In which year were the 'Fundamental Articles' drawn up?

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Not until many a year after Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson conducted their followers to the Narragansett country was Rhode Island granted an agreement of inclusion (1663) by the crown. Not until long after the congregation of Thomas Hooker from Newtown paved the way into the Connecticut River Valley did the king of England give Connecticut a charter of its own (1662) and a place among the colonies. Half a century passed before the towns laid out beyond the Merrimac River by emigrants from Massachusetts were formed into the royal province of New Hampshire in 1679.
The towns of Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield had long lived happily under their "Fundamental Orders" drawn up by themselves in 1639. Similarly, the settlers dwelt peacefully at New Haven under their "Fundamental Articles" drafted in the same year. The pioneers on the Connecticut shore had no difficulty in agreeing that "the Scriptures do hold forth a perfect rule for the direction and government of all men."

Why did the Admiral circumnavigate Africa?

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Before telling how the ancients got to know that part of the world with which they finally became acquainted when the Roman Empire was at its greatest extent, it is as well to get some idea of the successive stages of their knowledge, leaving for the next chapter the story of how that knowledge was obtained. As in most branches of organised knowledge, it is to the Greeks that we owe our association with ancient views of this subject. In the early stages, they possibly learned something from the Phœnicians, who were the great traders and sailors of ancient times and who coasted along the Mediterranean, passed through the Straits of Gibraltar, and traded with the British Isles, which they visited for the tin found in Cornwall. It is even said that one of their admirals, at the command of Necho, King of Egypt, circumnavigated Africa, for Herodotus reports that on the homeward voyage, the sun set in the sea on the right hand. But the Phœnicians kept their geographical knowledge to themselves as a trade secret, and the Greeks learned, but little from them.

What gave England an immense advantage in the war?

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According to the passage, what is thought to be sunk beneath the ocean?

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It may be objected to this description, that the Egypt which it presents to the reader is not the Egypt of the maps. Undoubtedly, it is not. The maps give the name of Egypt to a broad rectangular space, which they mark out in the northeastern corner of Africa, bounded on two sides by the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the two others by two imaginary lines, which the map-makers kindly draw for us across the sands of the desert. But "this Egypt", as has been well observed, is a fiction of the geographers, as untrue to fact as the island Atlantis of Greek legend, or the Lyonnesse of medieval romance, both sunk beneath the ocean to explain their disappearance. The true Egypt of the old monuments, of the Hebrews, of the Greeks and Romans, of the Arabs, and of its own people in this day, is a mere fraction of this vast area of the maps, nothing more than the valley and plain watered by the Nile, for nearly seven hundred miles by the river's course from the Mediterranean southwards.

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Metadata

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Abate

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Diffuse

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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Conclusion

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_____ mocking of him was inappropriate.

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Have you got ____ English books that I could borrow?

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________ this book is very popular, I do not like it.

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I ____ refuse to stay here any longer.

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I will certainly go there.

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The obstacle course ___ by me in record time.

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She goes to the tennis club ___ she likes to play tennis.

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Jake changed the flat tire.

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I ___ able to complete the assignment by next week.

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____ prefer chocolate or vanilla ice cream?

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A government where the power is concentrated in the hands of one person

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I ___ saw Jack running on track.

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The film _____ before we reached the cinema.

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P. are going to visit Q. the children who R. are on the bus S. the museum

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P. of this country Q. runs the government R. a class of S. the rich and the elite

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I need four paint colours blue grey green and red

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The carnival was attended by people from Salt Lake City, Utah, Los Angeles California and Albany New York.

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Bini Aru had used this secret many times, but not to cause evil or suffering to others. When he had wandered far from home and was hungry, he would say: "I want to become a cow — Pyrzqxgl!" In an instant, he would be a cow, and then he would eat grass and satisfy his hunger. All beasts and birds can talk in the Land of Oz, so when the cow was no longer hungry, it would say: "I want to be Bini Aru again: Pyrzqxgl!" and the magic word, properly pronounced, would instantly restore him to his proper form.

What was the special thing all beasts and birds were able to do in the Land of Oz?

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In the centre of the Emerald City of Oz, the capital city of Ozma's dominions, is a vast and beautiful garden, surrounded by a wall inlaid with shining emeralds, and in the centre of this garden stands Ozma's Royal Palace, the most splendid building ever constructed. From a hundred towers and domes floated the banners of Oz, which included the Ozmies, the Munchkins, the Gillikins, the Winkies and the Quadlings. The banner of the Munchkins is blue, that of the Winkies yellow; the Gillikin banner is purple, and the Quadling's banner is red.

What was there in the centre of the beautiful garden?

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I was sitting in the meadows one day, not long ago, at a place where there was a small brook. It was a hot day. The sky was very blue, and white clouds, like great swans, went floating over it to and fro. Just opposite me was a clump of green rushes, with dark velvety spikes, and among them one single tall, red cardinal flower, which was bending over the brook as if to see its own beautiful face in the water. But the cardinal did not seem to be vain.

Who was bending over the brook to see its own face?

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Art is long, life is short.

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Aunt Izzie was a small woman, sharp-faced and thin, rather old-looking, and very neat and particular about everything. She meant to be kind to the children, but they puzzled her much because they were not a bit like her when she was a child. Aunt Izzie had been a gentle, tidy little thing, who loved to sit as Curly Locks did, sewing long seams in the parlour, and to have her head patted by older people, and be told that she was a good girl; whereas Katy tore her dress every day, hated sewing, and did not care a button about being called "good", while Clover and Elsie shied off like restless ponies when anyone tried to pat their heads. It was very perplexing to Aunt Izzie, and she found it hard to quite forgive the children for being so "unaccountable", and so little like the good boys and girls in Sunday-school memoirs, who were the young people she liked best, and understood most about.

Which word in the passage means the same as 'very puzzling'?

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It is that teachers have learned from bitter experience how little history their pupils retain as they pass along the regular route. No teacher of history will deny this. Still, it is a standing challenge to existing methods of historical instruction. If the study of history cannot be made truly progressive like the study of mathematics, science, and languages, then the historians assume a grave responsibility in adding their subject to the already overloaded curriculum. If the successive historical texts are only enlarged editions of the first text — more facts, more dates, more words — then history deserves most of the sharp criticism which it is receiving from teachers of science, civics, and economics.

According to the passage, what does the history subject receive from the teachers of other subjects?

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It seems right here to remark, in order to avoid any misunderstanding, that Margaret Ossoli's thoughts were not directed so exclusively to the subject of the present volume as have been the minds of some others. As to the movement for the emancipation of Woman from the unjust burdens and disabilities to which she has been subject to, even in our own land, my sister could neither remain indifferent nor silent; yet she preferred, as in respect to every other reform, to act independently and to speak independently from her own stand-point, and never to merge her individuality in any existing organisation. Thus, she did, not as condemning such organisations, nor yet as judging them wholly unwise or uncalled for, but because she believed she could herself accomplish more for their true and high objects, unfettered by such organisations, than if a member of them.

Which word in the passage means the same as 'freeing of someone from slavery'?

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It was after the period of Homer and Hesiod that the first great expansion of Greek knowledge about the world began, through the extensive colonisation which was carried on by the Greeks around the Eastern Mediterranean. Even to this day the natives of the southern part of Italy speak a Greek dialect, owing to the wide extent of Greek colonies in that country, which used to be called "Magna Grecia", or "Great Greece". In the East, too, Greek cities were dotted along the coast of the Black Sea, one of which, Byzantium, was destined to be of world-historic importance. So, in North Africa too, and among the islands of the Ægean Sea, the Greeks colonised throughout the sixth and fifth centuries BC, and in almost every case, communication was kept up between the colonies and the mother-country.

What are Greek colonies referred to in the passage?

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Mr. Cass's letter is inserted because it arrived too late to find a place in her "Memoirs", and yet more because it bears much on Margaret Ossoli's characteristics as a woman. A few, also of her private letters and papers, not bearing, save, indirectly, on the subject of this volume, are yet inserted in it, as further illustrative of her thought, feeling and action, in life's various relations. It is believed that nothing which exhibits a true woman, especially in her relations to others as friend, sister, daughter, wife, or mother, can fail to interest and be of value to her sex, indeed to all who are interested in human welfare and advancement, since these latter so much depend on the fidelity of woman. Nor will anything pertaining to the education and care of children be deemed irrelevant, especially by mothers, upon whom these duties must always largely devolve.

Which of the following things arrived too late to be a 'Memoir'?

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Egypt is, at all seasons, a strange country, but presents the most surprising appearance at the period of the flood. At that time, not only is the lengthy valley from Assouan to Cairo laid under water, but the Delta itself becomes one vast lake, interspersed with islands, which stud its surface here and there at intervals, and which reminded Herodotus of "the islands of the Ægean. The elevations, which are the work of man, are crowned for the most part with the white walls of towns and villages sparkling in the sunlight, and sometimes glassed in the flood beneath them.

Which word in the passage means the same as 'mixed together'?

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None thought of sailing westward. For to men of those days, the Atlantic Ocean was known as the Outer Sea or the Sea of Darkness. There was nothing to be gained by going there, much to be dreaded. It was said that huge and horrible sea-dragons lived there, ready to wreck and swallow down any vessel that might venture near. An enormous bird also hovered in the skies waiting to pounce upon vessels and bear them away to some unknown eyrie. Even if any foolhardy adventurers should defy these dangers, and escape the horror of the dragons and the bird, other perils threatened them. For far in the West, there lay a bottomless pit of seething fire. That was easy of proof. Did not the face of the setting sun glow with the reflected light as it sank in the West? There would be no hope nor rescue for any ship that should be drawn into that awful pit.

Which word in the passage means the same as 'fear'?

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Three generations of them were really great men — Robert the Strong, Odo, and Hugh the White; and when the descendants of Charles the Great had died out, a Duke of the Franks, Hugh Capet, was in 987 crowned King of the Franks. All the after kings of France down to Louis Philippe were children and grandchildren of Hugh Capet. By this change, however, he gained little in real power; for, though he claimed to rule over the whole country of the Neustrian Franks, his authority was little heeded, save in the domain which he had possessed as Count of Paris, including the cities of Paris, Orleans, Amiens, and Rheims (the coronation place). He was guardian, too, of the great Abbeys of St. Denys and St. Martin of Tours. The Duke of Normandy and the Count of Anjou to the West, the Count of Flanders to the North, the Count of Champagne to the East, and the Duke of Aquitaine to the South, paid him homage, but were the only actual rulers in their own domains.

According to the passage, in which year was Huge Capet crowned as the King of the Franks?