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A raion (also rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states (such as part of an oblast). The term is from the French ""rayon"" (meaning "honeycomb, department"), which is both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district".

The term "raion" also can be used simply as a kind of administrative division without anything to do with ethnicity or nationality. A raion is a standardized administrative entity across most of the former Soviet Union and is usually a subdivision two steps below the national level. However, in smaller USSR republics, it could be the primary level of administrative division (Administrative divisions of Armenia, Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan). After the fall of the Soviet Union, some of the republics dropped "raion" from their use (Armenia).

In Bulgaria, it refers to an internal administrative subdivision of a city not related to the administrative division of the country as a whole, or, in the case of Sofia municipality a subdivision of that municipality.

The word "raion" (or "rayon") is often used in translated form: ; ; ; , "raioni"; ; ; ; ; and .

Fourteen countries have or had entities that were named "raion" or the local version of it.
1. What is a raion?
2. What language is the word originated from?
3. What does it translate to in English?
4. How many countries have had entities named from this word?
5. What is another spelling of this word?
6. Does the Soviet Union use raions?
7. What about Bulgaria?
8. Did any republics get rid of the use of raions?
9. Which one?
10. When did this happen?

Numbered answers:
1. a type of administrative unit
2. French
3. district
4. Fourteen
5. rayon
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Armenia
10. After the fall of the Soviet Union

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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.

CIRCUMVENTING THE RED-SKINS.

For some time the brothers paddled about the sedgy shore of the small islet on which the camp had been pitched, now setting up a flock of ducks and then slipping into the heart of some reeds and concealing themselves until a good chance was obtained at a passing flock of geese.

Archie Sinclair soon laid in enough provision to serve the party for a few meals, for his hand was steady and his eye true.

"Little Bill," he said, looking back after one of his successful shots, "you must take a shot now. We will go right-about-face, and convert the bow into the stern in the usual way. See, catch hold of the gun."

"No, Arch-ee, as Oke calls you, I won't; I'm quite content to look on, for your gun kicks like a Mexican mule. Besides, it's easy work to steer, and seeing you panting and toiling in the bow makes it seem all the easier. Just you keep blazin' away, old man. But, I say, where shall I steer to now? I'm tired o' steering among the reeds. Let us push out into the clear water."

"You heard what Oke said," objected Archie; "we must keep well clear o' both shores."

"I know that," returned Billie, "but he did not forbid us to try the reeds round the other islands; there's a much bigger one, not a quarter of a mile up stream. I think there are some beautiful sedges there where geese are likely to live. I'm sure I would choose to live in such a place if I was a goose."
1. Where were the brothers paddling?
2. Of what?

Numbered answers:
1. .The sedgy shore
2. a bboat.

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CHAPTER I

THE PERSISTENCY OF BORROWDEAN

"And what does Mannering think of it all, I wonder!" Lord Redford remarked, lighting a fresh cigarette. "This may be his opportunity, who can tell!"

"Will he have the nerve to grasp it?" Borrowdean asked. "Mannering has never been proved in a crisis."

"He may have the nerve. I should be more inclined to question the desire," Lord Redford said. "For a man in his position he has always seemed to me singularly unambitious. I don't think that the prospect of being Prime Minister would dazzle him in the least. It is part of the genius of the politician too, to know exactly when and how to seize an opportunity. I can imagine him watching it come, examining it through his eyeglass, and standing on one side with a shrug of the shoulders."

"You do not believe, then," Berenice said, "that he is sufficiently in earnest to grasp it?"

"Exactly," Lord Redford said. "I have that feeling about Mannering, I must admit, especially during the last two years. He seems to have drawn away from all of us, to live altogether too absorbed and self-contained a life for a man who has great ambitions to realize, or who is in downright earnest about his work."

"What you all forget when you discuss Lawrence Mannering is this," Berenice said. "He holds his position almost as a sacred charge. He is absolutely conscientious. He wants certain things for the sake of the people, and he will work steadily on until he gets them. I believe it is the truth that he has no personal ambition, but if the cause he has at heart is to be furthered at all it must be by his taking office. Therefore I think that when the time comes he will take it."
1. Was someone smoking?
2. Who?
3. Who had a query for him?
4. Who were they discussing?
5. Who else was involved in the talk?
6. Did Borrowdean feel the subject of their talk, was proven?
7. Who questioned his hunger?
8. Did he find this person to be ambitious?
9. What political position were they discussing?
10. Who questioned his earnestness?
11. Who also doubted he had this quality?
12. In his opinion, had Mannering become too close to them?
13. Who felt he viewed his role as sacrosanct?
14. Did she think he was dishonest?
15. For whose interests did she feel he labored?
16. Did she feel he might give up on this easily?
17. Did Lord Redford feel, he desired the job they were discussing?
18. Did Berenice agree with this?
19. How did she feel he would advance his cause?
20. What did Lord Redford see as a component of political brilliance?
Numbered answers:
1. Yes.
2. Lord Redford
3. Borrowdean
4. Mannering
5. Berenice
6. No.
7. Lord Redford
8. No.
9. Prime Minister
10. Berenice
11. Lord Redford
12. No.
13. Berenice
14. No.
15. the people
16. No.
17. No.
18. No.
19. by his taking office
20. to know exactly when and how to seize an opportunity