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Maine () is the northernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Maine is the 39th most extensive and the 41st most populous of the U.S. states and territories. It is bordered by New Hampshire to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest respectively. Maine is the easternmost state in the contiguous United States, and the northernmost east of the Great Lakes. It is known for its jagged, rocky coastline; low, rolling mountains; heavily forested interior, and picturesque waterways; and also its seafood cuisine, especially clams and lobster. There is a humid continental climate throughout the state, even in coastal areas such as its most populous city of Portland. The capital is Augusta.

For thousands of years, indigenous peoples were the only inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine. At the time of European arrival in what is now Maine, several Algonquian-speaking peoples inhabited the area. The first European settlement in the area was by the French in 1604 on Saint Croix Island, by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons. The first English settlement was the short-lived Popham Colony, established by the Plymouth Company in 1607. A number of English settlements were established along the coast of Maine in the 1620s, although the rugged climate, deprivations, and conflict with the local peoples caused many to fail over the years.
1. What US state is mentioned?
2. What year did the Europeans start to live there?
3. What ethnicity?
4. Where did they live?
5. What is the state capital?
6. Is the the city with the most people?
7. What is?
8. What area is that city in?
9. What US state is Maine next to?
10. Is it next to another country?
11. How many foods it it famous for?
12. And how many geographical features?
13. Who lived in the state for a very long time?
14. How long did they live there?
15. What is the weather like generally?
16. Do a lot of people live there compared to other states?
17. What part of the US is it in?
18. When did people from England settle the area?
19. Where a lot of them successful?
20. Is the state in the Western US?

Numbered answers:
1. Maine.
2. 1604.
3. French.
4. by the French in 1604 on Saint Croix Island.
5. Augusta.
6. No.
7. Portland.
8. Maine () is the northernmost state.
9. New Hampshire
10. Yes.
11. Two.
12. Four.
13. Indigenous peoples.
14. Thousands of years.
15. Humid.
16. No.
17. The New England region of the northeastern United States.
18. 1607
19. No.
20. No.

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(CNN) -- Joe Simon, the co-creator of star-spangled comic book hero Captain America, has died at 98, his family announced.

Simon, a writer, editor and artist, passed away late Wednesday in New York after a short illness.

Simon and artist Jack Kirby, who ran a studio, developed the character in the early 1940s and worked outside the box to develop a distinct design.

"Together, the team created Captain America as well as long list of characters, including The Newsboy Legion and The Boy Commandos," a statement Thursday from Simon's family said.

A Marvel Comics website provides a summary of Captain America and his superhero quest.

"In World War II, patriotic soldier Steve Rogers, recipient of the 'Super Soldier Serum,' became the living symbol of freedom, Captain America. Left for dead while frozen in ice, the star-spangled hero with an indestructible shield awoke years later to continue his never-ending battle for liberty."

The movie "Captain America: The First Avenger" was released this year. Chris Evans, in the title role, went up against villain Red Skull, played by Hugo Weaving.

Kirby and Simon created Captain America for Timely Comics, Marvel's predecessor. The comic was a huge hit during World War II.

With Captain America came some of Kirby's comic book innovations, Mark Evanier, author of the book "Kirby: King of Comics," told CNN in 2008.

Comic books, which had started as reprints of newspaper comic strips, had adhered to that form's look of repetitious boxes. Kirby and Simon used different-sized panels, varying shapes, even full pages.
1. What comic was popular during WWII?
2. Who published it during WWII?
3. Who died in the article?
4. Why was he famous?
5. How old was he when he passed?
6. Where did he pass?
7. Who helped him create that character?
8. When was it created?
9. What actor played the superhero in the movie?
10. Against what villain?
11. Played by who?
12. How did comic books begin?

Numbered answers:
1. Captain America.
2. Marvel Comics
3. Joe Simon
4. He is the co-creator of Captain America
5. 98
6. New York
7. Jack Kirby
8. early 1940s
9. Chris Evans
10. Red Skull
11. Hugo Weaving
12. as reprints of newspaper comic strips

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CHAPTER SIX.

JACK HAS A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.

We never can tell what a day or an hour may bring forth. This is a solemn fact on which young and old might frequently ponder with advantage, and on which we might enlarge to an unlimited extent; but our space will not admit of moralising very much, therefore we beg the reader to moralise on that, for him--or herself. The subject is none the less important, that circumstances require that it should be touched on in a slight, almost flippant, manner.

Had Jack Robinson known what lay before him that evening, he would--he would have been a wiser man! Nothing more appropriate than that occurs to us at this moment. But, to be more particular:--

When the party reached the nets, Jack left them to attend to their work, and went off alone to the vats, some of which, measuring about six feet in diameter, were nearly full of fish in pickle.

As he walked along the slight track which guided him towards them, he pondered the circumstances in which he then found himself, and, indulging in a habit which he had acquired in his frequent and prolonged periods of solitude, began to mutter his thoughts aloud.

"So, so, Jack, you left your farm because you were tired of solitude, and now you find yourself in the midst of society. Pleasant society, truly!--bullies and geese, without a sympathetic mind to rub against. Humph! a pleasant fix you've got into, old fellow."

Jack was wrong in this to some extent, as he afterwards came to confess to himself, for among his men there were two or three minds worth cultivating, noble and shrewd, and deep, too, though not educated or refined. But at the time of which we write, Jack did not know this. He went on to soliloquise:
1. what is a fact?
2. who should the reader moralise this on?
3. Did Jack know what was to happen?
4. what if he did?
5. where did Jack leave?
6. why?
7. where did he go?
8. was it kind?
9. was he alone often before?
10. what would he do when alone?
11. what were in the vats?
12. were they large?
13. how big?
14. who was there?
15. was he with the party?
16. who was he with then?
17. what was the party doing?
18. where?
19. how many minds did he feel were worth cultivating?
20. were they educated?
Numbered answers:
1. We never can tell what a day or an hour may bring forth.
2. him--or herself
3. no
4. would have been a wiser man
5. his farm
6. tired of solitude
7. society
8. yes
9. yes
10. mutter his thoughts aloud.
11. fish in pickle
12. yes
13. six feet in diameter
14. Jack
15. no
16. alone
17. attending to their work
18. the nets
19. two or three
20. no