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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.

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?

Numbered answers:

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

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Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs, are decorated eggs that are usually used as gifts on the occasion of Easter or springtime celebration. As such, Easter eggs are common during the season of Eastertide (Easter season). The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs wrapped in colourful foil, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as chocolate. Although eggs, in general, were a traditional symbol of fertility and rebirth, in Christianity, for the celebration of Eastertide, Easter eggs symbolize the empty tomb of Jesus, from which Jesus resurrected. In addition, one ancient tradition was the staining of Easter eggs with the colour red "in memory of the blood of Christ, shed as at that time of his crucifixion." This custom of the Easter egg can be traced to early Christians of Mesopotamia, and from there it spread into Russia and Siberia through the Orthodox Churches, and later into Europe through the Catholic and Protestant Churches. This Christian use of eggs may have been influenced by practices in "pre-dynastic period in Egypt, as well as amid the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete".

The practice of decorating eggshells as part of spring rituals is ancient, with decorated, engraved ostrich eggs found in Africa which are 60,000 years old. In the pre-dynastic period of Egypt and the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete, eggs were associated with death and rebirth, as well as with kingship, with decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago. These cultural relationships may have influenced early Christian and Islamic cultures in those areas, as well as through mercantile, religious, and political links from those areas around the Mediterranean.

1. what animal's eggs were found in africa that are 60,000 years old?
2. were they decorated?
3. what else are easter eggs called?
4. what season are they commonly used?
5. what is another name for the easter season?
6. in mesopotamia and crete, what were eggs associated with?
7. what else?
8. what did they decorate?
9. did they also use representations of eggs?
10. with what materials?
11. what do modern people substitute dyed eggs with?
12. is the foil used colorful?
13. what do Easter eggs symbolize to christians?
14. does it also resemble an empty tomb?
15. of who?
16. to what period can the custom of easter eggs be traced?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. ostrich
2. yes
3. Paschal eggs
4. the Easter season
5. Eastertide
6. death and rebirth
7. kingship
8. ostrich eggs
9. yes
10. gold and silver
11. Chocolate or plastic eggs
12. yes
13. fertility and rebirth
14. yes
15. Jesus
16. the pre-dynastic period

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. That saying holds true not only for you and me, but also for some of the most powerful and influential people in the world, such as the presidents of the United States. But how do American presidents spend their vacation time? Let's take a look! Franklin D. Roosevelt, considered one of the greatest presidents in American history, had limited vacation options because of his polio . He began visiting Warm Springs, Georgia in 1924 for its curative waters and later built a 2,000 acre polio treatment center nearby. He liked to cruise the Potomacon his yacht and three times as president returned to his beloved Canadian island of Campobello, with which he fell in love as a kid. Former President Bill Clinton, however, was never much good at vacationing. His staff had to practically force him to go on vacation his first year in office; his idea of relaxing was reading four good books simultaneously while enjoying a cigar (chewed, not smoked). He could also lose himself in a game of golf, where his somewhat flexible interpretation of the rules could at times drive his partners crazy. Obama's predecessor also knows how to relax. Fishing is in the Bush family DNA: for blue sharks off the coast of Maine or anything with fins, almost anywhere else. George W. Bush also relaxed as president by jogging and clearing brush on his Texas ranch. Since leaving office, he has become an active mountain biker and, more recently, has taken up painting. Obama tends to take a winter break in Hawaii, where he was born and raised, and a summer vacation in Martha's Vineyard, off the southern coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In between, he plays basketball every couple of weeks and has been known to do some skeet shooting at Camp David. Obama's favorite pastime, no matter the location, has become easy to spot: golf.

1. What make Jack dull?
2. Who is Roosevelt?
3. of where?
4. why were his options limited?
5. where did he start visiting?
6. when?
7. who was forced to go on holiday?
8. what did he like doing instead?
9. and what else?
10. how much did he read?
11. who likes Hawaii?
12. what is his favorite thing to do?
13. any other sport?
14. who likes fishing?
15. what did he fish?
16. where?
17. what did Roosevelt build?
18. which other president played golf?
19. what has Bush done actively since retiring?
20. what else?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. All work and no play
2. a president
3. American
4. polio
5. Warm Springs, Georgia
6. in 1924
7. Bill Clinton
8. read
9. chew cigars
10. four good books simultaneously
11. Obama
12. golf
13. basketball
14. Bush
15. blue sharks
16. off the coast of Maine
17. a polio treatment center
18. Bill Clinton
19. mountain biking
20. painting