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[Main ACL 2026] Corpus, Index, and dataset to train ChatR1. • 17 items • Updated
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0 | A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree |
1 | "A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree" is a poem by the Kenyan poet Jonathan Kariara. It concerns a native farmer besieged by a tree-bound leopard that has apparently broken his fences, torn his medicine bags and stifled his wives' sensuality. Featured in such poesy anthologies as "An Introduction to East African Poetry", "Th... |
2 | The poem begins with the line that also constitutes its title, adding that the leopard's gaze is fixed on the home of the speaker, whose lambs(read children) are born with speckles and whose wives "tie their skirts tight / And turn away" (4-5), fearing that (presumably through the leopard's voracious attentions) they m... |
3 | From its residence outside his homestead, the leopard is seen eyeing the women. The speaker recalls addressing it as "elder" (18) and "one-from-the-same-womb" (18), but it holds its head high and merely peers at him "with slit eyes" (19). The speaker's sword has corroded in its sheath, and his wives, whenever the owls ... |
4 | Although the wives "fetch cold mountain water" (25) and "crush the sugar cane" (26), they decline to touch their husband's "beer horn" (27). With his fences broken, his medicine bags torn and the post at his gate fallen, the speaker's pubic hair is singed (burnt, charred). Presently, the leopard arches over the homeste... |
5 | The speaker uses the imagery of a leopard to mean stealthy and dangerous, he goes further to suggest that they are of the same womb, from which we can infer that he speaks of a brother; older, and with more status than he. The persona's lambs are born with speckles, suggesting that the lecherous elder brother has alrea... |
6 | Saving Room for Dessert |
7 | Saving Room for Dessert is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh). |
8 | Constantine's earlier novels followed the exploits of police chief Mario Balzic and detective Rugs Carlucci of the Rocksburg police department; this one departs from the pattern by shadowing three beat cops: William Rayford, Robert Canoza, and James Reseta. |
9 | It is the seventeenth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series. |
10 | Mount Shasta Wilderness
--Recreation.
--Flora and fauna.
--Sierra Club camp.
--References and notes. |
11 | The Mount Shasta Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located east of Mount Shasta City in northern California. The US Congress passed the 1984 California Wilderness Act that set aside the Mount Shasta Wilderness. The US Forest Service is the managing agency as the wilderness is within the Shasta-Trinit... |
12 | The Wintun Glacier is located on Mount Shasta and is the lowest-elevation glacier in the state, lying at elevation and extending to the summit. |
13 | The smaller volcanic cone of Shastina (12,270 ft) lies one mile (1.6 km) west of Mount Shasta and was formed after the ice-age glaciers melted. |
14 | The wilderness protects both pristine forests and areas that were intensively logged and roaded |
15 | in the past. Although less than half of the mountain remains roadless, Mount Shasta Wilderness is still the premier destination for a variety of activities from mountaineering, day-hiking, and backpacking to cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and ski mountaineering. It is valued for the many scenic, geologic and recreat... |
16 | Being a high, solitary and very large mountain with a base diameter of , Mount Shasta can create its own weather patterns which hikers must be aware of. Also, falling rocks are a major danger above timberline. The best time of year for hiking Mount Shasta is June and July, when routes are still snow-covered. Although t... |
17 | There are ten trailheads giving access to the wilderness and several short trails leading up the slopes of Mount Shasta with the so-called Shasta Summit Trail (or Avalanche Gulch) being the most popular. This trail, although the "easiest" of the routes, still requires the use of ice axe and crampons. There are four maj... |
18 | A parking permit is required as well as a free wilderness permit and, if attempting a hike above , a Summit Pass for each climber must be purchased. Human waste must be packed out, and all principles of Leave No Trace etiquette employed. Some restrictions include no dogs in the wilderness, a limit of 10 people in a gro... |
19 | Forested areas include pure stands of red fir as well as mixed conifer forests of white fir, Douglas-fir, sugar pine, incense cedar and at higher elevations, western white pine. The lava flows on the northeast flank have mountain mahogany and juniper. Underbrush consists of pinemat manzanita, greenleaf manzanita, tanoa... |
20 | Wildlife include the ubiquitous black bear, coyote, ground squirrel, deer, golden eagles, prairie falcons and red-tail hawks. |
21 | Common wildflowers are Shasta lily, miner's lettuce, showy phlox and mountain violet among others. |
22 | Notable rare plants in the Mount Shasta Wilderness and surrounding area include Mt. Shasta arnica ("Arnica viscosa"), Siskiyou Indian paintbrush ("Castilleja miniata" ssp. "elata") and Shasta owl's clover ("Orthocarpus pachystachyus"). The Siskiyou Indian paintbrush is hemiparasitic, meaning that the plant obtains wate... |
23 | The Sierra Club maintains a private parcel called Horse Camp within the wilderness. |
24 | It is used as a base camp for summit attempts, and offers a shelter called the Shasta Alpine Lodge, dedicated in 1923 and built from surrounding volcanic rock and Shasta red fir wood. Horse Camp is staffed during the climbing season from May to September, has a seasonal spring for water and is a traditional destination... |
25 | Also at Horse Camp is the half-mile-long Olberman Causeway, a stone walkway built in the 1920s by the first caretaker, Mac Olberman from rocks of the surrounding area. |
26 | Adkinson, Ron Wild Northern California. The Globe Pequot Press, 2001 |
27 | Flip-Flop Girl
--Plot.
--Reception. |
28 | Flip-Flop Girl is a 1994 children's novel written by American novelist Katherine Paterson. |
29 | The book is considered a very good story for children who are trying to adjust in a new school. and appears on school study and reading lists. |
30 | The book focuses on a nine-year-old girl named Lavina (but is called Vinnie) whose life has been in turmoil following her father's death. Vinnie and her five-year-old brother Mason, who has turned mute following their father's funeral, are sent to live with their grandmother in a rural Virginia community. Vinnie has di... |
31 | Reviews of "Flip-Flop Girl" have been mostly positive. Kirkus Reviews found "Once again, Paterson sets characters drawn with extraordinary empathy in a story distinguished by its overarching theme." and "Touching, engrossing, beautifully wrought." and Publishers Weekly wrote that "Paterson explores the impact of grief ... |
32 | However, The Independent wrote "Katherine Paterson has done some good work in the past, but Flip-Flop Girl is definitely more flop than flip." |
33 | Harold Keenan
--Blackpool. |
34 | Harold Keenan (born 20 December 1893, date of death unknown) was an English professional footballer. He spent his entire professional career with Blackpool in the early 1900s, making over 100 Football League appearances for the club. He played as a defender. |
35 | Warrington-born Keenan made his debut for Blackpool on 25 January 1913, in a 4–2 defeat at Fulham. It was his only appearance of the 1912–13 season. |
36 | He also made one league appearance the following season, 1913–14, in a goalless draw against Notts County at Bloomfield Road on 13 April 1914, fifteen months after his first start for the club. |
37 | Keenan didn't make any appearances in 1914–15; however, in 1917–18, the third season of regional football during World War I, Keenan was ever-present in Blackpool's 36 games in the principal and subsidiary competitions. He also scored three goals. |
38 | The following season, 1918–19, the final season of inter-war football, Bill Norman was installed as Blackpool's first full-time manager. He selected Keenan in 33 of the club's 37 games. |
39 | Football League programmes returned for 1919–20, and Keenan made 35 starts in Blackpool's 42 league games. He also helped steer the club to the third round of the FA Cup, at which point they were knocked out by arch-rivals Preston North End. |
40 | In 1920–21, Keenan was again ever-present. He also scored his first League goals for the club. The first came in the opening game of the season, a 2–2 draw at Bury on 28 August. The second was in a 2–0 victory at Rotherham County on 12 February. His third was the only goal of the game at Port Vale on 26 February. |
41 | Keenan's appearances were limited in 1921–22, with just fifteen league starts. |
42 | In 1922–23, Keenan's final season with Blackpool, he appeared in just the first seven league games, the final one being a 2–1 defeat at home to Southampton on 23 September, in front of a crowd of 13,500. |
43 | Mark Cole
--Personal.
--Military service.
--Professional career.
--Political career.
----Positions.
------Microchip implantation.
------Bathroom bills.
------Voter registration.
------Fornication laws.
------Committee memberships.
--2020–21 United States election protests. |
44 | Mark Lanze Cole (born June 6, 1958) is an American politician of the Republican Party. From 2002 until 2022 he was been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. He represented the 88th district in the Virginia Piedmont, made up of parts of Fauquier, Spotsylvania and Stafford Counties, and the City of Fredericksburg... |
45 | Cole grew up in Monticello, Kentucky. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering technology from the Western Kentucky University, an associate degree in computer information systems from Germanna Community College and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Mary Washington. |
46 | After graduation from Western Kentucky University in 1980, Cole entered the United States Navy and was commissioned as an officer. He served on as ordnance officer and assistant combat systems officer. He left active duty in 1985 but continued to serve in the United States Naval Reserve where he retired as a commander ... |
47 | After leaving the Navy in 1985, Cole was employed as a systems analyst and manager by Northrop Grumman supporting the Navy at Dahlgren, Virginia, until 2012. In 2013 he was hired by Spotsylvania County, Virginia as deputy county administrator. |
48 | Cole was elected to the Spotsylvania County, Virginia Board of Supervisors in 1999, where he served until 2002 when he took office in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was the chairman of the House Privileges and Elections Committee until the Democratic Party took the majority in the Virginia House of Delegates in th... |
49 | Cole describes himself as a fiscal and social conservative that supports individual rights while opposing tax increases. He opposed Republican initiatives to raise taxes in 2007 and 2013. |
50 | Cole voted against Medicaid expansion, HB5001, in the 2018 legislative session. The bill passed 68–30 in the House of Delegates with bipartisan support. |
51 | Cole was criticized in February 2010 for comments made by him about his sponsorship of HB53, a bill in the House of Delegates which would ban involuntary implantation of microchips into humans by their employers: |
52 | Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said of this on MSNBC that "the sort of paranoid strain of thinking among these folks just—it advances to meet the new technology that we have." Despite MSNBC's crusade against Delegate Cole, calling him "Mark of the Beast Cole" his bill (similar to one ... |
53 | In 2016, Cole sponsored House Bill 663, a bathroom bill restricting public restroom use according to a person's "anatomical sex", defined as "the physical condition of being male or female, which is determined by a person's anatomy", with violators liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $50. HB663 was introduced on J... |
54 | In 2017, Cole sponsored House Bill 1598, which would require those registering to vote after January 1, 2018 for state and local elections to provide proof of citizenship. HB1598 passed the House of Delegates on a 64–37 party line vote in February 2017. |
55 | Cole voted against a bill to eliminate a law banning sexual intercourse before marriage in the 2020 legislative session. The bill passed 91–5 with bipartisan support in the house. |
56 | Cole is a member of the Education, Privileges and Elections, and General Laws Committees. |
57 | Cole was one of three GOP delegates in Virginia that sent a letter to Vice President Pence asking him to throw out the state's election results, which gave President-elect Joe Biden the win and Virginia's 13 electoral votes. The letter included two co-signers, Del. Dave LaRock (R-Loudoun) and Del. Ronnie Campbell (R-Le... |
58 | Bang! (Thunder album)
--Background. |
59 | Bang! is the ninth studio album by English hard rock band Thunder. Recorded at Walton Castle in Clevedon, North Somerset, it was produced by the band's lead guitarist Luke Morley. The album was released in the UK by STC Recordings on 3 November 2008, and later in Europe by Frontiers Records and in Japan by Victor Enter... |
60 | "Bang!" debuted at number 62 on the UK Albums Chart and number 2 on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. No singles were released from the album, although "On the Radio" was issued as a promotional release. Following the album's release, Thunder completed a short concert tour in the UK before announcing that they were... |
61 | Prior to working on their ninth album, Thunder recorded and released two extended plays (EPs) of new tracks and live recordings – "Six of One..." and "...Half a Dozen of the Other" – which were released on 8 October 2007 and 7 April 2008, respectively. A third EP, "The Joy of Six", was issued on the same day as "Bang!"... |
62 | "Bang!" was released in the UK by STC Recordings on 3 November 2008, following a launch party on 27 October at the Hard Rock Cafe in Manchester featuring an acoustic set from the band. The album was later released in Europe by Frontiers Records and in Japan by Victor Entertainment, the latter of which featured two bonu... |
63 | Democrats Really |
64 | Democrats Really ("Democratici Davvero") is a faction within the Democratic Party (PD), a political party in Italy. |
65 | The group, whose leader is Rosy Bindi, basically includes Christian left politicians and social democrats. They have been close supporters of Romano Prodi and wanted the party to stick to the tradition of The Olive Tree, along with the Olivists. |
66 | In the 2007 primary election for choosing the party leader, most Olivists, supported Rosy Bindi, along with Agazio Loiero's Southern Democratic Party and some members of The Populars, a loose association of former members of the Italian People's Party of which also Bindi was a member. The Olivists had their strongholds... |
67 | In July 2008 Bindi and her group (Giovanni Bachelet, Gianfranco Morgando, Roberto Zaccaria, Marina Magistrelli, Nando Dalla Chiesa) broke with the core Olivists, who were much more critical of the political line of Walter Veltroni's party leadership and of the lack of internal democracy within the party. |
68 | In the 2009 Democratic Party leadership election the faction supported Pier Luigi Bersani. Bersani won and Bindi was elected president of the party. |
69 | Danny Gerard
--Early life.
--Career. |
70 | Danny Gerard (born Daniel Gerard Lanzetta; May 29, 1977) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his role as Alan Silver in the CBS television series "Brooklyn Bridge". He also starred in the short lived CBS series "Blue Skies" and the unaired NBC pilot "News at Twelve". |
71 | Gerard was born in Mount Vernon, New York and is of Italian descent. |
72 | He was in the original Broadway production of "Lost in Yonkers" starring alongside Kevin Spacey, Mercedes Ruehl and Irene Worth. He played the role of Arty, in this Tony award-winning production. In 1997, he starred as the voice of the titular character in the animated film adaption of Jack London's "White Fang". |
73 | Gerard was in the original cast of the musical "Falsettoland", playing the role of Jason. He can be heard on the second disc of the two-CD set of "March of the Falsettos" and Falsettoland. He released a CD, "The Story of a Minute in America" in 2005. |
74 | Going by his real name Danny Lanzetta, he has also written several books and is a spoken word artist. |
75 | Kang Sue-jin
--Early life.
--Career.
--Honours and awards. |
76 | Kang Sue-jin (; born 24 April 1967) is a South Korean ballerina. She is a principal dancer at Stuttgart Ballet. |
77 | Kang Sue-jin was born in Seoul, South Korea. After initial ballet lessons at Sun Hwa Arts Middle School, where she majored in Korean traditional dance, she continued her education at Sun Hwa Arts High School until 1982. Following graduation from high school, Kang went to Marika Besobrasova at Monte Carlo Dance School. ... |
78 | Following her long career as a ballet dancer, Kang was awarded an honorary degree from Sookmyung Women's University in 2016. |
79 | Kang joined Stuttgart Ballet in 1986 and was its first and youngest Asian ballerina. |
80 | In 2002, Kang appeared in "Die Kameliendame" and to years later, she performed with Benito Marcellino in Cranko's "Onegin". Following the 2016 performance of the same ballet with Jason Reilly as partner, Kang had retired from performance. |
81 | In 2003, Kang debuted in USA in a role of Juliet from Cranko's "Romeo and Juliet" opposite to Romeo role by Filip Barankiewicz. In 2008, Kang reprised the role of Juliet in the same ballet. |
82 | In 2013, Kang published her first memoir titled "I Don't Wait for Tomorrow". The same year she also became an honorary ambassador of PyeongChang at the 2018 Winter Olympics. |
83 | In 2015, Kang performed in John Neumeier's "Die Kameliendame" in her hometown Seoul, South Korea and the same year appeared in Cranco's "Onegin" at Seoul Arts Center where she sang the "Swan song". |
84 | In 2017, Kang became a jury member of the Prix de Lausanne, Prix Benois de la Danse. and of the Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition.
*1992 "Mata Hari"
*1992 "Romeo and Juliet"
*1993 "The Magic Flute"
*1994 "The Sleeping Beauty"
*1996 "Giselle"
*1997 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
*1998 "Die Kamelie... |
85 | In 1998, German Orchid Society named an orchid from the "Phalaenopsis" genus in her honor. |
86 | Doug Carl
--Family. |
87 | Douglas Carl (August 12, 1951 – August 17, 1997) was a state senator in Michigan who also ran as the Republican nominee in Michigan's 12th Congressional District in 1988 and in the 10th Congressional District in 1992, losing to David Bonior both times. |
88 | Carl served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1984 to 1986 and in the Michigan State Senate from 1987 until his death. |
89 | Ronald Reagan attended a campaign rally at Macomb Community College in 1988 in which he urged people to vote for Carl. |
90 | In 1983 Carl married Maria. They had one daughter, Colleen. |
91 | Carl's widow, Maria Carl, ran in the 2004 Republican primary for the Michigan House of Representatives against incumbent Leon Drolet after he voted against legislation defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman. She lost the nomination to Drolet. |
92 | In November 2015, Colleen Carl, the daughter of the late state senator Doug Carl announced her candidacy for Michigan House of Representatives in the 33rd District for the primary election that occurred August 2016. |
93 | Rene Haller
--Awards and honors. |
94 | René Daniel Haller (born December 18, 1933 in Lenzburg, Switzerland), is a Swiss naturalist trained in horticulture, landscaping and tropical agronomy. Since the 1970s, he has been known for his commitment to environmental restoration, such as the restoration of a limestone quarry wasteland in Mombasa, Kenya, into the ... |
95 | Haller is a recipient of a number of awards. He was one of the first recipients of the prestigious Global 500 Roll of Honor by the United Nations for his 'outstanding environmental achievements. He is a Trustee of the Haller Foundation, the Director of The Baobab Trust, and interim Chair of the Kenya Wildlife Service B... |
96 | In 1987, Haller was awarded the prestigious UNEP Global 500 Roll of Honor by the United Nations, for his 'outstanding environmental achievements'. |
97 | In 1991 he received the Swiss Brandenberger prize, as well as an Honorary Doctor's degree from the University of Basle. In April 2003, he was appointed to the board of the Kenyan Wildlife Service. |
98 | Rocky Mountain (film)
--Plot.
--Production.
--Reception.
----Critical reaction.
----Box Office.
----Legacy.
--References. |
99 | Rocky Mountain is a 1950 American Western film directed by William Keighley and starring Errol Flynn. It also stars Patrice Wymore, who married Flynn in 1950. The film is set in California near the end of the American Civil War. |
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