New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Price: PS28.00 Publication Date: 30/11/2006 Publisher's description: Collect Doyle's fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century book editions, in a set complemented by four novels, editor biographies of Doyle, Holmes, and Watson as well as literary and cultural details about Victorian society. Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind Price: PS16.00 Publication Date:11/10/2006 Brief description: This is a book about the adventure life that can offer each of us if we seize it, and about the powerful forces of tragedy, memory and hope. For Daniel Libeskind, life's adventure has been through architecture, which he has found has the power to reshape human experience. Although often relating to the past, his buildings are about the future. This biology of one man's journey brings together history, personal experience, our physical environment and a fresh international vision. In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman Price: PS16.00 Publication Date:02/09/2006 Brief description: On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman raced to the world Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or dead. Once she was found safe---in her school at the foot of the burning towers---he returned home, to mediate on the trauma , and to work on a comic strip . In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman's extraordinary account of "the hijacking on 9.11 and the following hijacking of those events" by America. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve Price: PS14.00 Publication Date:07/10/2006 Publisher's description: This is the 11th novel by Anita Shreve, the critically accepted bestseller. A moving story of love and courage and tragedy and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself. Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv Price: PS20.99 Publication Date:11/08/2006 Brief description: Camping in the garden, riding bikes through the woods, climbing trees, picking wildflowers, running through piles of autumn leaves... these are the things childhood memories are made of. But for a whole generation of today's children the pleasures of a free-range childhood are missing, and their indoor habits contribute to obesity, attention disorder and childhood depression. This book shows how our children have become increasingly distanced from nature, why this matters and how we can make a difference. Richard Louv is chairman of the Children and Nature Network and co-chair of the National Forum on Children and Nature. He is the author of seven other books and has written for newspapers and magazines including the New York Times and the Washington Post. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who wrote this book?
2. What's the name of it?
3. When was it published?
4. How much is it?
5. Are the stories put in any certain order?
6. How many stories are there?
7. Does it include information about Victorian society?
8. What kind?
9. Who wrote Last Child in the woods?
10. When was it put into print?
11. How much does it cost?
12. What kind of childhood are kids missing out on?
Answer: 1. Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. 30/11/2006
4. PS28.00
5. yes
6. fifty-six
7. yes
8. cultural details
9. Richard Louv
10. 11/08/2006
11. PS20.99
12. free-range

Problem: Sally wants to learn how to cook. She has only made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before. Today she is going to try to make some spaghetti with meat sauce. First she goes to the store down the street to buy the food. She buys six tomatoes, some beef, seasoning, one box of pasta and ten pieces of fruit. When she gets home she goes to the kitchen and starts boiling some water. The water takes four hundred seconds to boil. Next, she cuts up the beef and puts it in a pan to fry it. When the beef is cooked she starts to cut the tomatoes. When she is finished with the tomatoes she puts them in the pan and puts a lid on top. Once the tomatoes get hot she adds the seasoning and mixes the sauce. Finally she adds the cooked pasta to the sauce. Sally thinks that her spaghetti with meat sauce smells really good! She takes some to the table and starts eating her dinner. Her table is in the dining room. Sally wants to cook more foods tomorrow, maybe she'll make some fried rice!
1. What two meals does Sally want to cook?
2. How many tomatoes does she buy for the meat sauce?
3. How does she cook the beef?
4. What was the last step in preparing the meal?
5. Did Sally think her meal smelled good?
6. How many dishes does Sally know how to make now?
7. Is she going to keep cooking?
8. What is she thinking about doing tomorrow?
9. Where did she eat her dinner?
10. Did she slice the tomatoes or the beef first?
Answer: 1. spaghetti with meat sauce
2. six
3. she fries it
4. adding the cooked pasta to the sauce
5. yes
6. two
7. yes
8. fried rice
9. the table
10. the beef

question: British actor and comedian Rik Mayall died at 56 in London . As one of the leading lights of Britain's comedy scene in the 1980s , he is best known for starring roles in hit TV series Blackadder , The Young Ones , The New Statesman and Bottom .

His agent, Kate Benson told CNN Mayall died suddenly ; she did not know the cause of his death.

Mayall first found widespread fame in student sitcom "The Young Ones," which ran for two years on the BBC, and was later shown on MTV in the United States. The series focused on the lives of four roommates at "Scumbag College."

Writer and comedian Ben Elton told the Press Association Mayall had " changed his life " by asking him to work on The Young Ones . " He always made me cry with laughter , now he's just made me cry . "

In the 1990s, Mayall played a role in Bottom , a series about two unemployed flat mates who spend most of their time attacking each other violently with anything that comes to hand . Mayall also branched out into movies , taking the lead role in 1991's Drop Dead Fred , in which he played the imaginary friend of Phoebe Cates , returning years later to cause trouble in the now grown-up Cates' life .

Mayall survived a bike accident in 1998; he was unconscious for five days after the crash, on his farm in Devon, southwest England, and developed epilepsy as a result of the severe head injury he suffered in the accident . In an interview several years later, he joked that he "beat Jesus" by coming back from the hell . He said the accident left him more aware of being alive.

House star Hugh Laurie, who worked with Mayall on Blackadder, took to Twitter to recount a story about his co-star: "A young girl, stricken with terminal cancer, once asked Rik Mayall for an autograph. He wrote: 'Young Ones are never afraid.'"
1. Whose death is the story about?
2. How old was he?
3. Was he involved in a serious crash?
4. Where?
5. Did he die from it?
6. Were there complications?
7. What effect did it have on him?
8. What did cause his death?
9. What genre was he most known for?
10. What show did he play in that was about two people constantly fighting?
11. What did he play as a figment of someone's imagination?
12. Whose imagination?
13. What launched his career?
14. Which network(s) was it shown on?
15. Anything else?
16. What university did he go to?
17. Whose life did he change?
18. What did he write on an autograph?
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answer:
1. Rik Mayall
2. 56
3. Yes
4. southwest England
5. No
6. he developed epilepsy
7. left him more aware of being alive
8. unknown
9. comedy
10. Bottom
11. the lead role in Drop Dead Fred
12. Phoebe Cates
13. The Young Ones
14. BBC
15. later on MTV in the US
16. unknown
17. Ben Elton
18. 'Young Ones are never afraid.'