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Somalis (Somali: Soomaali, Arabic: ) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa (Somali Peninsula). The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. They are predominantly Sunni Muslim. Ethnic Somalis number around 16-20 million and are principally concentrated in Somalia (around 12.3 million), Ethiopia (4.6 million), Kenya (2.4 million), and Djibouti (464,600), with many also residing in parts of the Middle East, North America and Europe.

Irir Samaale, the oldest common ancestor of several Somali clans, is generally regarded as the source of the ethnonym Somali. The name "Somali" is, in turn, held to be derived from the words soo and maal, which together mean "go and milk" a reference to the ubiquitous pastoralism of the Somali people. Another plausible etymology proposes that the term Somali is derived from the Arabic for "wealthy" (dhawamaal), again referring to Somali riches in livestock.
1. What area do the Somalis live in?
2. How do you say their name in their native language?

Numbered answers:
1. the Horn of Africa
2.

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(Entertainment Weekly) -- In the movies, "the suburbs" are never just a place. They're a state of mind, a mythology we all know in our bones.

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio share a happy moment in "Revolutionary Road."

The myth goes something like this: The suburbs are comfortable, maybe even beautiful, but their serenity is rooted in a friendly American conformity, so that the people who live there have to repress their true selves, which will emerge when they drink too much and have affairs, or rage at each other for their dishonesty, which was all caused in the first place by ... the suburbs.

The best thing about "Revolutionary Road," a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn't end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie. It only begins there.

Frank and April Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) are about 30, with two kids, and both believe they can evade the traps of the existence they've chosen. The year is 1955, and Frank has a New York job that bores him, marketing business machines. He takes solace in feeling superior to his work, and also in his midday martinis and occasional dip into the secretarial pool. April, meanwhile, wanted to be an actress, and still feels she's meant for higher things. Watch DiCaprio and Winslet talk about their reunion "

Moved to reach for something more, April comes up with a plan: She and Frank will sell their home and move to Paris, where she'll work as a government secretary and he will ... find himself. (It's like a '60s fantasy a decade ahead of time.) "Revolutionary Road" was directed by Sam Mendes, who made the glibly scathing "American Beauty," only here he wants us to share not just Frank and April's misery but the frail reveries that hold them together.
1. What movie is the article about?
2. Who is the director?
3. Is this his first directing job?
4. What else has he done?
5. Is the movie an original screenplay?
6. Was it a book?
7. Who wrote the novel?
8. What year?
9. What is it about?
10. Who stars in the movie?
11. Why are they unhappy?
12. What do they do?
13. What characters do DiCaprio and Winslet play?
14. Do they have kids?
15. How many?
16. Does Frank Wheeler work?
17. What does he do?
18. What does April Wheeler do?
19. What do they decide to do?
20. What will that do?

Numbered answers:
1. Revolutionary Road
2. Sam Mendes
3. No
4. American Beauty
5. No
6. Yes
7. Richard Yates
8. 1961
9. a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple
10. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
11. people who live in the suburbs have to repress their true selves
12. drink too much and have affairs
13. Frank and April Wheeler
14. Yes
15. two
16. Yes
17. marketing business machines
18. wanted to be an actress
19. She and Frank will sell their home and move to Paris
20. she'll work as a government secretary and he will ... find himself.

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CHAPTER XIII

Captain Doane worked hard, pursuing the sun in its daily course through the sky, by the equation of time correcting its aberrations due to the earth's swinging around the great circle of its orbit, and charting Sumner lines innumerable, working assumed latitudes for position until his head grew dizzy.

Simon Nishikanta sneered openly at what he considered the captain's inefficient navigation, and continued to paint water-colours when he was serene, and to shoot at whales, sea-birds, and all things hurtable when he was downhearted and sea-sore with disappointment at not sighting the Lion's Head peak of the Ancient Mariner's treasure island.

"I'll show I ain't a pincher," Nishikanta announced one day, after having broiled at the mast-head for five hours of sea-searching. "Captain Doane, how much could we have bought extra chronometers for in San Francisco--good second-hand ones, I mean?"

"Say a hundred dollars," the captain answered.

"Very well. And this ain't a piker's proposition. The cost of such a chronometer would have been divided between the three of us. I stand for its total cost. You just tell the sailors that I, Simon Nishikanta, will pay one hundred dollars gold money for the first one that sights land on Mr. Greenleaf's latitude and longitude."

But the sailors who swarmed the mast-heads were doomed to disappointment, in that for only two days did they have opportunity to stare the ocean surface for the reward. Nor was this due entirely to Dag Daughtry, despite the fact that his own intention and act would have been sufficient to spoil their chance for longer staring.
1. Who is the captain?
2. Who didn't like his navigation?
3. what's his last name?
4. Is he a painter?
5. What did he shoot at?
6. and?
7. and?
8. had he seen the Lion's Head ?
9. How did he feel?
10. How long had he been at the mast head?
11. Was he wondering about the price o f something?
12. How much did the captain say they'd be?
13. Were they new chronometers he was asking about?
14. What kind of money was it?
Numbered answers:
1. Doane
2. Simon
3. Nishikanta
4. yes
5. whales
6. sea-birds
7. all things hurtable
8. no
9. downhearted
10. five hours
11. have been divided
12. hundred
13. no
14. gold