Q: The French and Indian War (17541763) was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. At the start of the war, the French North American colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 European settlers, compared with 2 million in the British North American colonies. The outnumbered French particularly depended on the Indians. Long in conflict, the metropole nations declared war on each other in 1756, escalating the war from a regional affair into an intercontinental conflict.

The war was fought primarily along the frontiers between New France and the British colonies, from Virginia in the South to Nova Scotia in the North. It began with a dispute over control of the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, called the Forks of the Ohio, and the site of the French Fort Duquesne and present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The dispute erupted into violence in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in May 1754, during which Virginia militiamen under the command of 22-year-old George Washington ambushed a French patrol.

Answer the following questions:
1. Which war began in 1754?
2. Who fought in this war?
3. Who was initially outnumbered?
4. With approximately how many settlers?
5. In stark comparison to which other colony?
6. With a population of how many?
7. Because they were outnumbered, who did the French depend on?
8. Which parent companies also supported the colonies?
9. How did those countries lend their support?
10. Was the war initially a regional conflict?
11. What upgraded it to an intercontinental affair?
12. In what year?
13. Which state was at the southernmost range of the war's location?
14. And the northernmost?
15. Which rivers were at the heart of the conflict?
16. Also known as what?
17. What was the argument over?
18. Which occurred when?
19. Which group ambushed the French patrol?
20. Under whose leadership?
A: 1. The French and Indian War
2. the colonies of British America and New France
3. The French
4. 60,000
5. the British North American
6. 2 million
7. the Indians
8. Great Britain and France
9. with military units
10. Yes
11. the metropole nations declared war on each other
12. 1756
13. Virginia
14. Nova Scotia
15. the Allegheny and Monongahela
16. the Forks of the Ohio
17. an ambushed a French patrol
18. May 1754
19. the Virginia militiamen
20. George Washington

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In computing, cross-platform software (also multi-platform software or platform-independent software) is computer software that is implemented on multiple computing platforms. Cross-platform software may be divided into two types; one requires individual building or compilation for each platform that it supports, and the other one can be directly run on any platform without special preparation, e.g., software written in an interpreted language or pre-compiled portable bytecode for which the interpreters or run-time packages are common or standard components of all platforms.

For example, a cross-platform application may run on Microsoft Windows on the x86 architecture, Linux on the x86 architecture and macOS on either the PowerPC or x86-based Apple Macintosh systems. Cross-platform programs may run on as many as all existing platforms, or on as few as two platforms. Cross-platform frameworks (such as Qt, Xamarin, Phonegap, or Ionic) exist to aid cross-platform development.

"Platform" can refer to the type of processor (CPU) or other hardware on which a given operating system or application runs, the type of operating system on a computer or the combination of the type of hardware and the type of operating system running on it. An example of a common platform is Microsoft Windows running on the x86 architecture. Other well-known desktop computer platforms include Linux/Unix and macOS - both of which are themselves cross-platform. There are, however, many devices such as smartphones that are also effectively computer platforms but less commonly thought about in that way. Application software can be written to depend on the features of a particular platformeither the hardware, operating system, or virtual machine it runs on. The Java platform is a virtual machine platform which runs on many operating systems and hardware types, and is a common platform for software to be written for.

1. Is processor type related to the term platform?
2. What acronym is widely used for processor type?
3. Would two different operating systems be said to have different platforms?
4. What is an example of a desktop platform?
5. What about macOS?
6. Name one more.
7. Could smartphones be described as having platforms?
8. What type of software is dependent on the smartphone platform?
9. What platform can work on multiple operating systems?
10. Is it rarely used?
11. What is software called that works on more than one platform?
12. What else is it called?
13. And another?
14. Are there three different types of cross platform software?
15. How many?
16. What is one of those?
17. And the other?
18. How many platforms must something run on to be called cross platform?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. unknown
2. CPU
3. No?
4. Linux/Unix
5. Yes
6. Microsoft Windows
7. Yes
8. Application software
9. The Java platform
10. No
11. cross-platform software
12. multi-platform software
13. platform-independent software
14. No
15. Two
16. requires individual building
17. can be directly run on any platform without special preparation
18. as few as 2

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Madrasa (Arabic: , madrasah, pl. , madaris, Turkish: Medrese) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious (of any religion). The word is variously transliterated madrasah, madarasaa, medresa, madrassa, madraza, medrese, etc. In the West, the word usually refers to a specific type of religious school or college for the study of the Islamic religion, though this may not be the only subject studied. Not all students in madaris are Muslims; there is also a modern curriculum.

The word madrasah derives from the triconsonantal Semitic root -- D-R-S 'to learn, study', through the wazn (form/stem) (); mafal(ah), meaning "a place where something is done". Therefore, madrasah literally means "a place where learning and studying take place". The word is also present as a loanword with the same innocuous meaning in many Arabic-influenced languages, such as: Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Persian, Turkish, Azeri, Kurdish, Indonesian, Malay and Bosnian / Croatian. In the Arabic language, the word madrasah simply means the same as school does in the English language, whether that is private, public or parochial school, as well as for any primary or secondary school whether Muslim, non-Muslim, or secular. Unlike the use of the word school in British English, the word madrasah more closely resembles the term school in American English, in that it can refer to a university-level or post-graduate school as well as to a primary or secondary school. For example, in the Ottoman Empire during the Early Modern Period, madaris had lower schools and specialised schools where the students became known as danismends. The usual Arabic word for a university, however, is (jamiah). The Hebrew cognate midrasha also connotes the meaning of a place of learning; the related term midrash literally refers to study or learning, but has acquired mystical and religious connotations.

1. what is the article mainly about?
2. what does the word literally mean?
3. can it be private school?
4. what language does it come from?
5. are all students in madaris Muslim?
6. is it generally considered a religious school in the west?
7. what levels of school does it cover?
8. what is the Arabic word for University?
9. is modern curriculum offered in madrasa?
10. what are some Arabic languages that are mentioned?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Madrasa
2. Any type of educational institution,
3. Yes
4. Arabic
5. No
6. Yes
7. university-level or post-graduate school as well as to a primary or secondary school
8.
9. Yes
10. Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Persian, Turkish, Azeri, Kurdish, Indonesian, Malay and Bosnian / Croatian.