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CHAPTER VI: FIRKET

June 7, 1896

Since the end of 1895 the Dervish force in Firket had been under the command of the Emir Hammuda, and it was through the indolence and neglect of this dissipated Arab that the Egyptian army had been able to make good its position at Akasha without any fighting. Week after week the convoys had straggled unmolested through the difficult country between Sarras and the advanced base. No attack had been made upon the brigade at Akasha. No enterprise was directed against its communications. This fatal inactivity did not pass unnoticed by Wad Bishara, the Governor of Dongola; but although he was nominally in supreme command of all the Dervish forces in the province he had hardly any means of enforcing his authority. His rebukes and exhortations, however, gradually roused Hammuda, and during May two or three minor raids were planned and executed, and the Egyptian position at Akasha was several times reconnoitred.

Bishara remained unsatisfied, and at length, despairing of infusing energy into Hammuda, he ordered his subordinate Osman Azrak to supersede him. Osman was a Dervish of very different type. He was a fanatical and devoted believer in the Mahdi and a loyal follower of the Khalifa. For many years he had served on the northern frontier of the Dervish Empire, and his name was well known to the Egyptian Government as the contriver of the most daring and the most brutal raids. His cruelty to the wretched inhabitants of the border villages had excluded him from all hope of mercy should he ever fall into the hands of the enemy. His crafty skill, however, protected him, and among the Emirs gathered at Firket there was none whose death would have given greater satisfaction to the military authorities than the man who was now to replace Hammuda.

1. Who was in command?
2. who was neglected?
3. when was he in command from?
4. was akasha attacked?
5. was the inactivity go unnoticed?
6. how often was convoys deployed?
7. who was in supreme command?
8. what was his other occupation?
9. of where?
10. did any one have the ability to enforce his rule?
11. when were the raids?12. how many raids?
13. what position was changed?
14. was he satisfied?
15. Who superseded him?
16. was he a normal dervish?
17. what was he a follower of?
18. was he a kind ruler?
19. what protected him?
20. who was wanted dead?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the Emir Hammuda
2. the Dervish force
3. Since the end of 1895
4. no
5. yes
6. Week after week
7. Wad Bishara
8. Governor
9. Dongola
10. no
11. May
12. two or three
13. the one at Akasha
14. no
15. Osman Azrak
16. no
17. the Khalifa
18. no
19. His crafty skill
20. Osman

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Chlorine is a chemical element with symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate between them. Chlorine is a yellow-green gas at room temperature. It is an extremely reactive element and a strong oxidising agent: among the elements, it has the highest electron affinity and the third-highest electronegativity, behind only oxygen and fluorine.

The most common compound of chlorine, sodium chloride (common salt), has been known since ancient times. Around 1630, chlorine gas was first synthesised in a chemical reaction, but not recognised as a fundamentally important substance. Carl Wilhelm Scheele wrote a description of chlorine gas in 1774, supposing it to be an oxide of a new element. In 1809, chemists suggested that the gas might be a pure element, and this was confirmed by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810, who named it from based on its colour.

Because of its great reactivity, all chlorine in the Earth's crust is in the form of ionic chloride compounds, which includes table salt. It is the second-most abundant halogen (after fluorine) and twenty-first most abundant chemical element in Earth's crust. These crustal deposits are nevertheless dwarfed by the huge reserves of chloride in seawater.

1. What is this about?
2. What is that?
3. What is it represented by?
4. Is there a specific number?
5. What is it?
6. What color is it?
7. What state is it?
8. Is it non-reactive?
9. What does it have the highest of?
10. And ranks at number three as?
11. Where is it usually found?
12. When was it first written about?
13. By whom?
14. What did he say it was?
15. Who later spoke of it?
16. When?
17. Is it found in the ocean?
18. In small quantities?
19. What ranking is it, in common-ness?
20. Do we consume it?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Chlorine
2. a chemical element
3. symbol Cl
4. yes
5. 17
6. yellow-green
7. gas
8. no
9. electron affinity
10. electronegativity
11. unknown
12. in 1774
13. Carl Wilhelm Scheele
14. an oxide of a new element
15. Sir Humphry Davy
16. 1810
17. yes
18. no
19. unknown
20. yes

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Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Jefferson County. The city's population was 212,237 in the 2010 United States Census. In the 2010 US Census, the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of about 1,128,047, which is approximately one-quarter of Alabama's population.

Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, notably, former Elyton. It was named for Birmingham, England, the UK's second largest city and then major industrial city. The Alabama city annexed smaller neighbors and developed as an industrial and railroad transportation center, based on mining, the new iron and steel industry, and railroading. Most of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry. The city was developed as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor from rural Alabama could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over unionized industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast.

From its founding through the end of the 1960s, Birmingham was a primary industrial center of the southern United States. Its growth from 1881 through 1920 earned its nicknames as "The Magic City" and "The Pittsburgh of the South". Its major industries were iron and steel production, plus a major component of the railroading industry. Rails and railroad cars were both manufactured in Birmingham. Since the 1860s, the two primary hubs of railroading in the Deep South have been nearby Atlanta and Birmingham. The economy diversified in the latter half of the 20th century. Banking, telecommunications, transportation, electrical power transmission, medical care, college education, and insurance have become major economic activities. Birmingham ranks as one of the largest banking centers in the United States and as one of the most important business centers in the Southeast.

1. What US state is Birmingham in?
2. Are there any other places by that name?
3. Where?
4. What was important about that one?
5. How did the US city form?
6. When?
7. What was the basis of its economy then?
8. Why did businesses like it there?
9. What type of factories did they work in?
10. What nicknames did the city have during its heyday?
11. And the other?
12. Why did it get these names?
13. What did they manufacture there?
14. Why else was it important to railroad companies?
15. Are these still the basis of the city's economy?
16. WHy is the city important today?
17. WHat other business activities take place there?
18. What is the population according to a recent census?
19. Is that large for an Alabama town?
20. How does it rank among cities there?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Alabama
2. yes
3. Birmingham, England,
4. UK's second largest city and then major industrial city. T
5. it annexed smaller neighbors
6. 1871
7. mining, the new iron and steel industry, and railroading.
8. it had cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor
9. steel mills and blast furnaces
10. it had 2, 1 was The Magic City
11. "The Pittsburgh of the South"
12. it's growth as an industrial city
13. Its major industries were iron and steel production, plus a major component of the railroading industry.
14. 2 major railway hubs in the south are near
15. no
16. It's a major banking center in the US
17. Telecommunications, transportation, electrical power transmission, medical care, college education, and insurance
18. 1,128,047
19. yes
20. most populous