Problem: Liverpool is famed for many things -- most especially The Beatles and its football team. But few would associate the city with one of the most famous political speeches in history. Yet tourism officials in the city have published the claim that Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" was written at a city centre hotel. The allegation has been made in a guide to a major art event named Liverpool Discovers.

A map in the guide shows more than 20 locations where famous people were born along with places associated with celebrities and events in their life. The guide claims, "Martin Luther King visited his supporters in Liverpool three times, and the first draft of his famous speech 'I Have a Dream' is claimed to have been written at Adelphi Hotel." The speech, delivered to civil rights campaigners on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 1963, is one of the most quoted texts in history and was a definitive moment in the American Civil Rights Movement and in the fight for racial equality.

Dr. King's biographer, Godfrey Hodgson, said that the suggestion did not fit the facts. He said, "I don't believe it. If he had been to Liverpool, there would have been massive media reports, as he would have been a big figure by then. Dr. King did visit the UK on a number of occasions but he was not in the UK around the time of this famous speech in 1963."Prof. John Belcham, a history lecturer of University of Liverpool who wrote an 800year history of Liverpool in 2008, confirmed that he was unaware of any connection between Dr. King and the city.
1. Where was Martin Luther King purported to have written his speech?
2. More specifically?
3. What made the claim?
4. What function is the guide assoiated with?
5. What speech was the claim about?
6. Was it actually written there?
7. Who doubted the claim?
8. What's his name?
9. What's a reason why he doubted it?
10. Who else doubted the claim?
11. What makes him an authority on the subject?
12. Did MLK ever visit Liverpool?
13. What football team is the city famous for?
14. What band is it famous for?
15. Is the city involved with the claim?
16. How so?
Answer: 1. Liverpool
2. Adelphi Hotel
3. a guide to a major art event
4. Liverpool Discovers.
5. I Have a Dream
6. no
7. Dr. King's biographer
8. Godfrey Hodgson
9. there would have been massive media reports
10. Prof. John Belcham
11. wrote an 800year history of Liverpool in 2008
12. Yes
13. Liverpool FC
14. The Beatles
15. Yes
16. tourism officials in the city have published the claim that Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" was written at a city centre hotel

Problem: (CNN) -- The stench of the burnt bodies was so potent, Abu Jafar said, he could smell it from 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) away.

"It smells awful because the regime appears to have burnt so many bodies recently," the opposition activist said Sunday from the beleaguered city of Homs.

"Some cars arrived this morning and carried away dead bodies. We are not sure where."

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Jafar's account comes a day after what may be the deadliest day yet in Syria's 21-month civil war, according to opposition figures.

Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy, gave a dire warning Sunday on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Syria.

"If nearly 50,000 people have been killed in about two years, do not expect just 25,000 people to die next year -- maybe 100,000 will die," he told reporters in Cairo.

"The pace is increasing," he said.

"A solution is still possible, but it is only getting more complicated every day," Brahimi added. "Had we dealt more carefully with this conflict in 2011, it would have been much easier to resolve it. There is no question that it is much harder today."

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Brahimi met Sunday with Nabil Elaraby, secretary-general of the Arab League.

On Saturday, Brahimi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Russia and China have used their veto power in the U.N. Security Council to block some of the toughest resolutions proposed against the Syrian regime.
1. how far away could it be smelled?
2. what could be smelled?
3. who was saying this?
4. what city is he from?
5. what arrived in the morning?
6. what did they do?
7. do they know to where?
8. how many people have been killed in two years?
9. who was speaking to reporters?
10. did he have a guess on how many more might die?
11. is this an increasing or decreasing amount?
12. who is Brahimi?
13. when did he give his warning?
14. about what country?
15. does he think there is a solution to this?
16. is it easy?
17. when would it have been simpler to fix?
18. with whom did he meet on Saturday?
19. what is his title?
20. what organization is he part of?
Answer: 1. 2 kilometers
2. burnt bodies
3. Abu Jafar
4. Homs
5. Some cars
6. carried away dead bodies
7. No
8. 50,000 people
9. Lakhdar Brahimi
10. maybe 100,000 will die
11. increasing
12. joint U.N.-Arab League envoy
13. Sunday
14. Syria
15. A solution is still possible
16. No
17. 2011
18. Sergey Lavrov
19. Russian Foreign Minister
20. U.N. Security Council

Problem: CHAPTER XIV.

"My beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by, With thy proudly arch'd and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye--

"Thus, thus I leap upon thy back, and scour the distant plains: Away! who overtakes me now, shall claim thee for his pains."

_The Arab to his Steed_.

Bulstrode seemed happy to meet me, complaining that I had quite forgotten the satisfaction with which all New York, agreeably to his account of the matter, had received me the past spring. Of course, I thanked him for his civility; and we soon became as good friends as formerly. In a minute or two, Mary Wallace joined us, and we all repaired to the breakfast-table, where we were soon joined by Dirck, who had been detained by some affairs of his own.

Herman Mordaunt and Bulstrode had the conversation principally to themselves for the first few minutes. Mary Wallace was habitually silent; but Anneke, without being loquacious, was sufficiently disposed to converse. This morning, however, she said little beyond what the civilities of the table required from the mistress of the house, and that little in as few words as possible. Once or twice I could not help remarking that her hand remained on the handle of a richly-chased tea-pot, after that hand had performed its office; and that her sweet, deep blue eye was fixed on vacancy, or on some object before her with a vacant regard, in the manner of one that thought intensely. Each time as she recovered from these little _reveries_, a slight flush appeared on her face, and she seemed anxious to conceal the involuntary abstraction. This absence of mind continued until Bulstrode, who had been talking with our host on the subject of the movements of the army, suddenly directed his discourse to me.
1. Who was excited?
2. To see someone?
3. Did they become close again?
4. Who arrives?
5. How long after?
6. What did they do?
7. Then who showed up?
8. Was he on time?
9. Who talked most of the time at first?
10. Anybody else?
11. Was somebody usually quiet?
12. Who?
13. Was somebody else being quiet?
14. Was she usually?
15. Was she behaving strangely?
16. In what way?
17. Anything else?
18. Did she recover?
19. What happened then?
20. Who addresses him then?
Answer:
1. Bulstrode
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Mary Wallace
5. a minute or two
6. repaired to the breakfast-table
7. Dirck
8. No
9. Herman Mordaunt
10. Bulstrode
11. Yes
12. Mary Wallace was
13. Yes
14. No
15. Yes
16. her hand remained on the handle
17. her eye was fixed on vacancy
18. Yes
19. a slight flush appeared on her face
20. Bulstrode does