question: Chapter Twenty-Four: Troston 

I doubt if the name of this small Suffolk village, remote from towns and railroads, will have any literary associations for the reader, unless he be a person of exceptionally good memory, who has taken a special interest in the minor poets of the last century; or that it would help him if I add the names of Honington and Sapiston, two other small villages a couple of miles from Troston, with the slow sedgy Little Ouse, or a branch of it, flowing between them. Yet Honington was the birthplace of Robert Bloomfield, known as "the Suffolk poet" in the early part of the last century (although Crabbe was living then and was great, as he is becoming again after many years); while at Sapiston, the rustic village on the other side of the old stone bridge, he acquired that love of nature and intimate knowledge of farm life and work which came out later in his Farmer's Boy. Finally, Troston, the little village in which I write, was the home of Capel Lofft, a person of importance in his day, who discovered Bloomfield, found a publisher for his poems, and boomed it with amazing success. 

I dare say it will only provoke a smile of amusement in readers of literary taste when I confess that Bloomfield's memory is dear to me; that only because of this feeling for the forgotten rustic who wrote rhymes I am now here, strolling about in the shade of the venerable trees in Troston Park-the selfsame trees which the somewhat fantastic Capel knew in his day as "Homer," "Sophocles," "Virgil," "Milton," and by other names, calling each old oak, elm, ash, and chestnut after one of the immortals. 
1. Where was Robert Bloomfield born?
2. How did he feel about nature?
3. How far is Sapiston from Troston?
4. What waterway ran between the towns?
5. What was Bloomfield's nickname?
6. What kind of bridge led to Sapiston?
7. What work did Bloomfield publish later?
8. Did his poems do well?
9. Who discovered him?
10. Is Sapiston near a railroad?
11. Was Bloomfield a major poet?
12. Where was Capel from?
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answer: 1. Honington
2. love of nature
3. a couple of miles from Troston
4. Little Ouse
5. "the Suffolk poet"
6. old stone bridge
7. Farmer's Boy
8. amazing success
9. Capel Lofft
10. unknown
11. amazing success
12. Troston


question: Orkney (), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of Great Britain. Orkney is 16 kilometres (10 mi) north of the coast of Caithness and comprises approximately 70 islands, of which 20 are inhabited. The largest island Mainland is often referred to as "the Mainland". It has an area of , making it the sixth-largest Scottish island and the tenth-largest island in the British Isles. The largest settlement and administrative centre is Kirkwall. 

A form of the name dates to the pre-Roman era and the islands have been inhabited for at least 8500 years, originally occupied by Mesolithic and Neolithic tribes and then by the Picts. Orkney was invaded and forcibly annexed by Norway in 875 and settled by the Norse. The Scottish Parliament then re-annexed the earldom to the Scottish Crown in 1472, following the failed payment of a dowry for James III's bride Margaret of Denmark. Orkney contains some of the oldest and best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe, and the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney" is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

Orkney is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, a constituency of the Scottish Parliament, a lieutenancy area, and a historic county. The local council is Orkney Islands Council, one of only three Councils in Scotland with a majority of elected members who are independents.
1. What is the largest island also called?
2. What island group is it part of?
3. Where are they located?
4. Were the islands ever invaded?
5. By whom?
6. And what was the outcome of that?
7. Are they 16 miles north of Cathiness?
8. How many islands make up the group?
9. How many of them have people living there?
10. How long have they been inhabited?
11. Who first lived there?
12. What about after that?
13. Who re-annexed it?
14. How many council areas does scotland have?
15. What is the name of the local council?
16. What sets it apart from most other councils?
17. What place of significance can be found on the islands?
18. WHat was it designated as?
19. What year did the Norse settle there?
20. When was it annexed by the Scottish?
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answer: 1. "the Mainland"
2. the Orkney Islands
3. the Northern Isles of Scotland
4. yes
5. Norway
6. it was settled by the Norse
7. yes
8. approximately 70 islands
9. 20 are inhabited
10. for at least 8500 years
11. Mesolithic and Neolithic tribes
12. the Picts
13. The Scottish Parliament
14. 32
15. Orkney Islands Council
16. a majority of elected members are independents
17. the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney"
18. a UNESCO World Heritage Site
19. in 875
20. in 1472


question: Oxford, England (CNN) -- Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox proudly wears an "HIV Positive" black T-shirt, proclaiming her solidarity with the disease's victims, even though her status is HIV negative. 

"I constantly want to bring attention to the issue," says Lennox. "This is my way of campaigning visually." 

At the TED Global conference last month in Oxford, England, Lennox made clear in a talk and an interview with CNN.com that she is seriously committed to combating the spread of the disease. 

She was inspired by Nelson Mandela's statement of support in 2003 for the effort to fight the virus by the 46664 Foundation, named after Mandela's number in prison. 

South Africa was losing 1,000 people a day to AIDS, many of them women and children. Mandela compared the death toll to genocide. 

"I'm a woman, and I'm a mother, I told myself that this is something that I have to talk about," Lennox said. 

In her talk at the conference attended by about 700 people, she told the story of a seven-year-old girl in South Africa suffering from the disease and weighing about what a one-year-old child weighs. 

After the girl was treated and put on a special diet by doctors, she recovered, looking like a child her age. "The hair on my arms is standing," Lennox, said as she showed before and after photos of the girl. "Isn't it extraordinary?" 

An ambassador for U.N. AIDS, she said the organization is committed to ending mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015. 

TED is a nonprofit organization that hosts conferences and makes talks available on its site, http://www.ted.com/. [CNN and TED have a partnership in which TEDTalks are published Tuesdays on CNN.com.] 
1. What is Annie Lennox?
2. Is she HIV positive?
3. What is the color of her shirt?
4. What does it say?
5. Why?
6. What does she want to do visually?
7. Where did she make something clear?
8. In what city?
9. Where else?
10. What did she make clear?
11. Who did she do an interview with?
12. Who was she inspired by?
13. When was his statement?
14. Through which foundation?
15. What was Mandela's prison number?
16. Who was losing people everyday?
17. How many?
18. To what?
19. Is Lennox a mother?
20. How many people were at the conference?
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answer:
1. A Singer-songwriter
2. no
3. black
4. HIV Positive
5. in solidarity with the disease's victims
6. bring attention to the issue
7. TED Global conference
8. Oxford
9. unknown
10. seriously committed to combating the spread of the disease
11. CNN.com
12. Nelson Mandela
13. 2003
14. 46664 Foundation,
15. 46664
16. South Africa
17. 1,000 people a day
18. AIDS
19. yes
20. 700