Question: Panasonic ( "Panasonikku") is the principal brand name of the Japanese electronics manufacturer Panasonic Corporation. The company sells a wide range of products under the brand worldwide, including plasma and LCD televisions, DVD and Blu-ray Disc recorders and players, camcorders, telephones, vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens, shavers, projectors, digital cameras, batteries, laptop computers (under the sub-brand Toughbook), CD players and home stereo equipment, fax machines, scanners, printers, electronic white-boards, electronic components and semiconductors.

The brand uses the marketing slogan "A Better Life, A Better World".

The Panasonic brand was created by Matsushita in 1955 for the Americas region because the National brand, which was its principal brand in its home market of Japan, was already registered by others. The Panasonic brand was created from the elements "pan" - meaning "all" or "bread" - and "sonic" - meaning "sound" - because it was first used for audio equipment. Panasonic also sold the first bread machine.

On January 10, 2008, Matsushita announced that it intended to change the company name to Panasonic Corporation. The proposal to change the company's name was approved at the firm's annual shareholder's meeting on June 26 and the name took effect from October 1, 2008. In parallel the "National" brand, which had been used by the company in Japan for non-audio/visual products (mostly home appliances), was phased out and replaced with the Panasonic brand by March 2010. 1. which catchy phrase is used by a popular brand?
2. which brand?
3. what kind of company is it?
4. from where?
5. when was it created?
6. by who?
7. why?
8. what does the name mean?
9. did they sell bread machines?
10. why did they choose that name?
11. what was the principal brand?
12. when did they add corporation to the name?
13. when did they announce the decision?
14. was it met with approval at the meeting?
15. on what day?
16. and what day did the change officially take place?
17. what is a sub-brand?
18. what does that brand sell?
19. what are some electronics sold by Panasonic?
20. Do they sell TVs? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. "A Better Life, A Better World".
2. Panasonic Corporation
3. electronic company
4. Japan
5. 1955 for Americas region
6. Matsushita
7. because the National brand was already registered by others
8. all" or "bread" / "sound"
9. Yes
10. because it was first used for audio equipment
11. Panasonic
12. 2008
13. January 10, 2008
14. Yes
15. June 26
16. October 1
17. Toughbook
18. laptop computers
19. telephones, vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens
20. Yes

Question: Piedmont ( ; , ; Piedmontese, Occitan and ; ) is a region in northwest Italy, one of the 20 regions of the country. It borders France, Aosta Valley region, Switzerland, Lombardy, Emilia Romagna and Liguria regions. It has an area of 25,402square kilometres (9,808 sq mi) and a population of 4 396 293 (31-7-2016). The capital of Piedmont is Turin.

The name Piedmont comes from medieval Latin Pedemontium or Pedemontis, i.e., "ad pedem montium", meaning "at the foot of the mountains" (the Alps) attested in documents of the end of the 12th century.

Other towns of Piedmont with more than 20,000 inhabitants sorted by population :

Piedmont is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monviso, where the Po rises, and Monte Rosa. It borders with France (Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur), Switzerland (Ticino and Valais) and the Italian regions of Lombardy, Liguria, Aosta Valley and for a very small fragment with Emilia Romagna. The geography of Piedmont is 43.3% mountainous, along with extensive areas of hills (30.3%) and plains (26.4%).

Piedmont is the second largest of Italy's 20 regions, after Sicily. It is broadly coincident with the upper part of the drainage basin of the river Po, which rises from the slopes of Monviso in the west of the region and is Italy's largest river. The Po collects all the waters provided within the semicircle of mountains (Alps and Apennines) which surround the region on three sides. 1. What is the name of this town?
2. Where is that?
3. Where does it's name originate?
4. Which name?
5. What does that translate to?
6. Which ones?
7. Where is evidence of that found?
8. From when?
9. Are they nearby?
10. On which sides?
11. What else?
12. How many regions does the country have?
13. What ranking is it in size?
14. Which is first?
15. What is the official city of it?
16. What is the number of people there?
17. As of when?
18. How big is it exactly?
19. What is it next to?
20. What else? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Piedmont
2. in northwest Italy
3. from medieval Latin
4. Pedemontium or Pedemontis
5. at the foot of the mountains
6. the Alps
7. in documents
8. the end of the 12th century
9. yes
10. three sides, including Monviso
11. where the Po rises
12. 20
13. second
14. Sicily
15. Turin
16. 4 396 293
17. 31-7-2016
18. 25,402square kilometres
19. France
20. the Aosta Valley region

Question: CHAPTER III.

BUILDING THE MOLE.

Caleb sat down upon the step of the door, eating a piece of bread, while Dwight and David returned to their work of building the mole. They got the wheelbarrow, and loaded it with stones.

Caleb sat a few minutes more at the door, and then he went into the house, and got his little rocking chair, and brought it out under the elm, and sat down there, looking towards the boys, who were at work near the water. At last, David spied him sitting there, and said,

"There is Caleb, sitting under the great tree."

Dwight looked around, and then, throwing down the stone that he had in his hands, he said,

"I mean to go and get him to come here."

So he ran towards him, and said,

"Come, Caleb, come down here, and help us make our mole."

"No," said Caleb, shaking his head, and, turning away a little; "I don't want to go."

"O, do come, Caleb," said Dwight; "I won't trouble you any more."

"No," said Caleb: "I am tired, and I had rather stay here in my little chair."

"But I will carry your chair down to the brook; and there is a beautiful place there to sit and see us tumble in the stones."

So Caleb got up, and Dwight took his chair, and they walked together down to the shore of the brook. Dwight found a little spot so smooth and level, that the rocking-chair would stand very even upon it, though it would not rock very well, for the ground was not hard, like a floor. Caleb rested his elbow upon the arm of his chair, and his pale cheek in his little slender hand, and watched the stones, as, one after another, they fell into the brook. 1. What was Caleb eating?
2. where?
3. Who else was there?
4. what were they doing?
5. what did they use?
6. what did they put in it?
7. Why did Caleb go inside?
8. Did he sit in it?
9. where?
10. doing what?
11. who was he watching?
12. Did one of them see him?
13. who?
14. what did he do when he saw him?
15. Did he want Caleb to help?
16. Did Caleb want to?
17. why?
18. What did Dwight offer?
19. where?
20. Did Caleb agree? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. a piece of bread,
2. the step of the door,
3. Dwight and David
4. building the mole
5. wheelbarrow
6. stones.
7. to get his little rocking chair
8. yes
9. under the elm
10. watching the stones
11. Dwight and David
12. yes
13. David
14. ran towards him
15. yes
16. no
17. he was tired
18. to carry his chair
19. to the brook
20. yes