With an estimated population of 1,381,069 as of July 1, 2014, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San DiegoTijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the US and a bordering country after DetroitWindsor, with a population of 4,922,723 people. San Diego is the birthplace of California and is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the United States Navy and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.

Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claimed the entire area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcala, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly-independent Mexico, which reformed as the First Mexican Republic two years later. In 1850, it became part of the United States following the MexicanAmerican War and the admission of California to the union. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When did San Diego become part of the United States?
2. What group of people is it historically a home to?
3. Is it the largest city in the United States?
4. What is the population?
5. Who claimed the by for Spain?
6. What year was that?
7. What happened in 1821?
8. What is the weather there?
9. Are there beaches?
10. What military branch is based there?
11. Is became part of the US after what war?
12. Is it the largest city in California?
13. It is called the "what" of California?
14. What else it is known for?
15. What is it part of?
16. What is that?
17. Who is first largest?
18. When Juan Cabrillo claimed it, what basis did it form?
19. How many years later?
20. What did independent Mexico reform into?
Answer: 1. 1850
2. Kumeyaay people
3. No
4. 1,381,069
5. uan Rodriguez Cabrillo
6. 1542
7. It became part of the newly-independent Mexico
8. mild year-round climate,
9. Yes
10. United States Navy
11. MexicanAmerican War
12. no
13. birthplace
14. recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.
15. San DiegoTijuana conurbation
16. agglomeration between the US and a bordering country
17. DetroitWindsor
18. the settlement of Alta California
19. 200
20. First Mexican Republic

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.

The Statue of Liberty is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, a Roman goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a "tabula ansata" inscribed in Roman numerals with "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.

Bartholdi was inspired by a French law professor and politician, Edouard Rene de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to U.S. independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. Because of the post-war instability in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the U.S. provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who designed the Statue of Liberty?
2. What was he inspired by?
3. What was the statue made of?
4. Which country was it made for?
5. Did the U.S. order it to be built?
6. How did it come that they were given ownership then?
7. From whom?
8. Did France finance it?
9. What is it a figure of?
10. Who is she in likeness of?
11. Who is that?
12. Is she holding anything?
13. What?
14. How is she holding it?
15. With which hand?
16. Is she holding anything with her left?
17. What?
18. What is it inscribed with?
19. What's the significance of them?
20. Who built the statue?
Answer: 1. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
2. Libertas
3. copper
4. United States
5. no
6. it was a gift
7. the people of France
8. yes
9. a robed woman
10. Libertas
11. a Roman goddess
12. yes
13. a torch
14. above her head
15. right
16. yes
17. a "tabula ansata"
18. Roman numerals
19. the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
20. Gustave Eiffel

One evening last fall, while Marcos Ugarte did his homework and his father, Eduardo, a teacher, prepared lesson plans, they heard shouting outside. Eduardo, 47, and Marcos, 15, stepped onto the balcony of their two-story home. Immediately, Marcos' s eye was caught by a flame from one of their neighbors' houses. "Dad, the house is on fire!" Marcos cried. Dressed only in shorts, the barefoot teen dashed towards the Mas' home with his dad. Grandmother Yim Ma, mother Suzanne Ma, and son Nathan Ma were gathered on the front grassland shouting for help. When the Ugartes got there, they saw through the open front door that father Alex Ma was falling down the stairs, coughing, his face black with dirt. "Is anyone else in the house?" Eduardo asked. "My son!" Alex managed to say, pointing to the second floor. Eduardo started up the stairs, but thick, black smoke, swirling ash, and extreme heatforced him to his knees. He inched upstairs and down the hall where Alex said he would find Cody, eight, who had locked himself in a bedroom. "I'd never seen smoke like that," says Eduardo. "My glasses immediately turned black from the ash." As the fire spread across the hall, Eduardo banged on the bedroom door and tried to turn the handle. But Cody didn't respond, and Eduardo made his way back downstairs. At the same time, Marcos saw Yim and Suzanne pulling an aluminum ladder out of the garage. "Cody was standing at the window, screaming for help," says Marcos. "I knew I had to do something." He grabbed the ladder, positioned it near the window, and climbed towards the boy. When Marcos reached the window, he pushed the screen into the room and persuaded Cody out. "It's OK," Marcos told him. "I've got you." Holding Cody with one arm, Marcos moved down the ladder. Halfway down, he handed the boy to a neighbor. The day after the fire, Alex visited Marcos. "Thank you for saving my son," Alex said. "You are his hero forever." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What profession is Marco's father in?
2. What was Marcos wearing on his feel when he ran outside?
3. What was he wearing?
4. What was the teacher doing when Marcos caught his attention?
5. What was burning?
6. Whose house?
7. How many of the Ma's were waiting outside for help?
8. Who was still inside?
9. Who else?
10. How old was he?
11. And where was he?
Answer:
1. teacher
2. nothing
3. shorts
4. preparing lesson plans
5. house
6. neighbors' house
7. three
8. Alex Ma
9. His son
10. eight
11. window