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USA Today was founded in 1982 with the goal of providing an alternative to relatively colorless, copy-oriented publications like The New York Times. The paper, known for synthesizing news down to easy-to-read-and-comprehend stories, is colorful and bold, with many large diagrams, charts, and photographs. USA Today boasts the second widest circulation of any English-language broadsheet, behind what publication?
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Avatar Posted by duke 389 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Considered the greatest Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid was an educated scholar, lover of poetry, and patron of the arts who ruled Baghdad from 786-809. With a vast empire spanning SW Asia and the northern part of Africa, he was known around the world and had diplomatic relations with both China and Charlemagne's Frankish empire. Why did newspapers call future US President Theodore Roosevelt "Harun-al-Roosevelt" when he was a New York Police Department Commissioner?
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Avatar Posted by duke 390 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Super Mario Bros., one of the first side-scrolling platform games, introduced video-game players to expansive worlds that forever changed the way video games were played, perceived, and designed. The game sold approximately 40 million units and holds the Guinness World Record as the best-selling video game of all time. It helped revitalize the floundering video game industry and made Nintendo one of the world's most recognized video-game manufacturers. What is "Minus World?"
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Avatar Posted by duke 391 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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The Two Plus Four Agreement, also known as the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany, was the final peace treaty negotiated between the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and the Four Powers that occupied Germany at the end of WWII: France, the UK, the US, and the Soviet Union. The treaty paved the way for the German reunification, which took place on October 3. What were the treaty's terms?
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Avatar Posted by duke 392 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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On September 11, 2001, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger airplanes. They crashed two of the planes into the Twin Towers in NYC, and flew a third into the Pentagon building in Virginia. Passengers on the fourth flight attempted to retake control of the aircraft, but it crashed in a Pennsylvania field. The devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11 were responsible for 2,973 confirmed casualties and an unknown number of injuries. What were the environmental consequences of 9/11?
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Avatar Posted by duke 394 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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During the Soviet occupation of North Korea, a Korean Communist named Kim Il Sung was selected to lead the new state. Kim had remained loyal to the Soviet Union while in exile during World War II, becoming a Captain in their Red Army. Under Kim's leadership, North Korea established Soviet-style regulation of the economy and fought a war with US-backed South Korea. After Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, his son, Kim Jong Il, took power. Why have the two Koreas technically been at war since 1950?
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Avatar Posted by duke 395 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Developed by Germany during WWII, the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2) Rocket was the world's 1st modern ballistic missile. It was unmanned, internally guided, and traveled at supersonic speeds that allowed it to reach its target in silence. Mass production of the V-2 began in 1943 at the Mittelbau-Dora slave labor camp, and between 1944 and 1945, England and Belgium suffered numerous V-2 rocket attacks that killed thousand of civilians. What does Vergeltungswaffe mean?
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Avatar Posted by duke 396 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Google, the world's leading internet search engine, was created by two Stanford students in the 1990s. It was based on the hypothesis that a search engine that analyzes the relationships between websites will produce better results. Thus, sites with the most links to them from other relevant web pages appear higher on a search results list. Google use is so prevalent that the verb “google” was recently added to the Oxford English Dictionary. What is the "Googleplex?"
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