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(CNN)How do Republicans try to breathe new life into an old scandal? We've seen it time and time again. Here's how it works:

Step One: Republicans, with nothing in their arsenal to use against Hillary Clinton, selectively leak to reporters a "scandalous" tidbit -- often one that has been previously reported.

Step Two: The new media bites.

Step Three: The media hyperventilates and suffocates the airwaves with repetition of the same story.

Step Four: Upon further examination, the story falls apart.

This is exactly how the latest media hype, this time over Hillary Clinton's use of emails at the State Department, has played out. And it presents yet another chapter in the Benghazi hoax.

The New York Times story about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account at the State Department is a perfect example of "gotcha" journalism, where reporters will take any bait the Republicans give them without proper vetting. The New York Times has a history of this. (Whitewater, anyone?)

The Times story suggests Secretary Clinton broke federal rules in relation to her email. But the Times' main source for this allegation says Clinton violated no laws.

Yes, Clinton used a private email account to communicate while she was secretary of state. But so did secretaries of state before her. According to the State Department spokesman Marie Harf, John Kerry is the first secretary of state ever to rely primarily on official State Department email.

Clinton asks State to release emails: What you need to know

In October 2014, 18 months after Clinton left, the State Department was engaged in the process of updating its records preservation policies. The State Department asked every secretary of state dating back to Madeleine Albright to provide records, including emails, from their time in office. Clinton responded to the State Department's request for emails, providing the department with over 55,000 pages of emails. She did so months ago. Clinton has been fully transparent and has asked the State Department for these emails to be made public.
1. What political party is the article about?
2. Who are they targeting?
3. What is the second step?
4. Does the story hold water?
5. What newspaper wrote a piece about her?
6. What is the type of reporting called?
7. Is this a typical thing for this newspaper?
8. Did she break the law?
9. Has she been cooperative?
10. How much did she turn over?

Numbered answers:
1. Republicans
2. Hillary Clinton
3. The new media bites
4. nothing in their arsenal
5. New York Times
6. gotcha
7. yes
8. no
9. yes
10. a lot

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Charles II (29 May 1630 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death.

Charles II's father, Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War. Although the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649, England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth, and the country was a "de facto" republic, led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe. Cromwell became virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland, and Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands. A political crisis that followed the death of Cromwell in 1658 resulted in the restoration of the monarchy, and Charles was invited to return to Britain. On 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim. After 1660, all legal documents were dated as if he had succeeded his father as king in 1649.
1. What position did Charles II hold?
2. What country did he rule over first?
3. Who was his dad?
4. What happened to him?
5. Where?
6. When?
7. Was Charles II ever in a war?
8. Did he lose any battles?
9. Which one?
10. Who beat him?
11. When?
12. What happened after he lost?
13. Did he ever go to France?
14. When did he return to Britain?
15. What city did he return to?

Numbered answers:
1. King of England, Scotland and Ireland
2. Scotland
3. Charles I
4. executed
5. Whitehall
6. January 30 1649
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Battle of Worcester
10. Oliver Cromwell
11. September 3 1651
12. Charles fled to mainland Europe
13. Yes
14. On 29 May 1660
15. London

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Starting in the coal mines, by the mid-19th century elevators were operated with steam power and were used for moving goods in bulk in mines and factories. These steam driven devices were soon being applied to a diverse set of purposes - in 1823, two architects working in London, Burton and Hormer, built and operated a novel tourist attraction, which they called the "ascending room". It elevated paying customers to a considerable height in the center of London, allowing them a magnificent panoramic view of downtown.

The hydraulic crane was invented by Sir William Armstrong in 1846, primarily for use at the Tyneside docks for loading cargo. These quickly supplanted the earlier steam driven elevators: exploiting Pascal's law, they provided a much greater force. A water pump supplied a variable level of water pressure to a plunger encased inside a vertical cylinder, allowing the level of the platform (carrying a heavy load) to be raised and lowered. Counterweights and balances were also used to increase the lifting power of the apparatus.
1. How were goods moved?
2. driven by what?
3. What attracted tourists?
4. Where was it built?
5. When was it built?
6. By whom?
7. What did Armstrong build?
8. In what year?
9. What was the primary purpose?
10. Where were the elevators used?
11. Was the crane a success?
12. What did it replace?
13. Why were they successful?
14. What increased the lift power?
15. What did the attraction do?
16. What was the occupation of those who built it?
17. What was exploited?
18. What applied the pressure?
19. Was it a constant force?
20. What did this allow to be accomplished?
21. When were the elevators used?
Numbered answers:
1. elevators
2. steam
3. Ascending Room
4. London
5. 1823
6. Burton and Hormer
7. hydraulic crane
8. 1846
9. Loading Cargo
10. mines and factories
11. yes
12. steam driven elevators:
13. they provided a much greater force
14. Counterweights
15. It lifted customers up to show downtown.
16. they were two architects
17. Pascal's law
18. A water pump
19. No
20. level of the platform to be raised and lowered
21. by the mid-19th century