Question: CHAPTER XXI

DICK MAKES A BOLD VENTURE

Some delicate and important work was being done, and Stuyvesant had had his lunch sent up to the dam. Bethune and Dick joined him afterwards, and sat in the shade of a big traveling crane. Stuyvesant and Dick were hot and dirty, for it was not their custom to be content with giving orders when urgent work was going on. Bethune looked languid and immaculately neat. His speciality was mathematics, and he said he did not see why the man with mental talents should dissipate his energy by using his hands.

"It's curious about that French liner," Stuyvesant presently remarked. "I understand her passengers have been waiting since yesterday and she hasn't arrived."

"The last boat cut out Santa Brigida without notice," Bethune replied. "My opinion of the French is that they're a pretty casual lot."

"On the surface. They smile and shrug where we set our teeth, but when you get down to bed-rock you don't find much difference. I thought as you do, until I went over there and saw a people that run us close for steady, intensive industry. Their small cultivators are simply great. I'd like to put them on our poorer land in the Middle West, where we're content with sixteen bushels of wheat that's most fit for chicken feed to the acre. Then what they don't know about civil engineering isn't worth learning."

Bethune made a gesture of agreement. "They're certainly fine engineers and they're putting up a pretty good fight just now, but these Latins puzzle me. Take the Iberian branch of the race, for example. We have Spanish peons here who'll stand for as much work and hardship as any Anglo-Saxon I've met. Then an educated Spaniard's hard to beat for intellectual subtlety. Chess is a game that's suited to my turn of mind, but I've been badly whipped in Santa Brigida. They've brains and application, and yet they don't progress. What's the matter with them, anyway?" 1. What was Bethune's specialty?
2. Who had his lunch sent to the dam?
3. Who joined him afterwards?
4. Who was dirty?
5. Who was not dirty?
6. Had he been working with his hands?
7. Did he want to work with his hands?
8. Was the boat they mentioned late?
9. How long were people waiting for it?
10. What nationality was in charge of that boat?
11. What does Bethune think of them?
12. Did the person who replied to Bethune agree?
13. Did they used to agree? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. mathematics
2. Stuyvesant
3. Bethune and Dick
4. Stuyvesant and Dick
5. Bethune
6. No
7. No
8. Yes
9. since yesterday
10. French
11. they're a pretty casual lot
12. No
13. yes

Question: Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent (the first being Asia). At about 30.3 million km (11.7 million squaremiles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of its total land area. With /1e9 round 1 billion people as of , it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. It contains 54 fully recognised sovereign states (countries), nine territories and two "de facto" independent states with limited or no recognition.

Africa's average population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago, including "Sahelanthropus tchadensis", "Australopithecus africanus", "A. afarensis", "Homo erectus", "H. habilis" and "H. ergaster"with the earliest "Homo sapiens" (modern human) found in Ethiopia being dated to circa 200,000 years ago. Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. 1. What is the largest continet?
2. What is the most populous?
3. What is the second largest?
4. How big is it
5. What is the second most populous continent
6. How many people live in it
7. How much of the world's population is that
8. What Sea is to the north
9. What ocean is to the southeast
10. What about to the west
11. How many countries are in Africa
12. How many territories?
13. What is it's median age?
14. In what year?
15. What was the worldwide median age at that time
16. What is Africa's largest country by size
17. By population?
18. What is the scientific name for great apes?
19. Where was the earliest Homo sapiens found?
20. To what year was it dated Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Asia
2. Asia
3. Africa
4. 30.3 million km
5. Africa
6. 1 billion people
7. 16%
8. Mediterranean Sea
9. Indian Ocean
10. Atlantic Ocean
11. 54 fully recognised countries
12. nine
13. 19.7
14. 2012
15. 30.4
16. Algeria
17. Nigeria
18. Hominidae clade
19. central Eastern Africa
20. around seven million years ago

Question: Napoleon Bonaparte (/npolin, -poljn/; French: [naple bnapat], born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a large empire that ruled over continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815. Often considered one of the greatest commanders in history, his wars and campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide. He also remains one of the most celebrated and controversial political figures in Western history. In civil affairs, Napoleon had a major long-term impact by bringing liberal reforms to the territories that he conquered, especially the Low Countries, Switzerland, and large parts of modern Italy and Germany. He implemented fundamental liberal policies in France and throughout Western Europe.[note 1] His lasting legal achievement, the Napoleonic Code, has been adopted in various forms by a quarter of the world's legal systems, from Japan to Quebec. 1. when was Boneparte emporer?
2. and?
3. what was his name?
4. what name did he rule as?
5. did he dominate european affairs for 20 years?
6. how long?
7. how many different series of wars did he take part in?
8. did he lead France during the Revolutionary wars?
9. did France face a single opponent during the Napoleonic wars? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. from 1804 until 1814
2. again in 1815
3. Napoleon Bonaparte (/npolin, -poljn/; French: [naple bnapat]
4. Napoleon I
5. No
6. a decade
7. a series
8. ed several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars
9. No