CHAPTER XXXV

Mr. Oscar Fischer and his friend, Senator Theodore Hastings, stood side by side, a week later, in the bar of one of the most fashionable of New York hotels. They were passing away the few minutes before Pamela and her aunt would be ready to join them in the dining room above.

"Very little news, I fancy," Hastings remarked, glancing at the tape which was passing through his companion's fingers.

"Nothing--of any importance," Fischer replied. "Nothing."

The older man glanced searchingly at his companion, the change in whose tone was ominous. Fischer was standing with the tape in his hand, his eyes glued upon a certain paragraph. The Senator took out his eyeglasses and looked over his friend's shoulder.

"What's this?" he demanded. "Eh?"

Fischer was fighting a great battle and fighting it well.

"Something wrong, apparently, with Frank Roughton," he observed; "an old college friend of mine. They made him Governor of----only last year."

Hastings read the item thoughtfully.

Governor Roughton this morning tendered his resignation as Governor of the State of----. We understand that it was at once accepted. Numerous arrests have taken place with reference to the great explosion at the Bembridge powder factory.

"Looks rather fishy, that," Hastings observed thoughtfully.

"I'm sorry for Roughton," Fischer declared. "He was a perfectly straight man, and I am sure he has done his best."

"Great friend of yours?" the other asked curiously.

"We were intimately acquainted," was the brief answer.

The two men finished their cocktails in silence. On their way upstairs the Senator took his companion's arm. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What was the news that morning?
2. Who was Oscar Fischer's friend?
3. Who would be joining them?
4. Where they in the state of Maine?
5. What state were they in?
6. Who was Theodore Hastings?
7. What did Fischer think about Governor Roughton?
8. Did he know him well?
9. Were any arrests made?
10. Did Theodore Hastings have good eye sight?
11. What were the two men doing?
12. When did Roughton become governor?
Answer: 1. Governor Roughton tendered his resignation
2. Theodore Hastings
3. Pamela and her aunt
4. No
5. New York
6. Senator
7. He was a perfectly straight man
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. No
11. finishing cocktails
12. last year

The Yuan dynasty (Chinese: ; pinyin: Yuan Chao), officially the Great Yuan (Chinese: ; pinyin: Da Yuan; Mongolian: Yehe Yuan Ulus[a]), was the empire or ruling dynasty of China established by Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongolian Borjigin clan. Although the Mongols had ruled territories including today's North China for decades, it was not until 1271 that Kublai Khan officially proclaimed the dynasty in the traditional Chinese style. His realm was, by this point, isolated from the other khanates and controlled most of present-day China and its surrounding areas, including modern Mongolia and Korea. It was the first foreign dynasty to rule all of China and lasted until 1368, after which its Genghisid rulers returned to their Mongolian homeland and continued to rule the Northern Yuan dynasty. Some of the Mongolian Emperors of the Yuan mastered the Chinese language, while others only used their native language (i.e. Mongolian) and the 'Phags-pa script. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the official name of the Yuan dynasty?
2. How would you say that in Mongolian?
3. Was it an empire?
4. In Russia?
5. Where?
6. Who started it?
7. Was he the head of a Mongolian clan?
8. Did he state the existence of the empire in the eleventh century?
9. What year exactly?
10. Did his empire have a lot of interaction with other cultures?
11. Would modern day Korea have been part of this area?
12. What about France?
13. What was unique about this empire?
14. Who went back to Mongolia after this?
15. Did they still control some areas?
16. What was that empire called?
17. Did any of them speak English?
18. Did any of them speak Mongolian?
19. Why would they have known how to speak that?
Answer: 1. Great Yuan
2. Yehe Yuan Ulus[a]
3. yes
4. No
5. China and its surrounding areas, including modern Mongolia and Korea.
6. Kublai Khan
7. yes
8. yes
9. 1271
10. no
11. yes
12. No
13. It was the first foreign dynasty to rule all of China and lasted until 1368
14. Genghisid rulers
15. yes
16. the Northern Yuan dynasty
17. Not that's mentioned
18. yes
19. It's their native language

The AtlanticCongo languages are a major division constituting the core of the NigerCongo language family of Africa, characterised by the noun class systems typical of the family. They comprise all of NigerCongo except Mande, Dogon, Ijoid and the Katla and Rashad languages (previously classified as Kordofanian). Mukarovsky's West-Nigritic corresponded roughly to modern AtlanticCongo.

In the infobox at the right, the languages which appear to be the most divergent (Senufo, Kru) are placed at the top, whereas those closer to the core (the similar "BenueKwa" branches of Kwa, VoltaNiger and BenueCongo) are near the bottom. The erstwhile Atlantic branch has been broken up into Senegambian, Bak, Mel, Gola and Limba, which are left next to each other merely because there is no published evidence to move them; VoltaCongo (Savannas through BenueCongo) is intact apart from Kru and Senufo. If Kwa or Savannas prove to be invalid, the tree will be even more crowded.

There are a few poorly attested languages, such as Bayot and Bung, which may prove to be additional branches.

"Glottolog" (2013) does not accept that the Kordofanian branches (Lafofa, Talodi and Heiban) or the difficult-to-classify Laal language have been demonstrated to be AtlanticCongo languages. It otherwise accepts the family, but not its inclusion within a broader NigerCongo. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What are the Kordofanian branches?
2. Who does not agree that they are Atlantic-Congo in origin?
3. When did they state this opinion?
4. What are the Atlantic-Congo languages a part of?
5. What are they defined by?
6. Name a language not comprised by the Atlantic-Congo family.
7. And another?
8. And one more?
9. What was categorized as Kordofanian?
10. Which languages are the most divergent?
11. What has the Atlantic branch been broken into?
12. Have Gola and Limba been well-studied?
Answer:
1. Lafofa, Talodi and Heiban
2. Glottolog
3. in 2013
4. the NigerCongo language family
5. the noun class systems typical of the family
6. Mande
7. Dogon
8. Rashad
9. the Katla and Rashad languages
10. Senufo and Kru
11. Senegambian, Bak, Mel, Gola and Limba
12. no