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Sometimes, something that is considered to be negative turns out to be an advantage on the job. Though he is only l8 years old and blind, Suleyman Gokyigit is among the top computer technicians and programmers at InteliData Technologies Corp., a large software company with several offices across the United States.
"After our company united with another one last October, two different computer networks were driving us crazy," recalls Douglas Braun, the InteliData president. "We couldn't even send e-mail to each other." In three weeks Mr Gokyigit created the software needed to connect the two networks. "None of the company's 350 other employees could have done the job in three months," says Mr. Braun. " Suleyman can 'see' into the heart of the computer."
Mr. Gokyigfi's gift, as Mr. Braun calls it, is an unusual ability to form an idea of the inside of a machine. "The computer permits me to reach out into the world and do almost anything I want to do," says Mr. Gokyigit
The young programmer is _ as well, thanks partly to a highly developed sense of touch. Mitzi Nowakowski, an office manager at InteliData, remembers how he easily disconnected and reconnected their computer systems during a move last year. "Through feel, Suleyman can find the position of connectors, pins and wires much faster than most other people with sight," he says.
Much of the student programmer's speed comes from his ability not to be interrupted while at the computer. When typing, he listens carefully to the synthesizer . His long, thin fingers fly over the keyboard. "Nothing seems to shake his attention," says Mrs. Nowakowski, his boss.
Mr. Gokyigit is the only company employee who is available 24 hours a day. "We consider him our top problem solver." says Mr. Braun.
Answer the following questions:
1: How old is Suleyman Gokyigit?
2: where is he employed?
3: what is different about him?
4: what type of work does he do?
5: how long did it take him to merge the two systems?
6: how long would it have taken someone else?
7: is he frequently disturbed while working?
8: how many hours per day is he availble?
9: what do his coworkers call him?
10: who is Douglas Braun?
11: who is the office manager?
12: what does he listen to while typing?
13: which of his senses have become highly developed?
14: what do computers enable him to do?
15: how did he unhook the computers when they moved?
16: was he slower than a sighted person?
17: is he a fast typist?
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Saturday morning was bright and fresh. There was a song in every heart, cheer on every face, and a _ in every step. Tom appeared with a bucket of white paint in one hand and a brush in the other. His Aunt Polly told him to paint the fence around the garden. It was ninety feet long and nine feet high. He felt very blue. Then he had a wonderful idea. He picked up his brush and started to work. Soon Ben came along the road. He was happily eating an apple. He stopped to look at Tom. Tom went on painting and pretended not to see Ben. "I'm going swimming," said Ben. "Do you want to go swimming, Tom? But I guess you can't. You have to stay and work, don't you?" "Work?" Tom said. "This isn't work. I'm enjoying myself. Does a boy get a chance to paint a fence like this every day?" Ben thought about this. Tom continued painting carefully. Sometimes he stopped, stood back to look at the fence like an artist, and then added a bit more paint in just the right place. Ben was watching Tom paint with great interest. He was getting more and more eager to have a try himself. After a while, Ben asked Tom if he would let him paint a little. Tom thought about it, and said, "No, Ben, I can't. You see. Aunt Polly wants it to be done well. Aunt Polly said that I must paint it with great care." "Oh, please, Tom," begged Ben. "I can do it. I'll be really careful. Just let me try. I'll give you half of my apple. Well, I'll give you all of it!" "Well, all right, Ben," said Tom. "You must be very careful." He gave Ben his brush with worry on his face but joy in his heart. He sat down under the tree, and started to eat Ben's apple. All day, boys came to make fun of Tom, but they ended up staying to paint. When Ben got tired, Billy was waiting. He gave Tom a kite for a chance to paint. Then Johnny offered him a basketball, and so on. By late afternoon Tom had got all kinds of toys, and the fence had got three coats of paint. Later Aunt Polly came to look at the painted fence. She was so pleased with Tom's work that she gave Tom a large cake!
Answer the following questions:
1: Why did Tom have paint?
2: who's fence was it?
3: Why did Ben want to paint the fence?
4: Where did Tom get the apple from?
5: Why did he give it to him?
6: What happened when Ben was tired of painting?
7: How did Tom feel about painting?
8: How did he feel when Ben started to paint?
9: How was the weather?
10: What was Ben planning to do?
11: How many coats did the fence get?
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Before the 20th century, the term matter included ordinary matter composed of atoms and excluded other energy phenomena such as light or sound. This concept of matter may be generalized from atoms to include any objects having mass even when at rest, but this is ill-defined because an object's mass can arise from its (possibly massless) constituents' motion and interaction energies. Thus, matter does not have a universal definition, nor is it a fundamental concept in physics today. Matter is also used loosely as a general term for the substance that makes up all observable physical objects.
All the objects from everyday life that we can bump into, touch or squeeze are composed of atoms. This atomic matter is in turn made up of interacting subatomic particles—usually a nucleus of protons and neutrons, and a cloud of orbiting electrons. Typically, science considers these composite particles matter because they have both rest mass and volume. By contrast, massless particles, such as photons, are not considered matter, because they have neither rest mass nor volume. However, not all particles with rest mass have a classical volume, since fundamental particles such as quarks and leptons (sometimes equated with matter) are considered "point particles" with no effective size or volume. Nevertheless, quarks and leptons together make up "ordinary matter", and their interactions contribute to the effective volume of the composite particles that make up ordinary matter.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did the term matter include prior to the 20th century?
2: And excluded?
3: What does science consider these particles to be?
4: What is a type of massless particle?
5: Is it matter?
6: What is one example of fundamental particles?
7: What's another?
8: What are they considered?
9: What is the term matter loosely used to refer to?
10: What is the effective size of point particles?
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CHAPTER X.
"Yes, friends may be kind, and vales may be green, And brooks, may sparkle along between; But it is not friendship's kindest look, Nor loveliest vale, nor clearest brook, That can tell the tale which is written for me On each old face and well known tree."
R. H. FROUDE.
It was a happy day for both Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel when they again entered Devonshire. Agnes seemed to feel her four weeks as serious an absence as Marian did her four years, and was even more rapturous in her exclamations at each object that showed her she was near home.
They walked up the last and steepest hill, or rather bounded along the well known side path, catching at the long trailing wreaths of the dogrose, peeping over the gates which broke the high hedge, where Marian, as she saw the moors, could only relieve her heart by pronouncing to herself those words of Manzoni's Lucia, "_Vedo i miei monti._" ("I see my own mountains.") She beheld the woods and the chimneys of the Manor House, but she shrank from looking at it, and gazed, as if she feared it was but a moment's vision, at the rough cottages, the smoke curling among the trees, the red limestone quarry, and the hills far away in the summer garb of golden furze. It was home, her heart was full, and Agnes respected her silence.
Down the hill, along the well-known paling, past the cottages, the dear old faces smiling welcome; the Church, always the same, the green rail of the Vicarage garden, the paint was the only thing new; the porch, with roses hanging thicker over it than ever; Ranger, David Chapple, Jane, the housemaid, all in ecstasy in their different ways.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was having a good day?
2: Where were they?
3: Where did they enter?
4: How long had Agnes been away?
5: And the other woman?
6: What did they walk up?
7: What did they grab at, while doing this?
8: What did Marian see?
9: What structure did she behold?
10: What did she say to herself?
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(CNN) -- They share the same surname -- Djokovic -- but for now at least, that is where the similarity ends.
Novak is at the pinnacle of his sport and was the center of attention in Dubai after completing in his first victory since winning the Australian Open in January.
At 20, Marko is four years younger, and 868 places further down the rankings -- and on Monday he slumped to an opening-round defeat in front of his elder sibling.
Djokovic senior was on hand to watch his brother's elimination, at the hands of Russian qualifier Andrey Golubev, but says that Marko can make his mark in the upper echelons of the game.
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"He has to face the pressure of having the Djokovic surname," Novak said in quotes carried by AFP.
"He's trying to fight with his mind more than with his game. When he is able to focus on that and not on his doubts he can become a world-class player."
He admitted it was tough to watch Marko's 6-3 6-2 reverse. "It was difficult for me to sit courtside," he said. "I have not done it too much.
"At least when I'm playing I know what's going on. But I was happy my brother got a wild card. He is not at his level yet, but he's getting there."
As for Marko, he said there were plenty of positives and negatives to being the brother of the world's No. 1 player.
Answer the following questions:
1: How far apart are Novak and Marko in rank?
2: What sport do they play?
3: What is their relationship?
4: Which one is the better player?
5: How far about is their age?
6: Who witnessed Marko's lose?
7: Who did he lose too?
8: Where is he from?
9: Is Novak a great player?
10: What big match has he won?
11: When?
12: How did the older brother feel about watching?
13: What is the pressure his brother faces?
14: What kind of card did he get?
15: What rank is Marko's brother?
16: Where?
17: Does he have mixed feelings about his brother's success?
18: Does Novak have failth in his brother?
19: What does he need to do to get better?
20: on what?
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Joe's parents are farmers and they have a huge farm with cows, chickens, and ducks. Joe loves the farm and all the things he gets to play around and play on. One day, Joe's father told him not to get near a tractor that was sitting in the field. His father was worried that Joe would climb on it and hurt himself. Joe went out to the field and was feeding the horses and cows. When he was done, he saw the tractor his father told him not to get near. He knew that climbing on the tractor wouldn't hurt anything, so he did. He climbed on to the seat and sat there. Then, he pretended he was his father and pretended that he was driving the tractor. Joe's father saw him playing on the tractor and called for him. Joe heard his father calling for him and got off the tractor really fast. When he did that, he fell off and hurt his arm. Joe was in pain and his father came running to check on him and picked him up and sat him on a bench and asked him why he did that. Joe looked at his father and said, "I wanted to be like you." Joe's father gave him a hug and asked him if he wanted to ride with him on the tractor. Joe did and after he got a bandage on his arm, he and his father rode in the field on the tractor.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did Joe's father warn him about?
2: Why?
3: Does he obey?
4: What does he do?
5: Why did he disobey like that?
6: Had he gone out to the field just to climb on the tractor?
7: What was he out there for?
8: Did he get away with being on the tractor?
9: Why?
10: Did that startle him?
11: What was the result?
12: Was it bad?
13: Was his father upset?
14: Why?
15: What did Joe say to his dad that made his dad not be upset?
16: What is the dad going to do now with him?
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CHAPTER V.
MOHUN APPEARS FOR THE LAST TIME IN THIS HISTORY.
Besides my Lord Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, who for family reasons had kindly promised his protection and patronage to Colonel Esmond, he had other great friends in power now, both able and willing to assist him, and he might, with such allies, look forward to as fortunate advancement in civil life at home as he had got rapid promotion abroad. His Grace was magnanimous enough to offer to take Mr. Esmond as secretary on his Paris embassy, but no doubt he intended that proposal should be rejected; at any rate, Esmond could not bear the thoughts of attending his mistress farther than the church-door after her marriage, and so declined that offer which his generous rival made him.
Other gentlemen in power were liberal at least of compliments and promises to Colonel Esmond. Mr. Harley, now become my Lord Oxford and Mortimer, and installed Knight of the Garter on the same day as his Grace of Hamilton had received the same honor, sent to the Colonel to say that a seat in Parliament should be at his disposal presently, and Mr. St. John held out many flattering hopes of advancement to the Colonel when he should enter the House. Esmond's friends were all successful, and the most successful and triumphant of all was his dear old commander, General Webb, who was now appointed Lieutenant-General of the Land Forces, and received with particular honor by the Ministry, by the Queen, and the people out of doors, who huzza'd the brave chief when they used to see him in his chariot going to the House or to the Drawing-room, or hobbling on foot to his coach from St. Stephen's upon his glorious old crutch and stick, and cheered him as loud as they had ever done Marlborough.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where do you think this takes place?
2: Did Colonel Esmond have friends in high places?
3: Who promised to protect Esmond?
4: What position was Esmond offered?
5: Where would that have taken place?
6: Was His Grace certain Esmond would accept the offer?
7: Why did Esmond not accept?
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CHAPTER XIII
IN WHICH SOME SHOES ARE MISSING
"What do you think of it?"
"Who took them?"
"We can't go downstairs in our bare feet."
Such were some of the remarks made, as the lads of dormitories Nos. 11 and 12 looked at each other. The closets had been searched thoroughly but without success.
"See here, if anybody in these rooms hid those shoes, I want to know it!" demanded Sam, gazing around sharply.
"I hardly think a fellow would hide his own shoes, too," answered Luke.
"He might,--just to hide his own guilt."
"I believe this is the work of some outsider," declared Dave. "Most likely Nat Poole and his crowd."
"By Jove, Dave, I believe you are right!" exclaimed Phil. "It would be just like them to do it, if they got the chance."
"Did you say Nat Poole?" queried Shadow, scratching his head thoughtfully.
"I did. Most likely Nat heard of our feast, and it made him extra sore to think we were having a good time and he wasn't invited."
"That is true, and I guess----" Shadow stopped short, and a curious look crossed his face.
"What is it, Shadow? Do you know anything of this?" asked Roger.
"Why, I--er--that is, I had a dream last night," stammered the story-teller of the school. "Or, maybe it wasn't a dream after all," he went on, in confusion.
"See here, Shadow, have you been sleep-walking again, and did you make off with our shoes?" demanded Phil. He remembered only too well how poor Shadow was addicted to walking in his sleep, and how he had once walked off with a valuable collection of rare postage stamps belonging to Doctor Clay.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is missing?
2: Where do the owners of the shoes live?
3: Who do they think may have taken the shoes?
4: Are they part of the group?
5: What would have made Nat jealous?
6: Was he invited?
7: Do they think he might have found out about it?
8: How does Sam feel about the situation?
9: Does he have a kind look on his face?
10: Who was he looking at?
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Harry had a very small farm. He only had one cow but dreamed about having a large farm. He once asked his father Bill, "I'd like to have that land over there. How can I get it?" His father encouraged him to go and talk to the landowner to see how they could get the land. Harry said. "But we don't have enough money." His father said, "Don't worry. Go and talk to him." Several years passed. Harry had not only the land, but also several hundred cows. He had a happy life with his wife. Later, Harry's wife, Sarah, had a dream. "I want to build the biggest farm in the world." She said. They called their friend Manuel about this task. Three days later Manuel had a plan for the whole project. Then they asked, "How much will it cost?" Manuel said they needed a lot of money. "Nobody will lend us so much money to build a farm," they thought. But the manager of the bank _ them and their dream. A few months later, La manuel, the biggest farm in the world, was opened.
Answer the following questions:
1: who had a farm ?
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Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Spanish: Ciudad de México audio (help·info) American Spanish: [sjuˈða(ð) ðe ˈméxiko]; abbreviated as "CDMX"), is the capital of Mexico. As an "alpha" global city, Mexico City is one of the most important financial centers in the Americas. It is located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus at the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 metres (7,350 ft). The city consists of sixteen municipalities (previously called boroughs).
The Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product (GDP) of US$411 billion in 2011, making Mexico City urban agglomeration one of the economically largest metropolitan areas in the world. The city was responsible for generating 15.8% of Mexico's Gross Domestic Product and the metropolitan area accounted for about 22% of total national GDP. As a stand-alone country, in 2013, Mexico City would be the fifth-largest economy in Latin America—five times as large as Costa Rica's and about the same size as Peru's.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the capital city of Mexico?
2: And where it's located?
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Time flies. Your time in junior high school will come to an end in a few months. Let's look back over the last three years. What were the highs and lows? For Zhang Xiaomeng, a senior high school girl from Jiangsu, meeting her best friend Hua Xuan was the best part of her time at junior high school. They went to class together, had lunch together, and even went to the washroom together. Having one or two best friends is important, said Xu Zheng, a teacher from Jiangsu. "Students have secrets. They don't want to tell their parents,"Xu added. However, being too rebellious in junior high is the biggest _ for Liu Anqing, a senior high school student from Fujian. "I didn't listen to my parents. I quarreled with my mother every week," said Liu. "I wish I could go back to that time and get on well with them." Time also needs to be taken care of. Zhang Zihua, 15, from Shanxi, thought he had plenty of time to prepare for the big exam at the end of Junior 3. Then one day, he was told: "The exam is in 100 days." "We need a strong knowledge base to pass the exam. But I didn't care about it," said Zhang. Gu Xiaoli, a teacher from Jiangsu, said that it's never too late to catch up. "No matter your regrets about wasted time, you can always pick things up from now," said Gu.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where is Zhang Xiaomeng from?
2: When did she meet her best friend?
3: What grade is she in now?
4: According to Xu Zheng, what do students have?
5: From whom?
6: What does Zheng do?
7: What will end in a few months?
8: Is the exam in 10 days?
9: When is it?
10: What is needed to do well?
11: Who went to the washroom together?
12: Who did LIU fight with?
13: How often?
14: What did she want to do?
15: Why?
16: Who is from Shanxi?
17: How old is he?
18: Did he work hard to prepare for the exam?
19: Why not?
20: Who is Gu?
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(CNN) -- Inter Milan are once again five points behind rivals AC Milan at the top of the Italian Serie A table after crushing Genoa 5-2 at the San Siro on Sunday.
But the defending champions had to come from behind to claim the three points, Genoa leading 1-0 at the break after Rodrigo Palacio fired home following good work from Abdoulay Konko.
However, Inter were a different side in the second-half and three goals in seven minutes completely turned the match around.
The home side leveled in the 50th minute when Giampaolo Mazzini slotted home Maicon's cross and they took the lead a minute later when Samuel Eto'o converted a rebound after Goran Pandev's shot was fumbled by goalkeeper Eduardo.
And Eto'o added his second goal just six minutes later with a superb individual effort, the Cameroon striker's 18th goal of the season.
Goran Pandev made it 4-1 in the 68th minute, after being set-up by Eto'o and Wesley Sneijder, and Yuto Nagatomo netted his first goal for the club to complete the scoring.
Mauro Boselli's late header proved little more than a consolation goal for the visitors.
Meanwhile, third-placed Napoli lost more ground on the top two after being held to a goalless draw by lowly Brescia at the San Paolo, with coach Walter Mazzarri sent to the stands in the first half for arguing with the referee.
The Naples side are now eight points off the top and just two points ahead of fourth placed Lazio, who saw off Palermo 2-0 thanks to an early double from Giuseppe Sculli.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who got smashed, 5-2?
2: Where at?
3: When?
4: Are they far behind their enemies?
5: Who ran home after Abdoulay's excellent job?
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It's the end of class.When the bell rings, students of Luohu Foreign Languages School in Shenzhen quickly take out their telephones.They want to log on to their micro blogs to check the interesting things.They want to see what have happened in the last hour. Since several years ago, more and more people have used micro blogs in our country.Recent surveys shows that most students in middle schools have a micro blog and some even update their blogs over five times per day. "We learn many fresh and interesting things on micro blogs and they have become popular topics in class," said Kitty Jiang, 14."If you do not know about them, you are _ ." It is also a great place for students to say something about themselves."My parents always ask me to study hard, and encourage me before exams, but it really gives me pressure ," said Alan Wang, 15."I share these feelings on my micro blog.My friends always give me answers in the same situation.This makes me feel better." But parents worry that micro blogging could be a waste of time.Some unhealthy information may even bring danger to kids, they said. Mr Shen, a professor asks parents not to worry too much as long as kids are not crazy about micro blogging.Maybe it can become a window for parents to understand their children."If parents can read their children's micro blogs, they'll know what they think, they can know more about their children and help them solve their problems," he said.He also gives some advice for kids. -Don't micro blog for more than one hour a day. -Never micro blog in class. -Try to talk face to face with people from time to time. -Don't believe all the information on a micro blog.
Answer the following questions:
1: What school do they go to?
2: Do they call their friends when class is over?
3: What do they do?
4: Who is fourteen years old?
5: Who is 15?
6: How do parents feel about these blogs?
7: What is the professor's name?
8: Does he set a time limit for children blogging?
9: how long is it?
10: Where should they not blog?
11: How do they know class is over?
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CHAPTER XXII—FAITHFUL AND TRUE
Late that afternoon Arthur and Louise sat in the court, chatting with their guests, who were occupied in coddling and amusing baby Jane, when Inez approached Mr. Weldon and said that Miguel wished to speak with him.
“Send him here,” said Arthur, and presently the old Mexican appeared, again arrayed in his best clothes and with the red necktie carefully arranged. He held his hat in his hand and looked uncertainly around the circle. Then his eyes wandered to the nursery and through the open door he saw Mildred sitting in a rocker, engaged in reading a book. Runyon had gone home that morning, “to see if the ranch is still there,” he said.
“I have—some—private talks to make, Meest Weld,” began the old ranchero.
“Speak out, Miguel,” said his master encouragingly.
“Oh; but he said ‘private,’” Patsy reminded him.
“I know. Miguel understands that he may speak before my friends.”
“It ees—about—Señor Cristoval, Meest Weld.”
“Yes? Well, what about him, Miguel?”
“I am once servant for Señor Cristoval. I stay here in house with him, long time. When he get sick, before he die, I care for him. Doctor say to me that Señor Cristoval can not get well; I say so to Señor Cristoval. He say never mind, he have live long enough.”
This was interesting to them all in view of the recent happenings, and the girls bent nearer to hear the old man’s story. Arthur, the major and Uncle John were equally intent.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Miguel's nationality?
2: Who was his previous employer?
3: Where is he now?
4: Did he know he was dying?
5: How did he know?
6: Was he afraid of death?
7: Who is Miguel telling this story to?
8: Are any others present?
9: Who else is interested in the story?
10: Where is he when Miguel comes to see him?
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Lower Saxony is a German state ("Bundesland") situated in northwestern Germany. It is the second largest state by land area, with , and fourth largest in population (7.9 million) among the sixteen "Länder" of Germany. In rural areas Northern Low Saxon, a dialect of Low German, and Saterland Frisian, a variety of Frisian language, are still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining.
Lower Saxony borders on (from north and clockwise) the North Sea, the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Netherlands. Furthermore, the state of Bremen forms two enclaves within Lower Saxony, one being the city of Bremen, the other, its seaport city of Bremerhaven. In fact, Lower Saxony borders more neighbours than any other single "Bundesland." The state's principal cities include the state capital Hanover, Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lüneburg, Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Hildesheim, Wolfenbüttel, Wolfsburg and Göttingen.
The northwestern area of Lower Saxony, which lies on the coast of the North Sea, is called East Frisia and the seven East Frisian Islands offshore are popular with tourists. In the extreme west of Lower Saxony is the Emsland, a traditionally poor and sparsely populated area, once dominated by inaccessible swamps. The northern half of Lower Saxony, also known as the North German Plains, is almost invariably flat except for the gentle hills around the Bremen geestland. Towards the south and southwest lie the northern parts of the German Central Uplands: the Weser Uplands and the Harz mountains. Between these two lie the Lower Saxon Hills, a range of low ridges. Thus, Lower Saxony is the only "Bundesland" that encompasses both maritime and mountainous areas.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the northwestern area called?
2: What is the northern half also known as?
3: What country is Lower Saxony in?
4: Does it border a lot of neighbors?
5: What is the state capital?
6: What is one main city in the state?
7: What part of Germany is it in?
8: What coast does East Frisia lie on?
9: What is to their north?
10: What is popular with tourists?
11: Is Emsland a rich area?
12: Are the North German pains mostly flat?
13: What are the lower saxon hills?
14: Where do these hills lie?
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Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- The message the brother and sister read aloud is one addressed to a missing father: 9-year-old Najwa and 8-year-old Tirad reciting the words in unison, "Our mother's starting to worry about you."
Their mom, Ensaf Haidar, is indeed worried, but she's also pained. She knows how much her children yearn to see their dad, but she just doesn't know what to tell them.
How can she begin to explain that their dad has languished in a Saudi prison for almost a year? How can she expose her kids to a brutal reality she feels they're not ready to face?
"They're always asking me, 'When is Dad coming home?' " Haidar said. "Telling me, 'Mom, I miss Dad so much.' "
Haidar struggles with the dilemma every day.
"It often feels like the world is against me," she said. "When I see how the children are deprived of their father, this is what bothers me the most."
Her three children, including 5-year-old Myriam, think their father's just delayed by work. But Raif Badawi, 30, has been imprisoned since being arrested in June. He is accused of, among other things, breaking Sharia law and starting a website that infringed on religious values.
According to Haidar, her husband just wanted to encourage discussion about religion in his homeland. But starting a liberal Internet forum in conservative Saudi Arabia can be a dangerous pursuit.
"No one wanted to take his case," said Waleed Abualkhair, Badawi's attorney. "Because they believed that anyone who'd take this kind of case, that means he destroys his (own) reputation. But I don't believe in that. I believe that everyone has his right to have a lawyer. And I believe that Raif is innocent."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Badawi's lawyer?
2: Were there a lot of lawyers hoping to get this case?
3: Why not?
4: How many things does his attorney believe?
5: What is one?
6: Does he think his client is guilty?
7: How many children does he have?
8: Where do they think their dad is?
9: How many of the children are less than nine years old?
10: What's the middle child's name?
11: Where is their dad really?
12: Where?
13: For over a year?
14: For how long then?
15: Who is keeping this a secret from the kids?
16: What is her name?
17: What was the father arrested for?
18: What was his purpose of doing that?
19: What law did that break?
20: Is Saudi Arabia known as a liberal country?
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(CNN) -- A couple weeks after attending his first United Nations General Assembly meeting as president, Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What a difference three years makes.
Back in his first months in office, simply being Barack Obama was enough to bring cheering crowds into the street. Whether it was because he was not George Bush or because he was promising to end American policies that were widely despised or whether it was because -- as the first African-American to be elected U.S. president, he embodied an ideal of opportunity for all that was core to this country's appeal -- it hardly mattered. Convene a crowd, and they would find something to like about Barack Obama.
Back then, he seized the moment with great speeches that offered a vision for a new era in American leadership. In Cairo, he spoke of new relations with the Islamic world. In Prague, he spoke of eliminating nuclear weapons. He embraced the G-20 as a mechanism of coordinating the response to the global economic crisis. He didn't bully. He charmed.
Indeed, Obama is probably the first person ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize largely for his charm. Or, alternatively, he may be the first person ever to have won the Nobel Peace Prize for the simple achievement of not having been the guy who had the job before him. (This can be an important achievement. Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Pete Peterson once said one of the secrets to job success is picking the right predecessor.)
Answer the following questions:
1: What award was Barack Obama givin?
2: What was enough to bring cheering crowds in hif first months in offive?
3: What does the article say about his Obama;s charm?
4: What did U.S commerce Secretary Peterson once say about him?
5: How did he use the G-20
6: What did Obama speak about in Prague?
7: What does the article say about if you Convene a crowd?
8: How long after the United Nations General Assembly meeding did Obama win the peace prize?
9: Did Obama bully at the G-20?
10: What does the article say Obama was promising and end to?
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CHAPTER XIV.
OVER THE MOUNTAIN TOP.
Darry was much alarmed, and with good reason. Never before had he faced such a snake, and the reptile looked ready to spring upon him at any instant.
What to do the boy did not know, yet instinctively he leaped back to the top of the rock. Then the fish gave a jerk which almost took him from his feet.
"Joe! Will!" he shouted. "Come this way! I'm in a pickle!"
"What's the matter?" shouted Captain Moore, and soon he and his brother were coming forward as quickly as they could.
In the meantime Darry was having his hands full, for the big fish was bound to get away. At the bottom of the rock lay the snake, with head raised and mouth wide open. Its eyes shone like diamonds.
"A snake! Kill it!" shrieked Darry.
"A snake?" echoed Joe. "Where?"
"At the bottom of this big rock. Oh, my, he's going to come up!"
"I see him," put in Captain Moore.
As he spoke the snake made a leap for the top of the rock. As the reptile went up, Darry went down, and ran along the brook's edge, still with his fishing-pole in his hand.
Catching up a sharp stone, Captain Moore flung it at the snake, hitting the reptile in the tail. At once the thing whirled around, and now forgetting Darry it turned on its assailant.
"He's coming for you!" ejaculated Joe. "Run, Will, or you'll be bitten sure!"
"I'm not running from a snake," answered the young officer, and in a trice he whipped out his pistol. As the snake came on he let drive. His aim was true, and the snake dropped with its head half severed from its body.
Answer the following questions:
1: What made him unsteady?
2: Did he know what to do about it?
3: Who came to help?
4: What was at the bottom of the rock?
5: Was it still?
6: What did it do?
7: How did the Captain react?
8: Did it hit it?
9: What did the snake do?
10: Who warned will?
11: Did he listen to him?
12: What was his response?
13: Did anyone get bit?
14: Why not?
15: Was it gruesome?
16: How so?
17: Who was in a pickle?
18: Are Joe and Will related?
19: How?
20: Was there cause for someone to be alarmed?
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One morning Julie took her dog, Rosie, for a walk. Rosie loved to walk outside. She loved to walk any time - morning, afternoon, or night. She liked to smell everything. This morning she smelled something new. It was another animal. It was not a squirrel. It was not another dog. Maybe it was a tiger! Rosie sniffed around until she saw the other animal. It was not a tiger. It was a cat. The cat was watching Rosie. The cat was afraid Rosie would try to bite her, so she climbed up a tree. Rosie tried to follow her, but she could not climb up. Instead, she barked at the cat in the tree. Julie did not want Rosie to scare the cat. She called Rosie away from the tree. The cat watched them walk away. When they came back, the cat was gone. Rosie remembered the cat. She started digging in the dirt under the tree. But there was no cat there. Julie and Rosie went home for breakfast.
Answer the following questions:
1: What pet does Julie have?
2: Does she ever walk the dog?
3: When?
4: What did she encounter?
5: What did you think she encountered?
6: Was it happy?
7: What was it then?
8: Did she remember?
9: Why did they go home?
10: Were they seen leaving?
11: What does she like to do?
12: Did she sniff anything living?
13: Did she chase this thing?
14: Did she make any noise?
15: What noise did she make?
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The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast, at a latitude of about 52°S. The archipelago, with an area of , comprises East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 smaller islands. As a British overseas territory, the Falklands have internal self-governance, and the United Kingdom takes responsibility for their defence and foreign affairs. The islands' capital is Stanley on East Falkland.
Controversy exists over the Falklands' discovery and subsequent colonisation by Europeans. At various times, the islands have had French, British, Spanish, and Argentine settlements. Britain reasserted its rule in 1833, although Argentina maintains its claim to the islands. In April 1982, Argentine forces temporarily occupied the islands. British administration was restored two months later at the end of the Falklands War. Most Falklanders favour the archipelago remaining a UK overseas territory, but its sovereignty status is part of an ongoing dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom.
The population (2,932 inhabitants in 2012) primarily consists of native-born Falkland Islanders, the majority of British descent. Other ethnicities include French, Gibraltarian and Scandinavian. Immigration from the United Kingdom, the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, and Chile has reversed a population decline. The predominant (and official) language is English. Under the British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983, Falkland Islanders are British citizens.
Answer the following questions:
1: who takes care of it's defence and foreign affairs?
2: how many different settlements has it had over different times?
3: please name them?
4: what was the population in 2012?
5: what citizenship do they hold?
6: according to what act?
7: what is it's capital?
8: where is that?
9: when did Britain reassert it's rule?
10: was it occupied by another nation?
11: which one?
12: when?
13: how long did that last?
14: are the islands in the Pacific?
15: which ocean then?
16: which country do the people prefer being under.
17: what are the two main islands?
18: what language do they officially speak?
19: which other ethnicities can you find there?
20: how many smaller islands does it consist of?
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CHAPTER XXXIII
"It Won't Be True"
Mrs. Greystock, in making her proposition respecting Lady Linlithgow, wrote to Lady Fawn, and by the same post Frank wrote to Lucy. But before those letters reached Fawn Court there had come that other dreadful letter from Mrs. Hittaway. The consternation caused at Fawn Court in respect to Mr. Greystock's treachery almost robbed of its importance the suggestion made as to Lord Fawn. Could it be possible that this man, who had so openly and in so manly a manner engaged himself to Lucy Morris, should now be proposing to himself a marriage with his rich cousin? Lady Fawn did not believe that it was possible. Clara had not seen those horrid things with her own eyes, and other people might be liars. But Amelia shook her head. Amelia evidently believed that all manner of iniquities were possible to man. "You see, mamma, the sacrifice he was making was so very great!" "But he made it!" pleaded Lady Fawn. "No, mamma, he said he would make it. Men do these things. It is very horrid, but I think they do them more now than they used to. It seems to me that nobody cares now what he does, if he's not to be put into prison." It was resolved between these two wise ones that nothing at the present should be said to Lucy or to any one of the family. They would wait awhile, and in the meantime they attempted,--as far as it was possible to make the attempt without express words,--to let Lucy understand that she might remain at Fawn Court if she pleased. While this was going on, Lord Fawn did come down once again, and on that occasion Lucy simply absented herself from the dinner-table and from the family circle for that evening. "He's coming in, and you've got to go to prison again," Nina said to her, with a kiss.
Answer the following questions:
1: to whom did Mrs Greystock wirite?
2: What was the name of the manor where Lady Fawn was?
3: Whose treachery was the subject?
4: What died Amelia believe?
5: To whom did Mr Greystock get engaged first?
6: Who was Amelia's mother
7: Would Lucy be allowed to remain at Fawn Court?
8: Who was Mr Greystock proposing to now?
9: Did Lady Fawn think it was possible?
10: Who did Lady Fawn think was making a sacrifice?
11: Did her daughter agree?
12: Who had to go to prison again?
13: Who said that to her?
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Marie Colvin, a veteran correspondent who was killed in Syria last week, died trying to get her shoes so she could escape a shelling attack, her paper reported Sunday.
Colvin, a New York native, worked for London's The Sunday Times.
As is the custom in Syria, she took off her shoes upon entering a building that was serving as a makeshift press center. She was on the ground floor when rockets hit the upper floors, The Sunday Times reported.
Thinking then that the building was a target, Colvin rushed to retrieve her shoes in the hall. A rocket landed just a few yards away, the paper said.
Colvin, 56, was the only British newspaper journalist inside the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr. She was killed alongside French journalist Remi Ochlik in the attack Wednesday.
Her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said aid workers have been trying for days to remove her daughter's body from the war-ravaged country.
She added that she believes her daughter was deliberately targeted by Syrian government forces.
"They were first in another house, and the top floors there were blown off," she said. "First (the Syrian forces) rocketed the front of the building," she said, fueling suspicion that the attack against a makeshift media center where Colvin and Ochlik were holed up was no accident.
The Syrian government was not immediately available for comment.
The day before she was killed, Colvin had given media interviews to networks like ITN and CNN about the ongoing clashes in Homs, and about a child who was killed in the city.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who's this story about?
2: What happened to her last week?
3: What was her profession?
4: Where was she killed?
5: What was she doing when she died?
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(CNN) -- Nick Heidfeld has left his role as reserve driver at Mercedes to become a tester for Pirelli ahead of the Italian company's return to Formula One as the sport's sole tire supplier next year.
The 33-year-old German had driven in F1 for a decade but was left without a seat when BMW ended its association with the Sauber team at the end of last season.
He was given a lifeline when Mercedes took over the world champion Brawn GP team this year, becoming back-up to returning seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg.
"I would like to thank Ross Brawn, Norbert Haug and Nick Fry for allowing me the opportunity to become Pirelli's official test driver," Heidfeld told F1's official website.
"The team has always said that they would not stand in my way if such a chance arose, and they have kindly allowed me to take up this exciting new role."
Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn said: "Nick is an extremely experienced driver and we are confident that his racing knowledge and technical feedback will prove extremely useful to Pirelli and therefore of benefit to the sport as a whole."
Mercedes-Benz Motorsport vice-president Haug said the move might help Heidfeld find a drive for 2011.
"It would be great to see Nick in a competitive car in next year's world championship and I am sure his leading role in the new tire development, in addition to his skills, puts him in a good position for the remaining seats in 2011," Haug said.
Answer the following questions:
1: How old is Nick Heidfeld?
2: What has he done for the last 10 years?
3: Did he recently switch roles?
4: What's he doing now?
5: Of what?
6: Does it indicate he is grateful to anyone?
7: How many people were mentioned?
8: Who specifically?
9: And?
10: Anyone else?
11: What vice-president is mentioned?
12: Of what organization?
13: What does he think might happen?
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CHAPTER XVI
"NON PROVEN"
"There is no doubt," continued the man in the corner, "that what little sympathy the young girl's terrible position had aroused in the public mind had died out the moment that David Graham left the witness-box on the second day of the trial. Whether Edith Crawford was guilty of murder or not, the callous way in which she had accepted a deformed lover, and then thrown him over, had set every one's mind against her.
"It was Mr. Graham himself who had been the first to put the Procurator Fiscal in possession of the fact that the accused had written to David from London, breaking off her engagement. This information had, no doubt, directed the attention of the Fiscal to Miss Crawford, and the police soon brought forward the evidence which had led to her arrest.
"We had a final sensation on the third day, when Mr. Campbell, jeweller, of High Street, gave his evidence. He said that on October 25th a lady came to his shop and offered to sell him a pair of diamond earrings. Trade had been very bad, and he had refused the bargain, although the lady seemed ready to part with the earrings for an extraordinarily low sum, considering the beauty of the stones.
"In fact it was because of this evident desire on the lady's part to sell at _any_ cost that he had looked at her more keenly than he otherwise would have done. He was now ready to swear that the lady that offered him the diamond earrings was the prisoner in the dock.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was in a terrible position?
2: Who had just left the witness box?
3: On what day of the trial?
4: Who had a lover?
5: How was the lover described?
6: Was Crawford being accused of murder?
7: Were a lot of people against her?
8: What profession was Mr. Campbell?
9: Of what street?
10: Did a man or woman come into his shop?
11: In what month?
12: On what day?
13: What did she offer to sell him?
14: Did he buy them?
15: What had been very bad for him lately?
16: What was he prepared to swear about the woman?
17: Were the stones in the earrings ugly?
18: What word was used to describe them?
19: What is the title of this chapter?
20: What is the number of it?
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Hong Kong (CNN) -- Ramesh Makwana knew the risks to his health by working in an agate factory, but at $4 a day the rewards were too great.
Now, after 14 years of breathing in the fine dust created by grinding and polishing the gemstone, Makwana has silicosis, a respiratory disease that swells the lungs.
"He's thankful to the stone because it helped him survive for so long. But now that he has lost so much, it is also a feeling of anger," Makwana told CNN through an interpreter, Mohit Gupta, the co-ordinator for the Occupational, Environmental Health Network of India.
"He has lost his parents to it, and he himself knows he's going to die some day," he said.
It's not known how many other workers in Asia are suffering from occupational diseases, but the Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC) has warned that the region is facing an epidemic.
The last estimate on work-related diseases in Asia was released by the International Labor Organization in 2008. It estimated that more than 1.1 million people in Asia were dying each year.
"One-point-one million is a really high number, but even then we're not sure, we think it may be a really conservative number," said Sanjiv Pandita, Executive Director of the AMRC.
Frustrated by the lack of official records, Pandita and his team set out to find the true extent of the problem in six Asian countries: China, India, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia.
A report released ahead of this year's International Workers' Memorial Day on April 28, found similar problems in all countries; a lack of official data on the number of cases, partly due to a reluctance to diagnose work-related illness for fear of the financial cost.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where does Ramesh work?
2: Where?
3: What city is he in?
4: Is he sick?
5: What doe he have?
6: Are there many in Asia that are suffering?
7: Do they know how many?
8: Did anyone else in his family die from it?
9: Who?
10: How long has he been working there?
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(CNN)After weeks of controversy and the sudden departures of two co-hosts, "Fashion Police" is going on an extended break.
The fashion commentary show on E! channel announced Tuesday that it will be on hiatus until September.
"We look forward to taking this opportunity to refresh the show before the next awards season," it said in a statement.
The announcement caps a rocky few months.
Last week, co-host Kathy Griffin bid the show bye-bye after seven episodes, saying her style did not blend in with her co-hosts. She made a dig at the show on her way out.
"There is plenty to make fun of in pop culture without bringing people's bodies into it," she said in a statement. "I do not want to use my comedy to contribute to a culture of unattainable perfectionism and intolerance towards difference."
Shortly before her departure, co-host Giuliana Rancic faced backlash last month for suggesting that Disney star Zendaya Coleman's dreadlocks smelled of marijuana.
Rancic later issued an on-air apology to the 18-year-old after social media jumped to the teen's defense.
But her apology was not enough for co-host Kelly Osbourne, who criticized her remarks and quit a few days later.
Rancic and fellow co-host Brad Goreski will return in September, along with executive producer Melissa Rivers.
Answer the following questions:
1: What channel is the show on?
2: What is the name of the show?
3: Is it going to air in August?
4: Who is one of the co-host?
5: And the other?
6: Who's hair smelled like pot?
7: And how old is she?
8: When will the show air again?
9: Who is the producer of the show?
10: Was their a man in the cast?
11: Who will be returning to the show to host?
12: What company does Zendaya work for?
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(CNN) -- A nationwide manhunt is on for a man who fatally shot one police officer and critically wounded a second in a shootout in Tupelo, Mississippi.
"Do not confront this person, notify law enforcement," urged FBI Special Agent Daniel McMullen, who added that the suspect should be considered armed and dangerous.
The incident began two states away from Mississippi, in Georgia, two days before Christmas, when the man attempted -- but failed -- to rob an Atlanta bank, the FBI said.
A few hours later and 300 miles west, in Tupelo, Mississippi, the same man robbed a bank.
That led to a shootout with police, during which the man fatally shot Tupelo Police Officer Gale Stauffer and wounded another officer, the FBI said Friday.
Representatives of dozens of police agencies attended the funeral for Stauffer on Friday, Tupelo Police Chief Bart Aguirre said Saturday in a telephone interview. More than 300 police vehicles participated in a procession in Stauffer's honor.
"Almost the entire city of Tupelo lined the streets for the procession," iReporter Lee Anne Grace said Saturday. "I lost count after 205 police cars, 16 motorcycles."
Grace, a music teacher at an elementary school, said she realized she knew Stauffer only after seeing his picture in a news story. "Whenever our crossing guard is out, the Tupelo police sent someone to help out," she said. "He was usually the one."
The eight-year veteran leaves a widow and children, ages 2 and 6.
"To my knowledge, we haven't ever had a fatality," Aguirre said about his force, which includes 109 officers and two dozen civilian personnel.
Answer the following questions:
1: where did he first attempt the robbery?
2: did he succeed?
3: who was grace?
4: who did the suspect kill?
5: what was he?
6: where was he killed?
7: how many children does he leave behind?
8: how long had he been in the force?
9: did a teacher recognise him?
10: what was her name?
11: had she taught him?
12: how many officers does the force have?
13: how many police cars were in the procession?
14: when did the man trying robbing the bank?
15: how many motorcycles did Lee say there were?
16: did the entire city line up the streets?
17: how far did he travel after Atlanta failed?
18: which direction?
19: how many states is Georgia away from Mississippi?
20: has the suspect been caught?
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(CNN) -- AC Milan withstood a brave comeback from Arsenal to advance to the quarterfinals of the Champions League Tuesday despite a 3-0 defeat in the second leg at the Emirates.
The Italian champions had led 4-0 from the first leg last month and few bar the most optimistic of Arsenal fans gave Arsene Wenger's men any hope of retrieving the deficit.
But first-half goals from Laurent Koscielny, Tomas Rosicky and captain Robin van Persie gave the English Premier League side the perfect platform to complete a remarkable recovery.
Koscielny headed home from a corner, Rosicky took advantage of a defensive mistake after a Theo Walcott run and van Persie slotted home a penalty after the excellent Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain was fouled.
Milan were all at sea, but regrouped strongly after the break and blunted the Arsenal onslaught.
Van Persie uncharacteristically fluffed the best chance for the home side to make it 4-4 on aggregate, but after fine work by Gervinho his effort was saved by Christian Abbiati.
"I felt he wanted to chip the keeper because he was down but Abbiati got up very quickly but he reacted well and unfortunately we couldn't score, Wenger told Sky Sports.
"I hoped in the final 10 or 15 minutes to create some more goal chances, but it didn't happen."
At the other end, Zlatan Ibrahimovic came to life and twice came close to scoring the Milan goal which would have completely killed off the tie.
But at the finish it was the Milan players who were celebrating, while Arsenal will be boosted in their challenge for a Champions League spot in the EPL and remain in the FA Cup.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was defeated at the Emirates?
2: What was the score
3: Who was at sea?
4: Who made it 4-4?
5: Who saved Gervhino?
6: When did he hope to do something?
7: What did he want to do?
8: Was he able to do so?
9: Who was on the opposite side?
10: How many times did he try for a goal?
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A little girl named Natalie went to the zoo with her father and her two brothers. Her father's name was Jared. Her brothers' names were Logan and Tim. They drove to the zoo in their car. Before they arrived at the zoo, they stopped at a McDonald's and ate breakfast. Natalie ate a biscuit. Her brothers ate sausage and eggs. Her father drank coffee.
All three children loved the zoo. Natalie's favorite animal was the gorilla. She loved to watch him jump up and down. She also liked it when he would pound on his chest and roar. It was very exciting. Logan's favorite animal was the giraffe. He thought that it looked funny. He also liked its spots. Tim's favorite animal was the crocodile because it looked tough.
Natalie, Logan, and Tim were not happy with the elephant. He was their least favorite animal. All he did was sleep in his cage.
Natalie shouted, "Hey, Mr. Elephant, we want to see you up close!" The elephant did not wake up. She yelled a few more times, but the elephant kept sleeping. She gave up and went to the next animal.
The last animals that they saw were the penguins. Natalie and her brothers thought that they were so cute. Natalie asked to take one home, but her father said no.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many children are there?
2: What was the girl's name?
3: Where did her father take them?
4: Did they stop at Burger King on the way?
5: What did Natalie eat?
6: What were her brothers' names?
7: What did they eat?
8: Did their dad drink a milkshake?
9: What was Natalie's favorite animal?
10: What did she love?
11: What was Logan's favorite?
12: Why did Tim like the crocodile?
13: Which animal did the siblings not like?
14: Why?
15: Did it ever wake up?
16: Did they see the flamingos last?
17: What creatures did they see?
18: What did Natalie ask her dad?
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Tracy Morgan remained in critical condition Sunday but appeared to show signs of improvement after a car wreck a day earlier that killed another passenger, the comedian's publicist said.
"He has been more responsive today, which is an incredibly encouraging sign," Lewis Kay said.
Morgan's limo van was hit by a tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike at about 1 a.m. Saturday, according to Sgt. Gregory Williams of New Jersey State Police.
Morgan suffered several injuries, including broken ribs, a broken nose, a broken leg and a broken femur. He underwent surgery on his leg on Sunday, Kay said, noting any road to recovery would be a long one.
"We expect him to remain in the hospital for several weeks," he said.
The chain-reaction wreck killed Morgan's fellow passenger, comedian James McNair, who performed under the name Jimmy Mack, and injured several others, according to officials.
The truck driver charged in the crash has turned himself in, police said Sunday.
Kevin Roper, 35, posted a $50,000 bail Saturday night, according to James O'Neill, spokesman for the Middlesex, New Jersey, district attorney's office.
Comedians Ardie Fuqua and Harris Stanton were among the injured, as was Jeffrey Millea, Williams said. One person was released Saturday, but Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey wouldn't disclose that person's name.
Two others remained in critical condition Sunday, hospital spokeswoman Zenaida Mendez said.
CNN reached Fuqua's agent on Sunday, but he had no comment.
Walmart employee charged
Roper is charged with one count of death by auto and four counts of assault by auto after the tractor-trailer he was driving crashed into the limo bus, a statement from Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office said.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is injured?
2: Is he any better?
3: Who said so?
4: How is he better?
5: Who hit him?
6: With what?
7: Where?
8: When?
9: Says who?
10: Of where?
11: What was one thing that was injured?
12: What else?
13: Who did the driver work for?
14: Did anybody die?
15: Who?
16: What was his stage name?
17: Who else was hurt?
18: Who else?
19: What kind of vehicle did he hit?
20: What is the hospital?
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Guatemala City, Guatemala (CNN) -- Gunmen who shot dead Facundo Cabral likely did not have the Argentine folk singer as their intended target, said Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Menocal.
Cabral, one of Latin America's best-known folk singers, was killed Saturday on his way to the airport in Guatemala City.
In the car with Cabral was a Nicaraguan businessman, Henry Farina, who was driving, said Menocal.
"Everything points to that the attack was directed at him (Farina), and not the artist," he said. Still, a motive for the shooting remained unclear.
Farina was wounded, but survived the attack. Cabral died, becoming the latest victim in a wave of violence that has rocked the nation ahead of elections.
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared three days of national mourning in honor of the singer.
In Guatemala on a Latin American tour, Cabral, 74, left his hotel early Saturday morning in a white SUV for an eight-minute ride to the airport.
Gunmen attacked the SUV -- at least 20 bullet holes could be seen on the Range Rover. Nothing was reported stolen from the vehicle, government spokesman Ronaldo Robles said Saturday.
Police found a brown Hyundai Santa Fe nearby containing bullet-proof vests and AK-47 magazines.
Robles and other authorities have said an investigation was underway.
"You can't blame New Yorkers for the death of John Lennon. Just like you can't blame Guatemalans for the death of Facundo Cabral," said Ernesto Justo Lopez, the Argentine ambassador to Guatemala.
Ironically, Cabral, who said he was inspired by Jesus Christ and Mohandas Gandhi, was recognized in 1996 by the Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a "World Peace Messenger."
Answer the following questions:
1: Is the suspect name mentioned who killed the singer?
2: Was he the actual target?
3: Then who was?
4: Who is he?
5: Was the singer famous?
6: What day was it when he was shot?
7: Where was he heading to?
8: Was the other guy dead too?
9: How many days of mourning was announced in respect to the singer's death?
10: How old was he?
11: Was he in an SUV?
12: What color?
13: How many bullets were fired?
14: Was anything stolen from the car?
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The game pad controllers were more-or-less copied directly from the Game & Watch machines, although the Famicom design team originally wanted to use arcade-style joysticks, even taking apart ones from American game consoles to see how they worked. However, it was eventually decided that children might step on joysticks left on the floor and their durability was also questioned. Katsuyah Nakawaka attached a Game & Watch D-pad to the Famicom prototype and found that it was easy to use and had no discomfort. Ultimately though, they did install a 15-pin expansion port on the front of the console so that an arcade-style joystick could be used optionally. The controllers were hard-wired to the console with no connectors for cost reasons.
At June 1985's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Nintendo unveiled the American version of its Famicom. This is the system which would eventually be officially deployed as the Nintendo Entertainment System, or the colloquial "NES". Nintendo seeded these first systems to limited American test markets starting in New York City on October 18, 1985, following up with a full-fledged North American release of the console in February of the following year. Nintendo released 17 launch titles: 10-Yard Fight, Baseball, Clu Clu Land, Duck Hunt, Excitebike, Golf, Gyromite, Hogan’s Alley, Ice Climber, Kung Fu, Pinball, Soccer, Stack-Up, Tennis, Wild Gunman, Wrecking Crew, and Super Mario Bros.h[›] Some varieties of these launch games contained Famicom chips with an adapter inside the cartridge so they would play on North American consoles, which is why the title screen of Gyromite has the Famicom title "Robot Gyro" and the title screen of Stack-Up has the Famicom title "Robot Block".
Answer the following questions:
1: When did Nintendo reveal their version of the Famicom?
2: Where was it?
3: What would the Famicom be called?
4: What state was it first released in?
5: How many titles were put out?
6: Was Mario one of them?
7: Was Frogger one of them?
8: What were the controllers modeled after?
9: Why was the plan changed from joysticks?
10: What was the other reason?
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The Peales were a famous family of American artists. Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution. He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of George Washington. His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle and Titian was so realistic that George Washington reportedly once tipped his hat to the figures in the picture. Charles Willson Peale gave up painting in his middle age and devoted his life to the Peale museum, which he founded in Philadelphia. The world's first popular museum of art and natural science mainly covered paintings by Peale and his family as well as displays of animals in their natural settings. Peale found the animals himself and found a method to make the exhibits more lifelike. The museum's most popular display was the skeleton of a huge, extinct elephant, which Peale _ on a New York farm in 1801. Three of Peale's seventeen children were also famous artists. Paphaelle Peale often painted still lives of flowers, fruit, and cheese. His brother Rembrandt studied under his father and painted portraits of many noted people, including one of George Washington. Another brother, Rubens Peale, painted mostly landscapes and portraits. James Peale, the brother of Charles Willson Peale, specialized in miniatures . His daughter Sarah Miriam Peale was probably the first professional female portrait painter in America.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was the Peale family occupation?
2: What is Charles Wilson Peale known best for?
3: How many figures are listed?
4: Is John Adams one of them?
5: How many paintings of George Washington did he paint?
6: Who did he fool with his life-like painting?
7: Who was depicted in that artwork?
8: What were their names?
9: Did Peale paint when he was elderly?
10: Why not?
11: Why?
12: Where was that located?
13: Was it the first art museum for ordinary people?
14: What else was there besides paintings?
15: What science displays were there?
16: Was there an elephant skeleton there?
17: Did people like to see it?
18: Who many children did he have?
19: And how many were artists?
20: What were Paphaelle's subjects?
21: Where did Rembrandt Peale study?
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(CNN) -- All eyes will be on the figure skating rink (and the judges panel), it's Round 2 for Canada and the United States in this women's hockey tournament and women's halfpipe ski makes its debut without one of its pioneers.
Figure skating
With expectations nearly as high as the men's hockey team, two Russian figure skaters are in position to medal Thursday.
But instead of Julia Lipnitskaya being the Russian in the top 3 after the short program, it was Adelina Sotnikova who was just behind Yuna Kim, the current queen of the ice.
A few U.S. journalists thought Sotnikova was the recipient of some generous scores from the judges, but she said she deserved the 74.64 total.
"I'm very happy the first (technical element score of 39.09) mark was so high," she said. "I skated really well, and I got good levels on everything so I think they reflected my skate."
Lipnitskaya fell on a triple flip but still sits in fifth position between Americans Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner.
"I don't know what happened. My preparation was all fine. I wasn't nervous. I didn't feel too much pressure," she said despite the immense hopes of her countrymen. "The marks weren't as low as I expected. I can still fight for a medal tomorrow."
Yuna Kim still looks the part of champion despite her absence from many recent competitions. She'll be the final skater of the free skate, which she said will bring "extra pressure."
Sotnikova, meanwhile, is the third skater of the final group. Third-place Carolina Kostner of Italy is just before the Russian.
Answer the following questions:
1: how many sports are mentioned?
2: which is mentioned first?
3: second?
4: and the last one?
5: who is called by a nickname?
6: what is her nickname?
7: are reporters mentioned?
8: from which country?
9: what did they believe?
10: who gave the grades?
11: what was her final grade?
12: did she agree with the rating?
13: did someone topple over?
14: who?
15: what was she doing when this happened?
16: what is her nationality?
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Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a sovereign state on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, Gabon is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area of nearly and its population is estimated at 1.5 million people. Its capital and largest city is Libreville.
Since its independence from France in 1960, Gabon has had three presidents. In the early 1990s, Gabon introduced a multi-party system and a new democratic constitution that allowed for a more transparent electoral process and reformed many governmental institutions. Gabon was also a temporary member of the United Nations Security Council for the 2010–2011 term.
Abundant petroleum and foreign private investment have helped make Gabon one of the most prosperous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the 4th highest HDI and the third highest GDP per capita (PPP) (after Equatorial Guinea and Botswana) in the region. GDP grew by more than 6% per year from 2010 to 2012. However, because of inequality in income distribution, a significant proportion of the population remains poor. Gabon's name originates from "gabão", Portuguese for "cloak", which is roughly the shape of the estuary of the Komo River by Libreville.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where is Gabon?
2: Where is it bordered by?
3: and where else?
4: What's the population?
5: When did it gain independence ?
6: What polictial affilation is that country
7: was it ever part of the UN?
8: For how long?
9: Does Gabon make money on petroleum
10: is it the 3rd highest GDP?
11: where did the name orginated from?
12: is any part of the country poor?
13: why?
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A few years ago, an Englishman called Roy Jones went on holiday to a small seaside town in the west of England. He was swimming in the sea one day when, as he opened his mouth, his false teeth fell out and floated away. The following year, Mr. Jones returned to the same town. As he was having dinner in a local cafe one evening, he mentioned the story of his lost teeth to the manager. The manager looked surprised. He explained that he had found a set of false teeth on the beach last month. Then he asked Roy Jones if he wanted to try them on. "OK", said Mr. Jones. "I suppose it won't do any harm." When the manager brought him the teeth, Mr. Jones put them into his mouth, and laughed and laughed. They were his. In 1987, an American couple called Jane and Robert Bentley went for a picnic on a beach in California. When they returned home, Mrs. Bentley realized that she had lost her wedding ring. It wasn't a lot of money but it was valuable to Jane Bentley. The Bentleys drove straight back to the beach, and searched for the ring for three hours, but could not find it. A few months later, Mr. Bentley went fishing off the same beach. As he pulled a large crab out of the sea, he noticed that there was something attached to one of its claws. It was his wife's wedding ring! At the end of the 19thcentury, a young woman called Rose Harcourt was on her honeymoon in Barmouth, North Wales, when she lost a gold bracelet her husband had given her as a wedding gift. Feeling very upset, she went straight to the police stations and asked if anyone had found her bracelet. Unfortunately, no one had. Twenty-five years later, the Harcourts returned to Barmouth _ They were sitting on the beach one day when Mrs. Harcourt noticed something gold in the sand by the edge of the sea. She walked down to see what it was, and discovered her gold bracelet that had been missing for 25 years.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did Roy Jones lose?
2: Whrer?
3: Did he find it?
4: Who found it?
5: What did Jane and Robert Bentley lose?
6: In what year?
7: Was it expensive?
8: Was it recovered?
9: When?
10: Where?
11: Who else misplaced jewelry?
12: What was it?
13: Was she happy about it?
14: What did she do?
15: Any luck there?
16: Did it ever show up?
17: When?
18: Where?
19: Who recovered it?
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Western European Summer Time (WEST) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in:
Western European Summer Time is known in the countries concerned as:
The scheme runs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October each year. At both the start and end of the schemes, clock changes take place at 01:00 UTC. During the winter, Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) is used.
The start and end dates of the scheme are asymmetrical in terms of daylight hours: the vernal time of year with a similar amount of daylight to late October is mid-February, well before the start of summer time. The asymmetry reflects temperature more than the length of daylight.
Ireland observes Standard Time during the summer months and changes to UTC+0 in winter. As Ireland's winter time period begins on the last Sunday in October and finishes on the last Sunday in March, the result is the same as if it observed summer time.
The following countries and territories use Western European Summer Time during the summer, between 1:00 UTC on the last Sunday of March and 1:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October.
In Ireland, since the Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971, Ireland has used UTC+1 in summer (officially "standard time", , though usually called "summer time") and UTC+0 in winter (officially "winter time").
Answer the following questions:
1: what is WEST?
2: when does the scheme run?
3: what countries observe this?
4: which months has similar daylight?
5: and the other month?
6: what time does the changes take place?
7: what's used during the winter?
8: does WEST affect tempature?
9: when did ireland start using this time?
10: is ireland the only country that uses this time?
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ELMONT, N. Y. (AP)---Elmont High School senior Harold Ekeh had a plan--he would apply to 13 colleges , including all eight Ivy League schools, figuring it would help his chances of getting into at least one great school.
It worked, And then some, The teenager from Long Island was accepted at all 13 schools, and now faces his next big test: deciding where to go.
"I was stunned, I was really shocked, "Ekeh told The Associated Press during an interview Tuesday at his home near the Belmont Park racetrack, his four younger brothers running around.
He found out last week he had been accepted to Princeton University. That made him eight for eight in the Ivy League--he had already been accepted to Yale University , Brown University, Columbia University , Cornell University , Dartmouth College, Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania. His other acceptances came from Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Stony Brook University and Vanderbilt University.
"We are so proud of him, " said his mother , Roseline Ekeh."Hard work, dedication, prayer brought him to where he is today. "
Born in Nigeria, Harold was eight years old when his parents brought the family to the United States.
"It was kind of difficult adjusting to the new environment and the new culture, " he said. But he saw his parents working hard, "and I took their example and decides to _
He referenced that effort in his college essay, writing, "Like a tree, uprooted and replanted, I could have withered in a new country surrounded by people and languages I did not understand. Yet, I witnessed my parents persevere despite the potential to give in. I faced my challenges with newfound zeal; I risked insults, spending my break talking to unfamiliar faces, ignoring their sarcastic remarks. "
Harold "is tremendously focused in everything he does." said John Capozzi, the school's principal, "He's a great role model. All the students and faculty are so proud of him. "
Harold is the second Long Island student in as many years to get into all eight Ivies. Last year, William Floyd High School's Kwasi Enim chose to go to Yale.
Harold, who has a 100. 51 grade-point average and wants to be a neurosurgeon, said he was leaning toward Yale, and had heard from Enin, offering congratulations. Like Enin, he's likely to announce his college choice at a press conference later this month. The deadline to decide is May 1.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was Harold born?
2: Is Long Island in Nigeria?
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Little Tony was riding his bicycle all around the party. After all grandma gave him it right now. What fun would it be for Tony if he couldn't show off his new bike? He rode it up and down the hills and through the people at the party. It was his party. Everyone knew that it was his party. He was turning 8, 8 candles on the cake and the number 8 frosted on, the number 8 on his birthday hat. The big 8. It was much better than his last birthday. He didn't like being 7. He loved riding his bike closer and closer to people and things. Until he ran right into the big table with his birthday cake. All 8 candles flew all over the ground of the lawn. Tony was upset, and so was daddy at the big huge mess he made. He could have been more careful daddy said, and looked where he was going. He was right, Tony was being too crazy. But it was his party, so he kept riding, with more care this time. He rode his bike up and down. Faster and faster. Until Tony's birthday finally was over, long after it began.
Answer the following questions:
1: Little Tony was at a party riding what?
2: When did he get it?
3: And from whom?
4: Did He make a mess?
5: what hit the floor?
6: why this many?
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Maryland () is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are "Old Line State", the "Free State", and the "Chesapeake Bay State". The state is named after the English queen Henrietta Maria of France.
One of the original Thirteen Colonies, Maryland is considered to be the birthplace of religious freedom in America, when it was formed by George Calvert in the early 17th century as an intended refuge for persecuted Catholics from England. George Calvert was the first Lord of Baltimore and the first English proprietor of the then-Maryland colonial grant. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and played a pivotal role in the founding of Washington, D.C., which was established on land donated by the state.
Maryland is one of the smallest U.S. states in terms of area, as well as one of the most densely populated, with around six million residents. , Maryland had the highest median household income of any state, owing in large part to its close proximity to the nation's capital and a highly diversified economy spanning manufacturing, services, and biotechnology.
Answer the following questions:
1: What state is talked about?
2: How many states/cities does it border?
3: Which one borders it to the east?
4: Is it large?
5: Who was its namesake?
6: Who founded the colony?
7: When?
8: What was it known for starting?
9: What was located on donated space from the state?
10: Are there a lot of people per area?
11: How many people live there?
12: How many nicknames does it have?
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Hong Kong (CNN) -- A car theft in China that spiraled into a manhunt and a baby's killing has left the country grieving and sparked outrage on social media.
The body of the infant, whose name was Haobo, was found buried in the snow Wednesday. His father, Xu Jialin, said he and his wife identified their two-month-old son, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.
Thousands gathered in a square Tuesday night in Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province, to mourn the baby, killed by "a thief who found the missing boy sleeping in a car he had stolen," Xinhua reported.
The 48-year-old man, identified as Zhou Xijun, turned himself in to police Tuesday and confessed that he had killed the baby and buried him in the snow, Xinhua reported, citing local police.
Xu, the father, had parked his car Monday in front of the supermarket he runs in Changchun and entered the store to turn on a stove, leaving his son in the back seat with the car's engine still running, according to state-run news reports.
Xu returned minutes later to find his car was missing. He called police immediately.
Zhou had allegedly stolen the grey Toyota SUV and discovered the child on the backseat as he drove the vehicle away.
More than 8,000 police and hundreds of volunteers joined a search for the child for two days.
Zhou has confessed "that he parked the car on the roadside and choked the baby about an hour after he stole the car. He then abandoned the baby's clothes and the car in the nearby city of Gongzhuling," Xinhua reported.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was the baby's body found?
2: How old was it?
3: Was it a male or female?
4: What was his name?
5: Who killed the baby?
6: How old is he?
7: Did he confess to killing the baby?
8: Where did the father leave the child?
9: What kind of car was it?
10: What color?
11: When did Zhou find the baby in the beack seat?
12: How many police searched for the baby?
13: How many volunteers also searched?
14: For how long?
15: Where was the car left?
16: Was anything left with it?
17: How many got together to mourn the baby?
18: Where?
19: How did Zhou kill the baby?
20: When?
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CHAPTER X.
MR. HART AND CAPTAIN STUBBER.
When George Hotspur left Humblethwaite, turned out of the house by the angry Baronet early in the morning,--as the reader will remember,--he was at his own desire driven to Penrith, choosing to go south rather than north. He had doubted for a while as to his immediate destination. The Altringhams were still at Castle Corry, and he might have received great comfort from her ladyship's advice and encouragement. But, intimate as he was with the Altringhams, he did not dare to take a liberty with the Earl. A certain allowance of splendid hospitality at Castle Corry was at his disposal every year, and Lord Altringham always welcomed him with thorough kindness. But George Hotspur had in some fashion been made to understand that he was not to overstay his time; and he was quite aware that the Earl could be very disagreeable upon occasions. There was a something in the Earl of which George was afraid; and, to tell the truth, he did not dare to go back to Castle Corry. And then, might it not be well for him to make immediate preparation in London for those inquiries respecting his debts and his character which Sir Harry had decided to make? It would be very difficult for him to make any preparation that could lead to a good result; but if no preparation were made, the result would be very bad indeed. It might perhaps be possible to do something with Mr. Hart and Captain Stubber. He had no other immediate engagements. In October he was due to shoot pheasants with a distinguished party in Norfolk, but this business which he had now in hand was of so much importance that even the pheasant-shooting and the distinguished party were not of much moment to him.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who left Humblethwaite?
2: Who threw him out?
3: Where did he decited to go?
4: Was there something about the Earl at Castke corry he was afraid of?
5: Would he have been welcomed to the castle?
6: Who might it be possible to do something with?
7: What did he have planned to do in October?
8: Where at?
9: How could the earl be at times?
10: Was the buisness he had to attend to now important?
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The Pleistocene (, often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology.
The Pleistocene is the first epoch of the Quaternary Period or sixth epoch of the Cenozoic Era. In the ICS timescale, the Pleistocene is divided into four stages or ages, the Gelasian, Calabrian, Ionian and Tarantian. All of these stages were defined in southern Europe. In addition to this international subdivision, various regional subdivisions are often used.
Before a change finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the time boundary between the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene was regarded as being at 1.806 million years Before Present (BP), as opposed to the currently accepted 2.588 million years BP: publications from the preceding years may use either definition of the period.
Charles Lyell introduced the term "pleistocene" in 1839 to describe strata in Sicily that had at least 70% of their molluscan fauna still living today. This distinguished it from the older Pliocene Epoch, which Lyell had originally thought to be the youngest fossil rock layer. He constructed the name "Pleistocene" ("Most New" or "Newest") from the Greek πλεῖστος, "pleīstos", "most", and καινός, "kainós" (latinized as "cænus"), "new"; this contrasting with the immediately preceding Pliocene ("More New" or "Newer", from πλείων, "pleíōn", "more", and "kainós"; usual spelling: Pliocene), and the immediately subsequent Holocene ("wholly new" or "entirely new", from ὅλος, "hólos", "whole", and "kainós") epoch, which extends to the present time.
Answer the following questions:
1: What time period is this article about?
2: What is it more commonly called?
3: How long ago did it start?
4: And when did it end?
5: What was the time before that called?
6: And the time period after?
7: How many stages does the Pleistocene have?
8: Is Ionian one of them?
9: In what location did these names come from?
10: What organization decided on the time boundary between it and Pliocene?
11: When did they do that?
12: When was the word first coined?
13: By whom?
14: To describe rock where?
15: What does Pleistocene mean literally?
16: And Pliocene?
17: And Holocene?
18: Which epoch are we in how?
19: Have there been more glaciations since the Ice Age?
20: What are the names of the four stages?
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CHAPTER XIX
A WOMAN'S WAY
They had not been forgotten while they journeyed through the wilds. Frobisher thought of them now and then, and his daughter more often; indeed, her mind dwelt a good deal on Andrew after he left and she found herself looking forward eagerly to his return. She spent some weeks in an American city with her father, but its gaieties had less attraction for her than usual, and she was glad when they went back for a time to the Lake of Shadows. On the day after her arrival she drove across the ice to the Landing and inquired at a store where news circulated whether anything had been heard of the Allinson expedition. The proprietor had nothing to tell her, but while she spoke to him a man crossed the floor, and she saw with annoyance that it was Mappin. She left while he made his purchases, but he joined her when she was putting some parcels into the sleigh, and did not seem daunted by the coldness of her manner.
"I didn't know you were coming back so soon," he greeted her.
"Didn't you?" she asked indifferently. "When my father had finished his business we suddenly made up our minds to leave, without consulting Mrs. Denton. I suppose that explains your ignorance."
"You're smart," he said. "As soon as you're ready to receive people I must make my call."
It was getting dark, but the lights from the store window fell on his face, and Geraldine saw a glitter in his eyes. She thought he meant to defy her.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who does Frobisher's daughter think of a lot?
2: Is she anxious for him to get back?
3: How often did Frobisher think about them?
4: Where had she visited?
5: With who?
6: For how long?
7: Where did they return after that?
8: How did she feel about that?
9: Why did she go to the store?
10: Who did she ask?
11: Did he know anything?
12: How did she travel?
13: Was it cold?
14: Who else was in the store?
15: Did she know him?
16: Was he expecting to see her?
17: What does he think about her intelligence?
18: Does he want to visit her?
19: Is it late when they talk?
20: How does she act toward him?
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A couple of years ago, before a trip to China, Nicole Davis and her US women's volleyball teammates were warned about the prominence (, ) of coach "Jenny" Lang Ping in her native country. "I was pushed over by Chinese journalists while I was just trying to put my luggage on the bus," said Davis. Known as the "Iron Hammer" for her punishing spikes , Lang made it possible for China to dominate in the sport in the early 1980s. She was a key player on China's 1984 Olympic gold medal winning team. When the US team arrived for the Olympics, Lang, 48, who is from Beijing, had to take a different route to avoid a crowd of reporters and fans. Then came the greatest moment to Lang:while the US team was playing in a packed gym, at least 8,000 Chinese fans _ an American flag. "That really says it all," Davis said. "They look at her as an icon .I'm sure it's hard for them to see her coaching another country, but they love her so deeply that her success is their success." The loyalty of the Chinese fans was tested on Friday, when China lost a match to the US. "It's a pity that China lost the match, but I'm still glad that Lang Ping's team won, since she is the pride of China's volleyball," said Liu Chengli, a spectator. "We also cheered for Lang's victory." Lang said she just tried to stay professional when the two teams meet. "It doesn't matter if we play China or any other team. It's the same." Lang said. Davis said she and her teammates could not have imagined the passion for volleyball among Chinese because the sport was lack of popularity in the US. The reception from Chinese fans has touched the US players, said a US volleyball player Lindsey Berg. "It's such an honor to be here and play for our coach here in China," she said. "The amount of support that the Chinese give to her and us has been tremendous. The whole event has been unbelievable."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is known s the "iron hammer"?
2: For what?
3: In what sport?
4: Who was knocked over?
5: by who?
6: Who were they trying to get to?
7: What team was she a very important part of?
8: Did they win the bronze?
9: What did they win?
10: Did the crowd welcome her?
11: How many were in the gym?
12: What were thay holding?
13: Was there a flag on display?
14: Did China win the game against the U S?
15: Is the sport one of the favorites in America?
16: How do the Chinese feel about it?
17: Did they support her during the game?
18: How did she try to act during the game?
19: Who was surprised about the Chinese reaction to the game?
20: Who is Lindsey Berg?
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CHAPTER IX--THE WASP
'Whom He hath blessed and called His own, He tries them early, look and tone, Bent brow and throbbing heart, Tries them with pain.'
The next week Lily had the pleasure of fitting out Faith Longley for her place at Mrs. Weston's. She rejoiced at this opportunity of patronising her, because in her secret soul she felt that she might have done her a little injustice in choosing her own favourite Esther in her stead. Esther's popularity at the New Court, however, made Lilias confident in her own judgment; the servants liked her because she was quick and obliging, Mr. Mohun said she looked very neat, Phyllis liked her because a mischance to her frock was not so brave an offence with her as with Rachel, and Ada was growing very fond of her, because she was in the habit of bestowing great admiration on her golden curls as she arranged them, and both little girls were glad not to be compelled to put away the playthings they took out.
Maurice and Reginald had agreed to defer their onslaught on the wasps till Lord Rotherwood's arrival, and the war was now limited to attacks on foraging parties. Reginald most carefully marked every nest about the garden and farm, and, on his cousin's arrival on Saturday evening, began eagerly to give him a list of their localities. Lord Rotherwood was as ardent in the cause as even Reginald could desire, and would have instantly set out with him to reconnoitre had not the evening been rainy.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the name of the current chapter?
2: What did Maurice and Reginald decide to wait for?
3: Who was most at risk of being assaulted?
4: What prevented them from being sent to scout?
5: What activity were they currently involved in?
6: Who were they fighting in the war?
7: Who did the servants like?
8: Who did Lily prefer?
9: What is Lily short for?
10: Why did Ada like Esther?
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New York (CNN) -- A member of Pedro Hernandez's family walked into a Camden, New Jersey, police station in the 1980s and reported that Hernandez told relatives and others that he had killed a boy in New York and threw the body near a Dumpster -- but there's no indication anything came out of that report, the family member told CNN.
"You feel like they didn't believe you. I felt empty and a little bit mad," the relative said. "I was expecting something else."
Now, 33 years after Etan Patz disappeared, Pedro Hernandez stands accused of choking to death the 6-year-old youngster after luring him to the basement of a corner grocery store in New York City, and of throwing away his body inside a trash bag.
The family member, who CNN has agreed to not identify, said there was no receipt of paperwork to document the information provided -- nor was the relative ever contacted again about the report.
"Police asked whether I was mad" at Hernandez or had an ulterior motive, the source added.
Hernandez allegedly confided the information to a New Jersey church prayer group that included some members of his family and his then-spiritual adviser, the source told CNN.
Tomas Rivera, a leader of the prayer group, declined comment Monday on Hernandez or the prayer group, citing authorities who told him not to talk to the media.
Pastor: Wife of suspect in Etan Patz case 'absolutely shell-shocked'
At 19, shortly after Patz's disappearance on May 25, 1979, Hernandez left his job as a stock clerk and returned to his mother's home in North Camden, New Jersey. The attempt to tell police that Hernandez might have killed a child happened a few years after that.
Answer the following questions:
1: In what city did the crime occur?
2: How old was the victim?
3: What was his name?
4: How was he murdered?
5: Where?
6: Who did he first confess this to?
7: Where did he confess?
8: At what location?
9: Who was he with when he confessed?
10: Who from the religious institution would not comment?
11: What was his role there?
12: What was the murderer's name?
13: First name?
14: What did the child vanish?
15: How old was the killer then?
16: What did he do for a living?
17: Where did he go after quitting?
18: Where?
19: Was he married?
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When Steve Maxwell graduated from college, he had an engineering degree and a high tech job -- but he couldn't balance his checkbook. "I took one finance class in college but dropped it to go on a ski trip," says the 45-year-old father of three, who lives in Windsor, Colorado. "I actually had to go to my bank and ask them to teach me how to read my statement."
One of the biggest obstacles to making money is not understanding it: Thousands of us avoid investing because we just don't get it. But to make money, you must be financially literate. "It bothered me that I didn't understand this stuff," says Steve, "so I read books and magazines about money management and investing, and I asked every financial whiz I knew to explain things to me."
He and his wife started applying the lessons: They made a point to _ . They never bought on impulse, always negotiated better deals (on their cars,cable bills, furniture) and stayed in their home long after they went for an expensive vacation. They also put 20 percent of their annual salary into investments.
Within ten years, they were millionaires, and people were coming to Steve for advice. "Someone would say, 'I need to refinance my house -- what should I do? 'A lot of times, I wouldn't know the answer, but I'd go to find it and learn something in the process," he says.
In 2003, Steve quit his job to become part owner of a company that holds personal finance seminars for employees of corporations like Wal Mart. He also started going to real estate investment seminars, and it's paid off: He now owns $ 30 million worth of investment properties, including apartment complexes, a shopping mall and a quarry.
"I was an engineer who never thought this life was possible, but all it truly takes is a little self education," says Steve. "You can do anything once you understand the basics."
Answer the following questions:
1: What type of degree did Steve have?
2: Did he have a high-tech job as well?
3: Why did he drop his finance class?
4: How many children does he have?
5: How old is Steve?
6: In what year did Steve quit his job?
7: Is Steve a multi-millionaire?
8: How long did it take him to become a millionaire?
9: Do people ask Steve for advice?
10: How much of his annual salary does he put into Investments?
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October 21 was a very dark day in Texas.Not only did Hurricane Hanna destroy homes,it caused the largest business damage in Texas's history.The worst thing is Hanna's destructive force nearly wiped out most power poles and power lines.According to Center Point Energy,Hurricane Hanna affected 2.15 million customers.Currently, more than 4,000 of them are still in the dark.Crews have worked 16-hour shifts to restore power to residents.
Most of Houston seems to be returning to normal.Schools,restaurants,retail stores and gas stations are open.Smiles are back.But harder-hit places,including Galveston,will take much longer to recover. Hundreds of people are still missing,and coastal towns are a mess.Some ruins from storm have drifted south to other beaches in Texas.Several public schools in Galveston are closed due to water damage.Parents are registering kids in other area schools which are scheduled to begin class on November 13.Many school supplies were destroyed.
Clara Barton Village is an emergency shelter located at Alamo Elementary School in Galveston,Texas.This is where Paula Reed and her family are staying.Believe it or not,Paula Reed and her family consider this hurricane a blessing.When Paula was a girl,she was an orphan,but was taken in by her stepmom,Antonia Flores.Reed lost contact with Flores and had been trying desperately to locate her for the past few years.Before the hurricane,Reed and her family moved away from Galveston to a San Antonio shelter.There,she reunited with Flores after 30 long years! The moment they saw each other, their lives were changed.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the temporary housing called?
2: Where is it located?
3: Is it in Austin?
4: Where then?
5: What was the tragedy that promptated these accomidatios?
6: When did this happen?
7: Was anyone unaccounted for?
8: How many?
9: Who was reunited?
10: How long of an absence?
11: Was Houston hardest hit?
12: Who had it worse?
13: How many households were left with out lights?
14: Are all the education centers open in Galveston?
15: When was the semester supposed to start?
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CHAPTER XX
Julian and Furley left the place together. They looked for the Bishop but found that he had slipped away.
"To Downing Street, I believe," Furley remarked. "He has some vague idea of suggesting a compromise."
"Compromise!" Julian repeated a little drearily. "How can there be any such thing! There might be delay. I think we ought to have given Stenson a week--time to communicate with America and send a mission to France."
"We are like all theorists," Furley declared moodily, stopping to relight his pipe. "We create and destroy on palter with amazing facility. When it comes to practice, we are funks."
"Are you funking this?" Julian asked bluntly.
"How can any one help it? Theoretically we are right--I am sure of it. If we leave it to the politicians, this war will go dragging on for God knows how long. It's the people who are paying. It's the people who ought to make the peace. The only thing that bothers me is whether we are doing it the right way. Is Freistner honest? Could he be self-deceived? Is there any chance that he could be playing into the hands of the Pan-Germans?"
"Fenn is the man who has had most to do with him," Julian remarked. "I wouldn't trust Fenn a yard, but I believe in Freistner."
"So do I," Furley assented, "but is Fenn's report of his promises and the strength of his followers entirely honest?"
"That's the part of the whole thing I don't like," Julian acknowledged. "Fenn's practically the corner stone of this affair. It was he who met Freistner in Amsterdam and started these negotiations, and I'm damned if I like Fenn, or trust him. Did you see the way he looked at Stenson out of the corners of his eyes, like a little ferret? Stenson was at his best, too. I never admired the man more."
Answer the following questions:
1: Was Fenn trusted?
2: How did he look at Stenson?
3: Was Stenson admired?
4: By whom?
5: Was Julian alone?
6: Who was he with?
7: Who were they looking for?
8: Did they find him?
9: Where did they think he could be?
10: Were either of them smokers?
11: Who?
12: What was it that he smoked?
13: Who did they think Stenson should have communicated with?
14: To do what?
15: Was there a war going on?
16: Who was at war?
17: Who else did they question the honesty of?
18: Who had the most to do with him?
19: Where did Fenn meet Freistner?
20: What did they think the Bishop wanted to do?
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Just a Little Smile Mark was walking home from school one day when he saw the boy in front of turn fall over and drop all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a basketball and a walkman . Mark stopped and helped the boy pick up these things. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry some of his things. As they walked, Mark knew that the boy's name was Bill, that he loved computer games, basketball and history, and that he was having lots of troubles with his other subjects and that he had just _ with his girlfriend. They arrived at Bill's home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed happily with a few laughs and some small talk, then Mark went home. They often saw . each other at school, had lunch together once or twice, and then they both finished middle school. They ended up in the same high school where they sometimes saw and talked with each other over the years. At last just three weeks before they finished high school, Bill asked Mark if they could talk. Bill asked Mark if he still remembered the day years ago when they had first met. "Did you ever think why I was carrying so many things home that day?" asked Bill. "You see, I cleaned out my locker because I didn't want to leave anything for anyone else. I had put away some of my mother's sleeping pills and I was going home to kill myself. But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, ! began to understand that if I killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life. "
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was walking home?
2: From where?
3: Who fell?
4: Did he drop any clothing?
5: Did he drop a music player?
6: Did he drop some of his books?
7: Did he get help picking his stuff up?
8: Did Bill like any sports?
9: History?
10: Who's home did they have a soda at?
11: How often did they eat together?
12: How long before they graduated did they talk?
13: Whose sleeping pills did he steal?
14: Why?
15: Who saved whose life?
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(CNN) -- Thus far, NBC's late-night transition has been like butter.
Jay Leno hosted his final episode of "The Tonight Show" on February 6 with massive celebrity support and even bigger ratings, and Jimmy Fallon took over on February 17 with the same level of excitement.
But there's still one more piece of the Peacock's puzzle left to be added: Seth Meyers.
At 12:35 a.m., the 40-year-old "Saturday Night Live" star will step behind the desk of "Late Night" and occupy a chair once filled by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and, directly before him, his pal and fellow "Saturday Night Live" alum Fallon.
With that kind of history, it goes without saying that there's pressure on Meyers not to screw up. Yet instead of marching in and tearing down "Late Night's" past, Meyers is planning to keep tradition intact while playing to his strengths.
After 12 years on "SNL," nine of which he served as head writer, Meyers is by all accounts more of a cerebral comedian than a performer. His colleagues give him credit for being the guy who'd rather set up the joke than steal the thunder, and some of his best work doesn't even include his face. See: Tina Fey as Sarah Palin:
Or Louis C.K. as Abraham Lincoln:
Or Amy Poehler killing it as a rapping Sarah Palin:
"There's the class clown, and then there's the guy who sits in the back and says an aside about the class clown," Meyers said to The Wall Street Journal. "That's me."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was taking over for Jay Leno?
2: How old is Myers?
3: Did he intend to tear down Late Nights past?
4: What did he do before Late Night?
5: How long was he there?
6: What was hid job there for 9 of those years?
7: Who did he write some of his best work for?
8: Who else?
9: Anyone else?
10: In what publication did he say he would make a joke about the class clown?
11: When did Leno host his last episode?
12: When did Fallon start?
13: What was his reception?
14: What channel are their shows on?
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With the passing of Steve Jobs, the tech industry has lost one of its most respected heroes. So where will the industry turn for inspiration, now that Jobs is gone?
New Apple CEO, Tim Cook, will keep the business going, but he is unlikely to inspire the same kind of devotion as Jobs. Facebook owner, Mark Zuckerberg, has star power, but he and his company are still too young and untested. At Google, Larry Page is too awkward, and Eric Schmidt too clever, and a lot of the company's recent products are unfinished. But there's one tech leader who just might fill the gap: Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
Bezos runs his business the same way as Steve Jobs ran his, with a focus on long-term value over short-term profits and a willingness to invest in seemingly unrelated new areas. Steve Jobs converted Apple from personal computers into music with the iPod, and then into cellphones with the iPhone. It worked, and made Apple into the biggest and richest tech company in the world. Jeff Bezos is doing the same thing at Amazon.
In 2006, Amazon noticed it had a lot of spare capacity in its data centers. So it started renting out some of that capacity to some companies. Now, hundreds of newly-established Internet companies, including big names like Foursquare and Yelp, run their businesses on Amazon Web Services. Somehow, an outline bookseller became the most important provider of "cloud computing".
In 2007, Amazon introduced its e-reader, the Kindle. The product developed slowly for a couple of years, and then started to take off in 2010 with the third generation. It sells for US$199, which is hundreds of dollars less than Apple's iPad, but it has similar functions to the iPad. No wonder Amazon has to build millions more than it expected to meet demand.
Answer the following questions:
1: Did Steve Jobs die?
2: Who is the new Apple CEO?
3: Who is the owner of Facebook?
4: Who is the owner of Google??
5: Who is the owner of Amazon?
6: What does he focus on?
7: Anything else?
8: What did Apple make?
9: Anything else?
10: Was Apple the biggest tech company in the world?
11: When did Amazon start renting out datat capacity?
12: What commpanies have bought into this?
13: What was Amazon's e-reader
14: When did it come out?
15: When did it start to take off?
16: Which generation was this?
17: How much does it sell for?
18: Is that less than the iPad?
19: Does it have the same functions as the ipad?
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Toulouse is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France, with 466,297 inhabitants as of January 2014.
The Toulouse Metro area, with 1,312,304 inhabitants as of 2014, is France's fourth-largest metropolitan area, after Paris, Lyon and Marseille, and ahead of Lille and Bordeaux.
Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus (formerly EADS), the Galileo positioning system, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It also hosts the European headquarters of Intel and CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST), the largest space centre in Europe. Thales Alenia Space, and Astrium Satellites also have a significant presence in Toulouse.
The University of Toulouse is one of the oldest in Europe (founded in 1229) and, with more than 103,000 students, it is the fourth-largest university campus in France, after the universities of Paris, Lyon and Lille.
The air route between Toulouse–Blagnac and Paris Orly is the busiest in Europe, transporting 2.4 million passengers in 2014. According to the rankings of "L'Express" and "Challenges", Toulouse is the most dynamic French city.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the subject of the article?
2: Where is it?
3: What industry is it the center of?
4: What is headquartered there?
5: What river is the does the city lie on?
6: Is it a large city?
7: What is the latest stated population?
8: Is it considered the large city in France?
9: Is there a university there?
10: IS it new?
11: How old is it?
12: Is it the largest university in France?
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The Kingdom of France () was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Western Europe. It was one of the most powerful states in Europe and a great power since the Late Middle Ages and the Hundred Years' War. It was also an early colonial power, with possessions around the world.
France originated as West Francia ("Francia Occidentalis"), the western half of the Carolingian Empire, with the Treaty of Verdun (843). A branch of the Carolingian dynasty continued to rule until 987, when Hugh Capet was elected king and founded the Capetian dynasty. The territory remained known as "Francia" and its ruler as "rex Francorum" ("king of the Franks") well into the High Middle Ages. The first king calling himself "Roi de France" ("King of France") was Philip II, in 1190. France continued to be ruled by the Capetians and their cadet lines—the Valois and Bourbon—until the monarchy was overthrown in 1792 during the French Revolution.
France in the Middle Ages was a de-centralised, feudal monarchy. In Brittany and Catalonia (now a part of Spain) the authority of the French king was barely felt. Lorraine and Provence were states of the Holy Roman Empire and not yet a part of France. Initially, West Frankish kings were elected by the secular and ecclesiastic magnates, but the regular coronation of the eldest son of the reigning king during his father's lifetime established the principle of male primogeniture, which became codified in the Salic law. During the Late Middle Ages, the Kings of England laid claim to the French throne, resulting in a series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453). Subsequently, France sought to extend its influence into Italy, but was defeated by Spain in the ensuing Italian Wars (1494–1559).
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was the first king?
2: What was the territory known as during the High Middle Ages?
3: and in the year 843?
4: What empire was it a part of?
5: How long did parts of that dynasty rule?
6: What did Capet create that ended that?
7: What did the leaders there call themselves?
8: Which means?
9: But what did Philip II call himself?
10: What happened in 1792?
11: Which lines ruled until then?
12: What's one state that was part of the Holy Roman Empire and not France?
13: When was France decentralized?
14: What two places didn't really pay any attention to the French king?
15: Where would we find those places today?
16: When was the Hundred Years' War?
17: Whose actions started that long conflict?
18: What were they trying to take as their own?
19: In early colonial days, did France have property all over the world?
20: Was it a monarchy or a dictatorship?
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(CNN)The Mormon church has excommunicated a popular podcaster, saying his public dissents from the religion's core beliefs have led others away from the church.
John Dehlin, founder of the podcast "Mormon Stories," describes himself as an "unorthodox" Mormon whose church roots reach back five generations. Under Tuesday's penalty, however, Dehlin may not participate in church sacraments for at least one year. He has the right to appeal the decision.
Dehlin is the second Mormon to be excommunicated in the past year, following Kate Kelly, who was kicked out last June for pushing the church to admit women to its all-male priesthood.
Tuesday's excommunication was announced in a letter to Dehlin from Brian King, the stake president, or local church leader, in North Logan, Utah.
King said that Dehlin was not excommunicated for criticizing the church, which he has openly admitted to, but for denying core Mormon doctrines. The church has concluded that Dehlin's views on the following amount to apostasy:
-- Questioning the nature of God and divinity of Christ;
-- Calling the Book of Mormon and Book of Abraham, two central texts, fraudulent;
-- Teaching that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormon church's official name, is not the "true church with power and authority from God."
"You have spread these teachings widely via the Internet to hundreds of people in the past and have shared with me, in previous correspondence, that you will continue to do so," King wrote to Dehlin in a letter dated February 9.
Answer the following questions:
1: who was the first person to be excommunicated?
2: when was she thrown out?
3: for?
4: who was next?
5: what was he the founder of?
6: and how does he describe himself in that?
7: how did they communicate with him?
8: from who?
9: who is that?
10: where?
11: what is the church's official name?
12: when was the letter written?
13: what did Dehlin teach about the church?
14: did he do this by word of mouth?
15: then how?
16: what else do they say he said?
17: and?
18: can he take church sacraments?
19: for how long?
20: how old is this church?
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Navassa Island (; ; also "La Navasse") is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. The island is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute and is claimed as an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Haiti which claimed sovereignty over Navassa since 1801 through its constitution, as the basis of its objection over the later 1850s' U.S. claim.
Navassa Island is about in area. It is located west of Haiti's southwest peninsula, south of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and about one-quarter of the way from mainland Haiti to Jamaica in the Jamaica Channel.
Navassa reaches an elevation of at Dunning Hill south of the lighthouse, Navassa Island Light. This location is from the southwestern coast or east of Lulu Bay.
The terrain of Navassa Island consists mostly of exposed coral and limestone, the island being ringed by vertical white cliffs high, but with enough grassland to support goat herds. The island is covered in a forest of just four tree species: short-leaf fig ("Ficus populnea" var. "brevifolia"), pigeon plum ("Coccoloba diversifolia"), mastic ("Sideroxylon foetidissimum"), and poisonwood ("Metopium brownei").
Navassa Island's topography, ecology, and modern history are similar to that of Mona Island, a small limestone island located in the Mona Passage between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, which were once centers of guano mining, and are nature reserves for the United States. Transient Haitian fishermen and others camp on the island but the island is otherwise uninhabited. It has no ports or harbors, only offshore anchorages, and its only natural resource is guano; economic activity consists of subsistence fishing and commercial trawling activities.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where is Navassa Island?
2: Who owns it?
3: Does anyone live there?
4: What is the terrain like?
5: Does it have a forest?
6: What are the indigenous trees?
7: Is the island similar to any others?
8: Which?
9: Where is that located?
10: Where is the Mona Passage?
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Chapter 17: The North Coach.
Barnet was then, as now, a somewhat straggling place. Soon after entering it, the horseman turned off from the main road. His pursuers were but fifty yards behind him, and they kept him in sight until, after proceeding a quarter of a mile, he stopped at a small tavern, where he dismounted, and a boy took his horse and led it round by the side of the house.
"Run to earth!" Harry said exultantly. "He is not likely to move from there tonight."
"At any rate, he is safe for a couple of hours," Charlie said. "So we will go to our inn, and have a good meal. By that time it will be quite dark, and we will have a look at the place he has gone into; and if we can't learn anything, we must watch it by turns till midnight. We will arrange, at the inn, to hire a horse. One will be enough. He only caught a glimpse of us at that inn, and certainly would not recognize one of us, if he saw him alone. The other can walk."
"But which way, Charlie? He may go back again." "It is hardly likely he came here merely for the pleasure of stopping the night at that little tavern. I have no doubt he is bound for London. You shall take the horse, Harry, and watch until he starts, and then follow him, just managing to come up close to him as he gets into town. I will start early, and wait at the beginning of the houses, and it is hard if one or other of us does not manage to find out where he hides."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who said to run?
2: Who was he talking to?
3: Where did the second man say they would go?
4: And do what?
5: Who were they following?
6: How far were they away from him?
7: Where did he halt?
8: What happened to his steed?
9: What did he do with it?
10: What did Charlie suggest they had to do?
11: Until what time?
12: Would they both do that at once?
13: Would they both ride?
14: Where did Harry think the man was headed?
15: Who did he think should ride?
16: What did he want him to do?
17: And then what?
18: In the meantime, where would he be waiting?
19: What was the name of the location this happened?
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The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the blending of the Indus Valley Civilization and Indo-Aryan culture into the Vedic Civilization; the development of Hinduism as a synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions; the rise of the Śramaṇa movement; the decline of Śrauta sacrifices and the birth of the initiatory traditions of Jainism, Buddhism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism; the onset of a succession of powerful dynasties and empires for more than two millennia throughout various geographic areas of the subcontinent, including the growth of Muslim dynasties during the Medieval period intertwined with Hindu powers; the advent of European traders resulting in the establishment of the British rule; and the subsequent independence movement that led to the Partition of India and the creation of the Republic of India.
Evidence of Anatomically modern humans in the Indian subcontinent is recorded as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3200 to 1300 BCE, was the first major civilization in South Asia. A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature Harappan period, from 2600 to 1900 BCE. This civilization collapsed at the start of the second millennium BCE and was later followed by the Iron Age Vedic Civilization, which extended over much of the Indo-Gangetic plain and which witnessed the rise of major polities known as the Mahajanapadas. In one of these kingdoms, Magadha, Mahavira and Gautama Buddha propagated their Shramanic philosophies during the fifth and sixth century BCE.
Answer the following questions:
1: How far back can humans be traced in Indian Subcontinent?
2: What civilization flourished along the northwestern region?
3: What cultures blended to make the Vedic Civilization?
4: Which five initiatory traditions were born?
5: What caused British rule to establish?
6: Which civilization had a collapse in the beginning of the second millenium?
7: What happened during the fifth and sixth century BCE?
8: What does Mahajanapadas refer to?
9: For how long did the Indus Valley Civilization rule?
10: What was Hinduism created as?
11: From when to when was the Indus Valley Civilization?
12: What about the Mature Harappan period?
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CHAPTER XIX
THE DESERTED TEPEES
Starting at daybreak, they reached a hillside overlooking the Stony village on the third afternoon. Surrounded by willows and ragged spruces, the conical tepees rose in the plain beneath, but Blake stopped abruptly as he caught sight of them. They were white to the apex, where the escaping heat of the fire within generally melted the snow, and no curl of smoke floated across the clearing. The village was ominously silent and had a deserted look.
"I'm very much afraid Clarke's friends are not at home," Blake said with forced calm. "We'll know more about it in half an hour; that is, if you think it worth while to go down."
Harding and Benson were silent a moment, struggling with their disappointment. They had made a toilsome journey to reach the village, their food was nearly exhausted, and it would cost them two days to return to the valley, which was their best road to the south.
"Now that we're here, we may as well spend another hour over the job," Harding decided. "It's possible they haven't packed all their food along."
His companions suspected that they were wasting time, but they followed him down the hill, until Benson, who was a short distance to one side of them, called out. When they joined him he indicated a row of footsteps leading up the slope.
"That fellow hasn't been gone very long; there was snow yesterday," he said. "By the line he took, he must have passed near us. I wonder why he stayed on after the others."
Answer the following questions:
1: How long did it take them to get to the village?
2: Were there many people there?
3: How long would it take them to reach the village?
4: According to whom?
5: Whose friends were they looking for?
6: Were they disappointed?
7: How long would it take them to go another way?
8: Which direction was that?
9: Had it been an easy trip?
10: What were they running low on?
11: Who suggested checking the village, anyway?
12: Did everyone else agree?
13: What did they see on the hillside?
14: Were they fresh?
15: How did they know?
16: Where did the trail go?
17: Did the men see smoke?
18: Which type of trees caught Blake's eyes?
19: What was the name of the village?
20: What time of day did they arrive?
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Gibraltar ( , or other permutations; ) is a British Overseas Territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. It has an area of and shares its northern border with Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region. At its foot is a densely populated city area, home to over 30,000 Gibraltarians and other nationalities.
An Anglo-Dutch force captured Gibraltar from Spain in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of the Habsburg claim to the Spanish throne. The territory was subsequently ceded to Great Britain "in perpetuity" under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. During World War II it was an important base for the Royal Navy as it controlled the entrance and exit to the Mediterranean Sea, which is only eight miles (13 km) wide at this naval "choke point" and remains strategically important to this day with half the world's seaborne trade passing through the strait. Today Gibraltar's economy is based largely on tourism, online gambling, financial services, and cargo ship refuelling services.
The sovereignty of Gibraltar is a major point of contention in Anglo-Spanish relations as Spain asserts a claim to the territory. Gibraltarians overwhelmingly rejected proposals for Spanish sovereignty in a 1967 referendum and again in 2002. Under the Gibraltar constitution of 2006, Gibraltar governs its own affairs, though some powers, such as defence and foreign relations, remain the responsibility of the British government.
Answer the following questions:
1: What location is the article talking about?
2: Where is it situated?
3: What is its major landmark?"
4: What's the population there?
5: Who does it share its border with?
6: Is it a densely populated area?
7: When was it an important base?
8: for who?
9: why?
10: What is its economy famous for today?
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(CNN) -- When it comes to living on the edge, there are some women who have the tenacious spirit to conquer all.
Whether it's scaling the world's highest peaks or becoming the first person to cross a dangerous ocean stretch, these extreme sportswomen have smashed records around the globe thanks to their fearless sense of determination.
On the heels of Diana Nyad's record breaking swim, CNN takes a look at five sports stars who have reached the very top of their game.
Diana Nyad
After 35 years and five attempts at swimming from Cuba to Florida, 64-year-old Diana Nyad has finally made her name as the first person to cross the treacherous Straits. Wearing a mask to protect her from the trip halting jellyfish bites that plagued her last effort, the endurance swimmer is the only person to complete the 177 km (100 m) journey without either a wetsuit or a shark cage. Describing her achievement as 'a lifelong dream,' Nyad, who made her first attempt to cross the waters in 1978, was also congratulated by President Obama via Twitter.
Read more: Nyad's next challenge will be a 48 hour swim in New York City
Edurne Pasaban
As a keen young mountaineer, Edurne Pasaban made her hobby into a record breaking profession by becoming the world's first woman to climb all 14 peaks over 8,000 meters. The 44-year-old Spaniard spent nine years working her way to the top of the world's biggest summits before completing her quest in 2010, and was named as National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year in 2011. With the likes of Everest, K2 and Kangchenjunga under her belt, Pasaban has seen some of the world's most beautiful landscapes from a viewpoint only reached by a select few.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who had a record breaking swim?
2: Who else is mentioned?
3: What did she do?
4: How old is she?
5: When did she accomplish the record?
6: How long did it take her?
7: Did she win an award?
8: Which one?
9: When did she win that?
10: What notable locations did she climb?
11: How far did Nyad go?
12: How old is she?
13: Was it her first try?
14: How many did it take?
15: What danger is mentioned?
16: What did she wear to help with that?
17: What was she the first to do?
18: What notable leader contacted her after?
19: How did he reach out to her?
20: When did she first try this?
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Mexico City (CNN) -- Hours after Mexico's presumed president-elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, said it was time for his country to leave behind the political rancor of campaign season, his closest opponent in the polls refused to concede and said the vote had been "plagued by irregularities."
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who election authorities projected as the runner-up in Sunday's presidential vote, said Monday that he was awaiting the official election results, and prepared to contest them before judicial authorities if they didn't turn out in his favor.
"The election was plagued by irregularities before, during and after the process," said Lopez Obrador.
The Democratic Revolution Party candidate's declarations echoed comments he made in 2006, when election authorities said the leftist candidate narrowly lost the presidential race to Felipe Calderon. Lopez Obrador claimed election fraud and never conceded, referring to himself afterward as "the legitimate president of Mexico."
His supporters protested nationwide. In Mexico City, they staged sit-ins and blockades.
On Monday, Lopez Obrador called on his supporters to wait for the official results. The Federal Election Institute's verification of individual poll results begins Wednesday.
Earlier, Peña Nieto, who election authorities projected as the winner of Sunday's presidential vote, told CNN en Español he was ready to work across party lines to build a better Mexico.
"We have to be constructive and put aside our differences, which are only for competitions and electoral contests," Peña Nieto said Monday. "Yesterday I indicated that (after) this tense and divisive atmosphere, which is natural in all democratic contests, we have to turn the page and move on to enter another chapter, another moment in our political lives, with a willingness and spirit that are constructive and purposeful."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who protested?
2: What did they do in Mexico City?
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(EW.com) -- "The Closer" closed out Kyra Sedgwick's involvement in the series on Monday night, installing Mary McDonnell in her place, in a "new" series, "Major Crimes."
While I have no inside information about how McDonnell was originally cast in "The Closer," I'm led to think, based on the premiere episode that aired after the "Closer" finale, that she was never intended to be the new star of the show. Because the new show is, I believe, an inevitable disappointment for hardcore "Closer" fans. As for those of us who are Mary McDonnell fans? Ambivalence reigns!
First of all, the exit of Sedgwick's Brenda Leigh Johnson. (This is your SPOILER ALERT.)
"The Closer" series finale brought closure to Deputy Chief Johnson's career, as she faced off with her long-running arch-nemesis, the serial rapist Philip Stroh (Billy Burke). Then Johnson abruptly accepted a new job (something like chief of bureau of investigations L.A. liason officer in the D.A.'s office -- it sounded like the longest-titled cushy job possible) and lit out, munching a signature bit of junk food.
Over the years, "The Closer" had become a light-comedy crime show with heavy-handed humor performed not just by Sedgwick but also the supporting cast that has migrated over to "Major Crimes," especially G.W. Bailey, whose slow burns have become endless fuming, and, only by contrast to a lesser extent, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, and Phillip P. Keene. (I've always found it interesting that Denison and Chan are veterans of two, need I say superior, Michael Mann TV shows, Crime Story and Robbery Homicide Division -- indeed, many of Chan's gestures and body language when he enters a crime scene strongly echo his moves in RHD, and I'd bet that's where he picked up those good habits, from Mann's heavily-researched series.)
Answer the following questions:
1: What plot point required a spoiler alert?
2: From what show?
3: Was the actor replaced?
4: By who?
5: Did the program keep its original name when this happened?
6: What name did it take?
7: Does the program air at the end of the week or the front of the week?
8: Was the departing character's arc completed?
9: Did she have a bad guy she kept facing off with?
10: Who was he?
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CHAPTER XLVII
How the Bride Was Received, and Who Were Asked to the Wedding
And thus after all did Frank perform his great duty; he did marry money; or rather, as the wedding has not yet taken place, and is, indeed, as yet hardly talked of, we should more properly say that he had engaged himself to marry money. And then, such a quantity of money! The Scatcherd wealth greatly exceeded the Dunstable wealth; so that our hero may be looked on as having performed his duties in a manner deserving the very highest commendation from all classes of the de Courcy connexion.
And he received it. But that was nothing. That _he_ should be fêted by the de Courcys and Greshams, now that he was about to do his duty by his family in so exemplary a manner: that he should be patted on the back, now that he no longer meditated that vile crime which had been so abhorrent to his mother's soul; this was only natural; this is hardly worthy of remark. But there was another to be fêted, another person to be made a personage, another blessed human mortal about to do her duty by the family of Gresham in a manner that deserved, and should receive, Lady Arabella's warmest caresses.
Dear Mary! It was, indeed, not singular that she should be prepared to act so well, seeing that in early youth she had had the advantage of an education in the Greshamsbury nursery; but not on that account was it the less fitting that her virtue should be acknowledged, eulogised, nay, all but worshipped.
Answer the following questions:
1: what school did she go to?
2: is Frank marrying someone poor?
3: who was Frank "feted" by?
4: what was abhorrent to his mother's soul?
5: Is he marry Lady Arabella you think?
6: is Mary her first name?
7: who is richer than Dunstable?
8: is he married yet?
9: what should be done about Mary's virtue?
10: what is Frank's family name?
11: is there a lot of talk about the wedding?
12: why is he being called hero?
13: what had the good education help Mary with?
14: did Frank deserve a pat on the back?
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Autonomous okrug (), occasionally also referred to as "autonomous district", "autonomous area", and "autonomous region", is a type of federal subject of Russia and simultaneously an administrative division type of some federal subjects. As of 2014, Russia comprises eighty-five federal subjects, of which four are autonomous okrugs.
Originally called national okrug, this type of administrative unit was created in the 1920s and widely implemented in 1930 to provide autonomy to indigenous peoples of the North. In 1977, the 1977 Soviet Constitution changed the term "national okrugs" to "autonomous okrugs" in order to emphasize that they were indeed autonomies and not simply another type of administrative and territorial division. While the 1977 Constitution stipulated that the autonomous okrugs are subordinated to the oblasts and krais, this clause was revised on December 15, 1990, when it was specified that autonomous okrugs are subordinated directly to the Russian SFSR, although they still may stay in jurisdiction of a krai or an oblast to which they were subordinated before.
In 1990, ten autonomous okrugs existed within the RSFSR. Between 2005 and 2008, the three autonomous okrugs in which the titular nationality constituted more than 30% of the population were abolished. Since then, three more have been abolished, leaving four.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the name of the administrative unit discussed here?
2: What was its original name?
3: What is it sometimes called?
4: When was it created?
5: What was it to provide?
6: When would it be widely used?
7: Why was the named changed?
8: Where was it changed?
9: When was it revised?
10: How many were in existence then?
11: How many were eliminated?
12: How many federal subjects are there?
13: Of these how many are the type of unit discussed?
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Thousands of protesters surrounded Bangkok's Government House on Friday seeking the removal of Thailand's embattled caretaker government amid soaring political tensions following the ouster of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
The People's Democratic Reform Committee, which has been protesting the government since November, is pushing to replace the caretaker administration with an unelected interim government.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban told those gathered: "We will sleep here tonight, we will eat here."
The PDRC has been seeking to rid Thai politics of the alleged influence of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thaksin is Yingluck's brother and a telecommunications tycoon who was overthrown in a 2006 military coup. He has since lived in self-imposed exile to avoid a corruption conviction.
"If the speaker is a slave of Thaksin, there will be one treatment; if not, there will be another treatment for them," Thaugsuban said.
Some 20,000 protesters massed in the capital and split into groups. About 4,000 or 5,000 gathered outside Government House. That is the former prime minister's residence, but Yingluck has already vacated it.
Lt. Gen. Paradon Patthanathabut, security adviser to the government, told CNN the PDRC had mobilized supporters from the countryside to join the protests in the capital.
He said smaller groups also gathered at Bangkok television stations and other locations around the city.
"We are monitoring (the situation) closely," he said, adding that 60,000 security forces were on standby.
At the Royal Thai Police Club, command center of the temporary security task force, the Center for the Administration for Peace and Order, police used tear gas and water cannon on protesters who attempted to enter the complex, said Paradon. Four people were injured.
Answer the following questions:
1: Why did protesters go to Bangkok's Government House?
2: Who is Suthep Thaugsuban?
3: What does PDRC stand for?
4: How many security forces were on standby?
5: In what country was this happening?
6: How many total protesters faced the 60000 security forces?
7: What is the name of the prime minister?
8: And so who is his brother?
9: What job did he used to have?
10: What happened with this old job?
11: Where is he living now?
12: Why is that?
13: And what happened with his brother Yingluck?
14: Who or what is governing Thailand now?
15: Was the interim government elected?
16: W?
17: Who is the security adviser to the government?
18: And what did he tell CNN?
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(CNN) -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.
Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia, his family said. He was 82.
The veteran Pennsylvania politician had overcome numerous serious illnesses over the past two decades, including a brain tumor. He had been in the public eye since serving as a member of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Specter was elected to the Senate in 1980 and represented Pennsylvania for 30 years, longer than anyone in the state's history. His politically moderate image fit hand-in-glove in the politically blue Northeast, both with its Democratic centrists and its liberal Republicans.
He was also one of America's most prominent Jewish politicians, a rare Republican in a category dominated by Democrats over the decades. And his name is synonymous with Pennsylvania, an idiosyncratic state that pushes and pulls between the two parties, and his home, the staunchly Democratic city of Philadelphia.
In 2006, Philadelphia magazine called him "one of the few true wild cards of Washington politics ... reviled by those on both the right and the left."
"Charming and churlish, brilliant and pedantic, he can be fiercely independent, entertainingly eccentric and simply maddening," the profile read.
Former Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, called Specter "a mentor, colleague and a political institution" who "did more for the people of Pennsylvania over his more than 30-year career with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin." And Pat Toomey, the Republican who now holds Specter's old Senate seat, praised him as "a man of sharp intelligence and dogged determination."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Arlen Specter?
2: What happened to him?
3: What did he die of?
4: How old was he?
5: Where did he die?
6: In Washington D.C.?
7: Where?
8: Was he a conservative republican?
9: What kind was he?
10: When did he first enter the public's eye?
11: What was the purpose of that?
12: Who has Specter's old Senate seat now?
13: What did he say about him?
14: Who said that quote?
15: When was Specter first elected?
16: Which state did he represent?
17: Was he loved by both democrats and republicans?
18: What city did he live in?
19: Was he catholic?
20: What was his religion?
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Every day since March 8, people all over the world keep asking the same question: Where did Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 go? It turns out to be the biggest mystery in modern aviation history. In the early hours of March 8, a Boeing 777 took off from Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur . It was heading to Beijing. But about two hours into the flight, the plane lost contact. There were 239 people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight, including 154 Chinese. About 12 countries, including China, the US and Australia, have joined the search for the missing plane and passengers. The plane's disappearance was a "mystery", said officials. The plane was flying at a height of more than 10,000 meters when it suddenly lost contact. The weather was clear. The pilots didn't make any distress calls . When a plane crashes, broken parts are usually recovered. But up to April 2, officials have not found anything. People are also talking about a possible hijacking. Interpol said that two people on the flight used stolen passports. But that information alone isn't evidence of a hijack. The investigation is still going on. It could take months or even years to find out what happened to the flight. "We are looking at all possibilities," said Malaysian Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein. "The most important thing now is to find the plane." On March 24 came a piece of sad news. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that the plane "ended in the southern Indian Ocean". Everyone on the plane died. But the mystery is still not solved. Nobody is giving up. China has said it will work hard to find out the truth at all costs.
Answer the following questions:
1: what is the plane number?
2: who owned the plane?
3: where did it originate?
4: where was it's destination?
5: how many persons on the trip?
6: what type of plane was it?
7: what occurred with it?
8: was it stormy?
9: what was it like outside?
10: did the captain signal for help?
11: which PM is mentioned?
12: what country does he represent?
13: did he say something?
14: what?
15: when did the plane depart?
16: in the afternoon?
17: when?
18: was foul play suspected?
19: who was suspicious?
20: why?
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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The sentence that someone be punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes or capital offences, and they commonly include offences such as murder, treason, espionage, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Etymologically, the term "capital" (lit. "of the head", derived via the Latin "capitalis" from "caput", "head") in this context alluded to execution by beheading.
Fifty-six countries retain capital punishment, 103 countries have completely abolished it "de jure" for all crimes, six have abolished it for ordinary crimes (while maintaining it for special circumstances such as war crimes), and 30 are abolitionist in practice.
Capital punishment is a matter of active controversy in various countries and states, and positions can vary within a single political ideology or cultural region. In the European Union, Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment. Also, the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states, prohibits the use of the death penalty by its members.
Answer the following questions:
1: how many countries have outlawed the death penalty?
2: how many still use it?
3: what is it's definition?
4: is it called something else?
5: what?
6: what does one have to do to get this sentence?
7: are any specific crimes mentioned?
8: how many?
9: what are the first three?
10: what are the last 3?
11: is this a controversial issue?
12: where?
13: does the EU allow it?
14: is that spelled out somewhere?
15: where?
16: does anyone else ban it's use?
17: who?
18: is that a group of countries?
19: how many?
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Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean and, sometimes, the island of New Guinea (which is usually considered to be part of Melanesia). Charles de Brosses coined the term (as French "Australasie") in "Histoire des navigations aux terres australes" (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo-Australian Plate, together with India.
Physiographically, Australasia includes New Zealand, Australia (including Tasmania), and Melanesia: New Guinea and neighbouring islands north and east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. The designation is sometimes applied to all the lands and islands of the Pacific Ocean lying between the equator and latitude 47° south. Physiographically, Australasia includes the Australian landmass (including Tasmania), New Zealand, and New Guinea. The independent country of Papua New Guinea also includes approximately 600 offshore islands.
Most of Australasia lies on the southern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, flanked by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Southern Ocean to the south. Peripheral territories lie on the Eurasian Plate to the northwest, the Philippine Plate to the north, and in the Pacific Ocean – including numerous marginal seas – atop the Pacific Plate to the north and east.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is New Zealand in Australasia?
2: How about Australia?
3: New Guinea too?
4: Why?
5: Who came up with this terminology?
6: When?
7: Where?
8: How New Zealand can be part of it too?
9: Is Melanesia part of it Physiographically?
10: What latitude demarcate it?
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Dear Karen, As you probably know, it's my sister Suzie's 16th birthday in a week. We're planning a surprise party for her. Julie's going to pick her up from school as usual on Friday but she's not taking her home. She's bringing her to the Palace Hotel, the big modern one near the station. We're having a meal there and we've also hired the ballroom for a party in the evening. I hope you can come! All her friends from school are coming and quite a few of the people from our village, too. Of course, Mum and Dad are coming up from England and I've managed to persuade our other sister, Marie, to come over from Australia. She's bringing her kids with her, too. After the party we're going to have another one on Saturday! Well, not really a party. We're inviting the family and close friends (that includes you) for a meal at the house. If the weather is nice, we'd like to have a barbecue in the garden. Julie's going to make a special cake for Suzie. Anyway, we hope to make it a really special weekend for Suzie. On Sunday we're all going for a walk in the country. You know how she loves walking and we're all going to need a bit of exercise after all that lovely food. We're hoping to go up to the lake. Marie said she wanted her kids to feed the ducks just like Suzie and she did when they were very young. I'm sure Suzie will love that too. It would be great if you could come over for the weekend. We would all love to see you. Let me know as soon as you can. Best, David
Answer the following questions:
1: Are the parents coming to the party?
2: Where are they coming from?
3: What type of party is it?
4: for who?
5: Does she know about the party?
6: How old will she be?
7: Will other family be there?
8: Who?
9: Where is she from?
10: Does she have kids?
11: Who else is coming to the party?
12: Is it just one party?
13: When is the next?
14: What's going on then?
15: Is anyone making a cake?
16: Where is Fridays party going to be?
17: How will Suzie get there?
18: What is planned for Sunday?
19: Who enjoyed feeding ducks?
20: Who is writing the letter?
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Once upon a time, there was a family with eighteen children in a small village not far from Nuremberg. Eighteen! In spite of the hopeless condition, two of the children had a dream. They both wanted to pursue their talent for art. After many long discussions, the two boys finally worked out an agreement. They would toss a coin. The loser would go down into the nearby mines and, with his earnings, support his brother who attended the academy. Then, when that brother who won the toss completed his studies, in four years, he would support the other brother at the academy.
They tossed a coin on a Sunday morning after church. Albrecht Durer won and went off to Nuremberg. Albert went down into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years, financed his brother, whose work at the academy was excellent. By the time he graduated, he had earned considerable fees for his works.
When the young artist returned to his village, the Durer family held a festive dinner to celebrate Albrecht's triumphant homecoming, where Albrecht drank a toast to his beloved brother for the years of sacrifice that had enabled him to fulfill his ambition. His closing words were, "Now you can go to Nuremberg to look for your dream, and I will take care of you."
Tears streaming down his pale face, shaking his lowered head from side to side, Albert sobbed, "No... no... no...no. It is too late for me. Look...look at what four years in the mines has done to my hands! I have been suffering from arthritis so badly in my right hand that I cannot even hold a glass to return your toast, much less draw delicate lines with a pen or a brush... For me, it is too late."
To show thanks to Albert for all that he had sacrificed, Albrecht Durer painstakingly drew his brother's abused hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward. He called his powerful drawing simply "Hands", but the entire world almost immediately opened their hearts to his great masterpiece and renamed it "The Praying Hands".
The next time you see a copy of that touching creation, take a second look. Let it be your reminder, if you still need one, that no one - no one - no one ever makes it alone!
Answer the following questions:
1: Who hosted a dinner?
2: When?
3: And why did they do this?
4: Who did he drink a toast to?
5: Why?
6: What did he say at the end?
7: What did the brothers dream of doing when they were kids?
8: How did they plan to do this?
9: Which one got to go to school?
10: Did Albert get to go?
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(CNN) -- Civil rights activist Dorothy Height, 98, remained in "very serious, but stable condition" Saturday, her friend and spokeswoman said.
A flurry of rumors about Height's death appeared Saturday on the Internet, particularly on the social networking site Twitter, where her name was a trending topic. Wikipedia also briefly reported Height's death.
Height remains hospitalized, according to Alexis Herman, her friend and former secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Height was admitted to Howard University Hospital earlier this week. Further details about her condition were not immediately available.
"We are grateful for the professional care of her doctors," Herman said in a written statement. "We especially thank everyone for your thoughts, prayers and support during this challenging time."
Height, who turned 98 Wednesday, is chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women. In the 1960s, she worked alongside civil rights pioneers, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., future U.S. Rep. John Lewis and A. Philip Randolph.
She has been active in civil rights since the New Deal era, according to her biography on the National Council of Negro Women's Web site.
As a leader of the United Christian Youth Movement of North America beginning in 1933, "she worked to prevent lynching, desegregate the armed forces, reform the criminal justice system and for free access to public accommodations," the site says.
She was elected president of the NCNW in 1957 and held the post until 1998.
CNN's Lindy Royce contributed to this report.
Answer the following questions:
1: who reported Height's death?
2: was that report accurate?
3: what was her condition?
4: how was her condition on saturday
5: when was she elected president of the NCNW?
6: how long did she hold that job?
7: how old is she?
8: when was her last birthday?
9: who did she work along side of in 1960?
10: who are some notable ones?
11: what group was she a leader of in 1933?
12: what was she active in since the New Deal era?
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Chapter XIII. -- SMALL-WAR: FIRST EMERGENCE OF ZIETHEN THE HUSSAR GENERAL INTO NOTICE.
After Brieg, Friedrich undertook nothing military, except strict vigilance of Neipperg, for a couple of months or more. Military, especially offensive operations, are not the methods just now. Rest on your oars; see how this seething Ocean of European Politics, and Peace or War, will settle itself into currents, into set winds; by which of them a man may steer, who happens to have a fixed port in view. Neipperg, too, is glad to be quiescent; "my Infantry hopelessly inferior," he writes to head-quarters: "Could not one hire 10,000 Saxons, think you,"--or do several other chimerical things, for help? Except with his Pandour people, working what mischief they can, Neipperg does nothing. But this Hungarian rabble is extensively industrious, scouring the country far and wide; and gives a great deal of trouble both to Friedrich and the peaceable inhabitants. So that there is plenty of Small War always going on:--not mentionable here, any passage of it, except perhaps one, at a place called Rothschloss; which concerns a remarkable Prussian Hussar Major, their famed Ziethen, and is still remembered by the Prussian public.
We have heard of Captain, now Major Ziethen, how Friedrich Wilhelm sent him to the Rhine Campaign, six years ago, to learn the Hussar Art from the Austrians there. One Baronay (BARONIAY, or even BARANYAI, as others write him), an excellent hand, taught him the Art;--and how well he has learned, Baronay now sadly experiences. The affair of Rothschloss (in abridged form) befell as follows:--
Answer the following questions:
1: what is no longer a method used?
2: what is the worse kind?
3: who is choosing not to partake in something?
4: what is he not doing?
5: since when?
6: but what is he doing?
7: how long has it been this way?
8: who is content with things being calm?
9: who does he write to?
10: saying what?
11: what is he asking for?
12: why?
13: was it because he needed help?
14: who did Friedrich send somewhere?
15: how long ago?
16: to where?
17: why?
18: from who?
19: who was teaching it?
20: what do some refer to him as?
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Way back in 1662,John Evelyn,a brilliant Englishman known for his detailed diaries,wrote
About disastrous effects of coal-burning on the city of London .In it,he described an infernal scene of
smog.air filled with "Columns and Clouds of Smoke''given out by small industries and residences
that burned coal for fuel.
I found the description in the 2003 book When Smoke Ran like Water,by epidemiologist and environmental advocator Devra Davis.In it,Davis looks back at several historic pollution events and their disastrous effect on human human health-and at how these phenomena were often Ignored or even actively covered up by then people in charge at that time.
As Davis points out,John Evelyn was ahead of his time when writing about how London's
polluted air affected the well-being of its residents.It wasn't until nearly 300 years later,after what
became well-known as the Great Smog of 1952,that the government began to address the problem in a systematic way.
For four days.Between December 5th"and 9th",due to all accident of the weather pattern,the city
was buried in a heavy fog .People were still burning coal for fuel,and low-grade coal at that time,
because 0f wartime condition.A temperature inversion trapped the smoke from the city's fires,
creating a black cloud in which people could barely find their way down the most familiar streets
Some tried to protect themselves,but most people simply went about their business
But l952's fog was far worse than any other in memory.In the same week of the previous year,
1852 people had died in London;inl952,that number was 4703 And the deaths didn't stop when
the weather changed and the fog lifted.Davis and her colleagues analyzed data from the next several
months and found that about 13000 more people died between December and March than one would
have predicted from historical averages Many of them died of pneumonia .The government,
she writes.Tried to blame a bad flu season.Her detailed analysis found that explanation simply did
not pan out.
Davis writes that even today in this country ,we still have not completely absorbed the lessons
0f similar events.Sixty years the killer fog lifted in London,people are dying preventable
deaths and suffering life.changing illnesses,simply because they must breathe the air of the cities
where they live
Answer the following questions:
1: who is Devra Davis?
2: what book did he write?
3: when?
4: what is it about?
5: what did he say about John Evelyn?
6: when was the Great Smog?
7: does Davis think we have learned a lesson?
8: who is John Evelyn?
9: is he Irish?
10: where is he from?
11: what did he write about?
12: what event was he writing about?
13: of what?
14: where was the smoke from?
15: why were they burning it?
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Miami, Florida (CNN) -- A Florida man who admitted to the near-fatal beating of his two-year-old son while teaching him how to box remained behind bars Thursday, facing felony charges.
Lee Willie Dejesus, 23, of Homestead, appeared in court Wednesday night wearing a green protective vest reserved for those on suicide watch, reported CNN affiliate WFOR. A judge denied him bail.
Dejesus' son was on life support Thursday, said Ed Griffith, spokesman for the Miami-Dade state attorney's office. Griffith said it was his understanding that the child was being kept on life support so his organs could be donated.
Dejesus is charged with aggravated child abuse with great harm, a first-degree felony, and aggravated child neglect with great harm, a second-degree felony. Griffith said once prosecutors are notified the child has been taken off life support and pronounced dead, they are poised to file first-degree murder charges against Dejesus.
Miami-Dade police said Dejesus was watching the child while his mother was at work Monday night.
He told police that he put on boxing gloves and struck the child about 15 times on his face, head, torso and shoulders over a period of 15 minutes, punching him so hard at one point that the boy fell off the bed and struck his head on the tile floor.
The child was rushed to Children's Hospital where he underwent surgery for bleeding on the brain.
A criminal complaint alleges that Dejesus waited to call for medical help for as long as an hour after the boy became unresponsive. He eventually called 911 after the boy's lips became blue, according to the complaint.
Answer the following questions:
1: What crime did the man admit to?
2: What is the man's name?
3: How old is he?
4: Where is he from?
5: Is the child dead?
6: Where was the boy's mother when the beating took place?
7: How many times did he strike the boy?
8: For how long?
9: What was the man wear on his hands when he beat the boy?
10: How long did he wait before he called 911?
11: What type of surgery did the boy have?
12: What was the father wearing when he appeared in court?
13: What is it's purpose?
14: What two things is the father being charged with?
15: What other charge will they add when the boy dies?
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Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture. As of 2016, Java is one of the most popular programming languages in use, particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 9 million developers. Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++, but it has fewer low-level facilities than either of them.
The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were originally released by Sun under proprietary licenses. As of May 2007, in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process, Sun relicensed most of its Java technologies under the GNU General Public License. Others have also developed alternative implementations of these Sun technologies, such as the GNU Compiler for Java (bytecode compiler), GNU Classpath (standard libraries), and IcedTea-Web (browser plugin for applets).
Answer the following questions:
1: what is java
2: what is its slogan
3: does that have an abbreviation
4: what are they typically compiled to
5: what does JVM stand for
6: Is Java popular?
7: how many people use it
8: who started it
9: where did he work
10: when was it released
11: as a part of what
12: when was it relicensed
13: have other people developed similar things
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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: it school accessible for them
2: why
3: are the options limited
4: is that all they do
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CHAPTER XVIII
When Jethro Bass walked out of the hotel that evening men looked at him, and made way for him, but none spoke to him. There was something in his face that forbade speech. He was a great man once more--a greater man than ever; and he had, if the persistent rumors were true, accomplished an almost incomprehensible feat, even for Jethro Bass. There was another reason, too, why they stared at him. In all those twelve weeks of that most trying of all sessions he had not once gone into the street, and he had been less than ever common in the eyes of men. Twice a day he had descended to the dining room for a simple meal--that was all; and fewer had gained entrance to Room Number 7 this session than ever before.
There is a river that flows by the capital, a wide and gentle river bordered by green meadows and fringed with willows; higher up, if you go far enough, a forest comes down to the water on the western side. Jethro walked through the hooded bridge, and up the eastern bank until he could see the forest like a black band between the orange sky and the orange river, and there he sat down upon a fallen log on the edge of the bank. But Jethro was thinking of another scene,--of a granite-ribbed pasture on Coniston Mountain that swings in limitless space, from either end of which a man may step off into eternity. William Wetherell, in one of his letters, had described that place as the Threshold of the Nameless Worlds, and so it had seemed to Jethro in the years of his desolation. He was thinking of it now, even as it had been in his mind that winter's evening when Cynthia had come to Coniston and had surprised him with that look of terrible loneliness on his face.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who had achieved something?
2: Where was he coming from?
3: Did he speak with anyone?
4: And they to him?
5: How long had it been since he went in to the hotel?
6: Was he easy to find?
7: How many times would he leave his room in a day?
8: To do what?
9: What ws Jethro thinking of?
10: Was it near the ocean?
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Probably no other musical instrument is as popular as the guitar around the world. Musicians use the guitar for almost all kinds of music. Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco could not exist without a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar. And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument.
Music experts do not agree about where the guitar was first played. Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than 1,000 years ago. Most experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the 12thcentury. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the 1700s it became similar to the instrument we know today.
Many famous musicians played the instrument. The famous Italian violins Niccole Paganism played and wrote music for the guitar in the early 1800s. Franz Schubert used the guitar to write some of his famous works. In modern times Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia helped make the instrument extremely popular.
In the 1930s, Les Paul began experimenting to make an electric guitar. He invented the solid-bodied electric guitar in 1946. The Gibson Guitar Company began producing its famous Les Paul Guitar in 1952. It became a powerful influence on popular music. The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different. Les Paul produced a series of extremely popular recordings that introduced the public to this music. Listen to this Les Paul recording. It was the fifth most popular song in the United States in 1952. It is called "Meet Mister Callaghan."
Answer the following questions:
1: How popular is the guitar?
2: What kinds of music is it used in?
3: Do they know where the guitar first was played?
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(CNN) -- Real Madrid duly took advantage of Barcelona's latest slip-up to return to the top of La Liga after a routine 3-0 win over Levante in the Bernabeu Sunday.
The mid-table visitors ended the match with 10 men after David Navarro was sent off in the second half for a foul on Cristiano Ronaldo, but they were well beaten even before he saw red.
Ronaldo had put Real ahead after 11 minutes before defender Marcelo put the home side two up just after halftime.
An own goal from Nikos Karabelas completed Levante's miserable evening.
The victory put Carlo Ancelotti's men three points clear of city rivals Atletico.
Defending champions Barca lost 1-0 to struggling Valladolid Saturday and trail by four in third place, making this month's El Clasico clash with Real all the more important.
Real have not lost since a 2-1 league reverse to Barcelona in October as their goalscoring trio of Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale have found the net on a regular basis.
Ronaldo showed his heading qualities by rising to meet Angel di Maria's corner to put Real ahead before Benzema hit the post.
Marcelo's superlative curling effort on 49 minutes all but settled the affair before Navarro, who was once banned for seven months after a notorious Champions League brawl when playing for Valencia, got his marching orders for the seventh time in his career.
Marcelo also had a hand in the final goal as Karabelas turned the defender's cross into his own goal and there was just time for Ronaldo to thump the woodwork as he sought a second.
Answer the following questions:
1: When was the last time Real lost?
2: To who?
3: What was the score of Real's win on Sunday?
4: Over who?
5: Who scored the first point?
6: Who scored before halftime?
7: Who scored the last point?
8: Who were the champs last year?
9: Did they win?
10: Who did they play?
11: Score?
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CHAPTER I
SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVER BOYS
"Sam, this isn't the path."
"I know it, Tom."
"We've missed our way," went on Tom Rover, with a serious look on his usually sunny face.
"It looks that way to me," answered Sam Rover, his younger brother. "I think we made a wrong turn after we slid down the cliff."
"What is keeping Dick?"
"I don't know."
"Let's call to him," went on Tom, and set up a loud cry, in which his brother joined. The pair listened intently, but no answer came back.
"I don't like this," said Sam, an anxious look in his clear eyes. "Maybe Dick is in trouble."
"Perhaps so," answered Tom Rover.
The two boys were far up on a mountainside, and all around them were tall trees, thick brushwood, and immense ridges of rocks. It had been a clear, sunshiny day, but now the sky was overcast, and it looked like rain.
"We've got to go back for Dick," said Tom, after a painful pause. "No use of going on without him."
"I hope he hasn't fallen over some cliff and hurt himself," returned his younger brother.
"I don't see why he doesn't answer us, if he's all right," was the unsatisfactory reply. "Come on, or the storm will overtake us before we get down from the mountain and we'll be soaked by the time we reach home."
Side by side the brothers retraced their steps--a hard task, for it is much easier to climb down a steep mountainside than to climb up.
Answer the following questions:
1: Are the characters lost?
2: Are the characters related?
3: How?
4: What are their names?
5: And their last name?
6: Did they slide down a cliff?
7: Who are they waiting for?
8: How did they try to get his attention?
9: Did it work?
10: How does Sam feel?
11: Are they in a valley?
12: What's around them?
13: How was the weather?
14: And before?
15: Did they go on without Dick?
16: What did they do?
17: Is that easy or hard?
18: Were they doing up or down?
19: What did Sam think happened to Dick?
20: Did he think he was okay?
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I was really scared walking into school today. It was the first day of sixth grade and I was excited to be leaving elementary school, but I ended up going to a different middle school than all my friends since I moved across town last year. My name is Matt, but I'm going to try and not let anyone else know that as I'd rather sit in the back and keep to myself. I didn't want to ride the bus, so my mom said she would drive me there for today. Thankfully I found my classroom, but I walked in and saw nobody I knew, as I thought. I took a seat at an empty table as the teacher, Mrs. Frank took roll call. She seemed nice, and I'm happy we weren't told to sit in alphabetical order or by boys to boys and girls to girls, as I was free to sit by myself for now. Mrs. Frank called out Jimmy, Sally, Linda, Jason, and then finally got to my name in which I raised my hand quickly. As soon as she was done, a few of the kids who arrived late came to sit by me and said their names were Martin and Mark.
Martin said he liked how our names all sounded the same, and Mark seconded that as we started talking before class began. When it was time to eat, we all said we would sit with one another in the lunch room, and also when it came to recess and playing together. It was nice to have some friends after being so nervous earlier, and see that everything does work out in the end. Hopefully soon we can all play together outside of class, but as far as today, it was a great start!
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was scared?
2: Why?
3: were his friends going to be there?
4: Why>
5: What was the teachers name?
6: Did kids arrive late?
7: Who?
8: what happened at recess?
9: What did Martin like about Mark and Matt>
10: Who were some other kids in the class?
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(CNN) -- As World Cup openers go, this was about as bad as it gets for Portugal.
Thumped 4-0 by Germany, one key defender sent off, another possibly out of the tournament with injury and its World Player of the Year looking decidedly unfit.
Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo wasn't lacking in effort but was as powerless as those around him to prevent Portugal being steamrollered by Der Mannschaft in Salvador.
It started badly for Paulo Bento's men and got steadily worse as Germany maintained its record of scoring at least four goals in every opening World Cup match since 2002.
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They were 1-0 down after 10 minutes when Joao Pereira was adjudged to have hauled down Mario Gotze. Fellow Bayern Munich star Thomas Muller confidently slotted home the penalty.
It was 2-0 when Mats Hummels thumped a header into the net from Toni Kroos' corner.
Just five minutes later, Real Madrid defender Pepe tangled with Muller, who sank theatrically to the turf claiming a hand to the face.
Pepe then stood over his opponent and pushed his head towards Muller's, the referee producing a straight red card.
Muller then struck just before the interval to put the game well beyond Portugal, pouncing on a loose ball inside the area to fire past Rui Patricio.
Portugal made a change at the break, as Ricardo Costa replaced Miguel Veloso, but it made little difference as Germany continued to press home their advantage.
Mesut Ozil, who plays for Arsenal, should have found the net when played through on goal but he hit his shot straight at Patricio.
Answer the following questions:
1: Did Portugal do well in the opener?
2: Who did they play against?
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There's nothing like experiencing history to understand it.So instead of reading about the U.S.Civil War in textbooks,some schoolchildren in Virginia are creating videos related to the conflict,in which the northern Union and southern Confederate states fought over several issues,including slavery,from l861--1865.
In one scene, children act as two Union generals, meeting at the Kaploan Klver in central Virginia.The l2-and l3-year-olds are producing a mini--video on the key role temporary pontoon bridges played during the war.After building and crossing a pontoon bridge,Union soldiers defeated a Confederate army in the Battle of the Wilderness.
In another scene,students act as soldiers who are marching to the river with guns.Today,the area is part of a national military park.Park Educational Coordinator Peter Maugle shows the children how to hold the fake guns."Hopefully they will understand why these places are important through projects and programs like this,and they will make an effort to keep these places preserved for future generations,''he said.
Another background is a plantation where much of the Battle of the Wilderness was fought. At this location,another group of children is focusing on the diary of a woman who lived in the region during the war.Student director John Ashley says the experience has made him think more about the human aspect of the war.Filmmaker Ghil Hong donated his time to help the students, who have understood it quickly."They are trying to convey the emotions during the Civil War.They really focus on wanting the story to be accurate,''Hong added.
With help from advisors,the children also research,write,and edit the videos.Alexis Albert got a chance to try out directing and learned a lot about Civil War history in the process. "It helps me more as a student understand it more than reading a book and looking at words,"he said.
The project is sponsored by the Journey Through Hallowed Ground,which raises awareness of historical sites from Pennsylvania to Virginia, including many Civil War battlegrounds.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Peter Maugle?
2: Where?
3: What is he demonstrating to kids?
4: real ones?
5: What are kids in Virginia making?
6: about what?
7: When was that?
8: Who is John Ashley?
9: What part of war is he now thinking about?
10: Who gave his time for free to this project
11: What is he?
12: What did soldiers build in the Battle of the Wilderness?
13: which side created it?
14: did they make it across?
15: Who won that battle?
16: What are soldiers carrying with them to a river?
17: who is portraying this?
18: What does Peter hope will help kids understand the importance of places?
19: Who is funding the program?
20: What kind of places do they promote?
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(CNN) -- Mark McGwire deserves a ban from baseball more than any sympathy.
It is sad to hear his quavery confession of a career filled with steroids, his sorrow over the pain it caused his family and fans, his revelation of a life of lies that burned inside him like a hidden disease and consumed the game he loved.
But for those of us who also love baseball, the damage he did was too deep and his further threat to the integrity of the game is too great to justify his return.
McGwire's entire playing career is indelibly stained and his judgment is not to be trusted. What else are we to make of a man who cheated and didn't come clean for 20 years? Can he be trusted to coach other players who may be using steroids? Is he fit for any job that is also a test of character and personal standards? Baseball should bar him from coaching and never again allow his name on a Hall of Fame ballot.
St. Louis manager Tony La Russa, McGwire's longtime apologist, is leading the charge to rehabilitate him in his new role as the Cardinals' batting coach, saying Monday's admission and expression of regret is worthy of respect.
This from a manager who either closed his eyes to drug use on his teams, didn't know what he should have known, or kept conspiratorially silent about it through all the years with McGwire on the Oakland Athletics (along with Jose Canseco) and on the Cards.
Answer the following questions:
1: Which sport does Mark McGwire play?
2: What drugs did he use?
3: Is he sad about that?
4: Whom did he cause pain?
5: Who else?
6: How long was it until he confessed?
7: Does the author think he should be in the Hall of Fame?
8: What about being a coach?
9: Who is the manager of St. Louis?
10: Does he support McGwire?
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(CNN) -- Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova will team up again to play at this year's Wimbledon championships.
The popular pair won the 1999 and 2002 Australian Open doubles titles, but will be returning the SW19 to play in the legends doubles event for players who are retired from the professional circuit, the management company Octagon said Tuesday.
Swiss star Hingis won five grand slam singles crowns and nine in doubles during a glittering career which ended under a cloud in 2007, when she was suspended for two years for testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon.
The 29-year-old denied taking the drug, but did not appeal the ban, which ended last September, prompting speculation that she may attempt a return to the WTA circuit.
Kournikova is a year younger, but has not played regularly on the main tour for seven years after being hit by a string of injuries.
The Russian, who reached a career-high of number eight, made it to the semifinals of the singles at Wimbledon in 1997, but grand slam success eluded her.
The pair were once labeled as the 'Spice Girls' of tennis, with the height of their fame coinciding with the peak of popularity of the British all-girl band, which included David Beckham's wife Victoria.
As well as winning two grand slam titles together, the pair also reached No.1 in the WTA doubles rankings.
"I'm so excited to be returning to the UK to play doubles with Martina again," Kournikova told her official Web site.
"This tournament has always held a special place in my heart, and it will be a great honor to play on the courts of Wimbledon again. I'm looking forward to having a lot of fun."
Answer the following questions:
1: What drug did Hingis use?
2: When was she caught?
3: How?
4: How old was she?
5: Was she punished?
6: With what?
7: For how long?
8: Who is her teammate?
9: How old is she?
10: Where will they be playing?
11: In which event?
12: What title have they won?
13: When?
14: What event is for retirees?
15: How many grand slam singles did Hingis win?
16: What about Kournikova?
17: How many times did she play in singles semifinals at Wimbledon?
18: What year?
19: What were they nicknamed?
20: Who's wife was in the Spice Girls band?
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Do you want to make friends with a special man? Here is some information about him. He is quiet and shy. He likes to hide his eyes behind his hair. He doesn't smile very often. However, if you talk to him about music, he'll have a lot to say. This is Jay Chou, the 34-year-old Taiwanese pop king . His fans are so excited because he will have a singing party next month. Many pop stars will come, too. Chou grew up just with his mother. He did not talk much and did badly in many school subjects. His mother noticed the boy's special interest in music and sent him to learn piano when he was only three years old. He loved it and kept on practicing. Chou is not very handsome. He does not speak clearly when he sings or talks. But the singer has a lot of fans. "He is really good at music. It makes him attractive to me, " said Liu Jiajun, a Junior 2 student in No. 101 Middle School in Beijing. "He is true to himself. _ , "said Zhang Yujie, a Junior 1 girl at No.23 Middle School in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
Answer the following questions:
1: some information about who ?
2: how old is he ?
3: what natianality ?
4: what kind of kind is he ?
5: who is excited ?
6: why ?
7: when ?
8: did he grow up with his dad ?
9: who noticed his music intrest ?
10: when did he learn piano ?
11: did he like it ?
12: who thinks that he is good in music
13: what is she ?
14: what school ?
15: where ?
16: who is a jr #1 student ?
17: what school ?
18: where ?
19: what providence ?
20: is Chou cute ?
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The foursome of chirpy college students warmed up in the River Ridge course tee box, focusing on loosening their legs before taking their first shot on a par-four hole.
Cody Seybold ran toward his ball, almost "Happy Gilmore" style.
Then there was that unmistakable "thump" and a well-struck soccer ball arced toward the first green and its 21-inch diameter hole.
Welcome to the wonderful world of FootGolf, a soccer-golf hybrid played on more than 257 courses in the United States, according to the FootGolf League.
How FootGolf got started
"It's the same structure as golf, except you are playing with your feet," said player Connor Bush, wearing soccer cleats and baggy shorts.
"You still have to include strategy. What kind of green are you playing on? Are you going to drive? Are you going to chip?" he said.
Because soccer balls don't travel as far as golf balls, the FootGolf holes are shorter, averaging 157 yards on the Oxnard, California, course.
While the weekday, 18-hole green fee for traditional golf at River Ridge is $38, the fee for its ball-booting cousin is much less.
The FootGolf green fee at River Ridge is $10 for adults and $5 for children. A soccer ball runs between $15 and $30, and no tees or gloves are needed.
"It's really not expensive -- great when you are on the college budget," FootGolfer Lloyd Mueller said while juggling his soccer ball between shots.
"It's a great way to spend 2½ hours with your friends."
At River Ridge, the FootGolf holes run perpendicular to and weave between regular golf holes, so both traditional and FootGolfers play at the same time.
Answer the following questions:
1: What sport was played?
2: Were they in high school?
3: How many courses are there?
4: How is it different than golf?
5: Are the holes longer than golf?
6: How much does it cost for regular golf?
7: Where is the course?
8: What is it called?
9: How much does it cost for a kid to play?
10: And for adults?
11: How long does it take?
12: Do they take turns with regular golfers?
13: What is the name of one of the players?
14: And another?
15: And one more?
16: What kind of shoes do they wear?
17: How big is the hole?
18: Why are the holes shorter than regular golf?
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This week, 46-year-old Randy Pausch said goodbye to his students at Carnegie Mellon University with the last lecture called "How to Live Your Childhood Dreams" on his life's journey and the lessons he's learned. In the lecture, he showed the audience how serious his illness was and admitted it was "an elephant in the room", but he was not that discouraged and he made jokes in his lecture. Randy is not just another story on Good Morning America or even on the local news here in Pittsburgh. He is a man I worked for, a Professor of Liam's and a friend of the family. Randy is dying of Pancreatic cancer and in his words only has "3 to 6 months of quality life".
We met Randy about 5 years ago when Liam and I went to a Building Virtual Worlds show. Liam was hooked and applied to get his master under Randy at the Entertainment and Technology Center or ETC. Randy even came to our home for Liam's graduation party and earlier that year we saw the Flying Karamazov Brothers with him and his wife Jaye. Liam got to know Randy as a professional over the course of two years as a graduate student and then as a faculty member. Randy has three children all under the age of 6. Dillon, his oldest, Ross is younger and the youngest is only 9 months old, Lily. I believe Randy is a good man for a few simple reasons. He gave my husband a future doing something he loves, and he was a kind boss, but the thing I admire most about Randy is that you always know where you stand with him. He may be blunt and harsh at times but you know he is honest. He will be greatly missed at Carnegie Mellon. I wish Jaye and the children the best that life has to offer. Please click on the above underlined link and watch his inspiring lecture. It will be worth your time.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the last lecture called?
2: What is the age of Randy Pausch?
3: Where did he gave her last lecture?
4: Is he having any disease?
5: Which?
6: How much time is he having?
7: Who is Liam?
8: How many children is Randy having?
9: What are there names?
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(CNN) -- Australia shocked Germany 2-1 in their friendly international in Moenchengladbach on Tuesday, a result that saw the Socceroos gain some revenge for their 4-0 defeat by the Germans in South Africa 2010.
Germany coach Joachim Loew named a weakened side for the match -- and he was punished with the worse defeat in his four-and-a-half years in charge as Australia secured one of their greatest-ever footballing victories.
The home side looked to be on course for victory when Bayern Munich striker Mario Gomez slotted the ball home from the edge of the area in the 26th minute.
But the visitors turned things around after the interval and levelled on the hour mark when David Carney burst through the Germany defense to fire past goalkeeper Tim Wiese.
And Australia sealed a famous win just two minutes later when Christian Traesch fouled Harry Kewell in the area and Luke Wilkshire scored from the spot.
Meanwhile, a last-gasp Asamoah Gyan goal gave Ghana a 1-1 draw against England at Wembley in an end-to-end encounter.
In front of a capacity crowd that included over 20,000 Ghanaians, England took the lead when the most expensive English signing ever, Andy Carroll, fired home his first goal for his country.
But Ghana never gave up and levelled in the final minute when Gyan, who plays his club football in England for Sunderland, found space in the area to shoot past goalkeeper Joe Hart.
Elsewhere, in-form France were denied a seventh consecutive victory by Croatia as the teams drew 0-0 in their friendly match at the Stade de France.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who beat Germany?
2: In what?
3: Is it called something else?
4: Who is the German coach?
5: What happened to him?
6: How?
7: Was the land down under always ahead?
8: Repeat?
9: Who won the game for Australia?
10: What was the final score?
11: Who else played that day?
12: Who won?
13: Why?
14: Were there a lot of people in attendance?
15: Did Ghana accept defeat?
16: Who is Joe Hart?
17: Was there another game?
18: Who won that game?
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(CNN) -- It was a case of déjà vu at Cheltenham on Wednesday as Ruby Walsh and Willie Mullins took the opening race for a second day in a row.
Favorite Faugheen proved too classy for rivals in the Novices' Hurdle, powering away from Ballyalton and Rathvinden to land another win for flamboyant American owner Rich Ricci.
"Gosh, that was magic wasn't it?" former banker Ricci told reporters. "He was just brilliant. He's been a very hard horse to keep right but Willie and Ruby have done a fantastic job with him."
Sprinter Sacre, one of the brightest stars of National Hunt racing, is sadly absent from this year's Festival as vets continue to ponder his irregular heartbeat, but the magnificent Selle Francais did have a representative in the winners' enclosure in the shape of jockey Nico de Boinville.
Sprinter Sacre's regular work rider got up on Whisper to deny AP McCoy on Get Me Out of Here in a photo finish in the day's main handicap.
Beating perennial Champion jockey McCoy added to the pleasure for amateur De Boinville, who said:"I was very, very worried when I could see him coming up to me, but it's such a great feeling when they jump and travel as well as my horse did. I didn't have a clue that I'd won -- you don't dream this sort of thing happens."
In the day's feature race, the Queen Mother Champion Chase, Sire de Grugy produced the fairytale ending that connections and neutrals were hoping for by running away with the title by six lengths from Somersby and Module.
Answer the following questions:
1: What type of race is mentioned in the article?
2: Where was it helt?
3: On what day?
4: Who were the two horses that took the opening race?
5: Who is considered the brightest star of the National Hunt race?
6: Was he participating?
7: Why?
8: Who is Nico de Boinville?
9: Who did he defeat?
10: Who is the Queen Mother Champion?
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COVER STORY--Pax's New Life
By Michelle Tauber and Mary Green
The actress and 3-year-old Pax Thien Jolie, whom she adopted last weekfrom an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, left Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport in a private jet on Wednesday, bound for home--and, for Pax, a new life - in the U.S.
Jolie, 31, understands the challenges her new son will face as the latest addition to the world's most famous multicultural family. "You can imagine what courage it takes to be in all new surroundings, with new people and a new language," she tells PEOPLE in its new issue. "He is very strong." But she is committed to making his transition as smooth as possible. "It will take him a while to realize he has a family," she says, "and that his new life is permanent and that it won't keep changing."
The boy with the sweetly shy smile and the big brown eyes joins big brother Maddox, 5(adopted from Cambodia), sister Zahara, 2 (adopted from Ethiopia) and 10-month-old Shiloh, the daughter born to Jolie and Brad Pitt, 43, in May.
As for Dad, because Vietnamese regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt, Jolie adopted Pax as a single parent while Pitt remained inprefix = st1 /Los Angeles, where he is filmingThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button. "He has specific days on the movie that couldn't be changed or production would run over," says his rep.
But Jolie still made sure to bring a welcoming committee: Joined by Maddox and Zahara - Shiloh has been on theButtonset every day with her father--the new mom used her first few days with Pax to begin gently bonding with him and to ask her other kids to do the same.
"We are slowly beginning to build his trust and bond," Jolie says, "but it will feel complete only when we are all together."
For exclusive photos - plus details on Angelina and Pax's first moments together, what Pax's life was like at the orphanage and more - pick up this week'sPEOPLE,on newsstands Friday.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who adopted Pax?
2: Was it as a married person?
3: Where did Jolie adopt him?
4: How old was he?
5: How did they leave Hanoi?
6: What day?
7: Where was Pax going to have a new life?
8: How old is his new mom?
9: Is her family famous?
10: What about diverse?
11: How old is Pax's big brother Maddox?
12: Where's he from originally?
13: How old is their adopted sister?
14: Where's she originally from?
15: Is Shiloh adopted?
16: Who's her father?
17: What month was she born in?
18: How old is her dad?
19: How old is she now?
20: What regulations prevented Brad from co-adopting with Jolie?
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Science has a lot of uses. It can reveal 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 ofThe 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 resist the temptation.
Brooks gained fame for several books. His latest bookThe 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 revealed 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 surveys a wide range of subjects. Because of this, you might expect the book to cover a variety of facts. But Brooks has structured 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's 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 characters, the more serious problems withThe Social Animallie elsewhere. These problems partly involve Brooks's attempt to translate his tale into science.
Answer the following questions:
1: how many uses are listed for science?
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(CNN) -- There are plenty of reasons to fall in love with a staircase.
It's a home's conduit and connector. It ushers life along, makes a grand impression on visitors and serves as the backdrop for family memories.
"It's where my daughter took pictures for her first daddy-daughter dance," said Anisa Darnell, part of the Milk and Honey Home decorator team from Roswell, Georgia. Her home's staircase is also special to her because her grandfather posed with her daughter for a snapshot there before he passed away.
The back staircase in Emily A. Clark's home is significant because it's mostly used by her kids. "I've also caught them playing school on the little landing in the middle of the stairs."
Jacki Poovey and her husband designed their staircase to be a grand, welcoming part of their Cary, North Carolina home, but it's also at the heart of countless family memories. It still bears reminders of the time their puppy chewed every bit of molding from the edges of the newel post to the cap molding on the treads. "It's a lived-in home," says Poovey.
Massive undertakings, like DIY home renovations, can imbue a home's staircase with lasting impressions of the experience.
"If you paint three stories of spindles, you never forget it," Victoria Barnes said of the painstaking restoration she and her husband undertook in their 1890 Victorian home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Barnes blogs about the "really, really, really slow" process of their work, which she calls wonderful and overwhelming.
Christine Price, from Manchester, England, can relate, having spent 250 hours stripping, sanding and painting the staircase in her Edwardian home. "The staircase is the first thing you see when you enter our home," she said. "Now that it's restored it makes such a huge difference to the whole feel of the house."
Answer the following questions:
1: What part of a house is this story mainly about?
2: According to the article, is the staircase important to the house's atmosphere?
3: What photos were taken by the stairs?
4: What team of decorators is mentioned?
5: where are they from?
6: Is Emily's staircase in the front of the house?
7: Who uses it?
8: What do they do there?
9: Is it easy to forget restoring a staircase?
10: Who owns a Victorian house?
11: When does it date from?
12: Where is it located?
13: Was her work on the house easy?
14: Was it enjoyable?
15: How long did Christine spend on her project?
16: Is her house always Victorian?
17: What style is it?
18: What work did Christine do?
19: Is Jacki's staircase pristine?
20: Why not?
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (; 18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense". He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom.
In the early 20th century, Russell led the British "revolt against idealism". He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, colleague G. E. Moore, and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians. With A. N. Whitehead he wrote "Principia Mathematica", an attempt to create a logical basis for mathematics. His philosophical essay "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy". His work has had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science (see type theory and type system), and philosophy, especially the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Russell was a prominent anti-war activist; he championed anti-imperialism. Occasionally, he advocated preventive nuclear war, before the opportunity provided by the atomic monopoly had passed, and "welcomed with enthusiasm" world government. He went to prison for his pacifism during World War I. Later, he concluded war against Adolf Hitler was a necessary "lesser of two evils". He criticized Stalinist totalitarianism, attacked the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War, and was an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament. In 1950 Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought".
Answer the following questions:
1: what was his philosophical essay considered?
2: Was he an anti-war?
3: What is he considered a founder of?
4: When was he born?
5: Did he go to prison?
6: why?
7: when?
8: What did he champion?
9: What did he say about the war against Hitler?
10: Where was he born?
11: what town?
12: Did he win any prizes?
13: which?
14: for?
15: Who did he write with?
16: What did they write?
17: About?
18: What did he advocate occasionally?
19: When did he die?
20: was his work influential?
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CHAPTER VI
A CIRCULATING LIBRARY
After supper that night, Bab and Betty sat in the old porch playing with Josephus and Belinda, and discussing the events of the day; for the appearance of the strange boy and his dog had been a most exciting occurrence in their quiet lives. They had seen nothing of him since morning, as he took his meals at the Squire's, and was at work with Pat in a distant field when the children passed. Sancho had stuck closely to his master, evidently rather bewildered by the new order of things, and bound to see that no harm happened to Ben.
"I wish they'd come. It's sundown, and I heard the cows mooing, so I know they have gone home," said Betty, impatiently; for she regarded the new-comer in the light of an entertaining book, and wished to read on as fast as possible.
"I'm going to learn the signs he makes when he wants Sancho to dance; then we can have fun with him whenever we like. He's the dearest dog I ever saw!" answered Bab, who was fonder of animals than her sister.
"Ma said--Ow, what's that?" cried Betty with a start, as something bumped against the gate outside; and in a moment Ben's head peeped over the top as he swung himself up to the iron arch, in the middle of which was the empty lantern frame.
"Please to locate, gentlemen; please to locate. The performance is about to begin with the great Flyin' Coopid act, in which Master Bloomsbury has appeared before the crowned heads of Europe. Pronounced by all beholders the most remarkable youthful progidy agoin'. Hooray! here we are!"
Answer the following questions:
1: Who viewed the new boy as a good book?
2: Speaking of him as a book, what did she want to do?
3: Who was on the porch?
4: What were they doing?
5: What were they chatting about?
6: What had them stirred up?
7: What was his name?
8: Did he show up alone?
9: What was with him?
10: Did he have a name?
11: What was it?
12: Why was he staying right with Ben?
13: Was he protecting Ben?
14: Where were Ben and Sancho?
15: What time of day was it?
16: What had Betty heard?
17: What did Babs want to figure out how to do?
18: Did she love animals less than her sister?
19: Who was playing on the gate?
20: What was in the middle of the iron arch?
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CHAPTER VII.
"I WISH YOU'D LIKE ME."
All the Saturday night Heathcote had been on the run, and he did not return home to bed till nearly dawn on the Sunday morning. At about noon prayers were read out on the veranda, the congregation consisting of Mrs. Heathcote and her sister, Mrs. Growler, and Jacko. Harry himself was rather averse to this performance, intimating that Mrs. Growler, if she were so minded, could read the prayers for herself in the kitchen, and that, as regarded Jacko, they would be altogether thrown away. But his wife had made a point of maintaining the practice, and he had of course yielded. The service was not long, and when it was over Harry got into a chair and was soon asleep. He had been in the saddle during sixteen hours of the previous day and night, and was entitled to be fatigued. His wife sat beside him, every now and again protecting him from the flies, while Kate Daly sat by with her Bible in her hand. But she, too, from time to time, was watching her brother-in-law. The trouble of his spirits and the work that he felt himself bound to do touched them with a strong feeling, and taught them to regard him for the time as a young hero.
"How quietly he sleeps!" Kate said. "The fatigue of the last week must have been terrible."
"He is quite, quite knocked up," said the wife.
"I ain't knocked up a bit," said Harry, jumping up from his chair. "What should knock me up? I wasn't asleep, was I?"
Answer the following questions:
1: When did he finally go to sleep?
2: When?
3: How long had he been out?
4: What had he been doing?
5: What is his name?
6: What happened at lunchtime?
7: By who?
8: Who is someone else who is involved?
9: Who else?
10: Anyone else?
11: Does he want to go?
12: Why not?
13: Who does he think can manage it by themselves?
14: Who won't appreciate them?
15: Did it take a long time?
16: What did he do afterwards?
17: To do what?
18: How long had he been on a horse?
19: Was someone next to him?
20: Who?
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(CNN) -- When a black man dies at the hands of a white police officer, not often is there video evidence that could end the speculation and show what happened.
In the case of John Crawford III, there is video evidence -- and Walmart needs to release the tape to the public immediately.
Crawford was 22 years old when he and his girlfriend went to the Walmart last month in Beavercreek, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. They planned to pick up the ingredients for s'mores for a family cookout. Crawford had two young children.
While browsing, he picked up an unpackaged BB gun from one of the store shelves, and continued shopping. A man named Ronald Ritchie saw him and called 911. A black man was "walking around with a gun in the store," and "pointing it at people," Ritchie told them.
A few minutes later, Crawford was dead -- shot on sight by police. His last words? "It's not real." The gun was a toy, and it was unloaded.
(Absurdly, if Crawford had been carrying a loaded assault weapon in a threatening manner, it would have been legal under Ohio's open carry laws. This is exactly why gun safety advocates like myself have so long criticized these laws for creating a culture of fear.)
Was Ritchie more likely to see phantom danger and call the cops because Crawford was a black man? Were those cops more likely to pull the trigger -- by all accounts, without warning Crawford -- because Crawford was black? In other words, is Crawford dead today because he was black in America?
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was in walmart?
2: what did he pick up in the store?
3: Who saw him?
4: what did he say?
5: Then what?
6: Did he live?
7: What were his last words?
8: who shot him?
9: Where was the Walmart located ?
10: How old was he?
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