Q: Chapter 8: The Capture Of Saumur.

The arrangements being now completed, Leigh and his band lay down in a thicket near the bank of the river, and slept for some hours. At one o'clock in the morning Leigh rose and, with his three followers, started for the village. It was but twenty minutes' walk. Not a soul was stirring, not a light visible in any window.

They found that three or four boats were lying by the bank. Leigh chose the smallest of these and, loosening the head rope from the post to which it was fastened, took his place in her with the others. Accustomed as he was to rowing, from his childhood, he soon reached the opposite bank. Here he fastened the boat up, and struck across country until he reached the road. Then he sent one of his followers westward.

"You will follow the road," he said, "until within a mile of Tours; then you will conceal yourself, and watch who passes along. If you see a large body of troops coming, you will at once strike across country and make your way down to the village above that at which we crossed. You heard the instructions that I gave to Pierre. If you find him and the others there with the boat, you will report what you have seen. He will send another messenger on with the news to Cathelineau, and you will remain with him until I arrive.

"If he is not there, you will follow the bank of the river down to the other village. You will give a shout as you pass the spot where we halted. If no answer comes, you will probably find Pierre and the boat somewhere below. You will not miss him, for I have ordered him to post two of your comrades on the bank, so that you cannot pass them unseen. As in the first case, you will remain with him until I arrive, and your message will be carried to the general by another of his party.

1. yes
2. three or four boats
3. the smallest
4. yes
5. until they were within a mile of Tours
6. west
7. no
8. in a thicket
9. one o'clock in the morning
10. three
11. no
12. twenty minutes
13. no
14. Pierre
15. Cathelineau
16. a shout
17. Pierre and the boat
18. two
19. yes
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Were there any boats by the bank?
2. How many?
3. The largest or the smallest?
4. Had Leigh rowed before?
5. How long was one of his followers to follow the road?
6. Which direction had he sent that follower?
7. Did it take long for them to reach the opposite bank, in the first place?
8. Where had Leigh and his band lay the night before?
9. When did they wake up?
10. How many people did he have with him?
11. Was anyone else awake?
12. How far was it to the village?
13. Did he give instructions to Jean Luc Picard?
14. Who, then?
15. What town will he send another messenger on with the news to?
16. What will his follower give if he passes the spot where they halted?
17. And if no answer comes, what will be found somewhere below?
18. How many comrades will be along the bank so the follower can't pass unseen?
19. Is he supposed to stay until Leigh arrived?
20. Will his message be carried by someone else then?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean. The first submarine communications cables, laid in the 1850s, carried telegraphy traffic. Subsequent generations of cables carried telephone traffic, then data communications traffic. Modern cables use optical fiber technology to carry digital data, which includes telephone, Internet and private data traffic.

Modern cables are typically about 1 inch (25mm) in diameter and weigh around 2.5 tons per mile (1.4 tonnes per km) for the deep-sea sections which comprise the majority of the run, although larger and heavier cables are used for shallow-water sections near shore. Submarine cables connected all the world's continents except Antarctica when Java was connected to Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia in 1871 in anticipation of the completion of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line in 1872 connecting to Adelaide, South Australia and thence to the rest of Australia.

After William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone had introduced their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the Atlantic Ocean began to be thought of as a possible triumph of the future. Samuel Morse proclaimed his faith in it as early as 1840, and in 1842, he submerged a wire, insulated with tarred hemp and India rubber, in the water of New York Harbor, and telegraphed through it. The following autumn, Wheatstone performed a similar experiment in Swansea Bay. A good insulator to cover the wire and prevent the electric current from leaking into the water was necessary for the success of a long submarine line. India rubber had been tried by Moritz von Jacobi, the Prussian electrical engineer, as far back as the early 19th century. 1. When were the first submarine communication cables placed?
2. Where do they lay?
3. What kind of communications did they initially carry?
4. What technology do they currently use?
5. Can they provide internet service?
6. When was the telegraph first introduced?
7. By whom?
8. Did Samuel Morse believe in a oceanic submarine line?
9. Crossing which ocean?
10. What year did he express his support in the project?
11. What year did he perform a test of his own?
12. Which body of water did he use?
13. Who else performed a similar test?
14. Where?
15. How wide are modern cables?
16. Do they reach all of the continents?
17. Which one is excluded?
18. Which continent was the most recent to be connected?
19. What year did it join?
20. Where did it connect?
numbered_answers: 1. 1850s
2. on the sea bed
3. telegraphy
4. optical fiber
5. yes
6. 1839
7. William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone
8. yes
9. the Atlantic
10. 1840
11. 1842
12. New York Harbor,
13. Wheatstone
14. Swansea Bay.
15. 1 inch
16. no
17. Antarctica
18. Australia.
19. 1872
20. Darwin

Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable.

According to the philosopher William L. Rowe, "agnosticism is the view that human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist". Agnosticism is a doctrine or set of s rather than a religion.

English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the word "agnostic" in 1869. Earlier thinkers, however, had written works that promoted agnostic points of view, such as Sanjaya Belatthaputta, a 5th-century BCE Indian philosopher who expressed agnosticism about any afterlife; and Protagoras, a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher who expressed agnosticism about the existence of "the gods". The Nasadiya Sukta in the Rigveda is agnostic about the origin of the universe.

Being a scientist, above all else, Huxley presented agnosticism as a form of demarcation. A hypothesis with no supporting objective, testable evidence is not an objective, scientific claim. As such, there would be no way to test said hypotheses, leaving the results inconclusive. His agnosticism was not compatible with forming a belief as to the truth, or falsehood, of the claim at hand. Karl Popper would also describe himself as an agnostic. According to philosopher William L. Rowe, in this strict sense, agnosticism is the view that human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what is the article about?
2. who created the word agnostic?
3. when?
4. is agnosticism a religion?
5. what would it be?
6. who said it was that?
7. do agnostics believe in God or are they not sure?
8. what is in the Rigveda?
9. what is it agnostic about?
10. who is the indian philosopher mentioned?
11. what time period is he from?
Answer:
1. Agnosticism
2. Thomas Henry Huxley
3. 1869.
4. no
5. a form of demarcation
6. Huxley
7. they are unsure
8. The Nasadiya Sukta
9. the origin of the universe.
10. Sanjaya Belatthaputta
11. 5th-century