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John is six years old. He can read and write well. But he can't tell the time. He says "breakfast time", "lunchtime", and "teatime" when it is eight o'clock, twelve o'clock and four o'clock in the afternoon. His mother doesn't know how to help him. One day John's aunt, Mary, comes to see his mother. His mother tells her about that. "Let me help you. I think I can help him." When John gets home after school, Mary starts to teach him. "Can you _ , John?" she asks him. "Yes. One, two, three, four..." John says. "That's great. Now I put the longhand on twelve and the shorthand on one - that is one o'clock. I put the short hand on two, what is the time?" "Two o'clock." "Good. And on three?" "Three o'clock." It is then four o'clock in the afternoon, and John's aunt asks him, "What time is it now, John?" "Teatime, Aunt." John looks at the clock and answers.
Answer the following questions:
1: What can John do well?
2: and how about not well?
3: What is at 8?
4: how about 12?
5: How come his mother didnt help him?
6: did anyone?
7: Who was that?
8: When did she start?
9: from where?
10: What did she ask him to do?
11: What did he do after she asked hom?
12: up to?
13: Was MAry happy about this?
14: Where did she put the longhand?
15: and the short one?
16: After that?
17: and then?
18: What did she ask him?
19: what did he say?
20: How did he know?
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Tom arrived at the bus station quite early for Paris bus. The bus for Paris would not leave until five to twelve. He saw a lot of people waiting in the station. Some were standing in line , others were walking around. There was a group of schoolgirls. Their teacher was trying to keep them in line. Tom looked around but there was no place for him to sit. He walked into the station cafe . he looked up at the clock there. It was only twenty to twelve. He found a seat and sat down before a large mirror on the wall. Just then, Mike, one of Tom's workmates came in and sat with Tom. "What time is your bus?" asked Mike. "There's plenty of time yet," answered Tom. "Well, I'll get you some more tea then," said Mike. They talked while drinking. Then Tom looked at the clock again. "Oh! It's going backward !" he cried. "A few minutes ago it was twenty to twelve and now it's half past eleven." "You're looking at the clock in the mirror." said Mike. Tom was so sad . The next bus was not to leave for another hour. Since then Tom has never liked mirrors. ,.
Answer the following questions:
1: Was there a place for Tom to sit?
2: Was the station crowded?
3: Did he arrive late?
4: Where was he going?
5: What time was his departure?
6: Who did he talk to?
7: What did Mike get Tom?
8: Did they talk?
9: What time did Tom think it was?
10: What transportation was Tom taking?
11: Was there a group of boys there?
12: Who was?
13: Who was with them?
14: How did Mike and Tom know each other?
15: Were they near a mirror?
16: Did that mess Tom up?
17: What time did he see?
18: Did he miss his transportation?
19: How long would he have to wait?
20: Does he like mirrors?
21: Did he think there was lots of time before he had to leave?
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Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning, and the Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its first chartered corporation. Although never formally affiliated with any denomination, the early College primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century Harvard had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's long tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a modern research university; Harvard was a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.
Answer the following questions:
1: When did Harvard become coeducational?
2: What was it a founding member of?
3: Who was it originally established by?
4: Who led the university through the Depression and World War II?
5: Was it named after someone?
6: Who?
7: Who was he?
8: Was Harvard formally affiliated with any denomination?
9: Which president transformed it into a modern research university?
10: Which college did it merge with?
11: Is it the 3rd oldest university in the US?
12: How old is it?
13: Is it the oldest higher learning institution in the US?
14: Who did the early college primarily train?
15: What kind of clergy?
16: When was the student body pretty much secularized?
17: Who was it a central cultural establishment among?
18: From what city?
19: What years was president Eliot's tenure?
20: Who liberalized admissions?
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Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest (who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast) and features performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show.
In 1980, Michaels left the series to explore other opportunities. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews. Ebersol ran the show until 1985, when Michaels returned; Michaels has remained since then. Many of "SNL"s cast found national stardom while appearing on the show, and achieved success in film and television, both in front of and behind the camera. Others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, or starring in TV and film.
Answer the following questions:
1: Has the shown been good for it’s cast and writers?
2: When did Michaels leave?
3: Who replaced him?
4: When did the show premier?
5: Where is the show made?
6: Does it have an abbreviation?
7: what is that?
8: standing for?
9: Who got bad reviews?
10: how does the show end?
11: Who hosts the episodes?
12: how many seasons was Jean there?
13: Did Micheals ever return?
14: when?
15: What was the original title?
16: who created it?
17: why did michaels originally leave?
18: and who developed it?
19: is this a day-time show?
20: then what is it?
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Matt is an adult. He is looking for a job. He hopes to become a clown someday. He wants to be a clown because he loves making people laugh. In order to be a clown, Matt must go to clown school.
One day, Matt's friend tells him about a clown school in St. Louis. Matt becomes excited!
The next day, Matt goes to the clown school in St. Louis. Matt's friend does not go with him. Matt's friend does not want to be a clown because he doesn't like to look weird.
When Matt arrives at clown school, he sees a clown riding on a blue tricycle. The clown asks, "What are you doing here?"
Matt says, "I want to become a clown."
"Well, can you ride this blue tricycle?" the clown asked.
"Yes," Matt said. He rode the blue tricycle all around the clown school. In the classrooms, in the gym, and in the lunchroom.
"You have what it takes to be a clown," the clown said, "you are accepted to clown school."
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Matt?
2: What is he looking for?
3: Of what?
4: why?
5: What does he have to do?
6: Does he know of one?
7: how?
8: Where?
9: How does he feel?
10: What happens the next day?
11: with who?
12: what does he see there?
13: What does the clown say?
14: How does he respond?
15: And the clown's response?
16: What did Matt do?
17: where?
18: Did he get accepted?
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The Romance languages (sometimes called the Romanic languages, Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that thus form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.
Today, around 800 million people are native speakers worldwide, mainly in Europe, Africa and the Americas, but also elsewhere. Additionally, the major Romance languages have many non-native speakers and are in widespread use as lingua francas. This is especially the case for French, which is in widespread use throughout Central and West Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Maghreb.
The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish (470 million), Portuguese (250 million), French (150 million), Italian (60 million), and Romanian (25 million).
Because of the difficulty of imposing boundaries on a continuum, various counts of the modern Romance languages are given; for example, Dalby lists 23 based on mutual intelligibility. The following, more extensive list, includes 35 current, living languages, and one recently extinct language, Dalmatian:
Romance languages are the continuation of Vulgar Latin, the popular and colloquial sociolect of Latin spoken by soldiers, settlers, and merchants of the Roman Empire, as distinguished from the classical form of the language spoken by the Roman upper classes, the form in which the language was generally written. Between 350 BC and 150 AD, the expansion of the Empire, together with its administrative and educational policies, made Latin the dominant native language in continental Western Europe. Latin also exerted a strong influence in southeastern Britain, the Roman province of Africa, western Germany, Pannonia and the Balkans north of the Jireček Line.
Answer the following questions:
1: What are some names the Romance languages are sometimes called?
2: What is the most spoken of the Languages?
3: Around how many people speak it?
4: During what time frame did Latin become the dominant native language in continental Western Europe?
5: When did the modern Romance Languages start evolving from Vulgar Latin?
6: What language branch did they form then?
7: In a more extensive listing how many current Romance Languages are there?
8: Is there difficulty imposing boundries where a new language starts and an old one ends with the Romance languages?
9: Where has latin had a strong influence?
10: How many people speak Romanian?
11: Are these languages ever used as lingua francas?
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John and Booby joined a wholesale company together just after graduation from college the same year. Both worked very hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to the position of manager but John remained an ordinary employee . John could not take it any more, so he sent his resignation and complained that the boss did not value hard working workers but only promoted those who said good words of him.
The boss knew that John worked very hard for the years. He thought for a moment and said, "Thank you for telling me, but I have a request. I hope you will do one more thing for our company before you leave. Perhaps you will change your mind and take back your resignation."
John agreed. The boss asked him to go and find out anyone selling watermelons in the market. John went and returned soon. He said he had found out a man selling watermelons. The boss asked how much per kg, John shook his head and went back to the market to ask and returned to tell the boss $1.2 per kg.
The boss told John to wait a second, and he called Bobby to go and find anyone selling watermelons in the market. Bobby went, returned and said only one person sold watermelons. $1.2 for a kg, $10 for 10kg and his watermelons added up to 340. On the table 58 melons, every melon weighs about 2 kg, bought from the south two days ago and they were fresh, red and good quality.
John was surprised and realized the difference between himself and Bobby. He decided not to go away but to learn from Bobby.
The story tells us that a more successful person is more concerned and thinks more. Chances are there in the daily details. For the same thing, a person sees one year ahead, while another sees only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, how could you win?
Answer the following questions:
1: What did the boss ask John to do?
2: How many did John find?
3: Was John a hard worker?
4: Why did John put in his resignation?
5: to what position?
6: Did John accuse the boss of being unfair?
7: When did John join the company?
8: What about Bobby?
9: How many people did Bobby find selling watermelons?
10: How many were on the table?
11: Did John know how many watermelons were on the table?
12: How much did each melon weigh?
13: Who found out that information?
14: Did John decide to change his mind about leaving?
15: What type of person is thinks more and is more concerned?
16: Did the boss hope the John would change his mind about resigning?
17: Did John decide that he could learn from Bobby?
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(CNN) -- Gov. David Paterson had no intention of appointing Caroline Kennedy to fill the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, a source close to the New York governor told CNN Thursday.
Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn her name from consideration for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat.
The source told CNN that Paterson did not think Kennedy was "ready for prime time," citing her efforts, at times awkward, to try to win the appointment.
"She clearly has no policy experience and couldn't handle the pressure," said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. "Why would he pick her given how badly she handled herself in recent weeks?"
Kennedy, 51, cited personal reasons for her decision not to continue pursuing the Senate seat. She informed the media at midnight, as Wednesday turned to Thursday.
Paterson is charged with naming a replacement for Clinton, who resigned her seat to become the secretary of state in President Obama's administration. Paterson will appoint someone to hold the seat until a new election is held in 2010.
A Kennedy ally, though, denied Kennedy had any indication Paterson was leaning against choosing her to fill out Clinton's term.
And another Kennedy confidante said Kennedy allies are getting frustrated about what they perceive as the governor's insiders slighting her.
Paterson, who is expected to name his choice Friday, has been coy about who he will pick to replace Clinton. Kennedy had been very public in expressing her interest in the seat by meeting with state and community leaders throughout the state.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is the Govenor?
2: What state does he govern?
3: Why did Hillary leave her position?
4: Of what administration?
5: Why did Caroline withdraw her name?
6: Why would Patterson not choose her?
7: When will the choice be announced
8: How old is Kennedy?
9: When did she annouce her withdraw?
10: Could she withstand the pressure of the job?
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Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in India, predominantly in the state of Kerala. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and was designated as a Classical Language in India in 2013. It was developed to the current form mainly by the influence of the poet Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan in the 16th century. Malayalam has official language status in the state of Kerala and in the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry. It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and is spoken by some 38 million people. Malayalam is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; with significant speakers in the Nilgiris, Kanyakumari and Coimbatore districts of Tamil Nadu, and Dakshina Kannada of Karnataka. Malayalam serves as a link language on certain islands, including the Mahl-dominated Minicoy Island.
The origin of Malayalam remains a matter of dispute among scholars. One view holds that Malayalam and Modern Tamil are offshoots of Middle Tamil and separated from it sometime after . A second view argues for the development of the two languages out of 'Proto-Dravidian' in the prehistoric era.
The earliest script used to write Malayalam was the Vatteluttu alphabet, and later the Kolezhuttu, which derived from it. The current Malayalam script is based on the Vatteluttu script, which was extended with Grantha script letters to adopt Indo-Aryan loanwords. With a total of 52 letters, the Malayalam script has the largest number of letters among the Indian language orthographies. The oldest literary work in Malayalam, distinct from the Tamil tradition, is dated from between the 9th and 11th centuries. The first travelogue in any Indian language is the Malayalam "Varthamanappusthakam", written by Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar in 1785.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is the origin of Malayalam clear?
2: What was the earliest writing?
3: Was there another script after that?
4: What was that?
5: How many letters does the current one contain?
6: How many views on origin are given?
7: What is Malayalam?
8: Where is it used?
9: Is it spoken mostly in one place?
10: where?
11: How many languages are in India?
12: When was it classified as a classical language?
13: How many speak it?
14: What group of languages does it fall under?
15: Does it ever serve as a link language?
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Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany. With a population of 582,277 inhabitants (1.1 million residents in the larger urban zone) it is Germany's tenth most populous city. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin at the confluence of the White Elster, Pleisse, and Parthe rivers at the southern end of the North German Plain.
Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important medieval trade routes. Leipzig was once one of the major European centers of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing. Leipzig became a major urban center within the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) after the Second World War, but its cultural and economic importance declined.
Leipzig later played a significant role in instigating the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, through events which took place in and around St. Nicholas Church. Since the reunification of Germany, Leipzig has undergone significant change with the restoration of some historical buildings, the demolition of others, and the development of a modern transport infrastructure. Leipzig today is an economic center, the most livable city in Germany, according to the GfK marketing research institution and has the second-best future prospects of all cities in Germany, according to HWWI and Berenberg Bank. Leipzig Zoological Garden is one of the most modern zoos in Europe and ranks first in Germany and second in Europe according to Anthony Sheridan. Since the opening of the Leipzig City Tunnel in 2013, Leipzig forms the centerpiece of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland public transit system. Leipzig is currently listed as Gamma World City and Germany's "Boomtown".
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the 10th populous city in Germany?
2: DId this city have anything to do with communism?
3: What?
4: What federal state is in it?
5: Is it a good city for trade?
6: How long ?
7: What is Leipzig according to GfK marketing research instituation?
8: Anything else?
9: Is it important to the S-Bahn Mittledeutschland transit system?
10: Why?
11: Did something open in 2010?
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After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled, Marie
Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices.
"Everyone else was already admitted to college," her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the
family home. "So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said, ` _ "'
Impressed-she was a National Merit finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil-Yale did, admitting her to the class of 1978, where she started writing for The Yale Daily News "and decided to be a journalist," her mother said.
On Wednesday, Marie Colvin, 56, an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London, was killed as Syrian forces attacked the city of Homs. She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.
"She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday", Ms. Colvin said. "Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out. She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it."
Ms. Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones. "If you knew my daughter," she said; "it would have been such a waste of words. She was determined, she was enthusiastic about what she did, it was her life. There was no saying `Don't do this.'This is who she was, ly who she was and what she believed in: cover the story, not just have pictures of it, but bring it to life in the deepest way you could." So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism, her mother said.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who return home?
2: After what?
3: doing what?
4: What is her mother's name?
5: Where did Marie drive to?
6: What finalist was she?
7: What other language did she speak?
8: What Yale newspaper did she write for?
9: What class?
10: How old was Marie when she died?
11: Where was she working?
12: What agency was she working for
13: Which country was this in?
14: Was she doing a story?
15: Did she listen to others who told her not to go?
16: What did she study at yale?
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Bill McIntosh and Royce Wedding had been the best friends for 30 years. Now, living alone 12 miles east of the town, Bill earned his living by hunting foxes and rabbits.
"Coming to the football match this afternoon?" Bill McIntosh asked 54-year-old Royce Wedding as they drank beer at the Eureka Hotel. Royce shook his head, "I promised Mom I'd burn off the weeds in one of our fields." "I'll give you a hand," Bill said.
Driving slowly from the southern edge of the field, they worked their way upwind, leaving a line of burning weeds in their wake. Suddenly the fire was on them. Bill pushed open his door only to find himself thrown through the air, the gasoline tank exploded and the car jumped three feet off the ground. When it crashed back down Royce found himself unable to move. Bill lay where he fell. "Royce!" he cried, struggling to his feet and heading for the car. Pulling open the door, he seized Royce's arms through the smoke. "I'm stuck," Royce said. "Get yourself away!" The fire bit at Bill's arms, face and legs, but he said, "I'm not leaving you here." Now Bill pulled as hard as he could. Suddenly he fell backward. Royce was free and out of the car.
"What's the matter with that dog?" said Vicky Wedding, Royce's mom. Shocked by noise behind her, she turned to see Bill leaning against the door.
Six months after the fire, when Royce went out of hospital, he walked into the Eureka Hotel and bought Bill a beer.
Answer the following questions:
1: How long did Bill Mcintosh and Royce Wedding been best friends?
2: How far east of town did Bill live?
3: How old was Royce?
4: What exploded when Bill pushed oen his door?
5: how did Bill earn his living?
6: What was helping royce with?
7: What did Royce say to bill because he was stuck from the accident?
8: What did Bill and Royce do together at the Eureka hotel?
9: How long did it take Royce to get out of the hospital after the fire?
10: Did Bill get pull Royce free?
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Chapter 6: The Arrival Of Clive.
"I have nearly brought down the story to the present time," Mr. Johnson said. "One event has taken place, however, which was of importance. Muzaffar Jung set out for Hyderabad, accompanied by a French contingent under Bussy. On the way, the chiefs who had conspired against Nazir Jung mutinied against his successor. Muzaffar charged them with his cavalry. Two of the three chief conspirators were killed and, while pursuing the third, Muzaffar was himself killed.
"Bussy at once released from confinement a son of Nazir Jung, proclaimed him Subadar of the Deccan, escorted him to Hyderabad, and received from him the cession of considerable fresh grants of territory to the French. The latter were now everywhere triumphant, and Trichinopoli and Tanjore were, with the three towns held by the English, the sole places which resisted their authority. Muhammud Ali, deeming further resistance hopeless, had already opened negotiations with Dupleix for the surrender of Trichinopoli. Dupleix agreed to his conditions; but when Muhammud Ali found that Count Bussy, with the flower of the French force, had been despatched to Hyderabad, he gained time by raising fresh demands, which would require the ratification of the subadar.
"Luckily for us Mr. Floyer had been recalled, and his place taken by Mr. Saunders; who is, everyone says, a man of common sense and determination. Muhammud Ali urged upon him the necessity for the English to make common cause with him against the enemy, for if Trichinopoli fell, it would be absolutely impossible for the English to resist the French and their allies. Early this year, then, Mr. Saunders assured him that he should be assisted with all our strength, and Muhammud Ali thereupon broke off the negotiations with the French.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is telling a story?
2: Is it just starting?
3: Who was going somewhere?
4: Where was he going?
5: Was he alone?
6: Who was with him?
7: Who did he attack with horses?
8: How many of them were murdered?
9: Was he one of them?
10: Who do many people say has good logic and fortitude?
11: Who is advised to get along with their enemies?
12: By whom?
13: Did they listen to him?
14: Who was freed from constraint?
15: By whom?
16: What was he then named?
17: What areas were the last still fighting?
18: Were there any others?
19: Who was negotiating?
20: With whom?
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Last Thursday, a young woman saved an elderly man from a burning house on Garden Road. The young woman's name is Kitty and she works in a clothes shop. The elderly man, Daniel, lives just opposite the clothes shop. On Thursday afternoon, Kitty looked out of the window. She saw some smoke coming from Daniel's house and rushed over to see what was happening. The house was on fire and Daniel was inside. Kitty quickly called the fireman on 999. Then, she ran into the house to save Daniel. She found Daniel in his bedroom and he was frightened. Kitty helped Daniel out to a safe place. Five minutes later the fireman arrived and they put out the fire. No one was hurt. The next day, Daniel said,"I am so grateful to Kitty. She saved my life."Daniel also said,"In the future, I will be more careful. I don't want another fire in my house."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who saved someone?
2: Who did she save?
3: From where did she rescue him?
4: On what street?
5: Does she work in a coffee shop?
6: Where then?
7: How did she know there was something ablaze?
8: What did she do next?
9: And then what?
10: Did she find him in the kitchen?
11: How did Daniel feel?
12: How soon did the fire fighters arrive?
13: How did Daniel feel about Kitty?
14: Was Daniel young?
15: Where did she take him?
16: How many people were injured?
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Chinese people call the Spring Festival"Nian". But do you know that Nian was once the name of a monster ? A long time ago, the monster Nian lived in the mountains. It ate animals. But in winter, it could not find food. So it came to villages and ate a lot of people. People were so afraid of Nian that they locked their doors before evening came during the winter. One day, an old man came to a village. He told people there that Nian was afraid of three things----the color red, fire and noise. He told people to play drums and gongs, make big fires and set off fireworks to make Nian go away. On a moonless, cold night, Nian went to the village again. As soon as it opened its big mouth, people made loud noises and made fires. Nian was really afraid and ran away. wherever it went, there was noise and fire. When Nian was tired and could not run anymore, people killed the monster. After that, on the coldest day of winter, people beat drums and gongs, and set off fireworks to celebrate the death of the monster of Nian. They put up red lanterns and have a big dinner without sleeping during the night. In the morning people greet each other happily. So now we have the Spring Festival.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did the monster Nian eat most of they year?
2: What did it eat in the winter?
3: How did people try to protect themselves in the winter, before the old man gave them advice?
4: How did Nian feel about noise?
5: How did the people use that to their advantage?
6: Did Nian have any colors it was afraid of?
7: What instruments did people use to scare the monster away?
8: When they celebrate the death of the monster what do they make noise with?
9: What decorations do they put up then?
10: Is food involved in the celebrations?
11: Are the celebrations held throughout the night?
12: Who gave the people information that they used to help kill the monster?
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CHAPTER IX. LESSONS
THE first few weeks were hard ones, for Polly had not yet outgrown her natural shyness and going among so many strangers caused her frequent panics. But her purpose gave her courage, and when the ice was once broken, her little pupils quickly learned to love her. The novelty soon wore off, and though she thought she was prepared for drudgery, she found it very tedious to go on doing the same thing day after day. Then she was lonely, for Will could only come once a week, her leisure hours were Fanny's busiest, and the "bits of pleasure" were so few and far between that they only tantalized her. Even her small housekeeping lost its charms, for Polly was a social creature, and the solitary meals were often sad ones. Ashputtel and Nick did their best to cheer her, but they too, seemed to pine for country freedom and home atmosphere. Poor Puttel, after gazing wistfully out of the window at the gaunt city cats skulking about the yard, would retire to the rug, and curl herself up as if all hope of finding congenial society had failed; while little Nick would sing till he vibrated on his perch, without receiving any response except an inquisitive chirp from the pert sparrows, who seemed to twit him with his captivity. Yes, by the time the little teakettle had lost its brightness, Polly had decided that getting one's living was no joke, and many of her brilliant hopes had shared the fate of the little kettle.
Answer the following questions:
1: what happened when Polly was around strangers?
2: who tried to cheer her up?
3: what did they all long for?
4: how often did Will visit?
5: who is Puttel?
6: what is she?
7: what does Puttle do after looking out the window?
8: and?
9: how did Polly feel about making a living?
10: what did little Nick do?
11: who responded to him?
12: how did Polly feel about doing the same thing each day?
13: why couldnt see hang out with Fanny?
14: what did it take Polly awhile to outgrow?
15: who learned to love Polly?
16: does she still love housekeeping?
17: why not?
18: how did she feel about eating alone?
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Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born[N 3] scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.[N 4] Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.[N 5]
Many other inventions marked Bell's later life, including groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils and aeronautics. Although Bell was not one of the 33 founders of the National Geographic Society, he had a strong influence on the magazine while serving as the second president from January 7, 1898 until 1903.
Answer the following questions:
1: who was deaf?
2: what did he research?
3: Was he one of the 33 founders?
4: Where was Bell born?
5: what did he invent?
6: When was he born?
7: is he still living?
8: was that the only thing he invented?
9: When did he die?
10: when did he get the patent?
11: how many other things did he work on?
12: did he work in aeronautics?
13: was he a scientist?
14: did he have a brother?
15: what did he experiment with?
16: did he work with hydrofoils?
17: what was he second president of?
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A boy woke up super excited for this special day. He could not contain his excitement knowing that the soccer final was today! He had been working all year long to get to this day. He quickly hopped off his bed and went to eat his breakfast. His mom had made pancakes, waffles, and eggs, but the boy felt like eating cereal. His mom had laid out his soccer clothes and after he was done with his breakfast, he couldn't wait to put them on. He quickly changed into the clothes, and ran to the car where his mom was waiting for him to get in. The ride seemed to take a long time as he was super excited to play. The team was there and they started a small practice before the big game! The game started and the boy was very nervous since the other team looked really good. His team was as good too and they were tied at the end! Everyone either got a trophy or a medal for playing in the game, and the boy got a trophy. It was one of the best times the boy had ever had. The day was starting to get dark and he could feel sprinkles on his hands. His parents asked the boy if he wanted to eat ice cream and pizza after the game. The boy said he was tired and went home with his parents and he could not stop talking about how super fun the game was. He talked and talked and talked and his parents were very proud of him. He talked so much that he fell asleep in the car! His dad carried him into the house and put him in his bed. The boy had such a great day that he dreamed of soccer all night long. The trophy he had been given would let him remember about the fun day he had.
Answer the following questions:
1: What kind of day was it?
2: Why?
3: Was anyone looking forward to it?
4: whom?
5: Was he on the team?
6: Who had cereal for breakfast?
7: Is that what his mom made him?
8: Did his dad lay out his clothes?
9: who was waiting in the car?
10: How did he feel?
11: Who won the game?
12: Why not?
13: Did he have a bad game?
14: how was the game for him?
15: Did it rain?
16: Did they celebrate anywhere?
17: How?
18: Did he dream of basketball that night?
19: Did he get a prize?
20: When did they go get pizza?
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After moving to New York, Brian Moore could not stop running into his ex-girlfriend. There were four awkward and unplanned encounters in six months, to be exact.
So while most social apps are about connecting with friends, family or good-looking strangers, Moore began to wonder if a mobile tool could use the same readily available location information to help you avoid certain people.
That's how he and Chris Baker were inspired to create Cloak, a free iPhone app that pulls in location check-ins from your contacts' Instagram and Foursquare accounts. It maps out the positions of people you know based on their most recent social posts so you can give them the slip.
Cloak's tagline is "Incognito mode for real life." You might say it's an anti-social network.
Click on a bubble on the map, and you'll see a person's name, his or her location and about how long ago he or she checked in there. If it was a while ago, the image will appear faded, like a ghost.
"We feel like we've reached the point of social fatigue -- too many networks with too much information, all the time," Baker says. "It's OK to turn off and pick up a copy of 'Walden' and just be alone."
The app lets people set up push alerts for acquaintances they'd prefer to avoid such as exes, frenemies or annoying co-workers. If someone wants to drop off the grid completely, he can set up these notifications for everyone in his social networks -- presumably while sneaking through dark alleys or hiding behind sunglasses and a hat.
Answer the following questions:
1: what is cloak?
2: who created it?
3: where does it pull check-in information from?
4: how many sources is that?
5: where did Brian move to recently?
6: how many unplanned encounters did he have when he got there?
7: over what timeframe?
8: what is the apps tagline?
9: is it pro-social?
10: what is it then?
11: can you use the app on everyone?
12: who thinks that we've reached a point of social fatigue?
13: who was it that Brian kept running into?
14: what happens to old check in locations on the map?
15: similar to what supernatural entity?
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The term dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the ancient Greek word διάλεκτος diálektos, "discourse", from διά diá, "through" and λέγω legō, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.
One usage—the more common among linguists—refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class. A dialect that is associated with a particular social class can be termed a sociolect, a dialect that is associated with a particular ethnic group can be termed as ethnolect, and a regional dialect may be termed a regiolect. According to this definition, any variety of a language constitutes "a dialect", including any standard varieties.
The other usage refers to a language that is socially subordinated to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate or related to the standard language, but not actually derived from it. In this sense, unlike in the first usage, the standard language would not itself be considered a "dialect," as it is the dominant language in a particular state or region, whether in terms of social or political status, official status, predominance or prevalence, or all of the above. Meanwhile, the "dialects" subordinate to the standard language are generally not variations on the standard language but rather separate (but often related) languages in and of themselves. For example, most of the various regional Romance languages of Italy, often colloquially referred to as Italian "dialects," are, in fact, not actually derived from modern standard Italian, but rather evolved from Vulgar Latin separately and individually from one another and independently of standard Italian, long prior to the diffusion of a national standardized language throughout what is now Italy. These various Latin-derived regional languages are therefore, in a linguistic sense, not truly "dialects" of the standard Italian language, but are instead better defined as their own separate languages. Conversely, with the spread of standard Italian throughout Italy in the 20th century, various regional versions or varieties of standard Italian developed, generally as a mix of the national standard Italian with local regional languages and local accents. These variations on standard Italian, known as regional Italian, would more appropriately be called "dialects" in accordance with the first linguistic definition of "dialect," as they are in fact derived partially or mostly from standard Italian.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many ways is the term dialect used?
2: What is a dialect related to a class?
3: What about a regional dialect?
4: What about a dialect related to a certain ethnicity?
5: How many types of linguistic phenomena?
6: What is the standard language not considered in the other usage?
7: Where are the regional Italian dialects actually derived from?
8: What caused the development of regional versions or varieties of standard Italian?
9: What are variations on standard Italian known as?
10: What is the origin of the term dialect?
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Ron loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the following year. As Ron was walking to the game, a car hit him so hard that he was thrown three feet into the air. Ron woke up in a hospital room. When he learned that both his legs were broken, he realized his college basketball dreams were over. Ron did what the doctors told him, but his progress was slow. When he left the hospital, Ron was sent to a health center for physical treatment. A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny. Sunny was a coach.His legs were hurt paralysed from a skiing accident. Even though he couldn't move his legs, Sunny coached of a basketball team called the Suns. Everybody on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself. After becoming a part of the Suns, Ron improved quickly. Basketball was like medicine for him. And whenever Ron became depressed or angry, Sunny was there to encourage and help him. The day before Ron left the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he managed to be generous and cheerful, even with his paralysis. Sunny smiled and said, "It's really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows fall behind."
Answer the following questions:
1: who is the main character?
2: what did he want to do next year?
3: did he meet someone?
4: who?
5: where?
6: what was his profession?
7: was he ambulatory?
8: that means can he walk, was he ambulatory?
9: why not?
10: how?
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16:9 (1.7:1) (16:9 = 4:3) is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2010 it has become the most common aspect ratio for televisions and computer monitors, and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television. This has replaced the old .
Dr. Kerns H. Powers, a member of the SMPTE Working Group on High-Definition Electronic Production, first proposed the 16:9 (1.7:1) aspect ratio at a time when nobody was creating 16:9 videos. The popular choices in 1980 were: 1.3:1 (based on television standard's ratio at the time), 1.6:1 (the European "flat" ratio), 1.85:1 (the American "flat" ratio), 2.20:1 (the ratio of 70 mm films and Panavision) and 2.39:1 (the CinemaScope ratio for anamorphic widescreen films).
Powers cut out rectangles with equal areas, shaped to match each of the popular aspect ratios. When overlapped with their center points aligned, he found that all of those aspect ratio rectangles fit within an outer rectangle with an aspect ratio of 1.7:1 and all of them also covered a smaller common inner rectangle with the same aspect ratio 1.7:1. The value found by Powers is exactly the geometric mean of the extreme aspect ratios, 4:3 (1.3:1) and 2.35:1 (or 64:27, see also for more information), √ ≈ 1.770 which is coincidentally close to 16:9 (1.7:1). Applying the same geometric mean technique to 16:9 and 4:3 yields the aspect ratio, which is likewise used as a compromise between these ratios.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the most common aspect ratio for TVs?
2: Is this the international standard?
3: For which types of TV?
4: And?
5: Anything else?
6: Who proposed this ratio?
7: Is he a doctor?
8: Was he a member of any professional organizations at the time?
9: Which one?
10: What decade did he make this proposal?
11: Were there other choices then?
12: Was that considered standard?
13: What about in Europe?
14: Was that considered flat?
15: Did America have a flat ratio?
16: What was it?
17: What was used for 70mm movies?
18: Was that used for anything else?
19: What?
20: Did Powers use rectangles with different areas?
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Masovian Voivodeship or Mazovia Province, is the largest and most populous of the sixteen Polish provinces, or voivodeships, created in 1999. It occupies of east-central Poland, and has 5,324,500 inhabitants. Its principal cities are Warsaw (1.749 million) in the centre of the Warsaw metropolitan area, Radom (226,000) in the south, Płock (127,000) in the west, Siedlce (77,000) in the east, and Ostrołęka (55,000) in the north. The capital of the voivodeship is the national capital, Warsaw.
The province was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Warsaw, Płock, Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Siedlce and Radom Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. The province's name recalls the traditional name of the region, "Mazowsze" (sometimes rendered in English as "Masovia"), with which it is roughly coterminous. However, southern part of the voivodeship, with Radom, historically belongs to Lesser Poland, while Łomża and its surroundings, even though historically part of Masovia, now is part of Podlaskie Voivodeship.
It is bordered by six other voivodeships: Warmian-Masurian to the north, Podlaskie to the north-east, Lublin to the south-east, Świętokrzyskie to the south, Łódź to the south-west, and Kuyavian-Pomeranian to the north-west.
Masovia is the centre of science, research, education, industry and infrastructure in the country. It currently has the lowest unemployment rate in Poland and is classified as a very high income province. Moreover, it is popular among holidaymakers due to the number of historical monuments and greenery; forests cover over 20% of the voivodeship's area, where pines and oaks predominate in the regional landscape. Additionally, the Kampinos National Park located within Masovia is a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve.
Answer the following questions:
1: In what country is this place?
2: What's one name it goes by?
3: What's the other?
4: When was it created?
5: When were reforms adopted?
6: What is part of Masovia?
7: What is it a part of now?
8: How many voivodeships surround it?
9: How many things is it the centre of?
10: What are they?
11: Are there many people not working in relation to Poland?
12: How does it rank?
13: How's the pay there?
14: What's one thing tourists enjoy?
15: What's another?
16: What borders it on the west?
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A victor is, by definition, someone who wins a struggle or contest. However, that doesn't mean he or she will live a proud and happy life ever after, as Katniss Everdeen is about to discover in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Catching Fire, out in Chinese theaters on Nov 21, is set in a futuristic society called Panem. Every year its government holds a televised fight to the death. Two teenagers from each of the 12 districts of Panem are chosen to compete.
In the new film, last year's victors Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and her partner Peeta are back home after winning the 74thHunger Games. Katniss just wants to live a normal life. However, that never seems to happen. She has nightmares, which remind her that she is a killer.
Her worst nightmare comes true when the annual Hunger Games arrive again. The teenager finds herself back in the competition along with Peeta. Since Katniss brings hope to Panem through her courage, President Snow plans to use this year's Games to kill off Katniss and Peeta and in turn _ the fires of rebellion.
"This is the next step of Katniss' heroism and the next part of her journey to finding out who she is really going to be," Lawrence told Reuters.
Fast-paced and full of action, Catching Fire looks to outdo the success that the first film had in 2012. With a 97 percent rating on the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, it is enjoying positive reviews. Critics have praised it for being faithful to the book written by American author Suzanne Collins. The Hollywood Reporter said that Catching Fire outshines the first movie a lot.
Jennifer Lawrence, who won a best actress Oscar this year for her 2012 movie Silver Linings Playbook, has helped Catching Fire find success, Forbes pointed out. The 23-year-old actress does well playing a young lady who hates what she was forced to do to stay alive yet is determined not to give up.
"Lawrence's down-to-earth personality in real life won the hearts of the public. So given a wildly popular first film that blew everyone away, a rising fan base and a lead performer beloved by the mainstream press and viewers, the sequel was always going to be big," Forbes noted.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is a victor?
2: Wins what?
3: What was the contest or struggle?
4: What happens in that?
5: How many people were in the fight?
6: Who were 2 of them?
7: How old are they?
8: Who played the part of Katniss?
9: Did she win any awards?
10: What did she win?
11: How old is she?
12: What makes her so well liked?
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Bordeaux (; Gascon Occitan: "") is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.
The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 243,626 (2012). Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Bordeaux is the centre of the Bordeaux Métropole. With 749,595 inhabitants () and 1,178,335 in the metropolitan area, it is the sixth largest in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse and Lille. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called ""Bordelais"" (for men) or ""Bordelaises"" (women). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region.
Bordeaux is the world's major wine industry capital. It is home to the world's main wine fair, Vinexpo, and the wine economy in the metro area takes in 14.5 billion euros each year. Bordeaux wine has been produced in the region since the 8th century. The historic part of the city is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as "an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble" of the 18th century. After Paris, Bordeaux has the highest number of preserved historical buildings of any city in France.
In historical times, around 300 BC it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala, probably of Aquitanian origin. The name Bourde is still the name of a river south of the city.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Bordeaux home to?
2: what is it called?
3: how much does the industry bring in?
4: What kind of a city is it?
5: In what part of France?
6: When was it a place for the celtic tribe?
7: Who gave it a different name?
8: What is also called Bourde?
9: What is Bordeaux the centre of?
10: What is the population of the municipality?
11: what about the metropolitan?
12: is this the largest in France?
13: how many are larger than it?
14: what does Bordelais mean?
15: and what else may it refer to?
16: Is it part of any UN list?
17: which one?
18: for?
19: of when?
20: does it have the highest number of historical property in France?
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A vernacular or vernacular language is the native language or native dialect (usually colloquial or informal) of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national or standard variety of the language, or a lingua franca (also called a vehicular language) used in the region or state inhabited by that population. Some linguists use "vernacular" and "nonstandard dialect" as synonyms.
The use of "vernacular" is not recent. In 1688, James Howell wrote:
Concerning Italy, doubtless there were divers before the Latin did spread all over that Country; the Calabrian, and Apulian spoke Greek, whereof some Relicks are to be found to this day; but it was an adventitious, no Mother-Language to them: 'tis confess'd that Latium it self, and all the Territories about Rome, had the Latin for its maternal and common first vernacular Tongue; but Tuscany and Liguria had others quite discrepant, viz. the Hetruscane and Mesapian, whereof though there be some Records yet extant; yet there are none alive that can understand them: The Oscan, the Sabin and Tusculan, are thought to be but Dialects to these.
Here vernacular, mother language and dialect are already in use in a modern sense. According to Merriam-Webster, "vernacular" was brought into the English language as early as 1601 from the Latin "vernaculus" ("native") which had been in figurative use in Classical Latin as "national" and "domestic", having originally been derived from "vernus" and "verna", a male or female slave respectively born in the house rather than abroad. The figurative meaning was broadened from the diminutive extended words "vernaculus, vernacula". Varro, the classical Latin grammarian, used the term "vocabula vernacula", "termes de la langue nationale" or "vocabulary of the national language" as opposed to foreign words.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is the use of vernacular recent?
2: What is a vernacular?
3: What are some synonyms?
4: Who spoke greek?
5: Anyone else?
6: When was the word introduced into the english language?
7: According to who?
8: From what latin word?
9: Which means?
10: How was it used in classical latin?
11: As what?
12: Anything else?
13: Derived from what originally?
14: Meaning?
15: How was the figurative meaning expanded?
16: Who was Varro?
17: What terms did he use?
18: Anything else?
19: And the last one?
20: As opposed to?
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Lu Xun is one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20thcentury. Today, many of his writings are included in school textbooks and his works are read by millions around the world. Born in 1881 to rich family, Lu Xun had a happy childhood. In 1893, however, his grandfather was put into prison for taking money. At the same time, his father became seriously ill. From that time on, his family were no longer accepted by their relatives and friends. These early experiences greatly influenced his writing. By the time Lu Xun arrived in Nanjing to study at a college in 1899, he already believed that Chinese government had to change and become modern. In 1902 he went to study in Japan. There he began writing articles for some Chinese student magazines. He showed a gift for writing and translating and he even wrote several books, though none was popular. He returned to China in 1909 because he was in need of money. After working for a few years as a teacher in Beijing, Lu Xun again returned to writing. In 1918, he wrote his famous short story Diary of a Madman. It was the first Chinese novel using the everyday language that people spoke, which helped make it a great success. _ , together with his novel The True Story of Ah Q(1921), made Lu Xun a leading Chinese writer. Though successful, Lu Xun still worried greatly about China's future. In 1926, he moved to Shanghai and gave up writing stories. He only wrote articles which called on the people to fight against the government. For this, the government stopped him publishing any more books. He was made to write his articles using false names . Since his death in 1936, Lu Xun's importance and influence have grown. More and more people have become interested in reading and studying his works.
Answer the following questions:
1: When was he born?
2: What is he considered?
3: When did he first leave his home country?
4: Where did he go?
5: Why?
6: When did he return home?
7: Why?
8: Was his family poor?
9: What tragedy happened when he was young?
10: When did he die?
11: Did he just write stories?
12: What else did he write?
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Haryana (), is one of the 29 states in India, situated in North India. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1November 1966 on a linguistic basis. It stands 21st in terms of its area, which is spread about . census of India, the state is eighteenth largest by population with 25,353,081 inhabitants. The city of Chandigarh is its capital while the National Capital Region city of Faridabad is the most populous city of the state and the city of Gurugram is financial hub of NCR with major Fortune 500 companies located in it.
Haryana is one of the wealthiest states of India and has the third highest per capita income in the country at in the year 2012–13 and in the year 2013–14, The state is one of the most economically developed regions in South Asia, and its agricultural and manufacturing industries have experienced sustained growth since the 1970s. Since 2000, the state has emerged as the largest recipient of investment per capita in India.
It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south. The river Yamuna defines its eastern border with Uttar Pradesh. Haryana surrounds the country's capital Delhi on three sides, forming the northern, western and southern borders of Delhi. Consequently, a large area of south Haryana is included in the National Capital Region for purposes of planning and development.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many states are currently in India?
2: Where is Haryana situated in India?
3: When did it come into being?
4: What land was it formed from?
5: Is it one of the larger states when looking at land area?
6: Is it one of the larger states when looking at population?
7: Where does it rank in the states as far as land area is concerned?
8: Is the capital the biggest city in Haryana?
9: What is the capital?
10: What is the biggest city?
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CHAPTER VIII
"I don't think I shall marry you, after all," Maggie announced that evening, as she stood looking at herself in one of the gilded mirrors with which the drawing-room at Belgrave Square was adorned.
"Why not?" Nigel asked, with polite anxiety.
"You are exhibiting symptoms of infidelity," she declared. "Your flirtation with Naida this afternoon was most pronounced, and you went out of your way to ask her to dine to-night."
"I like that!" Nigel complained. "Supposing it were true, I should simply be obeying orders. It was you who incited me to devote myself to her."
"The sacrifices we women make for the good of our country," Maggie sighed. "However, you needn't have taken me quite so literally. Do you admire her very much, Nigel?"
He smiled. His manner, however, was not altogether free from self-consciousness.
"Of course I do," he admitted. "She's a perfectly wonderful person, isn't she? Let's get out of this Victorian environment," he added, looking around the huge apartment with its formal arrangement of furniture and its atmosphere of prim but faded elegance. "We'll go into the smaller room and tell Brookes to bring us some cocktails and cigarettes. Chalmers won't expect to be received formally, and Mademoiselle Karetsky will appreciate the cosmopolitan note of our welcome."
"We do look a little too domestic, don't we?" Maggie replied, as she passed through the portière which Nigel was holding up. "I'm not at all sure that I ought to come and play hostess like this, without an aunt or anything. I must think of my reputation. I may decide to marry Mr. Chalmers, and Americans are very particular about that sort of thing."
Answer the following questions:
1: Did Maggie decide she didn't want to get married, after all?
2: When did she make this proclamation?
3: Who was she looking at, at the time?
4: In what?
5: And in what room?
6: What's the name of the fine house she lives in?
7: Who is it she decided not to marry?
8: Is he violently angry about it?
9: Do Americans care about a woman's reputation?
10: Who's the American mentioned in this fun fable?
11: Is he someone Maggie might decide to wed?
12: Are they going to retire to a larger or smaller room?
13: What do they want to have with their cigarettes?
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CHAPTER XXV
Terniloff and Dominey, one morning about six months later, lounged underneath a great elm tree at Ranelagh, having iced drinks after a round of golf. Several millions of perspiring Englishmen were at the same moment studying with dazed wonder the headlines in the midday papers.
"I suppose," the Ambassador remarked, as he leaned back in his chair with an air of lazy content, "that I am being accused of fiddling while Rome burns."
"Every one has certainly not your confidence in the situation," Dominey rejoined calmly.
"There is no one else who knows quite so much," Terniloff reminded him.
Dominey sipped his drink for a moment or two in silence.
"Have you the latest news of the Russian mobilisation?" he asked. "They had some startling figures in the city this morning."
The Prince waved his hand.
"My faith is not founded on these extraneous incidents," he replied. "If Russia mobilises, it is for defence. No nation in the world would dream of attacking Germany, nor has Germany the slightest intention of imperilling her coming supremacy amongst the nations by such crude methods as military enterprise. Servia must be punished, naturally, but to that, in principle, every nation in Europe is agreed. We shall not permit Austria to overstep the mark."
"You are at least consistent, Prince," Dominey remarked.
Terniloff smiled.
"That is because I have been taken behind the scenes," he said. "I have been shown, as is the privilege of ambassadors, the mind of our rulers. You, my friend," he went on, "spent your youth amongst the military faction. You think that you are the most important people in Germany. Well, you are not. The Kaiser has willed it otherwise. By-the-by, I had yesterday a most extraordinary cable from Stephanie."
Answer the following questions:
1: What chapter are we in?
2: Who is the second character introduced?
3: And the first?
4: Where were they?
5: Under what?
6: Were they standing?
7: What were they doing?
8: What other thing were they doing?
9: What had they just got done with?
10: What was the accusation made against the Ambassador?
11: Did everyone share his confidence?
12: Was Dominey excited?
13: Who was mobilizing?
14: Were the numbers surprising?
15: Why did the Prince say they were mobilizing?
16: Did he feel Germany would be attacked?
17: Did he believe they would take military action?
18: What did he say Servia deserved?
19: What had he been shown?
20: Who did he get a telegram from?
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Mrs. Thompson stood in front of her 5th grade class on the first day of school. She found a boy sleeping in his seat. He was Teddy. Also Thompson noticed the boy didn't play well with the other children. It got to the point "F" at the top of his papers. Mrs. Thompson reviewed each child's past records. However, when she reviewed Teddy's file , she was in a surprise. Teddy's first grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright child. He does his work neatly and has good manners..." His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, but he is troubled because his mother has an illness and life at home is difficult." His third grade teacher wrote, "His mother's death had been hard on him. He tries his best, but his father doesn't show much interest in his study..." Teddy's fourth grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is _ and doesn't talk with other's. Also he doesn't show much interest in school. He doesn't have many friends and he sometimes sleeps in class." By now, Mrs. Thompson realized the problem. She felt even worse when her students brought her Christmas presents wrapped in beautiful and bright paper, except for Teddy's. He sent a rhinestone bracelet with some stones missing. But Mrs. Thompson told him with a smile, "I like it very much." After school Teddy said, "Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mother used to be." Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. The more she encouraged him, the faster he responded. By the end of the year, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class. Teddy became one of her "teacher's pets." ,.
Answer the following questions:
1: What grade did Mrs. Thompson teach?
2: Which student is she having problems with?
3: What does he do in class?
4: Does he get good grades?
5: Does he interact with the other kids?
6: Did all of his previous teachers have the same concerns?
7: Did his first grade instructor have problems?
8: How about second?
9: When did his troubles start?
10: Do you know why he was having trouble?
11: What did his third grade teacher say?
12: Did his father help him?
13: How did Mrs. Thompson find all of this out?
14: Did she try to help him after that?
15: What did she do?
16: Did it help?
17: How?
18: Did he give her any gifts?
19: what did he give her?
20: When did he give her the gift?
21: Would you consider him a "teacher's pet?"
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To many Westerners, Manga is synonymous with fantasy -- its glossy lines, popping color palettes and fanciful scenarios are an escapist's delight.
But one of the most celebrated makers of the wildly popular Japanese graphic novels says he draws on reality as much as possible.
Takehiko Inoue was just 23 when his second Manga propelled him to fame in Japan.
"Slam Dunk," published in 31 volumes of magazine "Weekly Shonen Jump" in the early 1990s, followed the fortunes of a loveless delinquent who joins a basketball team to impress a girl, and then discovers a natural ability for the game.
Inoue's interest in Manga was piqued when, at nine years old, he read a popular baseball Manga called "Dokaben." It had "attractive characters," he recalls, "and how they play baseball and how their bodies were drawn -- all these things looked so cool."
A keen basketball player at high school, Inoue says drawing a basketball Manga was a natural way for him to combine his two loves, and he believes "Slam Dunk" readers could see the obvious enjoyment he took from drawing basketball.
"I really drew it in the way I liked, did whatever I wanted," he says.
"Slam Dunk" has now sold almost 120 million copies, been licensed in 17 countries, and adapted into an anime TV series. An English version was released in North America in 2002.
Its popularity endures: According to a 2012 survey by research group goo, it is still the second most popular Japanese Manga, and is responsible for the single most memorable piece of dialogue -- when a coach says, "If you give up, the game is already over!"
Answer the following questions:
1: How old is Takehiko Inoue?
2: How old was he when he became famous?
3: What sport did he play?
4: When did he play it?
5: What does he do for a living now?
6: What publication of his made him famous?
7: How many copies has it sold?
8: Is it sold in other countries?
9: How many has it been licensed in?
10: What was it about?
11: What was it published in?
12: In what year?
13: Is it available in any other forms of media?
14: What kind?
15: Was the manga still popular in 2012?
16: Is it the most popular?
17: What is manga synonymous with to Western people?
18: Why?
19: What made Inoue interested in Manga?
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A widow's wish to hear her late husband's voice again has pushed London's Subway system to restore a 40-year-old recording of the subway's famous " Mind the gap" announcement.
The underground, or the tube, first opened in 1863, tracked down the voice recording by Oswald Lawrence after his widow, Margaret McCollum, told them what it meant to her.
McCollum, 65, said she used to frequently visit Embankment tube station or plan her journeys around the stop to listen to Lawrence's voice, even before his death. She was _ in November when she noticed it had been replaced by a different voice.
"Lawrence was a drama school graduate when he auditioned for a tour company. For six years after his death, I'd stay on the platform--just sit and listen to it again," she added.
When Margaret approached the tube, she was told it had a new broadcast system and it couldn't use the old recording anymore.
Nigel Holness, director of London Underground, said its staff has been so moved by McCollum's story that they dug up the recording and gave the widow a copy of the announcement on a CD for her to keep. "Tube staff is also working to restore Lawrence's announcement at the station," he added. "It is celebrating its 150thanniversary this year. The tube's 'Mind the gap' messages, voiced by various actors, have accompanied countless London commuter journeys since the 1960s. Train drivers and staff made the warnings themselves before that."
"I'm very pleased that people are interested in Oswald's old recording," Margaret said. "He was a great London transport user all his life .He would be amused, touched, and delighted to know he's back where he belonged."
Answer the following questions:
1: WHAT RECORDING WAS WAS RESTORED\
2: WHO WANTED IT RESTORED
3: HER NAME
4: WHERE DID THIS TAKE PLACE
5: WHEN DID IT OPEN
6: HOW OLD IS SHE
7: WHEE DID SHE FREQUENT
8: WHAT WAS HER HUSBANDS NAME
9: WHAT WAS HE
10: WHAT SI HE AUDITION FOR
11: DID SHE LISTEN AFTER HIS PASSING
12: WHAT WAS SHE TOLD
13: WHO FOUND THE RECORDIN
14: WHAT IS HIS TITLE
15: WHO WAS MOVE BY HER TALE
16: WHO ELSE
17: WHAT DID HE GIVE HER
18: WHAT WAS ON IT
19: WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SPEECH
20: WHAT IS BEING CELEBRATED
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CHAPTER II
PYRAMUS AND THISBE
The two men turned up the street. They walked in silence. Arthur Mifflin was going over in his mind such outstanding events of the evening as he remembered--the nervousness, the relief of finding that he was gripping his audience, the growing conviction that he had made good; while Jimmy seemed to be thinking his own private thoughts. They had gone some distance before either spoke.
"Who is she, Jimmy?" asked Mifflin.
Jimmy came out of his thoughts with a start.
"What's that?"
"Who is she?"
"I don't know what you mean."
"Yes, you do! The sea air. Who is she?"
"I don't know," said Jimmy, simply.
"You don't know? Well, what's her name?"
"I don't know."
"Doesn't the Lusitania still print a passenger-list?"
"She does."
"And you couldn't find out her name in five days?"
"No."
"And that's the man who thinks he can burgle a house!" said Mifflin, despairingly.
They had arrived now at the building on the second floor of which was Jimmy's flat.
"Coming in?" said Jimmy.
"Well, I was rather thinking of pushing on as far as the Park. I tell you, I feel all on wires."
"Come in, and smoke a cigar. You've got all night before you if you want to do Marathons. I haven't seen you for a couple of months. I want you to tell me all the news."
"There isn't any. Nothing happens in New York. The papers say things do, but they don't. However, I'll come in. It seems to me that you're the man with the news."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was having a conversation?
2: How long had it been since they'd seen each other?
3: Where had Arthur come from?
4: How did he travel to get to Jimmy?
5: How did he get from New York?
6: What floor does Jimmy live on?
7: What does Jimmy want to Arthur to go inside with him and do?
8: And what else?
9: Did Jimmy have any news to tell him about?
10: Does he think anything happens in New York?
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(CNN) -- The chief prosecutor in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius accused him on Monday of "tailoring" his version of how he killed his girlfriend, as the grueling cross-examination of the track star went into a second week.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel has accused the athlete of hiding the truth about the death of Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot last year through a closed toilet door in his luxury home in Pretoria, South Africa.
His questions have sought to undermine Pistorius' reliability and credibility and to portray the Olympic and Paralympic athlete as someone who was inventing his version of events to suit his story.
Nel, known in South African legal circles for his bulldog-like approach to questioning, has gone through minute detail regarding the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013, repeatedly challenging the double amputee over his actions that night.
On Monday, in yet another intense scrutiny of his story, the prosecutor again tried to exhaustively highlight apparent inconsistencies between Pistorius' bail application and his testimony in court to show he is "tailoring his evidence" to suit the defense case.
"I am going to point out to you how improbable your version is," Nel told the runner, who sat immobile, staring ahead at the judge as he answered questions.
The prosecution's argument is that Pistorius shot Steenkamp intentionally after a heated argument. Pistorius does not deny shooting her but insists that he mistook her for an intruder.
"I did not fire at Reeva," Pistorius told the court, his voice breaking, causing a second brief adjournment in the day's proceedings so he could gather himself.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is on trial for murder?
2: who was he accused of killling?
3: who was she to him?
4: what was his profession?
5: Did he tell the truth about how he killed her?
6: who did?
7: who is he?
8: how did oscar kill his girlfriend?
9: was he an olympian?
10: was he a paralympian?
11: where is Nel from?
12: what animal was he compared to?
13: what day did the killing occur?
14: what year?
15: how many limbs did oscar have removed?
16: who did Oscar say he thought he was shooting?
17: Did his voice break?
18: was it the first adjournment?
19: was it a long one?
20: what city was reeva shot in?
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Today is the big day, today is Saturday and it is my birthday party. I turned 7 on Thursday, but I wanted my party on the weekend. All week my daddy and mommy helped me plan and now it is finally time for fun. We got a clown and I got to invite all of my friends! The clown's name was Bob and he was really funny. Bob made us all laugh a lot. After the clown left we all played fun games. We played with a toy filled with candy and all got to eat it. There were Twix Bars, Milky Ways, M&Ms and Tootsie Rolls. My favorite candy is Twix so I was very happy to see them inside. After that, my mom came out with my cake. It was chocolate with chocolate icing! Everyone loved it and we even got to eat ice cream too. We were going to eat hamburgers and hot dogs but my dog ate them all before we could. I wish we could have gone swimming in my pool, but it was too cold. My dad said it was okay but my mom did not want us to get sick. It was way better than any party I ever dreamed about. After cake all my friends had to leave except for Timmy. Timmy's mom said he could sleep over so we made a fort inside and told ghost stories. My birthday party was the best day of my life.
Answer the following questions:
1: what did they do after the clown left?
2: what was the clown's name?
3: was he funny?
4: what was the occaision?
5: on what day?
6: how old are you now?
7: do you have a favorite candy?
8: what kind?
9: did you have cake?
10: what kind?
11: was there any non sweet food?
12: did you go swimming?
13: why not?
14: was this your favorite party?
15: did everyone leave after?
16: who stayed
17: did he want to sleep over?
18: what did you make with him?
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(CNN) -- At least one person was killed when a National Guard helicopter crashed in waters off San Juan, Puerto Rico, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said Tuesday, citing preliminary information.
"The preliminary information we have ... is that the wreckage of (the) Army National Guard aircraft was found in the water near San Juan," spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said in an e-mail.
The aircraft was destroyed, she said.
The crash occurred late Monday, according to Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Moorlag of the U.S. Coast Guard in Miami, Florida.
The Coast Guard received the call to help late Monday night with search and rescue efforts, said Ricardo Castrodad, spokesman for the Coast Guard in San Juan. He said three crew members and three passengers -- one guard and two civilians from Puerto Rico -- were on board.
The UH 72 Lakota helicopter departed Monday night from San Juan, he said. It was one nautical mile northeast from the Puerto Rican coast.
Castrodad did not provide information on casualties but said the search for survivors was ongoing.
CNN's Mike Ahlers and Maria P. White contributed to this report.
Answer the following questions:
1: What sort of crash happened?
2: Who owned it?
3: Where did it happen?
4: Was anyone hurt?
5: How badly?
6: Did the vehicle get totaled?
7: When did this happen?
8: What date was that?
9: Was there a spokesperson for the accident?
10: What is their name?
11: How did she communicate?
12: Did another agency assist?
13: Who?
14: Did they have a spokesperson?
15: How many from that agency helped?
16: Is the effort to recover victims still going on?
17: Is all this info finalized?
18: What was the model of the vehicle that was totaled?
19: How far away from land did they find it?
20: Who reported on this?
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CHAPTER XXX
FERN Mullins rushed into the house on a Saturday morning early in September and shrieked at Carol, "School starts next Tuesday. I've got to have one more spree before I'm arrested. Let's get up a picnic down the lake for this afternoon. Won't you come, Mrs. Kennicott, and the doctor? Cy Bogart wants to go--he's a brat but he's lively."
"I don't think the doctor can go," sedately. "He said something about having to make a country call this afternoon. But I'd love to."
"That's dandy! Who can we get?"
"Mrs. Dyer might be chaperon. She's been so nice. And maybe Dave, if he could get away from the store."
"How about Erik Valborg? I think he's got lots more style than these town boys. You like him all right, don't you?"
So the picnic of Carol, Fern, Erik, Cy Bogart, and the Dyers was not only moral but inevitable.
They drove to the birch grove on the south shore of Lake Minniemashie. Dave Dyer was his most clownish self. He yelped, jigged, wore Carol's hat, dropped an ant down Fern's back, and when they went swimming (the women modestly changing in the car with the side curtains up, the men undressing behind the bushes, constantly repeating, "Gee, hope we don't run into poison ivy"), Dave splashed water on them and dived to clutch his wife's ankle. He infected the others. Erik gave an imitation of the Greek dancers he had seen in vaudeville, and when they sat down to picnic supper spread on a lap-robe on the grass, Cy climbed a tree to throw acorns at them.
Answer the following questions:
1: Which lake did they go to?
2: Who rushed into the house?
3: Why did he want to go on a final spree?
4: Who ended up going a long and acted like a clown?
5: Did he wear something that belonged to someone else?
6: And who did he throw an insect on?
7: What plant did they wish to not run in to ?
8: Did anyone throw an acorn?
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Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper, 1,351,587 in the urban area, and 2,410,960 in the Amsterdam metropolitan area. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The metropolitan area comprises much of the northern part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe, with a population of approximately 7 million.
Amsterdam's name derives from "Amstelredamme", indicative of the city's origin around a dam in the river Amstel. Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became one of the most important ports in the world during the Dutch Golden Age (17th century), a result of its innovative developments in trade. During that time, the city was the leading centre for finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries the city expanded, and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were planned and built. The 17th-century canals of Amsterdam and the 19–20th century Defence Line of Amsterdam are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Since the annexation of municipality Sloten in 1921 by the municipality of Amsterdam, the oldest historic part of the city lies in Sloten (9th century).
Answer the following questions:
1: what is the name dervived from?
2: what happened in the 17th century?
3: what was it considered then?
4: what is it the capital of?
5: what ppart of the country can you find it?
6: in what province?
7: what is the population?
8: who is it mandated by?
9: what did it have innovated developments in?
10: What is the Hague?
11: Does Amsterdam have one?
12: what did it originate as?
13: when?
14: What is the population in the metro area?
15: when did the city expand?
16: by doing what?
17: What is on the UNESCO world heritage list?
18: what happened in 1921?
19: what area is in much of the northern part of Randstad?
20: What river is the area around?
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CHAPTER XXVI.
HAL OBTAINS ANOTHER SITUATION.
For a moment there was silence, and then Horace Sumner stopped short before Hal.
"There is another matter I might mention," he said. "Caleb Allen is going, or rather, has gone, into business for himself."
"What kind of business?" asked the youth, in surprise.
"A brokerage and loan office."
"Near here?"
"Yes, right around the corner of Broad Street, not five minutes, walk. He hired the place from the first, and I understand he and another man are already doing business there."
"Who is the other man?"
"A fellow named Parsons."
"Has he a good reputation?"
"Far from it. He was arrested for forgery five years ago, but his friends hushed the matter up."
"Have you the number of the place?"
"Yes, here it is. What do you intend to do?"
"I don't know. I'll take a look at the place. That will do no harm. Perhaps Hardwick will call on Mr. Allen."
After a few words more Hal left the private office, and passed out on Wall Street.
He soon turned the corner into Broad Street, the second great money center of New York, and presently came to the building in which was situated the offices now occupied by the firm of Allen & Parsons.
The offices were down three steps, and as Hal passed on the pavement above, a small sign pasted in the corner of the window attracted his attention:
YOUNG MAN WANTED. RAPID WRITER.
Stopping short, Hal descended the steps, and peered into the window. A middle-aged man stood at the front desk, smoking a cigar and writing.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where is the loan office?
2: Who has gone to work for himself there?
3: And who else?
4: Who has a bad reputation?
5: Why?
6: When?
7: Who tried to keep that quiet?
8: What road did Hal go out into?
9: Which road did he reach next?
10: True or False: Broad Street is the major financial center of the city.
11: What is?
12: What city is Hal in?
13: Where the offices of Allen and Parsons downstairs?
14: Are they hiring?
15: What sort of worker do they want?
16: Do they want an old, experienced gentleman?
17: Who is smoking?
18: What else is he doing?
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I am very hungry. I look for my mother.
When is dinner? I ask.
Dinner is at six, my mother says.
What can we eat? I ask.
We can pick food from our garden, she says. I help her pick corn, beans, and peas.
The corn is yellow and white. The beans are small and brown. The peas are green and round.
I put the beans in a basket. I put the peas in a bowl. Mother brings the corn. We go inside.
I have dirty hands. I wash my hands with soap and water. The water is warm. My hands are now clean.
Mother lets me stir the beans. I fill a pot with water. Mother puts the corn into the pot. She puts the pot on the stove. The water boils.
Mary is my sister. Mary puts four plates on the table. Each plate is blue.
We each eat two pieces of meat. I eat more corn than Mary. Mary eats more beans than our mother.
What did you learn today? Mary asks.
I can spell ten new words, I say.
Mary can only spell two words.
Answer the following questions:
1: Do you have siblings?
2: Who?
3: What chore did she complete?
4: What did she put down?
5: What colour were they?
6: Where did she put them?
7: Where did they get the ingredients for dinner?
8: What vegetables did they get?
9: What do they look like?
10: Where did they put them?
11: Then where did they go?
12: Who ate the most corn?
13: And beans?
14: How much did your mother eat?
15: Who learned more today?
16: What went onto the stove?
17: What else was inside?
18: What did it do next?
19: How much meat was eaten?
20: How many people eat?
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(CNN) -- Portsmouth will play Chelsea in the FA Cup final after an upset 2-0 extra-time victory over Tottenham Hotspur in the second semifinal at Wembley on Sunday.
French striker Frederic Piquionne opened the scoring for Avram Grant's men nine minutes into extra-time.
Former Tottenham midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng scored the second with three minutes remaining from the penalty spot after referee Alan Wiley awarded a spot kick as Wilson Palacios fouled Aruna Dindane.
It was a humiliating defeat for Tottenham and their manager Harry Redknapp, who steered Portsmouth to FA Cup triumph in 2008 before leaving the cash-strapped club for White Hart Lane.
His team went into the match as overwhelming favorites against a Pompey team who had been relegated from the Premier League the day before without playing, having been deducted nine points after going into administration.
But all that was forgotten as their fanatical fans enjoyed a famous victory which owed much to good fortune and some excellent goalkeeping from England international David James.
Their breakthrough goal could be credited to the appalling Wembley pitch as Spurs defender Michael Dawson slipped at a crucial moment and Piquionne took full advantage.
Tottenham thought they had equalized almost immediately through Peter Crouch but Wiley ruled it out for a push on James.
With Tottenham camped in the Pompey half, Dindane broke clear and although Palacios got the ball in his challenge he also pulled him down and Wiley had no hesitation in pointing to the spot.
Spurs reject Boateng scored past Heurelho Gomes with relish to seal a famous cup victory.
Answer the following questions:
1: What team with face Chelsea on Sunday?
2: Is this the final?
3: For what?
4: Who lost the semifinal?
5: Where did that happen?
6: What was the score?
7: Was there overtime?
8: What position does Kevin Prince Boateng play?
9: When did he score the second goal?
10: Where did he score from?
11: Who scored the first?
12: When?
13: What is his position?
14: Who was fouled?
15: By who?
16: Who is the coach of the losing team?
17: Has he won an FA Cup before?
18: When?
19: With what team?
20: Did he leave the team after that?
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(Tribune Media Services) -- Look out for cancellation penalties. Beware of energy surcharges. And watch for facilities fees.
Hertz lost $73 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.
No, not on your airline ticket. Not on your hotel folio. You may find these new extras on your next car rental bill.
Beleaguered auto rental firms are quietly adding new surcharges designed to lift revenues in a recessionary economy.
To get an idea of how absurd it's becoming meet Jim Swofford. He found a mysterious $5 fee on his Hertz bill recently, which a representative described as a cancellation fee. Car rental companies typically don't charge their customers for cancellations, so Swofford, who frequently rents from Hertz, said he didn't want another car he'd reserved for later.
"That'll be $25," the agent told him.
"So I jokingly said I would not cancel but just be a no-show," he remembers. "She said that would result in a $50 fee."
Or talk to Eric Hegwer, a photographer from Austin, Texas, who spotted a $1 "energy surcharge" on his Hertz car rental bill recently. "My previous rentals didn't have one," he says.
I asked Hertz about the two new surcharges. Company spokeswoman Paula Rivera told me the cancellation fee, which was added in December, applied only to prepaid reservations and is meant to "reimburse Hertz for the paperwork and billing involved with a prepaid reservation."
The fee also covers part of the company's cost of holding vehicles for prepaid reservations. The energy surcharge, which was added in October, bills all rentals in most states an additional $1 a day "to offset the increasing costs of utilities, bus fuel, oil and grease," she said.
Answer the following questions:
1: who lost something?
2: what?
3: when did the lose it?
4: was something new added?
5: what?
6: what was their purpose?
7: who made the addition?
8: who takes photos?
9: where is he from?
10: who spoke for the corporation?
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Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other given populations. As such, the meaning of the expression varies widely both between and within societies, and depends significantly on context. For many other individuals, communities and countries, "black" is also perceived as a derogatory, outdated, reductive or otherwise unrepresentative label, and as a result is neither used nor defined.
Different societies apply differing criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and these social constructs have also changed over time. In a number of countries, societal variables affect classification as much as skin color, and the social criteria for "blackness" vary. For example, in North America the term black people is not necessarily an indicator of skin color or majority ethnic ancestry, but it is instead a socially based racial classification related to being African American, with a family history associated with institutionalized slavery. In South Africa and Latin America, for instance, mixed-race people are generally not classified as "black." In South Pacific regions such as Australia and Melanesia, European colonists applied the term "black" or it was used by populations with different histories and ethnic origin.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is what "black" means consistent across different groups?
2: Is it used everywhere?
3: Why not?
4: What is a basic definition?
5: In comparison to others?
6: Where is the term related to slaves?
7: Does it indicate skin color there?
8: Where aren't mixed race people described as black?
9: What is a societal construct for being black?
10: Where did European colonists use the word black?
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Papua New Guinea (PNG; , ; ; Hiri Motu: "Papua Niu Gini"), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.
At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975. This followed nearly 60 years of Australian administration, which started during World War I. It became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1975 with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in its own right.
Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. There are 852 known languages in the country, of which 12 now have no known living speakers. Most of the population of more than 7 million people live in customary communities, which are as diverse as the languages. It is also one of the most rural, as only 18 percent of its people live in urban centres. The country is one of the world's least explored, culturally and geographically. It is known to have numerous groups of uncontacted peoples, and researchers believe there are many undiscovered species of plants and animals in the interior.
Answer the following questions:
1: IS Papua New Guinea diverse?
2: How many languages are there?
3: Are they all still spoken?
4: How many aren't?
5: Is it mostly urban or rural?
6: Is it well explored?
7: How many have ruled there?
8: What started in WW1?
9: For how long?
10: Did they become sovereign?
11: When?
12: What did it become a member of?
13: Who was the head of state?
14: Beginning in what year?
15: What type of country is it?
16: What island does it occupy?
17: What area of the island?
18: What is the capital?
19: Where is it located?
20: Is it south of Australia?
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Joseph really felt very happy. When he arrived at his seat in the classroom that morning, he found an invitation on his desk. It was from several of his classmates asking him to join them on a camping trip. This was the first time he was asked to join in an out-of school activity. Why were they asking him now? Nobody seemed to like him. In fact, he had been so lonely _ . As a result, he had put on a lot of weight, and this gave the kids something more to make fun of him. Celina, who was standing near Joseph when he read the invitation, went out quickly to tell the others that the trick had worked. Everyone was pleased that Joseph thought that was true. But there was no camping trip. The whole thing was made up. At first, Celina thought it was fun. But later, when Joseph told her that he was going to buy a sleeping bag with his savings, Celina had a second idea. She knew that Joseph's family had little money, and she hated to see him spend his savings on something he would never use. Celina also hated to tell Joseph the truth. Her close friends would be angry with her. What could she do now?
Answer the following questions:
1: What was on the desk?
2: From whom?
3: Did his family have a lot of money?
4: Where was he invited to go?
5: Did they usually ask him to go places?
6: Was he well liked?
7: Was the invite real?
8: Did Celina think it was funny?
9: When did she think it was no longer fun?
10: Was Joseph lonely?
11: Who was standing near when he got to his desk?
12: Where did she go?
13: Why?
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(CNN) -- Vulgar comments, some laced with racial epithets. A physical attack. Threats to him and his family.
All of this and more -- stretched out over a season and a half -- proved too much for Jonathan Martin, 24, to bear, which is why he left the Miami Dolphins last week, his lawyer said.
"Jonathan endured harassment that went far beyond the traditional locker room hazing," the attorney, David Cornwell, said in a prepared statement. "... These facts are not in dispute."
The comments, through the intermediary, break a silence from the offensive lineman who walked out after an incident in the team's cafeteria and hasn't been back since, according to Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin.
Days later, Miami suspended Richie Incognito, 30, for conduct detrimental to the team. Rumors and news stories flew quickly in the days to come, including a well-publicized voice mail in which Incognito reportedly calls Martin a racial epithet and threatens his life.
Richie Incognito, Jonathan Martin, and the NFL's future
Some also questioned the toughness of Martin, a Stanford University graduate who was in his second NFL season, especially as it came out that he might be seeking help for emotional issues.
But Cornwell stressed: "Jonathan Martin's toughness is not an issue."
"Jonathan started every game with the Miami Dolphins since he was drafted in 2012," he said of the second-round draft pick. "At Stanford, he was the anchor for Jim Harbaugh's 'smash mouth' brand of football and he protected (then-Stanford, now Indianapolis Colts quarterback) Andrew Luck's blind side.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is this story about?
2: What team did he recently play on?
3: When did he start with them?
4: Was he being treated well by his teammates?
5: Where did the specific incident caused him to walk out happen?
6: How old was he?
7: Did the team take any action about the problem?
8: Was there a specific person the action was taken against?
9: Who?
10: What action did they take against him?
11: Did he leave a voicemail?
12: To whom?
13: Was he polite in that voicemail?
14: Did threaten Martin?
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Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, it denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir (subdivided into Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh divisions), the Pakistani-administered territories of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and Chinese-administered territories of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract.
In the first half of the 1st millennium, the Kashmir region became an important centre of Hinduism and later of Buddhism; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose. In 1339, Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir, inaugurating the "Salatin-i-Kashmir" or Shah Mir dynasty. Kashmir was part of the Mughal Empire from 1586 to 1751, and thereafter, until 1820, of the Afghan Durrani Empire. That year, the Sikhs, under Ranjit Singh, annexed Kashmir. In 1846, after the Sikh defeat in the First Anglo-Sikh War, and upon the purchase of the region from the British under the Treaty of Amritsar, the Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh, became the new ruler of Kashmir. The rule of his descendants, under the "paramountcy" (or tutelage) of the British Crown, lasted until the partition of India in 1947, when the former princely state of the British Raj was claimed by both Pakistan and India. It is currently a disputed territory, administered by three countries: India, Pakistan, and China.
Answer the following questions:
1: What region was important for relions?
2: What religions were important there?
3: Where is it located?
4: Which part?
5: What used to outline the region?
6: What outlines the area now?
7: Who runs the area now?
8: Before then?
9: Who was the first Muslim ruler?
10: When did the Sikh take over?
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In computing, cross-platform software (also multi-platform software or platform-independent software) is computer software that is implemented on multiple computing platforms. Cross-platform software may be divided into two types; one requires individual building or compilation for each platform that it supports, and the other one can be directly run on any platform without special preparation, e.g., software written in an interpreted language or pre-compiled portable bytecode for which the interpreters or run-time packages are common or standard components of all platforms.
For example, a cross-platform application may run on Microsoft Windows on the x86 architecture, Linux on the x86 architecture and macOS on either the PowerPC or x86-based Apple Macintosh systems. Cross-platform programs may run on as many as all existing platforms, or on as few as two platforms. Cross-platform frameworks (such as Qt, Xamarin, Phonegap, or Ionic) exist to aid cross-platform development.
"Platform" can refer to the type of processor (CPU) or other hardware on which a given operating system or application runs, the type of operating system on a computer or the combination of the type of hardware and the type of operating system running on it. An example of a common platform is Microsoft Windows running on the x86 architecture. Other well-known desktop computer platforms include Linux/Unix and macOS - both of which are themselves cross-platform. There are, however, many devices such as smartphones that are also effectively computer platforms but less commonly thought about in that way. Application software can be written to depend on the features of a particular platform—either the hardware, operating system, or virtual machine it runs on. The Java platform is a virtual machine platform which runs on many operating systems and hardware types, and is a common platform for software to be written for.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is processor type related to the term platform?
2: What acronym is widely used for processor type?
3: Would two different operating systems be said to have different platforms?
4: What is an example of a desktop platform?
5: What about macOS?
6: Name one more.
7: Could smartphones be described as having platforms?
8: What type of software is dependent on the smartphone platform?
9: What platform can work on multiple operating systems?
10: Is it rarely used?
11: What is software called that works on more than one platform?
12: What else is it called?
13: And another?
14: Are there three different types of cross platform software?
15: How many?
16: What is one of those?
17: And the other?
18: How many platforms must something run on to be called cross platform?
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(CNN) -- John Lajeunesse said he was heading to the Renegade Mountain area to go four-wheeling, nothing out of the ordinary for a 16-year-old kid in rural Tennessee.
How he and three other young people ended up shot dead inside a car on that same mountain is now a mystery before police and the small community of nearby Crossville.
A passerby discovered the car with the four victims, including a young mother, parked along a country road near the Renegade Mountain community Thursday morning.
Lajeunesse and a pair of 17-year-olds, Steven Presley and Dominic Davis, were the passengers. Rikki Jacobsen, a 22-year-old mother of a young boy, was in the driver's seat.
Three of the victims were current or former students of the local school district.
"It's something that reverberates through the entire community," said Donald Andrews, Cumberland County's school superintendent. "The loss of life is always tough, and especially (so) when it's young people."
Only one man has been publicly linked to the killings: Jacob Allen Bennett. Authorities said he was identified fairly quickly into the investigation and taken into custody around midnight Thursday without incident on a parole violation in nearby Rhea County.
Randy York, the district attorney general whose territory includes the crime scene, told reporters Friday that his office intends "in the very near future" to empanel a grand jury to consider charges against Bennett related to the four killings.
"The citizens of Cumberland County and Crossville can rest assured that we have the person who committed the crimes in custody, that the community is safe," said Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many people were killed?
2: How were they killed?
3: Where were they?
4: Does the mountain have a name?
5: What were they doing there?
6: Who is John Lajeunesse?
7: how old was he?
8: Who found them?
9: How many of the dead attended the same school?
10: How old is the mother?
11: Did she have adult children?
12: How old are Steven and Dominic?
13: And Lajeunesse?
14: Who appeared to have been the driver?
15: Where they found outside of the car?
16: Who is Randy York?
17: Who is he considering charges against?
18: When was Bennett arrested?
19: What did they arrest him for?
20: Where?
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Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor. These processes include natural selection, common descent, and speciation.
The discipline emerged through what Julian Huxley called the modern synthesis (of the 1930s) of understanding from several previously unrelated fields of biological research, including genetics, ecology, systematics and paleontology.
Current research has widened to cover the genetic architecture of adaptation, molecular evolution, and the different forces that contribute to evolution including sexual selection, genetic drift and biogeography. The newer field of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") investigates how embryonic development is controlled, thus creating a wider synthesis that integrates developmental biology with the fields covered by the earlier evolutionary synthesis.
Evolution is the central unifying concept in biology. Biology can be divided in various ways. One way is by the level of biological organisation, from molecular to cell, organism to population. An earlier way is by perceived taxonomic group, with fields such as zoology, botany, and microbiology, reflecting what were once seen as the major divisions of life. A third way is by approach, such as field biology, theoretical biology, experimental evolution, and paleontology. These alternative ways of dividing up the subject can be combined with evolutionary biology to create subfields like evolutionary ecology and evolutionary developmental biology.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is a unifying concept?
2: Of what science?
3: Can it be split up into different ways?
4: Name one?
5: Can you provide an example?
6: And another example, please?
7: Is there another type of grouping?
8: And it is?
9: Example, please
10: And another?
11: Any more?
12: What are these known as?
13: Is there a third way to divide the science?
14: What is that?
15: How many examples can you provide?
16: Who helped develop the synthesis?
17: When?
18: Were the fields related?
19: What is the new field called?
20: And the abbreviated form is?
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(CNN) -- Three men were sentenced to prison for forcing an African-American man out of a South Carolina convenience store, threatening him with a chainsaw and stealing his car, an incident the Department of Justice said was fueled by hate.
Thomas Blue Sr., 49, owner of the convenience store, was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison in the 2007 incident. A second man, Judson Hartley Talbert, was sentenced to nine years, the department said. Blue's son, Thomas Blue Jr., 29, was sentenced to three years.
The three pleaded guilty in December to conspiring to deprive and depriving Dahndra "Ervin" Moore of his right to engage in a federally protected activity -- entering the convenience store -- and also to conspiring to carjack and carjacking his car, authorities said. The elder Blue also pleaded guilty to depriving two other people, both white, of their right to engage in a federally protected activity and using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence against those two.
The defendants admitted that the elder Blue "forcibly escorted" Moore out of a Marlboro County, South Carolina, store known as the Stop and Shop after he entered to use the restroom, the statement said.
"Once outside, the elder Blue forced the victim to the ground and Blue Jr. threatened the victim with a chainsaw while a small crowd watched," according to the Department of Justice statement.
While the attack was occurring, Talbert stole Moore's car, authorities said. Later, the elder Blue used a pistol to threaten two white men who he thought were trying to help the victim, including one who showed up to retrieve Moore's car.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who owned the store?
2: Did he have a son?
3: Who was the third person involved?
4: Who was forced out of the store?
5: What was his name?
6: What state did this happen in?
7: Did Moore enter the store to buy something?
8: Why did he go inside?
9: Was he threatened with a knife?
10: Who took his car?
11: Was a gun involved?
12: Who was threatened by it?
13: Was that considered a crime?
14: What was the store's name?
15: In what year did the incident occur?
16: Was it done out of hate?
17: Who received the longest sentence?
18: How many years?
19: Who had the chainsaw in hand?
20: Did anyone watch the incident?
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CHAPTER LXXX - RUBY PREPARES FOR SERVICE
Our poor old honest friend John Crumb was taken away to durance vile after his performance in the street with Sir Felix, and was locked up for the remainder of the night. This indignity did not sit so heavily on his spirits as it might have done on those of a quicker nature. He was aware that he had not killed the baronet, and that he had therefore enjoyed his revenge without the necessity of 'swinging for it at Bury.' That in itself was a comfort to him. Then it was a great satisfaction to think that he had 'served the young man out' in the actual presence of his Ruby. He was not prone to give himself undue credit for his capability and willingness to knock his enemies about; but he did think that Ruby must have observed on this occasion that he was the better man of the two. And, to John, a night in the station-house was no great personal inconvenience. Though he was very proud of his four-post bed at home, he did not care very much for such luxuries as far as he himself was concerned. Nor did he feel any disgrace from being locked up for the night. He was very good-humoured with the policeman, who seemed perfectly to understand his nature, and was as meek as a child when the lock was turned upon him. As he lay down on the hard bench, he comforted himself with thinking that Ruby would surely never care any more for the 'baronite' since she had seen him go down like a cur without striking a blow. He thought a good deal about Ruby, but never attributed any blame to her for her share in the evils that had befallen him.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was removed after his show?
2: Who did he scuffle with?
3: Where?
4: Did he hate being jailed for the day?
5: What was Sir Felix's nickname?
6: What was the ladies name they were fighting overr?
7: Did John murder felix?
8: Did Ruby see the fight?
9: Who was the victor?
10: What kind of bed did he have at his house?
11: Did he like fancy things?
12: Was he very ashamed of spending the night in jail?
13: Did he and the jailor get along?
14: What did he rest his head on this night?
15: Did anything come to mind that made him feel better?
16: What?
17: Why wouldn't she?
18: How did he hit the ground?
19: Did he land any punches in the tussle?
20: Did John blame Ruby for her part in the whole thing?
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(CNN) -- Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died at her home in New York on Sunday at the age of 95, her niece, Amy Phillips, confirmed.
Holm, a star of the Broadway stage and movies, was admitted to New York's Roosevelt Hospital a week ago, but her husband took her home to her Manhattan home on Friday, Phillips said.
"She passed peacefully in her home in her own bed with her husband and friends and family nearby," she said.
Holm won the best supporting actress Academy Award for "Gentleman's Agreement" in 1947. She was nominated for the same honor in 1949 for "Come to the Stable" and 1950 for "All about Eve," according to the Academy database.
Holm's stage career began in 1936 in a Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, stock company, which led to an understudy role in a touring production of "Hamlet" with Leslie Howard, according to her official biography.
Her Broadway debut in "The Time of Your Life" in 1939 was a small part, but it brought her to the attention of New York critics. Four years later, she was cast as Ado Annie in the smash "Oklahoma!" because of her ability to "sing bad," the biography said.
She signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox that began her film career in 1945, after she toured Europe entertaining troops with the USO. Her first Fox movie was "Three Little Girls in Blue" in 1946, a supporting role that earned her star billing for the musical "Carnival in Costa Rica" in 1947.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who died?
2: Who was she?
3: How old was she?
4: Is she survived by her husband?
5: Where did he take her in her last days?
6: From where?
7: When she got her first Academy Award?
8: In what category?
9: Was she active in stage too?
10: When did that start?
11: Where?
12: What was the name of the production?
13: Who was one of her coworkers there?
14: From where we learned this?
15: Was she in Broadway too?
16: When that started?
17: In which play?
18: How was it received by the critics?
19: For film who did she sign up with?
20: What was her first film with them?
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A former top appointee of Chris Christie says there is evidence contradicting what the New Jersey governor has said publicly about the notorious George Washington Bridge traffic lane closures that have roiled the Republican's administration, according to the man's lawyer.
David Wildstein resigned his position at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in December amid allegations that Christie appointees had ordered access lanes to the nation's biggest river crossing in Fort Lee closed last year to punish that town's mayor politically for not endorsing Christie for reelection.
Wildstein's attorney, Alan Zegas, wrote on Friday that "evidence exists" contradicting Christie's recollection about the lane closures at a news conference earlier this month.
"Evidence exists ... tying Mr. Christie to having knowledge of the lane closures, during the period when the lanes were closed, contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference (on January 9)," Zegas said in a letter to the general counsel of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the bridge and where Wildstein had worked for the governor.
Days of lane closures
The letter references the closures over a work week in September, but does not suggest that "evidence" contradicts anything Christie has said so far about his advisers at the time or any role they might have played in alleged political shenanigans.
The letter also does not suggest that Christie had any advance knowledge of the closings. Zegas also didn't disclose the evidence.
CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Zegas' letter is just that. "It's not sworn testimony. It's not proof," he said.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who resigned?
2: Who appointed him?
3: What is Christie's job?
4: Of what state?
5: Where was Wildstein employed?
6: When did he quit?
7: Where is the biggest crossing?
8: Was it opened?
9: Why?
10: For doing what?
11: When was that done?
12: What month?
13: Was it on the weekend?
14: How long was the press meeting?
15: When?
16: Did he leave a text message?
17: Who analyzed the letter?
18: What's his title?
19: For what network?
20: Who is the attorney?
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(CNN) -- Lionel Messi has agreed a new contract with Barcelona, which will keep the Argentine at the Spanish club until 2018.
The 25-year-old already had a deal that expired with the European giants in 2016, but that has now been extended by two years.
Messi has been in sensational form this year, scoring 90 goals for both club and country to surpass the previous goalscoring record for a calendar year set by Gerd Mueller in 1972, when the German scored 85 goals.
The 21-time Spanish champions have also verbally agreed new deals with midfielder Xavi, who will extend his contract from 2014 until 2016, while defender Carles Puyol, whose contract had been due to expire next year, will stay with Barca until 2016.
None of the players has yet to put pen to paper on their new contracts but the Barca website says this will happen "over the course of the next few weeks".
"This news means that FC Barcelona has secured its ties with three of its most important players," the club said on its official website.
While both club captain Puyol, 34, and Xavi, 32, are significant figures at the club, Barcelona officials are likely to look upon the extension of Messi's deal as the most important.
Widely regarded as the best footballer in the world, the diminutive Argentina international has often spoke of the debt of gratitude he believes he owes the Catalan club.
At the age of 11, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency and neither his existing club in his home town Rosario -- Newell's Old Boys -- nor Buenos Aires giants River Plate were prepared to provide the money to treat his condition, which amounted to some US$1,000 per month.
Answer the following questions:
1: How old is Messi?
2: He has agreed a new contract with who?
3: What will this contract lead to?
4: Who are the significant figures at the club?
5: His deal with European giants expired in what year/
6: At what age was Messi diagnosed with a deficiency?
7: What's the name of the deficiency?
8: Was anyone prepared to give money for his treatment?
9: what was the amount that was needed monthly?
10: When did the German score 85 goals?
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CHAPTER IX.
IN WHICH MR. HAMLIN PASSES.
With his lips sealed by the positive mandate of the lovely spectre, Mr. Hamlin resigned himself again to weakness and sleep. When he awoke, Olly was sitting by his bedside; the dusky figure of Pete, spectacled and reading a good book, was dimly outlined against the window--but that was all. The vision--if vision it was--had fled.
"Olly," said Mr. Hamlin, faintly.
"Yes!" said Olly, opening her eyes in expectant sympathy.
"How long have I been dr--I mean how long has this--spell lasted?"
"Three days," said Olly.
"The ---- you say!" (A humane and possibly weak consideration for Mr. Hamlin in his new weakness and suffering restricts me to a mere outline of his extravagance of speech.)
"But you're better now," supplemented Olly.
Mr. Hamlin began to wonder faintly if his painful experience of the last twenty-four hours were a part of his convalsecence. He was silent for a few moments and then suddenly turned his face toward Olly.
"Didn't you say something about--about--your sister, the other day?"
"Yes--she's got back," said Olly, curtly.
"Here?"
"Here."
"Well?" said Mr. Hamlin, a little impatiently.
"Well," returned Olly, with a slight toss of her curls, "she's got back and I reckon it's about time she did."
Strange to say, Olly's evident lack of appreciation of her sister seemed to please Mr. Hamlin--possibly because it agreed with his own idea of Grace's superiority and his inability to recognise or accept her as the sister of Gabriel.
"Where has she been all this while?" asked Jack, rolling his large hollow eyes over Olly.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who had returned?
2: What was her name?
3: Who else was she related to?
4: How long had the man been passed out?
5: Was he alone when he woke up?
6: Who was nearest to him?
7: Where was she?
8: Was anyone else there?
9: Who?
10: Where there was he?
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CHAPTER XVII
Wingate, after several strenuous hours spent in Slate's office, returned to his rooms late that night, to find Peter Phipps awaiting him. There was something vaguely threatening about the bulky figure of the man standing gloomily upon the hearth rug, all the spurious good nature gone from his face, his brows knitted, his cheeks hanging a little and unusually pale. Wingate paused on the threshold of the room and his hand crept into his pocket. Phipps seemed to notice the gesture and shook his head.
"Nothing quite so crude, Wingate," he said. "I know an enemy when I see one, but I wasn't thinking of getting rid of you that way."
"I have found it necessary," Wingate remarked slowly, "to be prepared for all sorts of tricks when I am up against anybody as conscienceless as you. I don't want you here, Phipps. I didn't ask you to come and see me. I've nothing to discuss with you."
"There are times," Phipps replied, "when the issue which cannot be fought out to the end with arms can be joined in the council chamber. I have come to know your terms."
Wingate shook his head.
"I don't understand. It is too soon for this sort of thing. You are not beaten yet."
"I am tired," his visitor muttered. "May I sit down?"
"You are an unwelcome guest," Wingate replied coldly, "but sit if you will. Then say what you have to say and go."
Phipps sank into an easy-chair. It was obvious that he was telling the truth so far as regarded his fatigue. He seemed to have aged ten years.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who returned to his room?
2: When?
3: After what?
4: Spent where?
5: Who was waiting in his room?
6: Where was he standing?
7: Was he threatening?
8: What was his body type?
9: Was he pale?
10: Did he want him there?
11: How much had Phipps aged?
12: Did he have a seat?
13: Where?
14: Why?
15: Was he beaten yet?
16: Was Wingate prepared?
17: Did his hand go into his pocket?
18: To retrieve what?
19: Does he have anything to discuss with his visitor?
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(CNN) -- Winning a pageant title is life-changing, especially during the year of your reign.
If it's a big crown, like a state title, it can be like a full-time gig as you prepare for the national event and make appearances.
Elizabeth Fechtel set right to work after getting her tiara on June 21, when she was named Miss Florida. She reportedly had even dropped out of the University of Florida so she could prepare for the Miss America contest in September.
But now, she won't be going to the premier beauty contest.
Pageant officials announced Friday there had been a mistake in tabulating what must have been very close final scores.
And days after getting her crown, Fechtel was giving it back, so the Miss Florida organization could give it to Victoria Cowen, originally announced as first runner-up.
The executive director of the pageant said on Facebook that the organization had to make things right.
"Integrity means doing the right thing at all times and in all circumstances. It takes having the courage to do the right thing, no matter what the consequences will be," Mary Sullivan wrote.
Fechtel's mother, Dixie, told the Orlando Sentinel she was told that one judge changed his mind in the last 15 seconds and tried to indicate it on his ballot.
"It was a human error," Sullivan told the paper. "We have two auditors ... but they unfortunately missed one of the markings on the ballot."
Cowen, a student at Florida State, said on her Facebook page that she had bonded with Fechtel during their week at the competition.
Answer the following questions:
1: What event changes your life?
2: Is it a 40 hour a week job?
3: Who won the Florida competition?
4: When did Fechtel win the pageant?
5: Did she stay in school?
6: Where had she been going?
7: When did a judge reverse himself?
8: Who runs the event?
9: Who runs that?
10: What person is the leader?
11: What newspaper reported on it?
12: Were Fechtel and Cowen classmates?
13: How many auditors were there?
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CHAPTER 71
The terrace of the Villa Catalano, with its orange and palm trees, looked upon a sea of lapiz lazuli, and rose from a shelving shore of aloes and arbutus. The waters reflected the color of the sky, and all the foliage wag bedewed with the same violet light of morn which bathed the softness of the distant mountains, and the undulating beauty of the ever-varying coast.
Lothair was walking on the terrace, his favorite walk, for it was the duly occasion on which he ever found himself alone. Not that he had any reason to complain of his companions. More complete ones could scarcely be selected. Travel, which, they say, tries all tempers, had only proved the engaging equanimity of Catesby, and had never disturbed the amiable repose of his brother priest: and then they were so entertaining and so instructive, as well as handy and experienced in all common things. The monsignore had so much taste and feeling, and various knowledge; and as for the reverend father, all the antiquaries they daily encountered were mere children in his hands, who, without effort, could explain and illustrate every scene and object, and spoke as if he had never given a thought to any other theme than Sicily and Syracuse, the expedition of Nicias, and the adventures of Agathocles. And yet, during all their travels, Lothair felt that he never was alone. This was remarkable at the great cities, such as Messina and Palermo, but it was a prevalent habit in less-frequented places. There was a petty town near them, which he had never visited alone, although he had made more than one attempt with that view; and it was only on the terrace in the early morn, a spot whence he could be observed from the villa, and which did not easily communicate with the precipitous and surrounding scenery, that Lothair would indulge that habit of introspection which he had pursued through many a long ride, and which to him was a never-failing source of interest and even excitement.
Answer the following questions:
1: where was Lothair walking?
2: what did it overlook?
3: did he enjoy the walk?
4: did he have pleasant travelling companions?
5: Did Catesby have a short temper?
6: Did Lothair feel lonely?
7: what was the name of the Villa they were staying?
8: did it have a nice view??
9: could he see the sea?
10: how about the mountains?
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CHAPTER XXVI
DROUGHT
The wheat was growing tall and changing to a darker shade; when the wind swept through it, it undulated like the waves of a vast green sea, rippling silver and white where the light played on the bending blades.
Harding lay among the dusty grass in a dry sloo, and Hester sat beside him in the blue shadow of the big hay wagon. Since six o'clock that morning Harding and Devine had been mowing prairie hay. They had stopped long enough to eat the lunch Hester had brought them; and now Devine had returned to his work, and sat jolting in the driving-seat of a big machine as he guided three powerful horses along the edge of the grass. It went down in dry rows, ready for gathering, before the glistening knife, and a haze of dust and a cloud of flies followed the team across the sloo. Harding's horses stood switching their tails in the sunshine that flooded the plain with a dazzling glare.
"It was rough on Fred that you wouldn't let him finish his pipe," Harding said.
"He went obediently," Hester answered with a smile. "I wanted to talk to you."
"I suspected something of the kind; but I can't see why you must stop me now."
"You are away at daybreak and come home late."
"Very well," said Harding resignedly. "But I've got to clean up this sloo by dark."
"Then you're not going to the Grange? You haven't been since Sunday."
"Beatrice understands that I'm busy."
Answer the following questions:
1: How many people had been mowing?
2: What were their names?
3: What kind of plant were they mowing?
4: What time did they start?
5: Who brought lunch?
6: Did they stop to eat it?
7: Who returned to work first?
8: How many horses were helping him?
9: Was his machine large or small?
10: Was the prairie hay ready to be harvested?
11: Whose job was it to clean the sloo?
12: Did he have a deadline?
13: When?
14: When was the last time he visited the Grange?
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CHAPTER XXII
When all is done or said, In th' end this shall you find, He most of all doth bathe in bliss That hath a quiet mind.--LORD VAUX
Robert had promised to return in the end of March to be present at the Assizes, when the burglars would be tried, and he did not come alone. Mr. Crabbe judged it time to inspect Beauchamp and decide for his wards; and Lady Bannerman, between Juliana's instigations, her own pride in being connected with a trial, and her desire to appropriate Phoebe, decided on coming down with the Admiral to see how matters stood, and to give her vote in the family council.
Commissions from Mervyn had pursued Robert since his arrival in town, all for Bertha's amusement, and he brought down, by special orders, a musical-box, all Leech's illustrations, and a small Maltese dog, like a spun-glass lion, which Augusta had in vain proposed to him to exchange for her pug, which was getting fat and wheezy, and 'would amuse Bertha just as well.' Lady Bannerman hardly contained her surprise when Maria, as well as Mervyn and Phoebe, met her in the hall, seemingly quite tame and at her ease. Mervyn looked better, and in answer to inquiries for Bertha, answered, 'Oh, getting on, decidedly; we have her in the garden. She might drive out, only she has such a horror of meeting any one; but her spirits are better, I really thought she would have laughed yesterday when Maria was playing with the kitten. Ha! the dog, have you got him, Robert. Well, if this does not amuse her, I do not know what will.'
Answer the following questions:
1: Who had vowed to come back?
2: When?
3: Where did he plan to be?
4: What would happen there?
5: was he alone?
6: What did Crabbe think it was time to do?
7: What kind of council was it?
8: What pursued Robert?
9: from whom?
10: since when?
11: for whose entertainment?
12: What did he bring?
13: what kind of dog was it?
14: was the pug healthy?
15: Was it thin?
16: where did they all meet?
17: How did Mervyn look?
18: Where was Bertha?
19: How is her mood?
20: What was Maria playing with?
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CHAPTER LVI. Ariadne
My Lord Castlewood had a house in Kensington Square spacious enough to accommodate the several members of his noble family, and convenient for their service at the palace hard by, when his Majesty dwelt there. Her ladyship had her evenings, and gave her card-parties here for such as would come; but Kensington was a long way from London a hundred years since, and George Selwyn said he for one was afraid to go, for fear of being robbed of a night,--whether by footpads with crape over their faces, or by ladies in rouge at the quadrille-table, we have no means of saying. About noon on the day after Harry had made his reappearance at White's, it chanced that all his virtuous kinsfolks partook of breakfast together, even Mr. Will being present, who was to go into waiting in the afternoon.
The ladies came first to their chocolate: them Mr. Will joined in his court suit; finally, my lord appeared, languid, in his bedgown and nightcap, having not yet assumed his wig for the day. Here was news which Will had brought home from the Star and Garter last night, when he supped in company with some men who had heard it at White's and seen it at Ranelagh!
"Heard what? seen what?" asked the head of the house, taking up his Daily Advertiser.
"Ask Maria!" says Lady Fanny. My lord turns to his elder sister, who wears a face of portentous sadness, and looks as pale as a tablecloth.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was the Lord's house?
2: What was his name?
3: Was the building small?
4: What did Will bring home?
5: From where?
6: When?
7: How did he come across this information?
8: Where did they hear it?
9: And see it?
10: Was Kensington close to London?
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Northumberland (abbreviated Northd) is a county in North East England. The northernmost county of England, it borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham and Tyne and Wear to the south and the Scottish Borders to the north. To the east is the North Sea coastline with a long distance path. The county town is Alnwick, although the county council is in Morpeth.
The county of Northumberland included Newcastle upon Tyne until 1400, when the city became a county of itself. Northumberland expanded greatly in the Tudor period, annexing Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1482, Tynedale in 1495, Tynemouth in 1536, Redesdale around 1542 and Hexhamshire in 1572. Islandshire, Bedlingtonshire and Norhamshire were incorporated into Northumberland in 1844. Tynemouth and other settlements in North Tyneside were transferred to Tyne and Wear in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.
Lying on the Anglo-Scottish border, Northumberland has been the site of a number of battles. The county is noted for its undeveloped landscape of high moorland, now largely protected as the Northumberland National Park. Northumberland is the most sparsely populated county in England, with only 62 people per square kilometre.
Northumberland originally meant 'the land of the people living north of the River Humber'. The present county is the core of that former land, and has long been a frontier zone between England and Scotland. During Roman occupation of Britain, most of the present county lay north of Hadrian's Wall, and was only controlled by Rome for the brief period of its extension north the Antonine Wall. The Roman road Dere Street crosses the county from Corbridge over high moorland west of the Cheviot Hills into present Scotland to Trimontium (Melrose). As evidence of its border position through medieval times, Northumberland has more castles than any other county in England, including those of Alnwick, Bamburgh, Dunstanburgh, Newcastle and Warkworth.
Answer the following questions:
1: what is this about ?
2: it lies on what border ?
3: and noted for what ?
4: what is the perple per sq kilo ?
5: what is the core of the land before ?
6: what is the abbrevation ?
7: located where ?
8: what sea is by it ?
9: Alnwick is what ?
10: the concil is what ?
11: the city became a independent area when ?
12: what did it incluse ?
13: what park is protected ?
14: how many area are castles mentioned ?
15: name 2
16: name 2 more ?
17: is denmark the last one ?
18: what is the last one ?
19: what happened in the Tudor period
20: witch one in 1495 ?
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CHAPTER XXXVI.
DESERTED.
That was almost the last thing Granville Kelmscott knew. Some strange shadowy dreams, to be sure, disturbed the lethargy into which he fell soon after; but they were intermittent and indefinite. He was vaguely aware of being lifted with gentle care into somebody's arms, and of the somebody staggering along with him, not without considerable difficulty, over the rough stony ground of that South African plateau. He remembered also, as in a trance, some sound of angry voices--a loud expostulation--a hasty palaver--a long slow pause--a gradual sense of reconciliation and friendliness--during all which, as far as he could recover the circumstances afterwards, he must have been extended on the earth, with his back propped against a great ledge of jutting rock, and his head hanging listless on his sinking breast. Thenceforward all was blank, or just dimly perceived at long intervals between delirium and unconsciousness. He was ill for many days, where or how he knew not.
In some half dreamy way, he was aware too, now and again, of strange voices by his side, strange faces tending him. But they were black faces, all, and the voices spoke in deep guttural tones, unlike even the clicks and harsh Bantu jerks with which he had grown so familiar in eighteen months among the Barolong. This that he heard now, or seemed to hear in his delirium, like distant sounds of water, was a wholly different and very much harsher tongue--the tongue of the Namaquas, in fact, though Granville was far too ill and too drowsy just then to think of reasoning about it or classifying it in any way. All he knew for the moment was that sometimes, when he turned round feebly on his bed of straw, and asked for drink or help in a faltering voice, no white man appeared to answer his summons. Black, faces all--black, black, and unfamiliar. Very intermittently he was conscious of a faint sense of loneliness. He knew not why. But he thought he could guess. Guy Waring had deserted him!
Answer the following questions:
1: Did someone almost die?
2: Who?
3: Was he saved?
4: Who?
5: Did he know his saviors?
6: Did someone desert him?
7: Who?
8: Why?
9: Was there any noise?
10: What?
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The crowd cheered and cheered. The man with the horn waved and smiled his great, happy smile."More! More!"cried the crowd. And Louis Satchmo Armstrong took his horn and began to play again. Here he was inprefix = st1 /England. Now a famous man, he was rich. He knew many important people. Wherever he went, people knew his name. They wanted to hear his music. As Louis played the sad, slow songs, he thought of his home inNew Orleans. He lived there as a boy. How many years ago it was? It was a busy, exciting city. But Louis' family was very poor. He went to work to help his mother. He also went to school. One of Louis' teachers asked him to be in the school band"This horn is yours until you leave our school,"his teacher said. Louis' music was jazz and he loved it. He remembered all the music he heard. He didn't learn to read music until he was a man.
When he left school, he played in many bands. He loved his work and people loved him. They knew he had a wonderful talent. Louis played on the boats that sailed up and down the river. He played in little towns and in big cities. Satchmo's horn had as many sounds as ten horns-sometimes slow and sweet; sometimes fast and hot, high and low. His music was always strong and exciting."He does make wonderful music,"said the man who listened happily."Yes,"said another man,"he makes that horn speak."Then the music jazz as I can play. I thought jazz was my music, but now I understand it is ours. Isn't it beautiful how music brings us together!"
Answer the following questions:
1: who is the story about?
2: where is he from?
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CHAPTER VIII.
Breakfast on Sunday morning was an hour later than on week-days, and Priscilla, who usually made no public appearance before luncheon, honoured it by her presence. Dressed in black silk, with a ruby cross as well as her customary string of pearls round her neck, she presided. An enormous Sunday paper concealed all but the extreme pinnacle of her coiffure from the outer world.
"I see Surrey has won," she said, with her mouth full, "by four wickets. The sun is in Leo: that would account for it!"
"Splendid game, cricket," remarked Mr. Barbecue-Smith heartily to no one in particular; "so thoroughly English."
Jenny, who was sitting next to him, woke up suddenly with a start. "What?" she said. "What?"
"So English," repeated Mr. Barbecue-Smith.
Jenny looked at him, surprised. "English? Of course I am."
He was beginning to explain, when Mrs. Wimbush vailed her Sunday paper, and appeared, a square, mauve-powdered face in the midst of orange splendours. "I see there's a new series of articles on the next world just beginning," she said to Mr. Barbecue-Smith. "This one's called 'Summer Land and Gehenna.'"
"Summer Land," echoed Mr. Barbecue-Smith, closing his eyes. "Summer Land. A beautiful name. Beautiful--beautiful."
Mary had taken the seat next to Denis's. After a night of careful consideration she had decided on Denis. He might have less talent than Gombauld, he might be a little lacking in seriousness, but somehow he was safer.
"Are you writing much poetry here in the country?" she asked, with a bright gravity.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who came for breakfast on Sunday?
2: What was she doing?
3: Did she say anything about her reading?
4: What did she say
5: Which meant what?
6: Were there many people at the table?
7: Who was next to Denis?
8: Why?
9: Because of why?
10: Safer than who?
11: What did she remark to Denis?
12: Are they in the city?
13: Who likes cricket?
14: Why?
15: What does Priscilla always wear around her neck?
16: Who was startled awake?
17: What is Priscilla's last name?
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Bacliff, Texas (CNN) -- Sitting on their front porch in this Houston suburb, Edmond Demiraj and his family seem the picture of a contented family.
But the Department of Justice now wants to upend the family: threatening to deport his wife and 19-year-old son back to their native Albania, even though he says federal prosecutors a decade ago promised him help and a Green Card in exchange for Edmond's promised testimony in a human smuggling case against a fellow Albanian immigrant. For the Demiraj family, they believe it will mean great harm, even death, for those deported.
A decade ago, Edmond Demiraj (pronounced: dem-EAR-eye) was himself an illegal immigrant. He told CNN he had walked across the U.S. border from Mexico to Brownsville, Texas without any paperwork. He found work as a painter, he says, with a fellow Albanian named Bill Bedini.
Not long afterwards, the Justice Department indicted Bedini, accusing him and others of running a human smuggling ring, bringing illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States. Demiraj was named in the original indictment but charges against him were later dropped.
Attorneys for the Justice Department based in Houston wanted Demiraj to testify against Bedini. In exchange, Demiraj told CNN that prosecutors promised him and his family protection and promised him a Green Card, which would lead to citizenship. The offer, he says, was verbal and not on paper.
"I'm ready to work for the U.S. government, whatever they need from me," Demiraj told CNN.
But Bedini entered a plea of not guilty, was granted bail and soon fled to Albania, according to the U.S. Marshal's office in Houston. Federal prosecutors didn't need Demiraj's testimony and handed him over to immigration officials, who quickly deported him as well.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where were they sitting?
2: Did they seem happy?
3: Where did he flee to?
4: What is the DOJ threatening his family with?
5: To where?
6: WHy does he say this shouldn't happen?
7: Why did they promise that?
8: Against who?
9: Did he come to America legally?
10: When did he come here?
11: How did he get here?
12: To what US city?
13: What did he begin working at?
14: Who was he working with?
15: Who was charged with illegally smuggling people in?
16: From where?
17: What was he promised to get him to testify?
18: What happened?
19: WHat happened then?
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Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Named after George Washington, the first President of the United States, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 in accordance with the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from Washington, D.C., the capital of the U.S., which is often shortened to Washington.
Washington is the 18th largest state with an area of 71,362 square miles (184,827 sq km), and the 13th most populous state with over 7 million people. Approximately 60 percent of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area, the center of transportation, business, and industry along Puget Sound , an inlet of the Pacific Ocean consisting of numerous islands, deep fjords, and bays carved out by glaciers. The remainder of the state consists of deep temperate rainforests in the west, mountain ranges in the west, central, northeast and far southeast, and a semi-arid basin region in the east, central, and south, given over to intensive agriculture. Washington is the second most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, after California. Mount Rainier, an active stratovolcano, is the state's highest elevation at almost 14,411 feet (4,392 m) and is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is this about?
2: What is that?
3: Where?
4: But where?
5: When was it made?
6: Which one was it?
7: Was it part of the Confederate states?
8: What is the capital of it?
9: Does it ever get confused with anything else?
10: What?
11: How do they get around that?
12: How large is it?
13: How many miles?
14: How many people live there?
15: What ranking does that make it?
16: Where do most of them live there?
17: What is that?
18: What is the rest of it?
19: What is the highest point?
20: How high is it?
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Five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas spent all day playing happily with her friends outside her grandmother's apartment building. Her mom, Jaimee, kept her eye on the little girl from a window. At about 4 p.m., Jocelyn walked around the corner of the building to get her bicycle. However, half an hour later, she disappeared. Jaimee called 911. A short time later, police officers and firefighters crowded inthe area, blocking streets and searching the neighborhood. Officers handed out photos of the girl wearing thick-framed glasses. Temar Boggs, 15, a school athlete in track, was with some friends moving a couch into the apartment of his elderly neighbor when one officer approached him and asked if he'd seen Jocelyn. Unfortunately, none of them had seen her. A little bit later, Temar and his friends went to check out the situation. By 6:30 p.m., Jocelyn had been missing for more than two hours, and the search team was worried that the sun would set before she was found. Just at that moment, Temar felt an intense emotion that he was going to find her. He and his friend Chris Garcia, 13, rode alongside, simply keeping a sharp eye out as they circled around. Then Temar spotted a car circling around, as if the driver were unfamiliar with the neighborhood. Temar cycled close and made eye contact with the man behind the wheel, an older guy wearing a red-and-white striped shirt, and saw a tiny blond girl in the passenger seat. Temar instantly realized it must be the missing girl. The boys cycled after the car, but the driver kept moving, winding his way through the neighborhood. Finally, the driver had to park the car ahead of them and pushed open the passenger-side door. A girl slipped out of the car. It was Jocelyn. Temar got off his bike, and carried her to the police. The kidnapper sped away. A police report later identified the man as a 63-ycar-old sex offender. He is still _ . Neil Harkins, chief of the Manheim Police Department, says "The boys' heroics are 'something we don't normally hear about.' It is a very brave thing for young boys to do that." But when asked, Temar, now a tenth-grade student at Lucy Laney High School, says "I didn't do it for attention. I just wanted to help."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who spent all day playing?
2: And her age?
3: Where was she?
4: Who was watching her?
5: And her name?
6: Did Jocelyn stay outside the building?
7: What happened to her?
8: At what time?
9: Who came to look for her?
10: Did she end up getting found?
11: Who recognized her?
12: Did he play any sports?
13: Who ended up kidnapping her?
14: What did Temar say his reason was for saving her?
15: Did anyone think his actions were heroic?
16: Who did?
17: And what was his occupation?
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"How many common English words were invented by Shakespeare?" How long did it take people to find the answer to this question 15 years ago? And now! you can google it and find the answer immediately! Google is the most popular Internet search engine in the world. It was invented by two students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met in 1993, when they were studying computer science at Stanford University, USA. They dreamed of producing something that could also answer any question in seconds. Internet search engines at that time were slow and gave many websites that weren't useful. In January 1996, Page and Brin decided to make a better and faster search engine. They thought the results should be based on the most popular websites. Nobody would give them money for their project, so they used their own money. They also borrowed money from family and friends. Then, in 1998, they were given a _ for $100,000, and they started their own company. Their first office was in a friend's garage. The company's name is Google, a word which comes from mathematics. A "google" is a very high number---- 1 followed by a hundred zeros. The google search engine was soon used by thousands of people worldwide because it was fast, easy and correct. By 2002 it was the biggest search engine on the Internet. Now, more questions have been answered by Google than any other Internet service, from sport to science, and from music to medicine. Google hopes that in the future all the world's information will be put on the Internet, so that everybody can find everything.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is google?
2: When was it created?
3: by who?
4: How did they know each other?
5: What was their dream?
6: Did they have a lot of contributors?
7: How did they fund it?
8: Were was their office?
9: where did the name come from?
10: What does it mean?
11: Did many use it?
12: Was it used just in the US?
13: Is it a large company now?
14: Have there been a lot of searches?
15: how many?
16: What are there hopes for the future?
17: HOw quick can you find an answer now?
18: What year did they decide to do this?
19: by 2002 what happened?
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The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the Lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the Upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the President on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the Sansad Bhavan in New Delhi.
The maximum strength of the House envisaged by the Constitution of India is 552, which is made up by election of up to 530 members to represent the states; up to 20 members to represent the Union Territories and not more than two members of the Anglo-Indian Community to be nominated by the President of India, if, in his/her opinion, that community is not adequately represented in the House. Under the current laws, the strength of Lok Sabha is 545, including the two seats reserved for members of the Anglo-Indian community. The total elective membership is distributed among the states in proportion to their population. A total of 131 seats (18.42%) are reserved for representatives of Scheduled Castes (84) and Scheduled Tribes (47). The quorum for the House is 10% of the total membership.
Answer the following questions:
1: how many members 'represent' the states?
2: how many are for the union territories?
3: is there only one house in indian parliament?
4: how many?
5: and what's the Indian name of the lower one?
6: who gets to vote for it's members?
7: how is each member elected?
8: who nominates the representivites of the anglo-indian group?
9: are they always nominated?
10: why?
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Imperialism is a type of advocacy of empire. Its name originated from the Latin word "imperium", which means to rule over large territories. Imperialism is "a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means". Imperialism has greatly shaped the contemporary world. It has also allowed for the rapid spread of technologies and ideas. The term imperialism has been applied to Western (and Japanese) political and economic dominance especially in Asia and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its precise meaning continues to be debated by scholars. Some writers, such as Edward Said, use the term more broadly to describe any system of domination and subordination organised with an imperial center and a periphery.
Imperialism is defined as "A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force." Imperialism is particularly focused on the control that one group, often a state power, has on another group of people. This is often through various forms of "othering" (see other) based on racial, religious, or cultural stereotypes. There are "formal" or "informal" imperialisms. "Formal imperialism" is defined as "physical control or full-fledged colonial rule". "Informal imperialism" is less direct; however, it is still a powerful form of dominance.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did the name imperialism originate?
2: How is imperialism defined?
3: What are the two types of imperialism?
4: What is formal imperialism defined as?
5: and infromal?
6: What does the latin word imperium mean?
7: Has Imperialsism shaped the western world at all?
8: What does Edward Said say about imperialism?
9: Has military force ever been used to spread imperialism?
10: Is Imerialism used to focus control on another group of people?
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Researchers in over 80 nations are taking part in a project to conduct a decade-long census of sea life. Scientists presented some of their findings at a recent conference as the project neared its completion.
In deep icy waters under Antarctica, scientists found bulbous tunicates, an underground animal, and many newly-discovered creatures believed to be related to starfish and other marine creatures.
Elsewhere in the world's oceans, they have recently discovered many kinds of underwater life forms new to science. It is all part of a research effort called the Census of Marine Life.
"There are about 2,000 scientists worldwide involved," said Bob Gagosian, President, CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. Gagosian helps manage the project. "Everywhere they've gone they've found new things," he says. "The ocean basically is unexplored from the point of view of marine living things."
Researchers have placed small markers on hundreds of fish and marine animals to track by satellite their migration routes and to discover places where sea life gathers.
According to Ron O'Dor, a senior scientist with the Census of Marine Life, knowledge of life on the ocean floor is especially limited. "90% of all the information we have is from the top hundred meters of the ocean," O'Dor states.
And he says the sea floor is, on average, at a depth of 4, 000 meters. And so, as some machines dive far below what people have previously seen, scientists are discovering new species of plants, animals and living things.
Since the census project began, more than 5,300 new marine animals have been found. Ocean researchers say they hope to catalogue 230,000 species during the census --which some say is only a small part of all the creatures living in the sea.
Answer the following questions:
1: How long is the census?
2: And what type of life did the census study?
3: Where did scientists find bulbous tunicates?
4: And was it a plant or an animal?
5: What is this research effor called?
6: How many scientists are involved in this research collaboration?
7: Who helps manage the project?
8: What position does he hold in his organization?
9: And what is the name of that organization?
10: What small item have they placed on lots of underwater sea life?
11: And what purpose do these markers serve?
12: What is the average depth of the sea floor?
13: How many new sea animals have been found since the project started?
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CHAPTER XVI.
HAL ON THE WATCH.
"Let up there, you brute!"
Dick Ferris looked around with a startled air.
When he caught sight of Hal his face fell, and he released the girl.
"What, you!" he exclaimed.
"Exactly. What do you mean by treating this girl so rudely?"
"You are following me," went on Ferris, ignoring the question which had been put to him.
"What if I am?"
"You think you're smart, don't you?" sneered Ferris.
"He's a mean, ugly thing!" put in the girl, between her sobs. "I wish he was arrested."
"Shut up!" roared Ferris, turning to her. "You ran into me on purpose."
"I didn't. We've got a right to coast in this alley; mamma said so."
"You ought to be arrested for striking the little girl," said Hal. "I am awfully glad I arrived in the nick of time to save her from more punishment."
"Good fer you, mister!" cried a small youth standing near. "Give him one in der eye!"
"Yes, do him up, mister," cried several others.
Ferris turned upon them like a savage animal.
"Get out of here, every one of you," he howled, "unless you want to be hammered to death."
"Don't you move," said Hal. "You evidently have more right here than he has."
"Indeed!" said Ferris, turning to Hal. "I wish you would keep your nose out of my affairs."
"Don't let him sass you, mister," put in one of the urchins. "He didn't have no cause ter hit Katie."
Ferris pounced upon the boy at once, and cuffed him right and left. In the midst of the castication, however, Hal caught the bully by the arm, and a second later Dick Ferris measured his length in the gutter.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was startled?
2: What name was he called?
3: Who said it?
4: Who was Ferris restraining?
5: Was she upset?
6: What names did she call Ferris?
7: Whose side did the crowd take?
8: Where did they suggest he should hit Ferris?
9: Did Ferris threaten them back?
10: What did he threaten?
11: What was he compared to?
12: Who did he attack?
13: Who came to the boy's rescue?
14: Where did he grab Ferris?
15: Where did he end up?
16: Had he hit the young girl?
17: Why was he angry with her?
18: Did Ferris think she did it intentionally?
19: Did the girl agree?
20: Where did they collide?
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(CNN) -- Mark Webber vowed to push Sebastian Vettel for the 2013 world title when their champion Red Bull team launched its new Formula One car on Sunday.
The veteran Australian has had to play second fiddle to the all-conquering Vettel in the past three seasons, despite at stages being in contention for his maiden championship.
He has had to contend with recent criticism from Red Bull's motor sport advisor Helmut Marko, who claimed the 36-year-old can't cope with the title pressure.
"I do believe I can have a crack at the championship again this year, as I have done in previous seasons," Webber told reporters at the RB9's launch at the team's English headquarters in Milton Keynes.
"That is my goal and what I think about each day when I get up, and I'm working hard with the team on doing that.
"They know I need 100% support. You cannot win a world title with only 90, you need 100, and we're going into 2013 with this in place, and I'm comfortable with that."
Team boss Christian Horner, who signed a new multi-year contract last week, backed Webber to be a contender despite him finishing sixth overall last season -- 102 points behind his teammate.
"If we weren't happy with Mark then we would never have signed him to be with the team for this year," he said.
"We're very happy with Mark and we give both drivers equal opportunity. It's ultimately down to what they do on the circuit.
Answer the following questions:
1: What team is Mark Webber on?
2: with who?
3: are they pushing for something?
4: what did he vow?
5: how?
6: Where is he from?
7: Is he a new player?
8: What is he?
9: Which one?
10: Did the team use an old car?
11: When did they launch the car?
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CHAPTER LXXXI - MR COHENLUPE LEAVES LONDON
Dolly Longestaffe had found himself compelled to go to Fetter Lane immediately after that meeting in Bruton Street at which he had consented to wait two days longer for the payment of his money. This was on a Wednesday, the day appointed for the payment being Friday. He had undertaken that, on his part, Squercum should be made to desist from further immediate proceedings, and he could only carry out his word by visiting Squercum. The trouble to him was very great, but he began to feel that he almost liked it. The excitement was nearly as good as that of loo. Of course it was a 'horrid bore,'--this having to go about in cabs under the sweltering sun of a London July day. Of course it was a 'horrid bore,'--this doubt about his money. And it went altogether against the grain with him that he should be engaged in any matter respecting the family property in agreement with his father and Mr Bideawhile. But there was an importance in it that sustained him amidst his troubles. It is said that if you were to take a man of moderate parts and make him Prime Minister out of hand, he might probably do as well as other Prime Ministers, the greatness of the work elevating the man to its own level. In that way Dolly was elevated to the level of a man of business, and felt and enjoyed his own capacity. 'By George!' It depended chiefly upon him whether such a man as Melmotte should or should not be charged before the Lord Mayor. 'Perhaps I oughtn't to have promised,' he said to Squercum, sitting in the lawyer's office on a high-legged stool with a cigar in his mouth. He preferred Squercum to any other lawyer he had met because Squercum's room was untidy and homely, because there was nothing awful about it, and because he could sit in what position he pleased, and smoke all the time.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was Dolly going?
2: What day was this?
3: where was he coming from?
4: what was he doing there?
5: When was the payment due?
6: was this the original due date?
7: what was it?
8: What was Dolly elevated to?
9: did he like this?
10: Who is Squercum?
11: what could only be carried out by visiting him?
12: Did Dolly prefer him?
13: why?
14: was it pretty awful?
15: Did Dolly smoke?
16: ciggerettes?
17: what?
18: Was he allowed to smoke in the lawyer's office?
19: Was the story set in the US?
20: where then?
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The competition is open to any eligible club down to Levels 10 of the English football league system - all 92 professional clubs in the Premier League and Football League (Levels 1 to 4), and several hundred "non-league" teams in Steps 1 to 6 of the National League System (Levels 5 to 10). A record 763 clubs competed in 2011–12. The tournament consists of 12 randomly drawn rounds followed by the semi-finals and the final. Entrants are not seeded, although a system of byes based on league level ensures higher ranked teams enter in later rounds - the minimum number of games needed to win the competition ranges from six to fourteen.
The first six rounds are the Qualifying Competition, from which 32 teams progress to the first round of the Competition Proper, meeting the first of the 92 professional teams. The last entrants are the Premier League and Championship clubs, into the draw for the Third Round Proper. In the modern era, non-league teams have never reached the quarter finals, and teams below Level 2 have never reached the final.[note 1] As a result, as well as who wins, significant focus is given to those "minnows" (smaller teams) who progress furthest, especially if they achieve an unlikely "giant-killing" victory.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many rounds does the Qualifying Competition start with?
2: How many teams will progress to the first round?
3: How many teams will they meet then?
4: Are they professional or amateur?
5: Who are the last entrants?
6: And who else?
7: What are they put into the draw for?
8: Who has never reached the quarter finals these days?
9: What have teams below level 2 never reached?
10: Which teams are significant focus given to?
11: Are they bigger or smaller teams?
12: What type of victory is unlikely?
13: Who is the competition open to?
14: How many non-league teams are there?
15: How many clubs competed in the 2011-2012 season?
16: Was it a record?
17: How are the initial 12 rounds drawn?
18: What type of teams enter in later rounds?
19: What ensures this?
20: What's that based on?
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St. John's (/ˌseɪntˈdʒɒnz/, local /ˌseɪntˈdʒɑːnz/) is the capital and largest city in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. St. John's was incorporated as a city in 1888, yet is considered by some to be the oldest English-founded city in North America. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. With a population of 214,285 as of July 1, 2015, the St. John's Metropolitan Area is the second largest Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) in Atlantic Canada after Halifax and the 20th largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is one of the world's top ten oceanside destinations, according to National Geographic Magazine. Its name has been attributed to the feast day of John the Baptist, when John Cabot was believed to have sailed into the harbour in 1497, and also to a Basque fishing town with the same name.
St. John's is one of the oldest settlements in North America, with year-round settlement beginning sometime after 1630 and seasonal habitation long before that. It is not, however, the oldest surviving English settlement in North America or Canada, having been preceded by the Cuper's Cove colony at Cupids, founded in 1610, and the Bristol's Hope colony at Harbour Grace, founded in 1618. In fact, although English fishermen had begun setting up seasonal camps in Newfoundland in the 16th Century, they were expressly forbidden by the British government, at the urging of the West Country fishing industry, from establishing permanent settlements along the English controlled coast, hence the town of St. John's was not established as a permanent community until after the 1630s at the earliest. Other permanent English settlements in the Americas that predate St. John's include: St. George's, Bermuda (1612) and Jamestown, Virginia (1607).
Answer the following questions:
1: Which is the largest Newfoundland city?
2: In what other part of Canada is it also the largest city?
3: When was it incorporated?
4: What was its population in 2015?
5: What's its size ranking in the Census Metropolitan Area?
6: What's the ranking in the Canadian metro area in size?
7: What's its name attributed to?
8: In what continent is it located?
9: When did Cabot arrive?
10: When did seasonal camps in Newfoundland beging?
11: Who founded it?
12: Aside from largest city, what else is it to Labrador?
13: And where else?
14: What is CMA stand for?
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MSNBC (formerly stylized as msnbc) is an American news cable and satellite television network that provides news coverage and political commentary from NBC News on current events. MSNBC is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of the NBCUniversal Television Group division of NBCUniversal, all of which are owned by Comcast. MSNBC and its website were both founded in 1996 as a partnership between Microsoft and General Electric's NBC unit, hence the network's naming. Although they shared the same name, msnbc.com and MSNBC maintained separate corporate structures and news operations, with msnbc.com headquartered on the West Coast on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, and MSNBC in the NBC headquarters in New York. Microsoft divested its stake in the MSNBC channel in 2005, and divested its stake in msnbc.com in July 2012. The general news site was rebranded as NBCNews.com and a new msnbc.com was created as the online home of the cable news channel.
In the late summer of 2015, MSNBC revamped its programming; the moves were in sharp contrast to previous programming decisions at the network. Moves were made to sharpen the channel's news image through a dual editorial relationship with its organizational parent NBC News. MSNBC Live, the network's flagship daytime news platform, was expanded to cover over eight hours of the day. Phil Griffin currently serves as the president and director of day-to-day operations at the cable network. Pat Burkey, Janelle Rodriguez, and Jonathan Wald oversee programming and news operations at the network, with Brian Williams serving as the channel's chief anchor of breaking news coverage.
Answer the following questions:
1: who owns MSNBC?
2: when was it founded?
3: what two companies is it named for?
4: does it have a site on the web?
5: what is it?
6: where is the headquarters for the site?
7: what city is that in?
8: where was the tv branch headquarters?
9: in what city?
10: is the software company involved in the enterprise?
11: when did they leave?
12: and the web presence?
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Wade–Giles (), sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade, during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert A. Giles's "Chinese–English Dictionary" of 1892.
Wade–Giles was the system of transcription in the English-speaking world for most of the 20th century, used in standard reference books and in English language books published before 1979. It replaced the Nanking dialect-based romanization systems that had been common until the late 19th century, such as the Postal Romanization (still used in some place-names). In mainland China it has been entirely replaced by the Hanyu Pinyin system approved in 1958. Outside mainland China, it has mostly been replaced by Pīnyīn, even though Taiwan implements a multitude of Romanization systems in daily life. Additionally, its usage can be seen in the common English names of certain individuals and locations such as Chiang Ching-kuo.
Wade–Giles was developed by Thomas Francis Wade, a scholar of Chinese and a British ambassador in China who was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University. Wade published in 1867 the first textbook on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin in English, "Yü-yen Tzŭ-êrh Chi" (traditional: ; simplified: 语言自迩集), which became the basis for the Romanization system later known as Wade–Giles. The system, designed to transcribe Chinese terms for Chinese specialists, was further refined in 1912 by Herbert Allen Giles, a British diplomat in China and his son, Lionel Giles, a curator at the British Museum.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the system in focus?
2: A.k.a.?
3: What type of system is it?
4: What type was it in the 20th century?
5: What language is it for?
6: Who produced it?
7: What was his middle name?
8: He was an ambassador from what country?
9: Where was he an ambassador to?
10: When was the first textbook published by him?
11: Who refined his theories?
12: What was Giles' occupation?
13: From where?
14: Who did this with Giles?
15: What was his name?
16: Where did he work?
17: What did he do there?
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CHAPTER TWENTY SIX.
MAD HACO STARTLED AT LAST.
That evening Haco Barepoles was seen on the road to Cove, with his coat-skirts, his cravat-ends, and his hair streaming in the breeze.
An hour previously, however, a brass band was seen walking towards the same place, and, half an hour after that, a young midshipman was observed posting rapidly in the same direction.
It was dark when Gildart entered the village, and all the inhabitants were in their dwellings, so that he reached Gaff's cottage unperceived.
The village was a primitive one. Locks were deemed unnecessary in most of the cottages, probably because there was nothing worth stealing within them. Gildart lifted the latch and entered. A fire, nearly out, with a large piece of coal on it, burned in the grate. The flicker of this was sufficient to illuminate the boudoir faintly.
Having surveyed the apartment, examined the closet, and looked under the bed, he went out, and, going to the back of the cottage, found the band waiting in some anxiety.
"Now, lads, come this way," said Gildart; "and there's only one piece of advice I've got to give you: don't stir hand or foot after Haco enters the cottage. He's as big as an elephant, and strong as a lion. If you stir, and he finds you out, he won't spare you."
"But you promise to come to the rescue, master," said the French horn in some alarm.
"Ay, that will I; but he'll have two of you floored, another strangled, and the fourth half-skinned before I can get him to stop."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was in the street?
2: Heading where?
3: Was he well dressed?
4: In what?
5: Had someone been that way before him?
6: How many
7: Were they together?
8: How long since the first passed?
9: Was it a group?
10: And when did the second pass?
11: Did they reach their destination at daybreak?
12: Was it a modern place?
13: What was it like?
14: Were there valuables to be found?
15: Did they secure there places anyhow?
16: Did he have any words of wisdom for anyone?
17: Which was?
18: At all?
19: Is he a large man?
20: How large?
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Nick Wilkins was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 4 years old, and when the cancer kept bouncing back, impervious to all the different treatments the doctors tried, his father sat him down for a talk.
John Wilkins explained to Nick, who was by then 14, that doctors had tried chemotherapy, radiation, even a bone marrow transplant from his sister.
"I explained to him that we're running out of options," Wilkins remembers telling his son.
There was one possible treatment they could try: an experimental therapy at the University of Pennsylvania.
He asked his son if he understood what it would mean if this treatment didn't work.
"He understood he could die," Wilkins says. "He was very stoic."
A few months later, Nick traveled from his home in Virginia to Philadelphia to become a part of the experiment.
This new therapy was decidedly different from the treatments he'd received before: Instead of attacking his cancer with poisons like chemotherapy and radiation, the Philadelphia doctors taught Nick's own immune cells to become more adept at killing the cancer.
Two months later, he emerged cancer-free. It's been six months since Nick, now 15, received the personalized cell therapy, and doctors still can find no trace of leukemia in his system.
Trusting her intuition led to two cancer diagnoses
Twenty-one other young people received the same treatment at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and 18 of them, like Nick, went into complete remission -- one of them has been disease-free for 20 months. The Penn doctors released their findings this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology.
Answer the following questions:
1: Was Nick Wilkins diagnosed with arthritis?
2: Was Nick 22?
3: Did Nick understand he might die?
4: Did Nick have a witch doctor cure him?
5: What was Nick's dad's name?
6: Did John say his boy wanted to die?
7: What was Nick's doctors going to teach his immune cells to do?
8: How many kids have had the same treatment as Nick?
9: Where did the doctors publish there findings?
10: How old was Nick when he was diagnosed?
11: Did Nick have treatments before the new experimental cure was used?
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Jeff Corwin is a scientist and writer. He does these jobs with one life goal help save animals and their habitats. His latest book, 100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species. Is a collection of stories about animals on the edge of _ . Corwin recently talked to a reporter. Reporter: How would you describe your job? Corwin: My job is to travel around, look at animals and tell their stories. Reporter : When did you know this is what your wanted to do? Corwin: I knew that when I was 6 years old. My dad was a police officer, and we lived in the city. I really enjoyed the time when I could go to the quiet countryside. One day I saw my very first wild snake and I knew that's what I would do for the rest of my life. I didn't know if I would be a teacher or a zookeeper, but I knew I would have a life connected with nature. Reporter: Why did you write the book? Corwin: We are losing species very fast. _ If we make big changes, we may have the chance to save what remains. Reporter: Is it true that humans are the reason that many of these animals are in danger? Corwin: Human beings have a powerful effect on every other living thing. It's important to make that effect a positive one. ,.
Answer the following questions:
1: what does Jeff Corwin do?
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In economics, the Gini coefficient (sometimes expressed as a Gini ratio or a normalized Gini index) is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income or wealth distribution of a nation's residents, and is the most commonly used measure of inequality. It was developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini and published in his 1912 paper "Variability and Mutability" ().
The Gini coefficient measures the inequality among values of a frequency distribution (for example, levels of income). A Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality, where all values are the same (for example, where everyone has the same income). A Gini coefficient of 1 (or 100%) expresses maximal inequality among values (e.g., for a large number of people, where only one person has all the income or consumption, and all others have none, the Gini coefficient will be very nearly one). However, a value greater than one may occur if some persons represent negative contribution to the total (for example, having negative income or wealth). For larger groups, values close to or above 1 are very unlikely in practice. Given the normalization of both the cumulative population and the cumulative share of income used to calculate the Gini coefficient, the measure is not overly sensitive to the specifics of the income distribution, but rather only on how incomes vary relative to the other members of a population. The exception to this is in the redistribution of wealth resulting in a minimum income for all people. When the population is sorted, if their income distribution were to approximate a well-known function, then some representative values could be calculated.
Answer the following questions:
1: What could I use to measure the differences in income in a population?
2: Using that, what would even Steven look like?
3: Who invented this way of measuring?
4: Did he publish any of his work?
5: When?
6: What was it called?
7: What is this coefficient primarily used to measure?
8: In what?
9: Is it used for anything other than income inequality?
10: What else is it called?
11: If only one person somehow has all the money and everybody else has none, what would the Gini coefficient be?
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CHAPTER XIII
"How this came about I don't even quite know," Tallente remarked, an hour or so later, as he laid down the menu and smiled across the corner table in the little Soho restaurant at his two companions.
"I can tell you exactly," Nora declared. "You are in town for a few days only, and I want to see as much of you as I can; Susan here is deserting me at nine o'clock to go to a musical comedy; I particularly wanted a sole Georges, and I knew, if Susan and I came here alone, a person whom we neither of us like would come and share our table. Therefore, I made artless enquiries as to your engagements for the evening. When I found that you proposed to dine alone in some hidden place rather than run the risk of meeting any of your political acquaintances at the club, I went in for a little mental suggestion."
"I see," he murmured. "Then my invitation wasn't a spontaneous one?"
"Not at all," she agreed. "I put the idea into your head."
"And now that we are here, are you going to stretch me on the rack and delve for my opinions on all sorts of subjects? is Miss Susan there going to take them down in shorthand on her cuff and you make a report to Dartrey when he comes back to-morrow?"
She laughed at him from underneath her close-fitting, becoming little hat. She was biting an olive with firm white teeth.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is is returning the next day?
2: Where are they?
3: Where is it?
4: How many people are there?
5: How many men?
6: How many women?
7: Are they sitting in a booth?
8: Where are they sitting?
9: What had Tallente been holding?
10: Is Susan going to be with Nora the whole night?
11: Where is she going?
12: Where did Tallente not want to eat?
13: How long will he be in town?
14: Where was he thinking of eating?
15: what time is Susan leaving?
16: How does Nora's hat fit?
17: How might Susan take notes?
18: Where?
19: Who did they not want to share a table with?
20: What is Nora eating?
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CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI
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ILLUSTRATIONS
I Thought I Heard a Man’s Voice The Office Boy Caught the Junior Partner Best and Prettiest Girl in Salthaven It Was a Comfortable Position Immersed in a Bundle of Papers A Fine Show of Indignation Were Regulating Their Pace by Hers Nothing Loath, Gave a Tug Presented Him With the Bananas Proceeded With Almost Equal Care to Assist Her Mother Mrs. Willett and Mrs. Chinnery Confronted Each Other She Placed It Between his Lips With a Little Jab To Bassett, the Best of Boys I’m Choking No Wonder I Thought You Was a Lady I Came to Ask Your Advice Holding a Handkerchief to his Bleeding Face I’ve Got a Bone to Pick With You She Said, ’Nonsense’ he Replied, Softly He Leaned Back in his Chair I Heard You Come In, he Said, in a Stealthy Whisper Think I’m the Most Forgetful Man in Salthaven I’ve Got to Go, Too, Said the Captain She Seated Herself on a Pile of Timber I Don’t Like Leaving Him Here Corner of the Bank Of England Mind, I Haven’t Promised Cut Short in his Expressions of Pleasure C-ck! he Said, Waggishly She Drew the Ring from Her Finger It’s to Make You Leave off Loving Me Time! Cried Captain Sellers Don’t You Think Captain Trimblett is Lucky Snatching his Hat from Its Peg You Look Very Nice, Dear You Can Have a Little Drop Yourself Marvellous Piece of Jugglery Don’t Go, he Said, Hastily Wedged Under a Dressing-table Brought the Curtains Down With Him Waved Herself off the Fence on to The Stones His Cigar Fell Unheeded to the Floor An Enormous Fist Held Just Beneath his Nose
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was the hat snatched from?
2: Who took it
3: What was under his nose?
4: I agree but you can't submit until 10 questions can you?
5: So true
6: It is actually a book but all the punctuation is gone
7: true almost there
8: It is parts from different pages
9: The first is on page 5, the nest words are from page 13
10: so true
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(CNN) -- The goals just keep flowing for Lionel Messi, who on Sunday surpassed soccer legend Pele's mark of 75 in a calendar year to help Barcelona bounce back from a rare defeat.
The Argentina star netted twice in the 4-2 win at Mallorca that kept the Catalans three points clear in Spain's La Liga, leaving him just nine short of Gerd Muller's all-time record.
The 25-year-old, who became a first-time father earlier this month, was able to put a bit more enthusiasm into his new thumb-sucking celebration than when he scored late in the shock midweek Champions League loss to Scottish side Celtic.
"Leo continually breaks records. His goal tally is spectacular," said Barca manager Tito Vilanova, who has yet to experience a domestic league defeat after his first 11 matches in charge, equaling the best start to a season set by Real Madrid.
"It takes other great players seven or eight seasons to score the amount of goals he scores in one season. Also, some of his goals are absolute beauties."
Read blog: Is loyalty Barca's biggest strength?
Messi has now scored 64 goals for his club and 12 for his country this year, from just 59 matches overall.
Pele managed 75 from 53 as a 17-year-old in 1958, helping Brazil to win the World Cup for the first of a record five times.
Muller, a World Cup winner in 1974, surpassed Pele's record in a year that West Germany won the European Championship.
Messi has yet to win a senior title with Argentina, though he won Olympic gold with the under-23 side in 2008.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who surpassed Pele?
2: When did he score the goal to pass Pele?
3: What team does he play for?
4: Where is he from?
5: What was the final outcome of the last game?
6: Where?
7: How old is the Argentinian?
8: does he have any children?
9: Has he been a parent for long?
10: Is he known for breaking records?
11: How many nettings has he gotten this year?
12: Does he have a medal from the Olympics?
13: When?
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CHAPTER VI. OF HOW ANDREA BECAME LOVE-SICK
With what fictions I could call to mind I put off Andrea's questions touching the peculiar fashion of St. Auban's leave-taking. Tell him the truth and expose to him the situation whereof he was himself the unconscious centre I dared not, lest his high-spirited impetuosity should cause him to take into his own hands the reins of the affair, and thus drive himself into irreparable disaster.
Andrea himself showed scant concern, however, and was luckily content with my hurriedly invented explanations; his thoughts had suddenly found occupation in another and a gentler theme than the ill-humour of men, and presently his tongue betrayed them when he drew the conversation to the ladies to whom he had resigned his apartments.
"Pardieu! Gaston," he burst out, "she is a lovely maid--saw you ever a bonnier?"
"Indeed she is very beautiful," I answered, laughing to myself at the thought of how little he dreamt that it was of Yvonne St. Albaret de Canaples that he spoke, and not minded for the while to enlighten him.
"If she be as kind and gentle as she is beautiful, Gaston, well--Uncle Giulio's plans are likely to suffer shipwreck. I shall not leave Choisy until I have spoken to her; in fact, I shall not leave until she leaves."
"Nevertheless, we shall still be able to set out, as we had projected, after dining, for in an hour, or two at most, they will proceed on their journey."
He was silent for some moments, then:
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Andrea?
2: was it reciprocated?
3: was he focused on it?
4: was he entertaining other romantinc partners?
5: Who was he having over to his place?
6: Who was Gaston
7: who were they talking about?
8: who did they refer to as beautiful?
9: was she the maid?
10: What were they doing before setting out?
11: how long until they start their adventure?
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The voice of China was not hot during the summer of 2012. The voice of China is a large music show in China. This show is also the only one which regards the voice as the only ruler. It premiered at 21:15 on July 13,2012,on the Zhejiang Television. It has attracted great attention. The show became an overnight sensation. The first season used "Real voice, real music " as its slogan . As a mentor ,singers like Liu Huan, Na Ying, Yu Chengqing and Yang Kun were responsible for seeking world-shaking voices of China in the following three and a half months, through four steps ,namely "blind choosing" "blind selecting" "team PK" "yearly grand ceremony". It is really a miracle that The voice of China can stand out in the flood of today's talent shows in China , and attracts the audience . A great number of audience said this was the best television show last summer. They were all proud of these good voices of China. The students' beautiful voices moved everyone. Xu Haixing , a girl from Chengdu ,sang Self to realize her father's dream and Liu Huan was moved to tears by her song . Huang Yong sang In Spring showing his sticking to his dream and Yang Kun cried for this. The blind girl Zhang Yuxia, a busker from Taiwan, played while singing. She was called "Deng Lijun No.2" for her unique voice, and her sincere feeling touched everybody. Na Ying went to the stage to sing with the students together twice. The voice of China doesn't care about magnificent clothes and wonderful dancing. It regards "inspiration" and "professionalism" as the ruler of music. The singer uses their songs to tell real stories and the happiness of life.
Answer the following questions:
1: where is the show?
2: when did it first air?
3: what time?
4: was it a hit?
5: what did the show do?
6: how long did it go on for?
7: did it have a slogan?
8: what was it?
9: did the show have mentors?
10: were they music producers?
11: what were they?
12: Do they name any?
13: can you name one?
14: how many steps were involved in the show?
15: what was the last one?
16: Who was from Chengdu?
17: what did she sing?
18: for who?
19: who was blind?
20: where was she from?
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Central America () is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast. Central America is bordered by Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Central America consists of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. The combined population of Central America is between 41,739,000 (2009 estimate) and 42,688,190 (2012 estimate).
Central America is a part of the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, which extends from northern Guatemala through to central Panama. Due to the presence of several active geologic faults and the Central America Volcanic Arc, there is a great deal of seismic activity in the region. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur frequently; these natural disasters have resulted in the loss of many lives and much property.
In the Pre-Columbian era, Central America was inhabited by the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica to the north and west and the Isthmo-Colombian peoples to the south and east. Soon after Christopher Columbus's voyages to the Americas, the Spanish began to colonize the Americas. From 1609 until 1821, most of the territory within Central America—except for the lands that would become Belize and Panama—was governed by the Viceroyalty of New Spain from Mexico City as the Captaincy General of Guatemala. After New Spain achieved independence from Spain in 1821, some of its provinces were annexed to the First Mexican Empire, but soon seceded from Mexico to form the Federal Republic of Central America, which lasted from 1823 to 1838. The seven states finally became independent autonomous states: beginning with Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala (1838); followed by El Salvador (1841); then Panama (1903); and finally Belize (1981). Even today, though, people in Central America sometimes still refer to their nations as though they are provinces of a Central American state (e.g. it is still common to write "C.A." after the country names, in formal and informal contexts).
Answer the following questions:
1: Where is Central America in relation to North America?
2: Is it a single nation?
3: How many countries are in it?
4: WHat are some of them?
5: Are all of the countries landlocked?
6: What bodies of water does it border?
7: Is the poopulation growing?
8: What was it in 2012?
9: Were Europeans the first people to live there?
10: Who were?
11: WHat European nation came there first?
12: Who did they send?
13: When did they start taking over?
14: Do they still have control of the area?
15: When did their control end?
16: Were they taken over by anyone else then?
17: WHat did they become after they left Mexico?
18: Which modern nation was the last to leave that republic?
19: WHen did that happen?
20: Is the area geologically stable?
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CHAPTER XXXIV.—THE END OF PORLER.
Porler and Murphy were taken completely by surprise when confronted by Leo.
On seeing the young gymnast, Mart gave a cry of joy.
“Oh, thank Heaven you have come!”
“Get into the corner, boy!” howled Porler.
“Don’t you speak to him again,” said Leo sharply. “He is no longer your prisoner.”
“Ain’t he? We’ll soon see about that.”
As Porler spoke he advanced upon Leo.
But when the young gymnast brought his weapon up within range of the rascal’s head the latter quickly recoiled.
“You see, Porler, I am armed.”
Murphy, who was completely dumfounded to see Leo, now came forward.
“We are two to one, young feller,” he said warningly. “Yer better go slow.”
“I know my own business,” was Leo’s quiet reply. “Mart!”
“Well?”
“Will you go down and summon help?”
“But you are alone——”
“Never mind. Get a policeman, or somebody else. I am going to have these rascals arrested.”
“Not much!” howled Porler.
“Let’s down him?” yelled Murphy.
“Back! both of you!”
The two men, however, ran forward, dodging behind Mart as they came on, and closed in on him.
It was an unequal fight.
But Leo fought well, and the boy was not idle.
Mart caught up a chair, and raising it over his head brought it down on Porler’s back.
“Oh! oh! you have broken my back!” yelled the old balloonist.
Scarcely had he spoken when Leo tripped him up.
But now Murphy leaped on the young gymnast, and the pair rolled over on the floor.
Answer the following questions:
1: Was it an even fight?
2: Who had a weapon?
3: Who came to the front?
4: What did he say?
5: Who were they going to call on the rascals?
6: Why?
7: Who yelled that they should jump on Leo?
8: Did they try it?
9: How did Leo do?
10: Who did they have to get around to get to Leo?
11: And what did he hit Porler with?
12: Where did he hit him with it?
13: What did Porler say?
14: Then what happened to him?
15: Porler was an old what?
16: And Leo was a young what?
17: Who was very happy to see Leo before the fight?
18: Who was no longer a hostage?
19: Did Porler agree with that?
20: Who moved on who to start the fight?
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As a Member of Parliament (MP), he represented five constituencies over the course of his career. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory during World War II. He led the Conservative Party for fifteen years from 1940 to 1955.
Churchill was born into an aristocratic family, the son of an English politician and American socialite. Joining the British Army, he saw action in British India, the Anglo–Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Moving into politics, before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of Asquith's Liberal government. During the war, Churchill departed from government following the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign. He briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government under Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Baldwin's Conservative government of 1924–1929, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy.
Answer the following questions:
1: what kind of family did Churchill grow up in?
2: what did his parents do?
3: where was he a commander?
4: where was he the Chancellor?
5: how long was he prime minister?
6: did he lead Britain to victory?
7: what war?
8: what party was he a member of?
9: when did he start politics?
10: when did he leave the government?
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Washington (CNN) -- Mexican drug cartels have used cash and sexual favors as tools to corrupt U.S. border and customs agents, an inspector general investigation has found.
In exchange, agents allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection lanes, protect or escort traffickers or leak sensitive information, said Charles Edwards, acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security.
Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Edwards cited the Zetas drug cartel as one of the leaders "involved increasingly in systematic corruption."
He did not elaborate on how non-cash methods of corruption, like sexual favors, have been used to corrupt agents.
Since October 2004, 127 Customs and Border Protection employees have been arrested or indicted for acts of corruption, said agency Commissioner Alan Bersin, speaking at the same hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon's offensive against the drug cartels, combined with a surge in the hiring of border agents in recent years, have multiplied the risks of corruption, Bersin said.
Today, the Border Patrol counts more than 20,700 agents, more than double its size in 2004. Bersin implied that the rapid hiring spree may have come at the cost of hiring less qualified agents.
"The accelerated hiring pace under which we operated between 2006 and 2008 -- and, frankly, mistakes from which we are learning -- exposed critical organizational and individual vulnerabilities within CBP," he said.
To face this challenge, the commissioner touted the passage of the Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010, which requires that by 2013, all the agency's law enforcement applicants must receive a polygraph test before being hired. It also calls for periodic reinvestigations into the background of its agents.
Answer the following questions:
1: who is the president of Mexico?
2: How many are working for border patrol today?
3: Is this the same as in 2004?
4: How many employees have been arrested?
5: Between what years was the higher hiring rate?
6: who is the acting inspector general mentioned?
7: what organization does he work for?
8: Is cash used for corruption?
9: what about non-cash?
10: what is the non-cash example used?
11: what drug cartel is mentioned?
12: who is being corrupted?
13: what tests are the agents supposed to receive?
14: by when?
15: according to what act?
16: who is the commissioner mentioned?
17: where was he speaking?
18: Do agents leak private information?
19: What else do they do?
20: What did Edwards call the corruption?
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In the office of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, there is a picture of Catherine the Great, the legendary Russian Empress. When asked why she has the picture, Merkel says, "She was a strong woman". Many say the same of Merkel.
The most powerful woman in the world, according to US Forbes magazine, was in China last week. She came to discuss trade and environmental issues with China's top leaders. Germany's first woman leader is known as a brave and practical statesman . Even since her time at school, she had the habit of getting everything in order. Every day before doing her homework she would clean the desk and think about what to do next. "I prefer a long time for full preparations to make my decision. But once I decide, I will stand up for what I believe," Merkel said.
Perhaps it was good habits that helped her do well in her studies. At 32, she got a doctorate in physics and then she worked as a researcher.
However, the life of a scholar couldn't put off her love of politics. While working in labs, Merkel took time off to read political books and at last joined a political party. "Her calmness helped her stand out in the party. She could always find a way out while others felt hopeless," said one of her old friends.
In her first big political job as Minister for the Environment in 1994, her scientific background proved very useful. In 2005 she became Germany's youngest chancellor since the second World War.
Now half way through her four-year term, the 53-year-old woman has made a name for herself both in Germany and abroad. At the EU summit in 2005 when France quarreled with Britain over the EU budget , some people believed the EU was close to breaking down. But Merkel didn't give up. She shuttled between the heads of the two powers and had them reached an agreement.
"Strength comes from composure and courage. Many people say I am a strong woman. But I would rather say I have perseverance," said Merkel.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is the Chancellor?
2: From what country?
3: Who was in China last week?
4: What was she there to do?
5: What would she do right before her homework?
6: When did she receive her PHD in physics?
7: What did she do then?
8: As what?
9: What did she have a love for?
10: What position did she attain in 1994?
11: What proved useful to her then?
12: How many terms at 53?
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CHAPTER VII.
HAL DETERMINES TO INVESTIGATE.
When Hal came to his senses he found himself in the arms of a boy slightly taller than himself, who was doing all in his power to restore consciousness by the application of snow to Hal's forehead.
"What--what----" he began.
"Good! yer come around at last, have yer?" cried the boy. "Blessed if I didn't think yer was a goner."
Hal put his hand up to his head.
"Where am I?" he asked, faintly.
"Yer all right; don't worry," replied the tall boy. "Don't yer remember me?"
Hal pulled himself together, and looked at the speaker.
"Jack McCabe!" he cried.
"Yer struck it fust clip. Say, wot was der matter wid yer? Yer couldn't have been froze, coz it wasn't cold enough."
"I was struck on the head."
"Gee crickety! Who struck yer?"
"I--I--nobody, I think. It was some bricks from that building."
"Oh, dat's it. How do yer feel now?"
"Awfully light-headed," responded Hal, telling the exact truth.
"Kin yer walk about a block? I only live jest around dat corner."
Hal started at these words.
"You do?"
"Yes."
"Tell me, is your father janitor of a building down in Wall Street?"
"O' course not. Didn't I tell yer we lived here?"
Hal looked relieved.
"What has that got to do with it?" he asked, curiously.
"Why, dem janitors all lives in der buildin's da takes care of," explained Jack.
"The reason I ask is because there is a Daniel McCabe janitor of the building I work in."
Answer the following questions:
1: What was being put on Hal's forehead?
2: By who?
3: Is Jack's father a janiotr?
4: Does he live on Wall Street?
5: Was Hal unconscious at the start of this story?
6: What happened to him?
7: By who?
8: So then by what?
9: Was Hal taller than the other boy?
10: How did he feel after he woke up?
11: How far did Jack want him to walk?
12: Where did Jack live?
13: Who is the janitor in Hal's building?
14: Where do all the janitors live?
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CHAPTER XIX--HOW NORMAN LESLIE RODE AGAIN TO THE WARS
Tidings of these parleys, and marches, and surrenders of cities came to us at Tours, the King sending letters to his good towns by messengers. One of these, the very Thomas Scott of whom I have before spoken, a man out of Rankelburn, in Ettrick Forest, brought a letter for me, which was from Randal Rutherford.
"Mess-John Urquhart writes for me, that am no clerk," said Randal, "and, to spare his pains, as he writes for the most of us, I say no more than this: come now, or come never, for the Maid will ride to see Paris in three days, or four, let the King follow or not as he will."
There was no more but a cross marked opposite the name of Randal Rutherford, and the date of place and day, August the nineteenth, at Compiegne.
My face fired, for I felt it, when I had read this, and I made no more ado, but, covenanting with Thomas Scott to be with him when he rode forth at dawn, I went home, put my harness in order, and hired a horse from him that kept the hostelry of the "Hanging Sword," whither also I sent my harness, for that I would sleep there. This was all done in the late evening, secretly, and, after supper, I broke the matter to my master and Elliot. Her face changed to a dead white, and she sat silent, while my master took the word, saying, in our country speech, that "he who will to Cupar, maun to Cupar," and therewith he turned, and walked out and about in the garden.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who writes for Randal?
2: Does he write for anyone else?
3: Who?
4: Who will ride to Paris?
5: When?
6: Is four a possibility?
7: Who may or may not follow?
8: What was marked oppisite Randal Rutherfords name?
9: Was there any other information?
10: What was the date?
11: And place?
12: Who sent the letters?
13: Where did he send them?
14: How were they delivered?
15: Name one?
16: Where was he from?
17: Anyplace specific there?
18: Who did he have a letter for?
19: Who was it from?
20: What did the narrator hire?
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CHAPTER IV. TITHONUS
A youth came riding towards a palace gate, And from the palace came a child of sin And took him by the curls and led him in! Where sat a company with heated eyes. Tennyson, A VISION OF SIN
It was in the month of June that Berenger de Ribaumont first came in sight of Paris. His grandfather had himself begun by taking him to London and presenting him to Queen Elizabeth, from whom the lad's good mien procured him a most favourable reception. She willingly promised that on which Lord Walwyn's heart was set, namely, that his title and rank should be continued to his grandson; and an ample store of letter of recommendation to Sir Francis Walsingham, the Ambassador, and all others who could be of service in the French court, were to do their utmost to provide him with a favourable reception there.
Then, with Mr. Adderley and four or five servants, he had crossed the Channel, and had gone first to Chateau Leurre, where he was rapturously welcomed by the old steward Osbert. The old man had trained up his son Landry, Berenger's foster-brother, to become his valet, and had him taught all the arts of hair-dressing and surgery that were part of the profession of a gentleman's body-servant; and the youth, a smart, acuter young Norman, became a valuable addition to the suite, the guidance of which, through a foreign country, their young master did not find very easy. Mr. Adderley thought he knew French very well, through books, but the language he spoke was not available, and he soon fell into a state of bewilderment rather hard on his pupil, who, though a very good boy, and crammed very full of learning, was still nothing more than a lad of eighteen in all matters of prudence and discretion.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was the month someone arrived in France?
2: Where had he been before?
3: Did he impress anyone while there?
4: Whom?
5: Was he travelling with his Aunt?
6: Who had brought him there?
7: Was he hoping to be knighted?
8: How many servants were there?
9: Did anyone accompany them somewhere?
10: Whom?
11: WAs anyone groomed for a special position?
12: What position?
13: Was he a stranger?
14: Who was he?
15: Was he taught to paint?
16: What did he learn?
17: Was there a language barrier?
18: WHat language did he speak?
19: Who trained in French?
20: WAs his student uneducated?
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Having just quit a highly moneymaking job with tech giant Microsoft in the United States,where he'd made millions working as a program manager, _
What Awuah wanted was to create a university in his native Ghana.a state-of-the-art education centre that would help educate the country's next generation of leaders.Awuah moved with his family,back to Ghana.There,he invested his own money and with the help of other donors he founded Ashesi University.
"Africa needs to have a renaissance ," says Awuah as he explained what drove him to
take the risky decision."The world needs to change in this way and I strongly believe that people like me need to be part of the solution;I need to be really actively involved in helping to drive this change in Africa''
Located about an hour's drive from the capital Accra,Ashesi,which appropriately translates to "beginning," is the first Ghanaian university to combine technical majors with a liberal arts approach.Its campus,set on 100 acres in a town called Berekuso,was designed to be inspiring for the more than 500 young Ghanaians studying there.
"So when I look at universities I see Africa fast--forward 30 years.When this 20-year-old is now in his or her 50s,that person is going to be a leader."
Today Ashesi,which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year,offers degrees in business,
information systems and computer science.There are plans to offer engineering and economics majors in the near future.The school's graduation rate is between 70%and 90%,according to Awuah.
In our last freshman class,50% of the students paid full tuition ,25%were on full
scholarships and 25%on partial scholarships ,"he said."The reason why variety is so important is that the most important conversation on campus is a conversation about the good society--what is the good society we would like to see in Africa? That conversation is a lot more interesting if you have variety in the classroom,"adds Awuah. .
Answer the following questions:
1: who quit a job?
2: where?
3: Did he make very much money there?
4: doing what?
5: why did he leave?
6: what kind?
7: to accomplish what?
8: did he move with his family?
9: was he able to create the university?
10: where?
11: where at in Ghana?
12: how far is it from the capital?
13: what is the name of the school?
14: who paid for it?
15: how many students attend?
16: how many paid full tuition?
17: how many had partial scholarships?
18: what about full?
19: what makes conversations more interesting?
20: what is their graduation rate?
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Most people will rest and relax when they are old. They do not work. And most people are certainly not famous. But Grandma Moses is different She starts a new job at the age of 76. This is her story. She was born in a poor farmer's family in 1860. Her parents named her Anna Mary Robertson. She married Thomas Moses in 1887. He was a farm worker. Now it is 1930. Anna Mary Moses is 70, and is a grandmother. She begins to paint pictures. She does paintings of country life. One day, her daughter takes her paintings to a store in town. Her paintings are put in the window. A man from New York sees the paintings in the window and buys them. And he wants more! The man likes Grandma Moses' paintings. He wants to help her. So he takes her paintings to galleries in New York City. Otto Kallir has a famous gallery there. He likes the paintings by Grandma Moses. Now it is 1940 and Grandma Moses' paintings are in Kallir's gallery. She is 80 years old. Grandma Moses suddenly becomes famous. Everyone wants her paintings. So she paints more and more. She wins many prizes for her paintings. She becomes famous in the United States and Europe . When she is 100 years old, the State of New York makes her birthday "Grandma Moses' Day". After her 100thbirthday, she paints 6 more paintings. She dies at age 101 and a lot of people think she is amazing.
Answer the following questions:
1: what type of paintings does grandma moses paint?
2: who did she marry?
3: what was his job?
4: do most people rest when they are old?
5: what year did they marry?
6: are most people famous?
7: how old is Anna Mary Moses in 1930?
8: when was she born?
9: what was her maiden name?
10: where did her daughter take her paintings?
11: at what age does she die?
12: how many more paintings did she paint after turning 100
13: who bought the paintings?
14: did he like them?
15: where did he take her paintings?
16: who has a famous gallery there?
17: at what age were Grandma Moses' paintings in Kallier's gallery?
18: did it make her famous?
19: who wanted her paintings now?
20: did she paint more?
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