Question: Fresno (/frzno/ FREZ-noh), the county seat of Fresno County, is a city in the U.S. state of California. As of 2015, the city's population was 520,159, making it the fifth-largest city in California, the largest inland city in California and the 34th-largest in the nation. Fresno is in the center of the San Joaquin Valley and is the largest city in the Central Valley, which contains the San Joaquin Valley. It is approximately 220 miles (350 km) northwest of Los Angeles, 170 miles (270 km) south of the state capital, Sacramento, or 185 miles (300 km) south of San Francisco. The name Fresno means "ash tree" in Spanish, and an ash leaf is featured on the city's flag.

In 1872, the Central Pacific Railroad established a station near Easterby'sby now a hugely productive wheat farmfor its new Southern Pacific line. Soon there was a store around the station and the store grew the town of Fresno Station, later called Fresno. Many Millerton residents, drawn by the convenience of the railroad and worried about flooding, moved to the new community. Fresno became an incorporated city in 1885. By 1931 the Fresno Traction Company operated 47 streetcars over 49 miles of track. 1. When did Fresno become an incorporated city?
2. Is it in a valley inside of another valley?
3. How far away from the state capital is it?
4. In 1872 which railroad line went by it?
5. Name the valleys Fresno is it?
6. How far away is San Francisco?
7. What does the word "Fresno" mean?
8. And what is on the city flag?
9. What was the population there in 2015?
10. How does the population rank in the state?
11. And in terms of inland cities in California?
12. And in the country?
13. Is it a good place to live? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. 1885
2. yes
3. 170 miles
4. the Central Pacific Railroad
5. Central Valley and San Joaquin Valley
6. 185 miles
7. "ash tree"
8. an ash leaf
9. 520,159
10. fifth
11. first
12. 34th
13. unknown

Q: CHAPTER XXXVII

"Come," says the White Logic, "and forget these Asian dreamers of old time. Fill your glass and let us look at the parchments of the dreamers of yesterday who dreamed their dreams on your own warm hills."

I pore over the abstract of title of the vineyard called Tokay on the rancho called Petaluma. It is a sad long list of the names of men, beginning with Manuel Micheltoreno, one time Mexican "Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Inspector of the Department of the Californias," who deeded ten square leagues of stolen Indian land to Colonel Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo for services rendered his country and for moneys paid by him for ten years to his soldiers.

Immediately this musty record of man's land lust assumes the formidableness of a battle--the quick struggling with the dust. There are deeds of trust, mortgages, certificates of release, transfers, judgments, foreclosures, writs of attachment, orders of sale, tax liens, petitions for letters of administration, and decrees of distribution. It is like a monster ever unsubdued, this stubborn land that drowses in this Indian summer weather and that survives them all, the men who scratched its surface and passed.

Who was this James King of William, so curiously named? The oldest surviving settler in the Valley of the Moon knows him not. Yet only sixty years ago he loaned Mariano G. Vallejo eighteen thousand dollars on security of certain lands including the vineyard yet to be and to be called Tokay. Whence came Peter O'Connor, and whither vanished, after writing his little name of a day on the woodland that was to become a vineyard? Appears Louis Csomortanyi, a name to conjure with. He lasts through several pages of this record of the enduring soil.

1. James King
2. sixty years ago
3. the White Logi
4. Mexican "Governor,
5. Indian land
6. Colonel Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
7. deeds of trust,
8. the land
9. Tokay
10. Petaluma
11. the names of men
12. Manuel Micheltoreno
13. for services rendered his country
14. record of man's land lust
15. Peter O'Connor
16. a vineyard
17. Louis Csomortanyi
18. record of the enduring soil.
19. Fill it
20. the parchments of the dreamers of yesterday

Numbered questions:
1. Who loaned Mariano G. Vallejo $18,000?
2. How long ago?
3. Who said to forget the Asian dreamers of old?
4. Who was Manuel Micheltoreno?
5. What did he take from the Indians?
6. Who did he give it to?
7. Can you name a type of deed?
8. What is like a monster?
9. What was the abstract of title of the vineyard named?
10. What rancho was it on?
11. What won on the long, sad list?
12. Whose name was first on it?
13. Why was land deeded to Colonel Don Mariano?
14. What was called musty?
15. Who wrote his name on the woodland?
16. What was the woodland supposed to turn into?
17. Whose name lasts through several pages?
18. What were the pages of?
19. What did the White Logic say to do with your glass?
20. And then look at what?

input: Have you ever wanted to achieve something really amazing in life? Well, Greg Mortenson wanted to climb a mountain, but he ended up helping thousands of people to have a better life. Greg's story began with failure. In 1993, he set out to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain. But Greg never made it to the top. After five days, he stumbled into the village of Korphe in northern Pakistan, injured and hungry. The kind villagers there looked after him for several days. Greg saw that the villagers were very poor and hungry, and some of them were ill. Also, the village school didn't have a roof and the children wrote on the ground with sticks, Greg knew he wanted to do something to help. "I'll build you a school," he told the villagers. "I promise." Greg went back home to the USA to raise money for the school. He even lived in the car to save money! Finally he went back to Korphe and built the school. But _ was just the beginning of something bigger! Since then, Greg's organization has built around 80 schools and runs many others in Pakistan and other countries, too. Greg hasn't finished yet. He does many other things to help people in poor countries. He has got many prizes, but it's the smiles of the children he has helped that makes him happy! Greg has just written a best-selling book about his story called Three Cups of Tea. It's an interesting and exciting book which tells us what ordinary people can do with courage and determination . 1. What did Greg want to do initially?
2. What mountain?
3. Is it the second highest mountain in the world?
4. Did he make it to the top?
5. So did his story begin with failure?
6. What year was it when he went to climb the mountain?
7. What village did he end up?
8. Where exactly?
9. Was he injured?
10. Were the villagers hungry too?
11. Did they look after him?
12. What did Greg promise them?
13. Where did Greg raise the money?
14. What did he do to save the money?
15. did he build the school?
16. How many schools has his organization built?
17. What is Greg's book called? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Climb a mountain.
2. K2.
3. Yes.
4. No.
5. Yes.
6. 1993.
7. Korphe.
8. In northern Pakistan.
9. Yes.
10. Yes.
11. Yes.
12. "I'll build you a school,"
13. In the USA.
14. Lived in the car.
15. Yes.
16. Around 80 schools.
17. Three Cups of Tea.