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Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Named after George Washington, the first President of the United States, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 in accordance with the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from Washington, D.C., the capital of the U.S., which is often shortened to Washington.

Washington is the 18th largest state with an area of 71,362 square miles (184,827 sq km), and the 13th most populous state with over 7 million people. Approximately 60 percent of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area, the center of transportation, business, and industry along Puget Sound , an inlet of the Pacific Ocean consisting of numerous islands, deep fjords, and bays carved out by glaciers. The remainder of the state consists of deep temperate rainforests in the west, mountain ranges in the west, central, northeast and far southeast, and a semi-arid basin region in the east, central, and south, given over to intensive agriculture. Washington is the second most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, after California. Mount Rainier, an active stratovolcano, is the state's highest elevation at almost 14,411 feet (4,392 m) and is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States.
1. What is this about?
2. What is that?
3. Where?
4. But where?
5. When was it made?
6. Which one was it?
7. Was it part of the Confederate states?
8. What is the capital of it?
9. Does it ever get confused with anything else?
10. What?
11. How do they get around that?
12. How large is it?
13. How many miles?
14. How many people live there?
15. What ranking does that make it?
16. Where do most of them live there?
17. What is that?
18. What is the rest of it?
19. What is the highest point?
20. How high is it?

Numbered answers:
1. Washington
2. a state
3. in the United States
4. in the Pacific Northwest region
5. 1889
6. the 42nd
7. No
8. Olympia
9. Yes
10. Washington, D.C
11. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State
12. It's the 18th largest state
13. 71,362
14. 7 million
15. the 13th most populous
16. in the Seattle metropolitan area
17. the center of transportation, business, and industry along Puget Sound
18. temperate rainforests, mountain ranges, and a semi-arid basin region
19. Mount Rainier
20. 14,411 feet

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CHAPTER XIV--WELCOME

'Well hath the Prophet-chief your bidding done.'

MOORE (_Lalla Rookh_).

Bugia was thoroughly Moorish, and subject to attacks of fanaticism. Perhaps the Grand Marabout did not wholly trust the Sunakite not to stir up the populace, for he would not take the recovered captives to his palace, avoided the city as much as possible, and took them down to the harbour, where, beside the old Roman quay, he caused his trusty attendant, Reverdi, to hire a boat to take them out to the French tartane--Reverdi himself going with them to ensure the fidelity of the boatmen. Estelle would have kissed the good old man's hand in fervent thanks, but, child as she was, he shrank from her touch as an unholy thing; and it was enforced on her and Victorine that they were by no means to remove their heavy mufflings till they were safe on board the tartane, and even out of harbour. The Frenchman in command of the vessel was evidently of the same mind, and, though enchanted to receive them, sent them at once below. He said his men had been in danger of being mobbed in the streets, and that there were reports abroad that the harem of a great Frank chief, and all his treasure, were being recovered from the Cabeleyzes, so that he doubted whether all the influence of the Grand Marabout might prevent their being pursued by corsairs.

Right glad was he to recognise the pennant of the _Calypso_ outside the harbour, and he instantly ran up a signal flag to intimate success. A boat was immediately put off from the frigate, containing not only Lieutenant Bullock, but an officer in scarlet, who had no sooner come on deck than he shook Arthur eagerly by the hand, exclaiming,
1. What was Bugia subject to?
2. Who did he have hire a boat?
3. What was his name?
4. Who commanded the boat they hired?
5. What did he say his men had been in danger of?
6. Where did the Frenchmen send the group once they bored the boat?
7. Why did Reverdi go with them in the first place?
8. Who else was with Bugia and Reverdi?
9. What was recognized outside of the harbour?
10. What was done because of this?
11. Where was A great Frankcheif's treasure supposidly being recovered from?

Numbered answers:
1. attacks of fanaticism
2. His trusty attendant.
3. Reverdi
4. A Frenchman
5. Mobbed in the streets.
6. Below.
7. Ensure the fidelity of the boatmen.
8. Recovered captives
9. Pennant of the Calypso
10. Ran up a signal flag to intimate success
11. Cabeleyzes

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(CNN) -- David Cameron must have whiplash. Practically overnight this week, the British prime minister went from being one of the leading voices demanding that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad be punished for using chemical weapons, to a humbled, chastened politician with his hands tied.

British lawmakers voted Thursday night against even the possibility of using force against Syria, forcing Cameron to concede bluntly, "We will not be taking part in military action."

What do Syria's neighbors think?

The vote was close -- seven MPs out of the 557 who voted could have changed the result -- and the outcome was a shock. Prime ministers aren't supposed to lose votes on the use of military force. British media said it hadn't happened in hundreds of years.

But although the result was stunning in one sense, in another it wasn't surprising.

Over more than seven hours of debate on Syria loomed one chilling specter: Iraq.

Bergen: Syria is a problem from hell for the U.S.

Britain feels badly burned by the way Tony Blair led the country into war there a decade ago, and Cameron was fighting a defensive battle against the memory of Blair from the moment he kicked off debate in the House of Commons: "I'm deeply mindful of the lessons of previous conflicts, in particular the deep concerns of the country of what went wrong in Iraq. We're not invading a country; we're not searching for chemical weapons."

It's an argument he needed to make.

Why Russia, China, and Iran are standing by Syria
1. Who must have whiplash?
2. Who is he
3. Are his hands tied?
4. Was he demanding Bashar al-Assad be punished
5. Who is that
6. Who voted against the use of force
7. When?
8. against who?
9. Was the vote close
10. How many MPs voted
11. What was the thing looming over the debate
12. What was the specter?
13. How many hours was that debate?
14. How does Britain feel
15. What did he do?
16. Who was fighting a defensive battle?
17. WHO was fighting a defensive battle?
Numbered answers:
1. David Cameron
2. British prime minister
3. yes
4. yes
5. British prime minister
6. British lawmakers
7. Thursday night
8. using force against Syria
9. yes
10. 557
11. Prime ministers aren't supposed to lose votes on the use of military force
12. Iraq.
13. Over more than seven hours
14. badly burned by the way Tony Blair
15. led the country into war there a decade ago
16. against the memory of Blair
17. Cameron