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CHAPTER VI.

The next morning was gloomy and rainy, as Elizabeth informed Anne at about seven o'clock; 'and I am not sorry for it,' said she, 'for I want to have you all to myself at home, so we will turn the incubi over to Kate and Helen, and be comfortable together.'

'Will they submit to such treatment?' said Anne.

'Oh yes, my dear,' said Elizabeth; 'they want us as little as we want them; they only want a little civility, and I will not be so sparing of that useful commodity as I was yesterday evening. And now, Anne, I am going to beg your pardon for being so excessively rude to Harriet, as I was last night. She did not mind it, but you did, and much more than if it had been to yourself.'

'I believe I did,' said Anne; 'other people do not know what you mean when you set up your bristles, and I do. Besides, I was sorry for Lucy, who looks as if she had sensitiveness enough for the whole family.'

'Poor Lucy!' said Elizabeth;

"A weary lot is thine, fair maid, A weary lot is thine."

Yes, Lucy has very deep feeling; you may see it in the painful flushing of her cheek, and the downcast look of her eye, when her mother and sister expose themselves. I really believe that that poor girl has more to endure than most people.'

'O Lizzie,' said Anne, 'how differently you spoke of her yesterday!'

'Yes,' said Elizabeth, 'but then I was furious with Mrs. Hazleby; and besides, I believe the truth was, that I was very tired and very cross, not exactly the way in which I intended to conclude the Consecration day; and now I am in my senses, I am very sorry I behaved as I did. But, Anne, though I hereby retract all I said in dispraise of Lucy, and confess that I was rude to Harriet, do not imagine that I disavow all I said about society last night, for I assure you that I expressed my deliberate opinion.'

1. What section of the tale are we on?
2. How's the weather?
3. Who are talking to each other?
4. Is it nine o'clock yet?
5. Who did Elizabeth suggest to give the incubi to?
6. Why did she think they wouldn't be bothered about this arrangement?
7. Who did she treat badly the night before?
8. Was Harriet upset about the way she was treated?
9. Who was Anne worried about when this happened?
10. Did Elizabeth feel good about Lucy's reaction?
11. What physical changes give Lucy's emotions away?
12. Who was Elizabeth extremely upset at setting of the events?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Chapter VI
2. gloomy and rainy
3. Elizabeth and Anne
4. no
5. Kate and Helen
6. they only want a little civility
7. Harriet
8. no
9. Lucy
10. no
11. cheek flushing and downcast eye
12. Mrs. Hazleby

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It is generally considered that the Pacific War began on 7/8 December 1941, on which date Japan invaded Thailand and attacked the British possessions of Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong as well as the United States military bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines. Some historians contend that the conflict in Asia can be dated back to 7 July 1937 with the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China, or possibly 19 September 1931, beginning with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself started in early December 1941, with the Sino-Japanese War then becoming part of it as a theater of the greater World War II.[nb 9]

The Pacific War saw the Allied powers pitted against the Empire of Japan, the latter briefly aided by Thailand and to a much lesser extent by its Axis allies, Germany and Italy. The war culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and other large aerial bomb attacks by the United States Army Air Forces, accompanied by the Soviet invasion of Manchuria on 8 August 1945, resulting in the Japanese announcement of intent to surrender on 15 August 1945. The formal and official surrender of Japan took place aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. Following its defeat, Japan's Shinto Emperor stepped down as the divine leader through the Shinto Directive, because the Allied Powers believed this was the major political cause of Japan's military aggression and deconstruction process soon took place to install a new liberal-democratic constitution to the Japanese public as the current Constitution of Japan.

1. What country was invaded at the onset of the War?
2. Who were the allied against?
3. And who aided their enemy?
4. What was the culminating point of the war?
5. Which is the only country to ever drop atomic bombs?
6. And how many times did they do this?
7. And where did they drop these destructive atom bombs?
8. What did Japan do after this?
9. On which day was the formal white flag flown?
10. Where did it happen?
11. What was Japan's emperor forced to do?
12. Who was the was on July 7, 1937 between?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Thailand
2. the Empire of Japan
3. Thailand, Germany, and Italy
4. the atomic bombings
5. the United States
6. twice
7. Hiroshima and Nagasak
8. they surrendered
9. 2 September 1945
10. aboard the USS Missouri
11. step down
12. Japan and China

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In February 1907, the Royal Dutch Shell Group was created through the amalgamation of two rival companies: the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the United Kingdom. It was a move largely driven by the need to compete globally with Standard Oil. The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company was a Dutch company founded in 1890 to develop an oilfield in Sumatra, and initially led by August Kessler, Hugo Loudon, and Henri Deterding. The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company (the quotation marks were part of the legal name) was a British company, founded in 1897 by Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, and his brother Samuel Samuel. Their father had owned an antique company in Houndsditch, London, which expanded in 1833 to import and sell sea-shells, after which the company "Shell" took its name.

Shell was vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It has minor renewable energy activities in the form of biofuels and wind. It has operations in over 90 countries, produces around 3.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and has 44,000 service stations worldwide. Shell Oil Company, its subsidiary in the United States, is one of its largest businesses.

1. What company did Marcus Samuel form?
2. Was it an American company?
3. What then?
4. What year was it founded?
5. Did Marcus have a title?
6. What was it?
7. Did he have a sibling?
8. Brother or sister?
9. And his name?
10. How much oil does Shell produce per day?
11. How many of their services stations are there around the world?
12. In what year was the Shell Group founded?
13. Did Marcus Samuel's father own a company?
14. What sort?
15. In what city was it?
16. In what area of London?
17. What was the year of its expansion?
18. What did the company import?
19. Is this where Shell got its name?
20. Was Royal Dutch Shell Group formed from two different companies?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company
2. no
3. British
4. 1897
5. yes
6. 1st Viscount
7. yes
8. brother
9. Samuel Samuel
10. 3.1 million barrels
11. 44,000
12. 1897
13. yes
14. an antique company
15. London
16. Houndsditch
17. 1833
18. sea-shells
19. yes
20. yes