input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a mainline Protestant Methodist denomination. In the 19th century its main predecessor was a leader in Evangelicalism. Founded in 1968 by the union of the Methodist Church (USA) and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley in England as well as the Great Awakening in the United States. As such, the church's theological orientation is decidedly Wesleyan. It embraces both liturgical and evangelical elements.

The United Methodist Church is the largest denomination within the wider Methodist movement, which has approximately 80 million adherents across the world. In the United States, the UMC ranks as the largest mainline Protestant denomination, the largest Protestant church after the Southern Baptist Convention, and the third largest Christian denomination. As of 2014, worldwide membership was about 12 million: 7.2 million in the United States, and 4.4 million in Africa, Asia and Europe. It is a member of the World Council of Churches, the World Methodist Council, and other religious associations. In 2015, Pew Research estimated that 3.6% of the U.S population, or 9 million adult adherents, self-identify with the United Methodist Church revealing a much larger number of adherents than registered membership. 1. How is the church's theology characterized?
2. what church is being referenced?
3. what is one place where it has its origins?
4. who was responsible for it there?
5. is it from anywhere else?
6. where?
7. is there a name for what happened there?
8. what is it?
9. what is the UMC part of that is bigger?
10. how many people follow it approximately?
numbered_answers: 1. it's a bit liturgical and evangelical
2. The United Methodist Church
3. England
4. John and Charles Wesley
5. y
6. the United States.
7. yes
8. Great Awakening
9. the largest mainline Protestant denomination
10. 80 million

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees.

It is not an SI unit, as the SI unit of angular measure is the radian, but it is mentioned in the SI brochure as an accepted unit. Because a full rotation equals 2 radians, one degree is equivalent to radians.

The original motivation for choosing the degree as a unit of rotations and angles is unknown. One theory states that it is related to the fact that 360 is approximately the number of days in a year. Ancient astronomers noticed that the sun, which follows through the ecliptic path over the course of the year, seems to advance in its path by approximately one degree each day. Some ancient calendars, such as the Persian calendar, used 360 days for a year. The use of a calendar with 360 days may be related to the use of sexagesimal numbers.

Another theory is that the Babylonians subdivided the circle using the angle of an equilateral triangle as the basic unit and further subdivided the latter into 60 parts following their sexagesimal numeric system. The earliest trigonometry, used by the Babylonian astronomers and their Greek successors, was based on chords of a circle. A chord of length equal to the radius made a natural base quantity. One sixtieth of this, using their standard sexagesimal divisions, was a degree. 1. What is degree short for?
2. What is is used for?
3. What is its maximum value?
4. Are there any other units for measuring angles?
5. WHat?
6. And what unit is defined in that system?
7. Are degrees a recent concept, or older?
8. What was an early civilization that used them?
9. What shapmes were important to their math?
10. What number pops up a lot in their math system?
numbered_answers: 1. unknown
2. measurement of a plane angle
3. 360
4. Yes
5. the SI unit
6. the radian
7. older
8. the Babylonians
9. unknown
10. 60

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XXII

AN UNEXPECTED MEETING ON THE WATER

It was plainly to be seen that the first mate of the _Dogstar_ was in no wise an agreeable person to meet, and the Rovers and Hans were sorry that he and the others had come aboard the steam yacht. The two sailors from the lumber schooner were also rough men and probably under the thumb of the mate.

"We can give you what is on board of the _Mermaid_," said Dick, a little stiffly. "I have not looked for liquor, so I can't say if there is any on the vessel or not."

"Captain, and don't know what's aboard!" exclaimed Sid Jeffers.

While he was speaking Sack Todd and Dan Baxter had been looking around the deck in the semi-darkness.

"Where are the rest of the people on this boat?" demanded the ex-counterfeiter.

"I don't see anybody," declared Dan Baxter. "Say, do you know what I think?" he cried suddenly. "I think these fellows are all alone!"

"Humph!" muttered Sack Todd. "If they are--" He did not finish, but smiled quietly to himself.

"Where can we get something to eat?" demanded the first mate, after a rather awkward pause.

"In the galley or the cabin, as you please," said Dick. "But you will have to prepare it yourselves. We have no cook on board."

"Oh, that's it, eh? Well, Guirk can cook pretty good and he can do the trick for us, eh, Guirk?"

"Aye, aye!" answered one of the sailors. "Just show me the victuals an' the stove, an' I'll be after doing the rest in jig time. I'm hungry enough to eat 'most anything." 1. Where did they meet?
2. Was this planned?
3. What is the name of the vessel?
4. Who is first mentioned?
5. Were they happy?
6. Why not?
7. Including who?
8. Was he friendly?
9. Who was probably under his influence?
10. From where?
11. Who makes an offer?
12. How did he say it?
13. What does he offer?
14. Does he know if there is alcohol?
15. Who is looking around?
16. What are their last names?
17. Did they see anyone else?
18. What does one of them utter?
19. What do they ask for?
20. Who asks?
21. Where were they sent?
numbered_answers:
1. On the water
2. no
3. Dogstar
4. the Rovers
5. No
6. the others had come aboard the steam yacht
7. the first mate
8. no
9. The two sailors
10. lumber schoone
11. Dick
12. stiffly
13. whats on board the mermaid
14. no
15. Sack and Dan
16. Todd and baxter
17. no
18. "Humph!.
19. something to eat
20. the first mate
21. "In the galley or the cabin,