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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and its sequel, the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City "Territorial Enterprise". His humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was published in 1865, based on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention and was even translated into French. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

1. what was Mark Twain's real name?
2. When was he born
3. What was his best book?
4. Did it had anything to do with his real life?
5. In which way?
6. What did he have a lack of success in?
7. Did he have any humorous stories?
8. What were they?
9. what was it based on?
10. Did he have famous friends?
11. Who were they?
12. what about royalty?
13. What does California have to do wtih Twain?
14. What story was translated in another language?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
2. November 30, 1835
3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Yes
5. he was raised in the town the book was set
6. mining
7. Yes
8. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
9. on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel
10. Yes
11. presidents, and artists
12. Yes
13. he spent some time as a miner
14. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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The region, as part of Lorraine, was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and then was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century, and formalized as one of the provinces of France. The Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse, known as Stadtrepublik Mulhausen, became a part of Alsace after a vote by its citizens on 4 January 1798. Alsace is frequently mentioned with and as part of Lorraine and the former duchy of Lorraine, since it was a vital part of the duchy, and later because German possession as the imperial province (Alsace-Lorraine, 18711918) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries; France and Germany exchanged control of parts of Lorraine (including Alsace) four times in 75 years.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, Alsace became the territory of the Germanic Alemanni. The Alemanni were agricultural people, and their Germanic language formed the basis of modern-day dialects spoken along the Upper Rhine (Alsatian, Alemannian, Swabian, Swiss). Clovis and the Franks defeated the Alemanni during the 5th century AD, culminating with the Battle of Tolbiac, and Alsace became part of the Kingdom of Austrasia. Under Clovis' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized. Alsace remained under Frankish control until the Frankish realm, following the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia, which was ruled by the youngest grandson Lothar I. Lothar died early in 855 and his realm was divided into three parts. The part known as Lotharingia, or Lorraine, was given to Lothar's son. The rest was shared between Lothar's brothers Charles the Bald (ruler of the West Frankish realm) and Louis the German (ruler of the East Frankish realm). The Kingdom of Lotharingia was short-lived, however, becoming the stem duchy of Lorraine in Eastern Francia after the Treaty of Ribemont in 880. Alsace was united with the other Alemanni east of the Rhine into the stem duchy of Swabia.

1. In antiquity Lorraine belonged to whom?
2. Who got them in 17th century?
3. What was its status then?
4. What became part of Alsace?
5. By what process?
6. When?
7. Whose part is it often mentioned?
8. Who got them later?
9. When?
10. What was its status then?
11. Did countries fight over it?
12. Which countries?
13. In which centuries?
14. Did it change hands?
15. How many times?
16. For how long?
17. What was the inhabitants profession in Roman Empire period?
18. How many parts Charlemagne divided the place?
19. How many brothers Lothar had?
20. What place Alsace united with then?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. he Germanic Alemanni
2. France
3. one of the provinces of France
4. the Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse
5. after a vote
6. on January 4, 1798
7. Alsace
8. Germany
9. 18711918
10. an imperial province
11. yes
12. France and Germany
13. in the 19th and 20th centuries
14. yes
15. four tiems
16. 75 years
17. agricultural
18. the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts
19. two
20. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia

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(CNN) -- In Pennsylvania, Tyler Dix, a 16-year-old movie buff, is wide awake by 7 a.m. to cook breakfast for his younger siblings.

Moranda Hern and Kaylei Deakin started Sisterhood of the Traveling BDUs, or battle dress uniforms.

In Georgia, Tucker Simmons, a 14-year old novice guitarist, prepares ice packs for his mother whenever her chronic lower back pain kicks in.

In California, Kaylei Deakin, an avid 17-year old rock climber, disciplines her little sisters when they act out.

Tyler, Tucker and Kaylei are three teenagers from across the country who have very different interests, but one experience that bonds them: They grew up fast -- sometimes too quickly -- to fill the shoes of mom or dad when their parent was shipped off to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As the death toll from the two wars has risen over the last eight years, the fight has also affected a growing number of children left at home to cope without a parent.

Whether it's raising their siblings or getting an after-school job, teens with parents in the military feel pressure to step up.

"These teens are expected to take on the responsibility the deployed parent used to take care of," said Mary Carolyn Voght, director of programs for Our Military Kids, a nonprofit organization that provides support to children with a deployed parent in the National Guard. "There's usually the expectation that they will pitch in and help out more."

More than 30,000 teens between 12 and 18 have at least one parent in the National Guard deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense.

1. who is a movie buff?
2. how did he grow up?
3. what is his age?
4. does he live in the US?
5. where?
6. what time does he wake up?
7. does he do anything when he gets up?
8. who feels pressure to step up?
9. how do they step up?
10. do any other teens help out?
11. who?
12. how does Tucker help?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Tyler Dix
2. expected to take on the responsibility the deployed parent used to take care of
3. 16
4. yes
5. Pennsylvania
6. 7 a.m
7. cook breakfast for his younger siblings.
8. teens with parents in the military .
9. take on the responsibility
10. yes
11. Tyler, Tucker and Kaylei
12. prepares ice packs for his mother whenever her chronic lower back pain kicks in