Problem: NEW YORK (CNN) -- After spending nearly 28 years in an irreversible coma, heiress and socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow died Saturday in a New York nursing home, according to a family statement. She was 76.

Sunny von Bulow is pictured during her 1957 wedding to Prince Alfred von Auersperg.

Von Bulow was subject of one of the nation's most sensational criminal cases during the 1980s.

Her husband, Claus, was accused of trying to kill her with an overdose of insulin, which prosecutors alleged sent her into the coma.

He was convicted of making two attempts on her life, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. He was acquitted in a second trial.

His retrial in 1985 received national attention.

"We were blessed to have an extraordinarily loving and caring mother," said the statement from Von Bulow's three children -- Annie Laurie "Ala" Isham, Alexander von Auersperg and Cosima Pavoncelli -- released by a spokeswoman. "She was especially devoted to her many friends and family members."

Martha von Bulow was born Martha Sharp Crawford into a wealthy family. She inherited a fortune conservatively estimated at $75 million, according to an article on the von Bulow case posted on truTV.com's Crime Library Web site.

In her early years, she drew comparisons to actress Grace Kelly.

She became known as Princess von Auersperg with her first marriage, to Prince Alfred von Auersperg of Austria. That marriage produced two children: Alexander and Annie Laurie.

The von Bulows married in 1966 and had a daughter, Cosima.
1. When was Martha born?
2. What did she become know as when married to the Prince?
3. Who was accused of trying to kill her?
4. his name?
5. Surname?
6. When was her first wedding?
7. and her next?
8. how much did she inherit?
9. where was that figure published?
10. which of their websites?
11. who was she compared to
12. how long was she comatosed?
13. where did she die?
14. a hospital?
15. what?
16. how old was she?
17. what was Claus accused of?
18. how?
19. was he convicted?
20. what year was the retrial?
Answer: 1. unknown
2. Princess von Auersperg
3. Her husband
4. Claus
5. von Bulow
6. 1957
7. 1966
8. $75 million,
9. truTV.com'
10. Crime Library Web site.
11. Grace Kelly.
12. 28 years
13. New York
14. no
15. nursing home
16. 76
17. trying to kill her
18. an overdose
19. yes, but eventually aquitted
20. 1985

Problem: CHAPTER XV

BEAUTY IN DISGUISE

Winter passed very monotonously with us in the sod-house at Crane Valley. When the season's work is over and the prairie bound fast by iron frost, the man whom it has prospered spends his well-earned leisure visiting his neighbors or lounging contentedly beside the stove; but those oppressed by anxieties find the compulsory idleness irksome, and I counted the days until we could commence again in the spring. The goodwill of my neighbors made this possible, for one promised seed-wheat, to be paid for when harvest was gathered in; another placed surplus stock under my charge on an agreement to share the resultant profit, while Haldane sent a large draft of young horses and cattle he had hardly hands enough to care for, under a similar arrangement.

I accepted these offers the more readily because, while prompted by kindness, the advantages were tolerably equal to all concerned. So the future looked slightly brighter, and I hoped that better times would come, if we could hold out sufficiently long. The debt I still owed Lane, however, hung as a menace over me, while although--doubtless because it suited him--he did not press me for payment, the extortionate interest was adding to it constantly. Some of my neighbors were in similar circumstances, and at times we conferred together as to the best means of mutual protection.

In the meantime the fire at Gaspard's Trail was almost forgotten--or so, at least, it seemed. Haldane, much against his wishes, spent most of the winter at Bonaventure; but his elder daughter remained in Montreal. Boone, the photographer, appeared but once, and spent the night with us. He looked less like the average Englishman than ever, for frost and snow-blink had darkened his skin to an Indian's color, and when supper was over I watched him languidly as we lounged smoking about the stove. Sally Steel had managed to render the sod-house not only habitable but comfortable in a homely way, and though she ruled us all in a somewhat tyrannical fashion, she said it was for our good.
1. What is disguised?
2. What season goes by?
3. Did it go by thrillingly?
4. Where did they experience it?
5. Are there more seasonal tasks to do?
6. Is the land greed still?
7. What do people who are finished with work do?
8. What about the nervous
9. Who helped with this?
10. What did one offer?
11. What else was sent?
12. By whom?
13. Could he handle them?
14. Who does he owe money to?
15. Did it bother him?
16. Why?
17. Did anyone else owe him?
18. Who?
19. Where does someone stay?
20. Who?
Answer: 1. unknown
2. Winter
3. no
4. the sod-house at Crane Valley
5. no
6. no
7. visit neighbors
8. they find the compulsory idleness irksome
9. neighbors
10. promised seed-wheat
11. a large draft of young horses and cattle
12. Haldane
13. no
14. Lane
15. yes
16. the extortionate interest was adding to it constantly.
17. yes
18. Some of the neighbors
19. Bonaventure
20. Haldane

Problem: The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the blending of the Indus Valley Civilization and Indo-Aryan culture into the Vedic Civilization; the development of Hinduism as a synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions; the rise of the Sramana movement; the decline of Srauta sacrifices and the birth of the initiatory traditions of Jainism, Buddhism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism; the onset of a succession of powerful dynasties and empires for more than two millennia throughout various geographic areas of the subcontinent, including the growth of Muslim dynasties during the Medieval period intertwined with Hindu powers; the advent of European traders resulting in the establishment of the British rule; and the subsequent independence movement that led to the Partition of India and the creation of the Republic of India.

Evidence of Anatomically modern humans in the Indian subcontinent is recorded as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3200 to 1300 BCE, was the first major civilization in South Asia. A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature Harappan period, from 2600 to 1900 BCE. This civilization collapsed at the start of the second millennium BCE and was later followed by the Iron Age Vedic Civilization, which extended over much of the Indo-Gangetic plain and which witnessed the rise of major polities known as the Mahajanapadas. In one of these kingdoms, Magadha, Mahavira and Gautama Buddha propagated their Shramanic philosophies during the fifth and sixth century BCE.
1. How far back can humans be traced in Indian Subcontinent?
2. What civilization flourished along the northwestern region?
3. What cultures blended to make the Vedic Civilization?
4. Which five initiatory traditions were born?
5. What caused British rule to establish?
6. Which civilization had a collapse in the beginning of the second millenium?
7. What happened during the fifth and sixth century BCE?
8. What does Mahajanapadas refer to?
9. For how long did the Indus Valley Civilization rule?
10. What was Hinduism created as?
11. From when to when was the Indus Valley Civilization?
12. What about the Mature Harappan period?
Answer:
1. 75,000 years ago
2. the Indus Valley Civilization
3. the Indus Valley Civilization and the Indo-Aryan culture
4. Jainism, Buddhism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism
5. the advent of European traders
6. unknown
7. Magadha, Mahavira and Gautama Buddha propagated their Shramanic philosophies
8. major polities
9. 1900 years
10. a synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions
11. c. 3200 to 1300 BCE
12. 600 to 1900 BCE.