question: CHAPTER I

ANDY AND HIS UNCLE

"What be you a-goin' to do today, Andy?"

"I'm going to try my luck over to the Storburgh camp, Uncle Si. I hardly think Mr. Storburgh will have an opening for me, but it won't hurt to ask him."

"Did you try Sam Hickley, as I told you to?" continued Josiah Graham, as he settled himself more comfortably before the open fireplace of the cabin.

"Yes, but he said he had all the men he wanted." Andy Graham gave something of a sigh. "Seems to me there are more lumbermen in this part of Maine than there is lumber."

"Humph! I guess you ain't tried very hard to git work," grumbled the old man, drawing up his bootless feet on the rungs of his chair, and spreading out his hands to the generous blaze before him. "Did you see them Plover brothers?"

"No, but Chet Greene did, day before yesterday, and they told him they were laying men off instead of taking 'em on."

"Humph! I guess thet Chet Greene don't want to work. He'd rather fool his time away in the woods, huntin' and fishin'."

"Chet is willing enough to work if he can get anything to do. And hunting pays, sometimes. Last week he got a fine deer and one of the rich hunters from Boston paid him a good price for it."

"Humph! Thet ain't as good as a stiddy, payin' job. I don't want you to be a-lazin' your time away in the woods,--I want you to grow up stiddy an' useful. Besides, we got to have money, if we want to live."
1. Who is Andy's Uncle?
2. What is Andy trying to find?
3. Who will he talk to today?
4. Does he believe he'll be successful?
5. What state is he in?
6. Who else did he talk to about a job?
7. What is his uncle's full name?
8. Who didn't have any openings?
9. In what field?
10. Who else did his uncle want him to talk to?
11. Had he?
12. Who had?
13. When?
14. Were they hiring?
15. What did his uncle think Chet liked to do?
16. Did he think that was a good way to make a living?
17. Had Chet made some money doing it?
18. What did he sell?
19. Where?
20. For how much?
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answer: 1. Si
2. a job
3. Mr. Storburgh
4. No
5. Maine
6. Chet Greene
7. Josiah Graham
8. Sam Hickley
9. lumber
10. Plover brothers
11. No
12. Chet Greene
13. day before yesterday
14. No
15. huntin and fishin
16. no
17. yes
18. deer
19. Boston
20. good price

Buckingham Palace has a history that dates back over 500 years and has changed hands on numerous occasions, however, much of the building that remains standing today is from the original structure built in the early 1700's.

In the beginning Buckingham Palace was originally known as Buckingham House. However, in 1762 George III liked the house so much that he bought it for 28,000 and renamed it "The Queen's House". The reason for this was down to the fact that he bought the house to give to his wife Charlotte. Shortly after he did this, work soon began in order to remodel the house with the help of Sir William Chambers. This trend then continued with the accession of George IV in 1820 when he decided to reconstruct the house but he still used it for the same purpose that his father did.

One of the biggest physical changes to the house occurred several years later when the king had a change of mind. It was in 1826 that King George IV set about transforming the house into what it is known today, Buckingham Palace. He did this with the help of an architect known as John Nash.

The work that Nash carried out involved doubling the size of the main block through adding a new suite of rooms on the garden side facing the west. He then faced this with mellow Bath stone, which reflected the French neo-classical influence favored by George IV. Many of the rooms that Nash added still remain pretty much unchanged today.

The palace as it stands today acts as not only the London residence of Her Majesty the Queen but also the administrative headquarters of the Royal Household. It is in fact one of the few working royal palaces that remain in the world today. The state rooms are extensively used by the Queen as well as members of the royal family as a way of receiving and entertaining guests on state, ceremonial and official occasions. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When was the palace built?
2. What is the name?
3. Does the same family control the palace?
4. Why not?
5. What was the original name of the palace?
6. Was it called something else after that?
7. By WHO?
8. wHAT DID HE CALL IT?
9. wHEN DID HE GAIN CONTROL OF IT?
10. hOW DID HE DO SO?
11. For how much?
12. Who did he buy it for?
13. Who resided there next?
14. What year did he assume control?
15. What happened in 1826?
16. Into what?
17. Upon who's orders?
18. What is the palace besides home to the queen?
19. For whom?
20. Which rooms are used most often by the queen?
21. Are there many other functioning palaces in the world?
Answer: 1. Early 1700's
2. Buckingham Palace
3. No
4. It has changed hands on numerous occasions,
5. Buckingham House
6. Yes
7. George III
8. "The Queen's House"
9. in 1762
10. hE BOUGHT IT.
11. 28,000
12. his wife Charlotte
13. George IV
14. 1820
15. Transforming the house.
16. what it is known as today
17. King George IV
18. Administrative headquarters.
19. The Royal Household.
20. The state rooms
21. No.

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (Mental Floss) -- It's hard to walk down the aisle of a liquor store without running across a bottle bearing someone's name.

A costumed reveler at a Captain Morgan party celebrates the rum named after the 17th century privateer.

We put them in our cocktails, but how well do we know them?

Here's some biographical detail on the men behind your favorite tipples:

1. Captain Morgan

The Captain wasn't always just the choice of sorority girls looking to blend spiced rum with Diet Coke; in the 17th century he was a feared privateer.

Not only did the Welsh pirate marry his own cousin, he ran risky missions for the governor of Jamaica, including capturing some Spanish prisoners in Cuba and sacking Port-au-Prince in Haiti.

He then plundered the Cuban coast before holding for ransom the entire city of Portobelo, Panama.

He later looted and burned Panama City, but his pillaging career came to an end when Spain and England signed a peace treaty in 1671.

Instead of getting in trouble for his high-seas antics, Morgan received knighthood and became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica. Mental Floss: 5 drinking stories that put yours to shame

2. Johnnie Walker

Walker, the name behind the world's most popular brand of Scotch whisky, was born in 1805 in Ayrshire, Scotland.

When his father died in 1819, Johnnie inherited a trust of a little over 400 pounds, which the trustees invested in a grocery store.

Walker became a very successful grocer in the town of Kilmarnock and even sold a whisky, Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky. 1. Who is Captain Morgan's rum named after?
2. Were people afraid of him?
3. What was his nationality?
4. Did he have a wife?
5. Did he visit any islands in the Caribbean?
6. Which?
7. What did he do there?
8. Was he punished for that?
9. Then what happened to him?
10. Who is the most popular scotch named after?
11. Where was he raised?
12. When?
13. Was he poor?
14. Where did he get money?
15. What did he do with it?
numbered_answers:
1. 17th century privateer
2. Yes
3. Welsh
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. Cuba
7. plundered
8. No
9. Morgan received knighthood
10. Johnnie Walker
11. Ayrshire, Scotland
12. unknown
13. No
14. inherited
15. the trustees invested in a grocery store