Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Sparta (Doric Greek: ; Attic Greek: ) was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.

Given its military pre-eminence, Sparta was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars. Between 431 and 404 BC, Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, from which it emerged victorious, though at a great cost of lives lost. Sparta's defeat by Thebes in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC ended Sparta's prominent role in Greece. However, it maintained its political independence until the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC. It then underwent a long period of decline, especially in the Middle Ages, when many Spartans moved to live in Mystras. Modern Sparta is the capital of the Greek regional unit of Laconia and a center for the processing of goods such as citrus and olives.

Sparta was unique in ancient Greece for its social system and constitution, which configured their entire society to maximize military proficiency at all costs, and completely focused on military training and excellence. Its inhabitants were classified as Spartiates (Spartan citizens, who enjoyed full rights), mothakes (non-Spartan free men raised as Spartans), perioikoi (free residents, literally "dwellers around"), and helots (state-owned serfs, enslaved non-Spartan local population). Spartiates underwent the rigorous "agoge" training and education regimen, and Spartan phalanges were widely considered to be among the best in battle. Spartan women enjoyed considerably more rights and equality to men than elsewhere in the classical antiquity.

1. What was Sparta called before?
2. what was it dominant for?
3. when?
4. where is it located?
5. What wars was it a leader in?
6. Who was one of their enemies?
7. when?
8. why was it unique?
9. which did what?
10. what did it focus on?
11. and?
12. who defeated Sparta?
13. in what battle?
14. when?
15. what did this end?
16. when did it lose its independence?
17. who took it?
18. did many Sparta stay there?
19. where did they go?
20. What does the Modern Sparta process?
21. anything else?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Lacedaemon
2. military land-power
3. 650 BC
4. Greece
5. Greco-Persian Wars.
6. Athens
7. Peloponnesian War,
8. for its social system and constitution
9. configured their entire society to maximize military proficiency
10. military training
11. excellence
12. Thebes
13. Battle of Leuctra
14. 371 BC
15. its prominent role in Greece
16. 146 BC
17. Roman
18. no
19. Mystras.
20. citrus
21. yes

Question: Soccer star David Beckham will be there with his pop star wife Victoria. Elton John is attending with partner David Furnish.

The guest list for the April 29 union of Prince William and Kate Middleton is still being kept secret, but details have begun to leak out, with some coming forward to say they are attending and the Mail on Sunday newspaper claiming to have the official invitation roster .

The palace dismissed the newspaper's list as speculation Sunday.

It won't be clear until the day how the royal couple has balanced the protocol demands that they invite statesmen, diplomats, religious leaders, politicians and the like with invitations to the people they really want to see, particularly the crowd they made friends with when they met and fell in love at St. Andrews University in Scotland.

Kate Reardon, editor of high-society magazine Tatler, said many _ Britons acted as if they didn't really care about receiving an invitation while secretly checking the mail every day to see if the invitation had arrived.

"Everyone's been hoping," she said.

William and Middleton have showed their modern side by inviting a number of close friends, including some former sweethearts, the newspaper said.

The wedding is not technically a state event, which somewhat limits the protocol requirements applied to the guest list. But royal obligations still order that a large number of the 1,900 or so seats go to guests from the world of politics, not actual friends of the couple.

The couple have also invited many guests from the charities they work with, and Middleton has used her influence to invite the butcher, shopkeeper and pub owner from her home village of Bucklebury.

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were not invited and many other international leaders are also expected to be watching on TV, not from a seat at Westminster Abbey.

It is not clear if treasured Brits from the world of stage and screen and pop music will be on the list. 1. What soccer star is going to be there?
2. With who?
3. Is she a rap star?
4. When is the union?
5. Who did Elton John come with? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. David Beckham
2. His wife Victoria
3. pop star
4. April 29
5. David Furnish

Q: (CNN) -- A former campaign staffer for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner became the second woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment, saying Tuesday that the then-congressman patted her "posterior" while at a fundraising event.

Laura Fink, who now runs a political consulting firm, told KPBS-TV that it happened in 2005 when she was working as Filner's deputy campaign manager.

Fink said she didn't go public with the incident at the time because she was trying to build her political career. But she said she now feels emboldened to tell her story after Filner's former spokeswoman, Irene McCormack Jackson, sued him for sexual harassment Monday.

Jackson said Filner subjected her and other women to "crude and disgusting" comments and inappropriate touching. She said she resigned as Filner's communications director in June after deciding the mayor would not change his behavior.

"I had to work and do my job in an atmosphere where women were viewed by Mayor Filner as sexual objects or stupid idiots," Jackson said. She said Filner asked her to work without underwear and made repeated sexual advances toward her.

"He is not fit to be mayor of our great city. He is not fit to hold any public office. A man who lacks character makes a mockery of his ideas," she said.

Fink told KPBS on Tuesday that the incident happened as she was escorting Filner from table to table at a fundraising dinner. At one point, she said, someone at the event told Filner that Fink had "worked her ass off" for him.

1. Bob Filner
2. Mayor
3. San Diego
4. A former campaign staffer
5. Laura Fink
6. she runs a political consulting firm
7. in 2005
8. she was Filner's deputy campaign manager
9. he patted her "posterior"
10. No
11. Irene McCormack Jackson
12. Filner's spokeswoman,
13. she sued him for sexual harassment
14. Jackson said Filner subjected her to "crude and disgusting" comments
15. No
16. other women
17. No
18. inappropriate touching
19. Yes
20. Filner asked her to work without underwear

Numbered questions:
1. who was accused of something?
2. what is his title
3. of which town?
4. who accused him?
5. what was she named?
6. what is her current position?
7. when did the misdeed happen?
8. what was her position when it occurred?
9. what was the transgression?
10. is she the first lady to accuse him of unwanted attention?
11. who was the first?
12. what was her position at the time of the offence?
13. what charges did she bring?
14. what were the offences in this case?
15. only her?
16. who else?
17. was commenting his only offence in this case?
18. what other wrong doing was noted?
19. was anything specific noted in this case?
20. what?