Q: Elsevier () is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information. It was established in 1880 as a publishing company. It is a part of the RELX Group, known until 2015 as Reed Elsevier. Its products include journals such as "The Lancet" and "Cell", the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, the "Trends" and "Current Opinion" series of journals, the online citation database Scopus, and the ClinicalKey solution for clinicians. Elsevier's products and services include the entire academic research lifecycle, including software and data-management, instruction and assessment tools.

Elsevier publishes approximately 420,000 articles annually in 2,500 journals. Its archives contain over 13 million documents and 30,000 e-books. Total yearly downloads amount to more than 900 million.

Elsevier's high profit margins (37% in 2016) and its copyright practices have subjected it to criticism by researchers.

Elsevier was founded in 1880 and took the name from the Dutch publishing house Elzevir which has no connection with the present company. The Elzevir family operated as booksellers and publishers in the Netherlands; the founder, Lodewijk Elzevir (15421617), lived in Leiden and established the business in 1580.

The expansion of Elsevier in the scientific field after 1945 was funded with the profits of the newsweekly "Elsevier", which first issue appeared on 27 October 1945. The weekly was an instant success and earned lots of money. The weekly was a continuation, as is stated in its first issue, of the monthly Elsevier, which was founded in 1891 to promote the name of the publishing house and had to stop publication in December 1940 because of the Nazi occupation.

Answer the following questions:
1. what is the article about?
2. what is that?
3. what does it do?
4. how many articles does it release per year?
5. in how many journals?
6. when was it founded?
7. what were its profit margins in 2016?
8. is this high or low?
9. where did it get it's name from?
10. are the two connected?
11. does it also provide books online?
12. can they be downloaded?
13. how many are downloaded?
14. is this per year or month?
15. what group of companies is it part of?
16. when did it go into the scientific field?
17. who was the founder?
18. when did he die?
19. where di d he live?
20. when was the first issue of Elsevier founded?
A: 1. Elsevier
2. an information and analytics company
3. provides scientific, technical, and medical information.
4. 420,000
5. 2,500
6. 1880
7. 37%
8. high
9. Dutch publishing house Elzevir
10. no
11. yes
12. yes
13. more than 900 million
14. per year
15. RELX Group
16. after 1945
17. Lodewijk Elzevir
18. 1617
19. Leiden
20. 1891
Q: Los Angeles (CNN) -- Juanita Moore, the third African-American actress to ever get a supporting actress Oscar nomination, died of natural causes at her Los Angeles home Tuesday, her grandson said. She was 99.

Moore worked right to the end, preparing for a stage reading of a new play and helping her actor grandson learn lines, Kirk Kellykhan said,

"I just got cursed out that morning about learning my lines," Kellykhan said. Moore was helping him prepare for the lead in the West Coast production of the Broadway play "The Wedding Man," he said.

She was scheduled to take part in a January 17 reading of a play based on Michael St. John's book "Hollywood Through the Backdoor," her grandson said.

Moore was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar in 1960 for Douglas Sirk's "Imitation of Life." She played a housekeeper whose daughter passes for white.

A Los Angeles native, she began her entertainment career as a Cotton Club chorus girl and a film extra. At the same time, she worked on her acting skills on stage in the Ebony Showcase Theater.

Moore's feature film debut came in 1949 when she played a nurse in "Pinky."

Most of her roles in the 1950s were as domestics, until she was cast as Annie Johnson in "Imitation of Life." The story was about Johnson's light-skinned daughter denying her racial roots.

The lack of roles for African-American actresses in the early 1960s made it difficult for Moore to find big-screen jobs despite the accolades for her work. She acted in supporting roles in 1961 in "Tammy, Tell Me True" and in 1963 in "Papa's Delicate Condition." Moore did land a significant role as a nun in the 1966 hit "The Singing Nun."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is the 3rd African American actress to get a nomination for supporting actress Oscar?
2. How did she pass away?
3. How old was she?
4. What did she help her grandson with?
5. When was she nominated for the Oscar?
6. WHat did she get nominated for?
7. For what movie?
8. WHat did she play in that movie?
9. WHat was the first film she did?
10. WHatpart was she helping her grandson prepare for?
11. Which play was it?
12. What role?
A: 1. Juanita Moore
2. natural causes
3. 99
4. earn lines
5. 1960
6. best supporting actress
7. Imitation of Life
8. housekeeper
9. Pinky
10. new play
11. The Wedding Man
12. lead
Q: West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the north (and, slightly, east), and Maryland to the northeast. West Virginia is the 10th smallest by area, is ranked 38th in population, and has the second lowest household income of the 50 United States. The capital and largest city is Charleston.

West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions of 1861, after the American Civil War had begun. Delegates from some Unionist counties of northwestern Virginia decided to break away from Virginia, although they included many secessionist counties in the new state. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the war. West Virginia was the only state to form by separating from a Confederate state, the first to separate from any state since Maine separated from Massachusetts, and was one of two states admitted to the Union during the American Civil War (the other being Nevada). While a portion of its residents held slaves, most of the residents were yeomen farmers, and the delegates provided for gradual abolition of slavery in the new state constitution.

Answer the following questions:
1. Was West Virginia one of the original states?
2. Was it a state at the beginning of the Civil War?
3. What year did it achieve statehood?
4. What area of Virginia did West Virginia come from?
5. Were all the counties loyal to the union?
6. Was it in a strategically important position during the war?
7. What was the last state to separate from another?
8. From New Hampshire?
9. From what?
10. How many other areas were given statehood during the Civil War?
11. What was it?
12. What did most people do for a living in early West Virginia?
13. Did any of the people have slaves?
14. Did that end abruptly?
15. What finally abolished slavery there?
16. What state is to its north?
17. Is Ohio on its southern border?
18. What is the area called that West Virginia is a part of?
19. Is it one of the larger U.S. states?
20. Is it wealthy?
A:
1. no
2. yes
3. 1863
4. northwestern
5. no
6. yes
7. Maine
8. no
9. Massachusetts
10. One
11. Nevada
12. farming
13. yes
14. no
15. new state constitution
16. Pennsylvania
17. no
18. Appalachian
19. no
20. no