Question:
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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, or simply Wikimedia) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is mostly known for participating in the Wikimedia movement. It owns the internet domain names of most movement projects and hosts sites like Wikipedia. The foundation was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales as a way to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects through non-profit means. 

, the foundation employs over 280 people, with annual revenues in excess of . Christophe Henner is chair of the board. Katherine Maher is the executive director since March 2016. 

The Wikimedia Foundation has stated its goal is to develop and maintain open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge. Another main objective of the Wikimedia Foundation is political advocacy. 

The Wikimedia Foundation was granted section 501(c)(3) status by the U.S. Internal Revenue Code as a public charity in 2005. Its National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code is B60 (Adult, Continuing education). The foundation's by-laws declare a statement of purpose of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally. 

In 2001, Jimmy Wales, an Internet entrepreneur, and Larry Sanger, an online community organizer and philosophy professor, founded Wikipedia as an Internet encyclopedia to supplement Nupedia. The project was originally funded by Bomis, Wales' for-profit business. As Wikipedia's popularity skyrocketed, revenues to fund the project stalled. Since Wikipedia was depleting Bomis' resources, Wales and Sanger thought of a charity model to fund the project. The Wikimedia Foundation was incorporated in Florida on June 20, 2003. It applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark "Wikipedia" on September 14, 2004. The mark was granted registration status on January 10, 2006. Trademark protection was accorded by Japan on December 16, 2004, and, in the European Union, on January 20, 2005. There were plans to license the use of the Wikipedia trademark for some products, such as books or DVDs.
1. What organization is this about?
2. Is it a for-profit organization?
3. Where is its home?
4. When?
5. By whom?
6. How many workers does it have?
7. Who is the chair?
8. And the executive director?
9. Is it a charity?
10. When was it incorporated?
11. Is it popular?
12. Is it trademarked?
13. Who was Wikipedia's co-founder?
14. Why was it created?
15. Were they going to license products?

Numbered answers:
1. The Wikimedia Foundation
2. no
3. San Francisco
4. in 2003
5. by Jimmy Wales
6. 280 people
7. Christophe Henner
8. Katherine Maher
9. yes
10. June 20, 2003
11. yes
12. yes
13. Larry Sanger
14. as a way to fund Wikipedia
15. yes


Question:
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Thomas Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. Without him, the world might still be in the dark. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the motion picture camera and 1200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new. Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He attended school for only three months. His mother taught him at home, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. He started experimenting at a young age. When he was 12 years old, he got his first job. He became a newsboy on a train. He did experiments on the train in his spare time. Unluckily, his first work experience did not end well. They _ him when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the train. Then Edison worked for five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued to spend much of his time in experimenting his first patent in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity. Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, but he thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways. It kept conversations short, so that he could have more time for work. He always worked 16 out of every 24hours. Sometimes his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat. Thomas Edison died at the age of 84. He left a great many inventions that greatly improved the quality of life all over the world.
1. Was Edison well educated?
2. Did he go to school for long?
3. how long?
4. Who taught him after that?
5. was he married?
6. did he work a lot?
7. how much?
8. what is his most recgonized invention?
9. how many other things did he invent?
10. what was his first job?
11. where?
12. how did that end?
13. on purpose?
14. What was his next job?
15. How long did he work there?
16. when was his first patent?
17. for what?
18. Was he deaf?
19. in both ears?
20. was he saddened by it?

Numbered answers:
1. No
2. No
3. Three months.
4. His mother
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. 16 out of 24 hours
8. Electric light
9. 1201 other things
10. A newsboy
11. On a train.
12. He set a fire on the train.
13. No
14. Telegraph Operator
15. 5 years
16. in 1868
17. a vote recorder
18. Yes
19. Totally deaf in one
20. No


Question:
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Chapter IX 

Nobble 



During the two days which Dick and Caldigate spent together in Melbourne Mrs. Smith's name was not mentioned between them. They were particularly civil each to the other and went to work together, making arrangements at a bank as to their money, taking their places, despatching their luggage, and sorting their belongings as though there had been no such woman as Mrs. Smith on board the Goldfinder. Dick, though he had been inclined to grumble when his mystery had been taken out of his hands,--who had, of course, been jealous when he saw that the lady had discarded her old hat and put on new ribbons, not for him, but for another,--was too conscious of the desolation to which he would be subjected by quarrelling with his friend. He felt himself unable to go alone, and was therefore willing that the bygones of the ship should be bygones. Caldigate, on the other hand, acknowledged to himself that he owed some reparation to his companion. Of course he had not bound himself to any special mode of life;--but had he, in his present condition, allied himself more closely to Mrs. Smith, he would, to some extent, have thrown Dick over. And then, as soon as he was on shore, he did feel somewhat ashamed of himself in regard to Mrs. Smith. Was it not manifest that any closer alliance, let the alliance be what it might, must be ruinous to him? As it was, had he not made an absolute fool of himself with Mrs. Smith? Had he not got himself already into a mess from which there was no escape? Of course he must write to her when the month was over. The very weight of his thoughts on this matter made him tamer with Dick and more observant than he would otherwise have been. 
1. What woman had been on the Goldfinder?
2. How many days did the friends spend in Melbourne?
3. How many times did they talk about Mrs. Smith during that time?
4. True or False: Caldigate felt that he owed something to Dick.
5. What did he owe?
6. What had Mrs. Smith thrown away?
7. What did she wear that was new?
8. Did she do this for Dick?
9. True or False: Caldigate thought a closer relationship with Mrs. Smith would be disastrous.
10. Who knew he would be lonely if he argued with his friend?
11. Was he inclined to complain?
12. Why?
13. Did the two visit a bank?
14. Did they visit a courthouse?
15. Did Caldigate think he had been silly with the lady?
16. True or False: He felt that any issue caused by this he could easily get out of.
17. When would he send her a letter?
18. Had Caldigate dedicated himself to any set path in life?
19. What, if he had done it, would have betrayed Dick?
20. What did the pair do with their luggage?


Numbered answers:
1. Mrs. Smith
2. two
3. zero
4. True
5. some reparation
6. her old hat
7. ribbons
8. no
9. True.
10. Dick
11. Yes.
12. his mystery had been taken out of his hands
13. yes
14. unknown
15. Yes
16. False
17. when the month was over
18. no
19. allying himself more closely to Mrs. Smith
20. despatched it