Question:
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a major part of the film industry's awards season, which culminates each year in the Academy Awards.

The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television in 2016, was broadcast live on January 8, 2017. Jimmy Fallon hosted the show.

In 1943, a group of writers banded together to form the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and by creating a generously distributed award called the Golden Globe Award, they now play a significant role in film marketing. The 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at various venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish a special honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as an international figure within the entertainment industry, the first award was presented to director and producer, Cecil B. DeMille. The official name of the award thus became the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
1. When was the Hollywood Foreign Press Association started?
2. What award are they responsible for?
3. When did that start?
4. When was the first award given?
5. Where?
6. Was that the permanent site of the ceremonies?
7. What are a couple others?
8. How often do the give the awards?
9. What industry is it for?
10. Is this only for Americans?
11. Who was the host of the 17th Awards?
12. What about the 74th?
13. Where was it?
14. When was it?
15. Who had an award named after them?
16. What role do they play in film making?
17. What year was the first one given?
18. What kind of figure gets this award?
19. How many members are in the association?
20. How much does an award cost?

Numbered answers:
1. 1943
2. Golden Globe Award
3. 1943
4. January 1944
5. 20th Century-Fox studios
6. no
7. Beverly Hills Hotel, and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
8. annually
9. film
10. no
11. unknown
12. Jimmy Fallon
13. unknown
14. January 8, 2017
15. Cecil B. DeMille
16. director
17. 1950
18. international figures within the entertainment industry
19. 93
20. unknown

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Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years old, and did not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers worried about his rnenta1ability.

Beethoven's music teacher said about him,"As a composer he is hopeless." What if this young boy believed it?

When Thomas Edison was a young boy,his teachers said he was so stupid that he could never learn anything.He once said,''I remember I used to never be able to get along at schoo1.I was always at the foot of my class...My father thought I was stupid,and I almost decided that l was a stupid person."What if young Thomas believed what may said about him?

When the sculptor Auguste Rodin was young; he had difficulty learning to read and write.:. Today, we may say he had a learning disability. His father said of him, "I have an idiot for a son. "His uncle agreed. "He's uneducable," he said. What if Rodin had doubted his ability?

Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper editor because he was thought to have no "good ideas". Enrico Caruso was told by one music teacher, "you can't sing. You have no voice at all. " And an editor told Louisa May Alcott that she was unable to write anything that would have popular appeal.

What if these people had listened and become discouraged? Where would our world be without the music of Beethoven, the art of Rodin or the ideas of Albert Einstein and Walt Disney? As Oscar Levant once said, "It's not what you are but what you don't become that hurts. "

You have great potential.When you believe in all you can be, rather than all you cannot become, you will find your place on earth.
1. When did Albert Einstein learn to speak?
2. When did he start reading?
3. Were people worried about him?

Numbered answers:
1. When he was 4.
2. age 7
3. Yes

Question:
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CHAPTER XLV

Law Business in London

On the Monday morning at six o'clock, Mr Oriel and Frank started together; but early as it was, Beatrice was up to give them a cup of coffee, Mr Oriel having slept that night in the house. Whether Frank would have received his coffee from his sister's fair hands had not Mr Oriel been there, may be doubted. He, however, loudly asserted that he should not have done so, when she laid claim to great merit for rising in his behalf.

Mr Oriel had been specially instigated by Lady Arabella to use the opportunity of their joint journey, for pointing out to Frank the iniquity as well as madness of the course he was pursuing; and he had promised to obey her ladyship's behests. But Mr Oriel was perhaps not an enterprising man, and was certainly not a presumptuous one. He did intend to do as he was bid; but when he began, with the object of leading up to the subject of Frank's engagement, he always softened down into some much easier enthusiasm in the matter of his own engagement with Beatrice. He had not that perspicuous, but not over-sensitive strength of mind which had enabled Harry Baker to express his opinion out at once; and boldly as he did it, yet to do so without offence.

Four times before the train arrived in London, he made some little attempt; but four times he failed. As the subject was matrimony, it was his easiest course to begin about himself; but he never could get any further.
1. Is this story going to be about a doctor's office?
2. What city?
3. Was Mr Oriel an enterprising man?
4. What about a presumptuous one?
5. Did he intend to talk about the subject of matrimony?
6. What did he talk about instead each time, instead?
7. Who was he engaged to?
8. Who was able to express their opinion at once, though?
9. Was anyone offended when Harry did it?
10. What are Mr Oriel and Frank riding together?
Numbered answers:
1. No
2. London
3. No
4. no
5. yes
6. himself
7. Beatrice
8. Harry Baker
9. no
10. train