Question: Tampa () is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is on the west coast of Florida on Tampa Bay, near the Gulf of Mexico, and is the largest city in the Tampa Bay Area. The city had a population of 335,709 at the 2010 census, and an estimated population of 377,165 in 2016.

Archaeological evidence indicates the shores of Tampa Bay were inhabited by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. The Safety Harbor culture developed in the area around the year 1000 AD, and the descendant Tocobaga and Pohoy chiefdoms were living in or near the current city limits of Tampa when the area was first visited by Spanish explorers in the 16th century. Interactions between native peoples and the Spanish were brief and often violent, and although the newcomers did not stay for long, they introduced European diseases which brought the collapse of native societies across the Florida peninsula over the ensuing decades. Although Spain claimed all of Florida and beyond as part of New Spain, it did not found a colony on the west coast. After the disappearance of the indigenous populations, there were no permanent settlements in the Tampa Bay area until after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821. 1. How long have humans been living on the Florida coast?
2. Does that predate European visitation?
3. What Eurpoean nation came first?
4. When?
5. Did they get along well with the locals?
6. What were the encounters like?
7. Did they start a settlement?
8. Did they have any lasting impact?
9. WHat?
10. By what means?
11. WHat modern city is located near the former Tocobaga chiefdom?
12. What part of FLorida is that in?
13. Is there good fishing nearby?
14. Where mught you go for that?
15. Is the city growing or shrinking?
16. Is it important to local politics?
17. In what way?
18. How did the US get the area from Spain?
19. WHen did they get it?
20. What changed after that? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. For thousands of years
2. Yes
3. Spain
4. The 16th century.
5. No
6. Brief and violent
7. No
8. Yes
9. The collapse of native communities across the peninsula
10. Diseases
11. Tampa
12. The west coast
13. I would guess so
14. Tampa Bay
15. Growing
16. Yes
17. County seat
18. unknown
19. 1821
20. There were permanent settlements in the area

Question: Thomas Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. Without him, the world might still be in the dark. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the motion picture camera and 1200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new. Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He attended school for only three months. His mother taught him at home, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. He started experimenting at a young age. When he was 12 years old, he got his first job. He became a newsboy on a train. He did experiments on the train in his spare time. Unluckily, his first work experience did not end well. They _ him when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the train. Then Edison worked for five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued to spend much of his time in experimenting his first patent in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity. Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, but he thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways. It kept conversations short, so that he could have more time for work. He always worked 16 out of every 24hours. Sometimes his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat. Thomas Edison died at the age of 84. He left a great many inventions that greatly improved the quality of life all over the world. 1. Was Edison well educated?
2. Did he go to school for long?
3. how long?
4. Who taught him after that?
5. was he married?
6. did he work a lot?
7. how much?
8. what is his most recgonized invention?
9. how many other things did he invent?
10. what was his first job?
11. where?
12. how did that end?
13. on purpose?
14. What was his next job?
15. How long did he work there?
16. when was his first patent?
17. for what?
18. Was he deaf?
19. in both ears?
20. was he saddened by it? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. No
2. No
3. Three months.
4. His mother
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. 16 out of 24 hours
8. Electric light
9. 1201 other things
10. A newsboy
11. On a train.
12. He set a fire on the train.
13. No
14. Telegraph Operator
15. 5 years
16. in 1868
17. a vote recorder
18. Yes
19. Totally deaf in one
20. No

Question: The kids were playing outside. They were drawing with chalk. They drew many things with the chalk. One of those things was a star. There was nothing else for them to do because it was the weekend. Then they stopped drawing with the chalk a little later. They did not want to go on because they were tired. They walked a little then started to splash by the lake that was nearby instead. They thought it was a good idea because it was a hot day. They played for hours. They were making a lot of noise and laughing and talking. They went home. They did this because they were very tired. They all ate some bread. They were now quiet. They couldn't have anything else to eat until their mother called them for dinner. They waited and did not say a word. They were resting. Soon it would be time for the family meal. 1. What were the kids doing?
2. Where?
3. Doing what?
4. with what?
5. What did they draw?
6. Like what?
7. Did they have anything else to do?
8. Why?
9. When did they stop drawing?
10. Why?
11. Where did they go?
12. What did they do there?
13. Was it close?
14. What did they think?
15. why?
16. Did they play long?
17. how long?
18. What were they doing?
19. What else?
20. anything else? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. playing
2. outside
3. drawing
4. chalk
5. many things
6. a star.
7. No
8. it was the weekend
9. a little later
10. they were tired
11. the lake
12. They splashed
13. yes
14. it was a good idea
15. it was a hot day
16. yes
17. hours
18. making noise
19. laughing
20. talking