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        "Alter the recorded start of a project or record to suit a claim.",
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        "Readers",
        "Parties to priority disputes"
      ]
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                  }
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                    "text": "Which entry fits company law?",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What are an initial commit and a genesis block, and what do they establish?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits version control or blockchain?",
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                  }
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                    "text": "How do openings of stories, films and music work, and what techniques do writers use?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits narrative structure?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
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            "id": "appearances",
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                    "text": "How are first appearances of characters, performers and products documented?",
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                    "text": "Which entry fits a specific character?",
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                  }
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                "description": "Thought.",
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                    "text": "How have philosophy, cosmology and religions treated the idea of a beginning, with positions attributed?",
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                    "text": "Is the presentation neutral?",
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                ]
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            "id": "teach",
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                "id": "teach-finding",
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                    "text": "How can origins and start dates be taught in history and data literacy?",
                    "kind": "action"
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                  {
                    "text": "Which misconceptions arise?",
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                  }
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              }
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    "Should each form of beginning be a separate entry?",
    "How should date conventions be linked?",
    "How should disputed origins be attributed?"
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