Q: The Organization of American States, or the OAS or OEA, is a continental organization founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states. Headquartered in the United States capital Washington, D.C., the OAS's members are the 35 independent states of the Americas.

As of 26 May 2015, the Secretary General of OAS is Luis Almagro.

The notion of an international union in the New World was first put forward by Simon Bolivar who, at the 1826 Congress of Panama (still being part of Colombia), proposed creating a league of American republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. This meeting was attended by representatives of Gran Colombia (comprising the modern-day countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela), Peru, Bolivia, The United Provinces of Central America, and Mexico but the grandly titled "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation" was ultimately ratified only by Gran Colombia. Bolivar's dream soon floundered with civil war in Gran Colombia, the disintegration of Central America, and the emergence of national rather than New World outlooks in the newly independent American republics. Bolivar's dream of American unity was meant to unify Hispanic American nations against external powers.

1. Thee Secretary General of OAS.
2. The Organization of American States.
3. He proposed creating a league of American republics.
4. 1826.
5. 30 April 1948.
6. For the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states.
7. Washington, D.C..
8. Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.
9. Representatives of Gran Colombia.
10. Gran Colombia.
11. Bolivar's.
12. Civil war in Gran Colombia.
13. Unify Hispanic American nations against external powers.
14. OEA.
15. 35.
16. 26 May 2015.
17. 1826.
18. Colombia.
19. Creating a league of American republics.

Numbered questions:
1. Who is Luis Almagro?
2. What does OAS stand for?
3. What did Simon Bolivar do?
4. In what year?
5. When was the OAS founded?
6. For what reason?
7. Where are its headquarters?
8. What countries comprise Gran Colombia?
9. Who attended the meeting proposed by Bolivar?
10. Who ratified the "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation"?
11. Whose dream floundered?
12. Because of what?
13. What was Bolivar's dream of American unity supposed to do?
14. What is another abbreviation for The Organization of American States besides OAS?
15. How many states are there in it?
16. When did Luis Almagro become Secretary General of OAS?
17. When was the Congress of Panama?
18. What was it still part of then?
19. What was one of the things it proposed?

Q: CHAPTER IX

THE SMITING OF AMON

That evening I sat ill at ease in my work-chamber in Seti's palace, making pretence to write, I who felt that great evils threatened my lord the Prince, and knew not what to do to turn them from him. The door opened, and old Pambasa the chamberlain appeared and addressed me by my new titles, saying that the Hebrew lady Merapi, who had been my nurse in sickness, wished to speak with me. Presently she came and stood before me.

"Scribe Ana," she said, "I have but just seen my uncle Jabez, who has come, or been sent, with a message to me," and she hesitated.

"Why was he sent, Lady? To bring you news of Laban?"

"Not so. Laban has fled away and none know where he is, and Jabez has only escaped much trouble as the uncle of a traitress by undertaking this mission."

"What is the mission?"

"To pray me, if I would save myself from death and the vengeance of God, to work upon the heart of his Highness, which I know not how to do----"

"Yet I think you might find means, Merapi."

"----save through you, his friend and counsellor," she went on, turning away her face. "Jabez has learned that it is in the mind of Pharaoh utterly to destroy the people of Israel."

"How does he know that, Merapi?"

"I cannot say, but I think all the Hebrews know. I knew it myself though none had told me. He has learned also that this cannot be done under the law of Egypt unless the Prince who is heir to the throne and of full age consents. Now I am come to pray you to pray the Prince not to consent."

1. my work-chamber
2. Seti's palace
3. Pambasa
4. the chamberlain
5. lady Merapi
6. the nurse in sickness
7. Ana
8. uncle Jabez

Numbered questions:
1. Where am I?
2. Where at?
3. Who comes in?
4. Who is he?
5. Who wants to enter?
6. Who was?
7. Who has she been speaking to?
8. Who arrived with information?

Q: (CNN)To allay possible concerns, Boston prosecutors released video Friday of the shooting of a police officer last month that resulted in the killing of the gunman.

The officer wounded, John Moynihan, is white. Angelo West, the gunman shot to death by officers, was black.

After the shooting, community leaders in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Roxbury, where the shooting occurred, were quick to call for calm. One said the officers were forced to return fire.

Still, they were glad to see the video released for the sake of transparency.

"I think people understand that the decisions Mr. West made put his life in grave jeopardy," clergyman Mark V. Scott told CNN affiliate WCVB.

West had several prior gun convictions, police said.

Moynihan is a former U.S. Army Ranger who was honored at the White House for his heroism in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. The "Top Cop" helped save a transit officer wounded in a gunbattle with the bombers.

Last month, he became a gunshot victim when he and other officers in unmarked cars, but with blue lights flashing, stopped the car West was driving.

When Moynihan opened the driver's-side door, the video shows, West sprang out and fired a shot with a pistol at the officer's face. As West ran away, he fired back at the other officers with his .357 Magnum handgun, police said. They returned fire and killed him.

Moynihan, 34, survived with a bullet wound under one eye. He was placed in a medically induced coma at a Boston hospital.

1. One
2. Boston prosecutors
3. Friday
4. no
5. John Moynihan
6. white
7. Angelo West
8. black
9. WCVB
10. several
11. former U.S. Army Ranger
12. no
13. yes
14. community leaders
15. predominantly African-American
16. Roxbury
17. Mark V. Scott
18. clergyman
19. he and other officers
20. Moynihan

Numbered questions:
1. how many police were hurt ?
2. who put the video out ?
3. on what day ?
4. did the shooter live ?
5. what is the police name ?
6. what race ?
7. and the shooters name ?
8. what race was he ?
9. what is the cnn affiliate ?
10. how many priors did west have ?
11. who is Moynihan ?
12. was he honored at the black house ?
13. was it the white house ?
14. who called for clam ?
15. in what type of area ?
16. what is the name of the town ?
17. who thinks the people understand ?
18. what is he ?
19. who was in unmarked cars ?
20. who is a top cop ?