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Canada is famous for its winter lifestyle, for the season lasts half the year there. A great example of this is the Quebec Winter Carnival . Quebec is an old city with beautiful historic building, and many agree that winter is the best time to visit. The city comes alive in the snow, especially during the winter festival. People who visit the cold city can find tons of things to do that will make winter seem perfect. The Carnival has a magical ice palace made with 9,000 tons of snow, a boat race on the St. Lawrence River, and two night parades with funny people and colorful cars. Other interesting things include a 122-meter ice slide, and a large football game. There is also an exciting dogsled race that runs through six kilometers of the city's streets. With more than 20 teams in the game, the dogsled race is noisy, fun and full of great cheer. Even better, artists from around the world come to enter the snow sculpture competition. It is amazing how these artists can bring snow to life. The Quebec Winter Carnival has everything for the whole family and more. It is surely a great way to experience winter at its fullest. Another famous winter festival is on the other side of the world in China. Known as the City of Ice, Harbin is the capital city of Heilongjiang Province, which is next to Siberia. In the winter, it is very cold, and temperatures there can drop to 30degC below zero. Even so, the cold weather makes the city the right place for the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival. The festival is held every year.

1. Is Quebec a newer city?
2. Is summer the best time to visit?
3. How long is the dog run?
4. Is there another famous gathering that's similar?
5. Where is it?
6. What is it called?
7. How long does the cold last in the Canadian town?
8. How heavy does the snowfall get there?
9. How cold does it get?
10. What is the name of the gathering there?
11. Is the Canadian gathering run along the St. Peter?
12. Where is it?
13. What do artisans choose to compete in?
14. What region is the Chinese gathering near?
15. Is it put on every two years?
16. How often, then?
17. How many groups choose to compete in the dog run?
18. Is baseball played?
19. What sport is?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. no
2. no
3. 6 kilos
4. yes
5. China.
6. City of Ice,
7. half the year
8. unknown
9. 30below zero in China
10. he Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival
11. no
12. St. Lawrence River,
13. the snow sculpture competition
14. Siberia
15. no
16. every year.
17. more than 20
18. no
19. football

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Pope Saint Gregory I (; c. 540 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 3 September 590 to his death in 604. Gregory is famous for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian Mission, to convert a pagan people to Christianity. Gregory is also well known for his writings, which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as pope. The epithet Saint Gregory the Dialogist has been attached to him in Eastern Christianity because of his "Dialogues". For this reason, English translations of Eastern texts will sometimes list him as Gregory "Dialogos" or the Latinized equivalent "Dialogus".

A senator's son and himself the Prefect of Rome at 30, Gregory tried the monastery but soon returned to active public life, ending his life and the century as pope. Although he was the first pope from a monastic background, his prior political experiences may have helped him to be a talented administrator, who successfully established papal supremacy. During his papacy he greatly surpassed with his administration the emperors in improving the welfare of the people of Rome, and successfully challenged the theological views of Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople before the emperor Tiberius II. Gregory regained papal authority in Spain and France, and sent missionaries to England. The realignment of barbarian allegiance to Rome from their Arian Christian alliances shaped medieval Europe. Gregory saw Franks, Lombards, and Visigoths align with Rome in religion.

1. When did Pope Saint Gregory die?
2. when was he born?
3. what was he known for?
4. to do what?
5. Is he knownfor his writings?
6. WHat did his father do?
7. What type of background did he come from?
8. What did he challenge?
9. Who did he send to England?
10. after he did what?
11. What did he shape in medevil Europe?
12. What was he commonly known as?
13. when did he serve as the pope?
14. What will English translatkions of Eastern texts list him as?
15. in Latin?
16. how old was he when he was the pope?
17. What experience did he have prior to becoming pope?
18. What did he successfully establish?
19. what did he do during this?
20. When was he the prefect of Rome?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. March, 12 604
2. 540
3. for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome
4. to convert a pagan people to Christianity
5. yes
6. He was a senator
7. a monastic one
8. the theological views of Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople before the emperor Tiberius II
9. missionaries
10. regained papal authority in Spain and France
11. The realignment of barbarian allegiance to Rome from their Christian alliances
12. Saint Gregory the Great
13. from 3 September 590 to his death in 604
14. Gregory "Dialogos"
15. the Latinized equivalent Dialogus
16. 50
17. the Prefect of Rome at 30 and monastery but soon returned to active public life,
18. papal supremacy
19. During his papacy he greatly surpassed with his administration the emperors in improving the welfare of the people of Rome
20. at 30

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A historian is a person who researches, studies, and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is concerned with events preceding written history, the individual is an historian of prehistory. Although "historian" can be used to describe amateur and professional historians alike, it is reserved more recently for those who have acquired graduate degrees in the discipline. Some historians, though, are recognized by publications or training and experience. "Historian" became a professional occupation in the late nineteenth century as research universities were emerging in Germany and elsewhere.

During the "Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt" trial, it became evident that the court needed to identify what was an "objective historian" in the same vein as the reasonable person, and reminiscent of the standard traditionally used in English law of "the man on the Clapham omnibus". This was necessary so that there would be a legal bench mark to compare and contrast the scholarship of an objective historian against the methods employed by David Irving, as before the "Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt" trial, there was no legal precedent for what constituted an objective historian.

1. when did historian become a professional occupation?
2. where?
3. what trial is mentioned?
4. what did the court need?
5. for what?
6. can historians study pre-history?
7. what are they specifically called?
8. what do you need to have now to regarded as a historian these days?
9. can amateurs be referred to as historians?
10. was there legal precedent before the Irving V Pengquin Books and Lipstadt trial?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. late nineteenth century
2. Germany and elsewhere
3. "Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt"
4. legal precedent
5. constituted an objective historian
6. Yes
7. historian of prehistory
8. graduate degrees
9. Yes
10. No