Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER III.

"Nice customs curt'sy to great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a country's fashion. We are the makers of manners; and the liberty that follows our places, stops the mouths of all fault-finders."--Henry V.

Notwithstanding her high resolution, habitual firmness, and a serenity of mind, that seemed to pervade the moral system of Isabella, like a deep, quiet current of enthusiasm, but which it were truer to assign to the high and fixed principles that guided all her actions, her heart beat tumultuously, and her native reserve, which almost amounted to shyness, troubled her sorely, as the hour arrived when she was first to behold the prince she had accepted for a husband. Castilian etiquette, no less than the magnitude of the political interests involved in the intended union, had drawn out the preliminary negotiations several days; the bridegroom being left, all that time, to curb his impatience to behold the princess, as best he might.

On the evening of the 15th of October, 1469, however, every obstacle being at length removed, Don Fernando threw himself into the saddle, and, accompanied by only four attendants, among whom was Andres de Cabrera, he quietly took his way, without any of the usual accompaniments of his high rank, toward the palace of John of Vivero, in the city of Valladolid. The Archbishop of Toledo was of the faction of the princess, and this prelate, a warlike and active partisan, was in readiness to receive the accepted suitor, and to conduct him to the presence of his mistress.

1. When did Don leave?
2. In what year?
3. Who was he going see?
4. Where?
5. Did Don go alone?
6. How many people went with him?
7. Who was one of the people?
8. Did Don have a high ranking?
9. Did the people accompanying him have high ranking?
10. Did John live in a nice home?
11. Who had accepted a husband?
12. Was the man she accepted royalty?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 15th of October
2. 1469
3. John of Vivero
4. Valladolid
5. no
6. four
7. Andres de Cabrera
8. yes
9. no
10. yes
11. Isabella
12. yes

Question: The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.

The U.S. Mail traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general. The Post Office Department was created in 1792 from Franklin's operation, elevated to a cabinet-level department in 1872, and transformed in 1971 into the U.S. Postal Service as an agency of the U.S. government.

The USPS as of February 2015 has 617,254 active employees and operated 211,264 vehicles in 2014. The USPS is the operator of the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world. The USPS is legally obligated to serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform price and quality. The USPS still has exclusive access to letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail" and personal letterboxes in the United States, but now has to compete against private package delivery services, such as United Parcel Service and FedEx.

Since the early 1980s, many of the direct tax subsidies to the Post Office (with the exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters) have been reduced or eliminated in favor of indirect subsidies, in addition to the advantages associated with a government-enforced monopoly on the delivery of first-class mail. Since the 2006 all-time peak mail volume, after which Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to fully prefund employee retirement health benefits, a requirement exceeding that of other government and private organizations), revenue dropped sharply due to recession-influenced declining mail volume, prompting the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit. The USPS lost $5.5 billion in fiscal year 2014 and $5.1 billion in 2015, and its revenue was $67.8 billion in 2014 and $68.9 billion in 2015. 1. Does the USPS have any competition?
2. Who?
3. Does the USPS change prices based on location?
4. What allows the USPS to exist?
5. Does it offer retirement benefits?
6. Do they make a profit?
7. How can they afford to offer their employees these benefits?
8. What caused customers' uses of their services to drop?
9. When was shipping at its busiest?
10. What physical thing do they have exclusive access to?
11. What service do they have exclusive access to?
12. Who was the first head of the organization?
13. Did they use his work for future iterations? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Yes
2. United Parcel Service
3. No
4. United States Constitution.
5. Yes
6. No
7. Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act
8. recession-influenced declining mail volume
9. 2006
10. letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail"
11. first-class mail
12. Benjamin Franklin
13. Yes

Q: (CNN) -- BP reported problems controlling the undersea well at the heart of the largest oil spill in U.S. history and won a delay in testing a critical piece of equipment in March, according to documents released Sunday.

"We are in the midst of a well control situation on MC 252 #001 and have stuck pipe. We are bringing out equipment to begin operations to sever the drillpipe, plugback the well and bypass," Scherie Douglas, a BP regulatory advisor, told the district engineer for the U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service in a March 10 e-mail.

In a follow-up e-mail to the district engineer, Frank Patton, Douglas reported the company wanted to get a plug set in the well before testing the blowout preventer, the massive device used to shut down the well in case of an emergency.

"With the give and take of the well and hole behavior we would feel much more comfortable getting at least one of the two plugs set in order to fully secure the well prior to testing BOPs," she wrote.

When Patton told BP he could not delay a test any longer than it took to bring the well under control, the company won a postponement from David Trocquet, the MMS district manager in New Orleans, Louisiana, the documents show. Trocquet ordered BP to make sure its cement plug was set up and to verify its placement, according to his reply. The messages do not indicate how long the test was postponed.

The exchange was among the documents released Sunday by leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is looking into the disaster that killed 11 workers aboard the drilling platform Deepwater Horizon and uncapped a gusher that is now fouling the northern Gulf of Mexico. BP has been unable to activate the well's blowout preventer since the explosion, resulting in up to 19,000 barrels (798,000 gallons) spewing into the Gulf every day.

1. district engineer
2. Douglas
3. the company wanted to get a plug set in the well
4. controlling the undersea well
5. the massive device used to shut down the well in an emergency
6. David Trocque
7. the disaster
8. Yes
9. 11
10. 798,000 gallons every day
11. the Gulf
12. BP has been unable to activate the well's blowout preventer

Numbered questions:
1. who is Frank Patton?
2. who sent him an email?
3. what did it say?
4. what is BP having problems with?
5. what is a blowout preventer?
6. who gave BP more time?
7. what is the House Energy and Commerce Committee looking into?
8. did anyone die?
9. how many?
10. how much oil has spilled?
11. where is this happening?
12. why hasnt it been stopped?