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Buenos Aires ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Senora Santa Maria del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 17 million.

The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores; both are now neighborhoods of the city. The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name: Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). Its citizens first elected a chief of government (i.e. mayor) in 1996; previously, the mayor was directly appointed by the President of the Republic.

1. What is the population?
2. What did they do in 1996?
3. What is another name for this?
4. What happened before that?
5. Where did the city's leader come from before?
6. By whom?
7. Is it a small city?
8. What is its rank?
9. Is it in a Province?
10. Since when?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. around 17 million
2. Its citizens first elected a chief of government
3. mayor
4. the city was granted autonomy
5. the mayor was directly appointed
6. the President of the Republic.
7. No
8. it is the most populous city of Argentina
9. No
10. 1994

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To succeed in business or life we must continually take actions. Putting yourself on the line day after day can be extremely boring, especially when things do not work out as desired. Each time a disappointing event happens, I like to get reminded of these famous failures: Gates has literally changed the work culture of the world in the 20the and the 21st centuries, by simplifying the way the computer is being used. He was the world's richest man for more than one decade. However, in the 1970's before starting out, he was a Harvard University dropout. The most ironic part is that he started a software company by purchasing the software technology from someone for only $50 back then. Lincoln received no more than five years of formal education throughout his lifetime. When he grew up, he joined politics and had 12 major failures before he was elected the 16th President of the United States of America. Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. His work on optics and gravitation made him one of the greatest scientists the world has even known. Many thought that Newton was born a genius, but he wasn't! When he was young, he did very poorly in grade school, so poor that his teachers became helpless in improving his grades. Beethoven is widely regarded as one of history's great composers. His reputation has inspired composers, musicians and audiences who were to come after him. Before the start of his career, Beethoven's music teacher once said of him "as a composer, he is hopeless". And during his career, he lost his hearing yet he managed to produce great music. A deaf man composing music, ironic, isn't it!

1. What must we do to succeed in business?
2. What can be extremely boring?
3. Who was supposedly the world's richest man for over a decade?
4. What did many think of Newton?
5. Where was Newton from?
6. How did he perform in school?
7. Who is one of history's best composers?
8. What did he lose as an adult?
9. Who was the 16th president?
10. How did Gates change work culture?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. take action
2. putting yourself on the line every day
3. Gates
4. he was born a genius
5. zEngland
6. poorly
7. Beethoven
8. his hearing
9. Lincoln
10. simplifying computer use'

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Washington (CNN) -- More than 42 years after Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger died on a Laotian mountaintop, President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded him the Medal of Honor, saying, "It's never too late to do the right thing. It's never too late to pay tribute to our Vietnam veterans and their families."

Etchenberg's three sons were at the White House for the ceremony. For decades they didn't know about their father's heroism.

Cory Etchberger was in third grade in 1968, when he was told that his father had died in a helicopter accident in Southeast Asia. At age 29 he learned the truth, when the U.S. Air Force declassified his father's story.

"I was stunned," he told CNN during a visit to his hometown of Hamburg, Pennsylvania.

During the Vietnam War, U.S. troops weren't supposed to be in neutral Laos, so Richard Etchberger and a handful of colleagues shed their uniforms and posed as civilians to run a top secret radar installation high on a Laotian cliff. Called Lima Site 85, it guided U.S. bombers to sites in North Vietnam and parts of Laos under communist control.

"Dick and his crew believed they could help turn the tide of the war, perhaps even end it," said Obama.

The North Vietnamese wanted to eliminate the installation, and early on the morning of March 11, 1968, its soldiers succeeded in scaling the 3,000-foot precipice and launching an attack.

Timothy Castle, of the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence, wrote the book "One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam." He calls Etchberger "a hero."

1. Who was in third grade?
2. When was he in 3rd grade?
3. Who died?
4. What was his ranking?
5. Did he have children?
6. how many?
7. What was he being awarded?
8. Who was awarding him with it?
9. How did he die?
10. Was that actually how he died?
11. When did he learn the truth of his fathers death?
12. What was Richard's nickname?
13. Who wrote a book?
14. What was the book called?
15. Was Richard called a hero?
16. How did Richard exactly die?
17. What war did he die during?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Cory Etchberger
2. in 1968
3. Richard L. Etchberger
4. Air Force Chief Master Sgt.
5. yes
6. three sons
7. Medal of Honor
8. Barack Obama
9. in a helicopter accident
10. no
11. when he was 29
12. Dick
13. Timothy Castle,
14. "One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam."
15. yes
16. no
17. the Vietnam War