question: The West Indies or Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

The region is known as the area running from Florida westward along the Gulf Coast, and then south along the Mexican coast through Central America and then eastward across the northern coast of South America.

Bermuda is also included within the region even though it is in the west-central Atlantic, due to its common cultural history created by European colonization of the region, and in most of the region by the presence of a significant group of African descent.

Indigenous peoples were the first inhabitants of the West Indies. In 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to arrive at the islands, where he is believed by historians to have first stepped foot in the Bahamas. After the first of the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, Europeans began to use the term "West Indies" to distinguish the region from the East Indies of South Asia and Southeast Asia.

In the late sixteenth century, French, English and Dutch merchants and privateers began their operations in the Caribbean Sea, attacking Spanish and Portuguese shipping and coastal areas. They often took refuge and refitted their ships in the areas the Spanish could not conquer, including the islands of the Lesser Antilles, the northern coast of South America including the mouth of the Orinoco, and the Atlantic Coast of Central America. In the Lesser Antilles they managed to establish a foothold following the colonization of St Kitts in 1624 and Barbados in 1626, and when the Sugar Revolution took off in the mid-seventeenth century, they brought in thousands of Africans to work the fields and mills as slave laborers. These Africans wrought a demographic revolution, replacing or joining with either the indigenous Caribs or the European settlers who were there as indentured servants.
1. What region is this about?
2. Which body of water is it in?
3. How many island chains are part of it?
4. What are they?
5. Is Bermuda included in it?
6. Is it physically located in the region?
7. Then why is it included?
8. Who else lives in this region?
9. Who lived there first?
10. Who was the first European there?
11. When?
12. Which place did he visit first?
13. Why is the region called the West Indies?
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answer: 1. The West Indies
2. North Atlantic Ocean
3. three
4. the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
5. Yes
6. Not really
7. due to its common cultural history created by European colonization of the region
8. a significant group of African descent.
9. Indigenous peoples
10. Christopher Columbus
11. 1492
12. Bahamas
13. to distinguish the region from the East Indies of South Asia and Southeast Asia.

question: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about US$7.0 billion (fiscal year 2012), the NSF funds approximately 24% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics, and the social sciences, the NSF is the major source of federal backing.

The NSF's director and deputy director are appointed by the President of the United States, and confirmed by the United States Senate, whereas the 24 presidentially appointed members of the National Science Board (NSB) do not require Senate confirmation. The director and deputy director are responsible for administration, planning, budgeting and day-to-day operations of the foundation, while the NSB meets six times a year to establish its overall policies. The current NSF director, confirmed in March 2014, is astronomer France A. Cordova, former president of Purdue University.

The NSF seeks to fulfill its mission chiefly by issuing competitive, limited-term grants in response to specific proposals from the research community. The NSF also makes some contracts. Some proposals are solicited, and some are not; the NSF funds both kinds. The NSF does not operate its own laboratories, unlike other federal research agencies, notable examples being the NASA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
1. What is NSF yearly budget?
2. what does NSF stand for?
3. how does it fulfill its mission?
4. does it run its own labs?
5. what precent of research do they fund?
6. who is there medical counterpart?
7. who picks the leaders?
8. what is the NSB?
9. how often does the NSB meet to discuss policies?
10. who is the current NSF director?
11. when did he start?
12. what did he do before?
13. where was he president?
14. what fields is NSF the major source of money for?
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answer: 1. $7.0 billion
2. National Science Foundation
3. by issuing grants
4. No
5. 24%
6. NIH
7. the President
8. the National Science Board
9. 6 times a year
10. France A. Cordova
11. 2014
12. He was an astronomer
13. Purdue University
14. One is mathematics

question: Istanbul (CNN) -- One of the world's most powerful Muslim preachers lives behind a gated compound in the small, leafy town of Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.

The reclusive Turkish cleric's name is Fethullah Gulen.

If you believe the Turkish government, supporters of this cleric in Pennsylvania are spearheading a coup attempt in Turkey that is destabilizing one of America's most important allies in the Middle East.

In recent weeks, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a religious conservative, has compared Gulen and his supporters to a virus and a medieval cult of assassins.

Meanwhile, in an interview with CNN, a top official from Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, called the Gulen movement a "fifth column" that had infiltrated the Turkish police force and judiciary.

"We are confronted by a structure that doesn't take orders from within the chain of command of the state," parliament member and deputy AKP chairman Mahir Unal told CNN. "Rather, it takes orders from outside the state."

Who is this mysterious man in Pennsylvania?

The 72-year old imam went into self-imposed exile when he moved from Turkey to the United States in 1999.

He rarely speaks to journalists and has turned down interview requests from CNN for more than two years. But in a rare e-mail interview published in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Gulen denied any involvement in a political conspiracy.

"We will never be a part of any plot against those who are governing our country," he wrote, according to The Wall Street Journal.
1. Who considers Gulen a virus?
2. who is that?
3. where is Gulen from?
4. where does he live now?
5. how long has he been in the US?
6. What does the government believe he is doing?
7. that is doing what?
8. who is a religious conservative?
9. What is another name for the Guken Movement?
10. Who is Mahir Unal?
11. Who does he feel the Gulen Movement takes orders from?
12. rather than?
13. How old is Gulen?
14. who exiled him?
15. does he do a lot of interviews?
16. who has he turned down for 2 years?
17. who got an interview with him?
18. how was it conducted?
19. what did he deny?
20. against who?
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answer:
1. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
2. Turkish Prime Minister
3. Turkey
4. Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.
5. 19 years.
6. Spearheading a coup attempt in Turkey
7. Destabilizing one of America's most important allies in the Middle East.
8. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
9. Fifth column
10. Parliament member and deputy AKP chairman
11. From outside the state.
12. From within the chain of command of the state.
13. 72
14. He exiled himself.
15. No.
16. CNN.
17. The Wall Street Journal
18. E-mail
19. Involvement in a political conspiracy.
20. Those who are governing our country,