Question: The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, or simply Wikimedia) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is mostly known for participating in the Wikimedia movement. It owns the internet domain names of most movement projects and hosts sites like Wikipedia. The foundation was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales as a way to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects through non-profit means.

, the foundation employs over 280 people, with annual revenues in excess of . Christophe Henner is chair of the board. Katherine Maher is the executive director since March 2016.

The Wikimedia Foundation has stated its goal is to develop and maintain open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge. Another main objective of the Wikimedia Foundation is political advocacy.

The Wikimedia Foundation was granted section 501(c)(3) status by the U.S. Internal Revenue Code as a public charity in 2005. Its National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code is B60 (Adult, Continuing education). The foundation's by-laws declare a statement of purpose of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally.

In 2001, Jimmy Wales, an Internet entrepreneur, and Larry Sanger, an online community organizer and philosophy professor, founded Wikipedia as an Internet encyclopedia to supplement Nupedia. The project was originally funded by Bomis, Wales' for-profit business. As Wikipedia's popularity skyrocketed, revenues to fund the project stalled. Since Wikipedia was depleting Bomis' resources, Wales and Sanger thought of a charity model to fund the project. The Wikimedia Foundation was incorporated in Florida on June 20, 2003. It applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark "Wikipedia" on September 14, 2004. The mark was granted registration status on January 10, 2006. Trademark protection was accorded by Japan on December 16, 2004, and, in the European Union, on January 20, 2005. There were plans to license the use of the Wikipedia trademark for some products, such as books or DVDs. 1. What organization is this about?
2. Is it a for-profit organization?
3. Where is its home?
4. When?
5. By whom?
6. How many workers does it have?
7. Who is the chair?
8. And the executive director?
9. Is it a charity?
10. When was it incorporated?
11. Is it popular?
12. Is it trademarked?
13. Who was Wikipedia's co-founder?
14. Why was it created?
15. Were they going to license products? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. The Wikimedia Foundation
2. no
3. San Francisco
4. in 2003
5. by Jimmy Wales
6. 280 people
7. Christophe Henner
8. Katherine Maher
9. yes
10. June 20, 2003
11. yes
12. yes
13. Larry Sanger
14. as a way to fund Wikipedia
15. yes

Question: The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) is one of the few dozens of United States environmental laws passed in the 1970s, and serves as the enacting legislation to carry out the provisions outlined in The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The ESA was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973, it was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation." The U.S. Supreme Court found that "the plain intent of Congress in enacting" the ESA "was to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost." The Act is administered by two federal agencies, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

One species in particular received widespread attentionthe whooping crane. The species' historical range extended from central Canada South to Mexico, and from Utah to the Atlantic coast. Unregulated hunting and habitat loss contributed to a steady decline in the whooping crane population until, by 1890, it had disappeared from its primary breeding range in the north central United States. It would be another eight years before the first national law regulating wildlife commerce was signed, and another two years before the first version of the endangered species act was passed. The whooping crane population by 1941 was estimated at about only 16 birds still in the wild. 1. What year was the Endangered Species Act instituted?
2. Were there many laws such as this passed in this time period?
3. What animal received lots of attention?
4. Name something that caused their population to decline?
5. And what else?
6. What year did is vanish from its main range in the U.S.?
7. In what section of the U.S.?
8. How many years passed before first national law concerning regulation of wildlife commerce was instituted?
9. How much additional time before an act concerning endangered species was enacted?
10. What was the number of whooping cranes in the wild in 1941?
11. Did a President enact a certain law associated with endangered species?
12. What was it called?
13. In what year was it made law?
14. What month?
15. What day of the month?
16. What court made a finding about the ESA?
17. Were federal agencies involved in carrying out the act?
18. Name of one of them?
19. And the other?
20. What abbreviation is it known by? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. 1973
2. Yes
3. the whooping crane
4. Unregulated hunting
5. habitat loss
6. 1890
7. the north central
8. another eight years
9. another two years
10. about only 16 birds
11. Yes
12. The Endangered Species Act
13. 1973
14. December
15. 28
16. The U.S. Supreme Court
17. Yes
18. the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
19. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
20. NOAA

Question: Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- An emotional Oscar Pistorius apologized Monday to the family of Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend he killed on Valentine's Day last year, saying he woke up thinking of them and praying for them every day.

"I would like to take this opportunity to apologize -- to Mr. and Mrs. Steenkamp, to Reeva's family -- to those who are here today who knew her," Pistorius said as he took the stand for the first time at his murder trial.

"I can't imagine the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness that I have caused you and your family. ... I can promise you that when she went to bed that night, she felt loved," he said, his voice breaking as if he was fighting back tears.

It was the first time he has spoken in public about Steenkamp's death, which he says was an accident. He pleaded not guilty to murder when the high-profile trial opened last month.

Steenkamp's mother, June, sat stony-faced in court as South Africa's onetime Olympic golden boy choked out his statement.

Judge Thokozile Masipa also betrayed no emotion as Pistorius spoke but did once ask him to talk louder, saying she could hardly hear him.

Monday was the first day of the defense phase of the trial, following three weeks of prosecution in March.

Pistorius, who says he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder in his house in the dark, testified that he has been suffering nightmares since the killing and wakes up smelling blood. 1. Where is this happening?
2. What is happening?
3. what was her name?
4. when did it happen?
5. what phase is it in?
6. Did he speak?
7. What did he say?
8. What did he say happen?
9. how long was the first phase of the trial?
10. Why was it high profile?
11. from what country?
12. Who was presiding over the case? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Pretoria, South Africa
2. Oscar Pistorius murdered his girlfriend
3. Reeva Steenkamp
4. Valentine's Day last year
5. defense phase of the trial
6. yes
7. I can't imagine the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness that I have caused you and your family. ... I can promise you that when she went to bed that night, she felt loved,"
8. he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder in his house in the dark
9. a month
10. he is an olympian
11. South Africa
12. Judge Thokozile Masipa