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"How many common English words were invented by Shakespeare?" How long did it take people to find the answer to this question 15 years ago? And now! you can google it and find the answer immediately! Google is the most popular Internet search engine in the world. It was invented by two students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met in 1993, when they were studying computer science at Stanford University, USA. They dreamed of producing something that could also answer any question in seconds. Internet search engines at that time were slow and gave many websites that weren't useful. In January 1996, Page and Brin decided to make a better and faster search engine. They thought the results should be based on the most popular websites. Nobody would give them money for their project, so they used their own money. They also borrowed money from family and friends. Then, in 1998, they were given a _ for $100,000, and they started their own company. Their first office was in a friend's garage. The company's name is Google, a word which comes from mathematics. A "google" is a very high number---- 1 followed by a hundred zeros. The google search engine was soon used by thousands of people worldwide because it was fast, easy and correct. By 2002 it was the biggest search engine on the Internet. Now, more questions have been answered by Google than any other Internet service, from sport to science, and from music to medicine. Google hopes that in the future all the world's information will be put on the Internet, so that everybody can find everything.
1. What is google?
2. When was it created?
3. by who?
4. How did they know each other?
5. What was their dream?
6. Did they have a lot of contributors?
7. How did they fund it?
8. Were was their office?
9. where did the name come from?
10. What does it mean?
11. Did many use it?
12. Was it used just in the US?
13. Is it a large company now?
14. Have there been a lot of searches?
15. how many?
16. What are there hopes for the future?
17. HOw quick can you find an answer now?
18. What year did they decide to do this?
19. by 2002 what happened?

Numbered answers:
1. a search engine
2. in 1998
3. Larry Page and Sergey Brin
4. They met studying computer science at Stanford University, USA
5. To produce something that could answer any question in seconds
6. No
7. Their own money, borrowing from family and friends, and finally given a loan for 100,000
8. in a friend's garage
9. a word from mathematics
10. a very high number---- 1 followed by a hundred zeros
11. yes
12. No
13. Yes
14. Yes
15. more questions have been answered than any other Internet service
16. all the world's information will be put on the Internet
17. immediately
18. 1996
19. it was the biggest search engine on the Internet

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Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha. According to the 2010 census, Omaha's population was 408,958, making it the nation's 44th-largest city; this had increased to 446,970 as of a 2016 estimate. Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2013, with an estimated population of 895,151 residing in eight counties. The Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, Nebraska-IA Combined Statistical Area is 931,667, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2013 estimate. Nearly 1.3 million people reside within the Greater Omaha area, comprising a 50-mile (80km) radius of Downtown Omaha, the city's center.

Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, the "Gateway to the West". Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it played host to the World's Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During the 19th century, Omaha's central location in the United States spurred the city to become an important national transportation hub. Throughout the rest of the 19th century, the transportation and jobbing sectors were important in the city, along with its railroads and breweries. In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the world's largest, and its meatpacking plants gained international prominence.
1. Who started Omaha?
2. Where were they from?
3. Is that in Nebraska?
4. What state?
5. When did this occur?
6. Is it on the Mississippi River?
7. Which river?
8. What was the city known as?
9. What happened there in 1898?
10. What was the event called?
11. Is Omaha near the middle of the country?
12. What happened because of its central location?
13. If I were a brew master would Omaha have been a good place for me?
14. What else was it known for in the 1900s?
15. How many cities in Nebraska are larger than Omaha?
16. What county is it a part of?
17. What metropolitan area does it belong to?
18. Does that include parts of a different state?
19. What was its population in 2010?

Numbered answers:
1. speculators
2. Council Bluffs
3. No
4. Iowa
5. 1854
6. No
7. the Missouri River
8. the Gateway to the West
9. the World's Fair
10. the Trans-Mississippi Exposition
11. Midwestern
12. it became a national transportation hub
13. Yes
14. railroads
15. none
16. Douglas County
17. Omaha-Council Bluffs
18. Yes
19. 408,958

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Buenos Aires ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Senora Santa Maria del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 17 million.

The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores; both are now neighborhoods of the city. The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name: Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). Its citizens first elected a chief of government (i.e. mayor) in 1996; previously, the mayor was directly appointed by the President of the Republic.
1. What river is Buenos Aires near?
2. What part of the river is it by?
3. True or False: Three American cities are bigger than Buenos Aires.
4. How populous is its metro area?
5. Is the city part of a province?
6. Was it ever?
7. When did that end?
8. Was that a quick and easy choice?
9. True or False: The city grew in size after 1880.
10. What is own town that joined the city?
11. And another?
12. Are they still towns?
13. What are they?
14. What was the city's original name?
15. In which century was Bueno Aires founded?
16. True or False: "Buenos aires" has only one possible translation.
17. What is one possible meaning?
18. And another?
19. Which would the founders pick as the correct meaning?
20. Was the city's mayor always chosen by the people/
Numbered answers:
1. the Rio de la Plata
2. on the western shore of
3. unknown
4. around 17 million people
5. No
6. Yes
7. In 1880
8. No
9. True
10. Belgrano
11. Flores
12. No
13. neighborhoods
14. Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires
15. the 16th century
16. False
17. "fair winds"
18. "good airs"
19. the first of those
20. No