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NEW YORK (CNN) -- An oil painting was returned Tuesday to the estate of a Jewish art dealer who was forced to consign the painting and other artwork under Nazi Germany before fleeing the country.

"Portrait of a Musician Playing a Bagpipe" was done in 1632 by an unknown artist.

The painting, "Portrait of a Musician Playing a Bagpipe," was done in 1632 by an unknown painter from the Northern Netherlandish school, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in southern New York.

It was owned by Max Stern, an art dealer who had a gallery in Dusseldorf, Germany, until 1937, when the Nazis' Reich Chamber for Fine Arts ordered him to liquidate the gallery and its inventory, the statement said.

Stern, who died in 1987, left no heirs. He and his wife had founded the Max Stern Art Restitution Project, which directly benefits Concordia University and McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, according to a statement from U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The painting was returned Tuesday -- Holocaust Remembrance Day -- to Clarence Epstein of Concordia University on behalf of the executors of the estate, said Lou Martinez of the immigration agency.

It was returned in a ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, he said.

The painting had been owned by Philip Mould Ltd., a London, England, gallery, when Lawrence Steigrad, a New York art dealer, bought it in 2008, the New York attorney's office said.

Neither had any idea of the painting's past. Philip Mould Ltd. had purchased the painting the year before from Lempertz Auction House. The same auction house sold the painting in 1937 after Stern was forced to liquidate, without receiving any proceeds from the sale, the New York attorney's office said.
1. What type of painting was returned to the art dealer?
2. What was his religious affliction?
3. What did he have to do before leaving the country?
4. Who painted the artwork?
5. Who owned the painting?
6. When did he have to sell his inventory?
7. Why did he have to do this?
8. Where was his art gallery?
9. When was the painting returned?
10. What day of the week did that fall on?
11. Was the returning of the painting made official?
12. How so?
13. In what state did this take place?
14. Who purchased the painting in 2008?
15. Who was he?
16. Who owned it before that?
17. Where did this company do business?

Numbered answers:
1. An oil painting
2. Jewish
3. he was forced to consign the painting
4. an unknown artist
5. Max Stern
6. in 1937
7. Nazis' Reich Chamber for Fine Arts ordered him to liquidate the gallery and its inventory
8. Dusseldorf, Germany,
9. on Holocaust Remembrance Day
10. Tuesday
11. yes
12. through a ceremony
13. New York
14. Lawrence Steigrad
15. a New York art dealer
16. Philip Mould Ltd
17. London, England

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Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and some other Asian languages. In Standard Chinese they are called Hanzi (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ). They have been adapted to write a number of other languages including: Japanese, where they are known as kanji, Korean, where they are known as hanja, and Vietnamese in a system known as chu Nom. Collectively, they are known as CJKV characters. In English, they are sometimes called Han characters. Chinese characters constitute the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world. By virtue of their widespread current use in East Asia, and historic use throughout the Sinosphere, Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world.

Chinese characters number in the tens of thousands, though most of them are minor graphic variants encountered only in historical texts. Studies in China have shown that functional literacy in written Chinese requires a knowledge of between three and four thousand characters. In Japan, 2,136 are taught through secondary school (the Joyo kanji); hundreds more are in everyday use. There are various national standard lists of characters, forms, and pronunciations. Simplified forms of certain characters are used in China, Singapore, and Malaysia; the corresponding traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and to a limited extent in South Korea. In Japan, common characters are written in post-WWII Japan-specific simplified forms (shinjitai), which are closer to traditional forms than Chinese simplifications, while uncommon characters are written in Japanese traditional forms (kyujitai), which are virtually identical to Chinese traditional forms. In South Korea, when Chinese characters are used they are of the traditional variant and are almost identical to those used in places like Taiwan and Hong Kong. Teaching of Chinese characters in South Korea starts in the 7th grade and continues until the 12th grade where 1,800 total characters are taught albeit these characters are only used in certain cases (on signs, academic papers, historical writings, etc.) and are slowly declining in use.
1. What is used to write Asian languages?
2. What kind?
3. Do they use them in Japanese?
4. What do they call them?
5. What are they in standard Chinese?
6. In Korean?
7. What do they use in Vietnam?
8. What are they referred to as in English?
9. How many Chinese characters are there?
10. How many should you know to be literate in Chinese?
11. How many forms are there?
12. Where do they use traditional characters?
13. What kind do they use in Malaysia?
14. What about in Hong Kong?
15. How many characters would you learn in a secondary school in Japan?
16. What is that group called?
17. Do they use more than that on a daily basis?
18. When do they start learning them in South Korea?
19. When do they stop?
20. How many do they learn?

Numbered answers:
1. characters
2. CJKV characters
3. yes
4. kanji
5. Hanzi
6. hanja
7. a system known as chu Nom
8. Han characters
9. the tens of thousands
10. between three and four thousand characters
11. There are various national standard lists of characters, forms, and pronunciations
12. In South Korea
13. Simplified forms of certain characters
14. A traditional variant
15. 2,136
16. the Joyo kanji
17. yes
18. the 7th grade
19. the 12th grade
20. 1,800

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KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) is a collection of databases dealing with genomes, biological pathways, diseases, drugs, and chemical substances. KEGG is utilized for bioinformatics research and education, including data analysis in genomics, metagenomics, metabolomics and other omics studies, modeling and simulation in systems biology, and translational research in drug development.

The KEGG database project was initiated in 1995 by Minoru Kanehisa, Professor at the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, under the then ongoing Japanese Human Genome Program. Foreseeing the need for a computerized resource that can be used for biological interpretation of genome sequence data, he started developing the KEGG PATHWAY database. It is a collection of manually drawn KEGG pathway maps representing experimental knowledge on metabolism and various other functions of the cell and the organism. Each pathway map contains a network of molecular interactions and reactions and is designed to link genes in the genome to gene products (mostly proteins) in the pathway. This has enabled the analysis called KEGG pathway mapping, whereby the gene content in the genome is compared with the KEGG PATHWAY database to examine which pathways and associated functions are likely to be encoded in the genome.

According to the developers, KEGG is a "computer representation" of the biological system. It integrates building blocks and wiring diagrams of the system more specifically, genetic building blocks of genes and proteins, chemical building blocks of small molecules and reactions, and wiring diagrams of molecular interaction and reaction networks. This concept is realized in the following databases of KEGG, which are categorized into systems, genomic, chemical, and health information.
1. What project is this article about?
2. Which stands for?
3. Is it just one database?
4. What is it used for?
5. Who began the project?
6. What was his occupation?
7. Where?
8. Which part?
9. When did it begin?
10. Which database was made first?
11. What is in it?
12. Were they drawn by computer?
13. What do these maps symbolize?
Numbered answers:
1. KEGG
2. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
3. no
4. bioinformatics research
5. Minoru Kanehisa
6. Professor
7. Kyoto University
8. the Institute for Chemical Research
9. in 1995
10. the KEGG PATHWAY database
11. a collection of manually drawn KEGG pathway maps
12. no
13. experimental knowledge on metabolism and various other functions of the cell and the organism