Question: India, officially the Republic of India ("Bharat Ganarajya"), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

The Indian subcontinent was home to the urban Indus Valley Civilisation of the 3rd millennium BCE. In the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. Social stratification, based on caste, emerged in the first millennium BCE, and Buddhism and Jainism arose. Early political consolidations took place under the Maurya and Gupta empires; the later peninsular Middle Kingdoms influenced cultures as far as southeast Asia. In the medieval era, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived, and Sikhism emerged, all adding to the region's diverse culture. Much of the north fell to the Delhi sultanate; the south was united under the Vijayanagara Empire. The economy expanded in the 17th century in the Mughal Empire. In the mid-18th century, the subcontinent came under British East India Company rule, and in the mid-19th under British crown rule. A nationalist movement emerged in the late 19th century, which later, under Mahatma Gandhi, was noted for nonviolent resistance and led to India's independence in 1947. 1. What is the population of India?
2. Does this make it the largest population in the world?
3. What is it ranked?
4. And by land mass?
5. Where is it located?
6. Is it land locked?
7. What body of water is to the southeast?
8. And what does it lay west of?
9. Is it near Sri Lanka?
10. What else?
11. What system came about in the first millennium BCE?
12. How does this categorize people?
13. Which religions followed?
14. When did Christiannity appear?
15. Who controlled the north?
16. And the south?
17. When did they begin to have an active commerce?
18. Under the rule of whom?
19. When did the royal of Britain take control?
20. What began later that century?
21. Known for?
22. Led by whom? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. 1.2 billion people
2. no
3. second
4. seventh
5. South Asia
6. no
7. the Bay of Bengal
8. It shares land borders with Pakistan
9. yes
10. the Maldives
11. Social stratification
12. based on caste
13. Buddhism and Jainism
14. In the medieval era
15. the Delhi sultanate
16. the Vijayanagara Empire
17. in the 17th century
18. the Mughal Empire
19. mid-19th century
20. A nationalist movement
21. nonviolent resistance
22. Mahatma Gandh

Question: Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard. In the early years, these schools were nearly the same. Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin and Greek. Little was known about science. And few people knew that one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers. In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could study in Harvard's law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began to teach modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began to teach American history. As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them. Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning. There's so much to learn that one kind of school can't offer all. 1. what ancient languages did everyone used to learn?
2. was much known about science?
3. when did they start teaching modern languages at Harvard?
4. what year was Harvard founded?
5. what other schools opened soon after?
6. which is the oldest of all them?
7. what did most people become when they had graduated?
8. what year did Harvard start teaching medicine?
9. what modern languages did they start to teach?
10. in the past, who went to college?
11. besides medicine, what other subjects were offered?
12. did they also teach history?
13. Today, modern colleges are mostly made up of what?
14. are they specialized?
15. can one school offer everything?
16. how similar were Harvard, Yale and Princeton when they opened?
17. did everyone study the same subject?
18. could one school teach everything back then? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Latin and Greek
2. no
3. In 1782
4. 1636
5. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth
6. Harvard
7. ministers or teachers
8. 1782
9. French and German
10. Only young men
11. law school
12. yes
13. smaller schools
14. yes
15. no
16. nearly the same
17. yes
18. yes

Question: (CNN)The odds seemed almost impossibly stacked against baby Lily, but she survived.

Rescuers found the toddler Saturday, hanging upside down in her mother's car, which had flipped into a frigid Utah river a day before.

If the wreck occurred when police believe it did, she may have been there for as many as 14 hours.

Lily's mother, Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck, died in the crash. She was 25 years old.

How did her 18-month-old survive?

One of the biggest factors was the car seat.

Lily was in the proper car seat for her age and the seat appears to have been properly attached.

Even though the child was trapped and upside down, her body remained in the seat and above the frigid water. Doctors say that such low temperatures are dangerous, but would be even more so if the baby were wet.

Dry cold temperatures are more survivable than wet cold temperatures.

Ironically, the cold might have actually helped Lily survive, said Dr. Barbara Walsh, with the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

"She's going to have a lower heart rate. She's going to have a lower metabolism. She's going to need less sugar," Walsh said. "It's almost like the body is sort of knowing that it needs to shut down to protect itself."

A variety of other factors were also likely at play.

"We don't know what time the child was last fed, when she drank. Given that it's wintertime and she was in her car seat, she was probably wearing mittens, a hat. We tend to over bundle our children, so the fact that she was dry, she probably had on multiple layers because it's winter, and there's always a chance that she had just been sort of fed right before this happened probably all played a role," Walsh said. 1. what odds were stacked against Lily?
2. What happened in the car?
3. How long was the baby in the car?
4. Did her mother survive?
5. How did the baby survive?
6. What did the cold have to do with Lily's survival?
7. Did she wear anything to protect her from the cold?
8. what else?
9. Was she fed before it happened?
10. Was she dry? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. The odds that she would survive.
2. It flipped into a Utah river, leaving Lily hanging upside down.
3. As many as 14 hours.
4. No.
5. She was properly in the car seat.
6. It slowed her body down which protected it.
7. Yes.
8. Mittens, a hat, and multiple layers of clothing
9. It is not certain, but there was a chance that she was.
10. Yes.