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Many early 19th-century neoclassical architects were influenced by the drawings and projects of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude Nicolas Ledoux. The many graphite drawings of Boullée and his students depict spare geometrical architecture that emulates the eternality of the universe. There are links between Boullée's ideas and Edmund Burke's conception of the sublime. Ledoux addressed the concept of architectural character, maintaining that a building should immediately communicate its function to the viewer: taken literally such ideas give rise to "architecture parlante". 

The baroque style had never truly been to the English taste. Four influential books were published in the first quarter of the 18th century which highlighted the simplicity and purity of classical architecture: Vitruvius Britannicus (Colen Campbell 1715), Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1715), De Re Aedificatoria (1726) and The Designs of Inigo Jones... with Some Additional Designs (1727). The most popular was the four-volume Vitruvius Britannicus by Colen Campbell. The book contained architectural prints of famous British buildings that had been inspired by the great architects from Vitruvius to Palladio. At first the book mainly featured the work of Inigo Jones, but the later tomes contained drawings and plans by Campbell and other 18th-century architects. Palladian architecture became well established in 18th-century Britain.
1. What didn't the English like?
2. Who influenced their architecture?
3. What was written about British architecture?
4. Who wrote that?
5. When?
6. Was it popular?
7. It mostly contained whose architecture?
8. How many architects gave ideas to the 1800s?
9. What type did they influence?
10. Whose thoughts are compared to Edmund Burke's?
11. What idea are they compared to?
12. What did he use to draw?
13. Did he think the world would end?
14. What did the other architect think?
15. How quickly should it?
16. What is a term for that?
17. How many important books were written about English architecture?
18. When?
19. Which one was last?
20. What style of architecture became popular in England?

Numbered answers:
1. baroque style
2. by Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude Nicolas Ledoux.
3. Vitruvius Britannicus
4. Colen Campbell
5. in 1715
6. it was most popular
7. Vitruvius
8. possibly two
9. neoclassical architects
10. Boullée's
11. conception of the sublime
12. spare geometrical architecture
13. no
14. that a building communicates its function
15. immediately
16. "architecture parlante"
17. Four
18. the 18th century
19. The Designs of Inigo Jones
20. Palladian architecture


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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Angry workers beat to death a human resources vice president after he laid off 42 employees at an auto-parts manufacturing company in southern India, police said Wednesday. 

Roy George was vice-president for human resources at Pricol, the auto-parts company. 

Some four to five workers, belonging to a union not recognized by the company, barged into his office and beat him up with iron rods, said N. Kannan, a police superintendent of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu state. 

George, 47, died from his head injuries Tuesday, Kannan told CNN. 

Police have arrested nine people and are expected to round up more. 

Last year the Indian head of an Italian company died after allegedly being beaten by a mob of sacked employees. 

More than 60 people were charged with the murder of the chief executive of Graziano Transmissioni near New Delhi. 

Earlier this month, India's Jet Airways had to cancel hundreds of flights after pilots struck work over the sacking of two of their colleagues in August. 

Companies in the South Asian nation, despite its rapid economic growth in recent years, have often been faced with tough labor issues because of archaic laws and company policies on hiring and retrenchment. 

Business consultants in India blame such labor standoffs on what they call lack of transparency in retrenchment or layoff policies. 

Hiring and firing conditions are often not explained to workers by their companies, said Rajeev Karwal, founding-director of Milagrow Business and Knowledge Solutions. 

Issues could spiral out of control if the businesses and bureaucrats are seen in a "corrupt nexus" by the employees seeking reprieve from labor authorities, he said. 
1. How many flights were cancelled at Jet Airways?
2. Why?
3. When were their fellow workers fired?
4. Who was Roy George?
5. Who did he work for?
6. What happened to him?
7. by who?
8. What kind of injuries did he sustain?
9. How old was he?
10. Did he survive?
11. When did he die?
12. How many people have the police taken into custody for his death?
13. What happened to the Chief Executive of Graziano Transmissioni?
14. How many people participated in that?
15. Where was this?
16. What do companies fail to explain?
17. to who
18. What do workers want from authorities?
19. Who is the founding director of Milagrow Business
20. What are companies in South Asia experiencing?

Numbered answers:
1. hundreds
2. pilots strike
3. August
4. vice-president for human resources
5. Pricol
6. he was beat up
7. workers
8. head injuries
9. 47
10. no
11. Tuesday
12. nine
13. he was murdered
14. More than 60
15. near New Delhi
16. explain hiring and firing conditions
17. workers
18. reprieve
19. Rajeev Karwal
20. labor issues


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Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime. 

Diving is one of the most popular Olympic sports with spectators. Competitors possess many of the same characteristics as gymnasts and dancers, including strength, flexibility, kinaesthetic judgment and air awareness. Some professional divers were originally gymnasts or dancers as both the sports have similar characteristics to diving. Dmitri Sautin holds the record for most Olympic diving medals won, by winning eight medals in total between 1992 and 2008. 

Although diving has been a popular pastime across the world since ancient times, the first modern diving competitions were held in England in the 1880s. The exact origins of the sport are unclear, though it likely derives from the act of diving at the start of swimming races. The 1904 book "Swimming" by Ralph Thomas notes English reports of plunging records dating back to at least 1865. The 1877 edition to "British Rural Sports" by John Henry Walsh makes note of a "Mr. Young" plunging 56 feet in 1870, and also states that 25 years prior, a swimmer named Drake could cover 53 feet.
1. What is the topic of the passage?
2. Is it unpopular in the Olympics?
3. How long has it been popular?
4. What happened in the 1880's
5. Where did it originate?
6. What other sports does it share traits with?
7. How many traits are listed?
8. What are two of them?
9. Who is Dmitri Sautin?
10. Did he win 5 medals?
11. How many did he win?
12. When did he win the first?
13. And the last?
14. When did the fist modern version of the sport begin?


Numbered answers:
1. Diving
2. no
3. since ancient times
4. first modern diving competitions were held
5. England
6. gymnasts and dancers
7. Four
8. strength, flexibility
9. record for most Olympic diving medals won
10. No
11. eight
12. 1992
13. 2008
14. 1880s