query: The man who the novel "Strandloper" is based on lived with what community after being given up for dead?

pos: Strandloper (novel) Strandloper is a novel by English writer Alan Garner, published in 1996. It is loosely based on the story of a Cheshire labourer, William Buckley. The historical figures of Edward Stanley and John Batman also appear as characters in the novel.

pos: William Buckley (convict) William Buckley (178030 January 1856) was an English convict who was transported to Australia, escaped, was given up for dead, and lived in an Aboriginal community for many years.

neg: Fred Lowry Thomas Frederick "Fred" Lowry (1836 – 30 August 1865) was an Australian bushranger and member of the Frank Gardiner–Ben Hall gang. Born near Fish River in New South Wales, he was a stockman before taking to bushranging, mainly in and around the Blue Mountains. Throughout 1862 and 1863, Lowry was involved in shootings, an escape from prison, and robberies, including the bail up of the Mudgee Mail which earned him and his companions £6,000, the largest haul in bushranging history since the Lachlan Gold Escort robbery the previous year. In August 1863, Lowry was cornered by police inside a hotel outside Goulburn and engaged them in a gun battle, during which he was fatally shot in the throat. Before losing consciousness, he told the policemen, "Tell 'em I died game!" It is for these iconic last words that Lowry is chiefly remembered.

neg: Melville Davisson Post Melville Davisson Post (April 19, 1869 – June 23, 1930) was an American author, born in Harrison County, West Virginia. Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles, many of his collections are still in print, and many collections of detective fiction include works by him. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. The 22 Uncle Abner tales, written between 1911 and 1928, have been called some of "the finest mysteries ever written".

neg: Theodore Edward Coneys "Denver Spiderman" was the name given to Theodore Edward Coneys (November 10, 1882 – May 16, 1967), an American drifter who committed a murder in 1941 and subsequently occupied the attic of the victim's home for nine months.

neg: Ted Bundy Theodore Robert Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s, and possibly earlier. Shortly before his execution—after more than a decade of denials—he confessed to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true victim count remains unknown, and could be much higher.

neg: Kai Henning Bothildsen Nielsen Kai Henning Bothildsen Nielsen (4 December 1919 – 9 May 1947) was a Danish national socialist who became a member of the Peter group in Denmark during the Second World War. He participated in numerous operations to murder and bomb civilians and public servants as collective punishment whenever the Danish resistance carried out an operation. Bothildsen was after the war convicted for 57 murders, 9 attempted murders and 116 sabotage events and given a death sentence which was eventually ratified by the Danish Supreme Court. He was executed on 9 May 1947 in Copenhagen.

neg: Guadalupe Reyes Guadalupe Reyes (1918 – December 31, 2000) was an American activist and community leader.

neg: Mel Lyman Melvin James Lyman (March 24, 1938 – March 1978) was an American musician, writer, and founder of the Fort Hill Community, which has been variously described as a family, commune, or cult.

neg: Harry Kemp Harry Hibbard Kemp (December 15, 1883 – August 5, 1960) was an American poet and prose writer of the twentieth century. He was known as (and promoted himself as) the "Vagabond Poet", the "Villon of America", the "Hobo Poet", or the "Tramp Poet", and was a well-known popular literary figure of his era, the "hero of adolescent Americans."

neg: Leonard Roy Frank Leonard Roy Frank (July 15, 1932 – January 15, 2015,) was an American human rights activist, psychiatric survivor, editor, writer, aphorist, and lecturer.

neg: Timothy Joseph McGhee Timothy Joseph McGhee (born April 27, 1973) is a convicted killer and Toonerville Rifa 13 gang member of Scottish and Mexican descent from the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. He is alleged to have been responsible for at least 12 homicides between 1997 and 2001, three of which led to convictions. McGhee is also suspected of at least 10 attempted murders, four of which led to convictions.

neg: Howard Unruh Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer (sometimes classified as a spree killer) who killed 13 people (including three children) during a 12-minute walk through his neighborhood on September 6, 1949, in Camden, New Jersey, when he was 28 years old. The incident became known as the "Walk of Death". Unruh was found to be criminally insane, and died in 2009 after a lengthy illness at the age of 88, following 60 years of confinement.

neg: Józef Stawinoga Józef Stawinoga (15 December 1920 – 28 October 2007), also known as Fred and incorrectly reported as Josef, was a homeless Polish man who lived in a tent on the Wolverhampton Ring Road in the West Midlands, England for nearly 40 years. Little is known about the recluse, but he is thought to have been involved in the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, before emigrating to the UK in the 1940s.

neg: John Felton Parish John Felton Parish (July 4, 1933 – August 9, 1982) was an American mass murderer who shot dead six people and wounded three others at two warehouses in Grand Prairie, Texas, United States on August 9, 1982. Afterwards, while driving a hijacked semi-trailer truck, he led police on a high-speed chase through Grand Prairie downtown that ended only when he broke through a police barricade, injuring an officer, and crashed into a building. He was subsequently killed by police during a shootout.

neg: Elmer McCurdy Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American bank and train robber who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a Katy Train in Oklahoma in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1960s. After changing ownership several times, McCurdy's remains eventually wound up at The Pike amusement zone in Long Beach, California where they were discovered by a film crew and positively identified in December 1976.

neg: Harry Halpern Harry Halpern (February 4, 1899 – June 10, 1981) was an American religious and community leader, a powerful orator, a respected religious educator, and a prominent Conservative rabbi who served for almost 49 years as the rabbi of the East Midwood Jewish Center (EMJC), in Brooklyn, New York.

neg: Fuiono Senio Fuiono Senio (died 17 May 1997) was a chief and environmentalist from Falealupo village on the island of Savai'i in Western Samoa. A logging company offered funds to the Samoan government to build a school for Senio's village if they could log the rainforest nearby. As the loggers were about to get to work, a visiting biologists offered to raise funds if logging stopped. The village elders agreed to accept the offer and set aside the rainforest from the coast to the interior ridge of Savai'i, as a rainforest preserve. The loggers returned, and Senio ran in front of them and threatened them with a machete, telling them to go away. This brave act became well known throughout the South Pacific, where similar problems affected many poor island communities. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1997, shared with Paul Alan Cox, for their contributions to the protection of rainforests of Falealupo. He died of liver cancer a month after receiving the Goldman prize.

neg: Poldek Pfefferberg Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg (March 20, 1913 – March 9, 2001), also known as Leopold Page, was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel "Schindler's Ark", which in turn was the basis for Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's List".

neg: Frank Gust Frank Gust (born May 24, 1969 in Oberhausen) is a German serial killer. He has been dubbed "Rhein-Ruhr-Ripper" by the media, because his actions show similarities with Jack the Ripper and mainly committed in the Rhine-Ruhr region in western Germany.

neg: James Reeb James Reeb (January 1, 1927 – March 11, 1965) was an American Unitarian Universalist minister, pastor and activist during the Civil rights movement in Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts. While participating in the Selma to Montgomery marches actions in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, he was murdered by white segregationists, dying of head injuries in the hospital two days after being severely beaten.

neg: Johann Heinrich Arnold Johann Heinrich Arnold, also called Heini, (23 December 1913 - 23 July 1982) was the Elder, that is leader, of the Bruderhof Communities from 1962 until his death in 1982.


query: Who was the producer for the group The Shelor Family?

pos: Shelor Family The Shelor Family (also known as Dad Blackard’s Moonshiners) was an American folk music group formed in Meadows of Dan, Virginia in the 1920s. Their music, which was recorded during the Bristol sessions in 1927, had a profound impact on country and bluegrass music. The original family band included Joe Blackard (banjo, vocals), his daughter Clarice (piano, vocals), Jesse Shelor (fiddle, vocals) and Pyrhus Shelor (fiddle), and later resurfaced on an album of field recordings arranged in 1975.

pos: Bristol sessions The Bristol Sessions are considered the "Big Bang" of modern country music. They were held in 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee by Victor Talking Machine Company producer Ralph Peer. Bristol was one of the stops on a two-month, $60,000 trip that took Peer through several major southern cities and yielded important recordings of blues, ragtime, gospel, ballads, topical songs, and string bands. The Bristol Sessions marked the commercial debuts of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. As a result of the influence of these recording sessions, Bristol has been called the "birthplace of country music". Since 2014, the town has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.

neg: Habersham (producer) Habersham is the production alias of Damon Fonooni. Habersham has released over a dozen singles on labels such as Audio Therapy and Bedrock Records. He is also one-third of the producer trio of The Operators along with Phil K and Dave Preston. He also appeared as a special guest producer on Lostep's album "Because We Can".

neg: Funk or Walk Funk or Walk is the debut album by the Brides of Funkenstein, released on Atlantic Records in September 1978. The album was produced by George Clinton with the exception of the album's first single "Disco To Go" which was written and produced by Clinton and Bootsy Collins. The Brides of Funkenstein consisted of Lynn Mabry and Dawn Silva, who were members of Sly and the Family Stone prior to joining P-Funk. Funk Or Walk earned these extraordinary divas a Record World Award for Best New Female Artists and Best New R&B Group in 1979. The song was originally performed live by Bootsy's Rubber Band. To this day, the P-Funk All Stars continue to play "Disco To Go" in their live concerts. The Brides of Funkenstein also toured and recorded with Parliament/Funkadelic around this same time.

neg: Julie Gardner Julie Ann Gardner, MBE (born 4 June 1969) is a Welsh television producer. Her most prominent work has been serving as executive producer on the 2005 revival of "Doctor Who" and its spin-off shows "Torchwood" and "The Sarah Jane Adventures". She worked on "Doctor Who" from 2003 to 2009 before moving to Los Angeles to work at BBC Worldwide.

neg: Peter Noah Peter Noah is an American television writer and producer. He served as an executive producer and regular writer for the NBC drama "The West Wing". Noah first became involved with the series as a consulting producer and regular writer for the fifth season and was promoted to supervising producer before the season's end. He continued in this role for the sixth season before becoming an executive producer for the seventh and final season.

neg: Lauren Christy Lauren Christy (born 19 November 1967) is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. Originally a solo artist, she found success as part of the writing production trio The Matrix. The Matrix received numerous Grammy nominations, through which Christy became the sixth woman to be nominated for a Grammy producer award.

neg: Tracey Edmonds Tracey Elaine Edmonds (née McQuarn; February 18, 1967) is an American businesswoman, television producer and personality. She is the CEO of Edmonds Entertainment Group Inc and COO of Our Stories Films and is a host on the television show "Extra". She currently sits on the national board of directors for the Producers Guild of America.

neg: Record producer A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process. The roles of a producer vary. They may gather musical ideas for the project, collaborate with the artists to select cover tunes or original songs by the artist/group, work with artists and help them to improve their songs, lyrics or arrangements.

neg: Sheléa Sheléa Frazier also known as Sheléa is an African-American singer, songwriter. She cites Whitney Houston as her musical inspiration and Stevie Wonder as a mentor.

neg: Gibb-Galuten-Richardson Gibb-Galuten-Richardson were a British-American record producing team, consisting of Bee Gees founding member and British singer-songwriter Barry Gibb, American musician and songwriter Albhy Galuten and American sound engineer Karl Richardson. They produced albums and singles for Andy Gibb, Samantha Sang, Frankie Valli, Teri DeSario, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and Diana Ross.

neg: Speer Family The Speer Family was a Southern gospel family musical group. It was founded in 1921 by George Thomas ("Dad") Speer (1891–1966), his wife, Lena Darling ("Mom") Speer (née Brock; 1899–1967), and his sister and brother-in-law, Pearl Claborn (1902–1979) and Logan Claborn (William Logan Claborn; 1896–1981).

neg: Perry Lafferty Perry Francis Lafferty (October 3, 1917 – August 25, 2005) was an American television producer and network television executive who produced several television programs, including the CBS programs "All in the Family", "M*A*S*H", "Maude" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". With NBC, he produced the 1985 television movie "An Early Frost", one of the first dramatic films to deal with the subject of HIV/AIDS.

neg: Marc Warren (TV producer) Marc Warren is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for work on the series "Full House", "Even Stevens" and "That's So Raven," all of which he worked on with fellow producer and writer Dennis Rinsler.

neg: Sidney Glazier Sidney Glazier (May 29, 1916 – December 14, 2002) was an American film producer best known for his work on the Mel Brooks film "The Producers".

neg: Warren Steibel Warren Steibel (1925-2002) was an American producer and director. He worked in the television and film industry throughout his career, and is perhaps best remembered for his long friendship with William F. Buckley Jr., both of whom collaborated on the production of "Firing Line" from April 1966 until its final broadcast at the end of 1999.

neg: George W. Perkins (television producer) George W. Perkins is an American producer of films and television series, most known for being one of the producers of the dramedy "Desperate Housewives", of which he is one of the executive producers since 2006.

neg: Michael Dinner Michael Dinner (born June 5, 1953) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter for television. Prior to his TV career, he was a recording artist for Fantasy Records.

neg: Robin Green Robin Green is an American writer and producer. She was an executive producer on the HBO series "The Sopranos". She was a creator and executive producer for "Blue Bloods".

neg: Neville Farmer Neville MacKenzie Farmer (born 17 January 1960) is a British music, television and film producer, composer, performer and music industry commentator.

neg: J. H. Wyman Joel Howard "J. H." Wyman (born January 5, 1967) is an executive producer, screenwriter, director and musician.

neg: The Cox Family The Cox Family is an American bluegrass music group from Cotton Valley in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States. The Cox Family can be heard on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, and their 1994 collaboration with Alison Krauss ("I Know Who Holds Tomorrow") won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album.


query: Which genus of plant life is more palm like, Pandanus or Eriogonum?

pos: Pandanus Pandanus is a genus of monocots with some 750 accepted species. They are palm-like, dioecious trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics and subtropics. Common names include pandan ( ), screw palm, and screw pine. They are classified in the order Pandanales, family Pandanaceae.

pos: Eriogonum Eriogonum is the scientific name for a genus of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae. The genus is found in North America and is known as wild buckwheat. This is a highly species-rich genus, and indications are that active speciation is continuing. It includes some common wildflowers such as the California buckwheat ("Eriogonum fasciculatum").

neg: Iriartea Iriartea is a genus in the palm family Arecaceae, native to Central and South America. The best-known species – and probably the only one – is Iriartea deltoidea, which is found from Nicaragua south into Bolivia and a great portion of Western Amazonian basin. It is the most common tree in many forests in which it occurs. It is known by such names as bombona (which can also refer to other palms, e.g. "Attalea regia") or cacho de vaca (which can refer to many other plants, like the Bignoniaceae "Godmania aesculifolia" or the orchid "Myrmecophila humboldtii"). In the Murui Huitoto language of southwestern Colombia, it is called "jɨagɨna" or "jɨaìgɨna", in western Ecuador it is known as pambil and in Peru it is known as the pona palm.

neg: Beaucarnea recurvata Beaucarnea recurvata (elephant's foot, ponytail palm) is a species of plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to the states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz and San Luis Potosí in eastern Mexico. Despite its common name, it is not closely related to the true palms (Arecaceae). It has become popular in Europe and worldwide as an ornamental plant. There are 350-year-old Beaucarneas registered in Mexico.

neg: Eriope Eriope is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1833. It is native to South America, many of the species endemic to Brazil.

neg: Rhynchoglossum Rhynchoglossum is a genus of plant in family Gesneriaceae. In recent times, members of the former genus "Klugia" are also included. Species within the broader genus are found in India, southern China to New Guinea and about three species in tropical America. The genus has a leaf arrangement that is termed as alternate-distichous and the leaves are asymmetric in shape. The flowers have two lips. The older genus "Klugia" had four stamens compared to the typical two but "Klugia" from southern India are found to be very close based on molecular evidence.

neg: Eriotheca peruviana Eriotheca peruviana is a species of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family.

neg: Iguanura Iguanura is a monoecious genus of flowering plant in the palm family from Southeast Asia, commonly called pinang. Closely related to the "Heterospathe" palms, they are noted for producing a wide variety of fruit forms. Its name combines the Spanish word for "lizard" with the Greek word for "tail".

neg: Eriogonum latifolium Eriogonum latifolium is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common names seaside buckwheat and coast buckwheat. This plant is native to the coastline of the western United States from Washington to central California, where it is a common resident of coastal bluffs and scrub.

neg: Eriogonum heracleoides Eriogonum heracleoides (common names parsnipflower buckwheat, whorled buckwheat, and Wyeth buckwheat) has many flowering clusters that are cream or off-white in color. Its usual habitat is rocky areas such as sagebrush deserts and Ponderosa pine forests. Parsnipflower buckwheat is in the genus "Eriogonum" and the family Polygonaceae which is a family of plants known as the "knotweed family". It inhabits much of the western part of the United States.

neg: Geonoma Geonoma is a genus of small to medium-sized palms native to the forest understorey of tropical Central and South America.

neg: Eriospermum Eriospermum is a genus of tuberous flowering plants. It contains about 80-100 species, native to sub-Saharan Africa.

neg: Phoenix paludosa Phoenix paludosa (paludosa, Latin, swampy), also called Mangrove Date Palm, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family, indigenous to coastal regions of India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Sumatra, Vietnam and peninsular Malaysia. They are also known as Sea Dates. The trees grow in clusters, to 5 m high, usually forming dense thickets. The leaves are 2 to 3 m long and recurved.

neg: Pandanus temehaniensis Pandanus temehaniensis is a species of plant in the Pandanaceae family. It is endemic to French Polynesia.

neg: Astragalus eriopodus Astragalus eriopodus is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae.

neg: Aeonium cuneatum Aeonium cuneatum is a succulent species of flowering plant of the family "Crassulaceae". It has a large leaf rosette and no stem. The leaves are smooth but have a grey shine to the upper surface which can be rubbed. It offshoots easily which makes a large group of "Aeoniums" across the ground. The flower is yellow and more open than the flowers of some other "Aeonium" species.

neg: Erioderma pedicellatum Erioderma pedicellatum is a medium-sized, foliose lichen in the family Pannariaceae, commonly called boreal felt lichen because of its fuzzy appearance. It grows on trees in damp boreal forests along the Atlantic coast, as well as in southcentral Alaska. It is currently one of the most endangered lichens in the world.

neg: Eriogonum gossypinum Eriogonum gossypinum is an uncommon species of wild buckwheat known by the common name cottony buckwheat. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the southern Central Valley and some of the adjacent foothills. It is often found on clay soils. It is an annual herb producing a gray or reddish branched stem no more than about 20 centimeters tall. The leaves are oblong in shape and woolly in texture. The scattered inflorescences are small clusters of white to pink glandular flowers buried in a layer of cottony fibers.

neg: Eremophila cuneifolia Eremophila cuneifolia, commonly known as pinyuru is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading, sticky shrub with wedge-shaped leaves, coloured sepals and usually deep purple flowers.

neg: Trigonachras Trigonachras is a genus of 8 species of trees known to science, constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae.

neg: Eriogonum hookeri Eriogonum hookeri is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Hooker's buckwheat. It is native to the Intermountain West of the United States, where it grows in plateau and desert habitat.

neg: Ganjam Kewda Rooh Ganjam Kewda Rooh (Screw pine, IPA:/Kia /, "Pandanus fascicularis") is a plant native to the Indian state of Odisha primarily in the Ganjam district. Kewda has been identified as a Geographical Indications in India.


query: What region of Italy did Giovanni Giarola paint in?

pos: Giovanni Giarola Giovanni Giarola or Gerolli (1518–1557) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance style, active mainly in Reggio Emilia.

pos: Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia (] , also ] ; Emilian: "Rèz" , Latin: "Regium Lepidi" ) is a city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 171,400 inhabitants and is the main "comune" (municipality) of the Province of Reggio Emilia.

neg: Giovanni Battista Averara Giovanni Battista Averara (1508 – November 10, 1548) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Bergamo. Little is known of this landscape painter who died at a young age from a dog bite. He painted in the style of Titian. He is mentioned by the biographer Tassi, and may be confused with Giovanni Battista de Averara.

neg: Giovanni Domenico Piastrini Giovanni Domenico Piastrini (1678–1740) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Tuscany and Rome.

neg: Venetian school (art) From the later part of the 15th century, Venice had a distinctive, thriving and influential art scene. Beginning with the work of Giorgione (c. 1477–1510), and the workshop of Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516), major artists of the Venetian school included Titian (1489–1576), Tintoretto (1518–1594), Veronese (1528–1588) and the Bassano (1510–1592). Considered to bring a primacy of color over line, this tradition was seen to contrast with the Mannerism then prevalent in the rest of Italy, and the Venetian style is viewed as having had a great influence on the subsequent development of painting.

neg: Giovanni da Milano Giovanni da Milano (Giovanni di Jacopo di Guido da Caversaccio) was an Italian painter, known to be active in Florence and Rome between 1346 and 1369.

neg: Giovanni Francesco Perini Giovanni Francesco Perini (active 15th to 16th centuries) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance active mainly around Amelia, Umbria, Italy.

neg: Giovanni Baronzio Giovanni Baronzio, also known as Giovanni da Rimini, (died before 1362), was an Italian painter who was active in Romagna and the Marche region during the second quarter of the 14th century. His year of birth is unknown. Giovanni Baronzio was the eminent representative of the second generation of painters of the school of Rimini who were influenced in by the activity of Giotto in Rimini.

neg: Andrea Sguazella Andrea Sguazella was a 16th-century Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Florence and France. He was a pupil of the painter Andrea del Sarto and stayed behind to paint in the court of Francis I of France.

neg: Amalfi Coast The Amalfi Coast (Italian: "Costiera Amalfitana" ) is a stretch of coastline on the southern coast of the Salerno Gulf on the Tyrrhenian Sea, located in the Province of Salerno of southern Italy.

neg: Giovanni Battista Ricci Giovanni Battista Ricci (Novara, circa 1537 – Rome, 1627) nicknamed Il Novara after his birth town, was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.

neg: Giovanni Battista Caporali Giovanni Battista Caporali (c. 1476-1560) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.

neg: Giovanni di Corraduccio Giovanni di Corraduccio, also called Giovanni Mazaforte, (active circa 1404-1437) was an Italian painter of the Gothic style, active mainly in Umbria and Marche.

neg: Giovanni Maria Morandi Giovanni Maria Morandi (30 April 1622 – 18 February 1717) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Rome and his natal city of Florence, but also Venice. He is said to have briefly trained in Florence with Sigismondo Coccapani and Giovanni Bilivert.

neg: Giangentile di Lorenzo Giangentile di Lorenzo, (active 16th century) was an Italian painter. Along with his two brothers, Antonio and Sanseverino, he learned his craft initially from his father the painter Lorenzo d'Alessandro of Sanseverino. In the town of Sanseverino, Ricci claims they likely came in contact with Pinturicchio. Antonio and Giangentile painted a "Madonna and St Martin" (1560) for the San Severino Cathedral; the also painted for the church of Santa Maria Assunta, Sarnano. Giangentile also painted a "Madonna and Child" for the church of the Madonna dei Lumi, San Severino Marche. He is said to have died in 19 December, 1576.

neg: Giovanni Battista Mingardi Giovanni Battista Mingardi (Born Padua, died Venice 1796) was an Italian painter, active in a late-Baroque style mainly in Venice and its mainland territories. He trained under Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. He painted for the church of San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti in Venice.

neg: Giovanni Quagliata Giovanni Quagliata (1603–1673) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He is more properly known in Italy as Giovan Battista Quagliata (and Giambattista Quagliata), one of the leading artists of the Messinesi painters of the 17th century, as described by in his book "The Lives of the Messinesi Painters" published in 1724. Giovanni was born in Messina, Italy. He was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona and enjoyed the patronage and friendship of the Spanish Viceroy of Sicily, Don Juan José of Austria (Viceroy from 1649–1651; also known as John of Austria the Younger). Giovanni's brother, Andrea Quagliata (born in 1594 or 1599, and died in 1660), was also an historical painter, but of lesser significance.

neg: Giovanni Domenico Cappellino Giovanni Domenico Cappellino (1580–1651) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. He was the pupil of the painter Giovanni Battista Paggi. At age 22, he painted a "Saint Sebastian" for the church of Santa Sabina. He contributed a canvas to the Oratory of San Giacomo della Marina. In Genoa, he painted a "Death of St. Francis" for the church of San Niccolo, and a "St. Francesca Romana" for the church of San Stefano.

neg: Province of Lucca The Province of Lucca (Italian: "Provincia di Lucca" ) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Lucca.

neg: Camillo Capelli Camillo Capelli, also called Camillo Mantovano, (active 16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period in northern Italy, including Pesaro and Venice.

neg: Giovanni Evangelista Draghi Giovanni Evangelista Draghi (1654 in Genoa – 1712 in Piacenza) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period. Luigi Lanzi erroneously refers to him as Giovanni Battista Draghi, who should not be confused with the composer of the same name.

neg: Giovanni Coli Giovanni Coli (1636–1691) was an Italian painter from Lucca, active in the Baroque style.


query: Who has received more Academy Awards?Asghar Farhadi or Carlos Saldanha?

pos: Asghar Farhadi Asghar Farhadi (Persian: اصغر فرهادی  ; ]    born 7 May 1972) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. Among other awards, he has received a Golden Globe Award as well as two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for his movies "A Separation" and "The Salesman" in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world by "Time" magazine in 2012.

pos: Carlos Saldanha Carlos Saldanha (] ; born January 24, 1965) is a Brazilian director, producer and animator of animated films who works with Blue Sky Studios. He was the director of "" (2006), "" (2009), "Rio" (2011), "Rio 2" (2014), and the co-director of "Ice Age" (2002) and "Robots" (2005). In 2003, Saldanha was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for "Gone Nutty".

neg: FAMAS Award for Best Picture The FAMAS Award for Best Picture is one of the FAMAS Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award, which are voted on by Palanca Award-winning writers and movie columnists, writers and people in the film industry (directors, actors, producers, technicians, crew etc). The Best Picture FAMAS has always been considered the most important and top prize, and has been awarded by Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences ever since the very first ceremony in 1953.

neg: Franco Solinas Franco Solinas (19 January 1927 - 14 September 1982) was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is best known for the screenplay of "The Battle of Algiers," which was nominated for three Academy Awards.

neg: Albéniz (film) Albéniz is a 1947 black-and-white Argentine Silver Condor award-winning biographical drama film directed by Luis César Amadori and written by . The film stars Pedro López Lagar and Sabina Olmos. It won the Silver Condor Award for Best Film and numerous other awards, given by the Argentine Film Critics Association in 1948 for the best picture of the previous year.

neg: Salar Abdoh Salar Abdoh is an Iranian American novelist and essayist. He is the author of the novels The Poet Game (2000), Opium (2004), Tehran At Twilight (2014), and the editor and translator of the anthology Tehran Noir (2014). He is also a director of the graduate program in Creative Writing at the City College of New York at the City University of New York.

neg: Carlos Casella Carlos Casella is an Argentinian actor, dancer, choreographer and singer.

neg: Fernando Fernán Gómez Fernando Fernández Gómez (28 August 1921 – 21 November 2007) better known as Fernando Fernán-Gómez was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director and member of the Royal Spanish Academy for seven years. He was born in Lima, Peru while his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour in Latin America. He would later use her surname for his stage name when he moved to Spain in 1924.

neg: 11th IIFA Awards The 2010 IIFA Awards, officially the 11th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2009 and took place between June 3 – 5, 2010. The official ceremony took place on June 5, 2010, at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 23 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. The ceremony was hosted by Boman Irani, Ritesh Deshmukh and Lara Dutta.

neg: Ricardo Darín Ricardo Darín (] ; born January 16, 1957) is an Argentine actor, screenwriter and film director. Widely considered as one of the best and most prolific actors of Argentine cinema.

neg: Ramón Saldívar Ramón Saldívar (born 1949) is a Mexican-American author, teacher and researcher of cultural studies and Chicano literature. He is currently a professor at Stanford University, and received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2012.

neg: Saladin the Victorious Saladin the Victorious (Arabic: الناصر صلاح الدين  , translit. Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din) is a 1963 Egyptian war drama film directed by Youssef Chahine. It was written by Youssef El Sebai, based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz. It stars Ahmed Mazhar as Saladin, Salah Zulfikar, Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Tewfik El Dekn, Omar El-Hariri, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, , Hamdi Gheiss, Ahmed Luxor, Nadia Lutfi, Hussein Riad, Laila Taher and Zaki Toleimat. It was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival.

neg: List of awards and nominations received by Asghar Farhadi List of awards and nominations received by Asghar Farhadi

neg: Marrakech Express Marrakech Express is a 1989 Italian film directed by Gabriele Salvatores and starring Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Cristina Marsillach, Giuseppe Cederna, and Gigio Alberti. A classical road movie, it was the first installment of Salvatores' "trilogia della fuga" ("escape trilogy"), followed by "On Tour" (1990) and the Academy Award winning "Mediterraneo" (1991). The cast of the three movies is partly the same; most notably, Diego Abatantuono has a leading role in all of them.

neg: Farid al-Atrash Farid al-Atrash (Arabic: فريد الأطرش  ; October 19, 1910 – December 26, 1974), also written Farid El-Atrache, was an Egyptian composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor of Syrian origins, who lived in Egypt. Having immigrated to Egypt at the age of nine years old with his mother and siblings childhood, Al-Atrash embarked on a highly successful career spanning more than four decades—recording 500 songs and starring in 31 movies. Sometimes referred to as "King of the Oud", he is one of the most important figures of 20th century Arab music.

neg: Farhad Khalilov Farhad Gurban oglu Khalilov (Azerbaijani: "Fərhad Qurban oğlu Xəlilov" ) – (born 26 November 1946 in Baku) is People's Artist of Azerbaijan, chairman of the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan.

neg: Tieta of Agreste Tieta do Agreste (Portuguese: Tieta do Agreste ) is a 1996 Brazilian comedy film directed by Carlos Diegues. The film was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

neg: 10th IIFA Awards The 10th International Indian Film Academy Awards (informally known as the Decadial IIFA Awards) were a major film awards ceremony honoring the best Bollywood films of 2008. The ceremony was held in The Venetian Macao, Macau from June 11 to June 13, 2009. The choice of Macau as host city was considered a well-planned decision, aimed at reducing tensions between India and China, as well as to end the "deadlock" between the two countries over the issue of exchange of cinema. The ceremony was hosted by Boman Irani, Ritesh Deshmukh and Lara Dutta.

neg: Mahdi Fadaei Mehrabani Mahdi Fadaei Mehrabani (Persian: مهدی فدایی مهربانی  | born 1982) is an Iranian writer and researcher in Islamic philosophy, mysticism and political philosophy. He is one of the winners of Farabi International Award, 2009 and the Winner of Iran’s Book of the Year Awards, 2016. Mehrabani has written several books and articles and currently is an assistant Professor at University of Tehran.

neg: Carlos Thompson Juan Carlos Mundin-Schaffter, known as Carlos Thompson, (7 June 1923 – 10 October 1990) was an Argentine actor.

neg: Oscar Ruggeri Oscar Alfredo Ruggeri (born 26 January 1962) is a former footballer. Nicknamed ""El Cabezón"" ("The Big-Headed One"), Ruggeri is one of the most successful defenders ever to come out of Argentina.

neg: Dizzy Sal Dizzy Sal (8 November 1934 – 25 July 1998), born Edward Saldanha, was an Indian jazz pianist. He was a student at the Lenox School of Jazz, and the Berklee School of Music.


query: The Butcher of Amritsar refers to the crime that took place on what date?

pos: The Butcher of Amritsar The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer is a 2006 historical biography written by Nigel Collett, a former Gurkha officer, which covers the life of Reginald Dyer. The book's title refers to the 1919 massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in which 379 people were shot by troops under the command of Dyer. It is the second biography written on Dyer, the first having been written in the 1930s with co-operation from Dyer's widow which was described by Saul David as an "unashamed hagiography".

pos: Jallianwala Bagh massacre The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April, 1919 when a crowd of non-violent protesters, along with Baishakhi pilgrims, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, were fired upon by troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer. The civilians, in the majority Sikhs, had assembled to participate in the annual Baisakhi celebrations, a religious and cultural festival for Punjabi people and also to condemn the arrest and deportation of two national leaders, Satya Pal and Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew. Coming from outside the city, they may have been unaware of the imposition of martial law.

neg: Chittisinghpura massacre The Chittisinghpura massacre refers to the fatal shooting of 36 Sikhs on 20 March 2000, in the Anantnag district of the State of Jammu and Kashmir in India. The Indian government asserts that it was conducted by the Islamic Fundamentalist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Mohammad Suhail Malik of Sialkot, Pakistan confessed while in custody about participating in the attacks at the direction of Lashkar-e-Taiba in an interview with Barry Bearak of "The New York Times" although Bearak questioned the authenticity of the confession. Suhail Malik is a nephew of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed of Lashkar-e-Taiba. He was however later acquitted of these charges by a Delhi court. Some other observers like Bruce Riedel have also attributed this massacre to Lashkar-e-Taiba.

neg: Christmas Day Plot The first Christmas Day plot was a conspiracy made by the Indian revolutionary movement in 1909: during the year-ending holidays, the Governor of Bengal organised at his residence a ball in the presence of the Viceroy, the Commander-in-Chief and all the high-ranking officers and officials of the Capital (Calcutta). The 10th Jat Regiment was in charge of the security. Indoctrinated by Jatindranath Mukherjee, its soldiers decided to blow up the ballroom and take advantage of destroying the colonial Government. In keeping with his predecessor Otto (William Oskarovich) von Klemm, a friend of Lokamanya Tilak, on 6 February 1910, M. Arsenyev, the Russian Consul-General, wrote to St Petersburg that it had been intended to "arouse in the country a general perturbation of minds and, thereby, afford the revolutionaries an opportunity to take the power in their hands." According to R. C. Majumdar, "The police had suspected nothing and it is hard to say what the outcome would have been had the soldiers not been betrayed by one of their comrades who informed the authoritiesabout the impending coup.".

neg: Madan Lal Pahwa Madan Lal Pahwa (in Punjabi ਮਦਨਲਾਲ ਪਾਹਵਾ) was one of the conspirators involved in assassinating Mahatma Gandhi. He came to India in 1947 as a refugee after the partition of India. The plight of refugees intensified his anger against Gandhi, the main leader of the Indian National Congress, and other Congress leaders. He tried to murder Gandhi on 20 January 1948 in a prayer meeting at Birla House New Delhi but failed in his attempt. Later when Nathuram Godse killed Gandhi on 30 January 1948, a case of attempt to murder was filed against Madan Lal. He was found guilty, and was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement.

neg: Karamchedu massacre Karamchedu massacre refers to an incident that occurred in Karamchedu, Andhra Pradesh on 17 July 1985, where a conflict between Dalits and upper caste landlords predominantly resulted in the killing of six Dalits and grievous injuries to 20 more. After a long legal battle that went up to the Supreme Court, one person was given life imprisonment and 30 more were sentenced to a prison term of three years. The initial main accused, Daggubati Chenchu Ramaiah, father of then-MLA of Parchur, Daggubati Venkateswara Rao was brutally assassinated by Naxalites in 1989 as Retaliation.

neg: 1988 Hyderabad massacre 1988 Hyderabad massacre, also known as "Black Friday" is the massacre of 162 people in Hyderabad, Sindh in Pakistan in 1988. On the evening of 30 September 1988, about a dozen gunmen on motorbikes or cars fired indiscriminately on crowds killing about 162 and injuring 200 persons. No group claimed responsibility. The Muhajir Qaumi Movement said in a statement that their offices and the house of Hyderabad's mayor Aftab Ahmed Sheikh were targeted by the gunmen, while the Awami National Party provincial president, a Sindhi, said the attackers had struck at both Muhajir and Sindhi communities.

neg: Dakra massacre Dakra massacre (Bengali: ডাকরা হত্যাকান্ড ) refers to the massacre of unarmed Hindu refugees at the village of Dakra, in the Bagerhat sub-division of Khulna District on 21 May 1971 by the Peace Committee members and the Razakars. The attackers were led by Rajab Ali Fakir, the chairman of the Bagerhat sub-divisional Peace Committee. More than 2,000 Hindu men, women and children were killed in the massacre.

neg: Kucheng massacre The Kucheng massacre (; Pinyin: "Gǔtián Jiào'àn"; Foochow Romanized: "Kŭ-chèng Gáu-áng") was a massacre of Western Christians that took place at Gutian (at that time known in the west as "Kucheng") Fujian, China on August 1, 1895. At dawn of that day, a fasting folk religious group attacked British missionaries who were then taking summer holidays at Gutian Huashan, killing eleven people and destroying two houses. The Kucheng Massacre is considered one of the worst attacks against foreigners in China prior to the Boxer Movement in 1899-1901, the only comparable event in China's missionary history being the Tianjin Massacre in 1870.

neg: 2017 Northern India riots On 25 August 2017, widespread rioting in northern India broke out after guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the religious leader of Dera Sacha Sauda, was convicted of rape. The riots began in Panchkula and later spread to other parts of the northern Indian states of Haryana and Punjab and the capital, New Delhi. At least 38 people were killed, the majority of them in Panchkula, where 32 people were allegedly killed by police gunfire. More than 300 others were injured.

neg: Amritsar Junction railway station Amritsar railway station is located in Amritsar district in the Indian state of Punjab and serves Amritsar

neg: Nankana massacre The Nankana massacre (or Saka Nankana) took place in Nankana Sahib at that time of British India, modern-day Pakistan. The event forms an important part of Sikh history. In political significance, it comes next only to Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 1919. The saga constitutes the core of the Gurdwara Reform Movement started by the Sikhs in early twentieth century.

neg: Anderson Bridge massacre Anderson Bridge massacre (Bengali: এন্ডারসন ব্রীজ হত্যাকান্ড ) refers to the massacre of Hindu passengers on the Anderson Bridge on 12 February 1950.

neg: 2002 Qasim Nagar massacre The 2002 Qasim Nagar massacre was the killing of 29 Hindu labourers in Qasim Nagar on the outskirts of Jammu (city) in Jammu and Kashmir by alleged Islamic militants on 13 July 2002. The dead included 13 women and a child.

neg: Human rights abuses in Punjab, India From 1984 to 1994, the state of Punjab in northern India was engaged in a power struggle between the militant secessionist Khalistan movement and Indian security forces. The Indian government responded to the escalating Punjab insurgency by launching Operation Blue Star in 1984, storming the Harmandir Sahib, or Golden Temple complex in Amritsar—the center of Sikh religious and spiritual life, where some militant groups had retreated. The Operation was controversial and resulted in death of hundreds of civilians, militants and soldiers. After Sikh bodyguards assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, further violence ensued.

neg: Anand Mohan Singh Anand Mohan Singh is a convicted criminal who for a period became a politician and was founder of the now-defunct Bihar People's Party (BPP). s of 2014 , he is serving a life sentence for abetting murder; prior to reduction to this term on appeal, he had been the first politician in independent India to be given the death penalty. He comes from the village of Panchgachiya in Saharsa district, Bihar, India, where some of the population consider him to be a Robin Hood figure.

neg: Bengal Criminal Law Amendment The Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance of 1924, enacted into law as Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Act in 1925, was a criminal law ordinance enacted in October 1924 in Bengal, in British India. The law was implemented to stem the rise in revolutionary terrorism by the "Jugantar" group against The Raj in Bengal after 1922. Following the collapse of the Nonviolent movement, the remnants of the Anushilan Samiti reformed under the leadership of Surya Sen, Hem Chandra Kanungo and Bhupendranath Dutta and rengaged in nationalist terrorism against the Raj. A string of violence through 1923 saw murders of police witnesses and informers, culminating in the attempt to assassinate Charles Tegart by Gopinath Saha, leading to the mistaken killing of another European. In response, following a nuber of requests from the Governor of Bengal, the ordinance was enacted extending the extraordinary powers of the Regulation III of 1818. It removed rights of "Habeas corpus", reintroduced measures of indefinite and arbitrary detentions, and trials by tribunal without jury and without right of appeal. The ordinance was enacted into law in 1925 and remained in force for 5 years. Almost One hundred and fifty people were detained under the law, including among the notable detainees Subhas Chandra Bose, later Congress leader. The act was re-enacted in 1930, and later formed a basis for the Burma Criminal Law Amendment in 1931.

neg: Whitechapel murders The Whitechapel murders were committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London between 3 April 1888 and 13 February 1891. At various points some or all of these eleven unsolved murders of women have been ascribed to the notorious unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.

neg: Kampala wedding massacre The Kampala wedding massacre was a mass murder that occurred at a wedding party in the Naguru neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda on June 26, 1994. The perpetrator, Richard Komakech, shot and killed 26 people at the party before he was apprehended and subsequently killed in revenge.

neg: Handwara massacre The Handwara massacre refers to the alleged killing of 26 civilian protestors on 25 January 1990, at Handwara, Jammu and Kashmir by the Indian Border Security Force.

neg: Robert Berdella Robert Andrew Berdella (January 31, 1949October 8, 1992) was an American serial killer known as The Kansas City Butcher and The Collector, who kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered at least six men between 1984 and 1987 in Kansas City, Missouri after having forced his victims to endure periods of up to six weeks of captivity.

neg: 1950 East Pakistan riots The Barisal Riots of 1950 or simply the 1950 riots (Bengali: পঞ্চাশের গণহত্যা ) refers to the rioting between Bengali Hindus and Bengali Muslims, the Pakistani police and the para-military accompanied by arson, loot, rape and abduction in the months of February and March 1950.


query: Are  Paul Bunyan and La sonnambula both Italian operas?

pos: Paul Bunyan (operetta) Paul Bunyan, Op 17, is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups. It premiered at Columbia University on 5 May 1941, to largely negative reviews, and was withdrawn by the composer. Britten revised it somewhat in 1976 and subsequently it had numerous performances and two commercial recordings. The story is based on the folkloric American lumberjack, Paul Bunyan, with the music incorporating a variety of American styles, including folk songs, blues and hymns. The work is strongly sectional in nature, highly reminiscent of the 'Broadway musical' style of the period.

pos: La sonnambula La sonnambula ("The Sleepwalker") is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the "bel canto" tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a "ballet-pantomime" written by Eugène Scribe and choreographed by Jean-Pierre Aumer called "La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur". The ballet had premiered in Paris in September 1827 at the height of a fashion for stage works incorporating somnambulism.

neg: Il Parnaso confuso Il Parnaso confuso ("Parnassus in Turmoil") is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of an "azione teatrale" in one act. The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio. The opera premiered on 24 January 1765 at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. All the members of the cast were archduchesses of the Habsburg family and the work was conducted by the future Emperor Leopold II from the harpsichord.

neg: Idomeneo Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante (Italian for "Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante"; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, K. 366) is an Italian language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, which had been set to music by André Campra as "Idoménée" in 1712. Mozart and Varesco were commissioned in 1780 by Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria for a court carnival. He probably chose the subject, though it might have been Mozart. The work premiered on 29 January 1781 at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, Germany.

neg: Charles Bunyan Jr. Charles Cyril Bunyan Jr. (22 November 1892 – 1975) was an English professional football player and manager. During his time in Belgium, he was known as Cyrille Bunyan.

neg: Mario Tiberini Mario Tiberini (8 September 1826 – 16 October 1880) was an Italian tenor who sang leading roles in the opera houses of Europe and the Americas in a career spanning 25 years. Known for his advanced singing technique and dramatic ability, he sang the role of Alvaro in the premiere of the revised (and now standard) version of Verdi's "La forza del destino" and created several roles in operas by lesser-known composers, including the title role in Faccio's "Amleto".

neg: Teatro Regio Ducal The Teatro Regio Ducal (Italian, "Royal Ducal Theatre") was the opera house in Milan from 26 December 1717 until 25 February 1776, when it was burned down following a carnival gala. Many famous composers and their operas are associated with it, including the premieres of Mozart's "Ascanio in Alba", "Mitridate, re di Ponto", and "Lucio Silla". The opera house also saw the premiere of Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini's "Ciro in Armenia" in 1753; one of the earliest successfully received operas by a female composer. Variant forms such as "Regio-Ducal Teatro" and "Teatro Regio Ducale" are also seen.

neg: Batavia (opera) Batavia is an opera in three acts and a prologue by Richard Mills to a libretto by Peter Goldsworthy,

neg: Il rapimento di Cefalo Il rapimento di Cefalo ("The Abduction of Cephalus") was one of the first Italian operas. Most of the music was written by Giulio Caccini but Stefano Venturi del Nibbio, Luca Bati and Piero Strozzi also contributed. The libretto, by Gabriello Chiabrera, is in a prologue, five scenes and an epilogue and is based on the Classical myth of Cephalus and Aurora.

neg: Radamisto (Handel) Radamisto (HWV 12) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, based on "L'amor tirannico, o Zenobia" by Domenico Lalli and "Zenobia" by Matteo Noris. It was Handel's first opera for the Royal Academy of Music. The opera's plot is loosely based on incidents from Tacitus's "Annals of Imperial Rome".

neg: Roberto Abbado Roberto Abbado (born 30 December 1954, Milan) is an Italian opera and symphonic music conductor. Currently he is Artistic Partner of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, In 2015 he has been appointed Music Director of Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain. Previously he held the position of Chief Conductor of Münchner Rundfunkorchester (Munich Radio Orchestra) of the Bavarian Radio.

neg: Aida Aida (] ) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on 24 December 1871; Giovanni Bottesini conducted after Verdi himself withdrew. Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world; at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, "Aida" has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886. Ghislanzoni's scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, but Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz argues that the source is actually Temistocle Solera.

neg: The Last Savage The Last Savage is an opera in three acts by composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Menotti wrote his own libretto, originally in the Italian language ("L'ultimo selvaggio"). The opera was translated into French ("Le dernier sauvage") by Jean-Pierre Marty for the work's first (private) performance at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 21 October 1963, followed the next day by the public premiere. George Mead translated the work into English for the opera's American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera the following year.

neg: Il Postino (opera) Il Postino is an opera in three acts by Daniel Catán with a Spanish libretto by the composer. Based on the novel " Ardiente paciencia" by Antonio Skármeta and the film "Il Postino" by Michael Radford, the work contains elements of drama and comedy, integrating themes of love and friendship along with political and spiritual conflict. The opera premiered at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion by Los Angeles Opera on 23 September 2010.

neg: L'enfant prodigue (Auber) L'enfant prodigue ("The Prodigal Son") is a grand opera in five acts composed by Daniel Auber to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe based on the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Chapter 15 of the Gospel of Luke. It was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Nationale de Musique in Paris on 6 December 1850. The role of Azaël (the prodigal son of the title) was sung in the premiere by the celebrated French tenor, Gustave-Hippolyte Roger, (1815-1879).

neg: Gabriele Santini Gabriele Santini (20 January 1886, Perugia - 13 November 1964, Rome) was an Italian conductor, particularly associated with the Italian opera repertory.

neg: I puritani I puritani ("The Puritans") is an opera in by Vincenzo Bellini. It was originally written in two acts and later changed to three acts on the advice of Gioachino Rossini, with whom the young composer had become friends. The music was set to a libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli, an Italian émigré poet whom Bellini had met at a salon run by the exile Princess Belgiojoso, which became a meeting place for many Italian revolutionaries.

neg: Lohengrin (Sciarrino) Lohengrin "(Azione invisibile per solista, strumenti e voci)" is an operatic monodrama by the Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino. Premiered in 1982 in Milan the work was later revised by Sciarrino and the new version was premiered in on 9 September 1984 in Catanzaro. The opera, which is less than an hour long, is loosely based on the plot of Wagner’s opera of the same name.

neg: Adelina (opera) Adelina is an opera farsa (described as a ‘medodramma sentimentale’) in one act, by the Italian composer Pietro Generali with words by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice on either 15 or 16 September 1810. It premiered just before the first of Rossini's farse at the same theatre.

neg: Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (] ; 22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

neg: La Périchole La Périchole (] ) is an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach. Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote the French-language libretto based on the 1829 one act play "Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement" by Prosper Mérimée, which was revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français. Offenbach was probably aware of this production, as he conducted the orchestra of the Comédie-Française from around this time. Another theatrical creation that pre-dates Offenbach's opéra bouffe and may have influenced the piece is a farce by Desforges and Théaulon given on 21 October 1835 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal.

neg: Doktor Faust Doktor Faust is an opera by Ferruccio Busoni with a German libretto by the composer himself, based on the myth of Faust. Busoni worked on the opera, which he intended as his masterpiece, between 1916 and 1924, but it was still incomplete at the time of his death. His pupil Philipp Jarnach finished it. More recently, in 1982, Antony Beaumont completed the opera using sketches by Busoni which were previously thought to have been lost. Nancy Chamness has published an analysis of the libretto to "Doktor Faust" and a comparison with Goethe's version.


query: Which of Hengshui and Fengcheng, Jiangxi has more people?

pos: Hengshui Hengshui () is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Shandong to the southeast. At the 2010 census its population was 4,340,373 inhabitants whom 522,147 lived in the built-up ("or metro") area made of Taocheng urban district. It is on the Jingjiu Railway.

pos: Fengcheng, Jiangxi Fengcheng () is a county-level city in northern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, under the administration of Yichun, located along China National Highway 105 and on the eastern (right) bank of the Gan River about 55 km south of Nanchang, the provincial capital. The literal translation of the name is "Abundance City", due to its importance as a major commercial hub for agricultural products. There are 26 towns and 7 sub-districts comprising a total area of 2845 km2 and its population is around 1,370,000. The 2005 GDP was more than 9.1 billion RMB.

neg: Qingxi, Shaoshan Qingxi Town () is an urban town in Shaoshan City, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, China. As of the 2000 census it had a population of 20,000 and an area of 2.9 km2 .

neg: Jing County, Anhui Jing County or Jingxian () is a county in Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, under the jurisdiction of Xuancheng City. It has a population of 360,000 and an area of 2059 km2 . The government of Jing County is located in Jingchuan Town.

neg: Gaohu, Hunan Gaohu () is a town of Hengdong County in southeastern Hunan province, China, located 26 km southeast of the county seat and served by G72 Quanzhou–Nanning Expressway. , it has one residential community (社区) and 24 villages under its administration.

neg: Lu'an Lu'an (), is a prefecture-level city in western Anhui province, People's Republic of China, bordering Henan to the northwest and Hubei to the southwest. At the 2010 census, it had a total population of 5,612,590, whom 1,644,344 resided in the built-up area made of 2 urban districts. Neighbouring prefecture-level cities are the provincial capital of Hefei to the east, Anqing to the south, Huanggang (Hubei) and Xinyang (Henan) to the west, and Huainan and Fuyang to the north. Although the character "六 " (literally: "six") is normally pronounced "Liù", in this case it changes to "Lù" on account of the historical literary reading.

neg: Fengcheng, Lianjiang County Fengcheng () is a town in northeastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China, located along the Taiwan Strait coast in Lianjiang County, of which it is the county seat. The provincial capital, Fuzhou, lies 48 km to the southwest. The name of the town literally means, "Phoenix City."

neg: Hengliang Subdistrict Hengliang () is a subdistrict of Luhe District, Nanjing, China. Located in the northeast of the city along the China National Highway 328, it borders on Yangzhou City It is a town with more than 1000 years of history, cross-cultural atmosphere, rich in resources, and is the current and future focus on the development of Nanjing's "three-city, nine towns" being one of the nine towns.

neg: Ang'angxi District Ang'angxi () is a county-level district of the city of Qiqihar in Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. It has an area of 623 km2 and a population of approximately 90,000.

neg: Xinghua, Fengkai County Xinghua () is a town of Fengkai County in western Guangdong province, China, located 20 km east of the county seat. , it has one residential community (社区) and 11 villages under its administration.

neg: Shacheng Railway Station Shacheng Railway Station() is a railway station of Jingbao Railway, Fengsha Railway and Jingzhang Intercity Railway. The station located Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China.

neg: Wuhu Wuhu (; literally "Weedy Lake") is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Anhui province, China. Sitting on the southeast bank of the Yangtze River, Wuhu borders Xuancheng to the southeast, Chizhou and Tongling to the southwest, Hefei Province to the northwest, Ma'anshan city to the northeast, Jiangsu Province to the east, and is approximately 90 km southwest of Nanjing. As of 2014, the city had a population of approximately 3,617,000 officially registered inhabitants.

neg: Shanxi Town Shanxi (珊溪镇) is a town in Wencheng County, Zhejiang, China.

neg: Jingdezhen Jingdezhen (or the Town of Jingde) is a prefecture-level city, previously a town, in northeastern Jiangxi province, China, with a total population of 1,554,000 (2007), bordering Anhui to the north. It is known as the "Porcelain Capital" because it has been producing pottery for 1,700 years. The city has a well-documented history that stretches back over 2,000 years.

neg: Gongqingcheng Gongqingcheng () is a county-level city in northern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, established on 10 September 2010. It is under the administration of Jiujiang City, 55 km to the northeast, and is located 62 km north of Nanchang, the provincial capital. Situated in the vicinity of De'an, Yongxiu, and Xingzi Counties, it lies in the foothills of Mount Lu and lies on the western shore of Poyang Lake. With an area of 193 km2 , it is home to 120,000 people, including 68,000 permanent residents. There are plans for the city to expand the population to 400,000 people. It is the only city in China to be named after the Communist Youth League of China, which in Chinese is abbreviated to "共青团"; hence its name literally means "Communist Youth League City".

neg: Huaishang District Huaishang District is a district of Anhui Province, China. It is under the administration of Bengbu city.

neg: Shuangfupu Shuangfupu Town () is an urban town in Ningxiang City, Hunan Province, China. It is surrounded by Laoliangcang Town and Hengshi on the west, Yujia'ao Township on the north, Dachengqiao Town and Zifu on the east, and Xieleqiao Town and Fengmuqiao Township on the south. As of the 2000 census it had a population of 36,374 and an area of 89.5 km2 .

neg: Fengliang, Fengshun County Fengliang is a town located in Fengshun County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, China.

neg: He County He County or Hexian () is a district of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, under the jurisdiction of Ma'anshan. It has a population of 650,000 and an area of 1412 km2 . The government of He County is located in Liyang Town.

neg: Nanchong Nanchong (; Sichuanese: lancong; ) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan province, China, with an area of 12479.96 km2 , and at the 2010 census was home to 6,278,614 people, of whom 1,858,875 lived in the built-up ("or metro") area made of 3 urban districts. It is the second most populated city of Sichuan Province, only after Chengdu. The administrative center is Shunqing District.

neg: Danjiangkou Danjiangkou () is a county-level city of northwestern Hubei Province, People's Republic of China. It has a population of more than 150,000 and is under the administration of Shiyan City.

neg: Guancheng Subdistrict Guancheng Subdistrict (Chinese:莞城街道; pinyin: Guǎnchéng Jiēdào, "City of "Scirpus", a genus of sedges" ) is a subdistrict in Guangdong Province, China under the administration of Dongguan City. It has an area of 13.5 km2 and a residential population of 230,000, of which 152,000 are new residents. Guancheng was the old political and cultural centre of Dongguan, before the government moved to the new centre in the Nancheng Subdistrict.


query: Love Simple is a 2009 romantic comedy film written and directed by Mark von Sternberg and starring Israel Horovitz, an American playwright, director, and actor, born on which date?

pos: Love Simple Love Simple is a 2009 romantic comedy film written and directed by Mark von Sternberg and starring Francisco Solorzano, Patrizia Hernandez, John Harlacher, Caitlin Fitzgerald and Israel Horovitz.

pos: Israel Horovitz Israel Horovitz (born March 31, 1939) is an American playwright, director, and actor.

neg: David E. Talbert David E. Talbert (born February 10, 1966) is an American playwright, author, and filmmaker. He is a graduate of Morgan State University and attended the New York University film program.

neg: Paul Rudnick Paul M. Rudnick (born December 29, 1957) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter and essayist. His plays have been produced both on and off Broadway and around the world, and Ben Brantley, when reviewing Rudnick’s "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told" in "The New York Times", wrote that, “Line by line, Mr. Rudnick may be the funniest writer for the stage in the United States today.”

neg: Leon Katz Leon Katz (July 10, 1919 – January 23, 2017) was professor emeritus of drama at Yale University. He was a playwright, dramaturg, and scholar.

neg: Joseph Fuqua Joseph Bernard Fuqua (born May 3, 1962 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actor, director, instructor and playwright.

neg: Daniel Zelman Daniel Luke Zelman (born June 16, 1967) is an American actor, screenwriter, television producer, and director.

neg: David Javerbaum David Adam Javerbaum is an American comedy writer. Javerbaum has won 13 Emmy Awards in his career, 11 of which he received for his work on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart". He ran the popular Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod, which served as the basis for his play "An Act of God", which opened on Broadway in the spring of 2015 starring Jim Parsons, and again in the spring of 2016 starring Sean Hayes.

neg: Tim Thomerson Joseph Timothy "Tim" Thomerson (born April 8, 1946) is an American actor and comedian.

neg: Aaron Kozak Aaron Kozak (born August 23, 1983) is an American playwright and filmmaker.

neg: Steve Colman Steve Colman is an award-winning poet, playwright, producer, and director born in 1970.

neg: Sam Slovick Samuel J. "Sam" Slovick (born June 23, 1958) is an American actor, musician, and writer.

neg: Tom Smith (playwright) Tom Smith (born in 1969 in Rochelle, Illinois) is an American playwright, theatre director, and professor of theatre arts. Originally trained as an improvisational comedian, Smith founded Walla Walla TheatreSports in 1988.

neg: Tony Kushner Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play "". He co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film "Munich", and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film "Lincoln". Both movies were critically acclaimed, and he received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. For his work, he received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.

neg: Ken Bloom Ken Bloom is a New York-based theatre historian, playwright, director, record producer, and author.

neg: Ulu Grosbard Israel "Ulu" Grosbard (9 January 1929 – 19 March 2012) was a Belgian-born, naturalized American theatre and film director and film producer.

neg: Joe Mantegna Joseph Anthony Mantegna ( , ] ; born November 13, 1947) is an American actor, producer, writer and director.

neg: Jay Scheib Jay Scheib (born October 6, 1969) is an American stage director, playwright and artist, noted for his contemporary productions of both classical and new plays and operas. Scheib is a Professor for Music and Theater Arts and director of the Program in Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he teaches performance media, motion theater, media and methods, and introduction to directing. Scheib has been a regular guest professor at the "Mozarteum Institute für Regie und Schauspiel" in Salzburg, Austria, where he conducts an annual "viewpoints and composition" studio.

neg: Franklin D. Israel Franklin David Israel (born December 2, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York — d. June 10, 1996, in Los Angeles, California) was an American architect best known for his designs for private residences and offices for film production companies in Los Angeles. He was a member of the L.A. Ten, "a loosely affiliated cadre of architects" working in Los Angeles during the 1980s and 1990s.

neg: Benjamin Kanes Benjamin Kanes (born March 25, 1977) is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer.

neg: Michael Townsend Smith Michael Townsend Smith (born October 5, 1935) is an American man of the theater. He has worked as a playwright, director, impresario, critic, and lighting designer.

neg: Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki (born March 1, 1956) is an Israeli theatre designer and director of the Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv, a translator of plays and prose into Hebrew, and a peace activist.


query: Which city is more populous, Liaoyang or Changchun?

pos: Liaoyang Liaoyang () is a prefecture-level city of east-central Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, situated on the T'ai-tzu River and, together with Anshan, forms a metro area of 2,057,200 inhabitants in 2010. It is approximately one hour south of Shenyang, the provincial capital, by car. Liaoyang is home to Liaoning University's College of Foreign Studies and a number of vocational colleges. The city hosts a limited number of professional basketball and volleyball games in a modern sports facility.

pos: Changchun Changchun () is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, and is located in the northeast of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 2 county-level cities. According to the 2010 census of China, Changchun had a total population of 7,674,439 under its jurisdiction. The city's urbanized ("or metro") area, comprising 5 districts and 4 development areas, had a population of 3,815,270 in 2010 as the Shuangyang and Jiutai districts are not urbanized yet.

neg: Xigang District Xigang District () is one of the seven districts of Dalian, Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, forming part of the urban core. Its area is 23.94 km² and its permanent population as of 2010 is 305,742, making it the smallest and second most densely populated of Dalian's county-level divisions The district government is located at 77 Beijing Street, and postal code is 116011.

neg: Yong'an, Liuyang Yong'an Town () is an urban town in Liuyang City, Changsha City, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China. As of the 2000 census it had a population of 58,842 and an area of 112.2 square kilometers.

neg: Liaocheng University Liaocheng University (Liáochéng dàxué) is a comprehensive university located in Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, China.

neg: Changchun dialect Changchun dialect is a Mandarin Chinese variety spoken by people in and around the city of Changchun in the Jilin Province.

neg: Tiexi District, Shenyang Tiexi District () is one of nine districts of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and forms part of the urban core. It borders Yuhong District to the north, Huanggu District to the northeast, Heping District to the east, Sujiatun District to the southeast, Liaozhong County to the southwest, and Xinmin City to the northwest; it also borders the prefecture-level city of Liaoyang to the south.

neg: Jiangsu Jiangsu (   ), formerly romanized as Kiangsu, is an eastern-central coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in manufacturing electronics and apparel items, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the third smallest, but the fifth most populous and the most densely populated of the 23 provinces of the People's Republic of China. Jiangsu has the second-highest GDP of Chinese provinces, after Guangdong. Jiangsu borders Shandong in the north, Anhui to the west, and Zhejiang and Shanghai to the south. Jiangsu has a coastline of over 1000 km along the Yellow Sea, and the Yangtze River passes through the southern part of the province.

neg: Tianjin Tianjin (), formerly known in English as Tientsin, is a metropolis in northern coastal Mainland China and one of the five national central cities of the country, with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 6th-most populous city proper. It is governed as one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the PRC and is thus under direct administration of the central government. Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea. Part of the Bohai Economic Rim, it is the largest coastal city in northern China.

neg: Wuling District Wuling District () is one of two urban districts in Changde City, Hunan Province, China. Located on the central area of Changde, the district is surrounded by Dingcheng District to the north and south, bordered to the west by Taoyuan County, to the east by Hanshou County. Wuling District has an area of 289 km with 426,694 of registered population (as of 2015). It is divided into 11 subdistricts, 1 towns and 2 township, its government seat is Nanping Subdistrict (南坪街道).

neg: Shenhe District Shenhe District () is one of nine districts of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and forms part of the urban core. It borders the districts of Dadong to the northeast, Dongling to the southeast, Heping to the west, and Huanggu to the northwest.

neg: Economy of Changsha Changsha is one of the most developed cities and economic centres in China. Changsha's GDP was 932.37 billion RMB in 2016, a year-on-year growth of 9.4% from the previous year, which would rank it No.13 in the country. Its GDP per capita was 123,681 RMB, an increase of 7.0% from the previous year. Changsha's primarily, secondary, and tertiary industries were worth 37.95 billion RMB, 451.323 billion RMB, and 443.952 billion RMB.

neg: Kaohsiung City Government The Kaohsiung City Government (KCG; ) is the top-tier local government administrative body of the Republic of China from December 2010 that governs Kaohsiung City. It consists of a directly elected executive Mayor of Kaohsiung. It replaced the earlier Kaohsiung County Government and Kaohsiung City Government which had covered a much bigger area and governed more citizens.

neg: Changsha University of Science and Technology Changsha University of Science and Technology(CSUT; ) is located in Changsha, Hunan province, China. The university is one of the largest in China, and a provincial key university of Hunan.

neg: Shegang, Liuyang Shegang Town () is an urban town in Liuyang City, Changsha City, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China. As of the 2000 census it had a population of 42,452 and an area of 175.4 square kilometers.

neg: Lian River Lian River () is a river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea. It is located in the municipality of Jieyang and Shantou, in Southern China's Guangdong Province and has a total length of 72 km . It is one of the most polluted rivers in China.

neg: Jingwanzi Jingwanzi () is an urban subdistrict, located in the built-up area of Yuhua District in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China. The new Jingwanzi was formed in 2012, the former Yuhuating subdistrict was divided into 2 subdistricts, new Yuhuating and Jingwanzi. The subdistrict has borders with Dongjing Subdistrict to the south, Lituo Subdistrict to the east, Yuhuating Subdistrict to the north, Wenyuan and Qingyuan Subdistricts of Tianxin District to the west. It covers 9.8 km2 with a population of roughly 73,000 (as of 2012).

neg: Liantang'ao, You County Liantang'ao Town () is an urban town in You County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China.

neg: Shahekou District Shahekou District () is one of the seven districts of Dalian, Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, forming part of the urban core. It is located in the western portion of the city. Its area is 34.71 km² and its permanent population as of 2010 is 693,140, making it Dalian's most densely populated county-level division. Its postal code is 116021.

neg: Xijiang, Liuyang Xijiang Township(), is an rural township in Liuyang City, Changsha City, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China. As of the 2000 census it had a population of 19,952 and an area of 90.6 square kilometers. Xijiang township merged to Guankou subdistrict on November 18, 2015.

neg: Chen Zhenggao Chen Zhenggao (; born March 1952) is a Chinese politician. He is best known for his terms as Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and governor of Liaoning province.

neg: Chang'an District, Xi'an Chang'an District () is one of nine districts of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province, China. It is the most spacious of the nine districts and third-largest out of all 13 county-level divisions of Xi'an, while it is also the second most-populous. The district borders the prefecture-level cities of Shangluo to the southeast and Ankang to the southwest, Weiyang and Yanta Districts to the north, Baqiao District to the northeast, Lantian County to the east, and Hu County to the west.


query: What country is located the intergovernmental organization of which Sir Gerald Gray Fitzmaurice  was a member?

pos: Gerald Fitzmaurice Sir Gerald Gray Fitzmaurice (24 October 1901 – 7 September 1982) was a British barrister and judge. He was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration between 1964 and 1973 and a Senior Judge of the International Court of Justice between 1967 and 1973, before becoming a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg in 1974.

pos: Permanent Court of Arbitration The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is an intergovernmental organization located at The Hague in the Netherlands. The PCA is not a court "in the traditional sense", but provides services of arbitral tribunal to resolve disputes between member states, international organizations, or private parties arising out of international agreements. The cases span a range of legal issues involving territorial and maritime boundaries, sovereignty, human rights, international investment, and international and regional trade. The PCA is constituted through two separate multilateral conventions with a combined membership of 121 states. The organization is not a United Nations agency,

neg: Organization of Ibero-American States The Organization of Ibero-American States (Portuguese: "Organização dos Estados Ibero-americanos" , Spanish: "Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos" , usually abbreviated OEI), formally the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture, is an international organization whose members are the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking nations of the Americas and Europe and Equatorial Guinea in Africa. Its purpose is to promote intergovernmental cooperation among its member nations which will aid the planning and development of regional projects in education, science, technology and the arts. OEI members include Andorra, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. Its General Secretariat is located in Madrid, with regional offices in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Spain, Mexico and Peru and field offices in Chile, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay. Financing of OEI operations and programs is derived from obligatory quotas and voluntary contributions from the governments of member nations and private cultural and educational institutions and foundations. The honorary president of the organization is King Felipe VI of Spain.

neg: National Association of NGOs The National Association of NGOs (NANGO) is an umbrella organisation of over 1000 NGOs in Zimbabwe established in 1962. NANGO is committed to “strengthen, represent and coordinate the work of NGOs in Zimbabwe by creating space, promoting networking, dialogue and engagement to enable the fulfilment of members’ visions and missions”. NANGOs vision is “a proactive community of NGOs responsive and committed to the sustainable development needs of all people in Zimbabwe and the full realisation of human rights, democracy, good governance and poverty alleviation.”

neg: Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) is an inter-governmental organization in Canada with members from the federal government, ten provincial governments and three territorial governments. Membership is at the Ministerial level and meetings typically occur at least annually to discuss national environmental priorities and determine work to be implemented through the CCME organization.

neg: International Federation of Sports Chiropractic The International Federation of Sports Chiropractic (French: Federation Internationale de Chiropratique du Sport or FICS) is an international organization which promotes sports chiropractic around the world. It is composed of national sports chiropractic councils, or the national associations, from many countries such as Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, United States, and the United Kingdom.

neg: United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; French: "Assemblée Générale" "AG") is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), the only one in which all member nations have equal representation, and the main deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the UN. Its powers are to oversee the budget of the UN, appoint the non-permanent members to the Security Council, receive reports from other parts of the UN and make recommendations in the form of General Assembly Resolutions. It has also established numerous .

neg: Association des Scouts et Guides du Sénégal The Association des Scouts et Guides du Sénégal (SGdS, "Scout and Guide Association of Senegal") is one of Senegal's Scouting and Guiding organizations. Its Scout section is member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement via the Confédération Sénégalaise du Scoutisme. The Guide section is a direct and full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts since 1981.

neg: Interpol The International Police Organization more commonly known as INTERPOL, is an intergovernmental organization facilitating international police cooperation. It was established as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) in 1923; it chose INTERPOL as its telegraphic address in 1946, and made it its common name in 1956.

neg: Oxfam Canada Oxfam Canada, founded in 1963, is an international development agency based in Canada, and is a registered charity (OXFAM CANADA

neg: Global Exchange Global Exchange is an advocacy group and non-governmental organization (NGO), based in San Francisco, California, United States. The group's mission is to promote human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice around the world.

neg: Transnational organization Transnational organization is a term used in scholarly literature. It refers to international organizations (usually, international nongovernmental organizations) that "transcend" the idea of a nation-state.

neg: Organization for International Economic Relations The Organization for International Economic Relations ("OiER") (in German: "Organisation für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen") is based in Vienna, Austria and is a non-profit, non-governmental global network that focuses on building partnerships and identifying trends in a global context and in addressing key future-oriented issues in areas of sustainability, innovation, communication, environment, energy and mobility.

neg: Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is an international association of autonomous churches consisting of the Church of England and national and regional Anglican churches ("provinces") in full communion with it. Full participation in the sacramental life of each church is available to all communicant Anglicans.

neg: Mediterranean Science Commission The Mediterranean Science Commission, or Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Méditerranée (CIESM) , is a commission created in Madrid, Spain, in 1919 to undertake multilateral international research on marine science in the Mediterranean Sea. The organization was founded by countries that border the sea and is now open to all countries engaged in scientific research in the sea. The CIESM aims to develop scientific cooperation through promoting international use of national research stations. The CIESM is an intergovernmental body with 23 member states that mostly border the Mediterranean coast.

neg: United Nations Association Wales The United Nations Association Wales (UNA Wales) (Welsh: "Cymdeithas y Cenhedloedd Unedig Cymru" ) is an organisation campaigning in Wales to make the ideals of the United Nations a reality. It campaigns, lobbies and raises awareness on issues of disarmament, conflict prevention, sustainable development and human rights. It aims to promote informed debate on international issues, including the UN system itself.

neg: Malaysia–Turkey relations Malaysia–Turkey relations (Malay: "Hubungan Malaysia–Turki"; Turkish: "Malezya–Türkiye ilişkileri") refers to foreign relations between Malaysia and Turkey. Turkey has an embassy in Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysia has an embassy in Ankara. Both countries are the full members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Both countries are also classed as regional powers and middle powers in their respective regions.

neg: International Solar Alliance The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is a treaty based international inter-governmental alliance of 121 solar resource rich countries lying fully or partially between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Any country meeting the above criterion and also being a United Nations Member can become a Member of ISA. The International Solar Alliance (ISA) was launched on 30 November, 2015 as a coalition of the solar resource rich countries by Mr.Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India and Mr.François Hollande, Hon’ble President of France in the presence of Mr. Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations on the first day of the Conference of Parties (CoP) 21 to the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Paris. The Paris Declaration establishing ISA calls ISA an alliance dedicated to the promotion of solar energy among its member countries. Major objective of ISA is deployment of over 1000 GW of solar energy and mobilization of more than US $ 1000 billion of investment into the solar energy. ISA is headquartered at Gurugram, Haryana, in India. Mr. Upendra Tripathy heads the ISA Interim Secretariat in the capacity of the Interim Director General of ISA.

neg: Global Governance Institute Global Governance Institute (GGI) is an independent, non-profit think tank based in Brussels. It brings together policy-makers, scholars and practitioners from the world's leading institutions in order to devise, strengthen and improve forward-looking approaches to global governance.

neg: Foreign relations of Belgium Belgium is a country in Europe and member of major international organizations like the European Union and NATO which are both headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

neg: International Monitoring Team The International Monitoring Team (IMT) is a monitoring team composed of 60 members headquartered in Cotabato City, Mindanao of the Philippines to monitor the implementation of peace between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and one of the largest rebels in the region, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the Moro conflict. The team is led by Malaysia, and followed by Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Libya, Norway and subsequently the European Union.

neg: Music Council of Australia The Music Council of Australia (MCA) is a national peak music organisation for Australia. It is the official Australian representative to the UNESCO world peak music organization, the International Music Council (IMC), Paris. The MCA It is also a member of the International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD), Ottawa.