Context and question: In November 1795, there was a debate in Parliament on the high price of corn and Burke wrote a memorandum to Pitt on the subject. In December Samuel Whitbread MP introduced a bill giving magistrates the power to fix minimum wages and Fox said he would vote for it. This debate probably led Burke to editing his memorandum, as there appeared a notice that Burke would soon publish a letter on the subject to the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Arthur Young; but he failed to complete it. These fragments were inserted into the memorandum after his death and published posthumously in 1800 as, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. In it, Burke expounded "some of the doctrines of political economists bearing upon agriculture as a trade". Burke criticised policies such as maximum prices and state regulation of wages, and set out what the limits of government should be:
When did Pitt write to Burke?
Answer: unanswerable
Context and question: The etymological equivalent is in use in other languages, e.g., yahudi (sg.), al-yahud (pl.), and banu isra'il in Arabic, "Jude" in German, "judeu" in Portuguese, "juif" in French, "jde" in Danish and Norwegian, "judio" in Spanish, "jood" in Dutch, etc., but derivations of the word "Hebrew" are also in use to describe a Jew, e.g., in Italian (Ebreo), in Persian ("Ebri/Ebrani" (Persian: /)) and Russian (, Yevrey). The German word "Jude" is pronounced [jud], the corresponding adjective "judisch" [jyd] (Jewish) is the origin of the word "Yiddish". (See Jewish ethnonyms for a full overview.)
Ebreo is an Italian word derivation of what word?
Answer: Hebrew
Context and question: The oldest evidence of burial customs in the Horn of Africa comes from cemeteries in Somalia dating back to 4th millennium BC. The stone implements from the Jalelo site in northern Somalia are said to be the most important link in evidence of the universality in palaeolithic times between the East and the West.
From what millennium do the oldest cemeteries in the Horn of Africa date?
Answer:
4th millennium BC