Q: Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company specializes primarily in developing and marketing database software and technology, cloud engineered systems and enterprise software products particularly its own brands of database management systems. In 2015, Oracle was the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft.

The company also develops and builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, customer relationship management (CRM) software and supply chain management (SCM) software.

Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). Ellison took inspiration from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database management systems (RDBMS) named "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks." He heard about the IBM System R database from an article in the "IBM Research Journal" provided by Oates. Also derived from Codd's theories, Ellison wanted to make Oracle's product compatible with System R, but failed to do so as IBM kept the error codes for their DBMS a secret. SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc (RSI) in 1979, then again to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1982, to align itself more closely with its flagship product Oracle Database. At this stage Bob Miner served as the company's senior programmer. On March 12, 1986, the company had its initial public offering. In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation, officially named Oracle, but sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation, the name of the holding company. Part of Oracle Corporation's early success arose from using the C programming language to implement its products. This eased porting to different operating systems (most of which support C).

1. a multinational computer technology corporation
2. Redwood Shores, California.
3. he took inspiration from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd
4. Bob Miner and Ed Oates
5. On March 12, 1986
6. unknown
7. Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation
8. In 2015, Oracle was the second-largest software maker
9. tools for database development
10. by Edgar F. Codd

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1. what is oracle corporation
2. where are they located
3. where did Ellison get his insperation
4. who co founded the corporation
5. what date was the initial public offering
6. what is rational database management
7. who is larry
8. what was in 2015
9. what else does company develope
10. who was 1970 paper written by

Q: The International Bureau of Weights and Measures () is an intergovernmental organization, one of three such organisations established to maintain the International System of Units (SI) under the terms of the Metre Convention ("Convention du Metre"). The organisation is usually referred to by its French initialism, BIPM.

The BIPM reports to the International Committee for Weights and Measures (), which is in turn overseen by periodic meetings of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (). These organizations are also commonly referred to by their French initialisms.

The BIPM was created on 20 May 1875, following the signing of the Metre Convention, a treaty among 51 nations (). It is based at the Pavillon de Breteuil in Sevres, France, a site (originally ) granted to the Bureau by the French Government in 1876, where it enjoys extraterritorial status, a status that was clarified by the French decree No 70-820 of 9 September 1970.

Under the authority of the Metric Convention, the BIPM helps to ensure uniformity of SI weights and measures around the world. It does so through a series of consultative committees, whose members are the national metrology laboratories of the Convention's member states, and through its own laboratory work.

1. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures
2. maintains the International System of Units
3. the Metre Convention
4. to the International Committee for Weights and Measures
5. the General Conference on Weights and Measures
6. yes
7. 1875
8. 20 May
9. the Metre Convention
10. 51
11. the Pavillon de Breteuil
12. in Sevres, France
13. the French Government
14. 1876

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1. What organization is this passage talking about?
2. What does it do?
3. Under which terms?
4. Where does the BIPM report?
5. and that is overseen by what?
6. Is BIPM a French initialism?
7. When was it created?
8. What month and day?
9. By the signing of who?
10. Which was a treaty that was between how many nations?
11. Where is it located?
12. Where exactly?
13. Who granted them this site?
14. In what year?

Q: Edith Cavell was born in a little English village. She was a clever; hard-working girl and did well at school; especially in music and French. After she left school; her first job was to take care of the children of a rich family in Belgium . The language they spoke was French; so she found that her school studies were useful. She could understand them easily; at the same time she taught the children to speak English and play the piano. After hearing that her father was seriously ill; Edith returned home to look after him. She then decided to become a nurse. Afterwards for five years she worked in an English hospital where she proved to be highly professional at her job. A Belgian doctor was so impressed that he invited her to his country to organize a training school for nurses. The First World War broke out in 1914 and Edith Cavell's school of nursing became a hospital. She stayed there to look after the sick and wounded soldiers . Edith treated them with kindness. Between November 1914 and August 1915 she secretly helped about 200 wounded soldiers and prisoners escape from the Germans. Later the German army found out what Edith had done and they arrested her. Finally; the Germans killed her; but they could not _ . A tall statue has been built in Trafalgar Square; London; in honor of the brave English nurse.

1. Edith
2. Cavell
3. in a village
4. Yes
5. music
6. French
7. to take care of children
8. in Belgium
9. Yes
10. unknown
11. Yes
12. become a nurse
13. in an English hospital

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1. Who is the main character?
2. Last name?
3. Where was she born?
4. Was she clever?
5. Especially in what?
6. and what else?
7. What was her first job?
8. Where exactly?
9. DId Edith hear about her father?
10. What happened to him?
11. Did she go back to look after him?
12. What did she decide to do then/
13. Where did she work?