The boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens and Sefton were included in Merseyside. In Greater Manchester the successor boroughs were Bury, Bolton, Manchester, Oldham (part), Rochdale, Salford, Tameside (part), Trafford (part) and Wigan. Warrington and Widnes, south of the new Merseyside/Greater Manchester border were added to the new non-metropolitan county of Cheshire. The urban districts of Barnoldswick and Earby, Bowland Rural District and the parishes of Bracewell and Brogden and Salterforth from Skipton Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire became part of the new Lancashire. One parish, Simonswood, was transferred from the borough of Knowsley in Merseyside to the district of West Lancashire in 1994. In 1998 Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen became independent unitary authorities.

The Duchy of Lancaster is one of two royal duchies in England. It has landholdings throughout the region and elsewhere, operating as a property company, but also exercising the right of the Crown in the County Palatine of Lancaster. While the administrative boundaries changed in the 1970s, the county palatine boundaries remain the same as the historic boundaries. As a result, the High Sheriffs for Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside are appointed "within the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster". What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is one of two royal duchies?
2. Where are they?
3. In what country?
4. How many countries were included in Merseyside?
5. When did the administrative boundaries change?
6. How are the High Sheriffs appointed?
7. Which parish was transferred from the borough?
8. In what year?
9. Which became independent unitary authorities in 1998?
10. Which districts became part of the new Lancashire?
11. Which boundaries remain the same as the historic ones?
12. In Greater Manchester, were there successor boroughs?
13. What was the name of the two that started with "B"?
14. Which were south of the new Merseyside/Greater Manchester border?
15. What were they added to?
Answer: 1. The Duchy of Lancaster
2. The County Palatine of Lancaster.
3. England
4. Four
5. The 1970s
6. Within the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster.
7. Simonswood
8. 1994
9. Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen
10. The districts of Barnoldswick and Earby, Bowland Rural District.
11. Lancaster
12. Yes
13. Bury and Bolton
14. Warrington and Widnes
15. Cheshire

Problem: CHAPTER XVI. AUGURIES.

Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of man obey. EURIPIDES (Anstice).

Aurelia sat up late to finish her despatches to the beloved ones at home, and pack the little works she had been able to do for each, though my Lady's embroidery took up most of her sedentary hours. Mrs. Dove undertook the care of the guinea's worth of presents to the little sisters from Sir Amyas, which the prudent nurse advised her to withhold till after Master Archer was gone, as he would certainly break everything to pieces. He was up betimes, careering about the garden with all his sisters after him, imperiously ordering them about, but nevertheless bewitching them all, so that Amoretta was in ecstasies at her own preferment, scarcely realising that it would divide her from the others; while Letty made sure that she should soon follow, and Fidelia gravely said, "I shall always know you are loving me still, Amy, as Nurse Rolfe does."

Lady Belamour breakfasted in her own room at about ten o'clock. Her woman, Mrs. Loveday, a small trim active person, with the worn and sharpened remains of considerable prettiness of the miniature brunette style, was sent to summon Miss Delavie to her apartment and inspect the embroidery she had been desired to execute for my Lady. Three or four bouquets had been finished, and the maid went into such raptures over them as somewhat to disgust their worker, who knew that they were not half so well done as they would have been under Betty's direction. However, Mrs. Loveday bore the frame to her Ladyship's room, following Aurelia, who was there received with the same stately caressing manner as before.
1. Who sat up late to finish her desppatches
2. What did Mrs. Dove do?
3. was did she advise that she withhold till after Master Archer was gone
4. Where did Lady Belamour have breakfast
5. What time was this
6. How is Mrs. Loveday described?
7. what was she sent to do
8. What chapter is this article from
9. What did Aurelia stay up to do?
10. How many bouquets were finished
Answer: 1. Aurelia
2. undertook the care
3. presents
4. in her own room
5. about ten o'clock
6. small trim active person
7. summon Miss Delavie
8. XVI
9. finish her despatches
10. Three or four

question: Depleted uranium is also used as a shielding material in some containers used to store and transport radioactive materials. While the metal itself is radioactive, its high density makes it more effective than lead in halting radiation from strong sources such as radium. Other uses of depleted uranium include counterweights for aircraft control surfaces, as ballast for missile re-entry vehicles and as a shielding material. Due to its high density, this material is found in inertial guidance systems and in gyroscopic compasses. Depleted uranium is preferred over similarly dense metals due to its ability to be easily machined and cast as well as its relatively low cost. The main risk of exposure to depleted uranium is chemical poisoning by uranium oxide rather than radioactivity (uranium being only a weak alpha emitter).

The discovery and isolation of radium in uranium ore (pitchblende) by Marie Curie sparked the development of uranium mining to extract the radium, which was used to make glow-in-the-dark paints for clock and aircraft dials. This left a prodigious quantity of uranium as a waste product, since it takes three tonnes of uranium to extract one gram of radium. This waste product was diverted to the glazing industry, making uranium glazes very inexpensive and abundant. Besides the pottery glazes, uranium tile glazes accounted for the bulk of the use, including common bathroom and kitchen tiles which can be produced in green, yellow, mauve, black, blue, red and other colors.
1. What is used to shield radioactive waste?
2. Give an example of radioactive material it might shield
3. Is depleted uranium a metal?
4. Is it radioactive?
5. Is it dense?
6. What else is it used for?
7. Is it expensive?
8. What is the main risk of its use?
9. Who discovered radium?
10. Radium is a part of what ore?
11. What were the original uses of radium?
12. How much uranium is needed to get a gram of radium?
13. How is the waste utilized?
14. Is uranium glaze cheap?
15. What product is the glazed used upon?
16. In which colors?
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answer:
1. Depleted uranium
2. radium
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. counterweights for aircraft control surfaces
7. no
8. chemical poisoning by uranium oxide
9. Marie Curie
10. uranium ore
11. glow-in-the-dark paints for clock and aircraft dials
12. three tonnes
13. the glazing industry,
14. yes
15. common bathroom and kitchen tiles
16. green, yellow, mauve, black, blue, red and other colors