question: "I don't want to write a story about girls!I don't know anything about girls."Louisa May Alcott told her publisher,Mr Niles.But she was desperate for money.She seemed to be the only one in her family who could make some money.Niles had asked her to write something she knew,instead of the romantic adventure stories she had been writing."So I plod away,"Alcott wrote,"though I don't enjoy this sort of thing."It was 1867,and the horrible Civil War was over.Now Alcott could turn her energy to making money. 

Alcott wrote a simple story of life in her family,their pillow fights on Saturday nights and the amateur plays they performed."Our experiences may prove interesting,though I doubt it."("Good joke."she wrote years later.)Her book described her days growing up with four sisters in a family that had no money.She sketched a loving mother who took time to be interested in each child,and she told of the death of a beloved sister.She portrayed her family and friends in her book Little Women.Finally,in July of 1868,she finished writing.With a sigh and a headache,she sent off all 102 handwritten pages of her book. 

Niles thought the book was dull,and so did Alcott.But when she received her copies of the book,Alcott thought it seemed better than expected."Not a bit sensational,"she wrote,"but simple and true.We really loved most of it."Niles asked some girls to read Little Women,and they loved it.If girls liked it,Alcott was satisfied. 

In three months,all the copies of Little Women had been sold out.It was already time to print more books!Niles thought she could sell three or four hundred more copies."An honest publisher and a lucky author made a dull book into a golden egg for ugly ducking,"Alcott wrote in 1885.Later,with a great sign of relief,she was able to write,"Paid off all the debts!Now I feel that I could die in peace.If my head holds out,I'll do all I hoped to do."
1. What does Louisa May Alcott do for a living?
2. What kind of stories does she usually write?
3. Who is her publisher?
4. What does he want her to write about
5. And what was that?
6. did she want to?
7. Why did she do it?
8. What did she end up writing?
9. Was it a success?
10. How do you know?
11. Did they make more?
12. How many more was she expected to sell?
13. Did she like the book at first?
14. What did Niles think of it?
15. What did the test group of girls think?
16. When did she start writing it?
17. When did she get done?
18. What month?
19. What kind of pages did she mail away?
20. How many?
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answer: 1. Author
2. romantic adventure stories
3. Mr Niles.
4. something she knew
5. life in her family
6. No
7. To make money
8. Little Women
9. Yes
10. In three months,all the copies of Little Women had been sold out.
11. Yes
12. 300 to 400 more copies
13. No
14. He thought the book was dull
15. They loved it
16. 1867
17. 1868
18. July
19. handwritten
20. 102

A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees. 

It is not an SI unit, as the SI unit of angular measure is the radian, but it is mentioned in the SI brochure as an accepted unit. Because a full rotation equals 2 radians, one degree is equivalent to radians. 

The original motivation for choosing the degree as a unit of rotations and angles is unknown. One theory states that it is related to the fact that 360 is approximately the number of days in a year. Ancient astronomers noticed that the sun, which follows through the ecliptic path over the course of the year, seems to advance in its path by approximately one degree each day. Some ancient calendars, such as the Persian calendar, used 360 days for a year. The use of a calendar with 360 days may be related to the use of sexagesimal numbers. 

Another theory is that the Babylonians subdivided the circle using the angle of an equilateral triangle as the basic unit and further subdivided the latter into 60 parts following their sexagesimal numeric system. The earliest trigonometry, used by the Babylonian astronomers and their Greek successors, was based on chords of a circle. A chord of length equal to the radius made a natural base quantity. One sixtieth of this, using their standard sexagesimal divisions, was a degree. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is degree short for?
2. What is is used for?
3. What is its maximum value?
4. Are there any other units for measuring angles?
5. WHat?
6. And what unit is defined in that system?
7. Are degrees a recent concept, or older?
8. What was an early civilization that used them?
9. What shapmes were important to their math?
10. What number pops up a lot in their math system?
Answer: 1. unknown
2. measurement of a plane angle
3. 360
4. Yes
5. the SI unit
6. the radian
7. older
8. the Babylonians
9. unknown
10. 60

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Chapter 15: The Pirates' Hold. 

Sivagi, the founder of the Mahratta Empire, had, in 1662, seized and fortified Yijiyadrug; or, as the English call it, Gheriah, a town at the mouth of the river Kanui, one hundred and seventy miles south of Bombay; and also the island of Suwarndrug, about half way between Gheriah and Bombay. Here he established a piratical fleet. Fifty years later, Kanhagi Angria, the commander of the Mahratta fleet, broke off this connection with the successors of Sivagi, and set up as a pirate on his own account. Kanhagi not only plundered the native vessels, but boldly preyed upon the commerce of the European settlements. The ships of the East India Company, the French Company, and the Dutch were frequently captured by these pirates. 

Tulagi Angria, who succeeded his father, was even bolder and more successful; and when the man-of-war brig, the Restoration, with twenty guns and two hundred men, was fitted out to attack him, he defeated and captured her. After this, he attacked and captured the French man-of-war Jupitre, with forty guns; and had even the insolence to assail an English convoy guarded by two men-of-war; the Vigilant, of sixty-four guns, and the Ruby, of fifty. 

The Dutch, in 1735, sent a fleet of seven ships of war, two bomb vessels, and a strong body of troops against Gheriah. The attack was, however, repulsed with considerable loss. From that date the pirates grew bolder and bolder, and were a perfect scourge to the commerce of Western India.  1. Who seized and fortified Yijiyadrug?
2. what kind of fleet did he establish?
3. who preyed apon the commerve of European settlements?
4. In 1734 who was it that sent ships of war as well as other troops against Gheriah?
5. Where was Gheriah located?
6. How far south was it from Bombay?
7. Who's ships did the pirates often capture?
8. What Empire did Sivagi found?
9. How was Tulagi Angria in comparance with his father when it came to piratry?
10. Was he notable for capturing any ships?
11. Can you name any?
12. Were the dutch sucessful in their attack of Gheriah?
13. Was the Dutch loss encouraging to the pirates?
14. Who broke off their conection with the successors of Savagi
numbered_answers:
1. Sivagi
2. a piratical fleet
3. Kanhagi
4. The Dutch
5. at the mouth of the river Kanui
6. one hundred and seventy miles
7. The ships of the East India Company, the French Company, and the Dutch
8. the Mahratta Empire
9. he was even bolder and more successful
10. yes
11. the Vigilant
12. no
13. yes
14. Kanhagi Angria