Q: With an estimated population of 1,381,069 as of July 1, 2014, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San DiegoTijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the US and a bordering country after DetroitWindsor, with a population of 4,922,723 people. San Diego is the birthplace of California and is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the United States Navy and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.

Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claimed the entire area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcala, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly-independent Mexico, which reformed as the First Mexican Republic two years later. In 1850, it became part of the United States following the MexicanAmerican War and the admission of California to the union.

Answer the following questions:
1. When did San Diego become part of the United States?
2. What group of people is it historically a home to?
3. Is it the largest city in the United States?
4. What is the population?
5. Who claimed the by for Spain?
6. What year was that?
7. What happened in 1821?
8. What is the weather there?
9. Are there beaches?
10. What military branch is based there?
11. Is became part of the US after what war?
12. Is it the largest city in California?
13. It is called the "what" of California?
14. What else it is known for?
15. What is it part of?
16. What is that?
17. Who is first largest?
18. When Juan Cabrillo claimed it, what basis did it form?
19. How many years later?
20. What did independent Mexico reform into?
A: 1. 1850
2. Kumeyaay people
3. No
4. 1,381,069
5. uan Rodriguez Cabrillo
6. 1542
7. It became part of the newly-independent Mexico
8. mild year-round climate,
9. Yes
10. United States Navy
11. MexicanAmerican War
12. no
13. birthplace
14. recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.
15. San DiegoTijuana conurbation
16. agglomeration between the US and a bordering country
17. DetroitWindsor
18. the settlement of Alta California
19. 200
20. First Mexican Republic
Q: Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as "Washington", "the District", or simply "D.C.", is the capital of the United States.

The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. Named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.

Washington had an estimated population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's population to more than onemillion during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is the principal city, has a population of over 6million, the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country.

Answer the following questions:
1. what city is being talked about here?
2. is it the capital of the US?
3. how many people are there during a work week?
4. what states do they commute from?
5. is D.C. on the west coast?
6. what happened in 1790?
7. what settlements that was already there?
8. Was D.C. named after a president?
9. which one?
10. who returned the land and why?
11. what's the current population?
12. what's the rank in the US?
A: 1. Washington, D.C.
2. Yes
3. onemillion
4. Maryland and Virginia
5. No
6. The signing of the Residence Act
7. Georgetown and Alexandria.
8. Yes
9. George Washington
10. Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia
11. 681,170 as of July 2016
12. the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical area
Q: The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the "Ramayana".

The "Mahabharata" is an epic narrative of the Kuruksetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pandava princes. It also contains philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or "purusartha" (12.161). Among the principal works and stories in the "Mahabharata" are the "Bhagavadgita", the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the "Ramayana", and the story of Rsyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

Traditionally, the authorship of the "Mahabharata" is attributed to Vyasa. There have been many attempts to unravel its historical growth and compositional layers. The oldest preserved parts of the text are thought to be not much older than around 400BCE, though the origins of the epic probably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE. The text probably reached its final form by the early Gupta period (c. 4th century CE). The title may be translated as "the great tale of the Bharata dynasty". According to the "Mahabharata" itself, the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24,000 verses called simply "Bharata".

The "Mahabharata" is the longest epic poem known and has been described as "the longest poem ever written". Its longest version consists of over 100,000 "sloka" or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. About 1.8million words in total, the "Mahabharata" is roughly ten times the length of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" combined, or about four times the length of the "Ramayana". W. J. Johnson has compared the importance of the "Mahabharata" in the context of world civilization to that of the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, the works of Homer, Greek drama, or the Qur'an.

Answer the following questions:
1. what are the 2 major Sanskrit epics of india
2. what is the longest epic poem known
3. what has compared the importance mahabharata to that of the bible
4. is the tail extended from a shorter version
5. what is Rsyasringa concidered
6. was the title translated
7. how old is it
8. does it compare to a greek drama
9. what about works of shakespear
10. and the qur an
A:
1. Mahabharata and the "Ramayana".
2. "Mahabharata"
3. . W. J. Johnson
4. yes
5. a work in its own right.
6. yes
7. around 400BCE
8. yes
9. yes
10. yes