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Score: 5/5 (39 votes) When we talk about achieving something on a specific occasion in the past, we use was/were able to (= had the ability to) and managed to (= succeeded in doing something difficult).Was were be able to?We use could to talk about an ability somebody had in the past. We use was/wer...
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Score: 4.1/5 (45 votes) "A dingo ate my baby!" is a cry popularly attributed to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, as part of the 1980 death of Azaria Chamberlain case, at Uluru in the Northern Territory, Australia. The Chamberlain family had been camping near the rock when their nine weeks old daughter w...
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Score: 4.9/5 (2 votes) In 1871, Lewis Carroll, who wrote "Alice in Wonderland," coined the word chortle in the poem "Jabberwocky," about a son who slays a monster and comes back to his relieved and happy father: "'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'Who invented the word chortled?'Chortl...
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Score: 5/5 (63 votes) Elephant story Contrary to popular belief, King Mongkut did not offer a herd of war elephants to the US president Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War for use against the Confederacy.Why did the King of Siam offer Lincoln elephants?An 1862 letter from President Abraham...
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Score: 4.1/5 (54 votes) Today the company operates stores in 39 states coast to coast, as well as one in Washington, D.C. Bed Bath & Beyond acquired Cost Plus World Market in 2012. The transaction is scheduled to close prior to the end of Bed Bath & Beyond's fiscal year on Feb.27, 2021,...
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Score: 5/5 (30 votes) Abstraction and swing and punch and bounce. ... Louis invented swing and jazz singing with his across-the-bar phrasing, odd syncopations and rhythmic innovations; he added more to the jazz language than anyone else. Louis Armstrong became an internationally famous jazz cornet a...
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Score: 4.3/5 (4 votes) Pleiotropy occurs when one gene influences two or more seemingly unrelated phenotypic traits. Such a gene that exhibits multiple phenotypic expression is called a pleiotropic gene.What is pleiotropy give example?When one single gene starts affecting multiple traits of living o...
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Score: 5/5 (66 votes) Seroquel is the brand name for quetiapine fumarate. It was approved in 1997 to treat schizophrenia in adults and adolescents aged 13 years or older. Seroquel can also treat manic and depressive episodes of bipolar disorder.What is the difference between quetiapine and Seroquel?...
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Score: 5/5 (42 votes) The physiological processes that underlie the dawn phenomenon occur in everyone regardless of whether they have diabetes or not. The difference lies with insulin and how our bodies react to it. Healthy individuals secrete enough insulin and are insulin sensitive enough to count...
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Score: 4.2/5 (45 votes) Generally, most download services offer MP3s at 192 kbps or 256 kbps. These higher resolutions provide a balance between sound quality and convenience. For many, music at this resolution sounds "good enough," and the file sizes are small enough to fit hundeds of song onto a s...
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