question: To unambiguously specify the date, dual dating or Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) are sometimes used with dates. Dual dating uses two consecutive years because of differences in the starting date of the year, or includes both the Julian and Gregorian dates. Old Style and New Style (N.S.) indicate either whether the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January (N.S.) even though documents written at the time use a different start of year (O.S.), or whether a date conforms to the Julian calendar (O.S.) rather than the Gregorian (N.S.).

The Gregorian calendar was a reform of the Julian calendar instituted in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by papal bull Inter gravissimas dated 24 February 1582. The motivation for the adjustment was to bring the date for the celebration of Easter to the time of year in which it was celebrated when it was introduced by the early Church. Although a recommendation of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 specified that all Christians should celebrate Easter on the same day, it took almost five centuries before virtually all Christians achieved that objective by adopting the rules of the Church of Alexandria (see Easter for the issues which arose).
1. What other term for dual dating?
2. What dual dating for?
3. How many years it is for?
4. What name it has included?
5. In what year it changed?
6. Why it has to change?
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answer: 1. Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.)
2. differences in the starting date of the year
3. two consecutive years
4. Pope Gregory XIII,
5. in 1582
6. to bring the date for the celebration of Easter to the time of year in which it was celebrated when it was introduced by the early Church

Fiona Famous was a very popular girl at school. She was clever and fun, and got on well with everyone. It was no accident that Fiona was so popular. From an early age she had tried hard to be kind and friendly to everyone. She invited the whole class to her birthday party, and from time to time she would give presents to everybody. She was such a busy girl, with so many friends. However, she felt very lucky, no other girl had so many friends at school and in the neighborhood. But everything changed on National Friendship Day. On that day, at school, everyone was having a great time, drawing, painting, giving gifts. They had to make three presents to give to their three best friends. However, when all the presents had been made and shared out among classmates, Fiona was the only one who had not received a present! She felt terrible, and spent hours crying. How could it be possible? So much she had done to make so many friends, and in the end no one saw her as their best friend? Everyone came and tried to comfort her for a while. But each one only stayed for a short time before leaving. When she got home that night and asked her mother where she could find true friends. "Fiona, my dear," answered her mother, "you cannot buy friends with a smile or a few good words. If you really want true friends, you will have to give them real time and affection . For a true friend you must always be there for them, in good times and bad". "But I want to be everybody's friend! I need to share my time among everyone!" Fiona argued. "My dear, you're a lovely girl," said her mother, "but you can't be a close friend to everybody. There just isn't enough time for everyone, so it's only possible to have a few true friends. The others won't be close friends". Hearing this, Fiona decided to change her ways so that she could finally have some true friends. That night, in bed, she thought about what she could do to get them. _ Her mother was always ready to help her. She could stand all of Fiona's dislikes and problems. She always encouraged her. She loved her a great deal... That was what makes friends! And Fiona smiled happily, realizing that she already had the best friend anyone could ever want. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What's the main character's name?
2. Was she well-liked?
3. Is that surprising?
4. Why not?
5. How did she celebrate her birthday?
6. Did she do something else to make friends?
7. What holiday occurs in the story?
8. What did the students have to do on that day?
9. Did Fiona get many presents?
10. Why not?
11. How did she feel?
12. What advice did she get?
13. Who gave her that advice?
14. Did Fiona agree with the advice at first?
15. Did she change how she acted?
16. Who was Fiona's best friend?
17. How could she tell they were friends?
18. How did Fiona feel at the end of the story?
19. Who tried to comfort her?
20. Did they stay with her a long time?
Answer: 1. Fiona Famous
2. Yes
3. No
4. From an early age she had tried hard to be kind and friendly to everyone.
5. She invited the whole class to her birthday party,
6. from time to time she would give presents to everybody
7. National Friendship Day
8. They had to make three presents to give to their three best friends
9. No
10. No one saw her as their best friend
11. She felt terrible
12. you cannot buy friends with a smile or a few good words. If you really want true friends, you will have to give them real time and affection . For a true friend you must always be there for them, in good times and bad
13. her mother
14. No
15. Yes
16. Her mother
17. Her mother was always ready to help her. She could stand all of Fiona's dislikes and problems. She always encouraged her. She loved her a great deal
18. She was happy
19. All of her friends
20. No

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Detroit (/dtrt/) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United StatesCanada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state. Detroit's metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 5.3 million people, making it the fourteenth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the second-largest in the Midwestern United States (behind Chicago). It is a major port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago, and the thirteenth-largest in the United States.

Detroit is the center of a three-county urban area (population 3,734,090, area of 1,337 square miles (3,460 km2), a 2010 United States Census) six-county metropolitan statistical area (2010 Census population of 4,296,250, area of 3,913 square miles [10,130 km2]), and a nine-county Combined Statistical Area (2010 Census population of 5,218,852, area of 5,814 square miles [15,060 km2]). The DetroitWindsor area, a commercial link straddling the CanadaU.S. border, has a total population of about 5,700,000. The Detroit metropolitan region holds roughly one-half of Michigan's population. 1. What is the most populous city is Michigan?
2. What county is it in?
3. Which border is it on?
4. What is the metro are called?
5. Is it behind Chicago in Midwestern metro population?
6. Is it the fourteenth-most populous in the US?
7. How many people does the metro have?
8. What river is it on?
9. Is it the second-largest economic region in the Midwest?
10. How many counties in the urban area of the center of?
11. What is the Census used to estimate population?
12. What is the area of the metro?
13. in km?
14. Does the Detroit-Windsor area cross the border?
15. What is the population of that are?
16. What percent of Michigan's population lives in the area?
17. Is it the seat of Wayne County?
18. Does it connect to the Great Lakes system?
19. What Seaway does it connect to?
20. Which country is Detroit located in?
numbered_answers:
1. Detroit
2. Wayne County
3. United States-Canada
4. Metro Detroit,
5. yes
6. yes
7. 4,296,250,
8. the Detroit River
9. yes
10. three
11. the 2010 United States census
12. 3,913
13. 10,130 km2
14. yes
15. 5,700,000
16. roughly one-half
17. yes
18. yes
19. the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
20. the U.S.