There was once a baseball player who lived in a faraway land. The Baseball players name is Tyler. Tyler was very cool and had a lot of friends. Tyler could throw a baseball in many different ways. His favorite way to throw it was fast. Other people liked to throw it slow, some people liked to throw it on their head, and some people even rolled it on the ground. Not Tyler, whenever he picked up a baseball he threw it very fast. People from all over the world came to see Tyler throw the baseball. He met a guy named Peter, who liked him a lot. Peter made a lot of people, like his friends Lucy and Jerry, give Tyler things for being good at baseball. Tyler was so good at baseball people gave him a big house. He liked a lot of things about the house. He liked the movie theatre, the bowling place, and the swimming pool. However his favorite thing about the house was the trampoline. Tyler got all of these things because he could throw a ball fast, he thought it was very cool. Tyler invited all of his friends over and they had a pool party. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How many different ways do people like to throw the ball?
2. What was the name of the baseball player?
3. Was he popular?
4. Did he know a lot of ways of throwing a ball or a few?
5. Who did he meet?
6. What did he think of him?
7. Who were Peter's friends?
8. What did he make them do?
9. What's one of the things they gave him?
10. Did the baseball player like it?
11. What was his favorite thing about it?
12. Who did he invite to his place?
13. All of them or just some?
14. What did they do together?
15. How did he like to throw the ball?
16. Who came to watch him play?
17. Where did he live?
18. What's another cool feature his house has?
Answer: 1. Other people liked to throw it slow, some people liked to throw it on their head, and some people even rolled it on the ground
2. Tyler
3. Tyler was very cool and had a lot of friends
4. Tyler could throw a baseball in many different ways.
5. Peter
6. liked him a lot
7. Lucy and Jerry
8. give Tyler things for being good at baseball
9. big house
10. He liked a lot of things about the house
11. trampoline
12. his friends
13. all
14. they had a pool party.
15. fast
16. People from all over the world
17. faraway land
18. swimming pool.

Brasov, Romania (CNN) -- The ruins of Poienari Castle sit high on a mountain peak with a seemingly never-ending vista looking out over deep gorges, charcoal-gray cliffs and mountain streams.

It's a natural paradise, but we did not make the trip to this castle just for the awesome view. Visitors come for its connection to history's most famous vampire, Dracula.

The famous book and the ensuing movies are fiction, but since Bram Stoker published his novel in 1897, the world has been looking to Transylvania (in modern central Romania) as "Count Dracula's" home.

And there is a bit of truth to it. Stoker never visited Eastern Europe, but his famous character is based, in part, on a real 15th-century prince.

Vlad Dracula lived from 1431 to about 1476 and ruled Wallachia, which was actually south of Transylvania. As military leader, he was a hero to his people, and he has a place in the Romanian National Military Museum.

Another museum explains the name "Dracula" is actually a title from the knightly order of the dragon, whose mission was to defend Christianity. Documents he signed "Vlad Dracula" still exist.

A nickname often associated with him is Tepes, which means impaler, and comes from his brutal application of capital punishment by skewering bodies on a wooden spike.

Visiting Dracula's castle

Poienari Castle is not on the main tourist route. In fact, it's pretty hard to get there.

Public transportation is infrequent, and the big tourist town in the region, Brasov, is hours away. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who is the author?
2. who did he write about?
3. where did the character live?
4. did the author ever go there?
5. was a real person the inspiration for the character?
6. who?
7. when did he live?
8. do we know the year he was born?
9. what was it?
10. when did he die?
11. what was his occupation?
12. of where?
13. where is that?
14. East of it?
15. was he called something else?
16. what?
17. does it give the meaning of that?
18. what does it mean?
19. why was he called that?
20. a metal one?
21. what was it made of?
Answer: 1. Bram Stoker
2. Count Dracula
3. Transylvania
4. No
5. in part
6. Vlad Dracula
7. the 15th-century
8. Yes
9. 1431
10. about 1476
11. he was a prince
12. Wallachia
13. near Transylvania
14. No
15. Yes
16. Tepes
17. Yes
18. impaler
19. because he skewered bodies on a spike.
20. No
21. wood

CHAPTER XLVI.

OPERATIONS IN MISSISSIPPI--LONGSTREET IN EAST TENNESSEE--COMMISSIONED LIEUTENANT-GENERAL--COMMANDING THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES--FIRST INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN.

Soon after his return from Knoxville I ordered Sherman to distribute his forces from Stevenson to Decatur and thence north to Nashville; Sherman suggested that he be permitted to go back to Mississippi, to the limits of his own department and where most of his army still remained, for the purpose of clearing out what Confederates might still be left on the east bank of the Mississippi River to impede its navigation by our boats. He expected also to have the co-operation of Banks to do the same thing on the west shore. Of course I approved heartily.

About the 10th of January Sherman was back in Memphis, where Hurlbut commanded, and got together his Memphis men, or ordered them collected and sent to Vicksburg. He then went to Vicksburg and out to where McPherson was in command, and had him organize his surplus troops so as to give him about 20,000 men in all.

Sherman knew that General (Bishop) Polk was occupying Meridian with his headquarters, and had two divisions of infantry with a considerable force of cavalry scattered west of him. He determined, therefore, to move directly upon Meridian.

I had sent some 2,500 cavalry under General Sooy Smith to Sherman's department, and they had mostly arrived before Sherman got to Memphis. Hurlbut had 7,000 cavalry, and Sherman ordered him to reinforce Smith so as to give the latter a force of about 7,000 with which to go against Forrest, who was then known to be south-east from Memphis. Smith was ordered to move about the 1st of February. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How many horse riders did someone send?
2. Who lead them?
3. What was his ranking?
4. Did someone else have horse fighters?
5. Who?
6. How many?
7. Who was he supposed to help?
8. Who were they to battle?
9. When were they to go?
10. Where had Sherman been?
11. Where was he to go?
12. Did he want to go there?
13. Where did he want to go?
14. For what purpose?
15. What his wish granted?
16. Where was he after that?
17. On what date?
18. Who lead there?
19. How many soldiers did he get from someone?
20. Who were they from?
Answer:
1. 2,500
2. Sooy Smith
3. General
4. yes
5. Hurlbut
6. 7,000
7. Smith
8. Forrest
9. about the 1st of February.
10. Knoxville
11. Nashville
12. no
13. Mississippi
14. to clear out what Confederates might still be left
15. yes
16. Memphis
17. About the 10th of January
18. Hurlbut
19. about 20,000
20. McPherson