonders of the ancient world , the pharos lighthouse , purportedly stood .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

excavations have revealed part of the temple of zeus , one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

its hanging gardens , one of the so-called `` seven wonders of the world , '' long ago crumbled to dust .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

the iraqi government is offering a $ 1.6-million first prize in an effort to learn how water reached the high terraces of the hanging gardens of babylon , one of the ancient world 's seven wonders .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

the multimillion-dollar restoration will include the palace of king nebuchadnezzar , the 6th-century bc king who built the legendary hanging gardens of babylon , one of the seven wonders of the world .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

the ancient city of babylon , whose hanging gardens were among the wonders of the world , was also the place centuries later that the talmud , the great source of jewish law , was written .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

the northern spotted owl , an elusive denizen of virgin forests in the northwest , has emerged to silence chain saws in big sections of ancient timber stands of washington and oregon .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

the effort to clean rubbish from between the massive limestone blocks and to tighten loose rocks marks the first restoration work ever attempted on the outside of the sole survivor of the ancient world 's seven wonders .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

`` by appealing to history , saddam encourages iraqis to view themselves as the heirs of a great civilization that flowered in ancient iraq while the surrounding world was lingering in prehistory , '' a western diplomat said .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

iraq includes much of the `` fertile crescent '' of ancient mesopotamia where early rulers developed efficient armies and sophisticated city administrations that rivalled the pharaohs ' egypt .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

against the ancient persians , portrayed as unscrupulous aggressors .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

saddam also agreed in recent talks with american businessmen in baghdad , iraq 's capital , that a selection of ancient iraqi treasures would tour the united states .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

the inscription also laid a curse on anyone who opened the burial chamber : `` if anyone lays his hands on my tomb or opens my grave , i pray to the gods of the nether world that his soul should roam in the scorching sun after death .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

farther north near the border with syria , british archaeologists tentatively identified a 100-foot high mound as the remains of ancient tillule , another important military and religious center .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

`` it 's only a matter of time before we find the clues to tell us that tel al-hawa is the modern name of tillule . ''


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

at babylon , whose kings succeeded the assyrians as rulers of mesopotamia , a major project is underway to excavate and restore the whole nine-square-mile area of the ancient city .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

in order to prove to the world that egypt 's civilization did n't go away but is a living tradition. ''


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

recapturing ancient glory wo n't be easy , for few cities have a more impressive early history than alexandria 's .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

founded in 331 b.c. , it beckoned the greats of its time , who in turn gave the world a harvest of their best thoughts and inventions : the pipe organ , the archimedes screw , the atlas and 12-month , 365-day year , grammar and geography , geometry and trigonometry , steam and fire engines , coin-operated machines , city planning , and cataloging .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

debate continues over the fate of the ancient alexandria libraries .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

two firefighters were killed thursday while battling a blaze in a pine forest near the site of ancient olympia , police said .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

olympia , a sanctuary that was the site of the ancient olympic games founded in the eighth century b.c. , is located in lush pine forests in the western peloponnesos peninsula .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

the chief archaeologist was picking dates from a tree to kill time and ease her boredom in the legendary gardens of babylon , where saddam hussein wants to rebuild one of the wonders of the ancient world .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

the plans are based on archaeological evidence , cuneiform texts of babylonian characters and descriptions from ancient historians .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

every 100th brick bears the name of saddam in arabic proclaiming the iraqi leader 's efforts to reconstruct babylon .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

iraq includes much of the `` fertile crescent '' of ancient mesopotamia , where early rulers developed efficient armies and sophisticated city administrations that rivaled the pharaohs ' egypt .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

to help build morale during the recent eight-year war with persian iran , the iraqi government recalled assyrian and babylonian victories in the first millennium bc against the ancient persians , portrayed as unscrupulous aggressors .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

hussein also agreed in recent talks with american businessmen in baghdad , iraq 's capital , that a selection of ancient iraqi treasures will tour the united states .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

farther north near the border with syria , british archeologists tentatively identified a 100 -foot-high mound as the remains of ancient tillule , another important military and religious center .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

at babylon , whose kings succeeded the assyrians as rulers of mesopotamia , a major project is under way to excavate and restore the whole nine-square-mile area of the ancient city .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

despite assurances by president bush and pentagon officials that shrines and places of archaeological significance would be avoided in the air war over iraq , a grim reality of the current war is that civilization 's ancient treasures occupy sites of strategic military importance. ;


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

`` i do n't want it to seem as if i care more about ancient pottery than i do about people .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

`` but i 'm worried about the ruins of the ancient cities , '' he says .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

over succeeding centuries in the ancient empires of sumer , assyria and babylonia , great cities were built and fine art was crafted .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

built in 550 a.d. as the main hall of a palace , this soaring arch is a rare surviving example of the abilities of ancient architects to use brick as if it were light as air. ;


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

`` there are reliefs from the ancient assyrian civilization , royal tomb offerings and cuneiform writings that have yet to be deciphered , '' stronach says .


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

cultural blackout ; david pleins , an archaeologist and professor of religious studies at santa clara university , equates the current blackout of news about civilian casualties in iraq with the `` cultural blackout '' of awareness in many people 's minds about the value of ancient civilizations. ;


Question: name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world .

before events forced him to leave iraq , the uc archaeologist directed a team that unearthed the remnants of an ancient war : skeletons of soldiers , lances , arrowheads and other weapons .


Question: where do lobsters like to live ?

california spiny lobsters , which thrive off the san diego coast , live in crevices and feed at night on fish , algae , eel grass and invertebrates .


Question: where do lobsters like to live ?

animal rights activists on friday spent $ 240 to buy seven live lobsters from a suburban maryland restaurant and fly them to a new home off the coast of maine .


Question: where do lobsters like to live ?

cam mcqueen of people for the ethical treatment of animals picked up the lobsters from the house of chinese gourmet in rockville , md. , about 10 a.m. , took them to washington national airport and boarded a flight to portland , maine , a peta official said .


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members of the u.s. coast guard then were expected to escort her and the lobsters to a boat station to release the creatures into their new ocean home , peta spokeswoman victoria thomas said .


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`` all of the sudden they put up a 125-gallon tank with live lobsters , and there was a big outcry , '' she said .


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sun agreed to get rid of the lobster tank , ms. thomas said , provided the animal activists bought the lobsters and arranged for their freedom .


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the total cost of the lobster rescue was $ 240 _ $ 40 for the lobsters and $ 200 for the flight .


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`` the water is cooler , and lobsters prefer that , '' ms. thomas said .


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ms. thomas said there were no plans to free lobsters waiting to be entrees in other restaurant tanks in the washington metropolitan area .


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the device has been used to track migrating fish for several years , but was used to catch a poacher of california spiny lobsters for the first time in early october off the san diego coast , castleton said .


Question: where do lobsters like to live ?

people try to hide lobsters in their clothes , secret compartments in their boats , all over. ''


Question: where do lobsters like to live ?

more dishonest fishermen than ever seem to be plucking lobsters and other fish from southern california waters , he said .


Question: where do lobsters like to live ?

entire generations of lobsters can be wiped out by just a few aggressive poachers .


Question: where do lobsters like to live ?

lobsters are caught in traps or `` pots , '' wooden or metal mesh boxes three to four feet long , two feet wide , and about 16 inches high .


Question: where do lobsters like to live ?

captured lobsters are measured and checked for eggs -lrb- egg -bearing females can not be taken -rrb- ; legal lobsters are pegged or banded to immobilize their claws and tossed into a holding tank .


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although this book tells a lot about lobsters and lobstering , it is primarily about the men who fish for them .


Question: where do lobsters like to live ?

the answer is clear : only so many lobsters mature every year , and more people fishing means a smaller share for each .


Question: where do lobsters like to live ?

around islands , where territories are more strongly defended and entry into a harbor gang is more difficult , fishermen catch more lobsters per trap .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

here , the acronyms nafta -lrb- north american free trade association -rrb- , gatt , and apec -lrb- asian-pacific economic cooperation -rrb- stand for his most impressive success .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

link-ups between the asean free trade area -lrb- afta -rrb- , nafta and other countries such as australia were the sort of inter-regional ties which could ensure that economic groupings in the asia-pacific region remained part of an open global trading system , he said .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

nafta is a comprehensive free trade area comprising the united states , canada , and mexico .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

mr. yeo told reporters yesterday that singapore hoped an afta- nafta link could be developed along the lines of asean 's `` 6 minus x `` formula .


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in washington , a business coalition , usa nafta , has the same goal .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

'if nafta is to become a reality , the white house has to be behind it , ' said mr bill lane , of caterpillar , the heavy equipment maker .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

caterpillar stands to gain dollars 45m in additional sales under nafta .


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ms dee dee myers , the white house press secretary , insisted the legislative programme was 'on track ' , that nafta was 'alive and well ' , and that mr panetta was only speculating on its prospects 'if it went up to the hill this week ' .


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she said that whatever the current opposition the nafta treaty would be seen in a different light when it was eventually presented for ratification with supplemental agreements now being negotiated with canada and mexico .


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mr panetta was particularly concerned at the anti- nafta campaign being waged by mr ross perot , last year 's independent presidential candidate .


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on june 30 , the us trade community was thrown into an uproar when three environmental and public interest groups - public citizen , the sierra club and friends of the earth - successfully argued for us officials to prepare an assessment of nafta 's impact on the environment .


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district court judge charles richey ruled that the three groups had 'demonstrated that there is a reasonable risk that nafta may cause environmental injury ' .


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the appeals judges agreed and said the plaintiffs could not even sue until executive action was final , that nafta has yet to be sent to congress , and the side agreement on environment 'may well change the dimensions of the conflict over potential environmental damage ' .


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nafta has become the most controversial trade agreement in memory , as opponents fan the fears of job losses and environmental damage .


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free-traders in congress worry that the unpopularity of nafta bodes ill for the more important uruguay round .


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by contrast a decision on nafta is needed by the end of this year , and as things stand the decision is more than likely to go against it .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

from a strict free trade point of view , these agreements actually reduce the attraction of nafta , since they forbid further unilateral deregulation in these areas by any of the three signatories -lrb- canada , mexico and the us -rrb- .


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indeed there is a worrying parallelism between the us attitude to nafta and the french attitude to blair house : both have come to be seen as symbolising all the demons that threaten national living standards and a cherished way of life , although in both cases the likely economic effect is quite small .


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it would be helpful if all discussion of nafta in the us began with a reminder that the whole mexican economy is no bigger than the amount by which the us economy grows in two average years , and then proceeded to point out that us imports from mexico are already virtually unrestricted .


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the next point to note is that , even without nafta , deregulation in mexico has already turned a us deficit on bilateral trade of dollars 5.7bn in 1987 into a dollars 5.6bn us surplus in 1992 .


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strategic centrepiece nafta is not a zero-sum game .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

president carlos salinas de gortari has made nafta the centrepiece of his liberalising strategy , which reverses all 20th-century mexican traditions and is still bitterly contested both outside and -lrb- more discreetly but also more dangerously -rrb- inside the ruling party .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

technically , the nafta vote is quite separate from the wider uruguay round negotiations ; in practice , the two are intimately connected .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

if president bill clinton fails to prevail over nafta 's opponents - an alliance of trade unionists , environmentalists and protectionists - he will be so weakened that he will have little chance of gaining approval for the concessions needed to secure a gatt agreement .


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the good news is that after months of hesitation mr clinton has finally come out fighting for nafta with a series of campaigning speeches for the agreement and an increasingly sophisticated lobbying effort aimed at congressional waverers .


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although nafta could still be derailed by the election of a new canadian government , which claims to be committed to renegotiating it , the us appears confident that ottawa 's ire is directed more at its existing free-trade agreement with the us than at the new deal which will supersede it .


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of course , mr clinton 's efforts to secure nafta come at a price .


Question: what does nafta stand for ?

they wonder whether washington might , having secured nafta , be tempted to spurn the multilateral negotiations in search of bilateral pacts with the asian countries whose leaders mr clinton is to meet in seattle on november 19 .


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it is in everyone 's interest that he secure nafta .


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Question: where was harry truman born ?

truman by david mccullough simon & schuster , dollars 30 publishing magnate henry luce once described president harry truman as the reductio ad absurdum of the common man .


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truman never quite silenced the critics .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

the end of the cold war , however , has induced much nostalgia in the us for the truman years .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

the marshall plan , the nato alliance , the berlin airlift and the truman doctrine of 'containing ' soviet power are now viewed as historic achievements .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

truman himself appears bold , decisive and far-sighted .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

david mccullough 's biography , 10 years in writing , is the latest book to discover hidden virtues in plain-spoken , 'give 'em hell ' harry .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

it was truman who ordered the atomic bomb dropped on japan , who developed the h- bomb and who fired general douglas macarthur , a national hero , for insubordination in the korean war , upholding the principle of civilian control over the military .


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a one-time bankrupt , truman spent years struggling with debt .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

it was only after several disastrous business ventures that truman concluded his future lay in politics , signing up with the powerful pendergast machine which ruled kansas city and later sent him , aged 50 , to the us senate .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

the book 's chief weakness is that mccullough does not draw out the important lessons of the truman years .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

under president truman , the us became a world power .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

how truman overcame these difficulties is a model of presidential leadership in action and a sober commentary on the drift and inaction in present day washington .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

in 1946-47 , when the soviet union consolidated its hold over eastern europe , truman was still viewed as a caretaker president .


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but truman elected to stand for what he thought was right for the country , rather than what he thought was politically expedient .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

this was the historic accomplishment of the truman administration which underpins american power today , even though some of the institutions which supported the postwar liberal order such as nato now require an overhaul .


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truman 's other legacy is that he showed it was possible to be president and remain a human being .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

this year 's presidential candidates , including ross perot , the rich man 's version of harry truman , are desperately seeking to respond .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

in his battle against congress , mr bush has sought to don the mantle of president harry truman , whose come-from-behind victory in 1948 , with a campaign against the 'do-nothing congress ' , has become his favourite reference .


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the visit was designed to remind voters that mr truman was a democrat and that the congress he railed against was controlled by republicans .


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it is filled with period furnishings and truman 's baby pictures .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

a farmer , truman 's father was employed as a livestock buyer while the family lived in lamar .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

from the start , when laura palmer 's body washed ashore and sheriff harry truman went to investigate , the show caused a sensation .


Question: where was harry truman born ?

harry truman -lrb- 33rd president -rrb- : born may 8 , 1884 , in lamar , mo .


Question: when was babe ruth born ?

in 1895 , baseball legend babe ruth was born in baltimore .


Question: when was babe ruth born ?

starting today we 're going to offer fans across the country membership to the babe ruth museum , '' king said tuesday behind the house where the sultan of swat was born 95 years ago .


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on this date : in 1756 , america 's third vice president , aaron burr , was born in newark , n.j .


Question: when was babe ruth born ?

talk show host larry king is asking fans `` to go to bat for the babe '' in a fund drive to expand the babe ruth museum .


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`` we hope we can count on all of you to go to bat for the babe . ''


Question: when was babe ruth born ?

the museum was built in 1974 around the birthplace of george herman `` babe '' ruth .


Question: when was babe ruth born ?

talk show host larry king is asking fans `` to go to bat for the babe `` in a fund drive to expand the babe ruth museum .


Question: when was babe ruth born ?

the museum was built in 1974 around the birthplace of george herman -lrb- babe -rrb- ruth .


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ruth was a `` true american hero '' who `` epitomized the very best of our national pastime , '' weicker , r - conn. , said thursday .


Question: when was babe ruth born ?

born in 1895 in baltimore , george herman ruth hit 714 home runs in 22 major league seasons with the boston red sox , new york yankees and boston braves .


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sen. lowell p. weicker wants hall of famer babe ruth to be honored with the presidential medal of freedom , nearly 40 years after the baseball slugger 's death .


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weicker , in a letter to reagan nominating ruth for the award , noted the athlete 's off-the-field contributions .


Question: when was babe ruth born ?

`` against the advice of many , babe ruth visited those afflicted with hansen 's disease in kalappapa , hawaii , and offered those condemned to the ` leper ' colony his love and kindness. ''


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well known for his visits to sick children , ruth also established the babe ruth foundation for underprivileged children shortly before his death and left it a large part of his estate .


Question: when was babe ruth born ?

a star pitcher early in his career , ruth 's career home run total stood as the major league record until hank aaron broke it in 1974 .


Question: when was babe ruth born ?

ruth died aug. 16 , 1948 , at the age of 53 .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

self-help / referencethe old farmer 's 1989 almanac by robert b. thomas -lrb- old farmer 's almanac : $ 2.95 -rrb-


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

the old farmer 's 1991 almanac by robert b. thomas , edited by judson hale -lrb- $ 2.50 -rrb- .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

he has an almanac to put out , a task that seems to grow more daunting every year .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

`` i 'm always scared to death when we start a new issue , '' said mr. hale , who as 12th editor of the almanac is known in certain circles as jud xii .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

indeed , readers have extremely strong feelings about the old farmer 's almanac , which is , as it has been since washington 's presidency , a compendium of weather forecasts , astronomical calculations , recipes , planting tables and `` new , useful and entertaining matter '' like `` how to get rich without doing any work , '' `` what hardly anyone knows about ellis island , '' `` the facts and fictions about death valley '' and `` peace and hominy : some thoughts on grits . ''


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according to mr. hale , longtime devotees of the almanac write or call the dublin , n.h. -based publication to check the optimum time for having surgery -lrb- folklore has it that one can expect more bleeding when the moon is full -rrb- .


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and they make their feelings known -- with vigor -- when the almanac makes unwarranted changes .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

`` dear sir , '' a texas reader once wrote , `` i have read the old farmer 's almanac for the last 75 years and i wish the damned fool that changed the reading of the moon 's column had died before he done it .


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`` people expect the old farmer 's almanac to be the old farmer 's almanac , '' said mr. hale , who 's been editor for the past 21 years .


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`` i think everyone who works at the almanac sees it as a responsibility , '' he added .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

mr. hale 's success as editor -- the 1991 ofa sold four million copies with sales of six million projected for '92 -- can be partly explained by his strong identification with readers , partly by his strong identification with the almanac itself .


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`` i think jud embodies the values the almanac has represented for so long , '' said john pierce , publisher of the ofa .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

`` he believes that if you work hard you 'll do well , that it 's important to be part of your community , that by staying in touch with some aspect of the natural world we stay in touch with ourselves , and that man is inherently a decent species -- and those are all the values of the almanac . ''


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since the beginning of his tenure as editor , mr. hale has had to confront several misconceptions about the almanac , among them the belief that the periodical -- with its signature yellow cover festooned with woodcuts , rococo scrollwork , cameos and antiquated typography -- is a nostalgia book .


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`` i want people when they read the almanac 100 years from now to look at the 1992 edition and know what life in the u.s. was like in 1992 .


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the most enduring misconception about the almanac , said mr. hale , is the belief that its raison d'etre is weather forecasting .


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`` but it is n't the major reason for the almanac 's existence and it never was . ''


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`` we say our predictions are 80 % accurate , '' amended mr. hale , who is astonishingly adept at bending the weather to fit the almanac 's forecasts .


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marginally imperfect -lrb- ahem -rrb- though its forecasting may be , the almanac sells briskly to prospective brides who want to pinpoint the sunniest saturday in june .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

some buy it just to hang up -lrb- the almanac has a hole in the upper left corner to accommodate just such people -rrb- .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

and there are those people who buy the almanac simply because it is 200 years old .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

`` the old farmer 's almanac is a constant .


Question: who wrote the farmer 's almanac ?

`` the old farmer 's almanac , '' they say , `` my grandmother used to read that . ''


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

pluto , which is thought to be half ice and half rock , usually is thought of as the ninth planet from the sun , but because it has an elongated elliptical orbit , it will be the eighth planet from the sun until 1990 , when it heads outward beyond neptune 's orbit .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

but because pluto 's elongated elliptical orbit sometimes brings it closer to the sun , neptune currently is the ninth and most distant planet from the sun .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

but because pluto 's elongated elliptical orbit sometimes brings it closer to the sun , neptune will be the ninth and most distant planet from the sun until the year 2007 .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

neptune usually is the eighth planet from the sun , but because of pluto 's elongated orbit neptune will be the ninth and outermost until 2007 .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

voyager 1 visited jupiter in 1979 and saturn in 1980 , and now is speeding toward interstellar space _ just as voyager 2 will do after it stops studying neptune on oct. 2 . neptune usually is the eighth planet from the sun , but pluto 's elliptical orbit means it now is closer , making neptune temporarily the solar system 's outmost planet .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

pluto normally is the ninth and most distant planet from the sun .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

mercury , the innermost planet , will be too close to the sun to be distinguished by voyager 's cameras and pluto is too far away and too small to show up in images .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

among them are the clearest pictures yet of pluto , the farthest planet from the sun in the solar system , and its moon charon .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

that is because the highly elliptical orbit that pluto follows brings it inside the orbit of neptune for perihelion , making it the eighth planet from the sun , not the ninth .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

the massachusetts institute of technology researchers , flying at an altitude of 41,000 feet , used a solid-state video camera attached to a 36-inch telescope to watch the light of a star as the tiny planet started to move in front of it .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

as the edge of the planet started to move in front of the star , changes in the light confirmed the existence of the atmosphere , said stanley , a spokeswoman at the national aeronautics and space administration 's ames research center in mountain view .


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a giant spot roughly 6,200 miles wide has been discovered on the planet neptune by the voyager 2 space probe , and scientists said monday it looks like a storm similar to the great red spot on jupiter .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

neptune is the solar system 's fourth largest planet and usually is the eighth planet from the sun .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

voyager 2 today was 2.66 billion miles from earth and 58.98 million miles from neptune , speeding toward that planet at 42,216 mph , said mary beth murrill , spokeswoman for nasa 's jet propulsion laboratory .


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the existence of neptune 's dark spot is mysterious because scientists did n't think the planet had enough heat to drive fierce winds , said ingersoll .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

neptune usually is the eighth planet from the sun , and is about 30 times farther from the sun than earth .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

the photograph shows in greater detail a large dark spot _ a cloud system bigger than the entire planet mars _ seen in earlier images of neptune .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

studying neptune 's atmosphere will give scientists `` an understanding of the circulation pattern on a planet at one of the most remote fringes of our solar system , '' terrile said , adding that knowledge of alien atmospheres `` improves our ability to understand our own atmosphere. ''


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after a 12-year , 4.4 billion-mile space odyssey , voyager 2 fired its thrusters today to take final aim toward neptune , the most distant and last unexplored planet due for a visit by a spacecraft from earth .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

today as 2.743 billion miles from earth and 3.211 million miles from neptune , approaching the planet at 42,310 mph .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

neptune , usually the eighth planet from the sun , currently is the ninth and most distant .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

some scientists have said the planet may have 50 or more ring arcs , different than the complete rings encircling saturn and uranus .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

lennard fisk , an associate administrator of the national aeronautics and space administration , called the climax of the voyager mission historic because `` it 's the last time we 're seeing a planet for the first time .


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to approach the sun at an angle that would allow scientists to monitor the probe throughout its flight , it first would have to be carried around jupiter .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

the international sun - explorer 3 , which had finished its main mission of studying the solar wind , was renamed the international cometary explorer and became the first to visit a comet .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

nasa has made that probe a high-priority mission because the sun has been relatively neglected in space exploration .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

the planets orbit the sun roughly within that plane .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

the sun and seven of the solar system 's nine planets are expected to appear as points of light against a starry backdrop , jpl officials said .


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he showed reporters time-lapse pictures that showed graphically that other storms meld into jupiter 's great red spot , and that storms circle the planet moving in opposite directions .


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voyager showed that uranus , a planet tipped on its side , also has a previously undiscovered magnetic field that is tilted 60 degrees from the planet 's axis of rotation .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

even the most powerful telescopes on earth will not be able to see the one-ton spacecraft as it visits the fourth and final planet on its `` grand tour '' of the outer solar system , but voyager will beam back thousands of images and a warehouse full of scientific data to the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

also out of sight will be another , less spectacular event involving the smallest planet in the solar system .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

the total lunar eclipse will occur next wednesday , aug. 16 , when the earth passes directly between the sun and the moon , capturing the moon in its shadow .


Question: what 's the farthest planet from the sun ?

those watching the event in california will have a slight problem in that the eclipse actually begins at 7 : 28 p.m. , a few minutes before the sun sets so it will be hard to see it in the early minutes .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

pluto , which is thought to be half ice and half rock , usually is thought of as the ninth planet from the sun , but because it has an elongated elliptical orbit , it will be the eighth planet from the sun until 1990 , when it heads outward beyond neptune 's orbit .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

that is because the highly elliptical orbit that pluto follows brings it inside the orbit of neptune for perihelion , making it the eighth planet from the sun , not the ninth .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

the total lunar eclipse will occur next wednesday , aug. 16 , when the earth passes directly between the sun and the moon , capturing the moon in its shadow .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

those watching the event in california will have a slight problem in that the eclipse actually begins at 7 : 28 p.m. , a few minutes before the sun sets so it will be hard to see it in the early minutes .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

the discovery of a significant atmosphere could end years of debate over the extent of the atmosphere of pluto , which averages more than 3.7 billion miles from the sun in its orbit , beatty said .


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scientists flying over the southern pacific ocean directly observed the atmosphere of pluto for the first time , nasa has announced .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

while scientists previously had strong indirect evidence for the existence of an atmosphere on the solar system 's ninth planet , the astronomers who viewed pluto from a telescope aboard nasa 's kuiper airborne observatory on thursday got the first direct look at it , said space agency spokeswoman diane stanley .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

the observations show that pluto is surrounded by what appears to be a substantial atmosphere , said j. kelly beatty , senior editor for sky & telescope magazine , reporting in friday 's edition of the boston globe .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

james elliot and mit colleague edward w. dunham said that pluto must be surrounded by a gaseous atmosphere because as the planet passed in front of the star , the faint starlight disappeared and reappeared gradually rather than abruptly .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

elliot and dunham said they are not yet sure what gases make up pluto 's atmosphere , but possibilities include methane , argon , nitrogen , oxygen , carbon monoxide and neon .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

in may 1987 , scientists at nasa 's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena published a study in the british journal nature contending that pluto has a substantial atmosphere of methane , or natural gas .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

they said observations of the planet in 1983 by the infrared astronomical satellite showed that pluto 's temperature was uniform over its entire surface , something that could occur only if a significant atmosphere existed .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

they said that evidence from the same satellite suggested pluto 's atmosphere was extremely thin , at least 900 times less dense than earth 's atmosphere .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

stanley said that the observations made thursday will , after analysis , provide information about the extent of pluto 's atmosphere and its temperature and pressure .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

pluto will prove that not only is it a bit puny , it is also a little tricky .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

on sept. 5 , pluto will make its closest approach to the sun , called perihelion .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

neptune , which is awaiting the encounter with voyager , is currently the most distant known planet in the solar system , and it will stay that way for several years until pluto once again moves outside its orbit .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

anyone who misses pluto 's approach to the sun this time can catch it again in the year 2236 .


Question: how far is pluto from the sun

while only those equipped with a very powerful telescope will be able to watch pluto 's lonely voyage , everyone will have a chance to take part in the perseids meteor shower friday night and early saturday morning .


Question: who invented the game scrabble ?

anyone knowing the answer off pat will probably be an addict of scrabble -lrb- in which short words can be decisive in end-play -rrb- and so have cause to lament the death of the game 's us inventor alfred butts .


Question: who invented the game scrabble ?

the origins of scrabble lie in the 1930s when it was developed as a crossword game by alfred butts , a new york architect whose practice was in trouble after the wall street crash .


Question: who invented the game scrabble ?

as old as the century and an architect by training , he devised the word-based board game in the 1930s only to have it turned down by manufacturers in the field .