Q: Relations between Grand Lodges are determined by the concept of Recognition. Each Grand Lodge maintains a list of other Grand Lodges that it recognises. When two Grand Lodges recognise and are in Masonic communication with each other, they are said to be in amity, and the brethren of each may visit each other's Lodges and interact Masonically. When two Grand Lodges are not in amity, inter-visitation is not allowed. There are many reasons why one Grand Lodge will withhold or withdraw recognition from another, but the two most common are Exclusive Jurisdiction and Regularity.

Since the middle of the 19th century, Masonic historians have sought the origins of the movement in a series of similar documents known as the Old Charges, dating from the Regius Poem in about 1425 to the beginning of the 18th century. Alluding to the membership of a lodge of operative masons, they relate a mythologised history of the craft, the duties of its grades, and the manner in which oaths of fidelity are to be taken on joining. The fifteenth century also sees the first evidence of ceremonial regalia.

1. y the concept of Recognition
2. Each Grand Lodge
3. of other Grand Lodges that it recognises
4. When two Grand Lodges recognise and are in Masonic communication with each other, they are said to be in amity
5. the brethren of each may visit each other's Lodges and interact Masonically
6. inter-visitation is not allowed
7. many reasons
8. Exclusive Jurisdiction and Regularity
9. a series of similar documents
10. about 1425 to the beginning of the 18th century
11. a mythologised history of the craft
12. the duties of its grades
13. the manner in which oaths of fidelity are to be taken on joining
14. The fifteenth century
15. Masonic historians have sought the origins of the movement
16. about 1425
17. operative masons
18. yes
19. When two Grand Lodges recognise and are in Masonic communication with each othe
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. What are relations Grand lodges determined by?
2. Who carries a list?
3. of what?
4. What does aminty mean?
5. what does this allow them?
6. What about if they are not?
7. Why would this happen?
8. like?
9. What are Old Charges?
10. When are they dated from?
11. What is in them?
12. what else?
13. and?
14. When was ceremonial regalia seen?
15. What has happened since the 19th century?
16. When was the Reglus Poem noted?
17. Who was the membership for?
18. Will a lodge withhold or withdraw recgonition?
19. What are the two parts to Amity?
20. Are the Old Charges similar?

Q: In anticipation of an extraordinary visit, the streets and buildings of Havana, Cuba, were cleaned and painted by dozens of workers. What was the occasion?

For the first time in nearly 90 years, a sitting United States president was coming to Cuba, an island nation 90 miles south of Florida. On Sunday, President Barack Obama, joined by his family, stepped off Air Force One and onto a rainy runway, where Cuban dignitaries eagerly awaited him. "It's wonderful to be here, " the president said. The last time a U.S. president came to Cuba was in 1928. It was President Calvin Coolidge, and he arrived on a battleship. Obama will be in Cuba through Tuesday. He is set to meet with Cuba's president, Raul Castro, attend a state dinner and even take in a baseball game.

The U.S. cut all ties with Cuba after Fidel Castro's communist government took control of the island in 1959. In the years that followed, both countries' opposing political views furthered the separation. Plans for social and economic change began after President Fidel Castro transferred power to his brother, Raul in 2008. Raul Castro then set a plan in motion to revive the country's economy.

Since then, Cuba has been taking small, yet lasting steps toward change by removing a number of restrictions that had been set on its citizens, such as access to the Internet, the use of cellphones, and by allowing people to work at jobs not controlled by the government. Cuba, however, still has tough limits on media, public assembly and political opposition.

Obama hopes to share his vision for Cuba's future during a speech he will deliver. Before the trip, Senior Advisor Ben Rhodes said the president hoped to use this visit as a way to "continue to create openings for great engagement between the American and Cuban people."

1. Havana, Cuba
2. An extraordinary visit
3. a United States president
4. 1928
5. 90 miles
6. Sunday
7. Calvin Coolidge
8. through Tuesday
9. meet with Raul Castro
10. Attend a state dinner
11. communist
12. 2008
13. Yes
14. removing restrictions
15. access to the Internet
16. tough limits on media
17. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. what place was the event happening
2. what were they preparing for
3. from who
4. how long had it been since the last visit
5. how far from US is Cuba
6. what day did they arrive
7. who was the last president that visited
8. how long will Obama be there
9. what is he gonna do while there
10. what else
11. what kind of government was their former president running
12. what year did they get a new president
13. is he tryiing to better the country
14. what previous laws have been changed
15. what kind
16. what hasnt changed
17. does obama have a vision for cuba

Q: It is generally considered that the Pacific War began on 7/8 December 1941, on which date Japan invaded Thailand and attacked the British possessions of Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong as well as the United States military bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines. Some historians contend that the conflict in Asia can be dated back to 7 July 1937 with the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China, or possibly 19 September 1931, beginning with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself started in early December 1941, with the Sino-Japanese War then becoming part of it as a theater of the greater World War II.[nb 9]

The Pacific War saw the Allied powers pitted against the Empire of Japan, the latter briefly aided by Thailand and to a much lesser extent by its Axis allies, Germany and Italy. The war culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and other large aerial bomb attacks by the United States Army Air Forces, accompanied by the Soviet invasion of Manchuria on 8 August 1945, resulting in the Japanese announcement of intent to surrender on 15 August 1945. The formal and official surrender of Japan took place aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. Following its defeat, Japan's Shinto Emperor stepped down as the divine leader through the Shinto Directive, because the Allied Powers believed this was the major political cause of Japan's military aggression and deconstruction process soon took place to install a new liberal-democratic constitution to the Japanese public as the current Constitution of Japan.

1. Thailand
2. the Empire of Japan
3. Thailand, Germany, and Italy
4. the atomic bombings
5. the United States
6. twice
7. Hiroshima and Nagasak
8. they surrendered
9. 2 September 1945
10. aboard the USS Missouri
11. step down
12. Japan and China

Numbered questions:
1. What country was invaded at the onset of the War?
2. Who were the allied against?
3. And who aided their enemy?
4. What was the culminating point of the war?
5. Which is the only country to ever drop atomic bombs?
6. And how many times did they do this?
7. And where did they drop these destructive atom bombs?
8. What did Japan do after this?
9. On which day was the formal white flag flown?
10. Where did it happen?
11. What was Japan's emperor forced to do?
12. Who was the was on July 7, 1937 between?