question: Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion (), was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France, Adolf Hitler, the German Fuhrer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, hoped the British government would seek a peace agreement and he reluctantly considered invasion only as a last resort if all other options failed. As a precondition, he specified the achievement of both air and naval superiority over the English Channel and the proposed landing sites, but the German forces did not achieve this at any point during the war and both the German High Command and Hitler himself had serious doubts about the prospects for success. A large number of barges were gathered together on the Channel coast, but, with air losses increasing, Hitler postponed Sea Lion indefinitely on 17 September 1940 and it was never put into action.

Adolf Hitler hoped for a negotiated peace with the UK, and made no preparations for amphibious assault on Britain until the Fall of France. At the time, the only forces with experience of or modern equipment for such landings were the Japanese, at the Battle of Wuhan in 1938.
1. What was the other name for Operation Sea Lion
2. What is it?
3. Who was the German supreme leader?
4. What was his other title?
5. After what event he divided about this invasion?
6. Did he really wanted to invade?
7. What was the alternative?
8. Did it succeed?
9. Did he make preparations for amphibious attack?
10. Was his force experienced for that?
11. Which force was better suited for that?
12. Where they did that?
13. When?
14. Did he try air and naval superiority instead?
15. Over which channel?
16. Did his force make it?
17. Did his High Command doubt it?
18. How about he himself?
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answer: 1. Operation Sealion
2. Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War.
3. Adolf Hitler
4. the German Fuhrer
5. the Fall of France
6. no
7. a peace agreement
8. no
9. no
10. no
11. the Japanese
12. at the Battle of Wuhan
13. in 1938
14. yes
15. the English Channel
16. no
17. yes
18. he had serious doubts about the prospects for success

question: In their small town there are not very many kids. Joe is 8 years old. Nate is 9 years old. They have been the only two boys since they were born. One day Joe saw a White moving truck down the street from his and Nate's tree house. Joe got really excited and told Nate about it. Nate and Joe waited, hoping to see another boy that could join their club. The Boy's Club started when they were 6 and their dads helped them build their tree house and paint it dark blue. Joe and Nate both wanted more friends so they could play team games like baseball and football. Nate started day dreaming about playing baseball. Joe started thinking about how fun football would be. They don't like playing board games, Go Fish or Old Maid any more. They were both looking out the window of the tree house, waiting for the family to get out of the dark blue van that pulled up next to the moving truck. The sun's bright yellow light made it hard for the boys to see as the van door opened Nate looked close and yelled out "There are three boys"! Both boys got really excited and started walking down the street toward the new family. Nate broke into a run and brown dust started coming up from the ground behind his feet. Joe started running to catch up to Nate. They made it to the house quickly and one of the new boys gave a strange look as Nate and Joe both held their knees trying to catch their breath. A few seconds later Nate stood up and said, "Hi I'm Nate and this is Joe. Do you want to join The Boy's Club"? The boy said, "Sure. Can my brothers be in the club too? And Joe said, "YES!" The boy took a step back and said, "Well, I'm Jacob and my twin's name is Josh. We are 9 and our little brother is Alex. He's 7." Nate and Joe started planning games and made friends quickly with the new boys.
1. How old is Joe?
2. And Nate?
3. What did they make?
4. What color was the truck?
5. What were they tired of?
6. What did they want to do instead?
7. How many boys were in the van?
8. What were their names?
9. What card games were they sick of?
10. Were there triplets?
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answer: 1. Eight
2. Nine
3. a tree house
4. white
5. board games
6. more friends to play games like baseball and football
7. Three
8. Jacob, Josh and Alex
9. Go Fish and Old Maid
10. no

question: Many early 19th-century neoclassical architects were influenced by the drawings and projects of Etienne-Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux. The many graphite drawings of Boullee and his students depict spare geometrical architecture that emulates the eternality of the universe. There are links between Boullee's ideas and Edmund Burke's conception of the sublime. Ledoux addressed the concept of architectural character, maintaining that a building should immediately communicate its function to the viewer: taken literally such ideas give rise to "architecture parlante".

The baroque style had never truly been to the English taste. Four influential books were published in the first quarter of the 18th century which highlighted the simplicity and purity of classical architecture: Vitruvius Britannicus (Colen Campbell 1715), Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1715), De Re Aedificatoria (1726) and The Designs of Inigo Jones... with Some Additional Designs (1727). The most popular was the four-volume Vitruvius Britannicus by Colen Campbell. The book contained architectural prints of famous British buildings that had been inspired by the great architects from Vitruvius to Palladio. At first the book mainly featured the work of Inigo Jones, but the later tomes contained drawings and plans by Campbell and other 18th-century architects. Palladian architecture became well established in 18th-century Britain.
1. What didn't the English like?
2. Who influenced their architecture?
3. What was written about British architecture?
4. Who wrote that?
5. When?
6. Was it popular?
7. It mostly contained whose architecture?
8. How many architects gave ideas to the 1800s?
9. What type did they influence?
10. Whose thoughts are compared to Edmund Burke's?
11. What idea are they compared to?
12. What did he use to draw?
13. Did he think the world would end?
14. What did the other architect think?
15. How quickly should it?
16. What is a term for that?
17. How many important books were written about English architecture?
18. When?
19. Which one was last?
20. What style of architecture became popular in England?
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answer:
1. baroque style
2. by Etienne-Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux.
3. Vitruvius Britannicus
4. Colen Campbell
5. in 1715
6. it was most popular
7. Vitruvius
8. possibly two
9. neoclassical architects
10. Boullee's
11. conception of the sublime
12. spare geometrical architecture
13. no
14. that a building communicates its function
15. immediately
16. "architecture parlante"
17. Four
18. the 18th century
19. The Designs of Inigo Jones
20. Palladian architecture