Article: As a relatively small and isolated oceanic island, Norfolk has few land birds but a high degree of endemicity among them. Many of the endemic species and subspecies have become extinct as a result of massive clearance of the island's native vegetation of subtropical rainforest for agriculture, hunting and persecution as agricultural pests. The birds have also suffered from the introduction of mammals such as rats, cats, pigs and goats, as well as from introduced competitors such as common blackbirds and crimson rosellas.

Question: What is the second thing that caused many of the birds of Norfolk Island to become extinct?
Ans: hunting and persecution as agricultural pests

Article: Palermo experiences a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification: Csa). Winters are cool and wet, while summers are hot and dry. Temperatures in autumn and spring are usually mild. Palermo is one of the warmest cities in Europe (mainly due to its warm nights), with an average annual air temperature of 18.5 C (65.3 F). It receives approximately 2,530 hours of sunshine per year. Snow is usually a rare occurrence, but it does occur occasionally if there is a cold front, as the Apennines are too distant to protect the island from cold winds blowing from the Balkans, and the mountains surrounding the city facilite the formation of snow accumulation in Palermo, especially at night. Between the 1940s and the 2000s there have been eleven times when considerable snowfall has occurred: In 1949, in 1956, when the minimum temperature went down to 0 C (32 F) and the city was blanketed by several centimeters of snow. Snow also occurred in 1999, 2009 and 2015. The average annual temperature of the sea is above 19 C (66 F); from 14 C (57 F) in February to 26 C (79 F) in August. In the period from May to November, the average sea temperature exceeds 18 C (64 F) and in the period from June to October, the average sea temperature exceeds 21 C (70 F).

Question: How do Palermo's temperatures compare to the rest of Europe?
Ans: one of the warmest cities in Europe

Article: The traditional New York area accent is characterized as non-rhotic, so that the sound [] does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant; hence the pronunciation of the city name as "New Yawk." There is no [] in words like park [pk] or [pk] (with vowel backed and diphthongized due to the low-back chain shift), butter [b], or here [hi]. In another feature called the low back chain shift, the [] vowel sound of words like talk, law, cross, chocolate, and coffee and the often homophonous [r] in core and more are tensed and usually raised more than in General American. In the most old-fashioned and extreme versions of the New York dialect, the vowel sounds of words like "girl" and of words like "oil" became a diphthong []. This would often be misperceived by speakers of other accents as a reversal of the er and oy sounds, so that girl is pronounced "goil" and oil is pronounced "erl"; this leads to the caricature of New Yorkers saying things like "Joizey" (Jersey), "Toidy-Toid Street" (33rd St.) and "terlet" (toilet). The character Archie Bunker from the 1970s sitcom All in the Family (played by Carroll O'Connor) was a notable example of having used this pattern of speech, which continues to fade in its overall presence.

Question: What sitcom did the Archie Bunker character feature in?
Ans: All in the Family

Article: The Eastern Roman Empire today conventionally named the Byzantine Empire, a name not in use during its own time became increasingly influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century, when Emperor Heraclius (AD 575 - 641) decided to make Greek the empire's official language. Certainly from then on, but likely earlier, the Roman and Greek cultures were virtually fused into a single Greco-Roman world. Although the Latin West recognized the Eastern Empire's claim to the Roman legacy for several centuries, after Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor" on 25 December 800, an act which eventually led to the formation of the Holy Roman Empire, the Latin West started to favour the Franks and began to refer to the Eastern Roman Empire largely as the Empire of the Greeks (Imperium Graecorum).

Question: What decision did he make that influenced the culture in an attempt to make things more homogeneous ?
Ans:
decided to make Greek the empire's official language.