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Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States. The state is bordered by South Dakota to the north, Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River, Kansas to the south, Colorado to the southwest and Wyoming to the west. It is the only triply landlocked U.S. state. Nebraska's area is just over 77,220 sq mi (200,000km) with almost 1.9 million people. Its state capital is Lincoln, and its largest city is Omaha, which is on the Missouri River.

Indigenous peoples including Omaha, Missouria, Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and various branches of the Lakota (Sioux) tribes lived in the region for thousands of years before European exploration. The state is crossed by many historic trails and was explored by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Nebraska was admitted as the 37th state of the United States in 1867. It is the only state in the United States whose legislature is unicameral and officially nonpartisan.

Nebraska is composed of two major land regions: the Dissected Till Plains and the Great Plains. The Dissected Till Plains is a region of gently rolling hills and contains the state's largest cities, Omaha and Lincoln. The Great Plains occupy most of western Nebraska, characterized by treeless prairie, suitable for cattle-grazing. The state has a large agriculture sector and is a major producer of beef, pork, corn and soybeans. There are two major climatic zones: the eastern half of the state has a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification "Dfa"), with a unique warmer subtype considered "warm-temperate" near the southern plains like in Kansas and Oklahoma which have a predominantly humid subtropical climate. The western half has a primarily semi-arid climate (Koppen "BSk"). The state has wide variations between winter and summer temperatures, decreasing south through the state. Violent thunderstorms and tornadoes occur primarily during spring and summer, but sometimes in autumn. Chinook winds tend to warm the state significantly in the winter and early spring.
1. What is the thirty seventh state?
2. When?
3. What is unusual about it?
4. How many different peoples lived there?
5. Who explored it?
6. How big is it?
7. How many people live there?
8. How many land regions are there?
9. What is one of them?
10. And the other?
11. Which one contains the largest cities?
12. Does it have one climate zone?
13. How many?
14. Is it divided north and south?
15. How than?
16. When do they have violent storms?
17. What warms the state?
18. What is interesting about the state and its land that is the only one in the US?
19. Is it on a major river?
20. Which one?

Numbered answers:
1. Nebraska
2. 1867
3. It is the only state in the United States whose legislature is unicameral and officially nonpartisan
4. At least 6.
5. Lewis and Clark
6. just over 77,220 sq mi
7. almost 1.9 million
8. two
9. the Great Plains
10. the Dissected Till Plains
11. The Dissected Till Plains
12. No.
13. two
14. No.
15. East and West.
16. primarily during spring and summer
17. Chinook winds
18. It is the only triply landlocked U.S. state.
19. Yes.
20. the Missouri

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One day the Smith family went to the zoo. Ann Smith rode her bike from place to place. Joe Smith crawled everywhere he went. Their parents, Katie and Mike Smith, walked. After visiting many animals they all met up at the monkey cage. There was a long line to feed the monkeys. The line was so long that Joe fell asleep for a bit. Finally, it was time for the Smith family to feed the monkeys. The daughter, Ann, feed the monkeys a banana. The son, Joe, fed the monkeys a cracker. The mother, Katie, fed the monkeys a piece of cheese. The father, Mike, fed the monkeys an apple.

After the monkeys were done eating the zoo worker told them to pick their favorite treat, and give the person who gave it to them a hug. The monkeys all hugged Joe. Joe's parents were proud of him for picking the treat he liked best. As a reward, they gave him a special prize. Joe got the bike he had always wished for. At the end of the day he left the zoo a very happy child.
1. Who went somewhere?
2. Where did they go?
3. What did they do when they arrived?
4. Did they do anything with the monkeys?
5. Did anyone give them a banana?
6. Did they like the it best?
7. What did they like best?
8. Who gave them crackers?
9. Who is Joe?
10. How did they know the monkeys enjoyed the crackers the most?
11. All of them?

Numbered answers:
1. The Smith family
2. the zoo
3. Visited many animals, then met up at the monkey cage.
4. They fed them.
5. Ann did.
6. No.
7. Crackers.
8. Joe.
9. The son.
10. The Monkeys were told to hug whoever gave them their favorite, and they hugged Joe.
11. Yes.

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(LifeWire) -- After his father was diagnosed with dementia in 1996, Anthony Lazzara Jr. faced a difficult decision: He and his wife, Gail, either could place his father, Anthony Lazzara Sr., in a facility, or they could care for him themselves.

Anthony Lazzara Jr. (right) and his wife, Gail (left), cared for Anthony Lazzara Sr. at home for eight years.

Unable to afford a care facility, the Lazzaras brought him home.

So began eight long years of caring for the World War II veteran and onetime truck driver as he slowly declined -- a burden borne largely by Gail, 56.

She fed him, bathed him and changed his diapers on a daily basis while her husband, a truck driver, was on the road.

Slowly, she says, her marriage began to crumble.

"I couldn't take my frustration out on my father-in-law," she says. Instead, she took it out on her husband.

"We almost ended up divorcing over the whole deal," says Anthony Jr., 56.

Gail concedes she considered leaving, "but I couldn't walk away from my father-in-law."

Two years ago, the Lazzaras finally threw in the towel. A bed became available at a local Veterans Affairs facility, and the elder Lazzara was admitted. He remained there until April 2008, when he died at age 95.

A difficult labor of love

As the Lazzaras can attest, the stress of caring for an elderly parent can overwhelm a relationship. Chauffeuring loved ones to appointments, handling their shopping, assuming their financial burden, even just living under the same roof can test even the most committed couples.
1. What choice does a family have when a member is diagnosed with dementia?
2. What choice did the Lazzara family make?
3. Who was diagnosed with dementia?
4. When?
5. Who largely bore the responsibility for his care?
6. How was she related to Lazzara Sr.?
7. What were some of her duties?
8. Why couldn't her husband help?
9. What was his career?
10. Did they care for Lazzara Sr. until his death?
11. When did they stop caring for him at home?
12. Where did he go, then?
13. At what age did he die?
14. In what year?
15. In what war had he served?
16. What career did he also share with his son?
17. Did it take a toll on the marriage between Gail and Anthony?
18. Did they divorce?
19. Are Gail and Anthony the same age?
20. How old are they?
21. Why didn't Gail leave the relationship?
Numbered answers:
1. place them in a facility, or care for them themselves
2. cared for them at home
3. Anthony Lazzara Sr.
4. 1996
5. Gail
6. he was her father-in-law
7. She fed him, bathed him and changed his diapers
8. he was on the road
9. truck driver
10. no
11. Two years ago
12. a local Veterans Affairs facility
13. 95
14. 2008
15. World War II
16. truck driver
17. yes
18. no
19. yes
20. 56
21. she couldn't walk away from her father-in-law