Question: He could have been president of Israel or played violin at Carnegie Hall, but he was too busy thinking. His thinking on God, love and the meaning of life graces our greeting cards and day-timers.

Fifty years after his death, his shock of white hair and hanging moustache still symbolize genius. Einstein remains the foremost scientist of the modern time. Looking back 2,400 years, only Newton ,Galileo and Aristotle were his equals.

Around the world , universities and academies are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Einstein's "miracle year" when he published five scientific papers in 1905 that basically changed our grasp of space, time ,light and matter. Only he could top himself about a decade later with his theory of relativity.

Born in the age of horse-drawn carriages, his ideas launched a technological revolution that has made more changes in a century than in the previous two thousand years. Computers, satellites, telecommunications, lasers, televisions and nuclear power all owe their invention to ways in which Einstein exposed a stranger and more complicated reality underneath the world.

He escaped Hitler's Germany and devoted the rest of his life to human rights and peace with an authority unmatched by any scientist today, or even most politicians and religious leaders. He spoke out against fascism and racial prejudice. His FBI file ran 1,400 pages.

His letters expose a disorderly personal life - married twice and indifferent toward his children while absorbed in physics. Yet he charmed lovers and admirers with poetry and sailboat outings. Friends and neighbors fiercely protected his privacy. 1. People are celebrating the 100th anniversary of what?
2. What does the article say Einstein exscaped?
3. Did the FBI have a file on him?
4. How long was it?
5. What injustices was he vocal about?
6. Was that it?
7. How many times was he married?
8. Did he have any kids?
9. What were his five papers from 1905 about?
10. What theory did he pen around a decade later?
11. What inventions are listed as being made possible due to his ideas and theories?
12. How did he feel about his children?
13. What did he use to charm people? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. unknown
2. Hitler's Germany
3. Yes
4. 1,400 pages
5. racial prejudice
6. No, Fascism too
7. twice
8. Yes
9. Space and time
10. Theory of relativity.
11. Computers and satellites are two of them
12. He was indifferent toward them
13. Poetry

Question: CHAPTER XV.

AN UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL.

It was really the princess who saved aunt Dorcas's home from destruction. Had she not seen Dan Fernald, as he made his way through the orchard, the barn would most likely have been in a blaze before Joe or Plums were aware of the fact.

Thanks to her warning, Joe saw the smoke before the fire gathered headway, and when he arrived on the scene, the flames had but just fastened upon the side of the barn.

Plums, aroused to something like activity by the knowledge of danger, followed Joe with remarkable promptness, and the amount of water thus brought by both was sufficient to extinguish what, a few moments later, would have been a conflagration.

Not until he had pulled the charred sticks from beneath the end of the barn, and assured himself every spark had been drowned out, did Joe speak, and then it was to relieve his mind by making threats against the would-be incendiary.

"It's all well enough for a woman like aunt Dorcas to tell about doin' good to them what tries to hurt you, for she couldn't so much as put up her hands. If you keep on forgivin' duffers like Dan Fernald, you're bound to be in such scrapes as this all the time. What he needed was a sound thumpin', when he begun talkin' so rough to aunt Dorcas; then he wouldn't dared to try a game of this kind. When I get hold of him again, I'll make up for lost time." 1. Whose house was saved?
2. Who saved it?
3. Did she give a warning to someone?
4. Who?
5. Who wanted to destroy the house?
6. Was there flames on the side of the barn?
7. Who was the other person who helped Joe in putting out the fire?
8. How did they extinguish it?
9. What would it have been if they would't extinguish it?
10. Did Joe make sure there was no spark left at all? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. aunt Dorcas
2. the princess
3. yes
4. Joe
5. Dan Fernald
6. yes
7. Plums
8. with water
9. a conflagration
10. yes

Question: The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. 142- of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all. On the previous day, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers including control of the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. That evening at 7:32 p.m., the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary Russian flag.

Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo on March 11, 1985, three hours after predecessor Konstantin Chernenko's death at age 73. Gorbachev, aged 54, was the youngest member of the Politburo. His initial goal as general secretary was to revive the Soviet economy, and he realized that doing so would require reforming underlying political and social structures. The reforms began with personnel changes of senior Brezhnev-era officials who would impede political and economic change. On April 23, 1985, Gorbachev brought two proteges, Yegor Ligachev and Nikolai Ryzhkov, into the Politburo as full members. He kept the "power" ministries happy by promoting KGB Head Viktor Chebrikov from candidate to full member and appointing Minister of Defence Marshal Sergei Sokolov as a Politburo candidate. 1. What was the time when the Russian flag was lowered?
2. What date was the dissolution put in place?
3. Who was the leader that quit the day before?
4. What date was the election of Gorbachev?
5. Who were the nuclear passwords given over to?
6. What position was Gorbachev voted in to by the Politburo?
7. Who did he take over from due to him being deceased?
8. How old was he when he died?
9. Where was the flag lowered from for the last time?
10. And what was put in its place?
11. How old was Gorbachev as the youngest person in the politburo?
12. What was his original aims as secretary?
13. What date did he bring in two apprentices?
14. Was the declaration no. 142-H?
15. How did he keep the ministries satisfied? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. 7:32 p.m
2. December 26, 1991
3. Mikhail Gorbachev
4. March 11, 1985,
5. Boris Yeltsin
6. General Secretary
7. Konstantin Chernenko
8. 73
9. The Kremlin
10. The pre-revolutionary Russian flag.
11. 54
12. To revive the Soviet economy
13. April 23, 1985
14. Yes
15. By promoting Viktor Chebrikov and appointing Marshal Sergei Sokolov