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Boston (pronounced i/bstn/) is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston also served as the historic county seat of Suffolk County until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles (124 km2) with an estimated population of 655,884 in 2014, making it the largest city in New England and the 24th largest city in the United States. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.7 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 8.1 million people, making it the sixth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub, as well as a center for education and culture. Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year. Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and first subway system (1897).

1. What is one of the oldest cities in the US?
2. When was it founded?
3. By whom?
4. Has it expanded at all since it was found?
5. Does it have many people from out of state who visit?
6. It is the largest city in what state?
7. How many people live in the actual city?
8. What about the greater Boston areas?
9. How big is the city in miles?
10. What is the ranking of this city as far as large cities in the US?
11. Did it have the first public school?
12. What else did this place have first?
13. What year did they come out with that?
14. Name one of the key events that took place there?
15. Did the Battle of Bunker Hill also occur there?
16. The city was known for being an important what?
17. Who founded it?
18. What attraction draws the most tourists per year?
19. And how many visitors do they get per year?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Boston
2. 1630
3. Puritan settlers from England
4. Yes
5. Yes, many tourists
6. Massachusetts
7. 4.7 million
8. 8.1 million people
9. 48 square miles
10. 24th
11. Yes
12. subway system
13. 1897
14. Boston Tea Party
15. Yes
16. port and manufacturing hub
17. Puritan settlers
18. Faneuil Hall
19. 20 million

Question: Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.

Memphis had a population of 652,717 in 2016, making it the second largest city in the state of Tennessee after Nashville. The greater Memphis metropolitan area, including adjacent counties in Mississippi and Arkansas, had a 2014 population of 1,317,314. This makes Memphis the second-largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed by metropolitan Nashville.

Memphis is the youngest of Tennessee's major cities, founded in 1819 as a planned city by a group of wealthy Americans including judge John Overton and future president Andrew Jackson. A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian, and the Memphis region is known, particularly to media outlets, as Memphis and the Mid-South.

Occupying a substantial bluff rising from the Mississippi River, the site of Memphis has been a natural location for human settlement by varying cultures over thousands of years. The area was known to be settled in the first millennium AD. by people of the Mississippian Culture, who had a network of communities throughout the Mississippi River Valley and its tributaries and built earthwork ceremonial and burial mounds. The historic Chickasaw Indian tribe, believed to be their descendants, later occupied the site. French explorers led by Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto encountered the Chickasaw tribe in that area, in the 16th century. 1. Is Memphis the oldest of Tennessee's major cities?
2. What county is it the county seat of?
3. When was the area first settled?
4. Where is the cuty located?
5. What is it's population?
6. Which is the name of the only city larger in it in the state of Tennessee?
7. Who originally planned the city of Memphis?
8. Can you name some of them?
9. Which culture is known to have been settled in the area in the first millennium AD.
10. What is a resident of Memphis known as?
11. What is the greater metropolitan area's of the cities poplulation?
12. Where did the network of the mississippian culture have a network of communities? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. No.
2. Shelby County.
3. 1819.
4. Southwestern corner of the state of Tennessee
5. 652,717.
6. Nashville.
7. A group of wealthy Americans.
8. John Overton.
9. Mississippian.
10. A Memphian,
11. 1,317,314
12. Mississippi River Valley.

Q: Ramayana, originally titled as Kaavyam Ramayanam Kritsnam Sitaayaas Charitham Mahat, is an ancient Indian epic poem which narrates the struggle of the divine prince Rama to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana. Along with the Mahabharata, it forms the Sanskrit Itihasa.

The epic, traditionally ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki, narrates the life of Rama, the legendary prince of the Kosala Kingdom. It follows his banishment from the kingdom by his father King Dasharatha, his travels across forests in India with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana, the kidnapping of his wife by Ravana, the demon king of Lanka, resulting in a war with him, and Rama's eventual return to Ayodhya to be crowned king.

The "Ramayana" is one of the largest ancient epics in world literature. It consists of nearly 24,000 verses (mostly set in the Shloka meter), divided into seven Kandas (books) and about 500 sargas (chapters). In Hindu tradition, it is considered to be the "adi-kavya" (first poem). It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal father, the ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. "Ramayana" was an important influence on later Sanskrit poetry and Hindu life and culture. Like "Mahabharata", "Ramayana" is not just a story: it presents the teachings of ancient Hindu sages in narrative allegory, interspersing philosophical and ethical elements. The characters Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Hanuman, Shatrughna, and Ravana are all fundamental to the cultural consciousness of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and south-east Asian countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia.

1. Rama
2. Yes
3. Sita
4. Ramayana
5. Kaavyam Ramayanam Kritsnam Sitaayaas Charitham Mahat,
6. Ravana
7. he demon king
8. An epic
9. Yes'
10. narrative allegory
11. Valmiki

Numbered questions:
1. Who is the divine Prince?
2. Is he married?
3. To whom?
4. What is the name of this this tale?
5. What's was its name when written?
6. Who was the Prince's spouse saved from?
7. And who's he?
8. What type of tale is this?
9. Is it a fiction novel?
10. What other type of literary form is it?
11. Who is believed to have produced this work?