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The world shares him and London claims him, but Stratford-on-Avon intends to spend 2016 celebrating Shakespeare as their man: the bard of Avon, who was born there in 1564, and died there 400 years ago. 

Stratford remained hugely important throughout Shakespeare's life, argues Paul Edmondson, the head of learning and research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. "People have seen Shakespeare as a Dick Whittington figure, who turns his back on Stratford and his family, goes to London to earn his fortune and only comes back to die," he said. "But Stratford is where he bought land and property, where he kept his library, where he lived and read and thought. We are going to spend the year re-emphasizing the importance of Shakespeare, the man of Stratford." 

The anniversary of the death of the most famous and the most performed playwright in the world will be marked across Britain and the globe. Macbeth is about to open in Singapore, Romeo and Juliet in Brussels. Shakespeare's Globe is completing the first world tour, in which it has taken Hamlet to almost every country. North Korea is still holding out, though. 

The Globe director recently jokily claimed Shakespeare as a true Londoner. Stratford, however, will be insisting that the town made and educated Shakespeare. "His old school room in Stratford-on-Avon where Shakespeare learned 'small Latin and less Greek' --as kindly laughed at by his friend Ben Johnson--will open its doors, scarred by centuries of naughty schoolboys, to mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death," said Paul Edmondson. 

Shakespeare bought the splendid New Place, the second best house in the town, when he had made his fortune on the London stage. "You don't buy a house like New Place and not live there," Paul said. He believes that after Shakespeare bought it, all his thinking time was spent there, and that the late plays, including The Tempest, were at least planned in his library and probably written there.
1. What is being performed in Singapore?
2. What about in Brussels?
3. What country has Shakespeare's Globe not been to?
4. Why not?
5. What play are they performing on their tour?
6. Where was Shakespeare born?
7. When?
8. Where did he die?
9. Who claims him?
10. What is being celebrated?
11. Where does Paul Edmondson work?
12. Is in in charge of something?
13. Who does he compare Shakespeare to?
14. Where did he purchase property?
15. Where was he educated?
16. How much Latin did he learn?
17. What about Greek?
18. Where did he visit to think?
19. Did he own it?

Numbered answers:
1. Macbeth
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. North Korea
4. He is a true Londoner.
5. Hamlet
6. Avon
7. 1564
8. Stratford-on-Avon, his birthplace
9. London
10. The anniversary of his death
11. The Globe
12. head of learning and research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
13. Dick Whittington
14. Stratford
15. Stratford
16. small
17. less than Latin
18. New Place
19. Yes.


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(CNN) -- Yoshinobu Miyake is perhaps the only athlete apart from Dick Fosbury who has had a technique named after him. 

Miyake: the strongest man ever? 

While Fosbury was throwing himself backward over the bar in the high jump in Mexico City 1968, Miyake was placing his ankles together, instead of apart, for the lifting snatch. 

The "Miyake Pull" was also coined "Frog Style" after the stance the lifter adopts before the pull: heels together with knees fanned outward to around sixty degrees with a wide grip on the bar, resembling a frog upon the lift. 

The technique proved physiologically efficient for a body bearing some 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of stress. 

Miyake's Olympic gold in 1968 is less well known than Fosbury's, but pound for pound, in his own sport, he is considered one of the strongest men who ever lived -- and Japan's finest weightlifting exponent. 

The medal re-affirmed Miyake's pre-eminence in the featherweight class and proved he could travel. 

In 1964 he had also won gold in Tokyo in front of a home crowd, improving on a silver earned in Rome in 1960. 

Born in Miyagi Prefecture in Honshu, north of Tokyo, in 1939, Miyake was all but unstoppable in the mid-1960s. 

During that time he set 25 world records, many consecutively as he bettered his own standards. He was the world champion in 1962-1963 and 1964-1965. 

After coming fourth at the 1972 Munich Games, Miyake retired from competitive action to coach Japan's weightlifting team, helping his brother, Yoshiyuki, become world champion in 1969 and 1971. 
1. When was Miyake born?
2. Where?
3. Where is that?
4. Does he have any world records?
5. How many?
6. Did he ever beat his own?
7. When was he the world champion?
8. When did he win an Olympic gold medal?
9. What did earn in 1964?
10. where?
11. What had he gotten before that?
12. When?
13. Where?
14. What class is he in?
15. What is named for him?
16. What else is it called?
17. What event is it used in?
18. Where are the ankles for this?
19. What about the knees?
20. What does a person look like while doing the Miyake Pull?

Numbered answers:
1. 1939
2. Miyagi Prefecture in Honshu
3. north of Tokyo
4. yes
5. 25
6. yes
7. 1962-1963 and 1964-1965
8. 1968
9. gold
10. Tokyo
11. a silver
12. 1960
13. Rome
14. featherweight
15. Miyake Pull
16. Frog Style
17. the lifting snatch
18. together
19. fanned outward
20. a frog


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When Mr. Brown entered the classroom that Friday morning, he stopped at the blackboard. For there, on the blackboard, were words in huge red letters: BROWN IS STUPID! Mr. Brown thought for a moment. This could only have been the work of one of the four boys who had been kept in after school the day before. Mr. Brown turned the blackboard around so that the words could not be seen. Half an hour later,Mr. Brown wrote four names on the board: Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie. Then he said, "I want these four to stay in the classroom. The rest of you may go to the playground." The four boys came to the blackboard. "One of you has written a most impolite remark on the blackboard," he stared at them and _ , "which one of you did it?" The four boys gathered closer together, afraid of what was to come. "Was it you, Gerald?" Gerald shook his head. "No, it was not me, Sir," he gave the teacher a most sincere look in his wide eyes. "What do you have to say, Alex?" "I don't know anything about it, Sir," said Alex, and his ears turned red. Michael had a bright idea. "Perhaps someone broke in during the night," he said. "And when he saw the lovely red chalk lying there, he wrote something on the blackboard." "Is that the best you can think so, Michael?" asked the teacher. "I only thought ..." "And what about you, Laurie?" Laurie said in a rather low voice, "I didn't do it, Sir. I don't even know what it says on the blackboard." "You really don't know what's written there?" Mr. Brown asked. "And I don't think dear Gerald knows either." "No, Sir. No idea." "Michael, Alex, can either of you tell me what it says on the blackboard?" "No, Sir!" the two boys answered together. Brown walked forward and his fingers seized a schoolboy. He said in his kindest and softest voice to the other three boys, "Very well. I only punish the one who has been telling lies, and you three may go to the playground!"
1. What was written on the blackboard?
2. Why did brown suspect the four boys?
3. How did Michael suggest the writing got on there?


Answer: Numbered answers:
1. BROWN IS STUPID!
2. it could have been one of the four boys who had been kept in after school the day before
3. Perhaps someone broke in during the night