CHAPTER XIV

"Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him."--JOB XL. 9.

A few moments later Licinia came running back into the room.

"Augusta!" she exclaimed excitedly even before she had crossed the threshold. "Augusta! quick! the Csar!"

Dea Flavia started, for she had indeed been suddenly awakened from a dream. Slowly, and with eyes still vague and thoughtful, she turned to her slave.

"The Csar?" she repeated, whilst a puzzled frown appeared between her brows and the young blood faded from her cheeks. "The Csar?"

"Aye," said the old woman hurriedly. "He is in the atrium even now, having just arrived, and his slaves fill the vestibule. He desires speech with thee."

"He does not often come at this hour," said Dea Flavia, whose face had become very white and set at mention of a name which indeed had the power of rousing terror in every heart just now. "Doth he seem angered?" she asked under her breath.

"No, no," said Licinia reassuringly, "how could he be angered against thee, my pet lamb? But come quickly, dear, to thy robing room; what dress wilt put on to greet the Csar in?"

"Nay, nay," she said with a tremulous little laugh, "we'll not keep my kinsman waiting. That indeed might anger him. He has been in this room before and hath liked to watch me at my work. Let him come now, an he wills."

Licinia would have protested for she loved to deck her darling out in all the finery that, to her mind, rendered the Augusta more beautiful than a goddess, but there was no time to say anything for even now the Csar's voice was heard at the further end of the atrium. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was in the atrium?
2. What did Licinia like to dress Augusta in?
3. Was the Caesar angry?
4. Where were his slaves?
5. What did Caesar want?
6. With who?
7. Why had Dea Flavia been startled?
8. Who woke her?
9. Did Dea become worried?
10. Why?
Answer: 1. it was the Caesar
2. in all the finery that rendered the Augusta more beautiful than a goddness
3. NO
4. In the room
5. He desired speech with thee
6. With Dea Flavia
7. she was suddenly awakened from a dream
8. Licinia
9. Yes
10. he just arrived.

"I can't see clearly, because I don't wear my glasses today." We always hear people saying something like this. Glasses are very important to many people. Do you know how they were invented and developed? Glasses took a long time to develop into what you can find in the glasses store today. The Chinese first used colored glasses as fashion. They thought that those glasses had magic, but they didn't think that glasses could help eyes to see clearly. In 1262, the inventor, Roger Bacon, discovered the amazing function of lenses , and he thought that glasses could be used to help people to see. Twenty years later, in Florence, Italy, the inventor, Alessandro di Spina, made the first pair of glasses that could help people to see. Although these glasses worked, scientists didn't understand how glasses helped eyes to see. They thought that eyes sent out light onto whatever a person was looking at, and then the light came back to the eyes. Johannes Kepler finally found out how glasses worked. Inventors continued to improve glasses. In 1784, Ben Franklin created glasses that had bifocal lenses. Many years later, in 1827, George Airy made circle-shaped glasses to correct _ , an eye problem that stops the eyes from seeing things clearly. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What do people need to see clear?
2. are they important?
3. Who created them?
4. When?
5. what was their purpose?
6. did they work?
7. how?
8. did they ever find out how?
9. who found this?
10. did they always stay the same?
11. what changed?
12. how?
13. who made those?
14. were there other changes?
15. by who?
16. what did he change?
17. what was their purpose?
18. Who used glasses first?
19. for what?
20. what did they think of them?
Answer: 1. glasses
2. yes
3. Alessandro di Spina
4. In 1282
5. help people to see
6. yes
7. scientists didn't understand how
8. yes
9. Johannes Kepler
10. no
11. they continued to improve
12. bifocal lenses
13. Ben Franklin
14. yes
15. George Airy
16. made circle-shaped glasses
17. to correct an eye problem
18. The Chinese
19. fashion
20. they had magic

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic Records earned a reputation as one of the most important American recording labels, specializing in jazz, R&B and soul recordings by African-American musicians including Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding, a position greatly enhanced by its distribution deal with Stax Records. In 1967, Atlantic Records became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by bands such as Led Zeppelin and Yes.

In 2004, Atlantic Records and its sister label Elektra Records merged into Atlantic Records Group. Craig Kallman is currently the chairman of Atlantic Records. Ahmet Ertegun served as founding chairman until his death on December 14, 2006, at age 83.

Artists currently signed to Atlantic Records include Missy Elliott, Coldplay, David Guetta, Bruno Mars, Melanie Martinez, Kelly Clarkson, Charli XCX, Charlie Puth, Kodak Black, Death Cab for Cutie, Ed Sheeran, Flo Rida, Halestorm, In This Moment, James Blunt, Janelle Monae, Jason Mraz, Marina and the Diamonds, Paramore, Portugal. The Man, Sia, Simple Plan, Shinedown, Skrillex, Weezer, Lil Uzi Vert, K. Michelle, Kehlani, Joyner Lucas, Bhad Bhabie, and Wiz Khalifa. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What was created in 1947?
2. Also known as?
3. By who?
4. What genre do they specialize in?
5. By who?
6. Who is one of the famous artists/
7. Who bought them in the sixties?
8. What music did they venture into?
9. What other record studio merged with them?
10. With who?
Answer:
1. the Atlantic Recording Corporation
2. Atlantic Records
3. Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.
4. jazz, R&B and soul
5. African-American musicians
6. Aretha Franklin
7. Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
8. rock and pop music
9. Atlantic Records
10. Elektra Records