Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated /1e6 round 1 million inhabitants , it is the world's 14th-most-populous country, and the ninth-most-populous Asian country. Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest, and the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia across the South China Sea to the east and southeast. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976, with Ho Chi Minh City as a historical city as well.

The northern part of Vietnam was part of Imperial China for over a millennium, from 111 BC to AD 939. An independent Vietnamese state was formed in 939, following a Vietnamese victory in the Battle of Bach ang River. Successive Vietnamese imperial dynasties flourished as the nation expanded geographically and politically into Southeast Asia, until the Indochina Peninsula was colonized by the French in the mid-19th century.

Following a Japanese occupation in the 1940s, the Vietnamese fought French rule in the First Indochina War, eventually expelling the French in 1954. Thereafter, Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North Vietnam (officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and South Vietnam (officially the Republic of Vietnam). Conflict between the two sides intensified in what is known as the Vietnam War, with heavy intervention by the United States on the side of South Vietnam from 1965 to 1973. The war ended with a North Vietnamese victory in 1975. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who controlled this area in acient times?
2. When?
3. What is the official name?
4. Who won the conflict with the US?
5. When?
6. When was it previously divided?
7. How?
8. Where is it located?
9. What is its rank in population?
10. And in Asia?
11. What was the first time they were independent?
12. When did other people come?
13. By whom?
14. Who came later?
15. How many countries border this one?
16. How many years did the conflict with the US last?
17. Spanning what years?
18. When did the two parts become one again?
19. What has been the capital since?
20. What other city is important?
Answer: 1. China
2. from 111 BC to AD 939
3. the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
4. North Vietnam
5. in 1975
6. after 1954
7. between North and South
8. in Southeast Asia
9. the world's 14th-most-populous country
10. the ninth-most-populous
11. 939
12. in the mid-19th century
13. the French
14. the Japanese
15. six
16. eight
17. 1965 to 1973
18. 1975
19. Hanoi
20. Ho Chi Minh City

The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".

A program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, GRI maintains a research library, organizes exhibitions and other events, sponsors a residential scholars program, publishes books, and produces electronic databases (Getty Publications).

The GRI was originally called the "Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities", and was first discussed in 1983. Located in Santa Monica, its first director (beginning in 1985) was Kurt W. Forster. GRI's library had 30,000 volumes in 1983, but grew to 450,000 volumes by 1986.

In a statement upon his departure in 1992, Forster summarized his tenure as "Beginning with the rudiments of a small museum library... the center grew... to become one of the nation's preeminent research centers for arts and culture...". In 1994, Salvatore Settis, a professor of the history of classical art and archeology in Italy, became the director of the Center. By 1996, the Center's name had been changed to "Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities", and by 1999 it was known simply as "Getty Research Institute".

Among GRI's special projects was "L.A. as Subject: The Transformative Culture of Los Angeles Communities" conducted between 1995 and 1999, whose purposes included "enhanc[ing] existing resources and develop new resources that support new research scholarship on LA and also encourag[ing] the preservation, conservation, and display of local material culture". What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where is GRI?
2. Where at?
3. What does GRI stand for?
4. What kind of art does it deal with?
5. Did it have a different name?
6. Was it the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities?
7. Where was it?
8. When was the idea first talked about?
9. When did it get it's first director?
10. Who was it?
11. When did he retire?
12. How many volumes did it start with?
13. How large was it in 1986?
14. What group is this a program of?
15. What kind of library does it have?
16. Who started as director in 1994?
17. What was his profession
18. Where was he working?
19. When was the name Getty Research Institute?
Answer: 1. Los Angeles, California
2. at the Getty Center
3. Getty Research Institute
4. visual arts
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. Santa Monica
8. 1983
9. 1985
10. Kurt W. Forster.
11. 1992
12. 30,000
13. 450,000 volumes
14. the J. Paul Getty Trust
15. research library
16. Salvatore Settis
17. professor of the history of classical art and archeology
18. Italy
19. by 1999

I had my first job at a local diner called the Buttercup Bakery when I was 22. I worked there for seven years and learned so many lessons, especially from a fellow waitress Helen who had incredible self-respect and did what she loved--serving people. She made everyone smile and feel good, customers and co-workers alike.

Being a waitress changed my life. One of my regular customers was Fred Hasbrook, an electronics salesman. Thanks to the newfound confidence I picked up from Helen, I dreamed of having my own restaurant. But when I called my parents to ask for a loan, they said, "We just don't have the money."

The next day, I shared my dream with him and said, "Fred, I know I can do more if somebody would just have faith in me."

He walked over to some of the other diner regulars and the next day handed me checks totaling $50,000--along with a note that I have to this day. It reads, "The only collateral on this loan is my trust in your honesty as a person. Good people with a dream should have the opportunity to make that dream come true."

I took the checks to Merrill Lynch--the first time I had ever entered a brokerage house--where the money was invested for me. I continued working at the Buttercup, making plans for the restaurant I would open. My investments soured, though, and I lost the money.

After great deliberation I decided to apply for a job at Merrill Lynch. Even though I had no experience, I was hired and ended up becoming a pretty good broker. Eventually I paid back Fred and my customers the $50,000, plus 14-percent annual interest. Five years later, I was able to open my own firm.

I got a thank-you note from Fred, which will be imprinted on my head forever. He had been sick and wrote that my check had helped cover his mounting medical bills. His letter read, "That loan may have been one of the best investments that I will ever make." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where does the narrator work?
2. How old was she when she worked there?
3. Who helped her become a good person and a positive person?
4. Name one of their regular customer?
5. Did he support her in her dream?
6. What about her parents?
7. What was the amount check that he handed her?
8. Who invested the money for her?
9. Did she get more money or she lost?
10. Was Fred happy of her accomplishments at the end?
11. Where did she work then?
12. How much interest did she pay back to Fred?
Answer:
1. Buttercup Bakery
2. 22
3. Helen
4. Fred Hasbrook
5. Yes
6. No
7. $50,000
8. Merrill Lynch
9. She lost it
10. Yes
11. Merrill Lynch
12. 14-percent annual interest