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Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean. The permission was granted, and despite the defeat of the English Armada in 1589, on 10 April 1591 three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to the Arabian Sea on one of the earliest English overseas Indian expeditions. One of them, Edward Bonventure, then sailed around Cape Comorin and on to the Malay Peninsula and subsequently returned to England in 1594.
This time they succeeded, and on 31 December 1600, the Queen granted a Royal Charter to "George, Earl of Cumberland, and 215 Knights, Aldermen, and Burgesses" under the name, Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies. For a period of fifteen years the charter awarded the newly formed company a monopoly on trade with all countries east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan. Sir James Lancaster commanded the first East India Company voyage in 1601 and returned in 1603. and in March 1604 Sir Henry Middleton commanded the second voyage. General William Keeling, a captain during the second voyage, led the third voyage from 1607 to 1610.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who did business people in London bring a petition to?
2: Did the petition involve an ocean?
3: Which one?
4: Did the petition involved sailing?
5: Was the petition approved?
6: How many ships set sail from Torbay?
7: In what year?
8: In what month?
9: On what day of the month?
10: When was the English Armada defeated?
11: Did the ships from Torbay travel around something?
12: What?
13: To where?
14: Who took a trip around Cape Comorin?
15: And what was his next stop?
16: Did he then go back to England?
17: In what year?
18: What year was a Royal Charter given?
19: Who granted it?
20: Who was in charge of the first trip of East India Company?
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CHAPTER XI
THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900)
THE MODERN PERIOD OF PROGRESS AND UNREST
When Victoria became queen, in 1837, English literature seemed to have entered upon a period of lean years, in marked contrast with the poetic fruitfulness of the romantic age which we have just studied. Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, and Scott had passed away, and it seemed as if there were no writers in England to fill their places. Wordsworth had written, in 1835,
Like clouds that rake, the mountain summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!
In these lines is reflected the sorrowful spirit of a literary man of the early nineteenth century who remembered the glory that had passed away from the earth. But the leanness of these first years is more apparent than real. Keats and Shelley were dead, it is true, but already there had appeared three disciples of these poets who were destined to be far more widely, read than were their masters. Tennyson had been publishing poetry since 1827, his first poems appearing almost simultaneously with the last work of Byron, Shelley, and Keats; but it was not until 1842, with the publication of his collected poems, in two volumes, that England recognized in him one of her great literary leaders. So also Elizabeth Barrett had been writing since 1820, but not till twenty years later did her poems become deservedly popular; and Browning had published his _Pauline_ in 1833, but it was not until 1846, when he published the last of the series called _Bells and Pomegranates_, that the reading public began to appreciate his power and originality. Moreover, even as romanticism seemed passing away, a group of great prose writers--Dickens, Thackeray, Carlyle, and Ruskin--had already begun to proclaim the literary glory of a new age, which now seems to rank only just below the Elizabethan and the Romantic periods.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who were the three "disciples"?
2: Can you name something that Browning wrote?
3: What about Tennyson and Barrett?
4: What era did these writers come after?
5: Who lamented the old days?
6: What did he say?
7: What sort of literature did Keats write?
8: Did Tennyson's work coincide with some of those of the old authors?
9: Was he famous already at that point?
10: Were there more well-known poetry writers than prose writers at this point?
11: Who impressed with his innovativeness?
12: What were two of the greatest periods of literature?
13: What was this age named after?
14: Who wrote something about sounds and fruits?
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CHAPTER X
NAT POOLE WANTS TO KNOW
That evening Dave was on his way to the school library, to consult a certain work of reference, when he ran into another student who suddenly grasped him by the shoulder. It was rather dark where the pair confronted each other, and for the instant our hero did not recognize the fellow.
"What do you want?"
"I want to speak to you for a minute, Dave Porter," said the other, in a voice that trembled a trifle.
"Oh, it's you, Nat," answered Dave, as he recognized the son of the Crumville money-lender. "What do you want?" He rather imagined that the youth wished to pick another quarrel with him.
"I--I want to talk in private with you," returned Nat, and looked around, to see if anybody else was near.
"What about?"
"You were out walking this afternoon and met that wild man, so I heard."
"That is true."
"You tried to catch him, didn't you?"
"Yes, Roger Morr, Buster Beggs, Gus Plum, and I did our best to collar him, but he was too fast for us. He ran down to the river, got into a rowboat, and rowed away."
"So I heard. And I heard something else," continued the boy from Crumville. "When you called to the man to stop he answered back, didn't he?"
"Yes."
"Will you please tell me what he said?" And Nat's voice had an eager ring in it.
"He told us to beware and go back, or we'd get into trouble."
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the name off the chapter?
2: What time of day is it?
3: Where is Dave headed?
4: To do what?
5: What happened on his way there?
6: Did he recognize the student instantly?
7: What does Dave say to the person?
8: Does the person respond angrily?
9: Who's Nat's dad?
10: Who Doea Nat ask Dave about?
11: How many people were with Dave when he tried to catch the man?
12: How did the man get away?
13: Did Dave address the man?
14: Did the man answer?
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Martin was returning to work in his London office after spending two weeks with his brother in New York.He was coming back with a heavy heart.It was not just that it was the end of a wonderful holiday; it was not just that he invariably suffered badly from jet lag ; it was that Monday mornings always began with a team meeting and,over the months,he had grown to hate them.
Martin was aware that colleagues approached these meetings with hidden agenda ; they indulged in game playing; and he knew that people were not being honest and open.The meetings themselves were bad enough-there was all the moaning afterwards at the meeting like"I could have improved on that idea,but I wasn't going to say".
As this morning's meeting began,Martin prepared himself for the usual dullness and boredom.But,as the meeting progressed,he became aware of a strange background noise.At first,he thought that he was still hearing the engine noise from the aircraft that had brought him back to London.But,as he concentrated on the noise,it became a little clearer.
He realized,to his amazement,that he could actually hear what they were thinking at the same time as they were speaking.What surprised him,even more than the acquisition of this strange power,was that he discovered that what people were saying was not really what they were thinking.They were not making clear their reservations.They were not supporting views which they thought might be popular.They were not contributing their new insights.They were not volunteering their new ideas.
Martin found it impossible not to respond to his new knowledge.So he started to make gentle interventions,based more on what he could hear his colleagues thinking than on what he could hear them saying."So,John,are you really saying...""Susan,do you really think that?""Tom,have you got an idea on how we could take this forward?"They looked at him,puzzled.In truth,he felt rather proud of his newly-acquired talent.
As the meeting progressed,it was clear to him that each member of the meeting was learning how to hear the thoughts of the others.The game playing started to fall away; people started to speak more directly; views became better understood; the atmosphere became more open and trusting.
The meeting ended.As people left the room,Martin found that he could still hear what they were thinking."That was the best meeting we've ever had.""All meetings should be like that.""In future,I'm going to say what I think".
Answer the following questions:
1: What was wrong with Mondays for Martin?
2: Was it dull this Monday?
3: What did he notice that morning?
4: Is that what he thought at first?
5: What did he thinkg at first?
6: At first were people saying what they thought?
7: Did people usually feel good about the meetings?
8: When Martin started to ask questions what happened?
9: When the meeting was over were people happy with it?
10: What was their plan for future meetings?
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The Nation of Islam, abbreviated as NOI, is an African American political and religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930. Its stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity. Critics have described the organization as being black supremacist and antisemitic. The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks the NOI as a hate group. Its official newspaper is "The Final Call". In 2007, the core membership was estimated to be between 20,000 and 50,000.
After Fard disappeared in June 1934, the Nation of Islam was led by Elijah Muhammad, who established places of worship (called Temples or Mosques), a school named Muhammad University of Islam, farms, and real estate holdings in the United States and abroad. The Nation has long been a strong advocate of African-American businesses.
There were a number of splits and splinter groups during Elijah Muhammad's leadership, most notably the departure of senior leader Malcolm X to become a Sunni Muslim. After Elijah Muhammad's death in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, changed the name of the organization to "World Community of Islam in the West" (and twice more after that), and attempted to convert it to a mainstream Sunni Muslim ideology.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the religious and political movement discussed in the article?
2: How is it abbreviated?
3: Where was it founded?
4: By whom?
5: When?
6: What is its print publication?
7: As of 2007, how many members did it boast?
8: What are its purported aims?
9: How do those critical of it describe it?
10: Who considers it a hate group?
11: What happened to its originator?
12: When?
13: Who was his replacement?
14: What kind of institutions did he establish?
15: What are those named?
16: Did he create an educational institution?
17: What is it titled?
18: What does the group promote advocacy of?
19: What famous figure left the Nation?
20: When did its head die?
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Beginning in 1689, the colonies became involved in a series of wars between Great Britain and France for control of North America, the most important of which were Queen Anne's War, in which the British conquered French colony Acadia, and the final French and Indian War (1754–63) when Britain was victorious over all the French colonies in North America. This final war was to give thousands of colonists, including Virginia colonel George Washington, military experience which they put to use during the American Revolutionary War.
By far the largest military action in which the United States engaged during this era was the War of 1812. With Britain locked in a major war with Napoleon's France, its policy was to block American shipments to France. The United States sought to remain neutral while pursuing overseas trade. Britain cut the trade and impressed seamen on American ships into the Royal Navy, despite intense protests. Britain supported an Indian insurrection in the American Midwest, with the goal of creating an Indian state there that would block American expansion. The United States finally declared war on the United Kingdom in 1812, the first time the U.S. had officially declared war. Not hopeful of defeating the Royal Navy, the U.S. attacked the British Empire by invading British Canada, hoping to use captured territory as a bargaining chip. The invasion of Canada was a debacle, though concurrent wars with Native Americans on the western front (Tecumseh's War and the Creek War) were more successful. After defeating Napoleon in 1814, Britain sent large veteran armies to invade New York, raid Washington and capture the key control of the Mississippi River at New Orleans. The New York invasion was a fiasco after the much larger British army retreated to Canada. The raiders succeeded in the burning of Washington on 25 August 1814, but were repulsed in their Chesapeake Bay Campaign at the Battle of Baltimore and the British commander killed. The major invasion in Louisiana was stopped by a one-sided military battle that killed the top three British generals and thousands of soldiers. The winners were the commanding general of the Battle of New Orleans, Major General Andrew Jackson, who became president and the Americans who basked in a victory over a much more powerful nation. The peace treaty proved successful, and the U.S. and Britain never again went to war. The losers were the Indians, who never gained the independent territory in the Midwest promised by Britain.
Answer the following questions:
1: what was the largest military action for the US?
2: when did the series of war begin?
3: which was the most important?
4: who did they defeat?
5: how long was the french and indian war?
6: what did this give the colonists?
7: whos side was the US on at first in the war of 1812?
8: how did Briti
9: what did britian try to do to stop American growth?
10: how did the invasion of canada go?
11: when did Britian defeat Napoleon?
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Boston (CNN) -- Trying to show a softer, lighter side of accused killer and crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, his defense lawyers have released photos that they say they would expect to show the jury should Bulger decide to testify.
In response to a CNN question, his lawyers acknowledged, "yes," they have prepared Bulger, 83, to take the stand as they would any other witness.
"Every criminal defendant has until the last witness is presented on the defense to make a decision as to whether he or she will testify," said the lead counsel, J. W. Carney.
Bulger, his lawyers say, is calling the shots and will make the decision Friday after the defense reads testimony from one victim's mother and then calls its last two witnesses, an FBI secretary and admitted former hitman John Martorano.
If Bulger does not testify, closing arguments will likely happen Monday.
Bulger offers $822,000 to relatives of two murder victims
The 20 photos, released late Wednesday, show Bulger smiling and relaxed. Described as an animal lover, he's seen separately with dogs, a goat and a parrot. In one photo he is seen posing in front of the Stanley Cup. In others, he appears smiling with girlfriend Catherine Grieg, who went into hiding with Bulger in 1995 and who was arrested with him 16 years later in 2011 living under an alias in Santa Monica, California.
One of the men featured in a photo with Bulger was identified as a defrocked, formerly high-ranking official of the Boston archdiocese, Frederick J. Ryan, according to the lawyer for two former Catholic Memorial School students who brought sexual molestation claims against the archdiocese in 2002.
Answer the following questions:
1: is there a crime boss?
2: is he accused?
3: accused of what?
4: what is his age?
5: does he have a name?
6: what is his name?
7: does he have an attorney?
8: who?
9: are there witnesses?
10: how many?
11: who are they?
12: what is the hitman's name?
13: how many victims are there?
14: what did they receive?
15: from who?
16: what was released?
17: how many?
18: who did they show?
19: what was he doing?
20: is he with anything?
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The fate of three U.S. citizens who have disappeared or been imprisoned in Iran was discussed during Friday's historic conversation between the two nations' presidents, a senior U.S. administration official said.
U.S. President Barack Obama, during his phone call with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, "noted our concern about three American citizens who have been held within Iran -- Robert Levinson, Saeed Abedini, and Amir Hekmati -- and noted our interest in seeing those Americans reunited with their families," the official said.
Two of the Americans have been tried and convicted in Iranian courts, and the whereabouts of another have been unknown for more than six years.
Here are the most recent developments in the stories of the detained U.S. citizens:
Bob LevinsonThe family of Levinson, a retired FBI agent, has been anxiously waiting for news, any news, about his fate since he vanished during a business trip to Iran in March 2007.
When Rouhani, Iran's new president, arrived in New York, Levinson's wife and children were watching closely for a sign that efforts to find Levinson might move forward.
During an exclusive interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Rouhani offered little when asked what he can tell Levinson's family.
"We don't know where he is, who he is," Rouhani said. "He is an American who has disappeared. We have no news of him."
Yet, like former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Rouhani spoke of cooperation.
"We are willing to help, and all the intelligence services in the region can come together to gather information about him to find his whereabouts," Rouhani told Amanpour.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is the President of Iran?
2: Who spoke with him?
3: regarding?
4: Has anyone been convicted?
5: How many?
6: Where is the other one?
7: When did Bob Levinson disappear?
8: What was his occupation?
9: Is he still working?
10: Does he have family?
11: Who?
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CHAPTER XI
TWO GIRLS AND A CALF
Having gone to the kitchen to fill the bottle with milk, which she had set to warm, Miriam accompanied her guest to the barn. As she walked by the side of Dora, with the bottle in one hand and the other holding up her voluminous silk robe, it was well for her peace of mind that no stately coachman sat upon a box and looked at her.
In a corner of the lower floor of the barn they found the calf, lying upon a bed of hay, and covered by a large piece of mosquito netting, which Miriam had fastened above and around him. Dora laughed as she saw this.
"It isn't every calf," she said, "that sleeps so luxuriously."
"The flies worried the poor thing dreadfully," said Miriam, "but I take it off when I feed it."
She proceeded to remove the netting, but she had scarcely done so, when she gave an exclamation that was almost a scream.
"Oh, dear, oh, dear!" she cried; "I believe it is dead," and down she sat upon the floor close to the calf, which lay motionless, with its head and neck extended. Down also sat Dora. She did not need to consider the hay-strewn floor and her clothes; for although she wore a very tasteful and becoming costume, it was one she had selected with reference to barn explorations, field strolls, and anything rural and dusty which any one else might be doing, or might propose. No one could tell what dusty and delightful occupation might turn up during an afternoon at Cobhurst.
Answer the following questions:
1: Does every calf sleep luxuriously?
2: Who went to the kitchen?
3: Why did she go?
4: With what?
5: Was it warm or cold?
6: Who's side was she by?
7: What was she holding in one hand?
8: And in the other hand?
9: What was the calf doing?
10: On what?
11: What was covering it?
12: Was it large or small?
13: Why was the netting used?
14: Does the netting ever get taken off?
15: For what?
16: Was the calf dead?
17: What body parts were extended?
18: Who also sat down?
19: What was she wearing?
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Telugu is a Dravidian language native to India. It stands alongside Hindi, English, and Bengali as one of the few languages with official status in more than one Indian state; Telugu is the primary language in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and in the town of Yanam, Puducherry, and is also spoken by significant minorities in Karnataka (8.81%), Tamil Nadu (8.63%), Maharashtra (1.4%), Chhattisgarh (1%), Odisha (1.9%), the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (12.9%), and by the Sri Lankan Gypsy people. It is one of six languages designated a classical language of India by the Government of India.
Telugu ranks third by the number of native speakers in India (74 million, 2001 census), fifteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide and is the most widely spoken Dravidian language in the world. It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Approximately pre-colonial 10,000 inscriptions exist in the Telugu language.
The speakers of the language call it "Telugu". The older forms of the name include "Teluṅgu", "Tenuṅgu" and "Teliṅga".
The etymology of Telugu is not certain. Some historical scholars have suggested a derivation from Sanskrit "triliṅgam", as in "Trilinga Desa", "the country of the three lingas".
Answer the following questions:
1: What language is this about
2: Where does it come from
3: Does it have status in more than one state
4: which ones
5: what towns
6: how many languages were considered a classical language
7: who designated them
8: what does it rank in India
9: how many people are in india
10: how far down the list is it for most spoken languages
11: how many inscriptions exist
12: what is an older form of the language
13: do we know for sure where the language comes from
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(CNN) -- The Internet was made for moments like these.
Clint Eastwood and his empty chair didn't so much detract from Mitt Romney's big moment at the last night of the Republican National Convention, as much as they became breakout stars in their own right. Romney and Marco Rubio still had their moments. Clint retained his Hollywood icon status. And two new stars were born, Invisible Obama and Clint's Chair.
Those weren't the only OMG moment during the final night of the RNC.
1. More crying
"Is crying becoming a 'thing' for Republicans?" asked @libgrrrl Thursday night.
We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
One of Eastwood's most tweeted moments was his reference to crying when Obama was elected.
"I just thought this is great. Everybody's crying, Oprah was crying. I was even crying," he said.
U.S. Olympian Mike Eruzione got choked up speaking about carrying the World Trade Center flag during the 2002 Opening Ceremony, but it was Romney talking about single rose his father would leave by his mother's bedside every day that had most eyes welling up, including Romney's.
"Mitt's tearing up talking about his parents! Y'all I can't even deal with all this crying tonight," tweeted @rsethib
And then there were the weepers in the audience, some of whom managed to hold back tears long enough to tweet, like @ShoshanaWeissmann, "Loving this!!!!!! Crying a little and SO inspired!!!!!!"
2. Homocon
CNN reporter Jen Christensen spent time with members of the Log Cabin Republicans who were invited to participate in the convention platform for the first time this year. The LGBT group GOProud threw a Tuesday night party called "Homocon," that included go-go dancers and a velvet rope. However inclusion did not = acceptance. But let's focus on the lighter moments shall we?
Answer the following questions:
1: Who had an empty chair?
2: How many new stars were born?
3: What was the 'thing' for Republicans?
4: What was Eastwood's most tweeted moment?
5: Did he think that was okay?
6: What did the Olympic athlete speak about?
7: And Romney?
8: Who did the CNN journalist spend time with?
9: What was the name of the celebration GOPround gave?
10: What night was it?
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CHAPTER XX
FISHING AND HUNTING
The remainder of the week went by, and the boys and girls amused themselves as best they could. During that time, Mr. Endicott received a visit from the sheriff of the county, and Dave and his chums were called upon to tell all they could about the missing horses. Then, after some whispered talk between the county official and the ranch owner, the lads were requested to describe the man who had been seen on the trail in company with Link Merwell.
"I really think the fellow was Andy Andrews," said the sheriff. "But if so, he had a big nerve to show himself in these parts."
"Didn't you ask Link about the man?" asked Dave.
"Yes. He says the fellow was a stranger to him, and they were just riding together for company. He says they were together about half an hour before he met you on the trail, and that the fellow left him about a quarter of an hour later and headed in the direction of the railroad station. He said the fellow didn't give any name, but said he was looking up some ranch properties for some Chicago capitalists."
This was all the sheriff could tell, and on that the matter, for the time being, rested. Fortunately, Star Ranch possessed a good number of horses, so none of the young folks were deprived of mounts. But Belle mourned the loss of her favorite steed, to which she had become greatly attached.
"I don't care so much for the others, but I do hope papa gets back Lady Alice," she said, dolefully.
Answer the following questions:
1: who visited Mr. Endicott?
2: what did the boys have to tell him about?
3: where they asked to describe the suspect?
4: did the Sheriff have a suspicion of who they were describing?
5: who did he think it was?
6: who had been riding with the suspect?
7: did he know who the man was?
8: where had the man gone after they parted ways?
9: what was he doing in the area?
10: for whom?
11: from where?
12: who was saddest about the missing horses?
13: why?
14: to what?
15: what was the horse's name?
16: Did the thieves take all of the horses?
17: did they have enough left for all of the kids to ride?
18: what was the name of the ranch?
19: Did Link get the name of the man he had been riding with?
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"Today is Mom's birthday, Mosh," Nick said. "Let's make her favorite banana bread and surprise her."Nick took out a cookbook. "I'll read the recipe, and you follow it. Get out a bowl and a spoon while I turn on the oven." Nick read from the cookbook. "First, mash the bananas in the bowl." The robot put the bananas into the bowl and was going to mash them with its hands. "Stop!" Nick said. "Let's try this again. Peel the bananas, put them in the bowl, and mash them with the spoon." Nick watched when Mosh peeled the bananas and put the peel into the bowl. Again, Nick told Mosh to stop. Then he showed the robot which part of each banana should go into the bowl. Then Nick read, "Add the eggs. No, wait," he said right away. Nick cracked the eggs into the bananas. "Last, add flour , milk and sugar," Nick said. "Mix everything together. Then pour the batter into the bread pan." Mosh followed Nick's orders while Nick read the cookbook. "I'll put this in the oven," Nick picked up the pan. Just then Kelly came into the room. "What happened in here?" she felt surprised. Nick answered, "Mosh and I are making banana bread for Mom's birthday. It is a lot of work, but I think she will be surprised." "If you want it to be a good surprise for Mom," Kelly laughed, "you need to give Mosh one more order. Clean up!"
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was Mosh?
2: What was the first thing that was supposed to go in the bowl?
3: What was Mosh about to do to them?
4: Who came into the room later?
5: Who was giving Mosh directions?
6: What did he tell him to do with the bananas before putting them in?
7: Where did Mosh put the peels?
8: Was Nick reading from anything?
9: What was it?
10: What came after the bananas?
11: How many other things were added?
12: What were they?
13: What day was today?
14: What were they making for her?
15: Who laughed?
16: What order did she say Nick should give next?
17: Where did they pour the batter into?
18: Was this their mom's favorite?
19: Did someone say the whole thing was much work?
20: How old was their mom?
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I was the typical"I can't"child-whatever my mother told or asked me to do was immediately followed by my cry,"I can't."As a result,very few tasks or goals that I set out to achieve were ever completed. One evening,my mother called me into the family room."I want you to read this article,"Mother began."It's about Marlo Thomas.She tells how a simple poem that she was forced to learn by her father changed her life*She went from saying'I can't'to'I can'*According to this article,she was able to reorganize her life and her career by learning the principles in the poem." I took the small magazine from Mother and looked down at the pages.There was Marlo-my idol. Beside her photo was the poem my mother had spoken of,a simple poem entitled,"I Can"."I want you to memorize that poem,"Mother said firmly."Mama," _ ."I can't learn that poem.It's too long." "It's not too long and you can learn it.1 want you to know it perfectly by this time tomorrow,"said my mother. Unwillingly,I went back to my bedroom with the magazine.With a heavy heart,I threw myself into the bed and began my task. "Can't is a word that is the enemy to ambition,"I began.I repeated the line.I repeated it again and again."An enemy ambush to shatter your will..."I continued the process until I proudly recited the poem the following evening. It has now become my principle.Marlo 1 homas did not know me,but her story forever changed my life. Saying "I can" helped me to get through the worst moments of my life: Saying "I can" encouraged me to complete things I would have otherwise seen as out of my reach. A simple poem learned at seven is a poem that will support me to seventy-seven,maybe even longer.
Answer the following questions:
1: Was I always confident that I could do things?
2: Did my mom ask me to read something?
3: What was it?
4: who was the author?
5: How made Marlo learn the poem?
6: What was the name of the poem?
7: Did I think I could learn it?
8: Why not?
9: What hinders ambition?
10: What was my response when my mom asked me to do something?
11: How old was I when I learned the poem?
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Why Are Pig Farmers Still Using Growth-Promoting Drugs?
It's one of the most controversial practices in agriculture: feeding small amounts of antibiotics to animals in order to make them grow faster. But what if the drugs don't even work very well? There's some good evidence that they don't, at least in pigs. They used to deliver a boost in growth, but that effect has disappeared in recent years or declined greatly. The reason for this is interesting and even paradoxical. Researchers think the antibiotics used to work by suppressing low-grade infections. In recent years, however, pork producers found other ways to accomplish the same thing through improved hygiene . As a result, the drugs have become largely superfluous -- yet many farmers still use them.
To understand how this happened, you have to step back in time, says Steve Dritz, a specialist in pig nutrition at Kansas State University. Sixty years ago, when antibiotics were new, "people started treating animals, and feeding [the antibiotics], and finding that they had increased growth rates and feed efficiencies," he says. Nursery-age pigs, for instance, grew 12 to 15 percent faster with antibiotics. The animals also needed less feed to reach full weight. Other studies showed similar results in chickens and cattle. In the 1980s, a new set of studies found similar effects. So the growth-promoting effects of antibiotics became standard practice among meat producers.
Fast forward to the 1990s. Dritz was starting his career as a scientist at Kansas State University, and pork production was changing dramatically.
Previously, pigs were born and raised in one barn or in several barns close together. This meant infections could easily pass from one generation to the next, the way that kids share germs between their friends on the playground and their parents at home. Under the new system, when piglets are weaned, they move to a whole different place. That new site is carefully scrubbed and free of disease.
Craig Rowles, who runs a large swine operation in Carroll, Iowa, shows me one such room. There's not a piglet in sight. "This room just got completely washed and disinfected, and now it's going to sit here and dry for a while," he says.
A whole group of pigs will come in here together, and later they will move out together to yet another site. "That group of pigs will stay together until they go to market," Rowles says.
The groups are kept strictly separated from each other. If workers move between the groups, they first have to change their boots.
When farmers adopted multisite production, it cut down on disease -- and pigs actually grew faster.
Answer the following questions:
1: Are pig farmers still using drugs?
2: Is Steve Dritz a specialist in anything?
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First published in 2001, the book Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature. It is the story of a young boy named Pi who spends 227 days at sea with a small group of animals after disaster strikes their ship and is an account of his journey of survival and hardship.
Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, on whom Life of Pi is based, is a young boy living in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns a zoo. The story starts when Patel's family decide to move to Canada, along with their zoo animals for their new home.
However, because of the bad weather, the ship sinks. Pi along with an orangutan , an injured zebra, a hyena and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker are the only survivors who take shelter in a small lifeboat. Both the injured zebra and the orangutan are soon killed and eaten by the hyena. The tiger in turn kills and eats the hyena, leaving just the two of them alone on the boat now.
In an effort to avoid being eaten by Richard Parker, Pi acts himself as the head of the group and remains safe from harm. Since he does not want the tiger to die for fear of going mad by being alone on the boat, he fishes and feeds the two of them in order to stay alive.
The life of Pi then enters its third stage when their lifeboat washes up on the shores of Mexico and the tiger escapes into a nearby forest leaving Pi alone. After the Mexicans refuse to believe Pi's story, he changes his tale by replacing the animals with his mother, a cook and a sailor and asks the Mexicans which one they prefer. They prefer hearing the first story though they do not believe a word of it.
In my view, Life of Pi is a must read book for all those who love reading.
Answer the following questions:
1: What's the name of the book being discussed?
2: Who wrote it?
3: Whois the main character?
4: Who came with Pi and his family when they left Canada?
5: What did they travel on?
6: What happens to it?
7: Does Pi survive?
8: Who else survives?
9: What happens to the oragutan and zebra?
10: What happens to the hyena?
11: By what?
12: What is its name?
13: /who feeds him?
14: With what?
15: Where does Pi end up?
16: And Richard Parker?
17: Do the Mexicans believe Pi?
18: Why did Pi feed Richard Parker?
19: When was the book published?
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(CNN) -- A June trial has been set for a Detroit-area man who said he accidentally shot and killed a 19-year-old woman he thought was breaking into his home.
Theodore Paul Wafer, 54, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday to second-degree murder charges in connection with the November 2, 2013 shooting of Renisha McBride. Authorities said McBride was intoxicated and possibly disoriented following a car crash before Wafer shot her on his porch in the community of Dearborn Heights.
The trial was set for June 2.
Last month, District Court Judge David Turfe said there was enough probable cause for Wafer to stand trial in connection with the shooting.
"Defendant came to the door with the shotgun," Turfe said, according to CNN Michigan affiliate WXYZ. "His first thought was to bring the gun, not call for help, or not answer the door. It suggests to this court, the defendant made a bad choice."
A friend of McBride told the court that she and the victim had been playing a drinking game with vodka and smoking marijuana the night of the shooting.
Wafer, whose lawyer said he shot the victim in self-defense, was charged with second-degree murder last month after days of pressure from McBride's relatives seeking an arrest.
He also was charged with manslaughter and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Wafer told investigators he thought McBride was breaking into his home, and that the shotgun accidentally discharged when he investigated, police said.
McBride was unarmed and there was no evidence of a break-in, so Wafer -- who authorities say shot McBride from behind a closed, locked screen door -- cannot lawfully claim he needed to shoot her to stop an imminent threat of death or great bodily harm, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy told reporters in November.
Answer the following questions:
1: Why is a man from the Detroit area being tried?
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Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) is an operating system by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs and media center PCs. Development was completed on 8 November 2006, and over the following three months, it was released in stages to computer hardware and software manufacturers, business customers and retail channels. On 30 January 2007, it was released worldwide and was made available for purchase and download from the Windows Marketplace. The release of Windows Vista came more than five years after the introduction of its predecessor, Windows XP, the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows desktop operating systems. It was succeeded by Windows 7, which was released to manufacturing on 22 July 2009 and released worldwide for retail on 22 October 2009.
New features of Windows Vista include an updated graphical user interface and visual style dubbed Aero, a new search component called Windows Search, redesigned networking, audio, print and display sub-systems, and new multimedia tools such as Windows DVD Maker. Vista aimed to increase the level of communication between machines on a home network, using peer-to-peer technology to simplify sharing files and media between computers and devices. Windows Vista included version 3.0 of the .NET Framework, allowing software developers to write applications without traditional Windows APIs.
Answer the following questions:
1: When was development completed for Vista?
2: was it released all at once?
3: What was its codename?
4: When was its International release?
5: How long had it been since the previous version?
6: What was that version called?
7: was that length of time normal?
8: What came after?
9: When was that given to manufacturers?
10: And when could the public buy it?
11: What is Aero?
12: Was that for Vista?
13: What was the search function named?
14: Did Vista feature many redesigns?
15: Can you tell me a couple?
16: Was there a media tool updated as well?
17: which one?
18: What was the aim?
19: How?
20: Was API required anymore?
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CHAPTER XVIII
A MEETING OF SOCIALISTS
The _brasserie_ into which the two men pushed their way was smaller and less ornate than the one which they had last visited. Many of the tables, too, were laid for supper. The tone of the place was still entirely Teutonic. Kendricks and his companion seated themselves at a table.
"You will eat sausage?" Kendricks asked.
"I will eat anything," Julien replied.
"It is better," Kendricks remarked. "Here from the first we may be watched. We are certainly observed. Be sure that you do not let fall a single word of English. It might be awkward afterwards."
"It's a beastly language," Julien declared, "but the beer and sausages help. How many of the people here will be at the meeting?"
"Not a hundredth part of them," Kendricks answered. "It was a terrible job to get these tickets and I wouldn't like to guarantee now that we have them that we get there. Remember, if any questions are asked, you're an American, the editor or envoy of _The Coming Age._"
"The dickens I am!" Julien exclaimed. "Where am I published?"
"In New York; you're a new issue."
Julien ate sausages and bread and butter steadily for several minutes.
"To me," he announced, "there is something more satisfying about a meal of this description than that two-franc dinner where you stole my chicken."
"You have Teutonic instincts, without a doubt," Kendricks declared, "but after all, why not a light dinner and an appetite for supper? Better for the digestion, better for the pocket, better for passing the time. What are you staring at?"
Answer the following questions:
1: what was the tone like in the restaurant?
2: are they being watched?
3: what must they be careful not to do?
4: what meal of the day is it?
5: how is this place different than others they have been to?
6: Who is Julien pretending to be?
7: working where?
8: how does he feel about the English language?
9: what are the mens names in this story?
10: and?
11: What are they eating?
12: and drinking?
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We Love Gadgets If you love the latest gadgets or you want to be the next James Bond, come to Gadgets in the Garden Shopping Mall. Gadgets is a cool new shop. It sells all the latest gadgets and toys from MP3 players and cameras phones to toy robots. It's a great place to go to check out the latest things. Jon Lee and his best friend Tom Green own Gadgets. They love gadgets and toys very much. They are already running a successful Internet shop but want to give their customers a chance to play with all the latest gadgets before they buy. Jon says, "Tom and I are always buying the latest gadgets. We love new ideas and we know that our customers love them too." They both think their new shop will be a big success and we think so too! Gadgets opens at 9 0'clock on Wednesday August 1st, 2012. John and Tom are planning a fantastic opening. Don't miss it.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many owners does this store have?
2: What is their relationship?
3: What are their names?
4: Did they just go into business?
5: How did they start out?
6: What's their new place called?
7: Where is it located?
8: Does it sell gadgets?
9: What else?
10: What fictional character would like this place?
11: When can we start going to Gadgets?
12: At what time?
13: What are the owners constantly acquiring?
14: Are they fond of old ways of thinking?
15: How many specific items sold are mentioned?
16: Name two of them
17: And what else?
18: Any other?
19: Do they expect the business to do well?
20: Will people be able to try items out?
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(CNN) -- Matthew Murray, the man who police say shot and killed four people at two separate locations in Colorado on Sunday, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the coroner's office said Tuesday.
A former roommate took this photo of Matthew Murray performing in a 2002 Christmas program.
"The death of Matthew Murray has been ruled a suicide," the El Paso County Coroner's Office said in a statement.
"It should be noted that he was struck multiple times by the security officer, which put him down. He then fired a single round killing himself," the statement said.
Police Sgt. Skip Arms told The Associated Press that Murray shot himself in the head.
Police say before Murray, 24, went down, he shot and killed sisters Stephanie and Rachael Works, ages 18 and 16, and wounded their father, who was in or near their car in the parking lot of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Murray also wounded two other people with his assault rifle as he re-entered the church.
One of them, Larry Bourbonnais, said he tried to distract the shooter before security guard Jeanne Assam made her move. Watch Bourbonnais describe the scene at New Life »
"I'm telling you right now, she's the hero, not me. It was the bravest thing I have ever seen," Bourbonnais said. "She had no cover. He fired -- I heard him fire three. I heard her fire three. And she just began -- she kept yelling 'Surrender!' the whole time. And she just walked forward, like she's walking to her car in the parking lot, firing the whole time."
Answer the following questions:
1: How many people did Matt kill?
2: In how many places?
3: On what day?
4: How did he die?
5: Who took his picture?
6: what was he doing in the picture?
7: what year?
8: who hit Matt ?
9: Who fired the bullet that killed matt?
10: Where did he shoot himself?
11: How old was he?
12: How old was Stephanie Works?
13: How old was Rachael works?
14: Did they die?
15: Did their father die?
16: Where were they?
17: In what city?
18: In what state?
19: Was the security guard a man?
20: How many shots were exchanged?
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A pub /pʌb/, or public house is, despite its name, a private house, but is called a public house because it is licensed to sell alcohol to the general public. It is a drinking establishment in Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Denmark and New England. In many places, especially in villages, a pub can be the focal point of the community. The writings of Samuel Pepys describe the pub as the heart of England.
The history of pubs can be traced back to Roman taverns, through the Anglo-Saxon alehouse to the development of the modern tied house system in the 19th century.
Historically, pubs have been socially and culturally distinct from cafés, bars and German beer halls. Most pubs offer a range of beers, wines, spirits, and soft drinks and snacks. Traditionally the windows of town pubs were of smoked or frosted glass to obscure the clientele from the street but from the 1990s onwards, there has been a move towards clear glass, in keeping with brighter interiors.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is a pub?
2: What is it for?
3: what does it serve?
4: Anything else?
5: Are they in America?
6: where?
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(CNN) -- An "America's Got Talent" contestant's emotional story of getting hit by a grenade in Afghanistan is not backed up by military records. And now, questions surround whether he embellished his heroic tale.
Timothy Poe wowed the three judges on the NBC program Monday night after stuttering when he spoke, but singing "If Tomorrow Never Comes" without a hitch.
He said that the stutter was caused by the grenade attack and that he didn't really know he could sing until his speech pathologist told him to try singing in the shower.
After receiving an emphatic "yes" from each judge, advancing him to the contest's next round, Poe walked offstage and told host Nick Cannon, "Oh my God, it's amazing. I was so scared up there I c-couldn't remember where to put my fingers. I was like, oh I didn't know."
"I don't know if you just noticed," Cannon responded, congratulating him, "but this whole sentence that you just said you didn't stutter one bit."
In an interview Tuesday with the "You Served" podcast, Poe said he does not stutter always, "just when I get stressed or nervous or something big happens."
On the NBC show, Poe said he served in the military for 14 years. In 2009 in Afghanistan, he said, he was struck by rocket-propelled grenade. "By the time I turned and went to jump on top of my guys, I yelled 'grenade' and the blast had hit me," he said.
The attack "broke my back and gave me a brain injury, so that's the reason why I stutter a little bit," he said.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who wowed the judges?
2: What program was this on?
3: Did the segment of tv have a name?
4: Was the man hurt in Kuwait?
5: Where was he hurt?
6: What was he hurt by?
7: Does anyone doubt this?
8: Why?
9: Did four of the people judging him love him?
10: How many, then?
11: What impact did the accident have that surprisingly doesn't affect his melodic voice?
12: Was it his psychologist who suggested he carry a tune while washing up to help with it?
13: Who was it?
14: Did he go on internet streaming radio?
15: What did he go on?
16: Did he say on that he stutters all the time?
17: What year did the accident happen?
18: What else did the accident leave him hurt with?
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Many people think heroes need to be handsome, rich, or very smart. But as for me, a hero is a person who always helps others. My hero is Uncle Bill. He is the oldest son of a worker, and he grew up in a poor family with four younger brothers and two little sisters. He was good at neither writing nor math. In fact, he never did well in school. so he had to give up school at a very young age. He worked and gave all his money to help his parents. When he was getting older, he found that he was very interested in fixing things. he collected broken things which people threw away and fixed them into good ones. He could fix almost everything that did not work. He worked hard never gave up. Finally, he opened his own repair shop. It took him about 20 years to become a successful shopkeeper . Now, he is very rich and has four shops. But he never forgets the days when he had nothing. He gives money to poor families, helps poor kids buy books and offers them free lunch. He also encourages people to reuse things. He always says :Make good use of what you have because we just have one earth. I am proud of Uncle Bill. He is really a hero.
Answer the following questions:
1: Do all great people need to be good looking?
2: Can they be poor?
3: Who is an example of this?
4: Is he an only child?
5: Was he wealthy?
6: How many siblings did he have?
7: Boys?
8: Girls?
9: Was he good at geography?
10: Did he graduate?
11: Was there anything he liked to do?
12: What was that?
13: What kinds of things did he work on?
14: Did people give them to him?
15: What did he do with this hobby?
16: How long did it take to do well?
17: Did he open five of them?
18: How many?
19: Can he buy whatever he wants now?
20: How does he spend it?
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The territory that now constitutes Tajikistan was previously home to several ancient cultures, including the city of Sarazm of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures, including the Oxus civilization, Andronovo culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism. The area has been ruled by numerous empires and dynasties, including the Achaemenid Empire, Sassanian Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Samanid Empire, Mongol Empire, Timurid dynasty, and the Russian Empire. As a result of the breakup of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan became an independent nation in 1991. A civil war was fought almost immediately after independence, lasting from 1992 to 1997. Since the end of the war, newly established political stability and foreign aid have allowed the country's economy to grow.
Tajiks began to be conscripted into the Soviet Army in 1939 and during World War II around 260,000 Tajik citizens fought against Germany, Finland and Japan. Between 60,000(4%) and 120,000(8%) of Tajikistan's 1,530,000 citizens were killed during World War II. Following the war and Stalin's reign attempts were made to further expand the agriculture and industry of Tajikistan. During 1957–58 Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Campaign focused attention on Tajikistan, where living conditions, education and industry lagged behind the other Soviet Republics. In the 1980s, Tajikistan had the lowest household saving rate in the USSR, the lowest percentage of households in the two top per capita income groups, and the lowest rate of university graduates per 1000 people. By the late 1980s Tajik nationalists were calling for increased rights. Real disturbances did not occur within the republic until 1990. The following year, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Tajikistan declared its independence.
Answer the following questions:
1: Were there other cultures in Tajikistan?
2: Any example?
3: What period was that?
4: Did others showed up later?
5: Any example?
6: Who used to rule the area?
7: Did they stay with them?
8: What happened?
9: Which year?
10: What happened to them just after that?
11: Which year?
12: Did they recover from that?
13: What helped them in that?
14: What was their role in the Soviet Army?
15: After war who tried to industrialize the place?
16: Who addressed their plight next?
17: In which years?
18: How they fared compared to other Republics?
19: What was their savings ranked in the 80s?
20: After which year they declared independence?
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Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and is coterminous with the U.S. Census Bureau-census-designated place of Arlington, which is the second-largest principal city of the Washington metropolitan area. As a result, the county is often referred to in the region simply as "Arlington" or "Arlington, Virginia". In 2016, the county's population was estimated at 230,050, making it the sixth-largest county in Virginia, or the fourth-largest city if it were incorporated as such. It is the highest-income county in the United States by median family income, and has the highest concentration of singles in the region. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C., of which it was briefly a part. With a land area of , Arlington is the geographically smallest self-governing county in the United States, and by reason of state law regarding population density, has no incorporated towns within its borders. Due to the county's proximity to downtown Washington, D.C., Arlington is home to many important installations for the capital region and US government, including the Pentagon, Reagan National Airport, and Arlington National Cemetery. Many schools and universities have campuses in Arlington, most prominently the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where is Alrington County?
2: What metropolitan area is it part of?
3: Is it the largest city in this area?
4: What is it then?
5: What popular college is there?
6: What was the population in 2016?
7: What is Arlington highest of in the United States?
8: Does it have highest numbers of married couples?
9: What then?
10: Does this area have a lot of important buildings?
11: Why?
12: What important government building is there?
13: What was it part of for a short period of time?
14: Is it the smallest self-governing county?
15: What river is it on?
16: What airport is there?
17: And cemetery?
18: Where is it at in Virginia?
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CHAPTER LVII.
THE LOVES AND HOPES OF ALBERT FITZALLEN.
Felix Graham, when he left poor Mary Snow, did not go on immediately to the doctor's shop. He had made up his mind that Mary Snow should never be his wife, and therefore considered it wise to lose no time in making such arrangements as might be necessary both for his release and for hers. But, nevertheless, he had not the heart to go about the work the moment that he left her. He passed by the apothecary's, and looking in saw a young man working sedulously at a pestle. If Albert Fitzallen were fit to be her husband and willing to be so, poor as he was himself, he would still make some pecuniary sacrifice by which he might quiet his own conscience and make Mary's marriage possible. He still had a sum of £1,200 belonging to him, that being all his remaining capital; and the half of that he would give to Mary as her dower. So in two days he returned, and again looking in at the doctor's shop, again saw the young man at his work.
"Yes, sir, my name is Albert Fitzallen," said the medical aspirant, coming round the counter. There was no one else in the shop, and Felix hardly knew how to accost him on so momentous a subject, while he was still in charge of all that store of medicine, and liable to be called away at any moment to relieve the ailments of Clapham. Albert Fitzallen was a pale-faced, light-haired youth, with an incipient moustache, with his hair parted in equal divisions over his forehead, with elaborate shirt-cuffs elaborately turned back, and with a white apron tied round him so that he might pursue his vocation without injury to his nether garments. His face, however, was not bad, nor mean, and had there not been about him a little air of pretension, assumed perhaps to carry off the combined apron and beard, Felix would have regarded him altogether with favourable eyes.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who left someone?
2: Who did he leave?
3: What had he decided about her?
4: Does he want to wait a long time for them to move on?
5: Does he want to start immediately?
6: Where was he going?
7: Where did he pass by on the way?
8: What does he see?
9: Doing what?
10: Does he go in?
11: When does he go back?
12: What is he called?
13: What is his last name?
14: Was he alone?
15: What might he get asked to do?
16: Of who?
17: When?
18: What is he like?
19: What about his hair?
20: And his clothes?
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Some 200 houses were damaged in a southwestern province of Pakistan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck Wednesday, officials said.
The mud-walled houses were damaged in districts close to the epicenter, said Ahmed Kamal, spokesman for the country's National Disaster Management Authority. Hundreds of tents, blankets and ready-to-eat meals were sent to the affected area, he said.
The earthquake occurred at 1:23 a.m. Wednesday (3:23 p.m. Tuesday ET) at a depth of 84 kilometers (52 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered 45 kilometers (30 miles) west of Dalbandin, and 1,035 kilometers (640 miles) west-southwest of Islamabad, the USGS said on its website.
There were no reports of injuries or deaths, Kamal said.
The United States, China and Australia had offered aid to Pakistan, but it had not been initially accepted, Kamal said.
"The offer was appreciated but not accepted because its not required yet," he said.
Arif Mahmood, director of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, put the epicenter at 320 kilometers (about 200 miles) southwest of Quetta near Kharan, Balochistan, and said it had been felt in Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan provinces in Pakistan, as well as parts of Iran and India.
Mahmood predicted major aftershocks. "Earthquakes with such magnitudes in the past have brought on aftershocks," he told CNN from Islamabad.
An official at Quetta's Civil Hospital said a female cardiac patient suffered a fatal heart attack during the earthquake. He said two residents raced to the hospital but they proved not to have been injured, just scared.
Answer the following questions:
1: what did Mahmood predict?
2: Were there any deaths?
3: injuries?
4: What did the lady patient suffer from?
5: Are the homes made of brick?
6: then what?
7: How many countries offered help?
8: Which ones?
9: Where was the epicenter?
10: How many dwellings had damage?
11: What was sent to the area?
12: By who?
13: Did they accept the help offered?
14: Was it appreciated?
15: why wasn't it accepted?
16: who said that?
17: What hospital was the cardiac arrest patient?
18: What time did the earthquake happen?
19: How many other countries was it felt in?
20: On what day was it?
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Harry is a boy with a learning disability. On his fourth birthday, he was given a pug called Millie. Two weeks after the dog's arrival, he was happier and calmer and said his first words, "dog" and "mummy". Just two months later, thieves stole the dog, and now the heartbroken little boy is back to where he started. He has refused to talk since losing his best friend. His mother was worried and gave him another dog, but he just "pushed it away". Mrs Hainsworth, his mother, says, "My son is very sad. He'll go over to her cage and just beat on the bars. There is no word coming out, but you just know he's screaming 'Where is Millie' inside. Millie was really his best friend. They would play together happily for hours. None of his toys has ever held his attention that long. Now he has just completely turned quiet again. "Harry suffers from a condition which affects his ability to speak and move. But the dog's being with him achieved more in days than months of speech therapy and physiotherapy had. Mrs Hainsworth says, "My son was so happy when he saw Millie. Being with Millie changed him, and within two weeks he had said his first words and was working on saying 'dad'. Just last week, his teachers and I were saying how much Millie had helped him. And now this!" Mrs Hainsworth is considering buying another pug in the hope that her son will accept it. Maureen Hennis of the charity, Pets as Therapy, says she has seen many cases of dogs helping people with speech problems. "People may talk to a dog when they wouldn't like to talk to another human," she says. "A dog doesn't care if words come out wrong."
Answer the following questions:
1: Did someone have a pet?
2: What kind?
3: What was it named?
4: Who owned it?
5: How old was he?
6: Who was his mother?
7: Did the pet affect the kid?
8: How so?
9: Did something happen to the pet?
10: What?
11: How long after they got it?
12: Was the kid happy or sad about this?
13: Is there an organization that deals with this sort of relationship?
14: Who?
15: Who is someone that works there?
16: Do they charge money for their services?
17: Did the kid get another pet?
18: Did the kid continue speaking after the pet was gone?
19: How long would the pet and the kid goof off?
20: Was he the same way with toys?
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New Delhi (i/ˌnjuː ˈdɛli/) is a municipality and district in Delhi which serves as the capital and seat of government of India. In addition, it also serves as the seat of Government of Delhi.
The foundation stone of the city was laid by George V, Emperor of India during the Delhi Durbar of 1911. It was designed by British architects, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker. The new capital was inaugurated on 13 February 1931, by India's Viceroy Lord Irwin.
Although colloquially Delhi and New Delhi as names are used interchangeably to refer to the jurisdiction of NCT of Delhi, these are two distinct entities, and the latter is a small part of the former.
New Delhi has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under PM Narendra Modi's flagship Smart Cities Mission.
Calcutta (now Kolkata) was the capital of India during the British Raj until December 1911. However, Delhi had served as the political and financial centre of several empires of ancient India and the Delhi Sultanate, most notably of the Mughal Empire from 1649 to 1857. During the early 1900s, a proposal was made to the British administration to shift the capital of the British Indian Empire (as it was officially called) from Calcutta to Delhi. Unlike Calcutta, which was located on the eastern coast of India, Delhi was at the centre of northern India and the Government of British India felt that it would be logistically easier to administer India from the latter rather than the former.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where is New Delhi located?
2: What purpose does it have?
3: What else is it the seat of government of?
4: What type of city is it being designed as?
5: When did it originally begin being built?
6: What else happened on that date?
7: How many people designed New Delhi?
8: How many founded it?
9: Are Delhi and New Delhi the same?
10: Which is smaller than the other?
11: Has Delhi been the capital of other countries?
12: Was it the first capital of India?
13: Who decide to change the capital?
14: Why?
15: Where was Calcutta?
16: When did New Delhi become the capital?
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Micronesia (from "mikrós" "small" and "nêsos" "island") is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It has a shared cultural history with two other island regions, Polynesia to the east and Melanesia to the south.
The region has a tropical marine climate, and is part of the Oceania ecozone. There are four main archipelagos along with numerous outlying islands.
Micronesia is divided politically among several sovereign countries. One of these is the Federated States of Micronesia, which is often called "Micronesia" for short and is not to be confused with the overall region. The Micronesia region encompasses five sovereign, independent nations—the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, and Nauru—as well as three U.S. territories in the northern part: Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and Wake Island.
Micronesia began to be settled several millennia ago, although there are competing theories about the origin and arrival of the first settlers. The earliest known contact with Europeans occurred in 1521, when Ferdinand Magellan reached the Marianas. The coinage of the term "Micronesia" is usually attributed to Jules Dumont d'Urville's usage in 1832, however Domeny de Rienzi had used the term a year previously.
Micronesia is a region that includes approximately 2100 islands, with a total land area of , the largest of which is Guam, which covers . The total ocean area within the perimeter of the islands is .
Answer the following questions:
1: Where is Micronesia located?
2: How many main archipelagos does it consist of?
3: Does it consist of just one country?
4: What kind of climate does it have?
5: How many islands does it approximately include?
6: What is the name of the largest island?
7: What other two island regions does it share a cultural history with?
8: Who is attributed with coining the tern micronesia?
9: In what year?
10: How many sovereign, independent nations does Micronesia include?
11: Dies it unclude any U.S territories?
12: What are the names of the independent nations?
13: When did it's first contact with Europeans occure?
14: Who was the first to reach the islands from europe?
15: Who used the term micronesia a year earlier before Jules dumont d'Urville?
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East Prussia enclosed the bulk of the ancestral lands of the Baltic Old Prussians. During the 13th century, the native Prussians were conquered by the crusading Teutonic Knights. The indigenous Balts who survived the conquest were gradually converted to Christianity. Because of Germanization and colonisation over the following centuries, Germans became the dominant ethnic group, while Poles and Lithuanians formed minorities. From the 13th century, East Prussia was part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466 it became a fief of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1525, with the Prussian Homage, the province became the Duchy of Prussia. The Old Prussian language had become extinct by the 17th or early 18th century.
Because the duchy was outside of the core Holy Roman Empire, the prince-electors of Brandenburg were able to proclaim themselves King of Prussia beginning in 1701. After the annexation of most of western Royal Prussia in the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, eastern (ducal) Prussia was connected by land with the rest of the Prussian state and was reorganized as a province the following year (1773). Between 1829 and 1878, the Province of East Prussia was joined with West Prussia to form the Province of Prussia.
Answer the following questions:
1: When were the native Prussians conquered?
2: by who?
3: who survived?
4: what were they converted to?
5: Who was the dominant ethnic group?
6: and the minority?
7: why?
8: When was the second peace of Thorn?
9: What happened in 1525?
10: What happened to the language?
11: when?
12: Was duchy in the core Holy Empire?
13: what happened because of this?
14: When did this start?
15: When was eastern Prussia connected by land with the rest of the state?
16: When was it recgonized?
17: What forms Province of prussia?
18: when did this happen?
19: Who were the native Prussians defeated by?
20: that was when?
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James II and VII (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland.
The second surviving son of Charles I, he ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II. Members of Britain's Protestant political elite increasingly suspected him of being pro-French and pro-Catholic and of having designs on becoming an absolute monarch. When he produced a Catholic heir, a son called James Francis Edward, leading nobles called on his Protestant son-in-law and nephew William III of Orange to land an invasion army from the Dutch Republic, which he did in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James fled England (and thus was held to have abdicated). He was replaced by his eldest, Protestant daughter Mary II and her husband, William III. James made one serious attempt to recover his crowns from William and Mary when he landed in Ireland in 1689. After the defeat of the Jacobite forces by the Williamites at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, James returned to France. He lived out the rest of his life as a pretender at a court sponsored by his cousin and ally, King Louis XIV.
Answer the following questions:
1: when was the Glorious Revolution?
2: which James fled to England?
3: when was James II born?
4: who defeated the Jacobites?
5: who was the father of James VII?
6: who took the throne when Charles I died?
7: what happened to Charles II?
8: when did James VII rule Scotland?
9: what did members of Britain's Poretestant elite suspect James II of?
10: who was his cousin?
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The exact number of exonerated American prisoners is unknown. But data gathered by university law schools indicates it's more than 2,000. Fascinating details surrounding some of these exonerations set them apart from the rest. Here are five recent exonerations that made headlines.
1. Michael Morton
The subject of a CNN film, Michael Morton wasn't home when his wife, Christine, was beaten to death in front of their 3-year-old son at their Austin, Texas-area home in 1986. But a prosecutor said the evidence suggested otherwise. The problem was, the jury was prevented from hearing all the evidence in the case.
Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, a team of loyal supporters and DNA evidence helped Morton win his freedom in 2011. Last month, Morton's former prosecutor pleaded no contest to a court order to show cause regarding evidence that was not used in the trial.
Read more about Michael Morton's story
2. Brian Banks and the incredible twist
At age 17, fearing a potentially long sentence, college football hopeful Brian Banks followed the advice of his attorney and pleaded no contest to assaulting a Long Beach, California, high school classmate in 2002.
Banks maintained his innocence throughout nearly six years of imprisonment, subsequent probation and registration as a sex offender.
But in 2011, the case took an incredible twist when the alleged victim sent Banks a Facebook friend request.
According to the California Innocence Project, the woman later admitted that Banks had not kidnapped or raped her during a consensual encounter at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where Banks was a middle linebacker with a scholarship offer from the University of Southern California.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many been exonerated in US?
2: Who provided the info?
3: Whose wife was killed?
4: What was her name?
5: Was he at home at that time?
6: Was there any one else?
7: Who?
8: How old was he?
9: When this happened?
10: In which state?
11: Who got punished for the crime?
12: What was the sentence?
13: Then what happened?
14: When?
15: How?
16: How old was Banks?
17: What was he accused of?
18: What did he plead?
19: Then what happened?
20: When?
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CHAPTER XXXVI Rockpier
For Love himself took part against himself To warn us off.--TENNYSON
Rosamond was to have a taste of her old vocation, and go campaigning for lodgings, the searching for which she declared to be her strongest point. Rockpier was to be the destination of the family; Eleonora Vivian, whose letters had been far fewer than had been expected of her, was known to be there with her father, and this was lure sufficient for Frank. Frank's welfare again was the lure to Mrs. Poynsett; and the benefit Rosamond was to derive from sea air, after all she had gone through, made Julius willing to give himself the holiday that everybody insisted on his having until Lent.
First, however, was sent off an advanced guard, consisting of Rosamond and Terry, who went up to London with Frank, that he might there consult an aurist, and likewise present himself to his chief, and see whether he could keep his clerkship. All this turned out well, his duties did not depend on his ears, and a month's longer leave of absence was granted to him; moreover, his deafness was pronounced to be likely to yield to treatment, and a tube restored him to somewhat easier intercourse with mankind, and he was in high spirits, when, after an evening spent with Rosamond's friends, the M'Kinnons, the trio took an early train for Rockpier, where Rosamond could not detain Frank even to come to the hotel with them and have luncheon before hurrying off to Verdure Point, the villa inhabited by Sir Harry. All he had done all the way down was to impress upon her, in the fulness of his knowledge of the place, that the only habitable houses in Rockpier were in that direction--the nearer to Verdure Point the more perfect!
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is the author of the quote at the beginning of the chapter?
2: Where was the family going?
3: Who was known to be there?
4: Did she correspond regularly?
5: Who was she with?
6: Who wanted to go to Rockpier because of her?
7: And who wanted to go because of him?
8: Is Rockpier near the ocean?
9: What would help Rosamond?
10: How long will the vacation be?
11: Who went to London?
12: What part of his body did Frank get checked?
13: What's wrong with them?
14: What was put in his ear?
15: Did it solve the problem?
16: How did that make him feel?
17: Who are Rosamond's friends?
18: What did the trio do with them?
19: Where did Rosamond want to go first?
20: And do what?
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CHAPTER XXIII
THE HAVERLEY FINANCES AND MRS. ROBINSON
"It bothers the head off of me," said Molly Tooney to Mike, as she sat eating her supper in the Cobhurst kitchen, "to try to foind out what thim two upstairs is loike, anyway, 'specially her. I've been here nigh onto two weeks, now, and I don't know her no betther than when I fust come. For the life of me I can't make out whether she's a gal woman or a woman gal. Sometimes she's one and sometimes t'other. And then there's he. Why didn't he marry and settle before he took a house to himself? And in the two Sundays I've been here, nather of thim's been to church. If they knowed what was becomin' to thim, they'd behave like Christians, if they are heretics."
Mike sat at a little table in the corner of the kitchen with his back to Molly, eating his supper. He had enough of the Southern negro in him to make him dislike to eat with white people or to turn his face toward anybody while partaking of his meals. But he also had enough of a son of Erin in him to make him willing to talk whenever he had a chance. Turning his head a little, he asked, "Now look a here, Molly; if a man's a heretic, how can he be a Christian?"
"There's two kinds of heretics," said Molly, filling her great tea-cup for the fourth time, and holding the teapot so that the last drop of the strong decoction should trickle into the cup; "Christian heretics and haythen heretics. You're one of the last koind yoursilf, Mike, for you never go nigh a church, except to whitewash the walls of it. And you'll never git no benefit to your own sowl, from Phoebe's boardin' the minister, nather. Take my word for that, Mike."
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did Mike sit?
2: What is the place like?
3: Was there anyone else?
4: Who?
5: What he was doing?
6: What geographical location influenced him?
7: Is he presumably a black person?
8: Did he like eating with white folks?
9: Does it seem Molly is white?
10: But does he like to talk if he gets a chance?
11: From whom he got that habit?
12: Did he eventually talk to her?
13: Did he question a person's belief if that person was a heretic?
14: Which specific belief system he was talking about?
15: According to her how many types of heretics are there?
16: What are they?
17: What category she put him in?
18: Did he ever go to the church?
19: For what reason?
20: Did he ever say his prayer there?
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Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. This ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood is notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, including several of its historic studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people in it.
Hollywood was a small community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, eventually becoming the most recognizable film industry in the world.
In 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera (Nopal field), named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished. The area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north.
According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the "Father of Hollywood," on his honeymoon in 1886 he stood at the top of the hill looking out over the valley. Along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed. The Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, "I holly-wood," meaning 'hauling wood.' H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood. "Holly" would represent England and "wood" would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States.
Answer the following questions:
1: What city is Hollywood in?
2: In what state?
3: When was Hollywood incorporated?
4: When did it merge with L.A.?
5: What industry is it known for?
6: Does it have many studios?
7: What was the area known as in 1870?
8: Named after what?
9: Where is the mountains from the town?
10: Who named Hollywood?
11: What is he known as?
12: Who gave him the idea for the name?
13: What was the man doing?
14: With what?
15: When did this all happen?
16: Did Whitley record these events?
17: Where?
18: Is this the first city he named or founded?
19: How many others?
20: Where?
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(CNN) -- Serbia will face France in the final of the Davis Cup after a tense 3-2 semifinal victory over the Czech Republic in front of a passionate home support in Belgrade.
The Czechs led 2-1 after winning Saturday's doubles rubber, meaning the hosts had to claim victory in both reverse singles to secure their first-ever appearance in the final.
World number two Novak Djokovic, who missed Friday's opening singles with a stomach complaint, drew the two nations level at 2-2 when he recovered from the loss of the opening set to defeat Czech No.1 Tomas Berdych 4-6 6-3 6-2 6-4.
It completed a miserable weekend for Wimbledon finalist Berdych, who lost both of his singles rubbers.
That result means Janko Tipsarevic had to defeat the previously unbeaten Radek Stepanek to seal Serbia's final place and he did just that, winning 6-0 7-6 6-4 to send the 15,000 home supporters into raptures.
There was less drama in the other semifinal, where France completed their domination over Argentina with a 5-0 whitewash victory in Lyon.
The French led 3-0 going into the final day, meaning nothing rested on the results of the reverse singles rubbers.
However, Gilles Simon's 7-6 6-7 6-3 defeat of Eduardo Schwank meant the whitewash became a possibility -- and it was completed when Arnaud Clement beat Horacio Zeballos 7-5 6-1.
The victory ensures France, who dumped out holders Spain in the previous round, reached their first Davis Cup final since 2002.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who will face off in the Davis Cup final?
2: Who did France beat to get there?
3: When was the last time they were in the final?
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CHAPTER XX
THE BULLY LEAVES PUTNAM HALL
"So you wish to see me, Rover? Very well, come right in and sit down," said Captain Putnam, who sat in front of his desk, making up some of his accounts for the month just past.
Tom came in and sat down. It must be confessed he was a trifle nervous, but this soon wore away.
"I came to tell you something and to ask your advice," he began. "You remember what happened to me when I ran away into the woods just after arriving at the Hall?"
"Very well, Thomas," and the captain smiled.
"Well, when Sam and I went to Cedarville to buy our skates we saw Dan Baxter in the tavern there, in company with the man with a scar on his chin. This man gave Baxter some bank bills."
"What! At the tavern?"
"Yes, Sir."
"Please tell your story in detail, Rover," and now Captain Putnam swung around so that he might get a full view of his pupil's face.
And Tom told his story from beginning to end just as I have set it down in the foregoing pages.
"I am certain this man is some relative of Baxter," he concluded. "And I am equally certain he is not an honest fellow."
"Humph!" Captain Putnam arose and began to pace the heavily carpeted floor. "Rover, this is a serious charge."
"I understand that, Sir. But you can't blame us boys for trying to get back Dick's watch and trying to--to--"
Answer the following questions:
1: What was Captain Putnam doing when he saw Rover?
2: did he speak with him?
3: How did Rover feel about speaking with him?
4: What did he want to ask?
5: Who is Tom?
6: Is Tom and Rover the same person?
7: where did Tom and Sam go?
8: for what?
9: Was the Captain interested in the story?
10: Who did the boys see in Cederville?
11: anyone else?
12: does belkieve he is a good man?
13: where did they see the men?
14: what did he see?
15: Was this serious?
16: What were the boys trying to get back?
17: Did he feel he was to blame?
18: Where was the captain when Tom first arrived in his office?
19: did he tell the whole story?
20: who was a relative of Baxter?
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One day Peng Xianzhe learned he would go to the Mashan School in Guizhou. The 16-year-old boy tried to imagine how serious the drought was for the students at that school. However, he realized it was more serious than he had imagined when he saw the sign "DON'T wash clothes with water,or you will be punished . " Because of drought, the school has been short of water for a long time. Each student has only one bottle of water every day for washing and drinking. The drought has made the poor students much poorer. Peng is a student from Beijing Chaoyang Foreign Language School. He took part in the school's Rain & Bow Project from April 2 to 10. The project idea came from Peng's principal . One day, she heard a sad story about Li Guoxian, a poor girl in the Mashan School,who stopped going to school because of drought. The principal started this project to help the school. In one day, 3,000 students made over 10,000 donations of water,books and clothes. Peng and other four students went to the Mashan School and gave the donations with five teachers. They visited poor families, made surveys and had classes at the school. Ding Zhentao,16,was worried about the school's poor learning environment. "The blackboards and playground are too _ to use,"Ding said. "Besides, there really aren't enough teachers. A teacher has to teach both history and English, and even the cook is a class teacher. " Although life isn't easy, students at the school have a positive attitude towards life and they are quite willing to learn. That's what moved 16-year-old Chen Shi most. "They sang their songs together as usual before class every afternoon. After class, the students asked us to tell them things about Beijing and our studies," Chen said. "You can see the passion in them. I believe it will make a difference. Their futures will be bright. " ,.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was collected as donations?
2: How many were collected?
3: Who donated that much?
4: Why did they start collecting these donations?
5: Who started the students donating?
6: What school did they take the donations to?
7: What other problems did they have?
8: Why was it like that?
9: Where did they bring the donations from?
10: Did they speak to the students afterward?
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CHAPTER XX
IN THE MOUNTAINS OF ALASKA
"Sam, I think we are in for a heavy snow to-day."
"I think so myself, Dick. How much further do we go?"
"About two miles," came from Jack Wumble. "I reckon I got a bit off the trail yesterday, but I know I am right now, boys."
"But where is Tom?" came from Sam.
"He must be right ahead of us--if what we have been told is true," answered his brother.
The conversation recorded above took place just ten days after Dick and Sam arrived in Dawson City. During that time the Rover boys and Jack Wumble had spent two days in buying the necessary outfit, to follow Tom and his strange companion to the wild region in Alaska known as Lion Head. The start had been made, and now the three found themselves on a narrow mountain trail in a country that looked to be utterly uninhabited.
For three days they had been close behind Tom and Ike Furner, this being proven by the remains of campfires and other indications. Once they had met some prospectors returning to the Klondyke and these men had told of passing the pair ahead, and that Furner had said they were bound for a spot not many miles from Lion Head called Twin Rocks.
"I never heard o' Twin Rocks before," said Jack Wumble. "But if it is nigh Lion Head we ought to be able to locate it."
"Provided we don't get snowed in before we reach it," returned Sam.
Answer the following questions:
1: Do they think it will snow today?
2: where are they?
3: which town?
4: how long did they spend getting their equipment?
5: who were they following?
6: how did they know they were on the right track?
7: where were they going?
8: did they ,meet anyone on the trail?
9: who?
10: where were they going?
11: had they seen Tom and Ike?
12: Where is Twin Rocks?
13: what had happened to Jack the day before?
14: how much further do they plan on traveling today?
15: What might keep them from finding Twin Rocks?
16: who is traveling with Jack Wumble?
17: what is their last name?
18: were there any towns near them on the trail?
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CHAPTER XXV
THE BOMBARDMENT OF THE SANTIAGO BATTERIES
When Walter returned to his friends he was immediately surrounded and asked what had happened in the cabin. "Did the commodore slap you on the back and call you a bully boy?" queried Si.
"Well, hardly," answered Walter, with a quiet smile. "They plied me with questions and said I had had some remarkable adventures; that's all."
"Didn't praise you?" queried Caleb.
"No."
"Didn't rush up and shake hands even?" put in Paul.
"Not at all. I saluted and toed the mark, and kept toeing it until I left."
At this Paul's face fell. "Why, I thought you would be right in it, Walter," he said.
"I guess you've been reading some dime and half-dime colored-cover novels, Paul. I imagine that is the way they do in such books."
"That's it. Why, I've got a story about 'Dewey's Boy Bodyguard.' The hero in that overheard a plot against Dewey, and Dewey clasped him to his breast and made him a captain of marines."
"Indeed! And you believe such a yarn?"
"Dewey couldn't make the boy a captain of marines, not if he was an admiral twice over," put in Caleb. "Those yarns are pure trash. Paul, you had better study some good book on gunnery, and try to become a gun captain."
"I thought the story was slightly overdrawn," said Paul, growing red in the face. "There is another about the 'Boy Hero of Havana,' who saves General Lee's life at the time the Americans are getting out of Havana. I suppose that is untrue, too."
Answer the following questions:
1: What does Paul like to read?
2: Did he read one about Dewey?
3: What did Dewey do for the hero of that story?
4: What did Dewey promote him to?
5: of what?
6: What is the other story he read about?
7: Who saved him?
8: What are the Americans doing?
9: Does Paul believe this stories?
10: What does Caleb call them?
11: What does he suggest he read?
12: What for?
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organisation on 29 July 1957. Though established independently of the United Nations through its own international treaty, the IAEA Statute, the IAEA reports to both the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council.
The IAEA has its headquarters in Vienna. The IAEA has two "Regional Safeguards Offices" which are located in Toronto, Canada, and in Tokyo, Japan. The IAEA also has two liaison offices which are located in New York City, United States, and in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, the IAEA has three laboratories located in Vienna and Seibersdorf, Austria, and in Monaco.
The IAEA serves as an intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical co-operation in the peaceful use of nuclear technology and nuclear power worldwide. The programs of the IAEA encourage the development of the peaceful applications of nuclear technology, provide international safeguards against misuse of nuclear technology and nuclear materials, and promote nuclear safety (including radiation protection) and nuclear security standards and their implementation.
The IAEA and its former Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 7 October 2005. The IAEA's current Director General is Yukiya Amano.
Answer the following questions:
1: where is The IAEA headquarters?
2: what does IAEA stand for?
3: when was it started?
4: what do their programs encourage?
5: what do they promote?
6: what happened on 7 October 2005?
7: who does the group report to?
8: what groups of the United Nations?
9: who is the IAEA current leader?
10: where are the 2 regional offices?
11: where are the labs?
12: do they have other offices?
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(CNN) -- A second former co-owner of the California slaughterhouse involved in a recall of nearly nine million pounds of meat was charged with knowingly processing and distributing meat from cancerous cows, court documents released this week say.
Robert Singleton, co-owner of the Rancho Feeding Corporation in Petaluma, was primarily responsible for purchasing cattle and loading shipments for distribution, prosecutors say.
He is charged with distributing "adulterated, misbranded, and uninspected" meat, according to the documents.
Singleton jointly owned the meat plant with Jesse J. Amaral Jr., the former president and general manager who is also known as also known as "Babe Amaral."
Amaral and his former employees, Felix Sandoval Cabrera and Eugene Corda, have all been charged with unlawful sale and distribution of contaminated meat.
Prosecutors allege that Amaral and Singleton directed Corda and Cabrera to circumvent inspection procedures for certain cows with signs of epithelioma of the eye, also known as "cancer eye."
While Singleton is accused of knowingly purchasing cattle with signs of epithelioma, Amaral allegedly directed employees to carve "USDA Condemned" stamps out of certain cow carcasses and to process them for sale and distribution, despite having been rejected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinarian.
Amaral is also charged with sending false invoices to farmers, telling them that their cattle had died or been condemned and charging them "handling fees" for disposal of the carcasses, instead of compensating them for the sale price, prosecutors said.
If convicted, Singleton faces up to three years imprisonment, with one year of supervised release, and a $10,000 fine. Amaral, Cabrera and Corda could receive up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
Answer the following questions:
1: Name an owner being accused?
2: What company is he with?
3: What did he allegedly distribute?
4: What was wrong with it?
5: what else?
6: And?
7: Who was his partner?
8: A.k.a.?
9: What was one of his positions?
10: And?
11: Were any others facing charges?
12: How many?
13: Name one.
14: And the other?
15: What disease did the cows that Singleton purchased allegedly have?
16: A.k.a.?
17: What fake documents were forwarded by Amaral?
18: To who?
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(CNN) -- Novak Djokovic wasted little time in breezing through to the second round of the French Open with a straight sets victory over Dutchman Thiemo De Bakker in Paris Monday.
The victory extends Djokovic's remarkable winning streak since the start of the year to 38, four short of the record held by John McEnroe from 1984.
Djokovic's overall winning run, taking in the end of last season, extends to 40 and if he claims the French Open title he will tie Guillermo Villas for the all-time record of 46.
The Serbian took just one hour 32 minutes to claim a 6-2 6-1 6-3 victory on the Philipe Chartrier court at Roland Garros, breaking his young opponent at will with another commanding display.
Djokovic will face either French wild card Benoit Paire or Romania's Victor Hanescu for a place in the last 32.
"It's my favorite grand slam, even though I haven't won it yet," Djokovic told gathered reporters.
"I've been playing really well on clay. I've won three tournaments (on clay) in the last few weeks, so I'm trying to build on that confidence," he added.
Djokovic won the opening grand slam of the season in Australia and has claimed six other titles, including four Masters events.
Roger Federer joined Djokovic in the second round after he dispatched Spaniard Feliciano Lopez with a 6-3 6-4 7-6 victory in the next match on the main court.
A single break of service in each of the first two sets put the Swiss maestro in command and he closed out the deciding tiebreaker 7-3 to progress.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is in the French Open?
2: How many Masters has he won?
3: Who else is in the French Open?
4: How many victories does Djokovic have this year?
5: Who holds the record?
6: What year?
7: What is the record?
8: What city hosts the French Open?
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(CNN) -- Gordon Stoker, who as part of the vocal group the Jordanaires sang backup on hits by Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, George Jones and countless others, died Wednesday at his home in Brentwood, Tennessee. He was 88.
His death was confirmed by the group's website.
For many years, the Jordanaires were Elvis' go-to backup singers, performing on hits including "Hound Dog," "Are You Lonesome Tonight" and "Crying in the Chapel."
The group also supported Patsy Cline on "Crazy," Jim Reeves on "Four Walls," Kenny Rogers on "Lucille" and Jones on "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
On their own, they generally stuck to gospel, releasing more than a dozen albums over the course of several decades.
The group met Presley after a performance with Eddy Arnold in 1955. According to a much-told story, after the show the then-unknown Elvis told the group that, if he ever landed a major-label contract -- he was on Memphis' Sun Records at the time -- he'd have the Jordanaires back him up. After Presley joined RCA in 1956, he was true to his word. The group sang with him on both recordings and in concert for the next 14 years.
Stoker wasn't an original member of the group, which formed in Springfield, Missouri, in the 1940s. He was hired as its piano player in 1950 and only became a vocalist later -- staying for more than 60 years, generally as its lead tenor.
"As a longtime member of the vocal quartet the Jordanaires, he helped to influence the sound of gospel, country and pop music with a unique and versatile style while recording with an impressive roster of artists," said the Recording Academy in a statement. "We have lost a gifted and timeless artist who made significant contributions to music and our industry."
Answer the following questions:
1: What was Gordon Stokers job?
2: What happened to him?
3: Where?
4: How old was he?
5: Who did he sing back up for?
6: What was the name of Gordon's group?
7: When did they meet Elvis?
8: What year?
9: What promise did Elvis make?
10: did he keep it?
11: how long did they sing with Elvis?
12: What genre of music were the Jordanaires known for on their own?
13: What other artists did they work with?
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I'm sitting here in this coffee shop. You know the one there by Allen street. The town is filled with thousands of middle class college kids living off their parent's money.
The coffee shop is where the ones come to play the part of sophisticated bohemians . The pretensions glow from their line-less faces as they sip cappuccinos and chew strawberry cookies. The boys to my right are discussing Nabokov with a serious air, a copy of Sartre's Cuba lies on the table.
The young woman on my left is declaring that she can never allow her creativity to be killed by entering the work force. The man with her scratches his goatee in agreement, occasionally suggesting they go back to his place to hear his new Washington Squares CD. Matt has just designed a new international symbol for peace. He moves from table to table trying to sell hand painted T-shirts that bear the design. Tomorrow he's leaving for the 25th anniversary Woodstock concert where he hopes to strike it rich with his creation.
Gopha the skinny Indian boy feels like singing me a verse of 'It Ain't Me Babe' when I ask him if he's a friend of Monica's. Jason is trying to talk Gopha into a dollar bet on a game of chess. Between times Jason will chew your ear off with his plans to conquer the music industry while studying entertainment law, but when it comes to his never ending dollar chess matches he's quiet as a church mouse.
I sit among them. To all surface appearances one and the same. If they could only see I would rather reach into their flesh and tear out their shallow little hearts than listen to another second of their prattle .
With no job, no gigs, and my girlfriend's so far gone she might as well be on another planet, I've been leading the writer's quiet cafe life, spending my free time outdoors drinking iced teas and cheap wines. I chat warmly with whoever decides to squander away their hours in my surrounding area.
But behind my eyes is an unspoken challenge to any and every one of these social elites to just once say one thing that would inspire me. Just one little idea which is new and meaningful. Unfortunately original thoughts are zero here.
In my secret mind I wish to run like a madman banging gongs and speaking in tongues. Or maybe jump on a table and sing the Star Spangled Banner in the forgotten language of the Hottentots. I know these thoughts only reveal me as a fool because the spark I search for cannot be found in acts of shocking performance art. Where it truly comes from is one of the mysteries which will always hang around me.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where is he at?
2: Where is his girlfriend?
3: What is he searching for?
4: What does he do?
5: Who is the town filled with?
6: What are those doing?
7: What part are they playing?
8: Why will the woman's creativity be killed?
9: Where is Matt going?
10: Where is he going tomorrow?
11: Why?
12: What would he rather do?
13: Who sings a song?
14: What does Gopha do?
15: What is Jason studying?
16: What are the boys talking about?
17: What lies on the table?
18: What kind of thoughts are not happening there?
19: What street are they near?
20: Is he working?
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(CNN) -- Susie Wolff put the disappointments of Silverstone behind her on Friday with an impressive run in the first free practice session ahead of Sunday's German Grand Prix.
The Williams development driver only managed four laps during practice at the British Grand Prix a fortnight ago before engine problems curtailed her involvement.
But it was a happier story at Hockenheim as the 31-year-old Scot completed 20 laps finishing a highly respectable 15th.
Her best lap time of one minute 20.769 seconds was just 0.227 seconds behind Williams' driver Felipe Massa who finished the session in 11th place.
Things had not looked so promising for Wolff earlier in the day as she crawled round her out lap in first gear before returning to the pits.
Thankfully, it wasn't long before the mechanical problems were resolved and she was back on track -- even briefly clocking the fastest lap of the session.
Wolff has been a development driver for Williams since 2012 and is the first female driver to participate in a F1 race weekend since Italy's Giovanna Amati attempted to qualify for three races during the 1992 season.
Lewis Hamilton, speaking ahead of his recent victory at Silverstone, said Wolff's participation at two practice sessions this season was fully deserved.
"She's very, very talented," said the Mercedes driver, who raced against her in his junior career in karting and Formula Renault. "It's really cool to see her in a Formula One car.
"I didn't race against many girls. Susie was one of the very few, if not the only one, I raced against. We shared a podium together a couple of times."
Answer the following questions:
1: What did they share?
2: Who drove a Mercedes?
3: And how does he describe her?
4: Have they competed against each other before?
5: Where?
6: Has he competed with other females?
7: Where was she under development?
8: Since when?
9: Has a woman driven in F1 before?
10: What female driver raced in 1992?
11: Where is she from?
12: Did she qualify?
13: How many times did she try?
14: How old is Susie?
15: Where is she from?
16: What caused difficulties two weeks ago?
17: At which race?
18: DId she get any practice runs in?
19: How many?
20: What was her best time?
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Why do 33% of the households in the USA have cats? And how do you explain why there are 16 million more pet cats than dogs? Yes, kittens are adorable .Yes, they can grow up to be good mousers and are very entertaining to watch.And yes, cats are independent and don't require as much care as dogs.But research shows cats can also be caretakers for us and our families, improve our health and teach us and our children to be kinder, gentler souls.
Theodora Wesselman is 94 and has lived the past two years with her elderly cat, Cleo, at TigerPlace, a retirement community in Columbia, Mo.Their enduring friendship is a classic example of how humans and animals can become family and look out for each other.
Wesselman visits other residents, and her children stop by, but Cleo is her best friend, she says.They've been together nearly 21 years.
"She sleeps on her own pillow right beside mine," Wesselman says."In the morning, she pecks on my cheek to wake me up.It's really sweet.I pet her, tell her I love her and take her to the kitchen to prepare her food."
Research shows that being able to care for a pet improves our morale (;), helps validate us and encourages us to take care of ourselves, says Rebecca Johnson, director of the University of Missouri's Research Center for Human-Animal Interaction.The body of research is leading more retirement communities and universities _ .
Answer the following questions:
1: What do one-third of houses in the US have?
2: What can they teach?
3: What can they raise?
4: What can they catch?
5: How many more domestic cats are there than dogs?
6: Where does Theodora Wesselman live?
7: What type of residence is that?
8: How long has she lived there?
9: How long has she lived with her pet?
10: What's her morning routine?
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(CNN) -- The names on the formal, state-government-erected memorial signs by the sides of Ohio highways are not famous to the outside world.
But once you know the story behind them, you understand completely. You look at those signs and you offer a silent word of thanks.
Usually stretches of highways around the country are named for politicians, or for renowned figures from American history, or perhaps for singing stars or athletes or Hollywood actors who were born in the area.
For the last several years, though, whenever I've been in Ohio I have noticed the highway signs with the unfamiliar names.
Last week I got in touch with the Ohio Department of Transportation to ask about them.
The answer makes you want to pause humbly.
On August 31, 2009, Marine Lance Cpl. David R. Hall, of Elyria, Ohio, was killed in an explosion while serving in Garmsir, Afghanistan. He was 31; he worked at a Ford assembly plant back home before joining the Marines.
In most cases of fallen service members, there is a solemn funeral ceremony when their remains are returned home, and a respectful obituary in the local newspaper. It can feel all too fleeting.
But in Ohio, in recent years, there has been an effort to do more.
Which is why the Ohio General Assembly authorized that a stretch of State Route 2 in Lorain County -- David Hall's home county -- be named, now and forever, to honor him.
"After the General Assembly votes to name a portion of a highway, we manufacture the signs and put them up at the designated places," said Steve Faulkner, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Transportation. He said that two signs are usually erected, each facing a different direction, so that people in cars on either side of the highway will see the honoree's name.
Answer the following questions:
1: From what state is David R. Hall?
2: From what city?
3: What branch of the military was he in?
4: Was he killed?
5: How?
6: While stationed where?
7: How old was he when he died?
8: What kind of plant did he work at before?
9: A stretch of what was named to honor him?
10: In what county?
11: Who authorized this?
12: What position does Steve Faulkner hold?
13: For?
14: Why are two signs put up to face a different location?
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CHAPTER VI
THE HALL OF THE ATLAS
From the moment when the tailor had bowed his farewell to the moment when Graham found himself in the lift, was altogether barely five minutes. As yet the haze of his vast interval of sleep hung about him, as yet the initial strangeness of his being alive at all in this remote age touched everything with wonder, with a sense of the irrational, with something of the quality of a realistic dream. He was still detached, an astonished spectator, still but half involved in life. What he had seen, and especially the last crowded tumult, framed in the setting of the balcony, had a spectacular turn, like a thing witnessed from the box of a theatre. "I don't understand," he said. "What was the trouble? My mind is in a whirl. Why were they shouting? What is the danger?"
"We have our troubles," said Howard. His eyes avoided Graham's enquiry. "This is a time of unrest. And, in fact, your appearance, your waking just now, has a sort of connexion--"
He spoke jerkily, like a man not quite sure of his breathing. He stopped abruptly.
"I don't understand," said Graham.
"It will be clearer later," said Howard.
He glanced uneasily upward, as though he found the progress of the lift slow.
"I shall understand better, no doubt, when I have seen my way about a little," said Graham puzzled. "It will be--it is bound to be perplexing. At present it is all so strange. Anything seems possible. Anything. In the details even. Your counting, I understand, is different."
Answer the following questions:
1: was the lift fast?
2: who was in the lift?
3: Who bowed?
4: how long was he in the lift?
5: who did he avoid looking at?
6: who has troubles?
7: was this like a dream?
8: whose mind was in a whirl?
9: who caused unrest?
10: when will it be clearer?
11: according to who?
12: was everything impossible?
13: was his breath slow and calm?
14: was graham mentally alert?
15: was he confused?
16: was his appearance disconcerting?
17: who left graham?
18: did sleep alude graham?
19: dd he believe he was in danger?
20: who was shouting?
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the magazine's publisher, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its musical coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content.
Rolling Stone Press is the magazine's associated book publishing imprint.
"Rolling Stone" magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a cover date of November 9, 1967, and was in newspaper format with a lead article on the Monterey Pop Festival. The cover price was 25¢ (equivalent to $ in 2016).
In the first issue, Wenner explained that the title of the magazine referred to the 1950 blues song, "Rollin' Stone", recorded by Muddy Waters, the rock and roll band the Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan's hit single "Like a Rolling Stone". Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylan's hit single: "At [Ralph] Gleason's suggestion, Wenner named his magazine after a Bob Dylan song." "Rolling Stone" initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. However, it distanced itself from the underground newspapers of the time, such as "Berkeley Barb", embracing more traditional journalistic standards and avoiding the radical politics of the underground press. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that "Rolling Stone" "is not just about the music, but about the things and attitudes that music embraces".
Answer the following questions:
1: When was the first issue of "Rolling Stone" published?
2: What was the cost?
3: What was the lead article?
4: Who was the music critic associated with the founding of this publication?
5: Who else is associated with the founding of this publication?
6: Where was this publication founded?
7: What song was the inspiration for the name of it?
8: What musical group was also said to have inspired the title?
9: Who sought funding for the beginning of this publication?
10: What was one source of funding he obtained?
11: Who else?
12: What type of art was it originally focused on?
13: What else was it originally focused on?
14: When did the focus shift?
15: What was one of the new areas it focused on?
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Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage is marriage between people of the same sex, either as a secular civil ceremony or in a religious setting. The term marriage equality refers to a political status in which same-sex marriage and opposite-sex marriage are considered legally equal.
In the late 20th century, rites of marriage for same-sex couples without legal recognition became increasingly common. The first law providing for marriage of people of the same sex in modern times was enacted in 2001 in the Netherlands. , same-sex marriage is legally recognized (nationwide or in some parts) in the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and Uruguay. Same-sex marriage is likely to soon become legal in Taiwan, after a constitutional court ruling in May 2017. Polls show rising support for legally recognizing same-sex marriage in the Americas, Australia and most of Europe. However, as of 2017, South Africa is the only African country where same-sex marriage is recognized. Taiwan would become the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage if the Civil Code is amended. Israel and Armenia recognise same-sex marriages performed outside the country for some purposes.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the article about?
2: In how many countries is it legal?
3: Which was first?
4: When?
5: Where might be next?
6: Is it common in Africa?
7: How many places is it legal?
8: Where?
9: What are other terms for this?
10: Are there any countries in Asia that recognize it?
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Two classic car collectors from the US state of Idaho found the wallet after it fell out of the back of a vintage car they were planning to restore. After an Internet search they found and contacted the owner, Glenn Goodlove. Mr. Goodlove said he probably lost the wallet in the back seat of his 1946 prefix = st1 /Hudsoncar while kissing a girl when he was home on leave from the US Navy. Jon Beck, 61, and Chuck Merrill, 72, bought the now-vintage vehicle in Idahoafter placing an ad in a local newspaper to buy a classic car in need of restoration. Driving the car home after buying it, the collectors stopped at a restaurant and saw something from below the back seat. "Like a couple of kids, we thought we had a goldmine," Mr. Beck said. Instead, they found some small change -- the leather wallet held a $10 bill, Mr. Goodlove's military ID, his social security card, his driver's license and several jewellery receipts from 1952. But they were all in the name of Glenn Putnam. After searching online, Mr. Beck discovered that Mr. Putnam had since changed his name to Glenn Goodlove and moved to San Diego,California. He called Mr. Goodlove, asking to speak to a man who used to drive a '46Hudson. "There was a silence for about 15 seconds," Mr. Beck told the Twin Falls Times-News. "Then he said, 'Who is that?'" Mr. Goodlove, now 75, says he did not even remember losing the wallet, but the find has brought memories of his youth inEverett,Washington, flooding back. "I could see the house and the car and the town and all the good stuff from living there," he said. "They've been flowing ever since he talked to me."
Answer the following questions:
1: What item was recovered?
2: Who did it belong to?
3: Was that the same name listed in the missing item?
4: What was the other one?
5: Who retrieved the missing item?
6: Where was the item found?
7: Of what?
8: What was this person attempting to do with the vehicle?
9: What had he done before running it home?
10: How many others were with him?
11: Who was he?
12: What were there plans with the vehicle?
13: When they retrieved the missing item, was there a couple hundred dollars in it?
14: How much did they discover?
15: How old is the original owner?
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CHAPTER IX
SETTLING DOWN TO STUDY
Dick meant what he said concerning coming back to Putnam Hall for the sake of learning something. He felt that he had lost too much time from school already to lose more, and he pitched in with a vigor that was indeed surprising.
"I don't see how you can do it," said Tom one day. "I can't, to save my life." Yet Tom was by no means a poor scholar, and if he did not stand at the head of his class he was not far from it. Sam was also doing his best, and all of this gratified Captain Putnam exceedingly.
"It shows they can work as well as play," was what the captain told himself, and he wrote Anderson Rover a long letter, in which he praised the boys for their efforts.
The boys fell into their places at the academy with a naturalness that was surprising when one considered the adventures that had but lately befallen them. Over and over again did they have to tell of their doings while on the Pacific, and as Crusoes, and some of the cadets never tired of listening to the stories. A few, including Lew Flapp, did not believe them true, but the majority did, and that was enough for the Rovers.
Dick was now advancing in years, and he knew that before long he would either have to go into business or to college, which he had not yet fully decided. To tell the truth, the thought of separating from his brothers was exceedingly distasteful to him.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the name of this Chapter?
2: What school was Dick coming back to?
3: Had he lost time from school?
4: How did he pitch in?
5: Could Tom do what Dick did?
6: Was Tom a poor student?
7: How far was he from head of his class?
8: Was Captain Putnam pleased?
9: To whom did Putnam write?
10: Was is a long letter?
11: Did it contain praise?
12: What did he tell himself?
13: Had the boys had adventures lately?
14: Who listened to their stories?
15: Did Lew Flapp believe the stories?
16: Did most cadets?
17: Where did some of the stories take place?
18: Were the boys acting like the Crusoes in their stories?
19: Was Dick going into business?
20: What else was he considering?
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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The world knows her as the daring nanny who, clutching a 2-year-old boy, pushed past the havoc in a terrorized Mumbai and risked her life to keep the toddler safe.
Sandra Samuel bravely saved the life of Moshe Holtzberg, 2, but says she sees no heroism in her actions.
But Sandra Samuel sees no heroism in her actions amid last week's terror attacks on India's financial capital that killed nearly 180 people -- including baby Moshe's parents, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka. She only wishes she could have done more.
"Even today, I am thinking I should have sent the baby and done something for the rabbi and his wife," Samuel told CNN in an exclusive television interview in Israel, where she now lives.
Samuel and Moshe were among the few to make it out of the Chabad House alive after gunmen stormed the Jewish center, killing the Holtzbergs and four others.
Israel's Chabad movement has set up a fund to provide for Moshe's care. He is being looked after by members of the community, although who will serve as his guardian has not yet been established.
The nanny says she came face to face with a gunman late Wednesday, the first night of the siege. "I saw one man was shooting at me -- he shot at me." Watch CNN's Paula Hancocks talk with Samuel »
She slammed a door and hid in a first-floor storage room and attempted to reach the rabbi and the others on the second floor.
Answer the following questions:
1: Was there an act of terrorism last week?
2: Where?
3: Did anyone die?
4: Was of the dead a religious man?
5: Who?
6: Did he have a kid?
7: a wife?
8: What is her name?
9: Did she die?
10: What is his kid's name?
11: Did he die?
12: How did he live?
13: Who is she?
14: How did she save him?
15: Where?
16: What kind of building were they in?
17: What is the name?
18: How many in the house died?
19: Who was responsible for the deaths?
20: How old is Moshe?
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So, there was this kid named Jack that came up to my beanstalk one day. I couldn't believe my eyes, so I put down my ham sandwich I was eating and looked at him. I'm not sure what he thought he was doing there, but he sure did talk a lot. He kept asking me questions about this and then he asked me some questions about that and I was getting a little bit tired of all of the questions.
When I thought I wouldn't hear the end of everything, this Jack kid asked me about the one and only secret that I've always kept to myself. That no one even knew about! No, it wasn't about my golden guitar or even my goose that laid eggs filled with coins. No, he was asking me about my beans and their roots.
You see, I'm a giant and my job is to make sure the bean roots that we use to get down to earth are well protected and guarded. They're what helps us get down to the little person world when we need to. I became a little bit worried as the little kid asked more and more questions about my roots. I didn't want to tell him that my roots were hidden in the library!
I walked over to him to pick this little kid up to get him to quiet down about the bean roots, well, he got me with his little knife and I dropped him! Thankfully, he didn't get hurt or I would've been so sad!
He ran down the beanstalk when I chased after him. I guess he wanted to get back to his little people. I didn't follow him, but I sure hope he doesn't come back for my stuff.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who looks after the bean roots?
2: How does he care for them?
3: Why are they important?
4: Who was talking to the giant?
5: Was he quiet?
6: What did they talk about?
7: About what?
8: What else?
9: Did he ask about a guitar?
10: How did it make the giant feel?
11: Why did that worry him?
12: Why did he drop Jack?
13: Was he hurt?
14: Where did he go?
15: What happened next?
16: and then?
17: What's inside the eggs?
18: Where do they come from?
19: Who has a secret?
20: What was it?
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CHAPTER XXVII.
THE MEETING IN THE WOODS.
Ralph was so sore and stiff from his fall that he walked very slowly toward Westville. It seemed to him that he ached in every joint, and it was not long before he sought a soft grassy bank upon which to rest.
"If only somebody would come along with a wagon," he thought, as he gazed up and down the rather rough woodland road. "I would willingly pay a half-dollar for a lift, as much as I need my money."
The boy was much exercised over his mother. He knew that she would be greatly worried over his prolonged absence. Never before had he remained away from home over night.
No wagon or any other vehicle appeared, and Ralph was forced to resume his journey on foot, dragging his tired and bruised body along as best he could.
Presently he came to a tiny stream that flowed into Big Silver Lake. Here he stopped again, not only to rest, but also to bathe his temples and obtain a drink, for the water was both pure and cold.
He could not help but think of the strange manner in which he had been attacked. What had been the purpose of Martin and Toglet?
"If I did not know better, I would be almost forced to believe it was accidental," he thought. "But in that case they would have come to my assistance, instead of taking the sloop and hurrying off with her."
It was so comfortable a spot at the brook that Ralph rested there longer than he had originally intended. But at last he arose and moved on, thankful that he had accomplished at least one-third of the distance home.
Answer the following questions:
1: When was Ralph feeling bad?
2: Where was he walking to?
3: What did he hope would pass by?
4: How much would he be willing to spend for that?
5: How does his mom feel about him not being at his house?
6: Has he ever stayed out all night?
7: What body of water did he find?
8: Where did the stream flow?
9: Why did he stop there?
10: What body part did he bathe?
11: Did he do anything else there?
12: Was the water warm?
13: How many people witnessed his attack?
14: Who didn't help him?
15: How far has Ralph walked?
16: Was the road smooth or rough?
17: How long did Ralph stay at the brook?
18: Where did he ache?
19: Does he have lots of extra money?
20: Was his attack odd?
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CHAPTER XXV
MUMPS IS TAUGHT A LESSON
The cadets stared blankly at each other. Only two of them were undressed; the others had all of their clothing on.
It was time for the head assistant to go the rounds, to see that all was right for the night. Should he be allowed to enter the dormitory he would certainly "smell a mouse," and perhaps knock all of their plans for a feast in the head.
"Off with your clothing, all of you!" whispered Tom. "I'll manage this affair. Pretend to be asleep."
"But, Tom, it's my fault--" began Dick, when his younger brother cut him short.
"Into the bed--I'll be all right, Dick."
Satisfied that Tom had some plan in his head for smoothing matters over, the other boys disrobed with marvelous rapidity and crept into their beds. While this was going on the knocking an the door continued.
"Boys, open the door!" said George Strong. "Open the door, do you hear?"
"Answer him!" whispered Tom to Larry, whose bed was nearest him. "Pretend you have just awoke," and he flung himself on the floor, with one of a pair of big rubber boots in each hand.
"Oh--er--Mr. Strong, is that you?"
"Yes, open the door."
"Why--er--is it locked?
"Yes."
At once Larry tumbled from his bed, unlocked the door and stood there rubbing his eyes. "Excuse me, Sir, for not hearing you before."
"I want to know what the meaning is of the noise in here?" said George Strong severely, as he gazed around the dimly lit apartment, for the lamp was turned low. "You boys are--gracious me! What's this?"
Answer the following questions:
1: How many boys were naked?
2: What were the brothers' names?
3: What were the boys planning?
4: Who thought it was his fault?
5: Who was making the nighttime rounds?
6: What's his name?
7: When he went in the dorm, where were the boys?
8: Doing what?
9: Whose bed was closest to Tom's?
10: Were they cadets?
11: What were they afraid Mr. Strong would smell?
12: Who answered the door?
13: Was the apartment brightly lit?
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The turtle and the fox were best friends. One day Turtle wanted to find Fox and ask if he would come fishing with him. Turtle went to foxes house. Fox was not home. Turtle went to look for Fox. Fox lived near several friends. Turtle went to Bear's house first. Bear lived next door to Fox. Bear answered the door, but Fox wasn't there. Turtle went to Duck's house next. Duck lived next door to Bear. Duck answered the door, but Fox wasn't there. Turtle went to Goose's house next. Goose answered the door, but Fox wasn't there. Finally, Turtle stopped at Rabbit's house. Rabbit wasn't home, and Fox wasn't there. Turtle was sad because he wanted to go fishing with his friend. He walked slowly toward the stream to go fishing by himself. When he got to the stream, he found Fox and Rabbit were there. They were fishing. They asked Turtle to join them. Turtle was very happy that he had found Fox, and he joined them for a fun afternoon of fishing in the stream.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was Turtle friends with?
2: What did Turtle want to do with him?
3: Where did Turtle find him?
4: Who was he with?
5: What were they doing?
6: Where did Turtle look for Fox first?
7: Where did he check next?
8: Who lives two doors down from him?
9: Who lives next to him?
10: Where did Turtle check last?
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(CNN) -- Marc Marquez barely held off the legendary Valentino Rossi in a nail-biting conclusion to the opening race of the 2014 MotoGP season in Qatar but judging by his performances this weekend the second race won't be as close.
Marquez, the reigning world champion from Spain, finished well ahead of the pack Saturday in qualifying for the Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin, setting a record lap time and beating Repsol Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa by 0.289 seconds.
He was the fastest rider in practice yesterday, too.
"All weekend it has been going so well, but Sunday is the most important," Marquez told MotoGP's website. "We will have to push very hard the whole race.
"It will be an important start to the race when the tires are new, we can make a difference there before they start to slide. I'm happy with the base we have and we'll try to fight for the victory. I'm sure we'll be fighting with Pedrosa, he is our strongest rival."
Germany's Stefan Bradl starts third for LCR Honda, while two-time MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo and Rossi, his fellow Yamaha racer, begin fifth and sixth, respectively.
"The progression from the first practice on Friday is very big, we were two seconds behind and now half a second," said Lorenzo. "Anyway, as I thought, it's going to be a hard race tomorrow.
"Our goal is to fight for fourth or third position. I think it would be a good result because here our competitors are really strong so we need to make the best result we can. To finish on the podium would be a good thing."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who barely won in Qatar?
2: Who did he beat?
3: What year?
4: Where is Marquez from?
5: How did he end in Austin?
6: Did he set any records?
7: What?
8: What is the most important day according to an interview he gave?
9: What does he need to do on that day?
10: Who is his strongest competitor?
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CHAPTER XXIV
THE HANEYS RETURN TO THE PEAKS
The forces that really move most men are the small, concrete, individual experiences of life. The death of a child is of more account to its parents than the fall of a republic. Napoleon did not forget Josephine in his Italian campaigns, and Grant, inflexible commander of a half-million men, never failed, even in the Wilderness, to remember the plain little woman whose fireside fortunes were so closely interwoven with his epoch-making wars.
As Ben Fordyce lost interest in the question of labor and capital and the political struggles of the state (because they were of less account than his own combat with the powers of darkness), so Bertha had little thought of the abstract, the sociologic, in her uneasiness--the strife was individual, the problems personal--and at last, weary of question, of doubt, she yielded once more to the protecting power which lay in Haney's gold and permitted herself to enjoy its use, its command of men. There was something like intoxication in this sense of supremacy, this freedom from ceaseless calculation, and to rise above the doubt in which she had been plunged was like suddenly acquiring wings.
She accepted any chance to penetrate the city's life, determined to secure all that she could of its light and luxury, and in return intrusted Lucius with plans for luncheons and dinners, which he carried out with lavish hand.
Mart seconded all her resolutions with hearty voice. "There's nothing too good for the Haneys!" he repeatedly chuckled.
Answer the following questions:
1: Fordyce's first name?
2: what did he lose interest in?
3: and?
4: why?
5: Bertha didn't think about what?
6: or the?
7: wghat's distracting her?
8: what was individual?
9: what really moves people?
10: what's of more acount?
11: who is it important to?
12: more important than?
13: what Emperor is mentioned?
14: who did he not forget?
15: during what?
16: what other military general is mentioned
17: how many men did he have?
18: what type of war was he involved in?
19: who did he remember
20: what sort of fortune?
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For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a cute cat, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
As Amy Paul choked on a piece of apple at her home, her dog jumped up, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece in her throat out. When the Keesling family of Indiana was about to be killed by carbon monoxide, their cat clawed at the wife Cathy's hair until she woke up and called for help.
No one could explain their timely heroics.
Both pets were rescued by their owners in _ -----Toby as a 4-week-old thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Cathy's husband, Eric, had to feed her milk with an eyedropper.
As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump being used broke down, spreading carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie went to rescue, the couple's 14-year-old son was already unconscious. "Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry sound," Cathy Keesling said. The state police responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.
Amy Paul's husband was at his job when she took a midday break from making jewelry and bit into an apple. "Normally I peel them, but I read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients, so I ate the skin, and that's what caused me to choke," she recalled. "I couldn't breathe and I was in panic when Toby jumped on me. He never does that, but he did, and saved my life."
Both Toby and Winnie accompanied their owners to the awards luncheon.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was Toby thrown?
2: and winnie?
3: how old was she?
4: how did she feed?
5: by?
6: what award did they win?
7: Who choked?
8: what does she do for a job?
9: what did she do differntly?
10: why?
11: how did the dog help?
12: does he normally do that?
13: what was poisoning the Keeslings
14: what was the gas?
15: who was unconcious?
16: who did the cat wake?
17: how?
18: was she silent?
19: where do the Keeslings live?
20: how close to death were the family?
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The Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and institutes.
Founded in 1946, it is the only university to have been created by the Parliament of Australia. Originally a postgraduate research university, ANU commenced undergraduate teaching in 1960 when it integrated the Canberra University College, which had been established in 1929 as a campus of the University of Melbourne. ANU enrolls 10,052 undergraduate and 10,840 postgraduate students and employs 3,753 staff. The university's endowment stood at A$1.13 billion in 2012.
ANU is ranked 1st in Australia & the whole of Oceania, and 20th in the world by the 2018 QS World University Rankings, and 47th in the world (second in Australia) by the 2016/17 "Times Higher Education." ANU was named the world's 7th (first in Australia) most international university in a 2017 study by "Times Higher Education". In the 2016 "Times Higher Education" Global Employability University Ranking, an annual ranking of university graduates' employability, ANU was ranked 22nd in the world (first in Australia). ANU is ranked 100th (first in Australia) in the CWTS Leiden ranking.
Answer the following questions:
1: when was it founded?
2: where is it located?
3: how many undergraduates does it have?
4: how many does it employ?
5: when was it named 7th in the world?
6: who conducted the study?
7: how many postgraduates does it take?
8: what is the capital of Australia?
9: how may teaching and research colleges does it have?
10: where?
11: where is this?
12: what is it ranked in the whole of Oceania?
13: is this the same in Australia?
14: was it started by a single individual?
15: then who?
16: who did it merge with?
17: when was that founded?
18: what does CWTS Leiden rank it as?
19: what was Canberra University a campus of?
20: how much is it's endowment?
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Jack Brown was very quiet as Dr. Johnson examined him. The doctor looked at the boy's throat , took his temperature and listened to his heart . Finally, he asked Jack's mother a few questions "When did Jack begin to feel ill?" "This morning when he got up. He said he felt too sick to go to school today." "What did he eat for breakfast?" "He got orange juice, two pieces of bread, an egg and a glass of milk." I see," the doctor asked Jack, "How do you feel now,My boy?" Jack answered "Terrible, I think I'm going to die The doctor said, "You won't die. In fact, you'll be fine by dinner time." "Oh, doctor! Do you really think so?" Jack's mother looked very glad, Dr. Johnson answered, "Mrs. Brown, you son has a sickness that is common to boys at a time like this. It comes and goes quickly. Mrs. Brown said, "But I don't understand." "Today," the doctor told her, "the most exciting football final of the World Cup is on TV. If Jack feel well enough to watch TV this afternoon, and I think he does. He will be fine when the final is over. It's the only cure I know of this sickness. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go across the street to see the Fords boy, Steve. He seems to have the same thing as Jack has today."
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did jack go
2: What was his name?
3: Was Jack sick?
4: What did he eat for breakfast?
5: What was wrong with Jack?
6: Was Jacks mother glad he was not sick?
7: When did the Dr say that Jack would feel better?
8: What did the Dr say was the cure?
9: Who else was sick?
10: Did Steve have the same thing as Jack?
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CHAPTER V.
TARDY REPENTANCE.
Seth was as happy and proud as a boy well could be.
Never before had he dared to remain very long near any particular engine lest some of the firemen should take it upon themselves to send him outside the lines, consequently all his "points" had been gathered as he moved from place to place.
Now, however, he was in a certain sense attached to Ninety-four, and each member of the company had some kindly word with which to greet him, for it had become known to all that if the amateur did not actually save 'Lish Davis's life, he had assisted in preventing that gentleman from receiving severe injury.
Dan was enjoying the advantages thus arising from his partner's popularity, which was quite sufficient for him, since, not aspiring to become a fireman, he thought only of the present moment, and the privilege of remaining by the engine as if he were really a member of the Department was some thing of which he could boast in the future among his comrades.
It is true there was little of interest to be seen after the fire was apparently extinguished, when the men had nothing more to do than remain on the lookout for any smoldering embers which might be fanned into a blaze; but Seth's interest was almost as great as when the flames were fiercest.
Shortly after sunset hot coffee and sandwiches were served to the weary firemen, and Master Bartlett believed he had taken a long stride toward the goal he had set himself, when the captain shouted:
Answer the following questions:
1: what is the title of the chapter?
2: who is happy and proud?
3: why?
4: how had he gathered his points?
5: what is he attached to?
6: were the people there nice to him?
7: had he done something to deserve it?
8: who had he helped?
9: how?
10: who is Seth's partner?
11: is he a fireman?
12: was he happy for Seth?
13: was he pretending to be a fireman?
14: how?
15: why was he doing that?
16: boast to who?
17: what food was served?
18: and drink?
19: when was it served?
20: was seth interested after the fire was put out just as much as when it was blazing?
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(CNN) -- The unexpected resignation of David Petraeus as head of the CIA must have come as a shock to many Americans, especially given his impeccable record as a distinguished military commander. But like the greatest heroes from Shakespeare, it would appear that he was not exempt from the time-honored temptations of human folly and self-destruction.
And now the plot is thickening, as details emerge that Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, is involved somehow in the scandal.
As Americans are coming to terms with the revelation of Petraeus' adultery, on the other side of the Atlantic, the feeling among the French can be summed up by a blasé shrug.
Every time a steamy sexual intrigue is laid bare near the corridors of Washington power, the French don't see what all the fuss is about. It's only sex, after all. It's impossible to imagine a French political leader resigning because of an extramarital indiscretion. If this rule were observed, the French parliament would be nearly vacant.
The Petraeus affair: A lot more than sex
The past five French presidents are known to have had at least one -- and in some cases, many more -- mistresses throughout their political career. The current resident of the Elysée Palace, Francois Hollande, has been caught in the middle of an embarrassing dispute between his previous and current female companions. The French, long used to regarding their leaders with cynical detachment, have been following this tormented domestic feud with interest and maybe some contempt.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was head of the CIA?
2: Is he still in charge?
3: What happened?
4: Who is in charge of US and NATO troops?
5: In which country?
6: How do the French feel about these events?
7: Where does the French president live?
8: How many French presidents haven't been faithful?
9: Have any had more than one mistress?
10: Who is the current president?
11: How could Petraeus's record be characterized?
12: What country is Petraeus from?
13: How many temptations are mentioned?
14: What's the first one?
15: And the second?
16: How many other people are in Hollande's dispute?
17: Who is one?
18: And the other?
19: How does Hollande feel about it?
20: Is it a domestic or international feud?
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The Fed Express rolls out of Shanghai with no signs of slowing down yet.
Roger Federer beat Frenchman Gilles Simon to win his first Shanghai Masters crown Sunday and his fourth title of the season.
The victory will move him above Rafael Nadal, who has been laid low with appendicitis, and up to second in the world rankings.
"Usually everything slows down at the end of the season," Federer told reporters in China. "Not for me this time.
"This year everything is going really well. I have so many highlights to look forward to for the end of the season, which is nice."
With just a handful of events to go until next month's season finale in London, Federer could still mathematically challenge Novak Djokovic to end the year as the world No.1.
The 33-year-old Swiss ace beat Djokovic - who arguably inflicted more pain by defeating Federer in the summer's Wimbledon final -- in the semifinals in Shanghai.
"I'm not even going to change my schedule because of it," Federer reflected on the possibility of regaining the number one spot.
"I haven't thought about it, to be quite honest. I mean, it's in Novak's racquet. He dictates.
"But nevertheless, I'm still going to be playing and hopefully playing well again."
Federer did not have it easy against Simon, who took the Swiss to a tiebreak in the opening set and had set point at 6-5 up.
But the 17-time grand slam champion snuffed out the threat to take the first set breaker 8-6.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who beat Gilles Simon?
2: Where is Simon from?
3: Is this Federer"s third title this season?
4: Which one is it?
5: Is Rafael Nadal sick with something?
6: What?
7: According to Federer, do things speed up normally ?
8: Who was he talking to when he talked of things slowing down?
9: where were the reporters?
10: How old is the Swiss player?
11: When Federer beat Simon, what competition was it?
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CHAPTER XII
FIRE
The light had got dim, and Carrie put down her sewing and looked about. A belt of yellow sky glimmered above the distant snow, but the valley was dark and the pines rolled in blurred masses up the hill. Thin mist crept out of the deep hollow and Carrie shivered when a cold wind shook the trees. She was beginning to know the wilds, and now and then their austerity daunted her. By and by a red twinkle in the distance drew her glance and she turned to Jim.
"What is that?"
Jim looked and frowned. "Ah," he said, "I'd begun to think our luck was too good!"
"But what is the light?"
"A bush fire."
Jake indicated the drift of the smoke from their cooking fire. As a rule, the valleys of British Columbia that open to the west form channels for the Chinook wind from the Pacific, but now and then a dry, cold current flows down them to the coast.
"It won't bother us unless the wind changes," he remarked. "In this country, however, the wind generally does change when you'd sooner it did not, and it's not safe to trust your luck much. Looks as if Nature had put up her shingle on the mountains, warning the white man off."
"But white men do live in the mountains," Carrie objected.
"Men who are strong enough. They must fight for a footing and then use the best tools other men can make to hold the ground they've won. We're scouts, carrying axes, saws, and giant-powder, but the main body must coöperate to defend its settlements with civilization's heavy machines. It's sure a hard country, and sometimes it gets me scared!"
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is with Carrie?
2: What hobby was she working on?
3: What caught her eye?
4: What did Jim think it was?
5: Did he think they were in danger?
6: Unless what happened?
7: Which direction was the wind blowing?
8: Who did he believe Nature was trying to warn away?
9: Did this make sense to Carrie?
10: What tools does he mention?
11: Despite those tools, what was required for survival?
12: Was Carrie experienced in the wilderness?
13: What temperature was the breeze?
14: What purpose did their fire serve?
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London, England (CNN) -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic finally took the stand Monday at the U.N.'s international tribunal at The Hague to defend himself against genocide charges stemming from the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict.
For CNN's Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson, the 64 year-old was as defiant and unrepentant as the man he recalled meeting outside Sarajevo in 1993-94, as Bosnian-Serb forces shelled the city.
Karadzic, who faces 11 charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide during the war, told the tribunal the Serb cause is "just and holy," and dismissed as myths two of the worst atrocities of a conflict that claimed 100,000 lives -- the three-year siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre in 1995.
He even claimed that the image of the Muslims as victims was untrue and that they were the first to attack. Their fighters "had blood up to their shoulders," he said.
"I will defend that nation of ours and their cause that is just and holy," he said in his defiant opening statement. The aim of the "Muslim plotters," he added, was "100 percent power, as it was in the Ottoman Empire."
"This is reminiscent of those days," said Robertson, who reported from the Bosnian capital during the war. "These were the exact same justifications: 'we're the ones that had been under attack, we're the ones being wronged.'
"It's very telling that he's not trying to address specific issues, such as the Srebrenica massacre and such like, which are going to be the main parts of the prosecution.
Answer the following questions:
1: who is reporting?
2: his title?
3: who does he work for?
4: who is the report about?
5: his age?
6: did he do something bad?
7: where is the trial?
8: what is the charge?
9: anything else?
10: did many people die?
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CHAPTER III.
'This is a crash!' said Coningsby, with a grave rather than agitated countenance, to Sidonia, as his friend came up to greet him, without, however, any expression of condolence.
'This time next year you will not think so,' said Sidonia.
Coningsby shrugged his shoulders.
'The principal annoyance of this sort of miscarriage,' said Sidonia, 'is the condolence of the gentle world. I think we may now depart. I am going home to dine. Come, and discuss your position. For the present we will not speak of it.' So saying, Sidonia good-naturedly got Coningsby out of the room.
They walked together to Sidonia's house in Carlton Gardens, neither of them making the slightest allusion to the catastrophe; Sidonia inquiring where he had been, what he had been doing, since they last met, and himself conversing in his usual vein, though with a little more feeling in his manner than was his custom. When they had arrived there, Sidonia ordered their dinner instantly, and during the interval between the command and its appearance, he called Coningsby's attention to an old German painting he had just received, its brilliant colouring and quaint costumes.
'Eat, and an appetite will come,' said Sidonia, when he observed Coningsby somewhat reluctant. 'Take some of that Chablis: it will put you right; you will find it delicious.'
In this way some twenty minutes passed; their meal was over, and they were alone together.
'I have been thinking all this time of your position,' said Sidonia.
'A sorry one, I fear,' said Coningsby.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was upset?
2: Who disagreed?
3: Where did they go?
4: Where at?
5: Which is where?
6: What had happen?
7: Did they make small talk?
8: What had he just received?
9: From where?
10: Was Coningsby hungry?
11: What did sidonia say?
12: Did he offer wine?
13: Did they drive to dinner?
14: How did they get there?
15: Who was agitated?
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The phone rings. It's a friend who wants to tell you his or her latest health problems. You hate to be impolite and cut your friend off, but what can you do? Stephanie Winston, author of Stephanie Winston's Best Organizing Tips, offers his advice: Don't ask questions like "What's new?" They give the information that you have time to talk. After "hello", get right to the heart of the matter. Time your calls wisely. If you make a call right before lunch or dinner, or at the end of the workday, people chat less. Set a time limit. Start with, "Hi, I've only got a few minutes, but I wanted to talk to you about...." Or, "Gee, I'd love to talk more, but I only have a couple of minutes before I have to leave." Jump on a pause. Even the most talkative caller has to pause now and then. Quickly say, "It has been great talking with you." Then end the conversation. Forget niceties. Some people just don't take a hint. Cut your caller off and say, "I'd like to talk to you longer, but I'm afraid I have no enough time. Good bye." Then hang up. Find "a partner in crime". If nothing else works, ask someone in your home to help you. For example, one woman gives a sign to her husband, who shouts, "Jane, I think the roast chicken is burning." Avoid the phone completely. Use an answering machine to screen calls. If you have an important message for a chatterbox, leave the message when he or she isn't in.
Answer the following questions:
1: at what times of day do people chat less?
2: what other time?
3: what should you use to screen calls?
4: who called in the story?
5: did they want to talk about sports?
6: what did they want to talk about?
7: what is Stephanie's profession?
8: what did she write?
9: how should you go about setting a time limit for calls?
10: what do even the most talkative callers have to do every now and again?
11: how should you hurry them off the phone?
12: what if they don't get the hint?
13: and then just hang up?
14: can a partner help you with calls?
15: should you use an elaborate system with hand signals?
16: who yelled about chicken?
17: whose husband?
18: what is another way to avoid phone calls?
19: can you avoid the phone completely?
20: what rang at the beginning of the story?
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Tony Hawken, 57, is divorcing his wife Xiu Li, 51, Britain's wealthiest woman entrepreneur , because he says he doesn't like being rich and is 'not in the habit' of spending lots of money.
The pair traded up their semi-detached home in South Norwood, London, and bought a PS1.5million house in Surrey.
Li, who is now worth $1.2billion (PS700million) according to Forbes, quickly settled into a life which included sipping a PS900 bottle of wine on a luxurious yacht.
However, Mr Hawken says he felt more comfortable getting lunch in his local Wetherspoon's.
Despite his sudden wealth he continued to buy books from charity shops, and _ dear clothes.
In an interview with The Times, he said: 'I think it made me uncomfortable because I'm not in the habit, I don't like spending lots of money -- I've been brought up that way.
'Until recently I was never a wealthy person. I've been moderately comfortable because I have been careful with my money.'
Now the couple have decided to part, Mr Hawken will walk away with just PS1million, but says it will be enough for him.
He added: 'I have got a settlement which is not great, but it's enough for me because I don't have an extravagant lifestyle. I won't have to work if I'm careful.'
On a recent trip to China, Mr Hawken said his wife took him on a yacht and treated him to a PS900 bottle of wine, but he prefers his local Wetherspoon pub.
'I'm getting a little pay when you consider her potential wealth, but I don't really want to fight it.'
Mr Hawken met Li on a blind date while he was still a teacher and she was studying English.
The couple married, but as Li's business took off the couple spent more and more time apart. Mr Hawken says the couple have spent most of the relationship apart.
Far from driving them apart, Mr Hawken believes the distance kept them together, and says they would have divorced a long time ago if they were under the same roof.
Mr Hawken says his only regret is not getting a divorce sooner, but he didn't push for it over fears it would affect the couple's teenage son William, now 17.
Mr Hawken no longer teaches full-time, but instead gives free tuition to under-privileged children.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is separating?
2: Where are they located?
3: what town?
4: before that?
5: How much is the building?
6: how much is LJ worth?
7: what did he still buy?
8: How much does Hawken get after the split?
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CHAPTER II
JIM'S GUESTS
After breakfast next morning Jim and his friends went out on the terrace. The tide was full and the woods across the bay looked like islands. A line of white surf marked the edge of the marsh, which ran back, broken by winding creeks, to the foot of the rising ground. Sometimes a gleam of sunshine touched the lonely flats and they flashed into luminous green, silver, and yellow. Then the color faded and the light moving on forced up for a few moments the rugged blue hills against their misty background. The landscape had not the sharp distinctness common in Canada; it was dim and marked by an elusive charm.
Jim began to think about Evelyn. She was somehow like the country. Her charm was strong but not obtrusive. One could not, so to speak, realize Evelyn at a glance; she was marked by subtle refinements and delicacies that one rather felt than saw. Her English reserve was fascinating, because it hinted at the reward one might get if one could break it down. Carrie, too, was thinking about Evelyn, Mrs. Winter was sewing, and Jake occupied himself by cleaning an old pipe.
"It's some time since we broke camp on the telegraph line," Carrie remarked. "Do you find having nothing to do comes easy, Jim?"
"I don't expect to be idle long. It's prudent to consider before you begin to move."
Carrie felt that Jim was getting English. He had, of course, been to McGill, but since they reached the Old Country he was dropping his Western colloquialisms. She thought it significant that he did so unconsciously.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did Jim go?
2: Was he alone?
3: Who was with him?
4: Who were they thinking of?
5: When were they on the terrace?
6: What country were they in?
7: Where were the woods?
8: What did they look like?
9: Who was cleaning something?
10: What was he cleaning?
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(CNN) -- The year is 1969 and Britain is at the peak of its counter-culture revolution -- a time of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. The Beatles are putting together their final album while a relatively unknown musician, David Bowie is making waves with his track "Space Oddity."
Meanwhile, in Liverpool, a 15-year-old schoolgirl is headed for trouble.
Though academically gifted, Jude Kelly is bored at school and overcome with a mix of teenage angst and a vivid imagination. She's beginning to hang around with a rough crowd and soon finds herself in trouble with the law. But one person has taken notice of her downward spiral -- her high school principal.
"The headmaster said to me, 'I don't care if you do maths or biology or whatever, it doesn't matter ... but make sure that you use your imagination for creative good rather than self-destruction'," recalls Kelly.
Fast forward several decades and she's done just that. Today Kelly, 59, is the artistic director of Britain's beloved cultural institution -- London's Southbank Centre.
Looking back, it's clear how defining that very moment was.
"As soon as he said it, I knew he was right -- I feel very strongly that young people deserve help, time, space and permission to be expressive."
His advice spurred Kelly to form a drama club with her fellow classmates including Clive Barker, the now bestselling British horror author, and comedian Les Dennis.
After high school, her passion for the arts continued to flourish. Studying Drama at Birmingham University, she decided to become a director. It was a bold career choice for women in the 1970s -- but by age 22, she defied naysayers by becoming one of the youngest artistic directors in the country.
Answer the following questions:
1: what year was sex drugs and rock and roll
2: who was making waves with space oddity
3: who noticed jude kellys downward spiral
4: how old was jude
5: what was kellys job at 59
6: who was the british horror author
7: what did headmaster say
8: who was the comedian
9: who did she defy at 22
10: what album were the beatles putting together in 1969
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CHAPTER 4
"What a pity it is, Elinor," said Marianne, "that Edward should have no taste for drawing."
"No taste for drawing!" replied Elinor, "why should you think so? He does not draw himself, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people, and I assure you he is by no means deficient in natural taste, though he has not had opportunities of improving it. Had he ever been in the way of learning, I think he would have drawn very well. He distrusts his own judgment in such matters so much, that he is always unwilling to give his opinion on any picture; but he has an innate propriety and simplicity of taste, which in general direct him perfectly right."
Marianne was afraid of offending, and said no more on the subject; but the kind of approbation which Elinor described as excited in him by the drawings of other people, was very far from that rapturous delight, which, in her opinion, could alone be called taste. Yet, though smiling within herself at the mistake, she honoured her sister for that blind partiality to Edward which produced it.
"I hope, Marianne," continued Elinor, "you do not consider him as deficient in general taste. Indeed, I think I may say that you cannot, for your behaviour to him is perfectly cordial, and if THAT were your opinion, I am sure you could never be civil to him."
Marianne hardly knew what to say. She would not wound the feelings of her sister on any account, and yet to say what she did not believe was impossible. At length she replied:
Answer the following questions:
1: Does Elinor agree with Marianne?
2: Who were they speaking about?
3: What does Marianne think of Edward?
4: were Marianne and Elinor related?
5: how?
6: Does Edward draw?
7: Has he had many oppurtunities to learn to draw?
8: if he had, what does Elinor believe?
9: Does he give his opinion on many deawings?
10: why not?
11: What does Elinor say he is not deficient in?
12: Does Marianne agree?
13: how does she feel about the matter of his taste?
14: What was Marianne afraid to do?
15: who?
16: instead she chose to honour her for what?
17: who produced that in her?
18: How does Marianne act toward Edward?
19: Was Marianne going to agree with Elinor even though she did not believe it?
20: How did she describe saying what she did not believe?
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CHAPTER XVI.
MARCH FROM FORT CUMBERLAND--THE GREAT SAVAGE MOUNTAIN--CAMP AT THE LITTLE MEADOWS--DIVISION OF THE FORCES--CAPTAIN JACK AND HIS BAND--SCAROOYADI IN DANGER--ILLNESS OF WASHINGTON--HIS HALT AT THE YOUGHIOGENY--MARCH OF BRADDOCK--THE GREAT MEADOWS--LURKING ENEMIES--THEIR TRACKS--PRECAUTIONS-- THICKETTY RUN--SCOUTS--INDIAN MURDERS--FUNERAL OF AN INDIAN WARRIOR--CAMP ON THE MONONGAHELA--WASHINGTON'S ARRIVAL THERE--MARCH FOR FORT DUQUESNE-- THE FORDING OF THE MONONGAHELA--THE BATTLE--THE RETREAT--DEATH OF BRADDOCK.
On the 10th of June, Braddock set off from Fort Cumberland with his aides-de-camp, and others of his staff, and his body guard of light horse. Sir Peter Halket, with his brigade, had marched three days previously; and a detachment of six hundred men, under the command of Colonel Chapman, and the supervision of Sir John St. Clair, had been employed upwards of ten days in cutting down trees, removing rocks, and opening a road.
The march over the mountains proved, as Washington had foretold, a "tremendous undertaking." It was with difficulty the heavily laden waggons could be dragged up the steep and rugged roads, newly made, or imperfectly repaired. Often they extended for three or four miles in a straggling and broken line, with the soldiers so dispersed, in guarding them, that an attack on any side would have thrown the whole in confusion. It was the dreary region of the great Savage Mountain, and the "Shades of Death" that was again made to echo with the din of arms.
What outraged Washington's notions of the abstemious frugality suitable to campaigning in the "backwoods," was the great number of horses and waggons required by the officers for the transportation of their baggage, camp equipage, and a thousand articles of artificial necessity. Simple himself in his tastes and habits, and manfully indifferent to personal indulgences, he almost doubted whether such sybarites in the camp could be efficient in the field.
Answer the following questions:
1: When did Braddock leave?
2: From where?
3: Who went before him?
4: To do what?
5: How long did it take?
6: Who supervised it?
7: And the commander was?
8: How many men did he have?
9: What mountain were they crossing?
10: Did they have a nickname?
11: How long was the line of soldiers?
12: Why?
13: Why?
14: Was something wrong with the roads?
15: What?
16: What was Washington mad about?
17: What were the horses and wagons for?
18: Did Washington have a lot of baggage?
19: What did he doubt?
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Once upon a time there was a fish that lived in a bowl. The fish wanted to give a kid a party. But the fish was sad. The fish had no present to give to the kid. The fish would give the kid a spoon. But the fish had no spoon. The fish was a cutie. The fish had an idea. The fish had a stone in the bowl. The fish could give the kid the stone! The fish took the stone from the bowl. The fish put the stone in a bag. The fish gave the kid a party and gave the kid the stone as a gift. The kid told his granddaddy and his mommy that the fish was a cutie. The kid gave the fish a banana. The fish ate the banana and was very happy. The fish and the kid are friends and they love each other.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was in the bowl?
2: What did the fish want to do?
3: Did this excite him?
4: How did he feel?
5: why was that?
6: Did he come up with a plan?
7: what was it?
8: Did he have the party?
9: Where did he get a banana?
10: Did he keep it?
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(CNN) -- In Pennsylvania, Tyler Dix, a 16-year-old movie buff, is wide awake by 7 a.m. to cook breakfast for his younger siblings.
Moranda Hern and Kaylei Deakin started Sisterhood of the Traveling BDUs, or battle dress uniforms.
In Georgia, Tucker Simmons, a 14-year old novice guitarist, prepares ice packs for his mother whenever her chronic lower back pain kicks in.
In California, Kaylei Deakin, an avid 17-year old rock climber, disciplines her little sisters when they act out.
Tyler, Tucker and Kaylei are three teenagers from across the country who have very different interests, but one experience that bonds them: They grew up fast -- sometimes too quickly -- to fill the shoes of mom or dad when their parent was shipped off to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As the death toll from the two wars has risen over the last eight years, the fight has also affected a growing number of children left at home to cope without a parent.
Whether it's raising their siblings or getting an after-school job, teens with parents in the military feel pressure to step up.
"These teens are expected to take on the responsibility the deployed parent used to take care of," said Mary Carolyn Voght, director of programs for Our Military Kids, a nonprofit organization that provides support to children with a deployed parent in the National Guard. "There's usually the expectation that they will pitch in and help out more."
More than 30,000 teens between 12 and 18 have at least one parent in the National Guard deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense.
Answer the following questions:
1: who is a movie buff?
2: how did he grow up?
3: what is his age?
4: does he live in the US?
5: where?
6: what time does he wake up?
7: does he do anything when he gets up?
8: who feels pressure to step up?
9: how do they step up?
10: do any other teens help out?
11: who?
12: how does Tucker help?
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Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has the longest rotation period (243 days) of any planet in the Solar System and rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets. It has no natural satellites. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. It is the second-brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6 – bright enough to cast shadows at night and, rarely, visible to the naked eye in broad daylight. Orbiting within Earth's orbit, Venus is an inferior planet and never appears to venture far from the Sun; its maximum angular distance from the Sun (elongation) is 47.8°.
Venus is a terrestrial planet and is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similar size, mass, proximity to the Sun, and bulk composition. It is radically different from Earth in other respects. It has the densest atmosphere of the four terrestrial planets, consisting of more than 96% carbon dioxide. The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 92 times that of Earth, or roughly the pressure found underwater on Earth. Venus is by far the hottest planet in the Solar System, with a mean surface temperature of , even though Mercury is closer to the Sun. Venus is shrouded by an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface from being seen from space in visible light. It may have had water oceans in the past, but these would have vaporized as the temperature rose due to a runaway greenhouse effect. The water has probably photodissociated, and the free hydrogen has been swept into interplanetary space by the solar wind because of the lack of a planetary magnetic field. Venus's surface is a dry desertscape interspersed with slab-like rocks and is periodically resurfaced by volcanism.
Answer the following questions:
1: What planet is this article talking about?
2: Give me one unique feature of venus that makes it different from the other planets?
3: What is it named after?
4: What is its rotation period?
5: Is it the second planet from the sun?
6: Does it venture far from the sun?
7: What is Venus sometimes referred to as?
8: why so?
9: What percentage of carbondioxide does it comprise of?
10: What is its angular distance from the sun?
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CHAPTER XIV
A FACE PUZZLES DAVE
It was a time of extreme peril for Roger, and no one realized it more fully than did Dave. The angry steer was still some distance away, but coming forward at his best speed. One prod from those horns and the senator's son would be killed or badly hurt.
As said before, Phil had gone on, thinking his chums would follow. He was already at the side of his horse, and speedily untied the animal, and vaulted into the saddle.
"Why, what's up?" he cried, in dismay, as he turned, to behold Roger in the hole and Dave beside him.
"Roger's foot is fast!" answered Dave. "Oh, Phil, see if you can't scare the steer off!"
"I'll do what I can," came from the shipowner's son, and rather timidly, it must be confessed, he advanced on the animal in question. He gave a loud shout and swung his arm, and the steer looked toward him and came to a halt.
"You've got your gun--if he tries to horn Roger, shoot him," went on Dave.
"I will," answered Phil, and riding still closer he swung his firearm around for action.
Dave made a hasty examination and saw that Roger's foot was caught by the toe and the heel, and would have to be turned in a side-way fashion to be loosened. He caught his chum under the arms and turned him partly over.
"Now try it," he said quickly, at the same time turning once more to look at the steer. The beast had finished his inspection of Phil and was coming forward as before, with head and horns almost sweeping the ground. Behind him trailed the long lasso, which was still fast to one of his forelegs.
Answer the following questions:
1: What happened to Roger?
2: Why?
3: What was the danger?
4: Who was his father?
5: Was he alone?
6: How many were with him?
7: Who was beside him?
8: Who had already got on his horse?
9: What did he do?
10: And then?
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One day a young boy went to visit a toy store. In the toy store the young boy found many fun toys. One toy that the boy really liked was a small blue toy truck. The small blue toy truck was a lot of fun to play with, and made a lot of funny noises. The young boy played with the toy truck for a long time, and then another little boy showed up and began to play with a little red car. The two boys ended up becoming friends and played with the toys for a long time. They ended up becoming good friends and had many play dates together over the months ahead. On one play date the two boys built a large tree house and called it the tree castle. They played for hours in the tree castle and always found something fun to do when they played together. They were glad that they met in the toy store and became life-long friends.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who visits a toy store?
2: Was he the only one?
3: What kinds of toys did the two boys play with?
4: Was that the only toy?
5: Did they like each other?
6: How long were they friends?
7: Did they do other things besides playing with toys
8: Like what?
9: Did they name it?
10: What was it?
11: How long would their play dates last?
12: Were they friends before they played cars in the toy store?
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Recently, tests have proved that Beethoven died from lead poisoning. Bill Walsh directed the Beethoven Research Project. Mr Walsh and his team examined pieces of bone belonging to Beethoven. They found a large amount of lead in the bone pieces. They said the lead levels were equal to those found in pieces of his hair in earlier studies of other scientists.
Genetic tests proved the bone pieces and hair came from Beethoven. The researchers also examined bone fragments( from someone else who lived during the same period. Both were from the top of the skull. The fragments from Beethoven had more lead than those from the other person. Their study didn't find measurable levels of cadmium or mercury , which scientists used to consider were the causes of his health problems.
Beethoven was sick for much of his life. He experienced strong stomach pains, a sign of lead poisoning, and a change of personality when he was around 20. He also got angry easily, and suffered from depression and hearing loss. His health problems became worse as Beethoven grew older.
Walsh said the lead levels found in Beethoven's skull suggested the metal might have been present in his body for many years. He said although there had been recognized cases of deafness caused by lead poisoning, there was no strong evidence to suggest that lead poisoning was the cause of Beethoven's deafness.
Ludwig van Beethoven visited many doctors to find a cure for his health problems. In a letter he wrote to a friend, he asked researchers to examine his body after he died so that other people would not have to suffer as he did.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did recent tests prove about Beethoven?
2: Who directed the Beethoven research project?
3: Was Beethoven sick most of his life?
4: What were some of the symptoms he had?
5: What did scientist use to consider the cause of his health problems?
6: Did he visit lots of different doctors to find a cure?
7: What kind of evidince was there that pieces of hair other scientists studies were beethovens?
8: Did Beethoven want researched to be done so others didn't have to suffer like he did?
9: How long was did the evendince point to that the metal was in his system?
10: Did they study someone else from the same time period to see if the amounts of lead in his system was similar?
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CHAPTER XVII.
AN ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION.
When Wulf met the armourer next morning in the cathedral close he was accompanied by Beorn, who said, laughing, to the latter, "You have beaten me fairly, friend Ulred, and it is well that I had no wager with you on the race. But it was not by much, for I rode in here as the bells were chiming eleven. I was glad to hear from Wulf when I roused him up that he had learnt all the news from you, for indeed I was sore weary, and was right pleased to wrap myself in my cloak and go straight to sleep instead of having to sit up for an hour expounding my story."
"We have resolved in the first place, Ulred, to say nought of this matter to the king," began Wulf. "He will have enough to occupy all his thoughts in the affairs of the kingdom, and in the second place his nature is so open that he will refuse to believe in such villainy unless upon strong proof, and of actual proof we have none. Beorn's appearance here will excite no surprise. He will say that having nought in particular to occupy him he had ridden north to be at the wedding, and finding that he was too late, would at any rate ride back with the king. With him and me and Osgod ever on the watch, methinks there will be little fear of a surprise; and it is by surprise only that they can succeed, for Harold himself is a match for any four or five ordinary men if he has but time to draw his sword. I will, however, on some excuse have half a score of Harold's housecarls placed under my orders, and sleeping or waking the king shall never be a moment unguarded.
Answer the following questions:
1: Was he accompanied?
2: By who?
3: Who was?
4: Who did he meet?
5: when?
6: Where?
7: Was Beorn laughing?
8: Who beat him?
9: Did he beat him fairly?
10: Was the victory by a large margin
11: What were the bells chiming?
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Alaska (i/əˈlæskə/) is a U.S. state situated in the northwest extremity of the Americas. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east while Russia has a maritime border with the state to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. To the south and southwest is the Pacific Ocean. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's residents (the total estimated at 738,432 by the Census Bureau in 2015) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state in the United States and has the most easterly longitude in the United States because the Aleutian Islands extend into the eastern hemisphere. Alaska is the only non-contiguous U.S. state on continental North America; about 500 miles (800 km) of British Columbia (Canada) separates Alaska from Washington. It is technically part of the continental U.S., but is sometimes not included in colloquial use; Alaska is not part of the contiguous U.S., often called "the Lower 48". The capital city, Juneau, is situated on the mainland of the North American continent but is not connected by road to the rest of the North American highway system.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the state with that is least densely populated?
2: Where does it rank in population>
3: What about land area?
4: Where does half of it's people reside?
5: How many is that?
6: Where does that number come from?
7: What country has a maritime border with it?
8: Where is it?
9: What does the border run across?
10: What contributes to a large part of the economy?
11: Are they in danger of running out of those?
12: How far is it to Washington?
13: What is in that area?
14: What is the capital?
15: Where is it?
16: Can you take a road from there to a North american highway?
17: Is it the the furthest north state?
18: What about the farthest west?
19: What is partly in the eastern hemisphere?
20: Do they have a military base?
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Chapter IX
Man and Man
Tarzan of the Apes lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years, only that he grew stronger and wiser, and learned from his books more and more of the strange worlds which lay somewhere outside his primeval forest.
To him life was never monotonous or stale. There was always Pisah, the fish, to be caught in the many streams and the little lakes, and Sabor, with her ferocious cousins to keep one ever on the alert and give zest to every instant that one spent upon the ground.
Often they hunted him, and more often he hunted them, but though they never quite reached him with those cruel, sharp claws of theirs, yet there were times when one could scarce have passed a thick leaf between their talons and his smooth hide.
Quick was Sabor, the lioness, and quick were Numa and Sheeta, but Tarzan of the Apes was lightning.
With Tantor, the elephant, he made friends. How? Ask not. But this is known to the denizens of the jungle, that on many moonlight nights Tarzan of the Apes and Tantor, the elephant, walked together, and where the way was clear Tarzan rode, perched high upon Tantor's mighty back.
Many days during these years he spent in the cabin of his father, where still lay, untouched, the bones of his parents and the skeleton of Kala's baby. At eighteen he read fluently and understood nearly all he read in the many and varied volumes on the shelves.
Answer the following questions:
1: who lived in the jungle?
2: did he have a friend?
3: what was their name?
4: was it an animal?
5: did he ride it?
6: what kind of animal was it?
7: does tarzan have a longer name?
8: what is it?
9: what kind of dwelling did he live in?
10: who did it belong to?
11: is he still alive?
12: does tarzan like to read?
13: by what age could he read very well?
14: what kind of worlds did he read about?
15: was he bored?
16: what did he catch in the lakes?
17: what are they called?
18: what is the name of the lioness?
19: was she fast?
20: who was faster?
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David is a twelve-year-old boy. He is tall and strong with short blond hair. He likes sports and reading. Every week David gets ten dollars from his parents. This money is his weekly pocket money. It's not a present. David must work for the family to get the money. On Monday, David must sweep the floor and walk the dog after he finishes his homework. On Tuesday, David must take out the rubbish bags in the morning and clean the garden after school. On Wednesday, he should wash the dishes and clean the kitchen after dinner. On Thursday, he helps his mother do some cooking. Sometimes he has to go to the supermarket to buy some food and drinks. On Friday, he should water (...... ) the flowers in the garden after school. On Saturday and Sunday, David doesn't need to do the housework, so he goes to the cinema with his classmates or does some shopping in the shopping mall. David wants to buy a new football, but he doesn't have enough money. He is looking forward to getting more pocket money.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many days a week does he have to work?
2: What is the main character's name?
3: How much does he earn per week?
4: Is it a gift?
5: What does he have to do to earn it?
6: What is he saving for?
7: Is he excited to be able to buy that?
8: How old is he?
9: Does he have brown hair?
10: What color is it?
11: What does he enjoy doing?
12: Who does he work for to earn his money?
13: Does he do the same thing every day?
14: When does he walk the dog?
15: When doesn't he have to do work?
16: What is something he does then?
17: When does he take care of the garden?
18: What other day does he do something different in the garden?
19: Does he always go to the grocery store every week?
20: Is he weak or strong?
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Believe it or not but it is true. There are people who lose the ability to understand or use words due to brain damage. But they become extremely good at something else. They become experts at spotting liars. The condition in which people lose their power to understand or use words due to brain damage are called aphasia . A study conducted in Massachusetts, U.S., has clearly proved that aphasics make good lie detectors .
In the last 100 years, many doctors studying the brain have mentioned examples of this amazing power of patients suffering from aphasia. Recently, scientists conducted tests to see if all that was said about aphasics was true. They studied the powers of a mixed group of people. Some were normal; others were aphasic. And it was proved clearly that the normal volunteers still got fooled by words. The aphasics were far ahead of them in recognizing false speech. The results of the study were reported in the magazine Nature.
`Fourteen years ago, famous American doctor, Dr. Oliver Sacks, wrote about his experiences with aphasic patients in a book. He remembered a particular incident in a hospital. Patients from the aphasia room were watching TV. Their president, Ronald Reagan, was giving a speech. He was trying to put feelings into each and every word of his speech. But his speech had an opposite effect on the patients. They were not impressed. On the contrary, the whole room shook with their laughter. The aphasics knew that he did not mean a word of what he was saying.
Dr. Sacks saw aphasics as more gifted than normal people. Normal people "get carried away" by words. An aphasic cannot understand words. But he or she can still understand what is being said. He said most of the aphasics had this superior understanding. So, while normal people think of aphasic patients as brain damaged, they actually seem to understand human expressions better.
Answer the following questions:
1: where was the study conducted?
2: what is the condition called?
3: what does it do?
4: why?
5: how long have doctors studied it?
6: who wrote about them?
7: when?
8: did the study involve all aphasics?
9: then who?
10: are aphasics considered normal?
11: what are they considered?
12: what do they understand?
13: how do normal humans look at them?
14: who did the aphasics laugh at?
15: what was he doing?
16: why did they laugh?
17: how?
18: what do the patients lose?
19: what do they gain?
20: which magazine was the study featured?
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The 1912 Summer Olympics (Swedish: "Olympiska sommarspelen 1912"), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 22 July 1912. Twenty-eight nations and 2,408 competitors, including 48 women, competed in 102 events in 14 sports. With the exception of tennis (starting on 5 May) and football and shooting (both starting on 29 June), the games were held within a month with an official opening on 6 July. It was the last Olympics to issue solid gold medals and, with Japan's debut, the first time an Asian nation participated. Stockholm was the only bid for the games, and was selected in 1909.
The games were the first to have art competitions, women's diving, women's swimming, and the first to feature both the decathlon and the new pentathlon, both won by Jim Thorpe. Electric timing was introduced in athletics, while the host country disallowed boxing. Figure skating was rejected by the organizers because they wanted to promote the Nordic Games. United States won the most gold medals (25), while Sweden won the most medals overall (65).
Following the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, the authorities in Sweden immediately sought to ensure that the next games would be held there. There were two Swedish members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the time, Viktor Balck and Clarence von Rosen. The pair proposed to the Swedish governing bodies of athletics and gymnastics in order to ensure that they backed any potential bid. Support was given by the national associations on 18 April 1909 for a bid to host the Olympics in Stockholm on the basis that suitable financial arrangements could be made. King Gustaf V was petitioned on 6 May 1909 following the publication of preliminary plans for the Stockholm bid that the expected cost of hosting the Games would be 415,000 kronor (£23,050 or $115,250). The Government accepted the petition on behalf of the King and supported the bid.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many countries played in the games that year?
2: How many individual people were competing?
3: Were women allowed to play?
4: How many were there?
5: Was it the summer or winter games?
6: In what year?
7: Did the US compete that year?
8: Did they win more medals than anyone else?
9: Who did?
10: Did the US win some gold?
11: How many?
12: Where were the games held?
13: When?
14: Did anyone want to have them elsewhere?
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The red fox slowly walked out of his den he lives in; his own house in the ground. His eyes bounced side to side as he made sure the coast was clear, then he ran down the path of autumn leaves. As he reached the end there was a an apple tree without leaves, but still one shiny red colored apple hung from a branch. He climbed up a nearby rock and took a running start towards the branch, jumping and barely grabbing on. He slowly crawled along the branch towards the shiny apple, and as he drew close, he reached out a paw towards the apple. He knocked the apple from the branch and it to the forest floor. The fox slipped and he fell off the branch, but landed safely in a pile of leaves near the apple. He picked up the apple in his mouth and quickly brought it back to his warm den. When he arrived back home, his two fox kits were waiting for him with hungry tummies. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter, it was always warm in the fox den.
Answer the following questions:
1: what was in the tree?
2: who saw it?
3: where does he live?
4: where is that located?
5: is it summer?
6: what season is it?
7: are the trees bare?
8: did he want the fruit?
9: what did he first get on to reach it?
10: what did he do there?
11: did he make the jump?
12: did he move fast towards the fruit?
13: did he grab it?
14: where did it land?
15: did he climb out of the tree?
16: was he ok?
17: how did he hold the fruit?
18: where did he take it?
19: was he alone in there?
20: did he feed them?
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Chapter 7
Betrayed
The two savages, Kaviri and Mugambi, squatting before the entrance to Kaviri's hut, looked at one another--Kaviri with ill-concealed alarm.
"What is it?" he whispered.
"It is Bwana Tarzan and his people," replied Mugambi. "But what they are doing I know not, unless it be that they are devouring your people who ran away."
Kaviri shuddered and rolled his eyes fearfully toward the jungle. In all his long life in the savage forest he had never heard such an awful, fearsome din.
Closer and closer came the sounds, and now with them were mingled the terrified shrieks of women and children and of men. For twenty long minutes the blood-curdling cries continued, until they seemed but a stone's throw from the palisade. Kaviri rose to flee, but Mugambi seized and held him, for such had been the command of Tarzan.
A moment later a horde of terrified natives burst from the jungle, racing toward the shelter of their huts. Like frightened sheep they ran, and behind them, driving them as sheep might be driven, came Tarzan and Sheeta and the hideous apes of Akut.
Presently Tarzan stood before Kaviri, the old quiet smile upon his lips.
"Your people have returned, my brother," he said, "and now you may select those who are to accompany me and paddle my canoe."
Tremblingly Kaviri tottered to his feet, calling to his people to come from their huts; but none responded to his summons.
"Tell them," suggested Tarzan, "that if they do not come I shall send my people in after them."
Answer the following questions:
1: Where were they sitting?
2: who?
3: did one look happy?
4: what is he concerned with?
5: who were eating them?
6: what came closer?
7: who was shriking?
8: who wanted to flee?
9: how long did the screams continue?
10: how close were they?
11: who stopped him from fleeing?
12: by whos command?
13: who came out of the jungle?
14: what was chasing them?
15: was tarzan pleased?
16: who called to his people?
17: what did tarzan want from him?
18: did anyone respond to Kaviri?
19: who will send their people?
20: if they dont do what?
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"Your first home," Laurence Yep wrote in his book, The Lost Garden, "will always be the one that you remember best. I have been away from it for over twenty years, but I still go back in my dreams." For Yep, whose father came from China, home was an apartment and the family grocery store in a neighborhood of San Francisco. It was there that he learned about patience, hard work, and getting along with neighbors.
Mr. Brown, Laurence Yep's high school English teacher, often set high goals for his students. He was the first person to encourage Yep to write. The experience of that class changed the direction of Yep's life. At the age of 18 Yep published his first short story, a sci-fi fantasy. He has since written many books and many kinds of books. He has retold Chinese folk stories and written for the theater. In nearly all these varied works, Yep, who is married to the children's book author Joanne Ryder, has returned to questions he has been asking himself since childhood: What does it mean to be Chinese and American? Can one who belongs to two cultures ever feel at home anywhere?
When asked, "How has being of a Chinese by origin been important to you?" Laurence Yep replied, "As a child I wanted to be as American as possible. Then, in my early twenties, I became very interested in my Chinese roots. For years after that, I thought that my function as a Chinese American writer was to act as a bridge between two cultures. Now, though, I am not so sure that it is possible to join them together. Compared with Asian culture, American culture pays more attention to individuals and competition. The two cultures pull in opposite directions. So I see myself now as someone who will always be on the border between two cultures. That works to my benefit as a writer because not quite fitting in helps me be a better observer."
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did Yep grow up?
2: Where did his father come from?
3: What book title is Yep discussing his home?
4: Who was his high school teacher?
5: Did he influence Yep?
6: What did he influence Yep to do?
7: When did Yep publish his first story?
8: Did his wife write also?
9: What is his wife's name?
10: What does she write about?
11: Did Mr. Brown have high goals for is students?
12: What does Yep compare American culture to?
13: Are they similar according to Yep?
14: Did Yep live in an apartment or house as a child?
15: What did he learn in san francisco as a child?
16: What does Yep see himself as now?
17: When did Yep become interested in his chinese roots?
18: Did Yep want to be more American when he was a child?
19: Does he feel the same way now?
20: Does he feel it is possible to join American and chinese culture?
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CHAPTER 21
Madam Mantalini finds herself in a Situation of some Difficulty, and Miss Nickleby finds herself in no Situation at all
The agitation she had undergone, rendered Kate Nickleby unable to resume her duties at the dressmaker's for three days, at the expiration of which interval she betook herself at the accustomed hour, and with languid steps, to the temple of fashion where Madame Mantalini reigned paramount and supreme.
The ill-will of Miss Knag had lost nothing of its virulence in the interval. The young ladies still scrupulously shrunk from all companionship with their denounced associate; and when that exemplary female arrived a few minutes afterwards, she was at no pains to conceal the displeasure with which she regarded Kate's return.
'Upon my word!' said Miss Knag, as the satellites flocked round, to relieve her of her bonnet and shawl; 'I should have thought some people would have had spirit enough to stop away altogether, when they know what an incumbrance their presence is to right-minded persons. But it's a queer world; oh! it's a queer world!'
Miss Knag, having passed this comment on the world, in the tone in which most people do pass comments on the world when they are out of temper, that is to say, as if they by no means belonged to it, concluded by heaving a sigh, wherewith she seemed meekly to compassionate the wickedness of mankind.
The attendants were not slow to echo the sigh, and Miss Knag was apparently on the eve of favouring them with some further moral reflections, when the voice of Madame Mantalini, conveyed through the speaking-tube, ordered Miss Nickleby upstairs to assist in the arrangement of the show-room; a distinction which caused Miss Knag to toss her head so much, and bite her lips so hard, that her powers of conversation were, for the time, annihilated.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was Kate Nickleby's profession?
2: How long was she out of work?
3: Due to what?
4: Who was the boss of the business?
5: Who made rude comments about Kate?
6: Was she happy that Kate was back to work?
7: Where did Madame Mantalini order Nickleby to go after returning to work?
8: To do what?
9: In the organization of what?
10: Was Miss Knag happy about that?
11: What phsyical signs did she show?
12: Did she do anything with her mouth?
13: What?
14: Did she say anything to protest?
15: Did any of the other employees stand up for Kate?
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Chapter 13. NAT'S NEW YEAR
'I don't expect to hear from Emil yet, and Nat writes regularly, but where is Dan? Only two or three postals since he went. Such an energetic fellow as he is could buy up all the farms in Kansas by this time,' said Mrs Jo one morning when the mail came in and no card or envelope bore Dan's dashing hand.
'He never writes often, you know, but does his work and then comes home. Months and years seem to mean little to him, and he is probably prospecting in the wilderness, forgetful of time,' answered Mr Bhaer, deep in one of Nat's long letters from Leipzig.
'But he promised he would let me know how he got on, and Dan keeps his word if he can. I'm afraid something has happened to him'; and Mrs Jo comforted herself by patting Don's head, as he came at the sound of his master's name to look at her with eyes almost human in their wistful intelligence.
'Don't worry, Mum dear, nothing ever happens to the old fellow. He'll turn up all right, and come stalking in some day with a gold-mine in one pocket and a prairie in the other, as jolly as a grig,' said Ted, who was in no haste to deliver Octoo to her rightful owner.
'Perhaps he has gone to Montana and given up the farm plan. He seemed to like Indians best, I thought'; and Rob went to help his mother with her pile of letters and his cheerful suggestions.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was Nat?
2: What had he promised?
3: Who did?
4: Who touched someone on the head?
5: What did she do?
6: Did he look stupid?
7: Who were they wondering about?
8: Does he keep in contact?
9: Is he lazy?
10: Who was comforting his mother?
11: What did he speculate?
12: Did Rob help his mother?
13: With What?
14: Where did Mr. Bhaer think he was?
15: How many letters had been delivered from him since he left?
16: Is time of importance to him?
17: What did he like best?
18: According to whom?
19: Did he share that with anyone?
20: What did he do?
21: Who did she not think a note would be arriving from?
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Have you got any wonderful plans for your coming winter vacation? Here are some wonderful films for you to kill time. _ Verona De Tessant (Maya Rudolph) and Burt Farlander (John Krasinski) are in their early thirties and struggling to meet daily needs and build fulfilling lives as an artist and a salesman. When they learn they will soon become parents, they are faced with the challenge of how and where to raise a child and build a happy family. With a baby on his way, the young couple, look at their lives and are puzzled about what they really want. _ Lynn was married to Pual, but they broke up and Lynn took their daughter Alice while Paul got their son Dylan. Years later, now Dylan is getting married, and Lynn is attending the wedding, with her younger son Elliot and Ben. Elliot is a drug addict and Ben keeps everything to himself. Dylan hasn't spoken to Lynn in years, and Lynn is fearful of Pual and his wife Patty. At last, all this has put Lynn in a depressed situation, and she's not sure just how she's going to get through the day. _ Also named as Life is Beautiful, the film is a black comedy and also a best medicine that heals the scar left by war. This movie has some kind of characteristics as natural and active. On the 7th Oscar Award Ceremony , the movie won three great awards. It is not a sad movie from the very beginning , but when the father uses a great way to hide his murder from his son, all people are impressed by this moving deed. Under the protection of the father, the son has lived a happy life. _ The film is an American film directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. The film tells the story of Andy, a banker who spends nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and his wife's lover despite his claims of innocence. There he makes friends with Red. Andy manages to escape from the prison by digging a tunnel with the rock hammer over the years. When Red is later released , he remembers Andy's advice. He then visits the place Andy mentions before he escapes. There, he finds money and a note left by Andy, telling him to get to Zihuatanejo.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who does Verona play?
2: Who is Burt Farlander?
3: What are they getting ready to be?
4: What is another name for the movie?
5: What genre is Life is Beautiful?
6: Who directed a movie starring Tim Robbins?
7: Who else is in it?
8: Who is the main character?
9: Who is his friend?
10: Where do they meet?
11: Why is he there?
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New Yorkers are gradually getting used to more bicyclers on those hot blue City Bikes.But what about local bike shops? Is City Bike rolling up riders at their expense? At Gotham Bikes in Tribeca,manager W.Ben said the shop has seen an increase in its overall sales due to the bike-share program."It's getting more people on the road,"he said.James Ryan,an employee at Danny's Cycles,said City Bike is a good option for people to ease in a city famous for its traffic jams."They can try out a bike without buying one."he said.
Rentals are not a big part of the business at either Gotham Bikes or Danny's Cycles.But for Frank's Bike Shop,a small business on Christopher St.,the bike--share program has been bad news.Owner Frank Arroyo said his rental business has decreased by 90% since City Bike was rolled out last month.Arroyo's main rental customers are European tourists,who have since been drawn away by City Bikes.
However,Ben said the bike--share is good for bike sales at his shop."People have used the bike--share and realized how great it is to bike in the city,then decide that they want something Dicer for themselves,"he noted.Andrew Crooks,owner of NYC Velo,at 64 Second Ave.,said at first he Was concerned about bike--share,though,he admitted,"I was happy to see people on bikes.It seemed like a great idea,but one that would be difficult to implement ."Crooks said he worried about inexperienced riders' lack of awareness of biking rules and strong negative reaction from non--cyclists.However,he said.it's still too early to tell if his business has been impacted.While it's possible that bike--share will cause a drop in business,Crooks thought that the idea was a positive step forward for New York City.
Answer the following questions:
1: Whose business is City Bikes hurting?
2: What street is it located on?
3: How much has his business gone down?
4: Who made up the bulk of his customers?
5: What happened to them?
6: What color are City Bikes?
7: What city are they in?
8: Where is Gotham Bikes?
9: Has their business gone down?
10: What have they had?
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Islamism, also known as Political Islam (Arabic: إسلام سياسي islām siyāsī), is an Islamic revival movement often characterized by moral conservatism, literalism, and the attempt "to implement Islamic values in all spheres of life." Islamism favors the reordering of government and society in accordance with the Shari'a. The different Islamist movements have been described as "oscillating between two poles": at one end is a strategy of Islamization of society through state power seized by revolution or invasion; at the other "reformist" pole Islamists work to Islamize society gradually "from the bottom up". The movements have "arguably altered the Middle East more than any trend since the modern states gained independence", redefining "politics and even borders" according to one journalist (Robin Wright).
Moderate and reformist Islamists who accept and work within the democratic process include parties like the Tunisian Ennahda Movement. Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan is basically a socio-political and democratic Vanguard party but has also gained political influence through military coup d'état in past. The Islamist groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine participate in democratic and political process as well as armed attacks, seeking to abolish the state of Israel. Radical Islamist organizations like al-Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and groups such as the Taliban, entirely reject democracy, often declaring as kuffar those Muslims who support it (see takfirism), as well as calling for violent/offensive jihad or urging and conducting attacks on a religious basis.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is this also known as?
2: Do they want to keep their religion to themselves?
3: What do they want society to follow?
4: How many kinds of Islamism is there?
5: Have they been influential?
6: Where?
7: What is something they have upset?
8: What else?
9: According to who?
10: What was their name?
11: Are all of these people extremists?
12: What is a group that works democratically?
13: What is another?
14: Where is it from?
15: Are they non-militant?
16: What are more groups?
17: Where are they located?
18: Who else?
19: What do they want?
20: What are some radical groups?
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Chapter 15: Again At Tezcuco.
Until a late hour in the night, Roger sat talking to Cacama and his family. Although they had heard, from Bathalda, all that had happened from the time of their leaving Tezcuco to their arrival at Tlascala, he had to go over it again. Bathalda had told them that Roger had found a former acquaintance in Malinche, who was all powerful with the white leaders; and Amenche asked many questions concerning her--how Roger had known her before, and for how long; what she was like, and why he applied to her, instead of going straight to the white general.
"You have heard me speak of her before," Roger said, in answer to the first question. "I told you that I had learned your language from a Mexican slave girl, who was one of my attendants during the time I was at Tabasco. She was with me the whole time I was there, and if it had not been for learning the language from her, and conversing with her, I do not know how I should have got through the time. I was sorry to leave her behind, and promised her that, if ever I got rich enough here, I would send and purchase her freedom."
"You seem to have taken a strange interest in a slave girl!" Amenche said.
"It was natural that it should be so, Princess. I was little better than a slave, myself. At any rate I was a prisoner, and naturally took to the one person who was kind to me. We were companions and friends, rather than master and attendant; and directly I heard that she was with Cortez, and had gained great influence with him, I naturally went to her."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who did Roger talk to?
2: Until when?
3: Where did they leave?
4: To go to where?
5: Who told the story before?
6: Who did Roger find?
7: Where?
8: Was the person influential?
9: With whom?
10: Was the acquaintance male or female?
11: Who queried about her?
12: Was the language they used Roger's mother tongue?
13: How did Roger learn it?
14: Where did he meet her?
15: Was she with him all the time?
16: How did he feel about going away from her?
17: What did he promise?
18: What is Amenche's nickname?
19: Who was the former slave with?
20: Did she have power over him?
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BALTIMORE. MARYLAND--An old postcard changed the lives of an eleven-year-old boy and a very sick woman. The postcard had a picture of the steamship Titanic. The Titanic was the largest ocean ship in the world. It hit an iceberg and sank on April 14. 1912. More than 1,500 of the 2,200 people on the ship were killed. The postcard was passed from one person to another for more than 80 years. Then it appeared at a card show for people who liked to collect postcards. An eleven-year-old boy, Joey Russell, came to the show with his grandfather. His grandfather knew everything about the Titanic and its trip from England to New York. "Let's buy that postcard." he told Joey. "It will be important someday." Two years later, Joey's grandfather took him on a special trip. They went on a trip to the North Atlantic ocean to watch as workers pulled the Titanic up from the bottom of the ocean. Joey put his special postcard in his bag for the trip. On the ship, Joey met Edith Haisman. This woman was on the Titanic when it sank. She was one of the people who were _ Joey pulled the postcard out of his pocket. "Please sign this, Mrs. Haisman." he said. She was happy to write her name on the back of the postcard. When Joey got home, he put the postcard away and forgot about it, Then Kate Shelley, one of Joey's friends, told him that her mother was very sick. She needed an operation, but there was a problem. The operation was very expensive, and the family needed $80, 000 to pay for it. Friends and relatives tried to help. But where could they get so much money? Then when Joey went to see the new movie "Titanic", he had an idea. "Millions of people are seeing this movie and reading about the Titanic." Joey thought. He remembered the old postcard with Edith Haisman's signature on it. "Maybe I can sell it for some money. Then I can help Kate's mom." Joey told his mother and father about his idea to help Mrs. Shelley. His parents helped him try to sell the postcard to the person who would pay the most money for it. Joey's story was on television and in newspapers. Joey and Kate even went to New York to be on a national TV show. After the show, many people called in to offer money for the Titanic card. Someone bought it for $60. 000. Joey's kind heart and the old Titanic postcard worked together to save a woman's life.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did Joey get the postcard?
2: What kind?
3: Who took him there?
4: What was Joey's last name?
5: How old was he?
6: Who signed the postcard?
7: Where did they meet?
8: What was on the postcard?
9: Is that the ship they met on?
10: What happened to the Titanic
11: when?
12: How many people died?
13: Why did they buy the postcard?
14: How old was the postcard when they bought it?
15: Where was Edith when the ship sank?
16: Who needed an operation?
17: Why?
18: How much was the operation?
19: What did Joey do with his postcard?
20: For how much?
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(CNN) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, facing an international arrest warrant, is paying the price for pandering to the West, al Qaeda's second-in-command said in an audio statement released Tuesday.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, seen here in 2007, said Tuesday the Sudanese president pandered to the West.
"I am not defending Omar al-Bashir or his regime, nor am I defending what it has done in Darfur and elsewhere," Ayman al-Zawahiri said in the statement released by al Qaeda's production company, as-Sahab Media.
But, he said, "the issue isn't one of Darfur and solving its problems; the issue is one of making excuses for more foreign interference in the Muslims' countries in the framework of the contemporary Zionist Crusade."
The warrant issued by the International Criminal Court earlier this month accuses al-Bashir of war crimes and crimes against humanity, charges he denies. In response, Sudan ordered 13 international aid groups to leave the country, groups that the United Nations says provide roughly half the assistance delivered in Darfur.
"The Bashir regime is reaping what it sowed," al-Zawahiri said. "For many long years, it continued to back down and backtrack in front of American Crusader pressure."
He further accused Sudan of expelling members of the mujahedeen who had sought refuge there, particularly Osama bin Laden, and declaring "in an audacious lie that they had left voluntarily, then attempting to beg payment for that from the Saudi regime and the Americans."
Al-Zawahiri asked, "Why hasn't the United Nations moved to protect the Palestinians in Gaza from Israeli barbarity and criminality, while it pretends to cry over the suffering of the people of Darfur? Why hasn't the United Nations and the international community intervened to lift the siege from Gaza, while it pretends to cry over the people of Darfur being deprived of relief and aid?"
Answer the following questions:
1: Who issued a warrant?
2: When?
3: Who is named in the warrant?
4: What is he accused of?
5: Anything else officially in the document?
6: Does he agree with the charges?
7: What did Sudan do in response?
8: How much aid do these groups provide in Darfur?
9: What is al-Qaeda's production company called?
10: Who is second in command at al-Qaeda?
11: What does he accuse Sudan of?
12: Anything else?
13: anyone in particular?
14: Who does he want the UN to protect?
15: From what?
16: Is the arrest warrant just a local warrant?
17: What kind is it?
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