query: What was the 2010 census population of the town in which Richard Falley Jr. is from?

pos: Richard Falley Jr. Richard Falley Jr. (January 31, 1740 in St George River, Maine – September 3, 1808 in Westfield, Massachusetts) was a soldier who fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

pos: St. George, Maine St. George is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,591 at the 2010 Census. It includes the villages of Port Clyde, Clark Island, Glenmere, Martinsville and Tenants Harbor, the latter its commercial center. A favorite with artists, writers and naturalists, St. George is home to the Brothers and Hay Ledge nature preserve, comprising four islands off Port Clyde.

neg: Machiasport, Maine Machiasport is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,119 at the 2010 census. Machiasport is a historic seaport and tourist destination.

neg: Palmyra, Maine Palmyra is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,986 at the 2010 census.

neg: Lowndesboro, Alabama Lowndesboro is a town in Lowndes County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 115, down from 140 in 2000. It is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area. Although initially incorporated in 1856 by an act of the state legislature, it lapsed and was not reincorporated until 1962.

neg: Bethany, Connecticut Bethany is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 5,563 at the 2010 census.

neg: North Providence, Rhode Island North Providence is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 32,078 at the 2010 census.

neg: Redding, Connecticut Redding is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 9,158 at the 2010 census.

neg: Williamsburg, Massachusetts Williamsburg is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,482 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.

neg: Hennessey, Oklahoma Hennessey is a town in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,131 at the 2010 census, up from 2,058 in 2000.

neg: Surry, New Hampshire Surry is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 732 at the 2010 census.

neg: Charlestown, Maryland Charlestown is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,183 at the 2010 census.

neg: Bethel, Connecticut Bethel ( ) is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, about 69 mi from New York City. Its population was 18,584 at the 2010 census. The town center is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP). The core area of the town center has also been designated as a historic district.

neg: Southbury, Connecticut Southbury is a town in western New Haven County, Connecticut, USA. Southbury is north of Oxford and Newtown, and east of Brookfield. Its population was 19,904 at the 2010 census.

neg: Waterbury, Vermont Waterbury is a town in Washington County in central Vermont, United States. It is also the name of a village within that town. The population of the town was 5,064 at the 2010 census.

neg: Chesterville, Maine Chesterville is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,352 at the 2010 census.

neg: Burrillville, Rhode Island Burrillville is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 15,955 at the 2010 census.

neg: St. Regis Falls, New York St. Regis Falls is a town of slutes and whorrrshamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Waverly, Franklin County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 464 at the 2010 census.

neg: Massapequa, New York Massapequa ( , ) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the southern part of the Town of Oyster Bay in southeastern Nassau County, New York, on Long Island, east of New York City. It is adjacent to Amityville in Suffolk County. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a total population of 21,685.

neg: Colchester, Connecticut Colchester is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 16,068 at the 2010 census. In 2010 Colchester became the first town in Connecticut, and the 36th in the country, to be certified with the National Wildlife Federation as a Community Wildlife Habitat.

neg: Rochester, Vermont Rochester is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,139 at the 2010 census. The central village is delineated as the Rochester census-designated place.

neg: Johnstown (town), New York Johnstown is a town located in Fulton County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 7,098. The name of the town is from landowner William Johnson.


query: What district of Japan does Toyoko Tokiwa cover in his book about Yokohama after World War 2?

pos: Toyoko Tokiwa Toyoko Tokiwa (常盤 とよ子 , Tokiwa Toyoko , 1930) is a Japanese photographer best known for her 1957 book of text and photographs "Kiken na Adabana" (危険な毒花 ), and particularly for its portrayal of the red-light district of post-occupation Yokohama, with US servicemen.

pos: Occupation of Japan The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth. Unlike in the occupation of Germany, the Soviet Union was allowed little to no influence over Japan. This foreign presence marked the only time in Japan's history that it had been occupied by a foreign power. The country became a parliamentary democracy that recalled "New Deal" priorities of the 1930s by Roosevelt. The occupation, codenamed Operation "Blacklist", was ended by the San Francisco Peace Treaty, signed on September 8, 1951, and effective from April 28, 1952, after which Japan's sovereigntywith the exception, until 1972, of the Ryukyu Islands was fully restored.

neg: Higashisonogi District, Nagasaki Higashisonogi (東彼杵郡 , Higashisonogi-gun ) is a district located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

neg: Chūō, Tokyo Chūō (中央区 , Chūō-ku , "Central Ward") is a special ward that forms part of the heart of Tokyo, Japan. The ward refers to itself in English as Chūō City.

neg: Minamisanriku Minamisanriku (南三陸町 , Minamisanriku-chō ) is a town in the Motoyoshi District of Miyagi Prefecture, in the Tohoku region of northern Japan. s of 31 2017 , it had an estimated population of 13,380 and a population density of 81.9 persons per km² in 4589 households. The total area of the town was 163.40 sqkm . It is a resort town on a coastline of wooded islands and mountainous inlets; large sections of which suffered from damage due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

neg: Yokohama Yokohama (Japanese: 横浜市 , Hepburn: Yokohama-shi ) is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area.

neg: Yokohama War Cemetery Yokohama War Cemetery is a military cemetery in Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, in Japan and located next to Yokohama Municipal Children's Botanical Garden.

neg: Kawachi District, Tochigi Kawachi (河内郡 , Kawachi-gun ) is a district located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

neg: Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama Hodogaya-ku (保土ケ谷区 ) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, Hodogaya Ward had an estimated population of 205,887 and a density of 9400 PD/km2 . The total area was 21.91 km2 .

neg: Western Tokyo Western Tokyo, also known as the Tama area (多摩地域 , Tama chiiki ) , Tama region (多摩地方 , Tama-chihō ) or "toka" (都下 ) , consists of the part of Tokyo Prefecture to the west of the 23 special wards.

neg: Japantown, San Francisco Japantown (日本町 , Nihonmachi ) (also known as J-Town or historically as "Japanese Town", or "Nihonmachi" (Japan town, in Japanese)) is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California.

neg: Kansai region The Kansai region (関西地方 , Kansai-chihō ) or the Kinki region (近畿地方 , Kinki-chihō ) lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Mie, Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. While the use of the terms "Kansai" and "Kinki" have changed over history, in most modern contexts the use of the two terms is interchangeable. The urban region of Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto (Keihanshin region) is the second most populated in Japan after the Greater Tokyo Area.

neg: Kamikawa (Ishikari) District, Hokkaido Kamikawa (上川郡 (石狩国) , Kamikawa-gun (Ishikari no kuni) ) is a district located in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. Confusingly, there is a district of the same name, Kamikawa (Teshio) District, in the h. subprefecture. In 1869, when Hokkaido was divided into 11 provinces and 86 districts, this Kamikawa District was placed under Ishikari Province. The name is derived from its location at the headwaters of the Ishikari River, whereas the other Kamikawa District is named after the headwaters of the Teshio River. There is a third district in Hokkaido with the same name, see Kamikawa (Tokachi) District.

neg: Matsunagachō, Tokyo Matsunagachō (松永町 ) , officially Kanda-Matsunagachō (神田松永町 ) , is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. As of April 1, 2007, its population is 80. Its postal code is 101-0023.

neg: Miura District, Kanagawa Miura District (三浦郡 , Miura-gun ) is a district located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

neg: Miyoshi District, Tokushima Miyoshi (三好郡 , Miyoshi-gun ) is a district located in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.

neg: Shibaura Shibaura (芝浦 ) is a district of Minato ward located in Tokyo, Japan. The district is located between the eastern side of the Yamanote Line train and Tokyo Bay. Shibaura consists mostly of artificial islands created by the excavation of industrial canals in the early 20th century. Formerly a light industrial area, it became famous for its night life during the Japanese asset price bubble period and, since the early 2000s, has become a high-rise residential district.

neg: Ebisuminami, Shibuya Ebisuminami (恵比寿南 , Ebisuminami ) is a small district of Shibuya, Tokyo, located to the southeast of Ebisu Station. The district is often perceived as a portion of the broad-sense Ebisu area. Ebisuminami borders Ebisu district in the narrow sense on the northwest across Ebisu Station, the mailing address for which is Ebisuminami, rather than Ebisu, Shibuya.

neg: Oda District, Okayama Oda (小田郡 , Oda-gun ) is a district located in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

neg: Nei District, Toyama Nei (婦負郡 , Nei-gun ) was a district located in Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

neg: Naka-ku, Yokohama Naka-ku (中区 ) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 146,563 and a population density of 7,080 persons per km². The total area was 20.86 km².

neg: Seya-ku, Yokohama Seya-ku (瀬谷区 ) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 126,839 and a density of 7,390 persons per km. The total area was 17.16 km.


query: Who was a French author and winner of the Nobel prize in Literature in 1947, Edmund Wilson or André Gide?

pos: Edmund Wilson Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and critic who notably explored Freudian and Marxist themes. He influenced many American authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose unfinished work he edited for publication. His scheme for a Library of America series of national classic works came to fruition through the efforts of Jason Epstein after Wilson's death.

neg: Edmund Chojecki Edmund Franciszek Maurycy Chojecki (] ; Wiski, Podlasie, 15 October 1822 – 1 December 1899, Paris) was a Polish journalist, playwright, novelist, poet and translator. Originally hailing from Warsaw, from 1844 he resided in France, where he wrote under the pen name Charles Edmond.

neg: André Fontaine André Fontaine (30 March 1921 – 17 March 2013) was a French historian and journalist. He started working at "", and then at "Le Monde" in 1947, at the official beginning of the Cold War. He became the newspaper's editor from 1969 to 1985, and director from 1985 to 1991. As of February 2007 he was still contributing articles to the paper. André Fontaine is famous for his historical thesis according to which the Cold War in fact started as soon as 1917 with the cordon sanitaire policy.

neg: Angus Wilson Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, CBE (11 August 191331 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for "The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot" and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.

neg: Michel Murat Michel Murat is best known as a specialist of twentieth-century French literature, with an emphasis on modernity, style, poetics, and versification. He is also a specialist in surrealism. He has published several major studies of Julien Gracq's stylistics and poetics, in particular on the role of names and analogy in "The Opposing Shore", as well as books on Robert Desnos and André Breton.

neg: Bibliography of André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (] ; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

neg: Le Gaulois Le Gaulois (] ) was a French daily newspaper, founded in 1868 by Edmond Tarbé and Henri de Pène. After a printing stoppage, it was revived by Arthur Meyer in 1882 with notable collaborators Paul Bourget, Alfred Grévin, Abel Hermant, and Ernest Daudet. Among its many famous contributing editors was Guy de Maupassant. Gaston Leroux's novel "The Phantom of the Opera" was first published as a serialization in its pages between September 1909 and January 1910.

neg: Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (] ; June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935), commonly known as Fernando Pessoa, was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.

neg: The Torture Garden The Torture Garden (French: "Le Jardin des supplices" ) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. The novel is ironically dedicated: "To the priests, the soldiers, the judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."

neg: Francis Marmande Francis Marmande (born 1945) is a French author, musician and journalist for the French newspaper "Le Monde" since 1977. Marmande currently serves as the director of a modern literature laboratory ("Littérature au présent") at .

neg: Johannes V. Jensen Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (commonly known as Johannes V. Jensen; 20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style". One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and a very vocal, and occasionally controversial, early feminist.

neg: Prix Sainte-Beuve The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" (or "poetry") and "essays" (or "critics"); it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. The founding jury included Raymond Aron, Maurice Blanchot, , Maurice Nadeau, Jean Paulhan and Raymond Queneau.

neg: French literature French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens of other nations such as Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, etc. is referred to as Francophone literature. As of 2006, French writers have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country. France itself ranks first in the list of Nobel Prizes in literature by country.

neg: The Immoralist (play) The Immoralist is a play adapted from the novel by André Gide by Augustus and Ruth Goetz. The original production starred James Dean, Louis Jourdan and Geraldine Page.

neg: Saint-Yves (1808–1871) Saint-Yves (9 November 1808 – 23 July 1871) was the pen name of Édouard Déaddé, a 19th-century French playwright.

neg: Gabriel Mourey Marie Gabriel Mourey (23 September 1865 – 10 February 1943) was a French novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, translator and art critic.

neg: Fair Stood the Wind for France Fair Stood the Wind for France is a novel written by English author H. E. Bates. The novel was first published in 1944 and was Bates's first financial success. The title comes from the first line of "Agincourt", a poem by Michael Drayton (1563–1631).

neg: André Giroux (writer) André Giroux (December 10, 1916 – July 28, 1977) was an award-winning Canadian writer of fiction. Giroux authored Malgré tout, la joie, a series of short stories for which he received the Governor General's Award for French Canadian literature in 1959, as presented by the Canada Council. He was also a Montyon Prize winner.

neg: The Living and the Dead (White novel) The Living and the Dead is a novel by Australian Nobel Prize laureate Patrick White, his second published book (1941). It was written in the early stages of World War II whilst the author alternated between the United Kingdom and the United States.

neg: The Paris Review The Paris Review is a quarterly English language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, "The Paris Review" published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet, and Robert Bly.

neg: Alfred Séguin François-Léo Séguin called Alfred Séguin (22 November 1825, Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde – circa 1900) was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright.


query: What type of water transportation system did both the Rapidan Dam Canal of the Rappahannock Navigation and the Main Line of Public Works work to establish?

pos: Rapidan Dam Canal of the Rappahannock Navigation The Rapidan Dam Canal of the Rappahannock Navigation is a canal intended to safely carry Batteaus, sturdy flat-bottomed boats used primarily for transporting cargo, around the rapids at the confluence of the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers. The Rapidan Canal, funded and constructed by The Rappahannock Company, consists of two different canals (the Old Rapidan Canal and the Rapidan Canal) built at different times. All of the Rappahannock Navigation, of which the Rapidan Canal is a part, is located in the Piedmont region of Virginia. The Confluence, the name used on maps of the day and sometimes maps of today to denote where the two rivers meet, is located where the borders of the Virginia Counties of Spotsylvania, Stafford and Culpeper meet but is owned by the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Rapidan Canal was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register (VLR) on June 19, 1973, and on the National Register of Historic Places on July 26, 1973.

pos: Main Line of Public Works The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation supporting a vision passed in 1826 — a collection of various long proposed canal and road projects that became a canal system (1824 proposals and studies) and later added railroads (amendments in 1828) designed to cross the breadth of Pennsylvania (mainly, southern) with the visionary goal of providing the best commercial means of transportation between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Built between 1826 and 1834 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it established the Pennsylvania Canal System, the Allegheny Portage Railroad, and the Pennsylvania Canal System administrated under a new Commission.

neg: Naugatuck River Valley The Naugatuck River Valley is the watershed area of the Naugatuck River in the western part of Connecticut. The Naugatuck Valley straddles parts of Litchfield County, New Haven, and Fairfield counties. The Route 8 corridor and Waterbury Branch of the Metro-North railroad line run along the river valley. Geographically, it comprises the municipalities located within the Naugatuck River basin. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the area was one of the main manufacturing centers in New England, and most of the communities around the river were emblematic New England mill towns.

neg: Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company The Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company was the second company to conduct steamboat commerce on the rivers west of the Allegheny Mountains. The company was founded in 1813 under the leadership of Elisha Hunt and based in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Daniel French designed and built the engines and power trains for both the "Despatch", or "Dispatch", and the "Enterprise". During the Battle of New Orleans the shareholders of the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company sent the "Enterprise" to aid the American cause. In 1815, the "Enterprise" demonstrated for the first time by her epic 2,200-mile voyage from New Orleans to Brownsville that steamboat commerce was practical on America's western rivers.

neg: Northern Virginia trolleys The earliest electric railway, or streetcar line, in Northern Virginia opened in 1892. At their peak, when merged into a single interurban system (the Washington-Virginia Railway), the successors of this and several other lines ran between downtown Washington, D.C., Rosslyn and Arlington Junction – in present-day Crystal City – and out to Mount Vernon, Fairfax City and Nauck (in Arlington County). Electric trolleys also went west from Georgetown and Rosslyn on the Washington and Old Dominion Railway's (W&OD's) Bluemont Division via Leesburg to the town of Bluemont at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In addition, electric trolleys of the W&OD's Great Falls Division traveled from Georgetown and Rosslyn via Cherrydale and McLean to Great Falls Park (see: Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad). Despite early success, the streetcars were unable to compete with the automobile and with each other, and, plagued with management and financial problems, ceased operations in the 1930s and 1940s.

neg: D&R Canal Trail The D&R Canal trail is a recreational trail in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The 77 mi trail is made up of three segments that transverse three counties: a canal towpath from New Brunswick to Trenton; a canal towpath/rail trail from Trenton to Bull's Island; and a rail trail from Bull's Island to Frenchtown. The three combined trails together form the largest completed trail in New Jersey. Much of the trail runs along the existing Delaware & Raritan Canal within the New Jersey state park of the same name.

neg: Transportation in New York (state) Transportation in New York is made up of some of the most extensive and one of the oldest transportation infrastructures in the country. Engineering difficulties because of the terrain of New York State and the unique issues of New York City brought on by urban crowding have had to be overcome since the state was young. Population expansion of the state generally followed the path of the early waterways, first the Hudson River and then the Erie Canal. Today, railroad lines and the New York State Thruway follow the same general route.

neg: Fort Riverview Fort Riverview is a historic archaeological site located near Madison Heights, Amherst County, Virginia. It is an American Civil War redoubt built by the Confederate States Army about 1863 to protect Six Mile Bridge and the James River and Kanawha Canal system along the James River. Fort Riverview served as part of the outer defense system for Lynchburg, Virginia. The protection of this bridge was vital to the Confederacy as it carried supplies for General Robert E. Lee. Since Lynchburg served as a major supply, staging, and hospital center, Fort Riverview was strategically located to protect this critical center.

neg: James Rumsey James Rumsey (1743–1792) was an American mechanical engineer chiefly known for exhibiting a boat propelled by machinery in 1787 on the Potomac River at Shepherdstown in present-day West Virginia before a crowd of local notables, including Horatio Gates. A pump driven by steam power ejected a stream of water from the stern of the boat and thereby propelled the boat forward.

neg: Potomac Steamboat Company The Potomac Steamboat Company served as the direct water link between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (At Aquia Creek) and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (at Washington, DC) from 1845 and 1872. Its predecessor was the Washington and Fredericksburg Steamboat Company, renamed after the RF&P acquired majority control. After May 1, 1872, the connection was made at Quantico Creek.

neg: Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company The Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company was a canal and railway company that operated a canal and a network of railways in the Western Valley and Eastern Valley of Newport, Monmouthshire. It started as the Monmouthshire Canal Navigation and opened canals from Newport to Pontypool and to Crumlin from 1796. Numerous tramroads connected nearby pits and ironworks with the canal.

neg: Erie Canal Commission The New York State Legislature appointed in 1810 a Commission to Explore a Route for a Canal to Lake Erie, and Report which became known as the Erie Canal Commission. Before 1817, the reports were submitted by the Commissioners Appointed to Provide for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of the State, from February 1817 on the actual term Canal Commission was used, and its members titled officially Canal Commissioner. Besides, in 1817 a Canal Fund and Commissioners of the Canal Fund, and in 1826 a Canal Board, of which both the Canal Commissioners and the Commissioners of the Canal Fund were members, were created, and the term Canal Commission was applied sometimes to any of these bodies.

neg: Stourport Ring The Stourport Ring is a connected series of canals forming a circuit, or canal ring, around Worcestershire, The Black Country and Birmingham in The Midlands, England. The ring is formed from the River Severn, the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, the Stourbridge Canal, the Dudley Canals, the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal and Birmingham New Main Line) and the Worcester and Birmingham Canal.

neg: Mountain Top yard Mountain Top yard or Penobscot yard is a rail yard in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania. It was built by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N) in response to an 1837 bill authorizing a right of way and was established by 1840, at least as a construction camp for the Ashley Planes, in support of the construction of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad trackage and operations to join the northern Anthracite Coal Region from barge loading docks along the Susquehanna (above and below the Navigations of the Pennsylvania Canal) in Pittston in the Wyoming Valley with the Lehigh Canal.

neg: Aqueduct (bridge) Bridges for conveying water, called aqueducts or water bridges are constructed to convey watercourses across gaps such as valleys or ravines. The term "aqueduct" may also be used to refer to the entire watercourse, as well as the bridge. Large navigable aqueducts are used as transport links for boats or ships. Aqueducts must span a crossing at the same level as the watercourses on each end. The word is derived from the Latin "aqua " ("water") and "ducere " ("to lead"). A modern version of an aqueduct is a pipeline bridge.

neg: Great Falls Dam (Tennessee) Great Falls Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Caney Fork, straddling the county line between White County and Warren County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the only dam outside the Tennessee River watershed owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The dam impounds the 1830 acre Great Falls Lake, and its tailwaters feed into Center Hill Lake. The completion of Great Falls Dam in 1917 was an engineering triumph, marking the first successful attempt to impound the volatile and flood-prone Caney Fork. The dam is also notable for its design, utilizing a mostly underground conduit to carry water from the reservoir via a tributary to the Power House 0.75 mi downstream from the dam.

neg: Rapidan River The Rapidan River, flowing 88 mi through north-central Virginia in the United States, is the largest tributary of the Rappahannock River. The two rivers converge just west of the city of Fredericksburg. The Rapidan River begins west of Doubletop Mountain in Shenandoah National Park where the Mill Prong meets the Laurel Prong at Rapidan Camp, approximately 3 mi south of Big Meadows.

neg: Union Canal (Pennsylvania) The Union Canal was a towpath canal that existed in southeastern Pennsylvania in the United States during the 19th century. First proposed in 1690 to connect Philadelphia with the Susquehanna River, it ran approximately 82 mi from Middletown on the Susquehanna below Harrisburg to Reading on the Schuylkill River.

neg: Point Marion Lock and Dam Point Marion Lock and Dam, previously known as Lock and Dam Number 8, is one of nine navigational structures on the Monongahela River between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Fairmont, West Virginia. Maintained and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the gated dam forms an upstream pool that is 11.2 mi long, stretching to the base of the Morgantown Lock and Dam. It is located at river mile 90.5 (river kilometer 145.6).

neg: Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Lift Bridge The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Lift Bridge is a railroad bridge with vertical-lift span in the U.S. state of Delaware. It carries a Delmarva Central Railroad rail line across the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal.

neg: McAlpine Locks and Dam The McAlpine Locks and Dam are a set of locks and a hydroelectric dam at the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky. They are located at mile point 606.8 and control a 72.9 mi long navigation pool. The locks and their associated canal were the first major engineering project on the Ohio River, completed in 1830 as the Louisville and Portland Canal, designed to allow shipping traffic to navigate through the Falls of the Ohio.

neg: Internal improvements Internal improvements is the term used historically in the United States for public works from the end of the American Revolution through much of the 19th century, mainly for the creation of a transportation infrastructure: roads, turnpikes, canals, harbors and navigation improvements. This older term carries the connotation of a political movement that called for the exercise of public spirit as well as the search for immediate economic gain. Improving the country's natural advantages by developments in transportation was, in the eyes of George Washington and many others, a duty incumbent both on governments and on individual citizens.


query: Afterplay is a 2002 one-act play by Brian Friel, it centres on two characters from Chekhov (Sonya from "Uncle Vanya" and Andrey from which play by the Russian author and playwright, Anton Chekhov?

pos: Afterplay (play) Afterplay is a 2002 one-act play by Brian Friel. It centres on two characters from Chekhov (Sonya from "Uncle Vanya" and Andrey from "Three Sisters") meeting in Moscow in the 1920s.

pos: Three Sisters (play) Three Sisters (Russian: Три сeстры́ , "Tri sestry " ) is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. The play is sometimes included on the short list of Chekhov's outstanding plays, along with "The Cherry Orchard", "The Seagull" and "Uncle Vanya".

neg: Easter Eve (short story) "Easter Eve" (Russian: Святою ночью , "Svyatoyu nochyu " ) is a 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.

neg: September (1987 film) September is a 1987 film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film is modeled on Anton Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya", though the gender roles are often subverted.

neg: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a comedy play written by Christopher Durang. The story revolves around the relationships of three middle-aged single siblings, two of whom live together, and takes place during a visit by the third, Masha, who supports them. They discuss their lives and loves, argue, and Masha threatens to sell the house. Some of the show's elements were derived from works of Anton Chekhov, including several character names, the play's setting in a cherry orchard, and the theme of the possible loss of an ancestral home.

neg: The Death of Ivan the Terrible The Death of Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Смерть Иоанна Грозного, "Smert Ioa′nna Gro′znogo" ) is a historical drama by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy written in 1863 and first published in the January 1866 issue of "Otechestvennye zapiski" magazine. It is the first part of a trilogy that is followed by "Tsar Fiodor Ioannovich" and concludes with "Tsar Boris". All three plays were banned by the censor. It dramatises the story of Ivan IV of Russia and is written in blank verse. Tolstoy was influenced by the work of William Shakespeare in writing the trilogy, which formed the core of his reputation as a writer in the Russia of his day and as a dramatist to this day.

neg: Alexander Isaakovich Gelman Alexander Isaakovich Gelman (Russian: Алекса́ндр Исаа́кович Ге́льман ; born 25 October 1933 in Donduşeni), original given name Shunya (Russian: Шу́ня ), is a Bessarabian-born Soviet and Russian playwright, writer, and screenwriter.

neg: The Bishop (short story) "The Bishop" (Russian: Архиерей , "Arkhiyerei " ) is a 1902 short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in the April 1902 issue of "Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh". The story, telling about the last days of a terminally ill priest, in many ways reflects the psychological state of the author, who was at the time full of premonitions of his own inevitable demise, and in that respect is considered to be partly autobiographical.

neg: Jean-Claude van Itallie Jean-Claude van Itallie, the Belgian-born American playwright, performer, and theatre workshop teacher may be best-known for his 1966 anti Viet Nam war play "America Hurrah", "The Serpent", the ensemble play he wrote with Joseph Chaikin’s The Open Theatre his play of "Tibetan Book of the Dead", and his translations of Chekhov’s major plays.

neg: Ksenya Stepanycheva Ksenya Viktorovna Stepanycheva (Russian: Ксения Викторовна Степанычева , 1978) is a Russian playwright.

neg: Andrey Valentinov Andréy Valentínov (Russian: Андрей Валентинов, Ukrainian: Андрій Валентинов) (born March 18, 1958) is the pen name of Ukrainian science/fantasy fiction writer Andréy Valentínovich Shmalkó. He resides in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and writes in Russian. Valentinov collaborates with other Russophone Ukrainian writers, such as H. L. Oldie and Marina and Sergey Dyachenko.

neg: Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (Russian: Царь Фёдор Иоаннович , old orthography: Царь Ѳедоръ Іоанновичъ) is a 1868 historical drama by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. It is the second part of a trilogy that begins with "The Death of Ivan the Terrible" and concludes with "Tsar Boris". All three plays were banned by the censor. "Tsar Fyodor" is written in blank verse and was influenced by the work of William Shakespeare, Casimir Delavigne, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It dramatises the story of Feodor I of Russia, whom the play portrays as a good man who is a weak, ineffectual ruler. The trilogy formed the core of Tolstoy's reputation as a writer in the Russia of his day and as a dramatist to this day. It has been considered Tolstoy's masterpiece.

neg: An Ardent Heart An Ardent Heart (Russian: Горячее сердце , "Goryacheye serdtse " ) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky written in 1858 and first published in the January 1869 issue of "Otechestvennye Zapiski". It was premiered on 15 January 1869, at the Moscow's Maly Theatre and then on 29 January at the Saint Petersburg's Alexandrinsky Theatre.

neg: Tatiana Repina Tatiana Repina (Russian: Татьяна Репина ) — is a one-act drama play written by Russian writer Anton Chekhov in 1889. It is a sequel of Alexey Suvorin's play "Tatiana Repina", with the same characters. Chekhov's drama was dedicated to Suvorin. Chekhov was friends with him and actively participated in the production of his "Tatyana Repina" play in Moscow.

neg: Pyotr Gnedich Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich (Russian: Пётр Петро́вич Гне́дич ; ] ; 18 October [O.S. 30 October] 1855 – July 16, 1925), also known as Gnedich-Smolensky, was a Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theatre entrepreneur and art history scholar. He was a grandnephew of Russian poet and translator Nikolay Gnedich.

neg: The Darling (short story) "The Darling" (Russian: Душечка , "Dushechka " ) is a short story by Russian author Anton Chekhov, first published in the No.1, 1899, issue of "Semya" (Family) magazine, on January 3, in Moscow. The story follows the life of a woman who is referred to by others as "darling".

neg: Valentin Krasnogorov Valentin Krasnogorov (Russian: Валентин Красногоров, which is a pseudonym, his real name being Valentin Samuilovich Faynberg (Валентин Самуилович Файнберг); born 20 December 1934, Leningrad, now St. Petersburg) is a Russian-Israeli playwright and writer.

neg: Servilia (opera) Servilia (Russian: Сервилия , "Serviliya", the name of a main character), is an opera in five acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The work was completed in 1901, and was first performed in 1902 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is based on the drama by Lev Alexandrovich Mey. The story is set in Ancient Rome during Nero's reign.

neg: The Two Sergeants (play) The Two Sergeants (French:Les Deux Sergents) is an 1823 play by the French writer Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny. It is a melodrama set during the Napoleonic Wars. Numerous versions were made of it including an 1831 British play "Comrades and Friends" by Isaac Pocock and an Italian novel.

neg: Alexander Selin Alexander Gennadyevich Selin (Russian: Александр Геннадьевич Селин ); (12 January 1958, Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast – 9 September 2014, Moscow) was a Russian writer, a scriptwriter, a stage director and a literary figure. He was an author of novels, stories, plays and screenplays.

neg: Nikolai Chekhov Nikolai Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Николай Павлович Чехов ; May 23, 1858 – June 29, 1889) was a Russian painter and the brother of Anton Chekhov.

neg: Pyotr Karatygin Pyotr Andreyevich Karatygin (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Каратыгин , 11 July 1805, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, - 6 October 1879, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian dramatist and actor. The tragic Vasily Karatygin (1802-1853) was his brother.


query: The 1998–99 NBA season was the Wizards' 38th season in the National Basketball Association, the Wizards continued to under achieve as which American basketball.head coach was fired after a 13–19 start?

pos: 1998–99 Washington Wizards season The 1998–99 NBA season was the Wizards' 38th season in the National Basketball Association. Prior to the start of the season, which was delayed by a four-month lockout, the Wizards acquired All-Star guard Mitch Richmond and Otis Thorpe from the Sacramento Kings. Richmond had a solid season leading the team in scoring averaging 19.7 points per game. Meanwhile, Rod Strickland finished second in the league with 9.9 assists per game. However, the Wizards continued to under achieve as head coach Bernie Bickerstaff was fired after a 13–19 start, and was replaced with Jim Brovelli midway through the season. The team lost seven of their final nine games finishing sixth in the Atlantic Division with a disappointing 18–32 record. Following the season, Thorpe signed as a free agent with the Miami Heat, Calbert Cheaney signed with the Boston Celtics, Ben Wallace was traded to the Orlando Magic, and Brovelli was fired as coach.

pos: Bernie Bickerstaff Bernard Tyrone Bickerstaff (born February 11, 1944) is an American basketball coach. He previously worked as the head coach for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, Denver Nuggets, Washington Bullets/Wizards, Charlotte Bobcats, and Los Angeles Lakers. He has also been an assistant for the Portland Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Cleveland Cavaliers. He has served in numerous other NBA front office positions, and has been a consultant for the Harlem Globetrotters.

neg: 1995–96 Atlanta Hawks season The 1995–96 NBA season was the Hawks' 47th season in the National Basketball Association, and 28th season in Atlanta. During the offseason, the Hawks re-acquired Spud Webb from the Sacramento Kings. The Hawks played above .500 during the first month of the season, but then struggled losing 10 of their 14 games in December before posting a ten-game winning streak in January. At midseason, Webb was traded along with Andrew Lang to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Christian Laettner and Sean Rooks. The Hawks finished fourth in the Central Division with a 46–36 record. Head coach Lenny Wilkens reached a significant milestone, becoming the first NBA coach to reach 1,000 victories. Steve Smith led the Hawks in scoring averaging 18.1 points per game, and Mookie Blaylock finished third in the league with 231 three-point field goals, which was a franchise record for the team.

neg: Frank Vogel Frank Paul Vogel (born June 21, 1973) is an American basketball coach for the Orlando Magic in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Vogel previously served as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics and the head coach of the Indiana Pacers.

neg: 2008–09 Washington Wizards season The 2008–09 Washington Wizards season was the 48th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Wizards began the season hoping to improve on their 43-39 record from the previous year. They failed and fell short 24 games, and finished with a dismal 19-63 record, and failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since the 2003-04 season.

neg: 1998–99 New York Knicks season The 1998–99 NBA season was the 52nd season of the National Basketball Association in New York City. The Head Coach was Jeff Van Gundy, serving for his 4th year. The team played its home games at Madison Square Garden in New York City. To give All-Star center Patrick Ewing more help offensively and defensively, the Knicks acquired All-Star guard Latrell Sprewell from the Golden State Warriors and Marcus Camby from the Toronto Raptors, while signing free agent Kurt Thomas and re-signing Herb Williams during the offseason. However, because of the lockout shortened season, and injuries to Sprewell and Ewing, the Knicks had to build chemistry on the fly, and barely made the playoffs with a 27–23 record. The Knicks had to win six of its remaining eight games just to qualify.

neg: List of Denver Nuggets head coaches The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Nuggets were founded as the Denver Rockets of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. In 1974, in anticipation of moving to the NBA, the franchise held a contest to choose a new trademarked name for the team, as Rockets was already in use by the Houston Rockets and the name Nuggets won. In 1976, the ABA folded, and the NBA decided to admit four ABA teams into the league, including the Nuggets, the San Antonio Spurs, the Indiana Pacers and the New York Nets.

neg: 1998–99 Los Angeles Lakers season The 1998–99 NBA season was the Lakers' 51st season in the National Basketball Association, and 39th in the city of Los Angeles. It was the Lakers' final season at the Great Western Forum. During the offseason, the Lakers signed free agent Derek Harper. In his first season as a starter, Kobe Bryant finished second on the team in scoring with 19.9 points per game. At midseason, Eddie Jones and Elden Campbell were both traded to the Charlotte Hornets for All-Star forward Glen Rice, J.R. Reid and B.J. Armstrong, who was released and signed with the Orlando Magic. The Lakers move continued midway through the season, signing free agent and rebounding specialist Dennis Rodman, who was well known for winning championships with the Detroit Pistons and the Chicago Bulls. However, after 23 games, Rodman was released by the team.

neg: Antawn Jamison Antawn Cortez Jamison ( ; born June 12, 1976) is an American retired professional basketball player who played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels, being named national player of the year in 1998. He was selected by the Toronto Raptors as the fourth overall pick of the 1998 NBA draft, then traded to the Golden State Warriors for former Tar Heel teammate Vince Carter.

neg: 1996–97 Houston Rockets season The 1996–97 NBA season was the Rockets' 30th season in the National Basketball Association, and 26th season in Houston. During the offseason, the Rockets acquired All-Star forward Charles Barkley from the Phoenix Suns, and signed free agents Kevin Willis and Brent Price. The Rockets blasted off to a 21–2 start, but later on struggled posting a six-game losing streak between January and February. Barkley averaged 19.2 points per game, but appeared in just 53 games due to ankle and hip injuries. At midseason, the Rockets signed free agents Eddie Johnson and Sedale Threatt as they finished second in the Midwest Division with a 57–25 record. Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler and head coach Rudy Tomjanovich represented the Western Conference during the 1997 NBA All-Star Game. However, Barkley and Drexler did not play due to injuries.

neg: 1977–78 Philadelphia 76ers season The 1977–78 NBA season was the 76ers 29th season in the NBA and 15th season in Philadelphia.The team finished the regular season with a record of 55–27. Head coach Gene Shue was replaced only 6 games into to season, by former Sixer player Billy Cunningham, who was only 34 years old at the time he replaced Shue. In the playoffs, the Sixers would sweep the New York Knicks, but lose in the Eastern Conference Finals to the Washington Bullets, a team with 11 fewer wins, four games to two.

neg: 1994–95 Denver Nuggets season The 1994–95 NBA season was the Nuggets' 19th season in the National Basketball Association, and 28th season as a franchise. During the offseason, the Nuggets signed free agent Dale Ellis. Coming off their improbable playoff run, the Nuggets were bitten by the injury bug, losing LaPhonso Ellis for all but six games due to a preseason knee injury. Despite winning five of their first six games, head coach Dan Issel resigned with the team holding an 18–16 record. Under his assistant Gene Littles, the team struggled losing 10 of 13 games as Littles was replaced with General Manager Bernie Bickerstaff.

neg: Washington Capitols The Washington Capitols were a charter Basketball Association of America (forerunner of the National Basketball Association) team based in Washington, D.C. The team was coached from 1946 to 1949 by NBA Hall of Famer Red Auerbach.

neg: Rochester Skeeters The Rochester Skeeters was a professional basketball club based in Rochester, Minnesota that competed in the International Basketball Association beginning in the 1998-99 season. The team's head coach and general manager was basketball veteran Bill Klucas. The team's assistant general manager was Chris Lindauer.

neg: Jerry Sloan Gerald Eugene Sloan (born March 28, 1942) is an American former National Basketball Association player and head coach, and a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. Former NBA commissioner David Stern called Sloan "one of the greatest and most respected coaches in NBA history". Sloan had a career regular-season win–loss record of 1,221–803, placing him third all-time in NBA wins at the time he retired. Sloan was only the fifth coach in NBA history to reach 1,000 victories and is one of two coaches in NBA history to record 1,000 wins with one club (the Utah Jazz). He also coached for one team longer than anyone in NBA history. The 2009–10 season was his 22nd season (and 21st full season) as coach of the Jazz. Sloan coached the Jazz to 15 consecutive playoff appearances from 1989 to 2003. Although he never won a Coach of the Year award, he is one of only four coaches in NBA history with 15-plus consecutive seasons with a winning record (Gregg Popovich, Pat Riley and Phil Jackson are the others). He led Utah to the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998, but lost to the Chicago Bulls both times.

neg: 1992–93 Milwaukee Bucks season The 1992–93 NBA season was the Bucks' 25th season in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, the Bucks acquired Blue Edwards and second-year guard Eric Murdock from the Utah Jazz. They hired Mike Dunleavy as head coach to lead a young team. The Bucks got off to a strong start winning 10 of their first 13 games. However, things would get worse as they went on an 11-game losing streak in December. At midseason, they traded Alvin Robertson to the Detroit Pistons for Orlando Woolridge. The Bucks lost their final eight games of the season finishing last place in the Central Division with a 28–54 record. Moses Malone only played just eleven games this season due to a back injury. Edwards and Frank Brickowski both led the Bucks in scoring with 16.9 points per game. Following the season, Woolridge and Malone both left for free agency and signed with the Philadelphia 76ers.

neg: 1999–2000 Washington Wizards season The 1999–2000 NBA season was the Wizards' 39th season in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, the Wizards acquired Isaac Austin from the Orlando Magic, and signed free agents Aaron Williams and Michael Smith. The Wizards continued to under achieve with a 14–30 start as head coach Gar Heard was fired and replaced with Darrell Walker. Despite posting a solid 10–7 record in March, the Wizards finished last place in the Atlantic Division with a 29–53 record. Top draft pick Richard Hamilton averaged 9.0 points per game off the Wizards bench. However, the biggest news would involve the front office as retired Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan joined the team as Vice President. Following the season, Austin was traded to the Vancouver Grizzlies, Tracy Murray signed as a free agent with the Denver Nuggets, and Williams signed with the New Jersey Nets.

neg: 1975–76 Seattle SuperSonics season The 1975–76 Seattle SuperSonics season was the 9th season of the Seattle SuperSonics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The SuperSonics finished the season in second place in the Western Conference with a 43–39 record, the same as the previous year and reached the playoffs for a second consecutive season, where they lost to the Phoenix Suns in the Conference Semifinals in six games.

neg: 1989–90 Denver Nuggets season The 1989–90 NBA season was the Nuggets' 14th season in the National Basketball Association, and 23rd season as a franchise. The Nuggets got off to a fast start winning 11 of their first 15 games, on their way to a solid 19–9 start. However, they began to show their age as they barely made the playoffs with a mediocre record of 43–39, fourth in the Midwest Division. At midseason, the team acquired Joe Barry Carroll from the New Jersey Nets, while Fat Lever was selected for the 1990 NBA All-Star Game. In the first round of the playoffs, the Nuggets were swept by the San Antonio Spurs in three straight games. Following the season, an era would come to an end in Denver as head coach Doug Moe was fired, Alex English signed as a free agent with the Dallas Mavericks, while Lever was traded to the Mavericks and Barry Carroll was released.

neg: 1991–92 Milwaukee Bucks season The 1991–92 NBA season was the Bucks' 24th season in the National Basketball Association. In the offseason, the Bucks signed free agent and former All-Star Moses Malone. After a 8–9 start to the season, head coach Del Harris was fired and replaced with Frank Hamblen. Under Hamblen, the Bucks hovered around .500 for the first half of the season with a 22–24 record. However, their glory days came to a crashing end losing 27 of 36 games after the All-Star break. The Bucks went on an 11-game losing streak as they lost 14 of their final 15 games, finishing last place in the Central Division with a 31–51 record. Malone averaged 15.6 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. Following the season, Dale Ellis was traded to the San Antonio Spurs, Jay Humphries was dealt along with Larry Krystkowiak to the Utah Jazz, and Jeff Grayer signed as an unrestricted free agent with the Golden State Warriors.

neg: 1999–2000 Phoenix Suns season The 1999–2000 NBA season was the 32nd season for the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns. During the offseason, the Suns acquired All-Star guard Anfernee Hardaway from the Orlando Magic, and signed free agent Rodney Rogers while re-signing former Suns center Oliver Miller. Scott Skiles would come on as head coach, replacing Danny Ainge after a 13–7 start to the season. The Suns would finish third in the Pacific Division at 53–29, and extend the franchise's record for playoff appearances before losing in the Western Conference semifinals.

neg: 1997–98 Cleveland Cavaliers season The 1997–98 NBA season was the 28th season of the National Basketball Association in Cleveland, Ohio. In the offseason, the Cavaliers acquired All-Star forward Shawn Kemp from the Seattle SuperSonics in a three-team trade, and Wesley Person from the Phoenix Suns in another three-team trade. The Cavs went on a ten-game winning streak early into the season, and finished 5th in the Central Division with a 47–35 record, qualifying for the playoffs after a one-year absence. Kemp led the team in scoring and rebounding and was selected for the 1998 NBA All-Star Game, which would be his sixth and final All-Star appearance. Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Brevin Knight were both selected to the All-Rookie First Team, while Derek Anderson and Cedric Henderson both made the All-Rookie Second Team. However, the Cavaliers would lose in four games in the Eastern Conference first round of the playoffs to the Indiana Pacers, and they would not make it back to the postseason until 2006.


query: Beaconsfield has been represented by a Member of Parliment who has been described as what?

pos: Beaconsfield (UK Parliament constituency) Beaconsfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Dominic Grieve QC of the Conservative Party, the former Attorney General of England and Wales.

pos: Dominic Grieve Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 24 May 1956) is a British Conservative politician, barrister, Queen's Counsel and a Member of the Privy Council. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield since 1997, and served as Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland from May 2010 to July 2014, attending Cabinet. He left the office of Attorney General as part the Cabinet reshuffle of 14 July 2014, and was replaced by Jeremy Wright. Grieve has been described as a liberal conservative.

neg: Edward Eversfield Edward Eversfield (c. 1618 – c. 1676) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1661.

neg: Andrew MacKay Andrew James MacKay (born 27 August 1949) is a British Conservative Party politician, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bracknell in Berkshire from 1997 to 2010.

neg: Patrick J. Moore Patrick James Moore (December 22, 1863 – March 10, 1936) was an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as well as a member of the Common Council, Alderman, and Mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

neg: Newton Emerson Newton Emerson is a political commentator in Northern Ireland. He describes himself as a liberal unionist'. He writes in two newspapers, the "Sunday Times", and "The Irish News". He also contributes to "The Irish Times".

neg: Bakersfield Police Department The Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) is the agency responsible for law enforcement within the city of Bakersfield, California, in the United States. It has over 400 officers and staff, covering an area of 131 square miles (296.3 km) serving an urban population of more than 450,000. The current chief of the department, since 2016, is Lyle Martin. The department protects the city, split between two areas and six zones or beats with stations in each area aside from the main department headquarters. A lieutenant commands each zone. The department administration is made up of the chief of department, two assistant chiefs, four captains and eleven lieutenants.

neg: Libby Mettam Elizabeth "Libby" Mettam is an Australian politician. She has been the Liberal member for Vasse in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since a by-election held on 18 October 2014. She worked as a journalist with the ABC and Channel Nine before spending a decade on the staff of Barry House.

neg: Beaconsfield by-election, 1982 The Beaconsfield by-election, 1982 was a parliamentary by-election held on 27 May 1982 for the British House of Commons constituency of Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. It is notable for being the only election Tony Blair lost in his 25-year political career. He was elected to parliament for Sedgefield, County Durham in the following year's general election, became party leader in 1994 and went on to become prime minister with three consecutive general election wins.

neg: Beaconsfield (gallery) Beaconsfield is an artist-run gallery situated in Vauxhall, South London.

neg: Ed Doherty (politician) Edward Joseph "Ed" Doherty, (born May 22, 1949) is a New Brunswick ophthalmologist and politician, who has served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick representing the riding of Saint John Harbour.

neg: Mark Montigny Mark C. Montigny (born June 20, 1961) is a Massachusetts state senator for the Second Bristol and Plymouth district, which includes his hometown of New Bedford and several nearby towns. He is a Democrat who has served since 1993.

neg: Mairuth Sarsfield Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield, CQ (1925 – May 7, 2013) was a Canadian author, activist journalist, researcher and television personality. Sarsfield was an accomplished broadcaster, civil servant, and Canadian best-selling author.

neg: Jim Patterson (politician) James Norwood Patterson (born February 18, 1948) is an American politician serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Republican representing the 23rd district, which encompasses eastern Fresno County and a slice of Tulare County. Prior to being elected to the state assembly, he was a business executive, broadcaster, public speaker, and is the former mayor of Fresno, California.

neg: Edmund Leamy Edmund Leamy (1848 – 10 December 1904) was an Irish journalist, barrister, author of fairy tales, and nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, where as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party and leading supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell he represented various Irish seats for much of the period from 1880 until his death in 1904.

neg: Andrew Mitchell Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born 23 March 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. He was the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012, and then briefly as Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons until he resigned after losing the confidence of many of his colleagues following an alleged altercation with a police officer; referred to as "Plebgate".

neg: Garrett Byrne Garrett Michael Byrne (1829 – March 3, 1897) was an Irish nationalist and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented Co. Wexford, 1880–83, and West Wicklow, 1885-92. He was a strong supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell.

neg: Thomas Slingsby Duncombe Thomas Slingsby Duncombe (1796 – 13 November 1861) was a Radical politician, who was a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Hertford from 1826 to 1832 and for Finsbury from 1834 until his death. Duncombe was a tireless champion of radical causes in the 27 years he served the North East London borough of Finsbury. But he was equally well known for his style; he was, it was often said, "the handsomest and best-dressed man in the house," and his love for theatre, gaming and women were well publicized. Duncombe was elected and then returned to his seat seven times by the shopkeepers, artisans and laborers, the Nonconformists, Catholics, and Jews of Finsbury, making him the longest-sitting representative of a metropolitan borough in his day. His constituents called him "Honest Tom Duncombe" with great affection; to his detractors he was known as the "Dandy Demagogue" or the "Radical Dandy". His name was celebrated in working men’s newspapers and frequently mentioned in the gossip sheets of high society. Duncombe was, as "The Times" put it delicately upon his death, a "character".

neg: Kate Beecroft Kathleen Joan "Kate" Beecroft is a Manx politician who is the current Leader of the Liberal Vannin Party and has been a Member of the House of Keys for Douglas South since 2011.

neg: Beaconsfield railway station (Buckinghamshire) Beaconsfield railway station is a railway station in the town of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the Chiltern Main Line between and stations. It is served by Chiltern Railways.

neg: Bill Lockyer William Westwood Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is a veteran California politician, who held elective office from 1973 to 2015, as State Treasurer of California, California Attorney General, and President Pro Tempore of the California State Senate. Described by journalistic observers as one of the state's most "colorful" and "shrewdest" public officials, he has long been known to speak his mind with an uncommon frankness that occasionally caused him political embarrassment.

neg: Peter Welch Peter Francis Welch (born May 2, 1947) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has been serving as the U.S. Representative for Vermont 's at-large congressional  since 2007.


query: Monadnock Regional High School serves a town in which New Hampshire county?

pos: Monadnock Regional High School Monadnock Regional High School is a public school in Swanzey, New Hampshire. The school serves six towns in the Monadnock region, including Fitzwilliam, Gilsum, Richmond, Roxbury, Swanzey, and Troy. Monadnock was established in 1962 when the district was founded, and named after a nearby landmark, Mount Monadnock.

pos: Richmond, New Hampshire Richmond is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,155 at the 2010 census.

neg: Mount Monadnock Mount Monadnock, or Grand Monadnock, is a mountain in the New England state of New Hampshire, known for its presence in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It is the most prominent mountain peak in southern New Hampshire and is the highest point in Cheshire County, New Hampshire. It has long been known as one of the most frequently climbed mountains in the world.

neg: East Wakefield, New Hampshire East Wakefield is an unincorporated community in the town of Wakefield in Carroll County, New Hampshire. It is located in the eastern part of Wakefield along New Hampshire Route 153, 3 mi northeast of Wakefield village and directly south of Pine River Pond.

neg: Surry, New Hampshire Surry is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 732 at the 2010 census.

neg: Littleton (CDP), New Hampshire Littleton is a census-designated place (CDP) and the main village in the town of Littleton in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population of the CDP was 4,412 at the 2010 census, out of 5,928 people in the entire town of Littleton.

neg: Union, New Hampshire Union is a village and census-designated place in the town of Wakefield in Carroll County, New Hampshire. It had a population of 204 at the 2010 census.

neg: Pack Monadnock Pack Monadnock or Pack Monadnock Mountain 2290 ft , is the highest peak of the Wapack Range of mountains and the highest point in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. The mountain, a monadnock, is located in south-central New Hampshire within the towns of Peterborough and Temple. The 22 mi Wapack Trail and a number of shorter trails traverse the mountain. A firetower and ledges on the summit offer long views north to the White Mountains, west to Mount Monadnock, and south into Massachusetts. North Pack Monadnock Mountain is located directly to the north along the Wapack ridgeline; Temple Mountain to the south.

neg: East Hebron, New Hampshire East Hebron is an unincorporated community in the town of Hebron in Grafton County, New Hampshire.

neg: Grafton County, New Hampshire Grafton County is a county located in the state of New Hampshire, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 89,118. Its county seat is North Haverhill, which is a village within the town of Haverhill. Until 1972, the county courthouse and other offices were located in downtown Woodsville, a larger village within the town of Haverhill.

neg: Kingston, New Hampshire Kingston is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 6,025.

neg: Center Harbor, New Hampshire Center Harbor is a town located in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 1,096, a number which multiplies severalfold during the summer months. It is situated between Lake Winnipesaukee and Squam Lake.

neg: West Lebanon, New Hampshire West Lebanon is an unincorporated community (pop. approx 3,200) within the city of Lebanon, New Hampshire, on the Connecticut River. The area contains a major shopping plaza strip along New Hampshire Route 12A, serving the Upper Valley communities along Interstates 89 and 91. West Lebanon also hosts the Lebanon Municipal Airport, a number of small software and tech businesses, and a regional daily newspaper, the "Valley News". The village serves as a bedroom community for nearby Dartmouth College.

neg: Sutton, New Hampshire Sutton is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,837 at the 2010 census. Sutton includes the villages of Sutton Mills (shown as "Sutton" on topographic maps), North Sutton, South Sutton and East Sutton. North Sutton is home to Wadleigh State Park on Kezar Lake.

neg: Newbury, New Hampshire Newbury is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,072 at the 2010 census. Newbury is home to part of Lake Sunapee, including Mount Sunapee State Park Beach. Mount Sunapee Resort, a ski area in Mount Sunapee State Park, is in the west. The town includes the villages of Blodgett Landing and South Newbury.

neg: Littleton High School (New Hampshire) Littleton High School is located in the town of Littleton, New Hampshire.

neg: New Castle, New Hampshire New Castle is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 968 at the 2010 census. It is the smallest and easternmost town in New Hampshire, and the only one located entirely on islands. It is home to Fort Constitution Historic Site, Fort Stark Historic Site, and the New Castle Common, a 31 acre recreation area on the Atlantic Ocean. New Castle is also home to a United States Coast Guard station, as well as the historic Wentworth by the Sea hotel.

neg: Barnstead, New Hampshire Barnstead is a town in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,593 at the 2010 census. Home to the Suncook Lakes, Barnstead includes the villages of Center Barnstead, Barnstead Parade (identified as "Barnstead" on topographic maps) and South Barnstead.

neg: Guild, New Hampshire Guild (pronounced ) is an unincorporated community in the town of Newport in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, in the United States. It is located near the eastern boundary of Newport, along New Hampshire Routes 11 and 103. Route 11 proceeds east to Sunapee and New London, while Route 103 travels southeast to Newbury, Bradford, and Warner. Both routes travel west to the center of Newport and on to Claremont. The village is located along the Sugar River.

neg: Hollis, New Hampshire Hollis is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 7,684 at the 2010 census. The town center village is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Hollis Village Historic District.

neg: Center Ossipee, New Hampshire Center Ossipee is a census-designated place in the town of Ossipee in Carroll County, New Hampshire. The population was 561 at the 2010 census. It is one of two major villages in the town, the other being Ossipee Corner (shown simply as "Ossipee" on topographic maps).

neg: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire Wolfeboro is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,269 at the 2010 census. A resort area situated beside Lake Winnipesaukee, Wolfeboro includes the village of Wolfeboro Falls.


query: Nikolajs Štelbaums was forced to move to Siberia because of which mass deportation that took place in March 1949?

pos: Nikolajs Štelbaums Nikolajs Štelbaums or Nikolay Shtelbaums (Russian: Николай Штельбаумс ) (13 October 1933 Užava parish, Latvia - 3 April 2008 Omsk, Russia) is a former Soviet speedskater. As a child he was forced to move to Siberia along with his family in 1949, in connection with the Soviet mass deportation project Operation Priboi of more than 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians. During his skating career he lived in Omsk, skating for Burevestnik.

pos: Operation Priboi Operation Priboi ("Coastal Surf") was the code name for the Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949. The action is also known as the March deportation by Baltic historians. More than 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, labeled as enemies of the people, were deported to forced settlements in inhospitable areas of the Soviet Union. Over 70% of the deportees were women, and children under the age of 16.

neg: Rudolf Vrba Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba (11 September 1924 – 27 March 2006) was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenger in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He became known for having escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and for co-writing a detailed report about the mass murder that was taking place there. Distribution of the report is credited with having halted the mass deportation of Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz in July 1944, saving over 200,000 lives. After the war Vrba became a noted biochemist in England and Canada.

neg: Sobibór extermination camp Sobibór (or Sobibor , or , ] ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built and operated by the SS near the railway station of Sobibór during World War II, within the semi-colonial territory of General Government of the occupied Second Polish Republic. The camp was part of the secretive Operation Reinhard, which marked the deadliest phase of the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland. The camp was situated near the rural county's major town of Włodawa (called "Wolzek" by the Germans), 85 km south of the provincial capital, Brest-on-the-Bug (Brześć nad Bugiem in Polish). Its official German name was "SS-Sonderkommando Sobibór". Jews from Poland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union (including Jewish-Soviet POWs), were transported to Sobibór by rail. Most were suffocated in gas chambers fed by the exhaust of a large petrol engine. Up to 200,000 people were murdered at Sobibór and possibly more. At the postwar trial against the former "SS" personnel of Sobibór, held in Hagen two decades into the Cold War, Professor Wolfgang Scheffler estimated the number of murdered Jews totalled a minimum of 250,000. This would make it the fourth worst extermination camp, after Bełżec, Treblinka, and Auschwitz.

neg: Guerrilla war in the Baltic states The Guerrilla war in the Baltic states or the Forest Brothers resistance movement was the armed struggle against Soviet rule that spanned from 1944 to the mid-1950s. After the occupation of the Baltic territories by the Soviets in 1944, an insurgency started. According to some estimates, 10,000 partisans in Estonia, 10,000 partisans in Latvia and 30,000 partisans in Lithuania and many more supporters were involved. This war continued as an organised struggle until 1956 when the superiority of the Soviet military caused the native population to adopt other forms of resistance. While estimates related to the extent of partisan movement vary, but there seems to be a consensus among researchers that by international standards, the Baltic guerrilla movements were extensive. Proportionally, the partisan movement in the post-war Baltic states was of a similar size as the Viet Cong movement in South Vietnam.

neg: Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland were established during World War II in hundreds of locations across occupied Poland. Most Jewish ghettos had been created by Nazi Germany between October 1939 and July 1942 in order to confine and segregate Poland's Jewish population of about 3.5 million for the purpose of persecution, terror, and exploitation. In smaller towns, ghettos often served as staging points for Jewish slave-labor and mass deportation actions, while in the urban centers they resembled walled-off prison-islands described by some historians as little more than instruments of "slow, passive murder," with dead bodies littering the streets.

neg: Great Siberian Ice March The Great Siberian Ice march (Russian: Великий Сибирский Ледяной поход, "Velikiy Sibirskiy Ledyanoy pokhod") was the winter retreat of Vladimir Kappel's White Russian Army in the course of the Russian Civil War in January–February 1920.

neg: Swedish Emigration Commission The Swedish Emigration Commission (Swedish: "Emigrationsutredningen" ), was a commission that existed between 1907 and 1913 that was mandated by the Swedish Riksdag to try to reduce Swedish emigration to the United States. In the 19th century, Sweden had had one of the highest rates of emigration to North America in all of Europe, the third highest after Ireland and Norway. By 1910, one fifth of all Swedes had their homes in America. The situation alarmed conservative Swedes, who regarded emigration as a challenge to national solidarity and to the very nation state itself, already seemingly under threat from trade unionism and the international socialist movement. The liberal interest, which had in the 19th century favored emigration as a practical necessity, by now also saw it as a net drain, depriving Sweden of the labor necessary for economic development. Both camps shared a perception, disturbing in a Europe where the forces of war were gathering, that young, male Swedes were fleeing to America to escape military service.

neg: Committee of Secretaries-General The Committee of Secretaries-General (French: "Comité des Sécretaires-généraux" , Dutch: "Comité van de secretarissen-generaal" ) was a Belgian technocratic administrative panel created during World War II. The Committee comprised the head civil servants of most government ministries (who each held the title Secretary-General) and formed a part of the German occupation administration of Belgium between 1940 and 1944, being an integral role in the Belgian policy of "lesser evil" collaboration. From August 1940, the Germans began introducing new members, and by 1941 its composition was almost completely different. Among those promoted were pro-Germans like Victor Leemans and Gérard Romsée, who had been involved in Belgian Fascist movements before the war. They helped to facilitate the more radical administrative reforms demanded by the Germans, although the Committee refused to involve itself in the deportation of Belgian Jews. As the visible face of the German administration, the Committee became more and more unpopular as the war progressed. Following the Allied liberation of Belgium in 1944, several members of the Committee were prosecuted for collaboration but several members, including Leemans, went on to political careers in post-war Belgium.

neg: Rosenstrasse protest The Rosenstrasse protest was a collective street protest on Rosenstraße ("Rose street") in Berlin during February and March 1943. It was initiated and sustained by the non-Jewish ("Aryan") wives and relatives of Jewish men who had been arrested for deportation. The protests by these intermarried German women continued until the men were released. It was the only continuous street demonstration by Germans against the deportation of the Jews.

neg: Greek Operation of the NKVD The Greek Operation (Russian: Греческая Операция , translit. Grecheskaya Operatsiya; Ukrainian: Грецька операція ) was an organised mass persecution of the 450,000 Greeks of the Soviet Union that was ordered by Joseph Stalin. Greeks often use the term "pogrom" (πογκρόμ) for this persecution, though this term usually refers to mob violence rather than persecution by police acting under direct orders, as this one was. It began on December 15, 1937 and marked the beginning of the repressions against Greeks went on for 13 years.

neg: Deportation of the Crimean Tatars The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar "Qırımtatar sürgünligi"; Russian "Депортация крымских татар"; Ukrainian "Депортація кримських татар") refers to the ethnic cleansing of Tatars from Crimea on 18 May 1944 carried out by Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet security and secret police, under the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Within a space of three days, the Soviet NKVD deported at least 191,044 Crimean Tatar people in cattle trains—including women, children, and the elderly, as well as Communists and members of the Red Army−several thousands kilometers away to modern-day Uzbekistan. The deportation was ordered by Stalin as collective punishment for the 15,000–20,000 Tatars who had joined the Wehrmacht during the German occupation of Crimea in World War II, even though 25,033 Crimean Tatars had joined the Soviet Red Army during the war.

neg: Reinholds Bērziņš Reinholds Bērziņš was a Russian and Soviet military leader from Livonia, victim of the Great Purge in 1938.

neg: Walter Blume (SS officer) Walter Blume (23 July 1906 – 13 November 1974) was a mid-ranking SS commander and leader of "Sonderkommando" 7a, part of the extermination commando group Einsatzgruppe B. The unit perpetrated the killings of thousands of Jews in Belarus and Russia. Blume was responsible for the deportation of over 46,000 Greek Jews to Auschwitz.

neg: Szebnie concentration camp The Szebnie concentration camp (German: "Lager Szebnie" ) was established during World War II by Germany, within the semi-colonial territory of General Government in the south-eastern part of occupied Poland. It was located near the town of Szebnie approximately 10 km east of Jasło and 42 km south-west of Rzeszów. The facility was constructed in 1940 originally as horse stables for the Wehrmacht, adjacent to a manorial estate where the German officers stationed (photo). Over the course of the camp's operation thousands of people perished there, including Soviet prisoners of war, Polish Jews, non-Jewish Poles, Ukrainians, and Romani people. The charred remains of the camp were entered by the Soviets on

neg: NKVD special camp Nr. 7 NKVD special camp Nr. 7 was a NKVD special camp that operated in Weesow until August 1945 and in Sachsenhausen from August 1945 until the spring of 1950. It was used by the Soviet occupying forces to detain political prisoners.

neg: Częstochowa Ghetto The Częstochowa Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews in the city of Częstochowa during the German occupation of Poland. The approximate number of people confined to the ghetto was around 40,000 at the beginning and in late 1942 at its peak – right before mass deportations – 48,000. Most ghetto inmates were delivered by the Holocaust trains to their deaths at the Treblinka extermination camp. In June 1943, the remaining ghetto inhabitants launched the Częstochowa Ghetto uprising, which was extinguished by the "SS" after a few days of fighting.

neg: Heim ins Reich The Heim ins Reich (] ; meaning "back home to the Reich") was a foreign policy pursued by Adolf Hitler during World War II, beginning in 1938. The aim of Hitler's initiative was to convince all "Volksdeutsche" (ethnic Germans) who were living outside Nazi Germany (e.g. in Austria, Czechoslovakia and the western districts of Poland) that they should strive to bring these regions "home" into Greater Germany, but also, relocate from territories that were not under German control, following the conquest of Poland in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet pact. The "Heim ins Reich" manifesto targeted areas ceded in Versailles to the newly reborn nation of Poland, as well as other areas that were inhabited by significant German populations such as the Sudetenland, Danzig, and the south-eastern and north-eastern regions of Europe after October 6, 1939.

neg: Svirlag Svirlag, SvirLAG (Svirskiy Lager' - Svir Concentration-Camp, Russian: Свирлаг , also Свирьлаг / СвирЛАГ - Свирский концентрационно трудовой лагерь ) was a Soviet forced labour camp run by NKVD's GULAG Directorate. It was located on the river Svir (hence the name Svirskiy in Russian) in the forests by the town Lodeynoye Pole, 244 km north-east of Saint Petersburg, in Leningrad oblast, Vepsland - the land of the Vepses, operated in the 1930s (Joseph Stalin's time) and onwards. SvirLAG concentration camp was supplier of wood to Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

neg: Metgethen massacre The Metgethen massacre (German: "Massaker von Metgethen" ) was a massacre of 36 German civilians by the Red Army in the Königsberg, East Prussia, suburb Metgethen, which is now Imeni Alexandra Kosmodemyanskogo in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, in or around January–February 1945.

neg: Siberiade Siberiade (Russian: Сибириада , translit. "Sibiriada") is a 1979 epic Soviet film in four parts, spanning much of the 20th century. It was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, working for the Mosfilm studio.

neg: Šiauliai Offensive The Šiauliai Offensive (Russian: Шяуляйская наступательная ) was an operation of the Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front, commanded by General Hovhannes Bagramyan, conducted from July 5 to August 29, 1944, during the Second World War. It was part of the third phase of the Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation (also known as Operation Bagration), and drove German troops from much of Lithuania, with the main tactical objective of the city of Šiauliai (Russian: Шяуля́й , German: "Schaulen" ).


query: Nick Bell is the Vice President of the company whose CEO was named youngest billionaire in the world in what year?

pos: Nick Bell (businessman) Nick Bell (born 17 December 1983) is an English Businessman and currently serves as Vice President of Content at Snap Inc, makers of Snapchat where he reports to CEO Evan Spiegel. Bell was formerly Senior Vice President of Digital at News Corporation. He is known for his entrepreneurial ventures setting up a group of websites during the dot com boom of the late nineties, earning almost a million pounds from the sale of Teenfront.com at the age of 16. His later ventures included a sunbed and spray tanning company inside Tesco stores and an audiovisual equipment company. Bell attended The Royal Grammar School, Newcastle.

pos: Evan Spiegel Evan Thomas Spiegel (born June 4, 1990) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc., which he created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University. Spiegel was named the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015.

neg: Nicholas John Benson Nick "Bomber" Benson (born 26 November 1961) was the CEO of the Sunterra Corporation, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

neg: Virgin Group Virgin Group Ltd. is a British multinational corporation venture capital conglomerate founded by entrepreneurs Sir Richard Branson and Nik Powell.

neg: Domenic Carosa Domenic Carosa (born 1974) is an Australian businessman from Melbourne, Australia. Carosa was the co-founder of the digital music company, Destra Corporation. At the age of 25, Destra was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, making Carosa the youngest CEO to manage a company on the Securities Exchange in Australian history.

neg: Carol Jenkins Barnett Carol Jenkins Barnett (born September 30, 1956) is an American philanthropist and businesswoman, the daughter of George W. Jenkins, the founder of Publix Super Markets. Jenkins Barnett has served as president of Publix Super Markets Charities and as a member of the board of directors of Publix Super Markets. She has been included in a Forbes magazine list of The World's Billionaires every year since 2008.

neg: Nestlé Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss transnational food and drink company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It has been the largest food company in the world, measured by revenues and other metrics, for 2014, 2015, and 2016. It ranked No. 72 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2014 and No. 33 on the 2016 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest public companies.

neg: Jim Breyer James W. Breyer (born July 1961) is an American venture capitalist, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, an investment and venture philanthropy firm, and a partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm. Breyer has invested in over 30 companies that have gone public or completed a merger, with some of these investments, including Facebook, earning over 100 times cost and many others over 25 times cost. On the "Forbes" 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.

neg: George Bishop (businessman) George H. Bishop (born 1937) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of GeoSouthern Energy, a US oil company. On the "Forbes" 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.

neg: S. P. Hinduja Srichand Parmanand Hinduja (born 28 November 1935) is an Indian-born British billionaire business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the primary shareholder and chairman of Hinduja Group of companies. As of May 2017, together with his brother Gopichand he is the UK's richest man. Since the 1990s, he has been consistently ranked among the UK and Asia's wealthiest people. In May 2017, Hinduja topped the "Sunday Times" Rich List with an estimated wealth of GBP 16.2 billion ($21 billion). Based on the rich list compiled by Asian Media & Marketing Group, Hinduja's wealth is estimated at GBP 19 billion ($24.7 billion). The "Forbes" List in March 2016 ranked him and his brother GP as the world's 58th richest billionaire family with an estimated wealth of $16.4 billion.

neg: Nick Hayek Jr. Georges Nicolas "Nick" Hayek Jr. (born 23 October 1954) is a Swiss-Lebanese businessman.

neg: Dan Olsson Dan Sten Olsson (born February 1947) is a Swedish billionaire businessman, the CEO and majority owner (51%) of Stena Sphere.

neg: Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (] ; born 27 December 1947) is the former president and CEO of The Lego Group (1979–2004). According to "Forbes", Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is the richest Dane with a net worth of $21.2 billion as of March 2017.

neg: Emmanuel Besnier Emmanuel Besnier (born 18 September 1970) is a French heir, businessman and philanthropist. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Lactalis. He is known as "the invisible billionaire."

neg: Guido Barilla Guido Barilla (born 30 July 1958) is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the chairman and CEO of Barilla Group, the world's largest pasta company, which is 85% owned by Guido, his brothers Paolo and Luca, and a sister.

neg: Jeffrey J. Rothschild Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild is an American billionaire who co-founded of several companies. He is a founding engineer and large shareholder of Facebook.

neg: Vince Thompson Vince Thompson (born 1963) is an American businessman, venture capitalist, author, and the founder and managing partner of Middleshift.

neg: Viktor Vekselberg Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg (Russian: Виктор Феликсович Вексельберг , Ukrainian: Віктор Феліксович Вексельберг ; born 14 April 1957) is a Ukrainian-born Russian businessman. He is the owner and president of Renova Group, a large Russian conglomerate. According to "Forbes", his fortune is estimated at $13.6 billion, making him the fourth richest person in Russia, as of August 4, 2015.

neg: Robert F. Smith (investor) Robert Frederick Smith (born December 1, 1962) is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. A former chemical engineer and investment banker, he is the founder, chairman and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Smith was ranked by "Forbes" in 2016 as the 274th richest person in America, the second wealthiest African American on the list after Oprah Winfrey. He was #688 on "Forbes" 2016 list of the world's billionaires, with a net worth of US$3 billion.. In 2017, Smith was named by "Forbes" as one of the 100 greatest living business minds.

neg: Dow Corning Dow Corning is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. Originally established as a joint venture between the Dow Chemical Company and Corning Incorporated, it is now owned by DowDuPont and specializes in silicone and silicon-based technology, and is the largest silicone product producer in the world.

neg: Andrew Currie (businessman) Andrew Christopher Currie (born December 1955) is a British billionaire businessman.

neg: Robin Watson Robin Watson (born February 1967) is a British businessman. He is the chief executive (CEO) of Wood Group, a British multinational oil and gas services company headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland.


query: Are John Collier and Martin Amis the same nationality?

pos: John Collier (fiction writer) John Henry Noyes Collier (3 May 1901 – 6 April 1980) was a British-born author and screenwriter best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in "The New Yorker" from the 1930s to the 1950s. Most were collected in "The John Collier Reader" (Knopf, 1972); earlier collections include a 1951 volume, the famous "Fancies and Goodnights", which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in print. Individual stories are frequently anthologized in fantasy collections. John Collier's writing has been praised by authors such as Anthony Burgess, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman, Michael Chabon, Wyndham Lewis, and Paul Theroux. He appears to have given few interviews in his life; those include conversations with biographer Betty Richardson, Tom Milne, and Max Wilk.

pos: Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist. His best-known novels are "Money" (1984) and "London Fields" (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir "Experience" and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (shortlisted in 1991 for "Time's Arrow" and longlisted in 2003 for "Yellow Dog"). Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. In 2008, "The Times" named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

neg: Martin Edwards (author) Martin Edwards (born 7 July 1955), whose full name is Kenneth Martin Edwards, is a British crime novelist, critic and solicitor.

neg: Jean Martinelli Jean Martinelli (1910–1983) was a French actor who appeared in over 50 French films between 1933 and 1983, mostly in supporting roles. One of his few international films was Alfred Hitchcock's classic film "To Catch a Thief" (1955), where he played the role of a one-legged waiter. Martinelli also worked in television and theatre.

neg: Dylan Taylor (executive) Dylan Taylor (born October 23, 1970) is an American executive and super angel investor best known for being the Global President of Colliers International.

neg: Ian Collier Ian Collier (25 January 1943 – 1 October 2008) was a British actor.

neg: Antony Allen Antony William Allen (22 December 1912 – 21 December 2003) was an English first-class cricketer.

neg: Thomas Martin (Conservative politician) Thomas Ballantyne Martin (13 November 1901 – 28 January 1995) was a British politician, stockbroker and journalist. After an early career as a private secretary he was unexpectedly elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament in Blaydon, a traditionally extremely secure Labour constituency. After standing up in Parliament for the local mining industry he opted out of defending his seat, and could not find election elsewhere; he then became a political journalist. After wartime service in intelligence, he supported Winston Churchill's attempt to bring European unity and then became a stockbroker. A very clubbable man, he attracted interest in the 1990s as a rare survivor of the pre-Second World War Parliament.

neg: Mitty Collier Mitty Lene Collier (born June 21, 1941) is an American church pastor, gospel singer and former rhythm and blues singer. She had a number of successful records in the 1960s, of which probably the best known is "I Had A Talk With My Man".

neg: Other People (novel) Other People is a novel by British writer Martin Amis, published in 1981.

neg: Damian Collier Damian Collier is a British producer, entrepreneur and business consultant for music, film, TV and stage.

neg: John Truscott John Truscott (23 February 1936 – 5 September 1993) was an Australian actor, production designer, costume designer and artistic director. He won two Academy Awards for his work on the 1967 film "Camelot".

neg: Graham Collier James Graham Collier OBE (21 February 1937 – 9 September 2011) was an English jazz bassist, bandleader and composer.

neg: J. P. Martin J. P. (John Percival) Martin (1879 – 24 March 1966) was an English author best known for his "Uncle" series of children's stories.

neg: Alan Martin (footballer, born 1923) John Alan Martin (23 November 1923 – 2004) was an English footballer who played as a half-back and inside-forward. A pacey and intelligent player, he scored 94 goals in 292 league appearances in eleven years in the Football League.

neg: Norman Collier Norman Collier (25 December 1925 – 14 March 2013) was a British comedian who achieved popularity following television appearances in the 1970s. He was best known for his 'faulty microphone' routine and for his chicken impressions.

neg: Jean Martinon Jean Francisque-Étienne Martinon (usually known simply as Jean Martinon (] ); 10 January 19101 March 1976) was a French conductor and composer.

neg: Martin Fry Martin David Fry (born 9 March 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.

neg: Antoine Nicolas Collier Antoine Nicolas Collier, Comte de La Marlière (3 December 1745 – 27 November 1793), was a French Army officer and Republican General during the Wars of the French Revolution.

neg: Jean Amila Jean Amila (Paris, 24 November 1910 – 6 March 1995, also known as John Amila, Jean Mekert, or Jean Meckert) was a French author and screenwriter.

neg: Jeremy Collier Jeremy Collier ( ; 23 September 1650 – 26 April 1726) was an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian.

neg: Derek Collier Derek Collier (1927–2008), who is the maternal grandfather of Jacob Collier, was an English violinist and former leader of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.