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The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated NYT and The Times) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company. "The New York Times" has won 122 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper. The paper's print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind "The Wall Street Journal", and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the United States. "The New York Times" is ranked 18th in the world by circulation. Following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million.

Nicknamed "The Gray Lady", "The New York Times" has long been regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record". It has been owned by the Ochs-Sulzberger family since 1896; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of the Times and the chairman of the New York Times Company, is the fourth generation of the family to helm the paper. "The New York Times" international version, formerly the "International Herald Tribune", is now called the "New York Times International Edition". The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page.
1. What is the abbreviation for the New York Times?
2. Is there another name it's known as?
3. Any other nicknames?
4. Has it been owned by the same family for a long time?
5. Who is that family?
6. What generation of the family currently owns the paper?
7. When was it founded?
8. Has it ever won a Pulitzer?
9. How many?
10. Has any other paper won more Pulitzers?
11. Is its print version the largest in circulation?
12. What paper has the largest print circulation?
13. What is its world ranking in terms of circulation?
14. What was the international version once called?
15. What is it called now?
16. What is the NYT motto?
17. Does it appear on the front page?
18. Where?
19. On what page?
20. What is the current weekday circulation?

Numbered answers:
1. NYT
2. The Times
3. The Gray Lady
4. YES
5. Ochs-Sulzberger
6. fourth generation
7. 1896
8. Yes
9. 122
10. No
11. No
12. "The Wall Street Journal"
13. 18th
14. "International Herald Tribune"
15. New York Times International Edition
16. All the News That's Fit to Print"
17. Yes
18. upper left-hand corner
19. front page
20. unknown

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World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war (including the victims of a number of genocides), a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and the tactical stalemate caused by gruelling trench warfare. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. Unresolved rivalries still extant at the end of the conflict contributed to the start of the Second World War only twenty-one years later.

The war drew in all the world's economic great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) versus the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Although Italy was a member of the Triple Alliance alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary, it did not join the Central Powers, as Austria-Hungary had taken the offensive against the terms of the alliance. These alliances were reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war: Italy, Japan and the United States joined the Allies, while the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers.
1. what powers did the war pull in?
2. how many alliances?
3. which war?
4. abriviated as?
5. what side did Italy take?
6. what was another name for the war?
7. what republic was the French ?
8. when did it start?
9. and offically end?
10. how many other countries joined?
11. who joined the Allies?
12. and?
13. how many military people were moved ready for war?
14. how many non-combatants died?
15. who joined the Central Powers?
16. what made the death rate higher?
17. which side was Bulgaria on?
18. was trench war hard?
19. what political effect did the war have?
20. such as?

Numbered answers:
1. the world's economic great powers,
2. two
3. World War I
4. WWI or WW1
5. Triple Alliance
6. First World War,
7. Third Republic
8. 28 July 1914
9. 11 November 1918
10. Look like 6 more
11. Japan and the United States
12. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
13. More than 70million
14. seven million
15. the Ottoman Empire
16. technological and industrial sophistication
17. Central Powers.
18. yes
19. major political changes
20. revolutions

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Albany is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County. Roughly north of New York City, Albany developed on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. The population of the City of Albany was 97,856 according to the 2010 census. Albany constitutes the economic and cultural core of the Capital District of New York State, which comprises the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area, including the nearby cities and suburbs of Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs. With a 2013 Census-estimated population of 1.1 million the Capital District is the third-most populous metropolitan region in the state and 38th in the United States.

Fortune 500 companies with offices in Albany include American Express, J.P. Morgan and Chase, Merrill Lynch, General Electric, Verizon, Goldman Sachs, International Paper, and Key Bank. In the 21st century, the Capital District has emerged as a major anchor of Tech Valley, the moniker describing the technologically-focused region of eastern New York State.

This was the first European settlement in the state. It was settled by Dutch colonists who in 1614, built Fort Nassau for fur trading and Fort Orange in 1624. They formed successful relations with both the Mahican and the Mohawk peoples, two major Native American nations in the region. The fur trade attracted settlers who founded a village called Beverwijck near Fort Orange. In 1664 the English took over the Dutch settlements, renaming the city as Albany, in honor of the then Duke of Albany, the future James II of England and James VII of Scotland. The city was officially chartered in 1686 under English rule. It became the capital of New York State in 1797, following the United States gaining independence in the American Revolutionary War. Albany is one of the oldest surviving settlements of the original British thirteen colonies, and the longest continuously chartered city in the United States. Its charter is possibly the longest-running instrument of municipal government in the Western Hemisphere.
1. What are some Fortune 500 companies with offices in Albany?
2. What state is it the capital of?
3. What river was it developed on the bank of?
4. Who was it first settled by?
5. When was this?
6. Were there any other european colonies in the state at the time?
7. When did it become the capital?
8. How does it rank in poulation with other cities in the U.S.?
9. And what about in it's state?
10. What is notable about the cities charter?
11. Is it possible it's the longest-running in the western hemisphere?
12. What is it's population according to the 2010 census?
13. What other districts encompass the Capital district of New York State?
14. When did the English take over rule from the Dutch of the city?
Numbered answers:
1. American Express and J.P. Morgan and Chase
2. the state of New York
3. on the bank of the Hudson River
4. by Dutch colonists
5. 1614
6. yes
7. in 1797
8. it is 38th in the United States.
9. it is the third-most populous
10. it is the longest continuously chartered city in the United States
11. yes
12. 97,856
13. the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area
14. In 1664