Question: The Organization of American States, or the OAS or OEA, is a continental organization founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states. Headquartered in the United States capital Washington, D.C., the OAS's members are the 35 independent states of the Americas.

As of 26 May 2015, the Secretary General of OAS is Luis Almagro.

The notion of an international union in the New World was first put forward by Simon Bolivar who, at the 1826 Congress of Panama (still being part of Colombia), proposed creating a league of American republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. This meeting was attended by representatives of Gran Colombia (comprising the modern-day countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela), Peru, Bolivia, The United Provinces of Central America, and Mexico but the grandly titled "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation" was ultimately ratified only by Gran Colombia. Bolivar's dream soon floundered with civil war in Gran Colombia, the disintegration of Central America, and the emergence of national rather than New World outlooks in the newly independent American republics. Bolivar's dream of American unity was meant to unify Hispanic American nations against external powers. 1. Who is Luis Almagro?
2. What does OAS stand for?
3. What did Simon Bolivar do?
4. In what year?
5. When was the OAS founded?
6. For what reason?
7. Where are its headquarters?
8. What countries comprise Gran Colombia?
9. Who attended the meeting proposed by Bolivar?
10. Who ratified the "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation"?
11. Whose dream floundered?
12. Because of what?
13. What was Bolivar's dream of American unity supposed to do?
14. What is another abbreviation for The Organization of American States besides OAS?
15. How many states are there in it?
16. When did Luis Almagro become Secretary General of OAS?
17. When was the Congress of Panama?
18. What was it still part of then?
19. What was one of the things it proposed? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Thee Secretary General of OAS.
2. The Organization of American States.
3. He proposed creating a league of American republics.
4. 1826.
5. 30 April 1948.
6. For the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states.
7. Washington, D.C..
8. Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.
9. Representatives of Gran Colombia.
10. Gran Colombia.
11. Bolivar's.
12. Civil war in Gran Colombia.
13. Unify Hispanic American nations against external powers.
14. OEA.
15. 35.
16. 26 May 2015.
17. 1826.
18. Colombia.
19. Creating a league of American republics.

Question: Before the 20th century, the term matter included ordinary matter composed of atoms and excluded other energy phenomena such as light or sound. This concept of matter may be generalized from atoms to include any objects having mass even when at rest, but this is ill-defined because an object's mass can arise from its (possibly massless) constituents' motion and interaction energies. Thus, matter does not have a universal definition, nor is it a fundamental concept in physics today. Matter is also used loosely as a general term for the substance that makes up all observable physical objects.

All the objects from everyday life that we can bump into, touch or squeeze are composed of atoms. This atomic matter is in turn made up of interacting subatomic particlesusually a nucleus of protons and neutrons, and a cloud of orbiting electrons. Typically, science considers these composite particles matter because they have both rest mass and volume. By contrast, massless particles, such as photons, are not considered matter, because they have neither rest mass nor volume. However, not all particles with rest mass have a classical volume, since fundamental particles such as quarks and leptons (sometimes equated with matter) are considered "point particles" with no effective size or volume. Nevertheless, quarks and leptons together make up "ordinary matter", and their interactions contribute to the effective volume of the composite particles that make up ordinary matter. 1. What did the term matter include prior to the 20th century?
2. And excluded?
3. What does science consider these particles to be?
4. What is a type of massless particle?
5. Is it matter?
6. What is one example of fundamental particles?
7. What's another?
8. What are they considered?
9. What is the term matter loosely used to refer to?
10. What is the effective size of point particles? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. ordinary matter composed of atoms
2. other energy phenomena
3. massless particles
4. photons
5. no
6. leptons
7. quarks
8. they are considered "point particles"
9. composite particles
10. no size or volume.

Question: Malawi (, or ; or [malawi]), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. Malawi is over with an estimated population of 16,777,547 (July 2013 est.). Its capital is Lilongwe, which is also Malawi's largest city; the second largest is Blantyre, the third is Mzuzu and the fourth largest is its old capital Zomba. The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the area. The country is also nicknamed "The Warm Heart of Africa".

Malawi is among the smallest countries in Africa. Lake Malawi takes up about a third of Malawi's area.

The area of Africa now known as Malawi was settled by migrating Bantu groups around the 10th century. Centuries later in 1891 the area was colonised by the British. In 1953 Malawi, then known as Nyasaland, a protectorate of the United Kingdom, became a protectorate within the semi-independent Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The Federation was dissolved in 1963. In 1964 the protectorate over Nyasaland was ended and Nyasaland became an independent country under Queen Elizabeth II with the new name Malawi. Two years later it became a republic. Upon gaining independence it became a one-party state under the presidency of Hastings Banda, who remained president until 1994, when he lost an election. Arthur Peter Mutharika is the current president. Malawi has a democratic, multi-party government. The country has a Malawian Defence Force that includes an army, a navy and an air wing. Malawi's foreign policy is pro-Western and includes positive diplomatic relations with most countries and participation in several international organisations, including the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), and the African Union (AU). 1. Who settled in Malawi?
2. when?
3. What does the defence force include?
4. What does COMESA stand for?
5. Is it a large country?
6. When was it colonized?
7. By who?
8. What was it called before Malawi?
9. when was the federation dissolved?
10. What is the capital city?
11. What is the biggest lake?
12. how much of Malawi's space does it take up?
13. What is AU? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Bantu groups
2. 10th century
3. army, a navy and an air wing
4. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
5. No
6. 1891
7. British
8. Nyasaland
9. 1963
10. Lilongwe
11. Lake Malawi
12. a third of Malawi's area
13. African Union