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(CNN) -- Han Han is China's rebel writer who has become the unofficial voice for his generation.
As a teenager the 27-year-old began writing novels about angst-ridden characters that proved tremendously popular with China's angsty youth.
But it is his blog that has propelled him to celebrity status in China and earned him the accolade as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2009.
He's been touted as mouthpiece for the "post-80's generation"; China's youth who have grown up during the country's economic boom and are often characterized as apolitical and consumer-obsessed.
Blogging about issues such as the Chinese government's handling of the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 and recent spate of school stabbings, Han Han is savvy enough to know the limits of what he can and can't write about.
"Even though the Chinese government has improved on the freedom of speech front in recent years, writing is still rather dangerous, so it's quite difficult to strike this balance," he told CNN.
"But I believe you still need to try despite these difficulties. The situation only improves when there are more people trying; if no one is trying, it only gets more and more difficult."
With boyish good-looks and a rebel's cred (he dropped out of high-school and races rally cars) he's become one of China's more popular and recognizable bloggers, where the Internet is an increasingly popular forum for self-expression.
For Jeremy Goldkorn, a China media commentator, Han's attitude combined with his writing helps strike a chord with millions of China's disaffected youth.
Answer the following questions:
1: who is a writer?
2: what type of writer is he?
3: can he write about anything?
4: how does he know what he cannot write about?
5: what does society think of him?
6: is he popular?
7: who is his target audience?
8: when did he begin writing?
9: did he complete school?
10: what does he write about?
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On 17 March 2003, Robin Cook, Leader of the House of Commons and former Foreign Secretary, resigned from the Cabinet in protest against the coming war in Iraq. His resignation speech inspired the first long applause in the history of the House and marked the end of the ministerial career of one of Labor's most brilliant politicians.
For the previous two years, Robin Cook kept a diary, a personal record of the life of Labor's second term, a diary that forms the center of the narrative . The Point of Departureis Robin Cook's plain account of this extraordinary period in our political history, the most important political publication of the decade. Though surprised by his abrupt dismissal as Foreign Secretary, he became determined to bring about some changes in Parliamentary democracy that he believed was essential if Parliament was to move into the 21stcentury. As Tony Blair told him, "This is the job for you."
Drawing on first-hand experiences in the Commons and the Cabinet, of encounters in conferences, and late night conversations, we follow his gathering disillusionment as the political compass of the government changes to directions which he believes to be completely mistaken: from its failure about Lords reform and its unwillingness to provide leadership for social change, to a foreign policy which has led us away from our responsibility in Europe, into closer relationship with the most right-wing government in American history, and participation in Bush's war on Iraq.
This is the story of a government in power and the tensions between those who govern. But above all it is a story of a politician who truly wanted to bring democracy closer to the people, but who saw a government increasingly separated from the values of himself and his party, and who developed a growing belief that on Iraq, its position was morally, diplomatically and politically wrong.
Robin Cook first entered Parliament as MP for Edinburgh Central in 1974. He held a number of senior positions in Opposition -- Shadow Foreign Secretary, Shadow Health and Social Services Secretary -- before becoming Foreign Secretary in 1997. In 2001 he was appointed Leader of the House of Commons, a position from which he resigned in March 2003 in protest against the coming war in Iraq.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who quit?
2: What did he quit?
3: where?
4: What country was he from?
5: What did he do in his last two years of being in the cabinet?
6: What was he protesting?
7: what did he believe?
8: What happened in the House when he spoke his resignation speech?
9: When did he start working for the Parliment
10: What did Tony Blair say?
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(CNN) -- Answers to the quiz are in bold.
1. What is the 5-digit number in which the first, third and last digits are the same, the first digit is four less than the second, the last is four less than the fourth and the second and fourth are the same? (Hint: The sum of all the digits is 33.) 59,595
2. Boris Smetana and Karl Smith were world-class chess champions. In one series of matches, each won every game. How? They were not playing each other
3. Nicole was sure she got the right answer when her botany teacher asked her to pick out the plant that was not a tree from the list below. Which one would you choose? Peach, plum, walnut, linden, banana Banana
4. Six bricklayers can lay 24 bricks in half an hour. How many bricks can 12 bricklayers lay in two hours? 192 (Each bricklayer lays four bricks in half an hour, or eight bricks in an hour. That is 16 bricks in two hours times 12 bricklayers who can lay 16 bricks each.)
5. What is the number that is one more than one-tenth of one-fifth of one-half of 4,000? 41. (4,000/2 = 2,000, /5=400,/10=40,+1=41)
6. In a pie-eating contest, Alice was neither first nor last, but she beat Evan. Ben beat Alice. Carol beat Dan who beat Ben. Who was last? Evan
7. What letter would logically complete the series below? A Z B Y C X D W E? V (There are two series: A to E forward and Z, Y, X, W backward)
Answer the following questions:
1: How do you tell the answers?
2: What is the sum?
3: how did nicole feel?
4: about what?
5: did she answer?
6: did she think it was right?
7: which plants were included?
8: did she have other questions?
9: How many bricklayers were there?
10: bricklayers?
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CHAPTER X.
A BOLD ATTEMPT.
During the next ten or eleven months poor Mrs. Trevennack had but one abiding terror--that a sudden access of irrepressible insanity might attack her husband before Cleer and Eustace could manage to get married. Trevennack, however, with unvarying tenderness, did his best in every way to calm her fears. Though no word on the subject passed between them directly, he let her feel with singular tact that he meant to keep himself under proper control. Whenever a dangerous topic cropped up in conversation, he would look across at her affectionately, with a reassuring smile. "For Cleer's sake," he murmured often, if she was close by his side; "for Cleer's sake, dearest!" and his wife, mutely grateful, knew at once what he meant, and smiled approval sadly.
Her heart was very full; her part was a hard one to play with fitting cheerfulness; but in his very madness itself she couldn't help loving, admiring, and respecting that strong, grave husband who fought so hard against his own profound convictions.
Ten months passed away, however, and Eustace Le Neve didn't seem to get much nearer any permanent appointment than ever. He began to tire at last of applying unsuccessfully for every passing vacancy. Now and then he got odd jobs, to be sure; but odd jobs won't do for a man to marry upon; and serious work seemed always to elude him. Walter Tyrrel did his best, no doubt, to hunt up all the directors of all the companies he knew; but no posts fell vacant on any line they were connected with. It grieved Walter to the heart, for he had always had the sincerest friendship for Eustace Le Neve; and now that Eustace was going to marry Cleer Trevennack, Walter felt himself doubly bound in honor to assist him. It was HE who had ruined the Trevennacks' hopes in life by his unintentional injury to their only son; the least he could do in return, he thought, and felt, was to make things as easy as possible for their daughter and her intended husband.
Answer the following questions:
1: who was afraid of something?
2: how long had she been worrying?
3: about what?
4: before what event?
5: who tried to make her feel better?
6: how?
7: what would he say?
8: what happened at the end of 10 months?
9: how often did he find work?
10: was that good enough?
11: what wasn't it good enough for?
12: who tried to help him find work?
13: what did he do?
14: why was he trying to help him?
15: how?
16: how could he make it up to them?
17: did any of his connections come through for him?
18: who did he have a close friendship with?
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Australian Flag Designs by Readers of the Sun-Herald We received dozens of responses after inviting readers to send in their designs for a new flag. The designs we received include: James Anthony, Drummoyne James reduces the Union Jack down in size and changes its shape to become a reminder of the British tradition rather than canceling it altogether. At the same time he suggests enlarging the stars of the Southern Cross. His design attempts to use the best of both worlds in a newly designed flag. As he says, "the British part of the Australian Flag is too big and the Australian bits are too small. When you make the stars bigger the Australian flag can look impressive." Joe Bollen, Turranmurra Joe's flag has the main elements of a risen sun, white horizon , red earth at the base and the Southern Cross. He intends to make the risen sun a special Australian symbol on the flag. He believes it represents life. The Southern Cross shows that we live in the Southern Hemisphere. Maria Ieraci, Sydney Maria deleted the Union Jack but otherwise kept the flag as is with the Southern Cross and Federation Star. She says, 'There is only one correct way to change the Australian flag" and that is "to drop the Union Jack ---- when Australia becomes a Republic", which she hopes will be before 2010. Ron Bennett, Sydney Ron recommends using the Aboriginal colors but replacing their image of the sun with the map of Australia. He says, "Australia is unique being an island continent with an instantly recognizable outline at that" and "this will leave no doubt as to which country the flag belongs."
Answer the following questions:
1: Which country is unique in being an island continent with a recognizable outline?
2: Who was invited to send in designs for a new flag?
3: Of what publication?
4: What happens when you make the stars of the flag bigger?
5: What does the Southern Cross show?
6: Who says there's only one way to change the Australian flag?
7: And what is that way?
8: When does she hope Australia will become a Republic?
9: Who thinks it would be a good idea to use the Aboriginal colors but replace the sun?
10: Whose design reduced the Union Jack size and changed its shape?
11: Why did he want to do that?
12: And what did he want to do to the stars?
13: What did he say about the British and Australian parts of the flag?
14: Whose flag has the risen sun, white horizon , red earth at the base?
15: What is another name for Joe Bollen?
16: Who is Syndey Ron really?
17: And Sydney Maria?
18: About how many design responses were received?
19: Who is Drummoyne James a nickname for?
20: And what is Joe Bollen's nickname?
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CHAPTER XXIV
DANNY MEADOW MOUSE WARNS PETER RABBIT
Good advice Is always needed But, alas! is seldom heeded, Peter Rabbit.
Danny Meadow Mouse waited until all the rest of Peter Rabbit's friends had left the Old Briar-patch after paying their respects to Peter and Mrs. Peter, He waited for two reasons, did Danny Meadow Mouse. In the first place, he had seen old Granny Fox and Reddy Fox hanging about a little way off, and though they had disappeared after a while, Danny had an idea that they were not far away, but were hiding so that they might catch him on his way home. Of course, he hadn't the slightest intention of giving them the chance. He had made up his mind to ask Peter if he might spend the night in a corner of the Old Briar-patch, and he was very sure that Peter would say he might, for he and Peter are very good friends, very good friends indeed.
The second good reason Danny had for waiting was this very friendship. You see, Peter had been away from the Green Meadows so long that Danny felt sure he couldn't know all about how things were there now, and so he wanted to warn Peter that the Green Meadows were not nearly as safe as before Old Man Coyote had come there to live. So Danny waited, and when all the rest of the callers had left he called Peter to one side where little Mrs. Peter couldn't hear. Danny stood up on his hind legs so as to whisper in one of Peter's ears.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was the first reason Danny waited?
2: Where did Peter Rabbit reside?
3: Had he seen Granny and Reddy Fox nearby?
4: Did he believe they were still nearby?
5: What did he think they were doing?
6: What did he decide not to do?
7: How would he accomplish that?
8: Did he think he probably could?
9: Why
10: Why was Danny at Peter's?
11: Of what?
12: Anything else?
13: What?
14: What did he wait for?
15: Why were the callers there?
16: To who?
17: What did he do when the callers were gone?
18: Who didn't he want to hear them?
19: How did Danny stand?
20: Why?
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Pitch is an auditory sensation in which a listener assigns musical tones to relative positions on a musical scale based primarily on their perception of the frequency of vibration. Pitch is closely related to frequency, but the two are not equivalent. Frequency is an objective, scientific attribute that can be measured. Pitch is each person's subjective perception of a sound, which cannot be directly measured. However, this does not necessarily mean that most people won't agree on which notes are higher and lower.
This creates a linear pitch space in which octaves have size 12, semitones (the distance between adjacent keys on the piano keyboard) have size 1, and A440 is assigned the number 69. (See Frequencies of notes.) Distance in this space corresponds to musical intervals as understood by musicians. An equal-tempered semitone is subdivided into 100 cents. The system is flexible enough to include "microtones" not found on standard piano keyboards. For example, the pitch halfway between C (60) and C♯ (61) can be labeled 60.5.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is pitch?
2: what is it related to?
3: What is pitch closely related to?
4: Are they equals?
5: Is frequency subjective?
6: What is it?
7: Then what is subjective?
8: Which one is scientific?
9: Can you measure pitch?
10: How about Frequency?
11: Do most agree on high and low notes?
12: What are semitones?
13: What is an equal tempered semitone?
14: is it flexible?
15: to include what?
16: Are they found on a piano?
17: What does a listener assigh to tones?
18: which is based primarly on what?
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The German Empire (, officially ') was the German nation state that existed from the Unification of Germany in 1871 until the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918.
It was founded in 1871 when Wilhelm I, King of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty was proclaimed the German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. Berlin became its capital with the Berlin Palace being the Emperor's official residence. Its constitution entered into force, and Otto von Bismarck became the first Chancellor. As these events occurred, the Prussian-led North German Confederation and its southern German allies were still engaged in the Franco-Prussian War. The state was founded with a notable exclusion of Austria and, as such, represented the Lesser German solution ("Kleindeutsche Lösung").
The German Empire consisted of 26 constituent territories, with most being ruled by royal families. This included four kingdoms, six grand duchies, five duchies (six before 1876), seven principalities, three free Hanseatic cities, and one imperial territory. Although Prussia became one of several kingdoms in the new realm, it contained most of its population and territory, thus remaining a powerhouse with a major say in imperial affairs. Its influence also helped define modern German culture.
Answer the following questions:
1: When was it founded?
2: How many territories does it consist of?
3: When was it founded?
4: by whom?
5: How many Kingdoms were there?
6: Were most territories ruled by the people?
7: Who were they ruled by?
8: How many imperial territories were there?
9: What was it's capital?
10: When did the German Empire exist?
11: What happened in 1918?
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Grace wants to play Frisbee. She goes to her store to buy a Frisbee. She picks out a red Frisbee. It is small enough to fit in her hand. It costs 75 cents. She buys it. She leaves the store. When Grace gets home, she has no one to play with. She looks for her friend Susan. Susan is not at home. She looks for her friend Jeff. Jeff is not allowed to go outside. Grace finds a dog named Ginger. Ginger loves to play frisbee. Grace tosses the frisbee to Ginger. Ginger catches it in her mouth. Ginger brings the frisbee back to Grace. Grace tosses the frisbee again. Ginger jumps up in the air and catches it. Grace throws the Frisbee one more time. The Frisbee lands in a tree. Grace is too short to reach the Frisbee. Grace pets Ginger and tells her that she is a good girl. Grace takes Ginger home. They eat cookies. The next day, they come back to the park. They get their Frisbee back. They play again.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did Grace buy?
2: for how much?
3: was it big?
4: What color was the frisbee?
5: Did anyone play frisbee with her?
6: who?
7: Did she try to play with anyone else?
8: Who?
9: Why didn't she play with Susan?
10: and Jeff?
11: Did she like playing with Ginger?
12: Was ginger good at playing frisbee?
13: Did they do anything else together?
14: Do they play frisbee again?
15: when?
16: did something happen to the frisbee?
17: how?
18: where did grace take ginger?
19: is ginger a person?
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Jack was a pumpkin farmer. He lived in a big house on the edge of a town and grew the largest Pumpkin farm around the town. Jack's pumpkins were famous , for they always had the perfect shape and never rotted ( ) until well after Halloween . Every year around Halloween , people came from all over the town to buy his pumpkins to make their jack-o-lanterns ( ) One year, Jack was thinking about his pumpkin harvest ( ) of the year when his good friend Pete came to visit him. I have some bad news , Jack ," Pete said. "What is it ? " Jack asked . a little worried. The town decided not to have Halloween this year! They said there was simply no reason for it and they didn't have time to celebrate it because many other holidays were coming up soon . Peter told him. He knew this was very bad news for jack. Jack became very sad and lowered ( ) his head . "What can I do now , Peter?" I have all these beautiful pumpkins and I can't keep them until next Halloween ." Peter replied, " Well , there are always pumpkin pies and pumpkin bread for other holidays." Jack was worried and said, "I sell most of my pumpkins for the Halloween . I can only sell a few pumpkins during the rest of the year. And Pete, it's not so much about the money . I live a simple life out here in the country and I don't need much money . But I feel happy every year when thousands of people get my pumpkins and take them and make them into beautiful jack-o-lanterns. Now all these pumpkins will be useless because people won't make jack-o-lanterns this year. oh, this is very bad news ." Jack began to weep . large tears ran down his face.
Answer the following questions:
1: Why was Jack sad?
2: How did he express his sadness?
3: Who was Jack?
4: Did he live in a small house?
5: Who was Jack's friend?
6: Were Jack's pumpkins special?
7: why?
8: Did Jack have a lot of expenses?
9: Why did the town decide not to have Halloween?
10: and?
11: Can Jack make up for his lost pumpkin sales?
12: Does Jack grow many pumpkins?
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CHAPTER XXV
The defence.
Intense excitement, which found vent in loud applause, greeted Déroulède's statement.
"_Ça ira! ça ira! vas-y Déroulède!_" came from the crowded benches round; and men, women, and children, wearied with the monotony of the past proceedings, settled themselves down for a quarter of an hour's keen enjoyment.
If Déroulède had anything to do with it, the trial was sure to end in excitement. And the people were always ready to listen to their special favourite.
The citizen-deputies, drowsy after the long, oppressive day, seemed to rouse themselves to renewed interest. Lebrun, like a big, shaggy dog, shook himself free from creeping somnolence. Robespierre smiled between his thin lips, and looked across at Merlin to see how the situation affected him. The enmity between the Minister of Justice and Citizen Déroulède was well known, and everyone noted, with added zest, that the former wore a keen look of anticipated triumph.
High up, on one of the topmost benches, sat Citizen Lenoir, the stage-manager of this palpitating drama. He looked down, with obvious satisfaction, at the scene which he himself had suggested last night to the members of the Jacobin Club. Merlin's sharp eyes had tried to pierce the gloom, which wrapped the crowd of spectators, searching vainly to distinguish the broad figure and massive head of the provincial giant.
The light from the petrol lamp shone full on Déroulède's earnest, dark countenance as he looked Juliette's infamous accuser full in the face, but the tallow candles, flickering weirdly on the President's desk, threw Tinville's short, spare figure and large, unkempt head into curious grotesque silhouette.
Answer the following questions:
1: who were sat on the benches?
2: what had tired them out?
3: what were they now expecting?
4: for how long?
5: Where was Citizen Lenoir?
6: in a chair?
7: what on?
8: was he somehow responsible?
9: what had he done to make it happen?
10: Did Robespierre and Deroulede get on?
11: who was expecting to win?
12: who had to shake himself awake
13: which club had Lenoir been talking to?
14: was the room lit by candles?
15: was it electric lights?
16: what light shone on Deroulede?
17: Does he have a pale face?
18: did he look carefree?
19: how did he look?
20: who accused Juliette?
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(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal fired an ominous warning that he is ready to reclaim his French Open crown from Roger Federer after picking up a record-equaling sixth consecutive Monte Carlo Masters title on Sunday.
The world No. 3 earned his first tournament success in 11 months as he routed fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-0 6-1 to complete a triumphant return to his favored clay surface.
The 23-year-old has had a difficult past year after his shock defeat at the French Open to eventual losing finalist Robin Soderling, with Federer earning his first win at Roland Garros.
Nadal needed surgery on his knees after that setback, and his hiatus allowed Federer to take both his Wimbledon title and the No. 1 ranking.
The Mallorcan reached the semifinals in his past two tournaments on hardcourts surfaces in the United States, and blitzed his opponents in Monaco as three times he dropped only one game in a match.
"For me, it is very emotional," Nadal, who equaled the 106-year-old record of six Monte Carlo titles held by Englishman Reggie Doherty, told the ATP Tour Web site.
"It is probably my favorite tournament. I love this tournament. To win here another time is a dream for me. The atmosphere here is unbelievable. I feel like I'm at home.
"No one match during seven years have I felt the crowd against me. I just can say thank you very much everybody."
Nadal's only defeat at the tournament was against Guillermo Coria as a 16-year-old in 2003, and world No. 12 Verdasco never looked like registering his first win over his compatriot in 10 encounters.
Answer the following questions:
1: who is the story about?
2: what is his age?
3: what is his raking?
4: who hold the top rank?
5: what is the Number 1's first name?
6: was Rafael injured at some point?
7: what was malfunctioning?
8: was the issue resolved?
9: how?
10: does he like one type of court?
11: which type?
12: did he do something consecutively?
13: what?
14: how many times?
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(CNN) -- Before the Arab Spring came the Damascus Spring. When Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father Hafez Assad in 2000, there was the promise of a modern and more democratic Syria.
In his inauguration speech, al-Assad indicated he would be a very different kind of leader to his father. "I shall try my very best to lead our country towards a future that fulfils the hopes and legitimate ambitions of our people," he said.
And for a while that promise was kept. His official website says he has built free-trade zones, licensed more private newspapers and private universities, and fought government waste and corruption. He has also worked on social and economic reform.
But while there have been some changes during his rule, many say al-Assad's promises have largely not been delivered.
Human Rights Watch has called his time as president "the wasted decade" with a media that remains controlled by the state, a monitored and censored internet and prisons still filled with dissidents.
Two former regime insiders -- now its opponents -- recalled their time with the younger al-Assad. Former vice president Abdel Halim Khaddam said Bashar was often the victim of his elder brother's cruelty. "His brother Basil bullied him as a child. His father never gave him as much attention as Basil," Khaddam said.
Al-Assad's uncle Rifaat, who left Syria in 1984 after being involved in a failed coup, also recalled the future president.
"He is very different than his father. Hafez was a leader, the head of the entire regime, while Bashar was never that close to being one and never fell within that framework. He is being perceived as the leader but he follows what the regime decides on his behalf."
Answer the following questions:
1: What came before the Arab Spring?
2: Who succeeded his father?
3: Who was his father?
4: When?
5: Was there a promise?
6: of what?
7: What does his website say he built?
8: Anything else?
9: What kind of reform has he worked on?
10: Have there been changes under his rule?
11: Has he delivered on his promise?
12: What did a group call his time as president?
13: Who said that
14: who is Abdel Halim Khaddam?
15: Who is Basil?
16: Who is Rifaat?
17: When did he leave Syria?
18: Why?
19: Did he say Bashar was different than his father?
20: Does he think Bashar is a leader?
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(CNN) -- Serena Williams underlined her status as the overwhelming favorite for the women's U.S. Open title with a crushing "double bagel" win over Carla Suarez Navarro in the quarterfinals of the New York grand slam.
The defending champion, bidding for a fifth singles triumph at Flushing Meadows, beat the Spanish world No. 20 6-0 6-0 to become the first woman since Martina Navratilova in 1989 to win a women's U.S. Open quarterfinal without losing a game.
"I played well -- I played really well," world No. 1 Williams told the WTA's official website. "I was just more focused than anything.
"I like to believe there is always room for improvement though. I haven't really thought about it yet, but off the bat, I think it was very difficult to hit a big serve today because of the winds, and I didn't get my serve up as much as I wanted to. But I don't know. I do think I definitely played well tonight."
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The American's latest commanding win means she has lost just 13 games at the tournament ahead of her semifinal meeting with Li Na, who is appearing in the last four of the year's final grand slam for the first time after beating Russia's Ekaterina Makarova.
"I'm still in the tournament and I'm not thinking like, 'I'm really dominant now'," added Williams. "I'm thinking I have a really tough match in the next round and want to do well."
Earlier in the day second seed Victoria Azarenka, beaten by Williams in the 2012 final, won her delayed fourth round match against former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic.
Answer the following questions:
1: What sport is this article about?
2: What male player is mentioned?
3: Who is the article mostly about?
4: Is she an underdog in the upcoming event?
5: What is the name of the tournament?
6: Who won it last year?
7: What city is it in?
8: What did Williams say after the match?
9: Who was she talking to?
10: Did she play as good as she is capable of playing?
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Serbia and Montenegro ( (SCG) / Србија и Црна Гора (СЦГ)), officially the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro ("Državna Zajednica Srbija i Crna Gora" (DZSCG) / Државна Заједница Србија и Црна Гора (ДЗСЦГ)), was a country in Southeast Europe, created from the two remaining republics of Yugoslavia after its breakup in 1992. The republics of Serbia and Montenegro together established a federation in 1992 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY or FR Yugoslavia; "Savezna Republika Jugoslavija (SFR" or "SR Jugoslavija)" / Савезна Република Југославија (СРЈ or СР Југославија)).
The FRY aspired to be a sole legal successor to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, but those claims were opposed by other former republics. The United Nations also denied its request to automatically continue the membership of the former state. Eventually, after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević from power as president of the federation in 2000, the country rescinded those aspirations and accepted the opinion of the Badinter Arbitration Committee about shared succession. It re-applied for UN membership on 27 October and was admitted on 1 November 2000.
The FRY was initially dominated by Slobodan Milošević as President of Serbia (1989–1997) and then President of Yugoslavia (1997–2000). Milošević installed and forced the removal of several federal presidents (such as Dobrica Ćosić) and prime ministers (such as Milan Panić). However, the Montenegrin government, initially enthusiastic supporters of Milošević, started gradually distancing themselves from his policies. That culminated in regime change in 1996, when his former ally Milo Đukanović reversed his policies, became leader of Montenegro's ruling party and subsequently dismissed former Montenegrin leader Momir Bulatović, who remained loyal to the Milošević government. As Bulatović was given central positions in Belgrade from that time (as federal Prime Minister), Đukanović continued to govern Montenegro and further isolated it from Serbia, so that from 1996 to 2006, Montenegro and Serbia were only nominally one country—governance at every feasible level was conducted locally (Belgrade for Serbia and Podgorica for Montenegro).
Answer the following questions:
1: When did Yugoslavia disband?
2: What did Serbia and Montenegro become?
3: Are they sometimes called FRY?
4: Who was the first to dominate the FRY?
5: What country did he serve in 1989?
6: As what?
7: Until when?
8: Where did he start serving then?
9: As what?
10: For how many years?
11: What was his last year?
12: Did the Montenegrin government remain supportive of him?
13: What did the FRY was to be to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugslavia?
14: Did the whole world agree?
15: Who didn't?
16: Did they ask the UN to continue the membership?
17: What did the UN do?
18: How did Milosevic leave his presidency in 2000?
19: When were they put back into the UN?
20: When did they put in their application?
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Face-book chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and Anna Maria Chavez, chief of American Girl Scouts, are leading a campaign to discourage the use of the word "bossy". Does the term destroy the confidence of young girls?
The campaign claims that terms like "bossy" are improperly applied to females, preventing schoolgirls from seeing themselves as future "leaders". From its first application, the word has been definitely connected more with women than with men. It first appeared in 1882, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, mentioning "a lady manager who was extremely bossy". As late as 2008, the word appeared in reference to females four times more often than males, claim the Ban Bossy campaigners. "To me, the reference is always is association with women," says Helen Trim, director of Fresh Minds. "I have three brothers and my family still call me 'bossy' today." Her father is the only other family member who could be considered in that way, says Trim, but nobody would ever call him so.
Some educators recommend that the word should be reclaimed, rather than banned."But the thing with'bossy' is that there's an infantile element to it,"says Sara Mills, professor at Sheffield University. "You think of 'bossy' as being like a little kid who's claiming more than he has the right to claim."
It's not just"bossy"under fire."Pushy"is another target. The implication is that women shouldn't present themselves as powerful and confident. Mills suggests, which some women are willing to listen to and accept. Trim points out that many modern female business role models are able to be bosses without being labeled'bossy'.And she rarely,if ever, hears the word used within her company. But she says that the damage may be dome much earlier in a woman's life."It does come about from those early teenage years."she says."I think it's impossible to ban a word, but if people are replacing it with words like'confidence'or'assertiveness',we would all be in a much better place."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who are the two chiefs mentioned?
2: What is the firsts title?
3: and the second?
4: What are they doing?
5: about what?
6: why?
7: how does it do this?
8: when did it first appear?
9: what does it mean?
10: where is this definition?
11: Is this the only harmful word?
12: what else?
13: What do these words imply?
14: What do some educators believe?
15: Are all lady bosses bossy?
16: What could it be replaced with?
17: or?
18: Who suggests this?
19: who is she?
20: where?
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On a sunny morning, children in Ganale stood in front of their new school and expressed their thanks to Tina Charles. Tina Charles, a woman member of the WNBA, plays for the women's basketball team of America. She understands the importance of education and of giving back to others. So the WNBA star made sure to support a school in an African village when she heard about the chance to give money to it. Charles first knew about the chance while she was in a college. But she didn't have the money to help out at that time. After she played for the WNBA, she made much money. With the help of charitable organizations , Charles donated $32,000 to the school. Charles did the charity work while playing basketball and getting ready for the London Olympics. She played for the team that had won the gold medal in the last four Olympic Games. And they got the fith gold medal in London. Charles always works hard on both working for the country in the Olympic Games and giving back to others."The more I give, the more happiness I get."she said.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where were the kids standing?
2: In what city?
3: Who did they want to recognize?
4: Is she an athlete?
5: What sport does she play?
6: Does she belong to a league?
7: Which one?
8: Has she ever gotten to play in the Olympics?
9: The Olympics in what city?
10: Did her team win a medal?
11: What was Charles' contribution to the school?
12: Is the school in America?
13: Where is it?
14: Is it in a big city there?
15: Did Charles go to college?
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CHAPTER VI
CAPTAIN PUTNAM INVESTIGATES
"Reff Ritter has been knocked out!"
"My, what blows they were!"
"Well, he brought it on himself," said Pepper.
"That's what," added Fred. "He struck Jack after Jack told him he didn't believe in fighting."
"He couldn't save himself because he was too close to the wooden horse," came from Coulter, who felt bound to stick up for his crony. "It wasn't fair to run him up against the horse."
"Coulter, a poor excuse is worse than none," answered Dale.
"Ritter was knocked out fair and square," came from Bart Connors.
While the talking was going on, Paxton had rushed off for water. Now he returned with a pailful and a sponge, and commenced to bathe the fallen one's face. Ritter soon opened his eyes and gave a groan.
"Le--let me al--alone," he muttered.
"Get up, Reff," said Paxton. "Go for him again."
"I--I can't," mumbled the bully, and now it was seen that two of his front teeth were loose. He stared around in a helpless fashion. Paxton put some more water on his face.
"Has he had enough?" demanded Jack, stepping up.
"You go away," answered Coulter, surlily.
"You wouldn't hit him when he's down, would you?" snapped Paxton.
"I asked you if he had enough. If he has, I'm going for a sail."
"I'll--I'll finish this some other time," mumbled Ritter, as he glared at the young major.
"No, Ritter, you'll finish it now if you finish it at all," answered Jack, coldly. "You started this fight, and now you must take the consequences. Get up, if you want to go at it again."
Answer the following questions:
1: who is the bully
2: (yes) who was he fighting
3: was he eager to fight
4: why
5: did it turn out well for the jerk
6: how did things turn bad for him
7: who first commented on that
8: what did she think about it
9: how many people immediately disagreed
10: who left for supplies
11: what did he grab
12: what did he do with that
13: did the instigator feel like staying for the whole conflict
14: and the victim?
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The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is a research university located in San Francisco, California and part of the University of California system. The university is entirely dedicated to health sciences and is a major center of medical and biological research and teaching, and is ranked as one of the top universities in the biomedical field in the country and around the world. It was founded as Toland Medical College in 1864, and in 1873 it became affiliated with the University of California. The UCSF School of Medicine is the oldest medical school in the Western United States.
The UCSF School of Medicine is one of the most selective medical schools in the United States based on average MCAT score, GPA, and acceptance rate. In 2017, 8,078 people applied and 505 were interviewed for 145 positions in the entering class. UCSF is ranked 3rd among research-oriented medical schools in the United States and ranked 3rd for primary care by "U.S. News and World Report," making it the only medical school to achieve a top-5 ranking in both categories. UCSF is currently ranked 3rd among medical schools in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Clinical Medicine, 2016).
The UCSF Medical Center is the nation's 5th-ranked hospital and 1st-ranked hospital in California according to "U.S. News & World Report". In 2014, a national evaluation of residency programs named UCSF and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine the top two physician training institutions in the United States. With 25,398 employees, UCSF is the second largest employer in San Francisco.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the college dedicated to?
2: What is the abreviation for the school?
3: IS it difficult to get accepted to the school?
4: How many student spots were open in 2017?
5: did many apply?
6: how many?
7: were all interviewed?
8: when was it founded?
9: what was its name?
10: what happened in 1873?
11: It is ranked the top university in what?
12: just in the state?
13: Who ranked the university 3rd for primary care?
14: which made it what?
15: what did the Academic Ranking of World Universiies rank it as?
16: in the us?
17: when?
18: does the school have a medical center?
19: how many people work there?
20: is it a large employer?
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MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open data music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD (compact disc) information on the Internet. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a compact disc metadata (this is information about the performers, artists, songwriters, etc.) storehouse to become a structured open online database for music.
MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their recorded works, and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and the length of each track. These entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written . Recorded works can also store information about the release date and country, the CD ID, cover art, acoustic fingerprint, free-form annotation text and other metadata. , MusicBrainz contained information about roughly 1.1 million artists, 1.6 million releases, and 16 million recordings. End-users can use software that communicates with MusicBrainz to add metadata tags to their digital media files, such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis or AAC.
MusicBrainz allows contributors to upload cover art images of releases to the database; these images are hosted by Cover Art Archive (CAA), a joint project between Internet Archive and MusicBrainz started in 2012. Internet Archive provides the bandwidth, storage and legal protection for hosting the images, while MusicBrainz stores metadata and provides public access through the web and via an API for third parties to use. As with other contributions, the MusicBrainz community is in charge for maintaining and reviewing the data. Cover art is also provided for items on sale at Amazon.com and some other online resources, but CAA is now preferred because it gives the community more control and flexibility for managing the images.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is CAA?
2: What do they host?
3: Who lets this happen?
4: Who lets images get uploaded?
5: Is this a singular project?
6: Who are the partners?
7: When did they start?
8: What is an attempt to start an open music database?
9: Is there anything like it?
10: How many musicians are involved?
11: And how many releases?
12: And recordings?
13: Can users add tags?
14: What kind?
15: To what?
16: Is cover art available for sale?
17: Where?
18: Anywhere else?
19: Why do people prefer it?
20: What is CDDB?
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CHAPTER II
MARSHALL HANEY CHANGES HEART
It was well for Haney that Bertie did not see him as he sat above his gambling boards, watchful, keen-eyed, grim of visage, for she would have trembled in fear of him. "Haney's" was both saloon and gambling hall. In the front, on the right, ran the long bar with its shining brass and polished mahogany (he prided himself on having the best bar west of Denver), and in the rear, occupying both sides of the room, stood two long rows of faro and roulette outfits, together with card-tables and dice-boards. It was the largest and most prosperous gambling hall in the camps, and always of an evening was crowded with gamesters and those who came as lookers-on.
On the right side, in a raised seat about midway of the hall, Haney usually sat, a handsome figure, in broad white hat, immaculate linen, and well-cut frock-coat, his face as pale as that of a priest in the glare of the big electric light. On the other side, and directly opposite, Williams kept corresponding "lookout" over the dealers and the crowd. He was a bold man who attempted any shenanigan with Mart Haney, and the games of his halls were reported honest.
To think of a young and innocent girl married to this remorseless gambler, scarred with the gun and the knife, was a profanation of maidenhood--and yet, as he fell now and then into a dream, he took on a kind of savage beauty which might allure and destroy a woman. Whatever else he was, he was neither commonplace nor mean. The visitors to whom he was pointed out as "a type of our modern Western desperado" invariably acknowledged that he looked the part. His smile was of singular sweetness--all the more alluring because of its rarity--and the warm clasp of his big, soft hand had made him sheriff in San Juan County, and his bravery and his love of fair play were well known and admired among the miners.
Answer the following questions:
1: what chapter is thi?s
2: what is the name of the chapter?
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Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (CNN) -- He escaped the war, but life's no happier now for Omar. The 8-year-old Syrian refugee longs for friends back in Qusayr, hard hit by a civil war that grinds on. He also misses days in school -- when the most he had to worry about was finishing his homework.
"I work so I can bring money for my family," says Omar. His mother, like other refugees, asked that their last names not be used as they are worried for their safety.
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I met Omar on a hot, dusty day in Lebanon's wind-swept Bekaa Valley. We were interviewing his mother when Omar and his 14-year-old brother came zooming by on a motorbike. They had just finished gathering eggs at a nearby farm -- what little money the kids make is the only way their family is able to survive.
The job is hard, but Omar went through an even more difficult experience recently.
"They hit us," he says timidly, describing how Lebanese boys his age beat him up.
"They said to me," he adds, embarrassed and close to tears, " 'Damn every Syrian.' "
Omar now faces a different kind of brutality -- a harsh reality reflected in the weary faces of kids all around. Their eyes make them seem far older. There's no childhood spark, with smiles few and far between.
I ask a 15-year-old girl what life's been like for her here.
"Life?" She asks unbelievingly -- as if the question were a farce.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is the boy in this story?
2: How old is he?
3: Where is he from?
4: Which is in what country?
5: Does he still live there?
6: Why not
7: Where does he live now?
8: In what area?
9: Does he go to school there?
10: Why not?
11: Why?
12: Does he have any siblings?
13: How many?
14: Is it a sister or a brother?
15: What is their job?
16: Where?
17: What were they riding?
18: Is Omar bullied?
19: By whom?
20: What's Omar's last name?
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CHAPTER II
ABOUT THE PAST
"Did you get any more particulars?" asked Sam, of the college poet.
"No. The newspaper man was busy, so the Doctor said, and didn't have time to go into details," answered Songbird.
"Did he say who the other prisoners were who got away?" asked Dick.
"Yes, a tramp who was up for robbing a man on the road and a bank clerk who took some money from the bank."
"None of the crowd we are interested in," said Tom.
"I'm glad of it," returned his older brother. "It is bad enough for Crabtree to get away. I hope they keep a strict guard over the others after this."
"Oh, they will, rest assured of that," came from Stanley Browne. "The head jailer will get a raking over the coals for this, mark my words."
"The Stanhopes and the Lanings will be sorry to learn that Crabtree got away," said Sam. "I wonder if they aren't searching for him," mused Sam.
"Oh, they'll search for all of them," put in Songbird. "I think the newspaper man said the sheriff had a posse out."
"Too bad!" said Dick, shaking his head gravely. "And just when we felt sure old Crabtree wouldn't be able to give us any more trouble!"
"It beats the nation, what that man can do!" cried Sam. "Maybe be hypnotized one of the jailers-- just as he hypnotized Mrs. Stanhope years ago.
"He'd be equal to it-- if he got the chance," answered Tom; and then all of the students had to go in to their classes.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was Sam asking about?
2: Who was Sam talking to?
3: Was she able to get any more info?
4: What were they talking about?
5: Where did she get her info?
6: Who escaped from the prison?
7: Did the friends care about these people?
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CHAPTER XI
"My dears," Lady Amesbury said, as she stood surrounded by her guests on the hearth rug of her drawing-room, "you know what my Sunday night dinner parties are--all sorts and plenty of them, and never a dull man or a plain woman if I can help it. To-night I've got a new man. He's not much to look at, but they tell me he's a multimillionaire and making all the poor people of the country miserable. He's doing something about making bread dearer. I never did understand these things."
"Heavens, you don't mean Peter Phipps!" Sarah exclaimed.
"His very name," her aunt declared. "How did you guess it, my dear? Here he is. Be quiet, all of you, and watch Grover announce him. He's such a snob--Grover. He hates a Mister, anyhow, and 'Peter Phipps' will dislocate his tongue."
Lady Amesbury was disappointed. Grover had marched with the times, and the presence of a millionaire made itself felt. His announcement was sonorous and respectful. Mr. Peter Phipps made his bow to his hostess under completely auspicious circumstances.
"So kind of you not to forget, Mr. Phipps," she murmured. "My Sunday parties are always _viva voce_ invitations, and what between not remembering whom I've asked, and not knowing whether those I've asked will remember, I generally find it horribly difficult to arrange the places. We are all right tonight, though. Only two missing. Who are they, Sarah?"
"Josephine and Mr. Wingate," Sarah replied, with a covert glance at Phipps.
"Of course! And thank goodness, here they are! Together, too! If there's anything I love, it's to start one of my dinners with a scandal. Josephine, did you bring Mr. Wingate or did he bring you?"
Answer the following questions:
1: Who addressed the crowd?
2: Where were they?
3: On what night were they meeting?
4: Who was normally not invited to her parties?
5: Who was the new guest?
6: Was he handsome?
7: Why was he invited, then?
8: Who is shocked by the announcement?
9: Is she related to Lady Amesbury?
10: Did she seem happy to hear Peter was coming?
11: Who announced his arrival?
12: How did Lady Amesbury describe him?
13: Was his introduction rude?
14: How did Peter greet Lady Amesbury?
15: Which two guests arrived together?
16: Was Lady Amesbury excited to see them?
17: Why?
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Oceania ( or ) is a geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia. Spanning the eastern and western hemispheres, Oceania covers an area of and has a population of 40 million. Oceania is the smallest continental grouping in land area and the second smallest in population after Antarctica.
The islands at the geographic extremes of Oceania are Bonin Islands, a politically integral part of Japan; Hawaii, a state of the United States; Clipperton Island, a possession of France; the Juan Fernández Islands, belonging to Chile; the Campbell Islands, belonging to New Zealand; and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, belonging to Australia. Oceania has a diverse mix of economies from the highly developed and globally competitive financial market of Australia and New Zealand, which rank high in quality of life and human development index, to the much less developed economies that belong to countries such as of Kiribati and Tuvalu. The largest and most populous country in Oceania is Australia, with Sydney being the largest city of both Oceania and Australia.
The first settlers of Australia, New Guinea, and the large islands just to the east arrived between 50,000 and 30,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still roamed. Oceania was first explored by Europeans from the 16th century onward. Portuguese navigators, between 1512 and 1526, reached the Tanimbar Islands, some of the Caroline Islands and west Papua New Guinea. On his first voyage in the 18th century, James Cook, who later founded the Hawaiian Islands, went to Tahiti and followed the east coast of Australia for the first time. The Pacific front saw major action during the Second World War, mainly between the belligerents United States, its ally Australia, and Japan.
Answer the following questions:
1: what is the largest country in Oceania?
2: who first reached the Tanimbar Islands?
3: in what years?
4: what main areas make up Oceania?
5: what is the approximate population of the area?
6: who do the Campbell Islands belong to?
7: and Clipperton Island?
8: what about the Bonn Islands?
9: who ranks highly in quality of life?
10: when did the first settlers arrive to Australia and New Guinea?
11: where Neanderthals still alive then?
12: what did James cook find?
13: what else did he do?
14: did the pacific front see minor action during WWII?
15: between who?
16: who were the belligerents?
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CHAPTER XVI
JAKE GETS INTO DIFFICULTIES
Day was breaking, though it was still dark at the foot of the range, when Dick returned wearily to his iron shack after a night's work at the dam. There had been a local subsidence of the foundations on the previous afternoon, and he could not leave the spot until precautions had been taken to prevent the danger spreading. Bethune came with him to look at some plans, and on entering the veranda they were surprised to find the house well lighted and smears of mud and water upon the floor.
"Looks as if a bathing party had been walking round the shack, and your boy had tried to clean up when he was half-asleep," Bethune said.
Dick called his colored servant and asked him: "Why are all the lights burning, and what's this mess?"
"Señor Fuller say he no could see the chairs."
"Why did he want to see them?"
"He fall on one, señor; t'row it wit' mucha force and fall on it again. Say dozenas of _malditos sillas_. If he fall other time, he kill my head."
"Ah!" said Dick sharply. "Where is he now?"
"He go in your bed, señor."
"What has happened is pretty obvious," Bethune remarked. "Fuller came home with a big jag on and scared this fellow. We'd better see if he's all right."
Dick took him into his bedroom and the negro followed. The room was very hot and filled with a rank smell of kerosene, for the lamp was smoking and the negro explained that Jake had threatened him with violence if he turned it down. The lad lay with a flushed face on Dick's bed; his muddy boots sticking out from under the crumpled coverlet. He seemed to be fully dressed and his wet clothes were smeared with foul green slime. There was a big red lump on his forehead.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was smeared upon the floor of the house?
2: What did the was the rank smell in the room?
3: What objects foundations were in a state of disrepare?
4: What time of day was it?
5: Who is the name of the person who threatened someone with violence?
6: what were the injured mans clothes smeared with?
7: Where the boots of the lad clean?
8: Did fuller scare the fellow apparently?
9: what tiime of day did one of the characters work at the dam?
10: Could senor fuller see any chairs?
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New York (CNN) -- A self-described "ex-madam" who claims she supplied fellow city comptroller candidate Eliot Spitzer with escorts several years ago is facing charges of illegally distributing prescription drugs, authorities said.
Kristin Davis, 38, was arrested on Monday night and charged with selling Adderall, Xanax and other drugs. She's also accused of orchestrating the sale of approximately 180 oxycodone pills for cash.
The candidate was released Tuesday on $100,000 bail, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for September 5. Prosecutors said she will have strict pretrial supervision.
"Prescription drug abuse is the fastest-growing drug problem in this country, resulting in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, and this office has a zero tolerance policy towards anyone who helps to spread this plague at any level," Preet Bharara, Manhattan U.S. Attorney, said in a statement.
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Davis is charged with four counts of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance. She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each count, if convicted.
Prosecutors allege that from 2009 through 2011 Davis bought ecstasy pills, Adderall pills and Xanax pills from an FBI cooperating witness at least once a month, paying hundreds of dollars for each purchase. She told the witness she provided these drugs to people at house parties, authorities say.
An attorney for Davis was could not be immediately reached for comment.
Davis' campaign manager, Andrew Miller, said he was aware of the arrest but couldn't provide any information.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was arrested?
2: How old is she?
3: What was she charged with?
4: Anything specific?
5: What else is she accused of?
6: How many?
7: What day was she released?
8: How much was her bail?
9: What is the fastest growing drug problem?
10: What has it resulted in?
11: Who said that?
12: Who is he?
13: What sentence will Davis face if she is found guilty?
14: When was the hearing scheduled?
15: What day was she arrested?
16: What do prosecutors allege?
17: What kind of pills?
18: How often?
19: Who did she give them to?
20: Did her attorney give a comment?
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The Bilateria or bilaterians, or triploblasts, are animals with bilateral symmetry, i.e., they have a head ("anterior") and a tail ("posterior") as well as a back ("dorsal") and a belly ("ventral"); therefore they also have a left side and a right side. In contrast, radially symmetrical animals like jellyfish have a topside and a downside, but no identifiable front or back.
The bilateria are a major group of animals, including the majority of phyla but not sponges, cnidarians, placozoans and ctenophores. For the most part, bilateral embryos are triploblastic, having three germ layers: endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm. Nearly all are bilaterally symmetrical, or approximately so; the most notable exception is the echinoderms, which achieve near-radial symmetry as adults, but are bilaterally symmetrical as larvae.
Except for a few phyla (i.e. flatworms and gnathostomulids), bilaterians have complete digestive tracts with a separate mouth and anus. Some bilaterians lack body cavities (acoelomates, i.e. Platyhelminthes, Gastrotricha and Gnathostomulida), while others display primary body cavities (deriving from the blastocoel, as pseudocoel) or secondary cavities (that appear "de novo", for example the coelom).
The hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all bilateria is termed the "Urbilaterian". The nature of the first bilaterian is a matter of debate. One side suggests that acoelomates gave rise to the other groups (planuloid-aceloid hypothesis by Graff, Metchnikoff, Hyman, or ), while the other poses that the first bilaterian was a coelomate organism and the main acoelomate phyla (flatworms and gastrotrichs) have lost body cavities secondarily (the Archicoelomata hypothesis and its variations such as the Gastrea by Haeckel or Sedgwick, the Bilaterosgastrea by Gösta Jägersten , or the Trochaea by Nielsen).
Answer the following questions:
1: what is this article about?
2: are they considered animals?
3: are sponges part of them?
4: what else are they called?
5: or?
6: what is the scientific name for the tail?
7: what about belly?
8: do they have a head?
9: what is the other word for head?
10: do all of them have a separate mouth and anus?
11: what has germ layers?
12: how many layers?
13: please name them
14: what is the most recent ancestor called?
15: is there anything that doesn't have a front or back?
16: what?
17: what do they have?
18: give me examples of phyla please.
19: do they have a digestive tract?
20: are all the bilateria bilaterally symmetrical?
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Following a referendum in 1997, in which the Scottish electorate voted for devolution, the current Parliament was convened by the Scotland Act 1998, which sets out its powers as a devolved legislature. The Act delineates the legislative competence of the Parliament – the areas in which it can make laws – by explicitly specifying powers that are "reserved" to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Scottish Parliament has the power to legislate in all areas that are not explicitly reserved to Westminster. The British Parliament retains the ability to amend the terms of reference of the Scottish Parliament, and can extend or reduce the areas in which it can make laws. The first meeting of the new Parliament took place on 12 May 1999.
For the next three hundred years, Scotland was directly governed by the Parliament of Great Britain and the subsequent Parliament of the United Kingdom, both seated at Westminster, and the lack of a Parliament of Scotland remained an important element in Scottish national identity. Suggestions for a 'devolved' Parliament were made before 1914, but were shelved due to the outbreak of the First World War. A sharp rise in nationalism in Scotland during the late 1960s fuelled demands for some form of home rule or complete independence, and in 1969 prompted the incumbent Labour government of Harold Wilson to set up the Kilbrandon Commission to consider the British constitution. One of the principal objectives of the commission was to examine ways of enabling more self-government for Scotland, within the unitary state of the United Kingdom. Kilbrandon published his report in 1973 recommending the establishment of a directly elected Scottish Assembly to legislate for the majority of domestic Scottish affairs.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did a sharp rise in nationalism occur?
2: When was this?
3: Who was the incumbent at that time?
4: Was he a Tory?
5: Did this country govern itself?
6: Who controlled it?
7: Was the fact that it was controlled important to the citizens?
8: What happened that stifled talk of devolving?
9: When was the modern vote for devolving passed?
10: What was the name of the legislation that created the current method of ruling?
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The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the U.S. military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission (with jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters) and a federal regulatory agency mission as part of its mission set. It operates under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during peacetime, and can be transferred to the U.S. Department of the Navy by the U.S. President at any time, or by the U.S. Congress during times of war. This has happened twice, in 1917, during World War I, and in 1941, during World War II.
Created by Congress on 4 August 1790 at the request of Alexander Hamilton as the Revenue Marine, it is the oldest continuous seagoing service of the United States. As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton headed the Revenue Marine, whose original purpose was collecting customs duties in the nation's seaports. By the 1860s, the service was known as the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and the term Revenue Marine gradually fell into disuse.
The modern Coast Guard was formed by a merger of the Revenue Cutter Service and the U.S. Life-Saving Service on 28 January 1915, under the U.S. Department of the Treasury. As one of the country's five armed services, the Coast Guard has been involved in every U.S. war from 1790 to the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. the Coast Guard had over 36,000 men and women on active duty, 7,350 reservists, 29,620 auxiliarists, and 7,064 full-time civilian employees. In terms of size, the U.S. Coast Guard by itself is the world's 12th largest naval force.
Answer the following questions:
1: When was the United States Coast Guard created?
2: At the request of what person?
3: What body created it?
4: What was it originally know as?
5: What was Hamilton’s title when he created it?
6: What was it originally created to do?
7: When did it change it’s name to U.S. Revenue Cutter Service?
8: How many uniformed services does the United States currently have?
9: Does the coast Guard act only in domestic watters?
10: During peacetime, what department does it operate under?
11: Who can change this oversite at any time?
12: Who can change this during war?
13: Has this happened during war?
14: How many times?
15: Which wars?
16: How many armed services does the US have?
17: Is the Coast Guard generally involved in wars?
18: How many active duty personnel does it currently have?
19: Does it employ civilians?
20: Does it have reservists?
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SAVANNAH, Georgia (CNN) -- What does it really take to dress someone as fashion-forward and in the spotlight as Michelle Obama?
Designer Yigal Azrouël talks with students at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
"Bravery," says Isabel Toledo, designer of the first lady's attention-grabbing lemongrass yellow wool and lace ensemble that she wore for the inauguration of her husband President Obama.
But along with bravery about their fashion sense, new graduates at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) will need courage in the face of the current recession.
"Fashion is being hit particularly hard in the new job market. Fashion as a whole is feeling a greater level of lost revenues and in turn has lost opportunities for sustaining volume and even more so for growth," said Marshal Cohen, chief analyst and expert fashion analyst for the NPD market research group.
"The ironic thing is that new ideas and creations are just what the industry needs but is too cautious to react to it," he added.
Full of new ideas, student designers say they are aware of the challenges as they head out into the work force, but they're optimistic they can make it in these tough times.
"After I graduate, I'm going to New York, I have an internship lined up with a trend forecasting company, Promostyl," said Shelby Simon whose designs made it into SCAD's annual fashion show. See the runway fashions »
"Everyone needs an assistant so hopefully I'll be able to find something pretty easily," said Caitlin Clarke. She would like to land an internship in New York and has interviewed with New York & Co. and applied for positions at Oscar de la Renta, Calvin Klein and Zac Posen.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Yigal Azrouel talking with?
2: At what school?
3: What did Isabel Toledo say?
4: What clothing did she create?
5: What will graduates from the school need besides being brave?
6: What industry is suffering in the new job market?
7: Has it gained revenue?
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(CNN) -- For years, Allan Munroe refused to leave his wife's side. Norma, his bride of more than six decades, was battling stage four lung cancer.
As her health declined, Munroe welcomed the distraction of his second love: the Boston Red Sox. He kept his TV tuned to his favorite team's games to keep his mind off losing the woman he describes as the "better part of himself."
Norma Munroe died in May. Angela McKinnon said that after her grandmother's death she knew she had to get her grandfather to Fenway one last time, if only because of his age and health.
"After everything that happened, it was a horrible ordeal. We were talking about how life is short, and you just kind of have to make things happen," she said.
Next weekend, Munroe will travel 1,000 miles to see his favorite team play in person for the first time in 50 years. His dream is coming true thanks to the generosity of strangers and a crowd-funding page his granddaughter set up.
McKinnon decided to start a GoFundMe page called "ShipGpaUpToBoston" (named for the Dropkick Murphy's song "I'm Shipping Up To Boston," a Boston sports team anthem.)
"Now is the time for my grandfather's wish to come true, because no one is guaranteed tomorrow," she wrote on the website.
Munroe has had a number of medical setbacks in the past few years, including recently breaking his hip and being in the early stages of dementia.
The family had no money to get Munroe from his home in Florida to Fenway. McKinnon asked for help, but the donations came in slowly. She then started tweeting her grandfather's story to everyone she could.
Answer the following questions:
1: When did Norma Munroe die?
2: Whose wife was she?
3: How long were they married?
4: What did she die of?
5: What was Allan Munroe's second love?
6: Who was Angela McKinnon?
7: What did she feel she had to do after Norma died?
8: How many miles was that trip going to be?
9: How was she going to get the money for the trip?
10: What was the name of the page?
11: What was it named for?
12: Has Allan Munroe had any medical problems?
13: Name one?
14: Name another?
15: Where was Monroe going to go?
16: At what field?
17: Where was Munroe's home?
18: What did he call his wife?
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- The Palestinian maker of a film nominated for an Oscar was briefly detained by U.S. officials who questioned the validity of his Academy Awards invitation as he and his family arrived in Los Angeles for this weekend's event, his publicist told CNN on Wednesday.
The brief detention of Emad Burnat, a West Bank farmer who spent five years making his "5 Broken Cameras" home video in his village of Bil'in, was quickly criticized by fellow documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whom Burnat had contacted for help while being questioned at Los Angeles International Airport.
U.S. authorities also placed Burnat's wife and 8-year-old son, Gibreel, in a holding area at the airport Tuesday night, Moore said on his Twitter account.
"Apparently the Immigration & Customs officers couldn't understand how a Palestinian could be an Oscar nominee. Emad texted me for help," Moore tweeted. "After 1.5 hrs, they decided to release him & his family & told him he could stay in LA for the week & go to the Oscars. Welcome to America."
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Julia Pacetti, Burnat's publicist, told CNN that Burnat e-mailed her and Moore about how "immigration authorities were telling him he needed to give them a reason for his visit.
"He asked me to send his invitation to the Oscars. But before I did, immigration authorities released him. It was a short-lived situation," Pacetti said.
Burnat told Moore that "It's nothing I'm not already used to" and "When u live under occupation, with no rights, this is a daily occurrence," Moore wrote on his Twitter account.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was the film maker from?
2: Why was he coming to the United States?
3: Was he stopped on his way into the country?
4: What for?
5: Where was he stopped?
6: Was he alone?
7: Who was with him?
8: How old is his son?
9: What is his profession back in his country?
10: How long did he spend creating his movie?
11: How long was he held for?
12: How long are they allowed to vacation for?
13: What year did this happen?
14: Who was his public assistant?
15: How did the banker communicate with her?
16: Is the banker accustomed to that sort of treatment from his homeland?
17: What social media platform did he use?
18: Any others?
19: What other one?
20: What was his sons name?
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Su Hua is studying at Cambridge, UK. She has bought a bicycle and is worried about security. Her friend, Kate, found this article and sent it to her. www.zxxk.com
Introduction
A lot of crime is against bicycles. About 150,000 bicycles are stolen every year and most are never found. You can prevent this happening by following a few careful steps.
Basic Security
Do not leave your bicycle in out-of-the-way places. Always lock your bicycle when you leave. Secure it to lampposts or trees. Take off smaller parts and take them with you, for example lights and saddles .
Locks
Get a good lock. There are many different types in the shop. Buy one that has been tested against attack. Ask for a recommendation from a bike shop.
Marking
Security marking your bike can act as a deterrent to a thief. It can also help the police find your bicycle. It should be clearly written and include your postcode and your house or flat number. This will provide a simple way to identify your bicycle.
Registration
There are a number of companies who will mark your bicycle for you. They will then put your registration number and personal details on their computer database. Then if your bicycle is found it will be easy to contact you.
Finally
Keep a record of the bicycle yourself: its make, model and registration number. You can even take a photograph of it, this will prove the bicycle belongs to you.
Answer the following questions:
1: where does Su Hua go to school?
2: what did she buy?
3: what worry does she have?
4: who gave her some information?
5: is Kate her friend?
6: where did she find the information?
7: how many bikes are taken every year?
8: are most of them found again?
9: what should you do with little pieces from a bike?
10: like what pieces?
11: what else can you do?
12: what kind should you buy?
13: where can you get help choosing one?
14: how does marking help?
15: who can mark it for you?
16: what else will they do?
17: what else should you record?
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(CNN) -- Luis Suarez will have to wait until late October to make his debut for Spanish club Barcelona after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) partially upheld the Uruguay star's ban for biting an opponent on Thursday.
The striker was suspended from all football-related activity for four months -- preventing him from even training -- after he bit Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder during a World Cup group game in Brazil in late June, and banned for nine international matches.
Switzerland-based CAS heard the 27-year-old's case last week as he appealed against the punishment imposed by soccer's world governing body FIFA.
Suarez and his legal team had spent five hours before a three-man CAS appeal panel in Lausanne in an attempt to reduce the suspension, but the ban on playing was upheld along with a fine of $111,000.
However, CAS said he is free to take part in other football-related duties "such as training, promotional activities and administrative matters" and confirmed Suarez would be available to play friendly matches for Barcelona and the Uruguay national team during his suspension.
"The CAS Panel found that the sanctions imposed on the player were generally proportionate to the offense committed," the ruling stated.
"It has however considered that the stadium ban and the ban from 'any football-related activity' were excessive given that such measures are not appropriate to sanction the offense committed by the player and would still have an impact on his activity after the end of the suspension."
Answer the following questions:
1: For how long was the striker not allowed to play?
2: On what day did the incident happen?
3: What did he do to another player?
4: Who was the victim?
5: What is his position of play?
6: Where from?
7: And the accused is from?
8: What country banned him first?
9: Where's he from?
10: Where was the victim bitten?
11: During what event?
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(CNN)I was a copygirl in my fourth month at the Chicago Daily News, my second assigned to the city desk. It had become my custom at 4 o'clock, when the city desk secretary left for the day, to move over to her spot to help answer the phones as the beat reporters called in to check out for the day.
It was so quiet that afternoon -- 70 years ago, on Thursday, April 12, 1945 -- the city editor and assistant city editor had felt comfortable leaving their desks. The second city editor, Guy Housley, was to my left. To my right, perhaps 6 feet away, the telegraph editor, George Dodge.
At 4:50, the old-fashioned upright "candlestick" telephone on his desk rang -- the direct line The Associated Press used to alert editors to major news events. He answered, replaced the bell-like receiver on its hook and said to everyone in general and no one in particular, "Roosevelt is dead."
The silence of shock.
Until Dodge jumped up so quickly, his swivel chair crashed into the glass-fronted bookcase behind him -- a symphonic orchestra cymbals sound -- and ran to what was called the Tube Room, with its row of Associated Press Teletype machines.
Housley said, "Clear the decks for action."
The words had barely cleared his lips when City Editor Clem Lane half-ran back into the city room. Hal O'Flaherty, director of the Daily News Foreign Service, was only a step or two behind. The door of the managing editor's office that opened into the city room flew open, and Managing Editor Everett Norlander joined them around the copy desk, where Dodge was editing the bulletin.
Answer the following questions:
1: What year does this take place?
2: Who is narrating this story?
3: Where does she work?
4: What was she doing at 4 o'clock?
5: What's the name of the second city editor?
6: Who is George Dodge?
7: What's important about the "candlestick" telephone?
8: What happened at 4:50?
9: Who answered it?
10: What was the major news?
11: Where did Dodge run to after receiving the news?
12: What's in there?
13: Who is Clem Lane?
14: Who is Hal O'Flaherty?
15: What's the name of the Managing Editor?
16: How many years ago did this take place?
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CHAPTER V--"BLOODY AS THE HUNTER"
The lads lay quiet till the last footstep had melted on the wind. Then they arose, and with many an ache, for they were weary with constraint, clambered through the ruins, and recrossed the ditch upon the rafter. Matcham had picked up the windac and went first, Dick following stiffly, with his cross-bow on his arm.
"And now," said Matcham, "forth to Holywood."
"To Holywood!" cried Dick, "when good fellows stand shot? Not I! I would see you hanged first, Jack!"
"Ye would leave me, would ye?" Matcham asked.
"Ay, by my sooth!" returned Dick. "An I be not in time to warn these lads, I will go die with them. What! would ye have me leave my own men that I have lived among. I trow not! Give me my windac."
But there was nothing further from Matcham's mind.
"Dick," he said, "ye sware before the saints that ye would see me safe to Holywood. Would ye be forsworn? Would you desert me--a perjurer?"
"Nay, I sware for the best," returned Dick. "I meant it too; but now! But look ye, Jack, turn again with me. Let me but warn these men, and, if needs must, stand shot with them; then shall all be clear, and I will on again to Holywood and purge mine oath."
"Ye but deride me," answered Matcham. "These men ye go to succour are the I same that hunt me to my ruin."
Dick scratched his head.
"I cannot help it, Jack," he said. "Here is no remedy. What would ye? Ye run no great peril, man; and these are in the way of death. Death!" he added. "Think of it! What a murrain do ye keep me here for? Give me the windac. Saint George! shall they all die?"
Answer the following questions:
1: Who scratched his head?
2: What is the chapter's name?
3: Who was he talking to?
4: Who spoke first?
5: What did he say?
6: Was the invite accepted?
7: Why not?
8: Did he make a request?
9: What for?
10: What did he carry?
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Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 85,792, while the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria has a population of 383,360, making it the 15th most populous Canadian metropolitan area. The city of Victoria is the 7th most densely populated city in Canada with 4,405.8 people per square kilometre, which is a greater population density than Toronto.
Victoria is the southernmost major city in Western Canada, and is located about from BC's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about from Seattle by airplane, ferry, or the Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry which operates daily, year round between Seattle and Victoria and from Port Angeles, Washington, by ferry "Coho" across the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and, at the time, British North America, Victoria is one of the oldest cities in the Pacific Northwest, with British settlement beginning in 1843. The city has retained a large number of its historic buildings, in particular its two most famous landmarks, Legislative buildings (finished in 1897 and home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia) and the Empress hotel (opened in 1908). The city's Chinatown is the second oldest in North America after San Francisco's. The region's Coast Salish First Nations peoples established communities in the area long before non-native settlement, possibly several thousand years earlier, which had large populations at the time of European exploration.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is Victoria a Canadian province?
2: What is it?
3: Of which province?
4: Who was it named for?
5: She was Queen of what?
6: When did the British begin to settle there?
7: What is one of the cit's famous landmarks?
8: When were they finished?
9: And what's another most famous landmark?
10: When did that open?
11: Does it have a Chinatown?
12: Is it North America's oldest?
13: Which city has the oldest one?
14: When did the Coast Salish make communities around there?
15: Is there a ferry that goes to Victoria?
16: What is its name?
17: Is there another ferry?
18: What is its name?
19: Does it carry cars?
20: Where does the Coho leave from?
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82. Many people paid tribute to the former astronaut. But other people feel regret that no human has been back to the moon since 1972, just three years after Armstrong landed on it and gave his famous "giant leap for mankind" speech.
Elliot Pulham, Chief Executive of the Space Foundation, thinks that America's space agency NASA should get more money, like in the 1960s, during the moon landings programme, when astronauts went to the moon. "In this age of limited goals and tiny NASA budgets, Armstrong is a reminder of what our nation was once capable of," he said.
Armstrong died because of heart problems after surgery. His recovery seemed to be going well, and his death was a surprise to many people. His family described him as a "reluctant American hero" and said: "Honour his example of service, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."
Speaking from the White House, Barack Obama said Armstrong was "among the greatest of
American heroes - not just of his time, but of all time". He added: "And when Neil stepped on the
moon for the first time, it was a moment of human achievement that will never be forgotten."
Buzz Aldrin flew with Armstrong on Apollo 11. He was the second man to walk on the moon. He said he was very sad at the death of his good friend and companion.
"When I look at the moon I remember that special moment, over forty years ago, when Neil and I stood on the moon," he said. "Looking back at our brilliant blue planet Earth hanging in the darkness of space, I realized that even though we were farther away from Earth than two humans
had ever been, we were not alone. Almost the entire world took that memorable journey with us. I know many millions of people around the world will join me in mourning the death of a true
American hero and the best pilot I ever knew. My friend Neil took the small step but giant leap that changed the world and will always be remembered as a historic moment in human history."
In the US, people felt that he represented the achievement of a past age of American greatness. Today, things are very different: NASA has cancelled a number of missions because they don't have enough money.
Former astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man on the moon, said: "Neil did something that people thought was impossible." Others complained about the state of the US. Journalist Andrew Pasternak wrote: "It will take longer to rebuild lower Manhattan after 9/11 than it took to build an entire space program and send a man to the moon."
Of course, NASA has its modern successes. Its engineers have landed a nuclear-powered robot on Mars. There will also be another Mars mission. It will drill below the planet's surface. But these achievements are not as exciting as Armstrong's. NASA administrator Charles Bolden expressed that in his tribute. "As we enter this next era of space exploration, we are standing on the shoulders of Neil Armstrong," he said.
Armstrong was disappointed by what NASA has become. Blogger Eric Berger saw an email from Armstrong and other former astronauts. It expressed frustration at the current problems at NASA and quoted Yogi Berra, an American baseball legend: "If you don't know where you are
going, you might not get there."
Answer the following questions:
1: What did Neil Armstrong die from?
2: Was his death unexpected?
3: What is he known for?
4: Had anybody walked on the moon before him?
5: What year was the last person walking on it?
6: And who was the last one?
7: What President honored him at the WH?
8: What did he say about Armstrong?
9: How old was he when he died?
10: Was he proud of what NASA became?
11: Who did he quote in an e-mail?
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In side their one-storey, metal-roofed house on Vancouver Island's west coast,Janet Schwartz and her domesticated deer, Bimbo,are returning to their normal lives. The law--represented by men and women dressed in black uniforms and carrying guns -- is no longer threatening to forcibly separate Schwartz and Bimbo,freeing the l0-year-old deer to the fates of the surrounding rainforest and its hungry wolves and black bears.
"We love each other,"said Schwartz who turned 70 on Saturday. "she'll come up to me and she'll kiss me right on the lips,1ike a man kisses a woman''
For four days last week,Schwartz' life turned as rocky as the rough logging road that connected her life to the outside world. Conservation officers had arrived with orders to 1oose Bimbo. Schwartz was to1d she wasn't allowed to touch Bimbo any more It seemed somebody had complained,said Environment Minister Terry Lake earlier in the week, noting it's illegal to keep wild animals as pets.
During those tense days,sleepless nights were made even more restless by nightmares,said Schwartz. There were news stories and Facebook pages which supported Schwartz and by Friday,the government had changed its mind. Schwartz could keep her pet with the help of a veterinarian and conservation officers.
"It makes me feel good,"said Schwartz of the announcement."She is my life.and I've had her since the day she's been born."
The relationship began when a friend found the orphaned fawn along a nearby logging road,more than a kilometer away from her current home,said Schwartz. The friend brought the fawn over because she knew Schwartz had raised a deer before.
Schwartz named the fawn Bimbo,based on a Gene Autry song that was playing inside her home at the time,and began feeding the animal goat's milk.
Days turned into months and years, and now Bimbo's a part of the family.
Answer the following questions:
1: WHat unusual pet does the lady have?
2: How did dhe come to have it?
3: How long ago?
4: Why did her friend pick her to care for the fawn?
5: What did she name it?
6: WHy was the woman afraid recently?
7: Why?
8: How did they even know she had it?
9: Why was the woman worried about letting it go?
10: Anything else?
11: Did she receive any outside support?
12: From who?
13: Did officials change their minds?
14: Does she have to follow any special rules?
15: How old is the woman anyway?
16: Does she live in a city?
17: How do you know?
18: How does the deer show a special connection to her?
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The University of Michigan (U-M, UM, UMich, or U of M), frequently referred to simply as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817 in Detroit as the "Catholepistemiad", or University of Michigania, 20 years before the Michigan Territory became a state, the University of Michigan is the state's oldest university. In 1821, the university was officially renamed the University of Michigan. It moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto of what is now known as Central Campus. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university campus has expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than spread out over a Central Campus and North Campus, two regional campuses in Flint and Dearborn, and a Center in Detroit. The University was a founding member of the Association of American Universities.
Considered one of the foremost research universities in the United States, Michigan is classified as a "Doctoral University with Very High Research" by the Carnegie Foundation. Its comprehensive graduate program offers doctoral degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) as well as professional degrees in architecture, business, medicine, law, pharmacy, nursing, social work, public health, and dentistry. Michigan's body of living alumni comprises more than 540,000 people, one of the largest alumni bases of any university in the world.
Answer the following questions:
1: When was U of M founded?
2: In what city?
3: Is it one of the top research universities in the US?
4: How is it classified?
5: Who gave this it this classification?
6: What are the STEM fields?
7: How many people comprise their living alumni?
8: Is U of M a public or private school?
9: In what city is it located?
10: What was the name of the school when it was founded?
11: When did campus move to Ann Arbor?
12: How many buildings are there?
13: Where are the two regional campuses located?
14: The school was a founding member of what?
15: What fields does the school offer doctoral degrees in?
16: How many fields do they offer professional degrees in?
17: Is one offered in public health?
18: In what city is a "Center" of the University located?
19: Does the school have one of the biggest alumni groups in the world?
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(CNN) -- Presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are detailing their plans for solving the country's energy crisis and criticizing each other's proposals this week as they campaign in battleground states.
Here's a look at the candidates' energy proposals:
Overall strategy
McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, has proposed a national energy strategy that would rely on the technological prowess of American industry and science.
McCain has said he would work to reduce carbon emissions 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. He has said he would commit $2 billion annually for 15 years to advance clean coal technology.
He also has pledged to oppose a windfall profits tax on oil companies that, according to his campaign Web site, "will ultimately result in increasing our dependence on foreign oil and hinder investment in domestic exploration."
McCain also believes the U.S. needs to deploy SmartMeter technologies, which collect real-time data on the electricity use of individual homes and businesses.
Meanwhile, Obama laid out his comprehensive energy plan Monday in Lansing, Michigan.
"If I am president, I will immediately direct the full resources of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector to a single, overarching goal -- in 10 years, we will eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela," the presumptive Democratic nominee told a crowd.
Obama's plan also would invest $150 billion over the next 10 years and leverage billions more in private capital to build a new energy economy that he said would harness American energy and create 5 million new jobs.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who were the candidates?
2: What issue are they trying to come up wit a solution for?
3: What kind of approach does McCain take?
4: is it a technological and scientific approach?
5: what percentage does he want to decrease carbon emissions?
6: by when?
7: how much would that cost?
8: over the course of how long?
9: what tax will he oppose?
10: on who?
11: Is he against SmartMeter technology?
12: what kind of information does it collect?
13: of what?
14: where?
15: What kind of plan does his opponent have?
16: when did he reveal it?
17: where?
18: What will he do if he is elected?
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(CNN) -- Despite their public handshake on Monday it appears there is still some way to go before Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia bury the hatchet.
A long-running spat between the two golfers resurfaced after they shared a contentious round together at The Players' Championship in May.
After several verbal volleys in either direction, Garcia's joke that he would invite Woods round for "fried chicken" during the U.S Open led to an immediate and unreserved apology from the Spaniard, who denied it was racially motivated.
A statement from the world No. 1 on social networking site Twitter called the remarks "wrong, hurtful and clearly inappropriate."
Woods also said that he was sure there was "real regret" on the part of Garcia and that it was time to move on.
Inevitably, the issue resurfaced as both players prepared to come face-to-face ahead of the second major of the year at Merion in Philadelphia.
The pair greeted each other on the practice range but the world No. 1 told a press conference on Tuesday there had been no time for a formal apology.
Asked if they had discussed Garcia's comments Woods replied: "No, we didn't discuss anything. Just came up and said 'hi' and that was it."
Woods was pressed by reporters as to whether the Spaniard had offered him any form of apology but he said: "No, we haven't had time for that.
"It's already done. We've already gone through it all. It's time for the U.S. Open and we tee it up in two days."
Answer the following questions:
1: When did Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia shake hands?
2: Where did their difficult round occur?
3: What food did Garcia jest about?
4: Did he apologize?
5: Did he admit it was a racial joke?
6: On what social network did he make his statement?
7: Did Woods believe the statement was sincere?
8: What did he say it was time to do?
9: Where did the problems occur again?
10: Was there a formal apology?
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Norway ( ; Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); ), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a sovereign state and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land. Until 1814, the kingdom included the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It also included Bohuslän until 1658, Jämtland and Härjedalen until 1645, Shetland and Orkney until 1468, and the Hebrides and Isle of Man until 1266.
Norway has a total area of and a population of 5,258,317 (as of January 2017). The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden (1,619 km or 1,006 mi long). Norway is bordered by Finland and Russia to the north-east, and the Skagerrak strait to the south, with Denmark on the other side. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea.
King Harald V of the Dano-German House of Glücksburg is the current King of Norway. Erna Solberg became Prime Minister in 2013, replacing Jens Stoltenberg. A constitutional monarchy, Norway divides state power between the Parliament, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, as determined by the 1814 Constitution. The kingdom was established as a merger of a large number of petty kingdoms. By the traditional count from the year 872, the kingdom has existed continuously for 1,145 years, and the list of Norwegian monarchs includes over sixty kings and earls.
Answer the following questions:
1: What country is this article about?
2: What is its Norwegian name?
3: Does it have royalty?
4: Who is the king?
5: What house is he from?
6: Is that a native Norwegian house?
7: Who is the head of the government?
8: And previously?
9: Does it have a constitution?
10: When was that created?
11: Does it hold territory outside of Europe?
12: Where?
13: What is its claim in the Antarctic continent called?
14: How many countries border it?
15: How long is the Swedish border?
16: What body of water is to its south?
17: What country is on the other side of that?
18: When was Norway formed?
19: How many monarchs has it had?
20: Were they all kings?
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(CNN) -- Andrea Pirlo played a starring role against his former club AC Milan to keep Italian champion Juventus in touch with the Serie A leaders Sunday.
The veteran midfielder scored a free-kick and hit the bar with another, allowing Giorgio Chiellini to volley what would be the decisive goal for a 3-1 lead.
AC Milan, down to 10 men by that stage after defender Philippe Mexes was sent off for protesting his initial booking, reduced the deficit through Sulley Muntari's second of the match at the end.
It left Juve in third place on goal difference behind Napoli, which also remained unbeaten following a 4-0 win at home to Livorno.
Both clubs trail Roma by two points, following the capital club's Saturday win at Inter Milan.
Former Inter midfielder Muntari gave Milan the lead inside 30 seconds, but Pirlo -- who spent a decade at the San Siro -- equalized after 15 minutes with a set-piece that goalkeeper Christian Abbiati could only deflect into the net.
Substitute Sebastian Giovinco put Juve ahead in the 69th minute from Arturo Vidal's pass, soon after his arrival on the pitch, and then Mexes' moment of madness was to prove vital for Milan as Chiellini immediately capitalized.
The defeat left the seven-time European champion languishing in 12th place, some 13 points adrift of Roma.
Napoli, like Juve, has six wins and a draw from seven matches, continuing new coach Rafael Benitez's fine start.
Former Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain was again missing due to injury, but the Neapolitans had too much firepower for Livorno.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did Juve finish?
2: Where they in front of Napoli?
3: Where?
4: How did they do against Livorno?
5: Did they play at home or away?
6: How many clubs trail Roma by two points?
7: Did Roma beat Inter Milan?
8: When?
9: Who is the midfielder for Inter Milan?
10: When did he give Milan the lead?
11: Who equalized the match?
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Gaius Julius Caesar (Latin: CAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR, , born: 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), usually called Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. He is also known as a notable author of Latin prose.
In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power as "Populares" were opposed by the "Optimates" within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar's victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both the Channel and the Rhine, when he built a bridge across the Rhine and crossed the Channel to invade Britain.
These achievements granted him unmatched military power and threatened to eclipse the standing of Pompey, who had realigned himself with the Senate after the death of Crassus in 53 BC. With the Gallic Wars concluded, the Senate ordered Caesar to step down from his military command and return to Rome. Caesar refused the order, and instead marked his defiance in 49 BC by crossing the Rubicon with the 13th Legion, leaving his province and illegally entering Roman Italy under arms. Civil war resulted, and Caesar's victory in the war put him in an unrivalled position of power and influence.
Answer the following questions:
1: Name one person in an alliance with Caesar?
2: And another?
3: What was the nickname of this alliance in the Roman Senate?
4: Which group opposed them?
5: Naame one person in the Optimates?
6: And another?
7: Which river did Caesar cross in defiance?
8: When?
9: With whom?
10: What happened then?
11: Who won?
12: When were the Gallic wars completed?
13: Which rivers did Caesar cross in those wars?
14: How did he get across the Rhine>
15: Why did he cross the channel?
16: What did the senate ask him to do after the Gallic wars?
17: When was he born?
18: When did he die?
19: Was he an author?
20: of what?
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CHAPTER X
THE PEON PILOT
Grahame and Macallister stood on deck, peering into the moonlit jungle of mangroves. So far as they could judge, there was only one pair of oars making the splashes that had aroused them; but they could hear the blades dig deep into the water with an intense effort that could mean only haste on the part of the boatsman.
They waited; and presently the small boat appeared in the moonlight and they saw a single figure, who dropped one oar and crossed himself religiously.
"_Gracias a Dios!_" he said.
"The pilot!" Macallister gasped.
Grahame waited, tense and alert, until the pilot climbed on board. The instant the half-breed touched the deck he began gesticulating wildly and talking so rapidly that Grahame had difficulty in grasping his meaning. Miguel, who was more at home in the peon Spanish, explained--in English, for Macallister's sake.
"The government men catch him; make him tell; he escape; take short path--Indian _senda_; get here first. _Soldados_ coming. We hurry!"
Miguel had worked himself up to a state of great excitement, and when he finished, his bare feet went pattering off across the deck almost before Grahame could give the order.
Tired as the men were, they realized the necessity for haste, and they lost no time in getting under way. There was a clatter in the stokehold as the fires were cleaned, the dinghy crept across the creek, and half-seen men forward hurriedly coiled in a wet rope. Then the boat came back and the windlass rattled while the propeller floundered slowly round. The anchor rose to the bows and the _Enchantress_ moved away against the flood tide.
Answer the following questions:
1: Was the boatman approaching quickly?
2: How did they know?
3: How many people were standing on deck and listening?
4: What were their names?
5: Was it daytime?
6: Did they suspect multiple people were approaching?
7: What was the man's name on the approaching boat?
8: Was he wearing shoes?
9: What hand gesture did he make upon arrival?
10: What language did he speak?
11: What language was his native choice, however?
12: Did Macallister speak this same native language?
13: Were the men tired?
14: Who did Miguel say was coming?
15: Did the group decide to sail?
16: Did they take their time in preparation?
17: What was the name of their vessel?
18: Which direction did it head?
19: What is the name of "the peon pilot" in the title?
20: Who gave the order to depart?
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In modern society, receiving systematic college education seems a necessary way for success as a graduate from first-class university may always get more opportunities than others. However, if it is gold, it will shine one day. In this article, we will get to know three most successful people in U.S. who never finished their college education. Following experiences of these successful _ s may give you some inspiration. 1. Bill Gates Harvard's campus paper "Harvard Crimson" called Bill Gates "Harvard's most successful dropout," while the rest of the world preferred to name him "the world's richest man" for more than a decade. Now, even not on the top, he is still among the list of the world's wealthiest people.Gates entered Harvard in the fall of 1973. Two years later, he dropped out to found Microsoft with friend Paul Allen. And in 2007, he finally received an honorary doctorate from Harvard. 2. Steve Jobs The iPad, even Buzz Lightyear probably wouldn't have existed if Steve Jobs stayed in school. Because his family couldn't afford his college education, Jobs had to drop out of Reed College just after entering for 6 months. Then he found Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar, which had made great influences on development of modern technique and culture. However, this wizard thought that his brief college education was not worthless. 3. Frank Lloyd Wright As the America's most celebrated architect, Wright spent more time on designing colleges rather than attending classes in them. Once spent one year in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then he left for Chicago and started to learn from Louis Sullivan, the "father of modernism." Wright' s splendid resume included more than 500 works, most famous of which are Fallingwater and New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Answer the following questions:
1: who is one of people mentioned in the article?
2: what company did he found?
3: did he drop out of school?
4: who founded Apple?
5: what famous architect dropped out of school?
6: how long had he been in school?
7: where?
8: how many works has he designed over his career?
9: how many successful people are discussed?
10: how long did it take Bill Gates to drop out?
11: and Steve Jobs?
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Buenos Aires ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 17 million.
The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores; both are now neighborhoods of the city. The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). Its citizens first elected a chief of government (i.e. mayor) in 1996; previously, the mayor was directly appointed by the President of the Republic.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the capital of Argentina?
2: Do a lot of people live there?
3: What does Buenos Aires mean?
4: How many people live in Buenos Aires?
5: What cities in Argentina are bigger?
6: What kind of district does the city lie in?
7: When was it given autonomy?
8: Does the city have a more formal name?
9: What is it?
10: What does that mean?
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Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway. , the municipality's population was 278,121, and the Bergen metropolitan region has about 420,000 inhabitants. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of Bergenshalvøyen. The city centre and northern neighbourhoods are on Byfjorden, 'the city fjord', and the city is surrounded by mountains; Bergen is known as the 'city of seven mountains'. Many of the extra-municipal suburbs are on islands. Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland and consists of eight boroughs—Arna, Bergenhus, Fana, Fyllingsdalen, Laksevåg, Ytrebygda, Årstad and Åsane.
Trading in Bergen may have started as early as the 1020s. According to tradition, the city was founded in 1070 by king Olav Kyrre and was named Bjørgvin, 'the green meadow among the mountains'. It served as Norway's capital in the 13th century, and from the end of the 13th century became a bureau city of the Hanseatic League. Until 1789, Bergen enjoyed exclusive rights to mediate trade between Northern Norway and abroad and it was the largest city in Norway until the 1830s when it was surpassed by the capital, Christiania (now known as Oslo). What remains of the quays, Bryggen, is a World Heritage Site. The city was hit by numerous fires over the years. The Bergen School of Meteorology was developed at the Geophysical Institute beginning in 1917, the Norwegian School of Economics was founded in 1936, and the University of Bergen in 1946. From 1831 to 1972, Bergen was its own county. In 1972 the municipality absorbed four surrounding municipalities and became a part of Hordaland county.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the next to biggest Norwegian city?
2: What Norwegian region is it located in?
3: How many people live in the municipality?
4: And the metro area?
5: Is it ringed by forests?
6: What is around the city?
7: What's its nickname?
8: Where are lots of the suburban areas found?
9: How many boroughs does it have?
10: What are their names?
11: When did commerce begin in the area?
12: And when was Bergen officially founded?
13: By whom?
14: What was its original name?
15: What does that mean?
16: When was it the capital of the nation?
17: After that, what organization did it join?
18: Did Bergen ever have sole rights to trade in an area of the country?
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When Brody Roybal was a baby, he didn't have legs. But that didn't make him feel sad or stop him from trying sports. He tried different kinds of sports. When he tried sled hockey at the age of 7, he loved it. " That was it," says Roybal. He is now 15 and a student in a high school in Chicago. " It's all I wanted to do." Roybal joined a sled hockey team. At the age of 12, he started playing in an adult team. It was much harder for him, but he still worked hard. Now Roybal is a player of the sled hockey team in his country. O' Connor, manager of the team, says Roybal is very good. " Everybody dreams of going to the Olympic Games and winning the game," O' Connor says. " That's something that I couldn't do, but Roybal can. He is lucky and he can go to the next Olympics." It's true that when God closes a door, he opens a window for you.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was wrong with Brody?
2: When did that happen?
3: Was he upset?
4: What did he do?
5: When?
6: What sport?
7: Did he like it?
8: How old is he now?
9: Where is he?
10: Does he still play?
11: Where?
12: When did he start doing that?
13: What kind of team?
14: For kids?
15: Was it easy for him?
16: Is he good?
17: How do you know?
18: Who is that?
19: What does he want to do next?
20: Can he?
21: What does his coach think?
22: Did his coach play in the olympics?
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Bum rate is the speed at which a startup business consumes money. My rate would be $ 50,000 a month when my new media company started. So, I began looking around for individuals who would be my first investors. "Angel money" it was called. But when I reviewed my list of acquaintances to find those who might be able to help, I found the number got small.
With no other choices, I began meeting with the venture-capital companies. But I was warned they took a huge share of your company for the money they put in. And if you struggled, they could drop you cold.
As I was searching for "angel money", I started to build a team who trusted me even though I didn't have money for paychecks yet.
Bill Becker was an expert in computer programming and image processing at a very famous Media Lab at M. I.T. With his arrival, my company suddenly had a major technology "guy" in-house.
Katherine Henderson, a filmmaker and a former real-estate dealer, joined us as our director of market research. Steve White came on as operating officer. He had worked for the developer of a home-finance software, Quicken. We grabbed him.
We had some really good people, but we still didn't have enough money. One night, my neighbor, Louise Johnson, came for a visit. She and I were only nodding acquaintances, but her boys and ours were constant companions. She ran a very good business at the time.
Louise was brilliant and missed nothing. She had been watching my progress closely. She knew I was dying for money and I had prospects but could offer no guarantees of success.
She told me that her attorney had talked to mine and the terms had been agreed upon. She handed me an envelope. Inside was a check for $ 500,000.
I almost fell down. I heard her voice as if from heaven.
"I have confidence in your plan," she said. "You' 11 do well. You're going to work hard for it, but it' s satisfying when you build your own company."
Who would have thought I'd find an angel so close to home? There were no words sufficient for the moment. We just said good night. She left and I just stood there, completely humbled and completely committed.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was his rate?
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
MoMA has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world. MoMA's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film, and electronic media.
The MoMA Library includes approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, over 1,000 periodical titles, and over 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives holds primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art.
The idea for The Museum of Modern Art was developed in 1929 primarily by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan. They became known variously as "the Ladies", "the daring ladies" and "the adamantine ladies". They rented modest quarters for the new museum in the Heckscher Building at 730 Fifth Avenue (corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street) in Manhattan, and it opened to the public on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash. Abby had invited A. Conger Goodyear, the former president of the board of trustees of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, to become president of the new museum. Abby became treasurer. At the time, it was America's premier museum devoted exclusively to modern art, and the first of its kind in Manhattan to exhibit European modernism. One of Abby's early recruits for the museum staff was the noted Japanese-American photographer Soichi Sunami (at that time best known for his portraits of modern dance pioneer Martha Graham), who served the museum as its official documentary photographer from 1930 until 1968.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many people created the concept of the topic?
2: All men?
3: What were their names?
4: Did they have nicknames?
5: Like what?
6: When did they come up with the concept?
7: What was the concept?
8: Did the concept come to fruition?
9: What is the short term for it?
10: Is it in California?
11: Where then?
12: What sort of stuff does it display?
13: Does it have digital stuff?
14: What other forms?
15: What does it seem to have the most of?
16: What form of the arts does it seem to have the most of?
17: How many?
18: And the least?
19: Who was the first head of it when it was opening?
20: Who officially documented photographs for over three decades?
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I'm Tom. My best friends are John and Ann. We do many things together. John lives near my house and we are in the same class. He's fifteen years old and he's tall and slim. He has blond hair and blue eyes. He's polite and very clever. He's very good at math and he sometimes helps me with my homework. He usually wears jeans and a T-shirt. We also play basketball at a nearby park together and sometimes we play video games at my house after school. Our friend Ann isn't in our school. She's short and slim with straight brown hair and brown eyes. She's a little bit shy. We all have kung fu lesson every Tuesday and Friday afternoon. Ann is really good at kung fu. We call her the "kung fu kid". She sometimes plays basketball with us, too. She often wears a dress, a T-shirt and a baseball cap. The three of us have great fun together.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who are Tom's friends?
2: Which of his friends goes to the same school as he does?
3: Is that friend short?
4: Does that buddy help Tom with something?
5: Which friend is short?
6: What is she talented in?
7: Does she practice with others?
8: Who?
9: When do they practice?
10: Does she play anything else with the boys?
11: What do Tom's friends both wear?
12: Does either have a nickname?
13: Try just Yes or No next time, please. :)
14: Which friend has blue eyes?
15: What is John good at?
16: And how old is he?
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Science has a lot of uses. It can uncover laws of nature, cure diseases, make bombs, and help bridges to stand up. Indeed science is so good at what it does that there's always a temptation to drag it into problems where it may not be helpful. David Brooks, author of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, appears to be the latest in a long line of writers who have failed to go against the temptation.
Brooks gained fame for several books. His latest book The Social Animal, however, is more ambitious and serious than his earlier books. It is an attempt to deal with a set of weighty topics. The book focuses on big questions: What has science uncovered about human nature? What are the sources of character? And why are some people happy and successful while others aren't?
To answer these questions, Brooks studies a wide range of disciplines . Considering this, you might expect the book to be a simple description of facts. But Brooks has formed his book in an unusual, and perhaps unfortunate way. Instead of introducing scientific theories, he tells a story, within which he tries to make his points, perhaps in order to keep the reader's attention. So as Harold and Erica, the hero and heroine in his story, live through childhood, we hear about the science of child development and as they begin to date we hear about the theory of sexual attraction. Brooks carries this through to the death of one of his characters.
On the whole, Brooks' story is acceptable if uninspired. As one would expect, his writing is mostly clear and, to be fair, some chapters stand out above the rest. I enjoyed, for instance, the chapter in which Harold discovers how to think on his own. While Harold and Erica are certainly not strong or memorable characters, the more serious problems with The Social Animal lie elsewhere. These problems partly involve Brooks' attempt to translate his tale into science.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is Brook's story uninspired?
2: Does the author like it when Harold discovers how to think on his own?
3: Does he think Harold's memorable?
4: Who else does he think is forgettable?
5: What are there more serious problems with?
6: Does science have a lot of uses?
7: What's one of them?
8: How about another one?
9: Are bombs safe?
10: What's a constructive thing science can also help build?
11: Does Brooks think there's a hidden source of love?
12: What has he failed to go against?
13: Has Brooks written more than one book?
14: Is he attempting to deal with trivial topics or more weighty ones?
15: Is his latest book more ambitious than the earlier books he wrote?
16: Does Brooks introduce scientific theories?
17: What does he do instead?
18: Who is the hero of his story?
19: What about the heroine?
20: Is there any sex?
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CHAPTER XIV. FORTEMANI DRINKS WATER
The thing had begun with the lowering glances that Francesco had observed, and had grown to gibes and insults after he had disappeared. But Lanciotto had preserved an unruffled front, being a man schooled in the Count of Aquila's service to silence and a wondrous patience. This insensibility those hinds translated into cowardice, and emboldened by it--like the mongrels that they were--their offensiveness grew more direct and gradually more threatening. Lanciotto's patience was slowly oozing away, and indeed, it was no longer anything but the fear of provoking his master's anger that restrained him. At length one burly ruffian, who had bidden him remove his head-piece in the company of gentlemen, and whose request had been by Lanciotto as disregarded as the rest, advanced menacingly towards him and caught him by the leg, as Ercole had caught his master. Exasperated at that, Lanciotto had swung his leg free, and caught the rash fellow a vicious kick in the face that had felled him, stunned and bleeding.
The roar from the man's companions told Lanciotto what to expect. In an instant they were upon him, clamouring for his blood. He sought to draw his master's sword, which together with the Count's other armour was slung across his saddle-bow; but before he could extricate it, he was seized by a dozen hands, and cropped, fighting, from the saddle. On the ground they overpowered him, and a mailed hand was set upon his mouth, crushing back into his throat the cry for help he would have raised.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who did Lanciotto work for?
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Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a nationally syndicated columnist and a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Read his column here
Ruben Navarrette says Sarah Palin's critics challenged her because of prejudices about small-town values.
SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- During the presidential election, some Democrats demanded to know how I could defend Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Simply put, Palin is my people. She's small-town folk who wound up in the big leagues.
Because I grew up in a small town with a population of less than 15,000 people, I was disgusted by the insults and condescension coming from those who think of themselves as the enlightened elite. Meanwhile, in small towns, I detected great affection for Palin. People talked about how she was "a real person" who "reflected their values."
The most significant divide in America isn't Red State vs. Blue State, it's rural vs. urban. The country mouse and the city mouse are still slugging it out.
In 1982, New York Mayor Ed Koch ran unsuccessfully for governor of New York. Some say the deciding factor was when Koch described life in upstate New York as "sterile" and said he dreaded living in the "small town" of Albany, if elected. That didn't play well in rural areas.
Now comes Colin Powell. During a recent appearance on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," Powell attempted an autopsy on the Republican Party's failed presidential bid. He went after Palin, accusing her of pushing the party so far to the right that it went over a cliff.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Ruben navarette?
2: for what publication?
3: How can he defend Palin?
4: How many people were in his home town?
5: Do small town folks like her?
6: what show did Colin Powell appear on?
7: Did he feel the GOP needed to go more conservative?
8: Is rural vs urban a big divide in the US?
9: do small town folk feel Palin represented their values?
10: does he posit that her values played a part in her treatment by critics?"
11: did he call them prejudiced?
12: Does his column have a large readership?
13: What was her previous role in government?
14: how does he feel about elites?
15: do they make him sick?
16: When did Ed Koch lose the Governor's race?
17: Did he say he wanted to move to Albany?
18: Was the city too big?
19: Did he say flattering things about the rural parts of the state?
20: How did he describe rural life?
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New York (CNN) -- A self-described "ex-madam" who claims she supplied fellow city comptroller candidate Eliot Spitzer with escorts several years ago is facing charges of illegally distributing prescription drugs, authorities said.
Kristin Davis, 38, was arrested on Monday night and charged with selling Adderall, Xanax and other drugs. She's also accused of orchestrating the sale of approximately 180 oxycodone pills for cash.
The candidate was released Tuesday on $100,000 bail, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for September 5. Prosecutors said she will have strict pretrial supervision.
"Prescription drug abuse is the fastest-growing drug problem in this country, resulting in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, and this office has a zero tolerance policy towards anyone who helps to spread this plague at any level," Preet Bharara, Manhattan U.S. Attorney, said in a statement.
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Davis is charged with four counts of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance. She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each count, if convicted.
Prosecutors allege that from 2009 through 2011 Davis bought ecstasy pills, Adderall pills and Xanax pills from an FBI cooperating witness at least once a month, paying hundreds of dollars for each purchase. She told the witness she provided these drugs to people at house parties, authorities say.
An attorney for Davis was could not be immediately reached for comment.
Davis' campaign manager, Andrew Miller, said he was aware of the arrest but couldn't provide any information.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is everybody discussing?
2: Who is the prosecutor?
3: And his title?
4: What was her previous occupation?
5: Who did she provide women to?
6: What does he do?
7: What is she charged with?
8: Did she get bailed out?
9: When?
10: How much was it?
11: When is her court date?
12: Who is in charge of her campaign?
13: Did he know his client had been arrested?
14: And did he have any info to contribute?
15: Are prescribed medications much of an issue in the US?
16: Has anybody ever died from it?
17: More or less than street drugs?
18: When was she accused of buying meds illegally?
19: Which years?
20: Who did she give them to?
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CHAPTER IX
THE SMITING OF AMON
That evening I sat ill at ease in my work-chamber in Seti's palace, making pretence to write, I who felt that great evils threatened my lord the Prince, and knew not what to do to turn them from him. The door opened, and old Pambasa the chamberlain appeared and addressed me by my new titles, saying that the Hebrew lady Merapi, who had been my nurse in sickness, wished to speak with me. Presently she came and stood before me.
"Scribe Ana," she said, "I have but just seen my uncle Jabez, who has come, or been sent, with a message to me," and she hesitated.
"Why was he sent, Lady? To bring you news of Laban?"
"Not so. Laban has fled away and none know where he is, and Jabez has only escaped much trouble as the uncle of a traitress by undertaking this mission."
"What is the mission?"
"To pray me, if I would save myself from death and the vengeance of God, to work upon the heart of his Highness, which I know not how to do----"
"Yet I think you might find means, Merapi."
"----save through you, his friend and counsellor," she went on, turning away her face. "Jabez has learned that it is in the mind of Pharaoh utterly to destroy the people of Israel."
"How does he know that, Merapi?"
"I cannot say, but I think all the Hebrews know. I knew it myself though none had told me. He has learned also that this cannot be done under the law of Egypt unless the Prince who is heir to the throne and of full age consents. Now I am come to pray you to pray the Prince not to consent."
Answer the following questions:
1: Where am I?
2: Where at?
3: Who comes in?
4: Who is he?
5: Who wants to enter?
6: Who was?
7: Who has she been speaking to?
8: Who arrived with information?
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom. In addition to its annual awards ceremonies, BAFTA has an international, year-round programme of learning events and initiatives offering access to talent through workshops, masterclasses, scholarships, lectures and mentoring schemes in the UK and the USA.
BAFTA started out as the British Film Academy, was founded in 1947 by a group of directors David Lean, Alexander Korda, Roger Manvell, Laurence Olivier, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, Michael Balcon, Carol Reed, and other major figures of the British film industry.
David Lean was the founding chairman of the academy. The first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949 and honouring the films "The Best Years of Our Lives", "Odd Man Out" and "The World Is Rich".
The Guild of Television Producers and Directors was set up in 1953 with the first awards ceremony in October 1954, and in 1958 merged with the British Film Academy to form the Society of Film and Television Arts, whose inaugural meeting was held at Buckingham Palace and presided over by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the main subject?
2: What's its acronym?
3: How did it start as?
4: What type of charity is it?
5: When was it founded?
6: By one person?
7: At least how many were involved?
8: What was there profession?
9: In what industry?
10: From what country?
11: Was there a founding chairperson?
12: Who was he?
13: When did the Guild begin?
14: And its first trophy event?
15: What happened on May 1949?
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Ally was at home, sitting in her chair. She was drinking orange juice. Orange juice was her favorite drink, because she loved its sweet taste.
Ally's sister was sitting on the carpet. She was drawing a pair of pink socks. Ally's sister loved the color pink, because she thought it was cute.
Ally's brother was also sitting on the carpet. He was drinking coffee with lots of sugar in it. He loved sugar because it made him feel energetic.
All of the sudden, there was a knock at the door. Ally's sister answered it. When she opened the door, she saw an alligator wearing a suit and tie! Ally's sister screamed, and closed the door.
"Please," the alligator said, "Don't be afraid. I want to draw with you."
Ally's sister opened the door, and the alligator came inside. He sat on the carpet, and started drawing his own pair of pink socks. Ally's sister sat down, and joined him.
Answer the following questions:
1: who was at home ?
2: what was she doing ?
3: and drinking ?
4: what was the sister doing ?
5: drawing what ?
6: what is ally brother doing ?
7: and drinking what ?
8: who was at the door ?
9: who answered the door ?
10: did ally scream ?
11: why?
12: did the alligator want to draw with them ?
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The Continental Army was created on 14 June 1775 by the Continental Congress as a unified army for the colonies to fight Great Britain, with George Washington appointed as its commander. The army was initially led by men who had served in the British Army or colonial militias and who brought much of British military heritage with them. As the Revolutionary War progressed, French aid, resources, and military thinking influenced the new army. A number of European soldiers came on their own to help, such as Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who taught the army Prussian tactics and organizational skills.
The Vietnam War is often regarded as a low point for the U.S. Army due to the use of drafted personnel, the unpopularity of the war with the American public, and frustrating restrictions placed on the military by American political leaders. While American forces had been stationed in the Republic of Vietnam since 1959, in intelligence & advising/training roles, they did not deploy in large numbers until 1965, after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. American forces effectively established and maintained control of the "traditional" battlefield, however they struggled to counter the guerrilla hit and run tactics of the communist Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army. On a tactical level, American soldiers (and the U.S. military as a whole) did not lose a sizable battle.
Answer the following questions:
1: Was the Vietnam war popular with American citizens?
2: Who placed restrictions on the military during this time?
3: In what year did forces began deploying in masse?
4: After what event?
5: How many meaningful battles did the Americans lose?
6: In what area of battle did the Americans struggle?
7: Used by whom?
8: What was regarded as an American military low point?
9: What controversial way did the U.S. recruit soldiers?
10: Why had a small number of U.S. forces been stationed in Vietnam as early as 1959?
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(CNN) -- Chelsea's sacking of Andre Villas-Boas came under fire Monday with former Blues boss Luis Felipe Scolari warning it will be "hell" for whoever succeeds the Portuguese at Stamford Bridge.
Ex-Brazil national team boss Scolari is one of six managers dismissed by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and, like himself, does not believe Villas-Boas was given enough time by the Russian billionaire.
"England has clubs like Arsenal, where Arsene Wenger has been for several years, yet has won only two or three championships," he told a news conference for his present club Palmeiras.
"Chelsea's culture is very different, but this move is strange -- although it's not so strange to me because of what I went through there.
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"Villas-Boas was a champion and he will continue to be. He needed to replace at least seven or eight players, even since I was there, but he failed.
"It will be hell for whoever succeeds him."
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But Dutch legend Ruud Gullit, who managed Chelsea before Abramovich took control, told CNN that he disagreed with Scolari.
"I do not think it is 'hell' -- I had a great time at Chelsea which I still treasure, for me it was no hell."
Gullit hinted that he believed Villas-Boas needed to have made better use of his senior squad members.
"The older players need to help the younger players know how to play the game, you can't ignore them by putting them on the bench and not in the team."
Answer the following questions:
1: What happened to Villas-Boas?
2: Who did that to him?
3: What did he do for Chelsea?
4: Of what?
5: Where has Arsene Wenger been?
6: For how long?
7: How many times have they won during that time?
8: Who was in charge of Chelsea before Abramovich?
9: What is Gullit's nationality?
10: Who interviewed him?
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Edda, a Little Valkyrie's First Day of School
Written and illustrated by Adam Auerbach.
32 pp. Christy Ottaviano/Holt. $15.50.
Edda's home is in Asgard, "a land full of magic and adventure." But Edda, the littlest Valkyrie, doesn't have quite enough to do, until her father flies her "all the way to Earth for the first day of school."
The contrast between home and school is hard to get used to (in one, she can ride reindeer; in the other she gazes guinea pig through glass at the classroom). In his first picture book, Auerbach mixes the two worlds perfectly. Children are likely to appreciate the joke.
Planet Kindergarten
By Sue Ganz-Schmitt. Illustrated by Shane Prigmore.
32 pp. Chronicle. $14.99.
After careful preparations and a successful blastoff, a boy finds himself in a very unfamiliar environment. "We're aliens from many galaxies on Planet Kindergarten," he reflects as he sees his very varied classmates for the first time.
Prigmore, who designs for the movie industry, uses black backgrounds and bright colors to give this space adventure visual excitement and humor.
The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade
By Justin Roberts. Illustrated by Christian Robinson.
42 pp. Putnam. $18.99.
It makes sense that the author of the long, rhyming lines in "The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade" is a children's music performer. The story is about the power of one small person to fight prejudice.
Sally, whom no one ever seems to notice, is "paying super extra special attention" to the "terrible stuff" happening around her. When she decides to take action, she's not alone for long.
And Two Boys Booed
By Judith Viorst.
32 pp. Margaret Ferguson/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $16.59.
Ever felt quietly confident one minute, and a shaking mess the next? In Viorst's story about determination, a little boy wakes up thinking about singing his song in the class talent show.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is a writer of "Eda, a Little Valkyrie's First Day of School"?
2: Where is Edda's Home?
3: Is she bored?
4: Where does her dad flies her?
5: Who is the illustrator of "Planet Kindergarten"?
6: How much is the cost?
7: How much is the cost of first book?
8: Who is the writer of third one?
9: How much is the cost of it?
10: Who is the illustrator?
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Is getting a black belt on your life's to-do list? Then this elderly woman in San Francisco just might be your hero. Just two years before her 100th birthday, Sensei Keiko Fukuda has become the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt --- the highest rank in Judo . Fukuda is now one of only four living people who have earned the tenth-degree black belt. Throughout history, only 16 people have ever achieved this honor. Fukuda began practicing Judo in 1935 and is the only surviving student of its founder, Kano Jiguro. At her teacher's requirement, she learned English to help spread Judo internationally. During a time when getting married, building a family and becoming a housewife were the norms ,Fukuda broke from tradition, continuing Judo instead of getting married. "All I did was Judo ... This was my marriage," Fukuda replied tearfully to the San Francisco Chronicle. "This is when my destiny was set. I just imagined how long the road would be." She described the Jiguro's school as "old-fashioned and sexist about belts and ranks". In fact, an edict that prevented women from achieving any higher than a fifth-degree black belt kept Fukuda at that level for 30 years. She finally got the sixth degree in 1972 when a women's division was created. Fukuda thinks Judo and her life to be "gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically". Fukuda says this kind of beauty is not external . She explained. "I believe this inner beauty is true beauty... All my life this has been my dream." Her dream was turned into reality, and the 98-year-old Sensei Keiko Fukuda continues to teach Judo three times a week at a women's Judo training center.
Answer the following questions:
1: How old was Keiko when she got the tenth-degree black belt?
2: What did she learn in order to help spread Judo?
3: How many people have achieved this honor?
4: Did she get married?
5: When did she reach the sixth degree?
6: Does she consider her life gentle?
7: What is true beauty to Fukuda?
8: Who started the art of Judo?
9: Where is she now?
10: What city is Fukuda in?
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(CNN)Just how cold and miserable is it in upstate New York?
It's apparently so miserable that even those whose job it is to encourage visits to Ithaca are telling tourists they probably should make other plans.
Web visitors who go to VisitIthaca.com, the Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau website, will now see a pop-up banner that says, "That's it. We surrender. Winter, you win. Key West anyone?"
Bruce Stoff, director of the Visitors Bureau, came up with the unconventional marketing campaign.
"It was 5 degrees below zero this morning when I woke up," Stoff said Monday. "Everyone in the Northeast is beaten by winter now, and we're dreaming of being someplace that is warm."
The message goes on to say, "Due to this ridiculously stupid winter, Ithaca invites you to visit the Florida Keys this week. Please come back when things thaw out. Really, it's for the birds here now." It provides a link to the Keys website at fla-keys.com.
A spokesperson for the Florida Keys Tourism Council called the initiative "the wackiest thing I've ever seen in my life from a tourism marketing standpoint."
Andy Newman got a call from Stoff last week pitching the idea and asking for permission to use pictures of the Florida Keys homepage.
This wasn't an advertising campaign, Newman said, and no money was exchanged.
"I didn't believe he'd actually go through with it," Newman said.
But considering the weather conditions in the Keys right now, he understands.
"It's in the 70s, there's no snow and no frost on the ground," Newman said.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is the director of the Visitors Bureau?
2: Is the weather in upstate New York pleasant?
3: What is the web address for Ithaca tourism?
4: Where do they suggest you visit instead?
5: Who represents Florida Keys tourism?
6: Did any money change hands for the endorsement?
7: What is the weather like in Florida?
8: How cold is it in Ithaca?
9: Why did Stoff contact Newman?
10: Did Newman believe he would actually employ the campaign?
11: What are people in the northeast dreaming about?
12: Did Winter beat Ithaca?
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On June 26, 2000, two scientists, called Francis Collins and Craig Venter, told the world that they could read the whole "map" of the human body: DNA. DNA is something that everybody has, and it tells the body what to do. DNA is the reason that we look like our mother and father, because we get some of their DNA to make our own. People have been trying to understand the human body for a long time. In 1860, Gregor Mendel discovered a special reason why we look the same as other people in our family. It is because of small things named "genes" in our body. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick made another discovery and found out that those small parts are real messages written in the DNA with a special language. In 1961, Marshall Nirenberg and Johann Matthaci found a message in DNA showing how DNA tells the cell to build its parts. Scientists have now found all the words in the DNA map, but we still do not understand what they all do. By understanding what just one "word" means, we can help save more people from several illnesses. Most people hope that this will help make better medicine and help sick people. Other people worry that when people begin to know more words and find out lots of other information, we might use it in a wrong way, just to make people more attractive, or stop sick people from getting jobs. Man would have to meet a lot of trouble if DNA technic wasn't limited in use.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is a map of the human body called?
2: Who said they could read this map?
3: Is RNA why we resemble our parents?
4: Is the study of it new?
5: Who studied it first?
6: What year was that?
7: Did he discover chromosomes?
8: What did he discover?
9: When was the next epiphany on this topic?
10: Who unearthed it?
11: When was the next breakthrough?
12: Are researchers now fully experts in this science?
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John von Neumann (/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/; Hungarian: Neumann János Lajos, pronounced [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, fluid dynamics and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.
He was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics, in the development of functional analysis, a principal member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (as one of the few originally appointed), and a key figure in the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata, the universal constructor and the digital computer. He published 150 papers in his life; 60 in pure mathematics, 20 in physics, and 60 in applied mathematics. His last work, an unfinished manuscript written while in the hospital, was later published in book form as The Computer and the Brain.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the nationality of John von Neumann
2: When was he born
3: What does he do?
4: Was he member of Manhattan Project?
5: Did he publish any book?
6: Which book?
7: When did he die?
8: Where did he write his last work?
9: Did he write any book on maths
10: How many paper did he write then?
11: How about physics then?
12: Who develop the game theory?
13: How many paper did he publish in applied maths
14: What are the field at which he has a major contribution?
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Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the vice-chancellor known as the delegates of the press. They are headed by the secretary to the delegates, who serves as OUP's chief executive and as its major representative on other university bodies. Oxford University has used a similar system to oversee OUP since the 17th century.
The university became involved in the print trade around 1480, and grew into a major printer of Bibles, prayer books, and scholarly works. OUP took on the project that became the "Oxford English Dictionary" in the late 19th century, and expanded to meet the ever-rising costs of the work. As a result, the last hundred years has seen Oxford publish children's books, school text books, music, journals, the World's Classics series, and a best-selling range of English language teaching texts to match its academic and religious titles. Moves into international markets led to OUP opening its own offices outside the United Kingdom, beginning with New York City in 1896. With the advent of computer technology and increasingly harsh trading conditions, the Press's printing house at Oxford was closed in 1989, and its former paper mill at Wolvercote was demolished in 2004. By contracting out its printing and binding operations, the modern OUP publishes some 6,000 new titles around the world each year. As part of a charitable organization, OUP is committed to major financial support of its parent university, and furthers the university's aims of excellence in scholarship, research, and education through its publishing activities.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the biggest university press in the world?
2: Is it also the oldest?
3: Which one is?
4: What institution is the press part of?
5: When did they get involved in printing?
6: What did they produce at the time?
7: Who governs the entity?
8: What are they called?
9: Who appoints them?
10: Who leads them?
11: How long has this system been in place?
12: What was their famous project?
13: When did that begin?
14: Did that result in them growing smaller?
15: When did they enter markets outside the UK?
16: In what year did that start?
17: In which city?
18: When did their original printing house close?
19: What caused that?
20: How many titles do they publish each year, now?
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One day when Jack was walking in the park, he saw a woman, who lived a few miles away, sitting on a bench with a dog beside her. The dog was looking up at the woman. Jack walked up to the woman and said, "Hello, Sue, how are you? May I sit and talk with you for a while?" "Of course, please sit down," Sue said. Jack sat down next to Sue on the bench, and they talked quietly together. The dog continued to look up at Sue, as if waiting to be fed. "That's a nice dog, isn't he?" Jack said, pointing at the animal. "Yes, he is. He's handsome. He's a bit of a mixture , but that's not a bad thing. He's strong and healthy." "And hungry," Jack said. "He hasn't taken his eyes off you. He thinks you've got some food for him." "That's true," Sue said. "But I haven't." They both laughed and then Jack said, "Does your dog bite?" "No," Sue said, "He's never bitten anyone. He's always gentle and friendly." Hearing this, Jack decided to hold out his hand and touched the animal's head. Suddenly it jumped up and bit him. "Hey!" Jack shouted. "You said your dog didn't bite." Sue answered in surprise, "Yeah, I did. But this is not my dog. Mine's at home."
Answer the following questions:
1: Does Sue's dog bite?
2: Where is her dog?
3: Why was she surprised?
4: Who was bitten?
5: When did Jack walk?
6: Who was seen?
7: Where did she live?
8: What was she doing?
9: What was next to her?
10: Who is the woman?
11: Were they acquainted?
12: What kind of dog is it?
13: How did he look?
14: What did he think Sue had?
15: Did she have any?
16: Who was laughing?
17: What did Jack gesture at?
18: What kind?
19: Was he ugly?
20: Was he sick?
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(EW.com) -- Good news (we guess?) for Ronn Moss fans: Don't go looking for a brand new Ridge to take over for the old one on CBS' "The Bold and the Beautiful."
Once Moss' last episode airs on Sept. 14, "B&B" has no plans to fill the void, the sudser's head writer told TV Guide.
"Ridge will not be dead or presumed dead," said Bradley Bell. "He will just not be in the picture. I don't want to do a presumed death because I don't want the story that follows to be all about Ridge. This will be a Brooke story. Ridge is a pivotal part of the show and he will be back in a matter of time...and probably not all that much time. I will continue writing for the character. I'm looking at this in two phases, really. There will be a period of time without Ridge, which is where some new, interesting avenues for Brooke will come into play. But at some point it will be necessary for Ridge to return to the show. Who will be playing the role at that point remains to be seen."
EW broke the news last week that Moss has decided to leave CBS soap that he's been on since its 1987 debut. He said this on his Facebook page: "I want to make sure, without any doubt, that you guys all know how much I love you. Your support during this time and hopefully beyond is everything. I can't say anything yet, but soon will explain. Hang in there with me, We have a wonderful new journey ahead of us.
Answer the following questions:
1: When does his last episode air?
2: what does B&B stand for?
3: will Ridge be killed off?
4: When did EW tell everyone Moss would be leaving?
5: What year did he join?
6: Where did he publish his parting statement?
7: Does he love his fans?
8: When will he tell the fans more about his decision?
9: Will they still write for his character?
10: Who will have new interesting adventures?
11: Is it it needed for him to come back?
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One hot afternoon in the summertime a family and their dog were getting ready to have a dinnertime picnic in the park. The dishes in the picnic included peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, watermelons, potato salad, and chocolate cookies. When they got to the park the father, George, was looking for a good place to have the picnic. While they were walking they bumped into their neighbors, Robert and Natalie, and their twins, Anson and Anne and their dog Emile. Robert explained that it was the twins' birthday and they were celebrating by going out for a walk. They said goodbye and kept looking for a picnic spot. He chose a nice spot under a tree that would keep the family cool. While setting up the picnic, the mother, Barbara, told the son, Ralph to go play with their dog, Scout, to pass some time until it was time for dinner. Ralph found a stick and began to play fetch with Scout down the hill. Some time passed and Ralph began to return to the picnic with Scout. Along the way back he picked a flower to give to his mom because it was Mother's day. When he arrived he gave the flower to his mom and she said, "Thank you so much, Ralph!" His mother poured him a cool and tasty glass of lemonade. It tasted extra good because it was so hot outside! Ralph sat down and enjoyed the picnic with his family under the large tree.
Answer the following questions:
1: what did he give his mom?
2: Why?
3: What tasted good?
4: What was the temperature?
5: What did Ralph find?
6: What did he play with it?
7: Who with?
8: Who is the other dog?
9: Who is Ralph's dad?
10: And his mom?
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(CNN) -- An Arizona couple who wanted to adopt a woman's baby know more than they're saying about the 8-month-old boy's disappearance, police say.
Gabriel Johnson hasn't been seen since December 26, police said, and his mother was arrested last week in Miami Beach, Florida, after not reporting for a December 28 child custody hearing in Arizona.
"We have some good indications at this point with our investigation that Tammi and Jack Smith do know more information than they have provided to us that could possibly lead us to Gabriel," Sgt. Steve Carbajal, spokesman for the Tempe (Arizona) Police Department, told HLN's Nancy Grace on Thursday.
For their part, the Smiths told HLN's Jean Casarez on "Nancy Grace" that they voluntarily took polygraph tests Friday at the Tempe Police Department.
"The polygraph test is not like what you see on TV," Jack Smith said. "It's almost like being strapped into the electric chair, so it's very intensive. And we were very happy to do it."
The Smiths have said they met Elizabeth Johnson, 23, seven months ago during a long layover at an airport, and later the three discussed a plan to adopt Johnson's child, Gabriel.
But the boy's father, Logan McQueary, has legal custody and has said Elizabeth Johnson urged him to sign papers giving the Smiths custody of the boy, but he refused.
"She didn't want Logan to have the baby, and we couldn't adopt the baby because Logan wouldn't sign the papers," Tammi Smith said on "Nancy Grace."
Answer the following questions:
1: What did the AZ couple want to do?
2: how old?
3: what happened?
4: name of baby?
5: date last seen?
6: Moms name?
7: age?
8: Where was mom arrested?
9: when was court date?
10: who is steve carbajal?
11: Did they go on TV?
12: What station?
13: What show?
14: Did boy have a dad?
15: name?
16: did he have custody?
17: Did the anyone take a polygraph test?
18: who?
19: was it easy?
20: were they happy to do it?
21: Did they pass the test?
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CHAPTER II
SOMETHING OF THE PAST
"The horses are running away!"
"Oh, we'll be killed!"
Such were the cries from the two girls as the mettlesome grays tore along the country highway at a speed that seemed marvelous.
"Dave, can I help you?" asked Ben, anxiously.
"I don't think so," answered the young driver between his set teeth. "I guess I can bring them down. Anyway, I can try."
"What shall we do?" wailed Jessie.
"Don't do anything--sit still," ordered Dave. He was afraid that Jessie in her excitement might fling herself from the flying sleigh.
On and on bounded the frightened team. Each of the grays now had his bit in his teeth, and it looked as if it would be impossible for Dave to obtain control of the pair. And, worst of all, they were now approaching a turn, with the hill on one side of the roadway and a gully on the other.
"Better keep them as far as possible away from the gully," suggested Ben.
"That is what I'm trying to do," returned Dave, setting his teeth grimly.
Dave Porter was a resolute youth, always doing his best to accomplish whatever he set out to do. Had it been otherwise, it is not likely that he would have occupied the position in which we found him at the opening of our story.
When a very small youth Dave had been found wandering along the railroad tracks near Crumville. He could tell little about himself or how he had come in that position; and kind people had taken him in and later on had placed him in the local poorhouse. From that institution he had been taken by an old college professor, named Caspar Potts, who at that time had been farming for his health.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is driving?
2: What is the vehicle?
3: What's making it move?
4: Are they going too fast?
5: Why?
6: Who offered Dave some assistance?
7: Is he a passenger?
8: Who else is riding along?
9: What are their names?
10: Do you know the other ones name?
11: Is Dave and old man?
12: Does he take pride in his work?
13: Was he an orphan/
14: Where did someone find him?
15: What was the closest town?
16: did someone take care of him?
17: who?
18: What was his name?
19: Where did he get him?
20: What are the horses coming upon?
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CHAPTER XII
SHALL A MAN ESCAPE HIS FATE?
On the way to the Danish Legation, Colonel Harris asked Luke what his plans were for the evening.
"I shall," replied Luke, "call at Grosvenor Square. I may find Uncle Rad, or Philip, or both at home. I mean to have a good tussle about this wintering abroad. It's really most important."
"I call it criminal," retorted Colonel Harris, "keeping a man in London who has been used to go south in the winter for the past twenty years at least."
"Uncle Rad is still fairly well now, though I do think he looks more feeble than usual. He ought to go at once."
"But," suggested Louisa, "he oughtn't to go alone."
"No. He certainly ought not."
"Would Mr. de Mountford go with him?"
"I don't think so."
"This new man of his, then?"
"That," said Luke hotly, "would be madness. The man is really a drunkard."
"But somebody ought to go."
"Edie would be only too willing--if she is allowed."
"Edie?" exclaimed Louisa.
And she added with a smile:
"What will Reggie Duggan have to say to that?"
"Nothing," he replied quietly. "Reggie Duggan has cried off."
"You don't mean that."
"He has given up Edie who has little or nothing a year, and become engaged to Marian Montagu who has eight thousand pounds a year of her own."
"Poor Edie!" murmured Louisa, whilst Colonel Harris's exclamation was equally to the point and far more forcible, and more particularly concerned the Honourable Reginald Duggan.
Answer the following questions:
1: whats the name of the chapter ?
2: who thinks is criminal ?
3: colonel who ?
4: what is crinminal ?
5: for how many years is mentioned ?
6: who is still well ?
7: should he go at once ?
8: should he go alone ?
9: who said that ?
10: who agreed with her ?
11: who asked luke about plans ?
12: on the way to where ?
13: how many people would be at home ?
14: who are they ?
15: and the other ?
16: what is important ?
17: about what ?
18: who is a drunk ?
19: who would be willing ?
20: who questioned edie ?
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I once went on a week-long backpacking trip through the mountains. We had a lot of fun and saw a lot of animals. We saw two bears on the first. We also saw one buffalo. During the week we climbed four different mountains. The best day of the trip was the last day. On the last day we heard that one of best things to do was to climb the last mountain at night so that way you could watch the sunrise on top of the mountain. We had to wake up at two in the morning to do the climb. It was very tough to climb a mountain at night. We finally got to the top of the mountain at five in the morning. We watched the sunrise an hour later at six in the morning. It was very beautiful. In fact, at one time because of the rise of the mountain you it was daytime in front of us and nighttime behind us. This was one of the best times in my life.
Answer the following questions:
1: How long was the backpacking trip?
2: How many people went on the trip?
3: How many mountains did they scale?
4: Which day has the author's favorite?
5: On that day, how long did it take to get to the summit?
6: How long did they stay?
7: Was this climb easy?
8: When did they first see sunlight?
9: What did the author mean by it being day in front and night behind?
10: Why did they start at night?
11: How much wildlife did they see?
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Do you like Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf ? It's an interesting cartoon movie. Do you want to know what they do in their village every day? I'm Nuan Yangyang. On school days, I always go to school at 8:00 in the morning. Then I go home at four fifteen in the afternoon. Then I do my homework at 5:00 in the afternoon. I have no homework on weekends. I'm Fei Yangyang. I want to be healthy, so I always get up at six o'clock in the morning. And I run to a sports club to play sports at 8:15 in the morning. Then I play games with my friends and get home at three o'clock in the afternoon. I'm Lan Yangyang. I love eating and sleeping. And I don't like doing sports. I have meals at home but I never wash the dishes . I'm Mei Yangyang. I am a pretty girl. I like going to clothes stores. The clothes there are nice, so I often buy nice skirts there. I go to a singing club on weekends. I'm Xi Yangyang. I like helping others. So I usually take the bus to the English club at ten thirteen in the morning. There I help two kids learn to speak English.
Answer the following questions:
1: How does Nuan begin the day?
2: Isn't that Fei?
3: Thought so, what does Nuan do?
4: When does she return to her house?
5: Does she have the evening free?
6: What time does Fei get in?
7: When does he get out of bed?
8: Does Lan like sports?
9: What does Mei like?
10: Is she ugly?
11: Is she home on the weekends?
12: Where does she go?
13: Does Xi go to the same kind of club?
14: What kind does she?
15: In the evening?
16: The morning?
17: How does she get there?
18: Is she learning English?
19: Who is?
20: From her?
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Washington (CNN) -- There are political upstarts, rebels with and without a cause, and then there's Ted Cruz.
The first-term Republican senator from Texas has achieved the rare notoriety of having almost everyone in Washington mad at him, at least for now.
His legislative maneuverings led to last year's 16-day government shutdown, and he almost single-handedly scuttled this week's congressional approval of a year-long debt ceiling extension that denies fiscal conservatives a key negotiating tool until after the November elections.
Democrats dislike Cruz for his right-wing social and economic policies such as vehement opposition to gay marriage and President Barack Obama's signature health care reforms.
Cruz's Republican colleagues, especially those in the Senate, are angry because he forces them to choose between conservative purity and political pragmatism, a particularly tough spot in an election year.
To Cruz, a tea-party favorite who arrived in Washington just over a year ago, it's all about telling the truth -- as he sees it.
Election-year logic explains GOP dysfunction
Cruz: Politicians are lying to the people
Washington politicians -- including fellow Republicans -- don't want to be honest with America about their unwillingness to tackle tough issues like the rising federal debt, Cruz said Thursday in an interview with conservative talk radio host Mark Levin.
"People don't like to be lied to," he said to explain historically low approval ratings for Congress, adding that forcing Republican politicians to tell the truth "makes their head explode."
Others, including fellow legislators, say Cruz puts his personal agenda of galvanizing a right-wing political movement ahead of what's best for his party as a whole as it tries to reclaim control of the Senate and retain its House majority in November.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Ted Cruz's position?
2: Where is he from?
3: How do people in Washington feel about him?
4: Did he cause the shutdown?
5: How long did it last?
6: Why do opposition party members not like Cruz?
7: What else?
8: What are his own party members mad at him for?
9: Does the Tea Party like Cruz?
10: Does he believe honesty is important?
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CHAPTER XXV.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
At first Jimmy thought they were the perpetrators of the deed, but almost immediately he recognized one of them as O'Donnell, the erstwhile traffic officer who had been promoted to a detective sergeancy since Jimmy had first met him.
"Compton has been murdered," said Jimmy dully. "He is dead."
"Put up your hands," snapped O'Donnell for the second time, "and be quick about it!"
It was then for the first time that Jimmy realized the meaning that might be put upon his presence alone in the office with his dead employer. O'Donnell's partner searched him, but found no weapon upon him.
"Where's the gat?" he asked.
"Whoever did this probably took it with him," said Jimmy. "Find the watchman."
They made Jimmy sit down in a corner, and while one of them guarded him the other called up central, made his report, and asked for an ambulance and the wagon. Then O'Donnell commenced to examine the room. A moment later he found an automatic behind the door across the room from where Compton's body lay.
"Ever see this before?" asked O'Donnell, holding the pistol up to Jimmy.
"If you're asking me if it's mine, no," said Jimmy. "I have a gun, but it's home. I never carry it. I didn't do this, O'Donnell," he continued. "There was no reason why I should do it, so instead of wasting your time on me while the murderer escapes you'd better get busy on some other theory, too. It won't do any harm, anyway."
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the protagonist's name?
2: Who did he recognize?
3: What were his first thoughts about them?
4: What was O'Donnell's job?
5: And his current rank?
6: Had he been demoted?
7: What did the sergeant order him to do?
8: Did the officer say he could take his time?
9: What crime had been committed?
10: What was the name of the victim?
11: Had Jimmy been with him in the company of others?
12: What did the police do to him?
13: Did they locate a weapon on him?
14: Did the police ask him about a gun?
15: Where did Jimmy think it might be?
16: What did he suggest the police do?
17: What did the cops make him do next?
18: Who did they call?
19: What did they request?
20: Where did they finally locate the handgun?
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One day in my class, Maria shared her feelings about money, "Money worries me. I think I want to live without money because I hate it. I HATE MONEY." We were all touched by Maria's words as they reminded us of the spiritual burdens that money managing can bring to us. After class I offered to help Maria deal with her financial problems. She hesitated to accept my offer, and I could see from the expression on her face that she was afraid of what it might involve. I quickly promised her that I wouldn't make her do more than she was able to. I told her frankly that I didn't enjoy managing my money any more than she did hers and wouldn't burden her with guilt, judgments, or impossible tasks. All I would ask her to do was to let me help her look at her fears and try to make some sense of them.
Maria still resisted my offer, and I can remember the excuses she gave me as they were the repeated complaints I had heard from so many people. "I'11 never understand money," she said. "My facts are meaningless." "I don't deserve to have money." "I never have enough," "I have too little to manage." "My financial position isn't worth looking at." and the most _ one of all, "I just can't do it."
Going home that day, I couldn't get Maria out of my mind: Her attitude conveyed the same negativity and fear that I believed annoyed many people. I was sure it was this attitude that prevented people from managing their money effectively. My counseling has taught me that these anxieties are inseparably connected to our self-doubts and fear for survival. Many of us are terrified of handling our money because we don't believe we can do it well, and to do it wrong would put our very existence at risk.
On a deeper level we know that money is not the source of life, but sense of worth drives us to act as if it were. It locks us up in self-doubts and prevents us from tapping into the true source of our management power, our spirit.
Answer the following questions:
1: What does Maria hate?
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Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last monarch of the House of Tudor.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed two-and-a-half years after Elizabeth's birth. Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Her half-brother, Edward VI, ruled until his death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to Lady Jane Grey and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, Elizabeth and the Roman Catholic Mary, in spite of statute law to the contrary. Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
In 1558, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister to the throne and set out to rule by good counsel. She depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers, led by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. One of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement was to evolve into the Church of England. It was expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir to continue the Tudor line. She never did, despite numerous courtships. As she grew older, Elizabeth became famous for her virginity. A cult grew around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants, and literature of the day.
Answer the following questions:
1: who was the queen of england?
2: What was her other names?
3: Who was she the daughter of?
4: What was her brother's name?
5: Did he ever rule?
6: until when?
7: What happened in 1558?
8: What was one of her first actions?
9: What was she most famous for?
10: Did people admire her?
11: What did she get arrested for?
12: When did she die?
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Today there are policemen everywhere, but in 1700, London had no policemen at all. A few old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid. About 300 years ago, London was starting to get bigger and more and more people began to live there. The city was very dirty and many people were poor. There were so many thieves who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their homes as much as possible. In 1750,Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves. They were like policemen and were called "Bow Street Runners" because they worked near Bow Street. Fifty years later, there were 120 "Bow Street Runners", but London had become very big and needed more policemen. So in 1829 , the first Metropolitan(or London)Police Force was started with 3,000 officers. Most of the men worked on foot, but a few rode horses. Until 1920 all the police in London were men. Today, London police are quite well paid and for the few police officers who still ride horses, the pay is even better than for the others.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many police were in london in 1700?
2: What group did Henry Fielding start to stop thieves?
3: Did any of the offices patrol on horseback during in 1829?
4: Were there any policewomen in 1920 or before?
5: 300 Years before, why did everyone stay indoors as much as possible?
6: Who protected the town before 1700?
7: When was the first official metro workforce created?
8: And how many?
9: Are today's workforce underpaid?
10: Are horseback riders used today?
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Existentialism () is the work associated mainly with certain late-19th- and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual. While the predominant value of existentialist thought is commonly acknowledged to be freedom, its primary virtue is authenticity. In the view of the existentialist, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude", or a sense of disorientation, confusion, or dread in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world. Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophies, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.
Søren Kierkegaard is generally considered to have been the first existentialist philosopher, though he did not use the term existentialism. He proposed that each individual—not society or religion—is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately and sincerely, or "authentically". Existentialism became popular in the years following World War II, and strongly influenced many disciplines besides philosophy, including theology, drama, art, literature, and psychology.
The term is often seen as a historical convenience as it was first applied to many philosophers in hindsight, long after they had died. In fact, while existentialism is generally considered to have originated with Kierkegaard, the first prominent existentialist philosopher to adopt the term as a self-description was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre posits the idea that "what all existentialists have in common is the fundamental doctrine that existence precedes essence", as scholar Frederick Copleston explains. According to philosopher Steven Crowell, defining existentialism has been relatively difficult, and he argues that it is better understood as a general approach used to reject certain systematic philosophies rather than as a systematic philosophy itself. Sartre himself, in a lecture delivered in 1945, described existentialism as "the attempt to draw all the consequences from a position of consistent atheism".
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is thought to be the first philosopher to be an existentialist?
2: Did he call his way of thinking existentialism?
3: Who did he say is responsible for having meaning in one's life?
4: Instead of what?
5: Did this way of thought become popular after the second World War?
6: What are some other disciplines that existentialism influenced?
7: Where do these philosophers believe that thinking begins?
8: Instead of?
9: Is authenticity the main value of this type of thinking?
10: What is the main value then?
11: And what is authenticity?
12: What type of world does an existentialist think we live in?
13: What is the beginning point of an individual called?
14: Is that a feeling of happiness and order?
15: What then?
16: What do people who hold these beliefs think about academic philosophies?
17: Were those who thought this way called existentialists at the time?
18: Who was the first one to call himself by this term?
19: Does Steven Crowell believe that it is easy to define existentialism?
20: When did Sartre lecture about this?
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(CNN) -- Rutgers quarterback Philip Nelson has been dismissed from the football team, the school's coach said Tuesday.
Nelson had been arrested Sunday and charged in connection with an assault that apparently left Isaac Kolstad -- a former linebacker for Minnesota State University, Mankato -- in critical condition.
"The Rutgers football family's thoughts and prayers are with Isaac Kolstad and his family," football coach Kyle Flood said, referring to the young man whom Nelson is accused of assaulting.
Nelson, 20, faces one count of first-degree assault and one count of third-degree assault.
Authorities in Minnesota also arrested a second person in connection with the assault, a Mankato, Minnesota, city spokeswoman said.
Trevor Stenner Shelley, 21, was arrested Monday afternoon. He is charged with first- and third-degree assault.
Officers found Kolstad, who graduated in December, near a downtown intersection. He was transported by ambulance to a local hospital.
Kolstad, 24, was in critical condition after suffering a severe head injury, his family said.
Nelson was a recent transfer to Rutgers. A native of Mankato, Minnesota, he played at the University of Minnesota, according to Rutgers' website. Nelson never played a down for Rutgers before his dismissal.
CNN's Mariano Castillo and Dana Ford contributed to this report.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who has been dismissed from the football team?
2: What was he accused of?
3: Who was the victim?
4: How old?
5: What did he suffer?
6: Is he in a critical condition?
7: has another suspect been arrested too?
8: What's the name?
9: How old?
10: What University did Nelson play?
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So ill he could not move, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart supposedly sang parts of his final masterpiece, "Requiem," from his deathbed. Two centuries later, the exact cause of the Austrian composer's premature death, in December 1791 at age 35, is still a mystery.
This portrait by painter Johann Georg Edlinger, showed Mozart not long before his mysterious death in 1791.
Theories abound. It's known that his entire body was so swollen he couldn't turn over in bed; some say jealous rivals poisoned him, while others suggest scarlet fever, tuberculosis, or lethal trichinosis from undercooked pork.
Now, new evidence points to an altogether different conclusion: Mozart may have died from kidney damage caused by a strep infection, possibly strep throat. Health.com: Can't stop coughing? 8 causes of chronic cough
Dr. Richard H.C. Zegers of the University of Amsterdam and his colleagues analyzed data from Vienna's death registry. Researchers had not previously analyzed the daily death registry -- begun in handwritten script in 1607 and maintained until 1920 -- for clues to Mozart's death.
Zegers and his team looked at information for 5,011 adults who died during three consecutive winters starting in 1790, as well as eyewitness accounts of Mozart's death, according to the study published this week in Annals of Internal Medicine.
"By looking at the patterns of death during Mozart's time and combining them with the signs and symptoms of his final disease, we have not one but two pillars on which our theory is built," said Zegers. "Although we can't be 100 percent conclusive, I'm convinced that we have come very near the exact reason he died."
Answer the following questions:
1: When did Vienna start their death registry?
2: When does it end?
3: How was it written in the beginning?
4: Who has been looking it over?
5: From where?
6: What are they hoping to find?
7: Are they the first to do this?
8: When did Mozart die?
9: What month?
10: How old was he?
11: Are there rumors about how he died
12: Who might have poisoned him?
13: Where could he have picked up trichinosis?
14: Can that be fatal?
15: What did he do while on his deathbed?
16: What?
17: Who painted a picture of him?
18: Why couldn't he flip over?
19: What is a current theory on his cause of death?
20: From what?
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On paper, the race in Kentucky between Sen. Mitch McConnell and his Democratic challenger, Alison Lundergan Grimes, should be pretty clear-cut: The experienced veteran easily beats a political novice. But like most things, it's not.
McConnell must cross the first hurdle by beating his primary challenger, Matt Bevin, before he engages in what is expected to be one of the most expensive and bitterly fought Senate campaigns this midterm season.
A lot is at stake overall in November: control of the Senate and the political fate of one of the most powerful Republicans in Washington.
Grimes' advantage
Grimes, 35, was just 7 when McConnell was first elected to the Senate.
Mitch McConnell would face biggest challenge yet in Alison Grimes
While he rose up the ranks in Washington and became Senate Republican leader, Grimes practiced law and won statewide office as secretary of state in 2011.
Despite her short political career, like McConnell, her name carries weight -- for better or worse.
Grimes' family has a long history in state Democratic politics. Her father, Jerry, was the former chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party and a state legislator. But he was forced out of those roles over legal problems facing his catering company.
While the family name has been battered, its connections survive: She'll have access to the deep pockets and support of her father's allies, including Bill and Hillary Clinton.
The former President has already hit the trail for Grimes, raising more than $600,000 at one Louisville event in February.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is in a race?
2: For what?
3: When is the election?
4: Who has a challenge ahead?
5: What is it?
6: Who is that?
7: At what?
8: How old is grimes?
9: Did something happen when she was young?
10: To what?
11: How old was she?
12: Will she be easy to defeat?
13: Who is her family friends with?
14: How does that help?
15: Are they willing to do that?
16: How?
17: Who do the Clinton's know in her family?
18: What is his name?
19: Did the president raise any money?
20: Where at?
21: When?
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Boston (CNN)It was 9:35 on a slow Thursday night in April 2013 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Chief John DiFava was about to call it quits. On his way out, he saw one of his rookie swing-shift officers, Sean Collier, sitting in his cruiser. He stopped to say goodnight.
"I chatted with him for a few minutes. I told him to be safe and I left," the chief told a crowded courtroom on Wednesday. He estimated the conversation lasted three, maybe four minutes.
"Did you ever see Sean Collier alive again after that?" Assistant U.S. Attorney William Weinreb asked.
"I did not."
Less than an hour later, Collier lay bleeding in his patrol car after being ambushed and shot in the head. His car door was open, and his foot was lodged between the gas and brake pedals.
DiFava and other officers, assisted by surveillance videos, 911 callers and a lone bicyclist who happened to be passing by, recounted Collier's last moments in the death penalty trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The bicyclist, MIT mathematics Ph.D. candidate Nathan Harman, pointed to Tsarnaev in court and identified him as the man with "a big nose," who he saw leaning into Collier's squad car. He said Tsarnaev appeared to be alone.
Tsarnaev, who was 19 at the time, does not dispute that he was present when Collier was killed on the evening of April 18, nor does he deny that he participated in the bombings three days earlier that killed three people and hurt more than 240 others.
Answer the following questions:
1: What time was it?
2: What day of the week?
3: Night or day?
4: Who is Assistant U.S. Attorney
5: Who did he talk about
6: What month was it?
7: What year?
8: What city?
9: Was John DiFava a Police Chief
10: Where?
11: Who is Sean Collier
12: Is he dead?
13: Who is Nathan Harman
14: Does he bicycle?
15: Who is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
16: How many people did he injure?
17: How many people did he kill?
18: What was the date of that?
19: How old was the bomber?
20: What was the date when Collier died?
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Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry.
Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then, the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own study of explosives in his father's lab. He had never been to school or university but had taught himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries.
He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and money working on how to end the wars, and the peace between nations, until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous last will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideas. And so, the man is remembered and respected long after his death.
Answer the following questions:
1: When did Alfred Nobel die?
2: Who was his father?
3: What did he invent?
4: Where was Alfred birthed?
5: In what year?
6: Where did his family move?
7: When did that happen?
8: What kind of profession did his dad do?
9: Did his father make a good amount of money?
10: Did he lose it at some point?
11: When did they go back to their home country?
12: What profession was Nobel the son?
13: What did he work on?
14: Did he have a high education experience?
15: What languages could he speak?
16: How many companies did he build?
17: Where these companies in multiple cities?
18: In how many countries?
19: Was finding the purpose of life important to him?
20: Where did he die?
21: What does his will fund?
22: Will he be remembered?
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- In the midst of the ongoing culture wars, can it be a good idea to put out a comedy about two Stone Age men who wander into the Bible?
In "Year One," Jack Black stars as an inquisitive Stone Age man, with Michael Cera as his sidekick.
Harold Ramis thinks so.
"Year One," which he directed, concerns two men -- played by Jack Black and Michael Cera -- who leave their home and, in their travels, meet biblical characters such as Cain, Abel, Abraham and Isaac. Among the locales: ancient Sodom, which "didn't seem worse than Las Vegas to me," Ramis told CNN.
"Year One" comes out Friday.
Ramis, whose writing and directing credits include "Groundhog Day" and "Analyze This," said it was time for a new biblical epic -- of sorts.
"No one had done this film for our generation," he told CNN. It's like, you know, when 'Animal House' [which Ramis co-wrote] came out, there were college films. Every generation had college films, but our generation didn't have one yet, and I don't know that our generation - this young, new generation of kids has a, you know, a sandal epic yet, and this is the one. This is for them."
Ramis rounded up a cast of comedians familiar to any watcher of Judd Apatow-produced movies -- no surprise, since Apatow is a producer of "Year One." Christopher Mintz-Plasse ("Superbad"), Horatio Sanz ("Saturday Night Live," "Step Brothers") and Bill Hader ("Tropic Thunder") all have parts.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is the director of the movie being described?
2: Who plays the leads?
3: What are their characters?
4: What's the title of the movie?
5: What time period is it set in?
6: Who was the movie geared towards?
7: Who is the producer?
8: What is Sodom compared to?
9: Which Characters will Black and Cera encounter?
10: What other movies does Ramis have to his name?
11: What kind of actors was he looking to cast?
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Yorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels of the 19th century. These were Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. The youngest sister, Anne, was also a gifted novelist, and her books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters'.
Their father was Patrick Bronte, born in Ireland. He moved with his wife, Maria Bronte, and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after, Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children died, leaving the father to care of the remaining three girls and a boy.
Charlotte was born in 1816. Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820. Their brother Branwell was born in 1817. Left to themselves, the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew up largely self-educated. Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn money for his art education. They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.
As children they had all written many stories. Charlotte, as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books, each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting. Therefore, they turned to writing for income. By 1847, Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily, Wuthering Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher , but there was no interest shown in Charlotte's book. (It was not published until 1859.) However, one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her works. Jane Eyre was already started, and she hurriedly finished it. It was accepted at once; thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847.
Jane Eyre was immediately successful; the other two, however, did not do so well. People did not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild, too animal-like. But gradually it came to be considered one of the finest novels in the English language. Emily lived only a short while after the publication of the book, and Anne died in 1849.
Charlotte published Shirley in 1849, and Villette in 1853. In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls. But only a year later, she died of tuberculosis as her sisters had.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who had TB?
2: When?
3: Did she get married?
4: to whom?
5: Did she have a brother?
6: What was his name?
7: What did he like to do?
8: When was her youngest sibling born?
9: Was it male or female?
10: And her name?
11: How old was Anne when she died?
12: How old was she?
13: Which sister had a hard time getting her book published?
14: When did it get printed?
15: Which book was too wild for the time?
16: Was it ever widely accepted?
17: What happened to the oldest 2 siblings?
18: What inspired the sisters to earn an income?
19: Which novel sold the most at first?
20: Who wrote it?
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CHAPTER XXXIX. THE PEDLAR'S PREDICTION
But if ne'er so close you wall him, Do the best that you may; Blind Love, if so you call him, Will find out his way. --OLD SONG
'Too late,' muttered Berenger to himself, as he stood by the fire in his prison-chamber. Humfrey and Philip were busy in the vaults, and he was taking his turn in waiting in the sitting-room to disarm suspicion. 'It is too late now, and I thank God that so it is.'
'Do you indeed, M. le Baron?' said a low voice close beside him; and, as he turned in haste, he beheld, at the foot of the turret-stair, the youth Aime de Selinville, holding a dark lantern in his hand, and veiling its light.
'Ha!' and he started to his feet. 'Whence come you?'
'From my Lady,' was the youth's answer. 'She has sent me to ask whether you persist in what you replied to her the other day. For if not, she bids me say that it is not too late.'
'And if I do persevere?'
'Then--ah! what do I know? Who can tell how far malice can go? And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters. Moreover, your researches underground are known.'
'Sir,' said Berenger, the heart-sinking quelled by the effort of resistance, 'Madame de Selinville has my answer--I must take the consequences. Tell her, if she truly wishes me well, the honourable way of saving us would be to let our English friends know what has befallen us.'
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was talking to himself?
2: What was he standing near?
3: Who was in the vaults?
4: Where was Berenger?
5: Who was at the bottom of the steps?
6: What was he holding?
7: Who sent him?
8: What for?
9: Does the messenger care about the response?
10: Who is the response for?
11: What would be the honorable thing for her to do?
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Do you want to know something about children in Africa? What to they do for fun every day? Find out here: Education School is expensive for many African children. Lots of families can't afford school uniforms or exercise books even though they don't have to pay for school. For those lucky enough to go to school , they have a lot to learn. Some take two language classes: English or French, and their first language. There is also math, science, history, social studies and geography. _ take up much of children's time after school. They have to get water and firewood for the family every day. Also there's cleaning , washing and helping Mum with the meal. Daily fun It's not all work and no play. Sports are very popular. Children can make goals with twigs ( )and their own footballs with plastic and bits of string ( ). They play in the country and the streets of old towns. There're many football teams for teenagers in Africa. Internet It's really expensive to get on the Internet. To surf the net for 20 hours costs over 600yuan. This is more than the average monthly pay per person. Egypt and South Africa are the top two users of the Internet in Africa. All of the capital cities there can get on the Internet. Some schools offer computer lessons but few students can enjoy computer fun at home.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is education cheap?
2: does everyone get to go to school?
3: are sports popular?
4: how much does the internet cost for 20 hours?
5: is that less than the monthly pay per person?
6: who are the top two countries in africa?
7: do they have football?
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CHAPTER V.
A NIGHT OF TERROR.
Amos and Jim were early astir on Monday morning, the fifth of March, but before noon came both were convinced that the threatened trouble would blow over without the slightest semblance of a conflict between the soldiers and the citizens.
During the forenoon they had not so much as heard of Hardy Baker, or that faction to which he had allied himself, and Jim said, with a quiet chuckle of satisfaction:
"I reckon the barber got as much of a lesson as he needed Saturday afternoon, and has given over trying to set right the wrongs of the people."
"He must be at work, or we should have heard something regarding him," Amos replied, and then ceased even to think of the apprentice.
Shortly after noon those assembled under the Liberty Tree,--and there were quite as many as had gathered on Friday and Saturday,--were told that the Council had discussed with Governor Hutchinson the question of removing the troops from the city, and assured him the people would be satisfied with nothing else.
It was also said the Governor had refused to do anything regarding the matter; but that Samuel Adams had publicly declared the troops should be sent away, and that without loss of time.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Amos and Jim heard once more from Master Piemont's assistant.
It was told under the Liberty Tree that he had been seen in company with Attucks, the mulatto, and half a dozen others, near Wentworth's Wharf, and that Hardy had distinguished himself by taunting with cowardice, a squad of soldiers, until the redcoats avenged the insults with blows; but nothing more serious than a street brawl was the result.
Answer the following questions:
1: Which tree did people assemble under?
2: What was the name of the Governor?
3: Did the council discuss something with him?
4: What?
5: Did the council assure him of anything>
6: What did the Governor do about it?
7: Who was Attucks?
8: Where was he seen?
9: Who taunted soldiers?
10: What didthe redcoats do about it?
11: Was the result serious?
12: What day of the week were Amos and Jim up early?
13: What was the date?
14: Did they expect conflict that day?
15: What was Hardy's last name?
16: When Jim mentions "the barber" who is he talking about?
17: What's his name?
18: Where does Amos think Hardy is?
19: That was at noon. What time was it when they found out about Hardy?
20: Who had Hardy been seen with besides Attucks?
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Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a continuously updated catalog of human genes and genetic disorders and traits, with a particular focus on the gene-phenotype relationship. , approximately 8,425 of the over 23,000 entries in OMIM represented phenotypes; the rest represented genes, many of which were related to known phenotypes.
OMIM is the online continuation of Dr. Victor McKusick's "Mendelian Inheritance in Man" (MIM), which was published in 12 editions between 1966 and 1998. Nearly all of the 1,486 entries in the first edition of MIM discussed phenotypes.
MIM/OMIM is produced and curated at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM). OMIM became available on the internet in 1987 under the direction of the Welch Medical Library at JHUSOM with financial support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. From 1995 to 2010, OMIM was available on the World Wide Web with informatics and financial support from the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The current OMIM website (OMIM.org), which was developed with funding from JHUSOM, is maintained by Johns Hopkins University with financial support from the National Human Genome Research Institute.
The content of MIM/OMIM is based on selection and review of the published peer-reviewed biomedical literature. Updating of content is performed by a team of science writers and curators under the direction of Dr. Ada Hamosh at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine of Johns Hopkins University. While OMIM is freely available to the public, it is designed for use primarily by physicians and other health care professionals concerned with genetic disorders, by genetics researchers, and by advanced students in science and medicine.
Answer the following questions:
1: what is the article about?
2: does that stand for something?
3: what?
4: what is that?
5: of what?
6: who runs it?
7: does it have a www site?
8: what is it?
9: who is the doctor mentioned?
10: what does she do?
11: who does she work for?
12: where is that?
13: does this catalog continue something else?
14: what?
15: what does that stand for?
16: who started that?
17: when was it first released?
18: is it still in publication?
19: when was it's last publication date?
20: how many publications were there in total?
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London (CNN) -- Prince George will be christened on October 23 at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, announced Friday.
The christening will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby.
Prince George was born July 22 in London.
His parents, Prince William and Catherine, have kept him out of the public eye since he left the hospital a day later.
Media crews from around the world had spent days camped outside the hospital waiting to see the royal baby, who is the great-grandson of Queen Elizabeth II.
The world got its first glimpse of George since then in family photographs released last month. They were taken by Catherine's father, Michael Middleton, in the garden of his Berkshire home.
The baby is third in line for the throne now occupied by the queen. Her son, Charles, would succeed her, followed by his oldest son, William.
Catherine makes first public appearance since royal baby was born
Answer the following questions:
1: When was the subject of this story born?
2: Where?
3: What's his name?
4: Who is his dad?
5: His mom?
6: Have they taken their child out much in public?
7: Who has been trying to spot him?
8: Who is the current Queen of England?
9: What is the baby's relationship to her?
10: When were the first photos of the infant revealed?
11: Who took them?
12: Where?
13: What's the photographer's name?
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Tony was riding his bike home from school. Then he saw Cindy riding her bike in front of him.
Tony yelled, "Hey, Cindy!" Then he rode faster to catch up with her.
Cindy said, "Tony! Hey! Where are you going?"
"I'm going to the empty lot on Maple Street to ride my bike. The other kids are going to be there. Do you want to come?"
"Sure," said Cindy.
Tony and Cindy rode to Maple Street, to the empty lot. The empty lot did not have a house on it. Instead, it had big hills of dirt, and it had trees cut down on the ground. There was a low part that became a pond after it rained. The lot had been empty for a couple of years, because times were bad and the builder couldn't find a buyer for another house. The kids had ridden their bikes over the hills of dirt, around the cut trees, and through the muddy pond. There were bike trails all over the empty lot. There were even places where the kids could jump their bikes.
There were three other children riding their bikes at the empty lot when Tony and Cindy arrived: Lana, Billy and Chris.
Cindy said, "I am calling my mom to let her know that I'm here."
Tony said, "That's a good idea. Can I use your phone when you're done?"
Cindy said "Sure! Keep it for now. I'm going to go on the jump path. I was scared to try it last time. I don't want to break my phone if I fall. I'm leaving my backpack here, too."
"Okay." said Tony. "I'll watch. You'll do good."
Answer the following questions:
1: who was riding their bike?
2: where was he going?
3: from where?
4: who did he see?
5: did he speak to her?
6: what did he say?
7: Did she speak back?
8: what did she say?
9: did they go somewhere together?
10: where?
11: were there others there?
12: how many others?
13: What were their names?
14: what were they doing there?
15: what did Cindy do?
16: did anyone else?
17: who?
18: Who's phone did they use?
19: did he give it back to her?
20: why not?
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What kind of pets do people have in your country? Dogs? Cats? How about a duck, hippo or lion? Here are two cases of animal owners with unusual pets.
Barrie Hayman has a pet duck called Star. Barrie adopted him after his brothers and sisters stayed away from him at birth. Barrie, a duck breeder, realized the little duck needed special attention. So he began taking Star with him everywhere he went. "I would put him in my pocket while I did my shopping," said Barrie. Now, at five months, Star is too big for Barrie's pocket, but the two are still _ . They watch sports, together and even share a drink together. Barrie said, "He is a fantastic duck. I've never known any like him." Star even has his own Facebook page, with more than 2,000 Face book friends.
Then there is the case of Tonie and Shirley Joubert in South Africa. They live with their hippo, Jessica. Tonie saved Jessica from floodwaters when she was only a day old. Jessica lives outside their riverside house, but she knows how to open the kitchen door, and often goes there for a snack. Tonie recently said, "I don't know whether Jessica sees me as a hippo or whether she sees herself as a human." Shirley is more certain, "Jessica sees herself as our child and I see Jessica as my daughter. I can't imagine my life without Jessica." Jessica is free to leave, and often visits wild hippos that live nearby. But she always returns home at night. Jessica's website notes that she has three hippo boyfriends, but one in particular,Fred, is her favorite. They often go grazing together and Fred has recently moved onto the Joubert's house as well.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who has a social media page?
2: and what is it?
3: male or female?
4: who is his caretaker?
5: Is he a chicken rancher?
6: How did he become the caretaker?
7: Who is Jessica?
8: Does she have a social media presence?
9: Where does she reside?
10: Does she see herself as a cat?
11: Is she a bit of a 'player' with the boys?
12: Who's here main squeeze?
13: Do they cohabitate?
14: Who are her caretakers?
15: What do they consider her as?
16: Who likes to have drinks and gaze at the boob tube?
17: How many FB friends do they have?
18: Who likes to graze with each other?
19: Who welcomes them self into the kitchen for a bite to eat?
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(CNN) -- South African pair Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel put their Augusta disappointments behind them to impress in the opening round of the Malaysian Open Thursday.
Schwartzel finished 18 shots off the pace in his defense of the U.S. Masters crown, handing over the Green Jacket to Bubba Watson, who beat Oosthuizen in a dramatic playoff Sunday.
Shrugging off jet lag after a 30-hour journey from Georgia to Kuala Lumpur, Schwartzel powered to an eight-under 64 to claim the first day lead.
Oosthuizen, so close to winning a second major title until denied by Watson's brilliance, produced an excellent 66 to be tied for third.
"Louis and I got off to a good fast start at the beginning and it is always nice when there are a couple of you in the group playing well and pulling each other a long a bit," Schwartzel told the official European Tour website.
"Louis is playing so well right that it is impressive to watch and helped me on," he added.
Oosthuizen conjured up six birdies and an eagle to continue the fine form he displayed in the first major of the season.
"It was a long haul getting here," he said.
"I think me and Charl knew the first round, concentration levels won't be great, but we did well.
"I knew the swing was still good. It was just adapting to the weather and the green speed, but I putted beautifully again today and hope to keep it going for the week."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who played in the Malaysian Open?
2: Who do they play for?
3: How did they do?
4: When did they play?
5: Did one of them recently win the U.S. Masters?
6: Who won Masters this year?
7: Who beat Schwartzel to win the Masters this year?
8: Did Schwartzel have a long flight?
9: From where?
10: How long was it?
11: Did he get off to a good start at the Malaysian Open?
12: Who said that?
13: To who?
14: What else did he say was impressive?
15: How many birdies did Louis get?
16: Did he get any eagles?
17: How many?
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São Paulo (; ; "Saint Paul" in English) is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city—as listed by the GaWC—and is the most populous city in Brazil and Americas as well as in the Southern Hemisphere. The municipality is also the largest in the Americas and Earth's 12th largest city proper by population. The city is the capital of the surrounding state of São Paulo, one of 26 constituent states of the republic. It is the most populous and wealthiest city in Brazil. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The name of the city honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area of Greater São Paulo ranks as the most populous in Brazil, the 11th most populous on Earth, and largest Portuguese language-speaking city in the world.
Having the largest economy by GDP in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere, the city is home to the São Paulo Stock Exchange. Paulista Avenue is the economic core of São Paulo. The city has the 11th largest GDP in the world, representing alone 10.7% of all Brazilian GDP and 36% of the production of goods and services in the state of São Paulo, being home to 63% of established multinationals in Brazil, and has been responsible for 28% of the national scientific production in 2005. With a GDP of US$477 billions, the Sao Paulo city alone could be ranked 24th globally compared with countries. (2016 Estimates).
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Sao Paulo named for?
2: Where is Sao Paulo located?
3: What part?
4: Do more people live there than anywhere else in Brazil?
5: Is there more money there than anywhere else in Brazil?
6: Is it the wealthiest city in Brazil?
7: Looking at the entire planet, where does Sao Paulo rank in city size, by population?
8: How many states are in the republic there?
9: Do more people speak Portuguese in Greater Sao Paulo than anywhere else?
10: By population, where does Greater Sao Paul rank?
11: And in the world?
12: Is Sao Paulo a municipality?
13: Where is their GDP considered the largest?
14: Where else?
15: Is a stock exchange located there?
16: What's it's name?
17: What percentage of of the production of goods in Brazil is in Sao Paulo?
18: How about the national scientific production?
19: What's the money amount of their GDP?
20: Could Sao Paulo be considered the 24th in the world based on that amount?
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CHAPTER VI
WORK!" said Mr. Robert Vyner, severely, as he reclined in a deck-chair on the poop of the Indian Chief and surveyed his surroundings through half-closed eyes. "Work! It’s no good sitting here idling while the world’s work awaits my attention."
Captain Trimblett, who was in a similar posture a yard away, assented. He also added that there was "nothing like it."
"There’s no play without work," continued Mr. Vyner, in a spirit of self-admonition.
The captain assented again. "You said something about work half an hour ago," he remarked.
"And I meant it," said Mr. Vyner; "only in unconscious imitation I dozed off. What I really want is for somebody to take my legs, somebody else my shoulders, and waft me gently ashore."
"I had a cook o’ mine put ashore like that once," said Captain Trimblett, in a reminiscent voice; "only I don’t know that I would have called it ’wafting,’ and, so far as my memory goes, he didn’t either. He had a lot to say about it, too."
Mr. Vyner, with a noisy yawn, struggled out of his chair and stood adjusting his collar and waistcoat.
"If I couldn’t be a chrysalis," he said, slowly, as he looked down at the recumbent figure of the captain, "do you know what I would like to be?"
"I’ve had a very hard day’s work," said the other, defensively, as he struggled into a sitting posture—"very hard. And I was awake half the night with the toothache."
"That isn’t an answer to my question," said Mr. Vyner, gently. "But never mind; try and get a little sleep now; try and check that feverish desire for work, which is slowly, very, very slowly, wearing you to skin and bone. Think how grieved the firm would be if the toothache carried you off one night. Why not go below and turn in now? It’s nearly five o’clock."
Answer the following questions:
1: Was there a Captain?
2: What was his name
3: What is the first thing that was said
4: By who?
5: Was he sitting
6: in what?
7: Was the Captain sitting
8: What does Mr. Vyner want
9: Did he get out of his chair?
10: Did he yawn?
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