Question:
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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (/biːˈjɒnseɪ/ bee-YON-say) (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child, and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child. Managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of Beyoncé's debut album, Dangerously in Love (2003), which established her as a solo artist worldwide, earned five Grammy Awards and featured the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy". 

Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in June 2005, she released her second solo album, B'Day (2006), which contained hits "Déjà Vu", "Irreplaceable", and "Beautiful Liar". Beyoncé also ventured into acting, with a Golden Globe-nominated performance in Dreamgirls (2006), and starring roles in The Pink Panther (2006) and Obsessed (2009). Her marriage to rapper Jay Z and portrayal of Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008) influenced her third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), which saw the birth of her alter-ego Sasha Fierce and earned a record-setting six Grammy Awards in 2010, including Song of the Year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)". Beyoncé took a hiatus from music in 2010 and took over management of her career; her fourth album 4 (2011) was subsequently mellower in tone, exploring 1970s funk, 1980s pop, and 1990s soul. Her critically acclaimed fifth studio album, Beyoncé (2013), was distinguished from previous releases by its experimental production and exploration of darker themes.
1. What is Beyonce's middle name?
2. Where was she born?
3. Did she sing as a child?
4. What year did she become famous?
5. how?
6. in what group?
7. Did the group stay together?
8. when did they break up?
9. Who was their manager?
10. what was his name?
11. Was the band popular?
12. When did Beyonce go on her own?
13. How did she do?
14. Did she win any awards?
15. What was one of the songs?
16. What year did she release her first album
17. and her second?
18. What was a hit on that album?
19. Who did she marry?
20. what does he do?

Numbered answers:
1. Giselle
2. Houston
3. Yes
4. Sometime in the late 1990s
5. As a singer
6. Destiny's Child
7. No
8. In 2005
9. Her father
10. Mathew Knowles,
11. Yes
12. Initially in 2003
13. Very well
14. Five Grammy Awards
15. Baby Boy
16. 2003
17. 2005
18. Beautiful Liar
19. Jay Z
20. Rapper


Question:
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a measurement standards laboratory, and a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness. 

NIST's activities are organized into laboratory programs that include Nanoscale Science and Technology, Engineering, Information Technology, Neutron Research, Material Measurement, and Physical Measurement. 

The Articles of Confederation, ratified by the colonies in 1781, contained the clause, "The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states—fixing the standards of weights and measures throughout the United States". Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution of the United States (1789), transferred this power to Congress; "The Congress shall have power...To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures". 

In January 1790, President George Washington, in his first annual message to Congress stated that, "Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to", and ordered Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to prepare a plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States, afterwards referred to as the Jefferson report. On October 25, 1791, Washington appealed a third time to Congress, "A uniformity of the weights and measures of the country is among the important objects submitted to you by the Constitution and if it can be derived from a standard at once invariable and universal, must be no less honorable to the public council than conducive to the public convenience", but it was not until 1838, that a uniform set of standards was worked out.
1. What does NIST stand for?
2. What kind of lab is it?
3. What kind of agency?
4. What government organization does it belong to?
5. What is its goal?
6. What is one of the agency's programs?
7. And another?
8. Do they have any others?
9. How many are mentioned?
10. When were the Articles of Confederation passed?
11. When was their ability to regulate currency passed to Congress?

Numbered answers:
1. The National Institute of Standards and Technology
2. measurement standards
3. non-regulatory
4. the United States Department of Commerce
5. promote innovation and industrial competitiveness
6. Nanoscale Science and Technology
7. Information Technology
8. yes, many
9. Six
10. 1781
11. 1789


Question:
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CHAPTER X 

THE PEON PILOT 

Grahame and Macallister stood on deck, peering into the moonlit jungle of mangroves. So far as they could judge, there was only one pair of oars making the splashes that had aroused them; but they could hear the blades dig deep into the water with an intense effort that could mean only haste on the part of the boatsman. 

They waited; and presently the small boat appeared in the moonlight and they saw a single figure, who dropped one oar and crossed himself religiously. 

"_Gracias a Dios!_" he said. 

"The pilot!" Macallister gasped. 

Grahame waited, tense and alert, until the pilot climbed on board. The instant the half-breed touched the deck he began gesticulating wildly and talking so rapidly that Grahame had difficulty in grasping his meaning. Miguel, who was more at home in the peon Spanish, explained--in English, for Macallister's sake. 

"The government men catch him; make him tell; he escape; take short path--Indian _senda_; get here first. _Soldados_ coming. We hurry!" 

Miguel had worked himself up to a state of great excitement, and when he finished, his bare feet went pattering off across the deck almost before Grahame could give the order. 

Tired as the men were, they realized the necessity for haste, and they lost no time in getting under way. There was a clatter in the stokehold as the fires were cleaned, the dinghy crept across the creek, and half-seen men forward hurriedly coiled in a wet rope. Then the boat came back and the windlass rattled while the propeller floundered slowly round. The anchor rose to the bows and the _Enchantress_ moved away against the flood tide. 
1. Was the boatman approaching quickly?
2. How did they know?
3. How many people were standing on deck and listening?
4. What were their names?
5. Was it daytime?
6. Did they suspect multiple people were approaching?
7. What was the man's name on the approaching boat?
8. Was he wearing shoes?
9. What hand gesture did he make upon arrival?
10. What language did he speak?
11. What language was his native choice, however?
12. Did Macallister speak this same native language?
13. Were the men tired?
14. Who did Miguel say was coming?
15. Did the group decide to sail?
16. Did they take their time in preparation?
17. What was the name of their vessel?
18. Which direction did it head?
19. What is the name of "the peon pilot" in the title?
20. Who gave the order to depart?


Numbered answers:
1. into the wate
2. hear the blades dig deep into the water with an intense effort
3. Two
4. Grahame and Macallister
5. no
6. saw a single figure
7. Miguel
8. no
9. gesticulating
10. English
11. Spanish
12. yes
13. yes
14. Soldados
15. yes
16. no
17. Enchantress
18. against the flood tid
19. Soldados
20. Grahame