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Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- At a prize ceremony honoring peace, Adán Cortés says violence and injustice sent him rushing toward the stage. 

In a matter of seconds, the 21-year-old Mexican student's face was seen around the world last week as he stood in front of Malala Yousafzai at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway. 

"Please Malala, Mexico," he repeated as he unfurled a Mexican flag on the stage at Oslo's City Hall, where the 17-year-old laureate was about to become the youngest person ever to receive the prestigious award. 

Oslo police have come under fire over the incident, with critics asking how someone who wasn't on the ceremony's guest list managed to slip through security checkpoints and make it to the front of the room, standing just steps away from Yousafzai and other dignitaries before security hauled him out of the auditorium. 

Speaking to CNN at an Oslo detention center on Sunday, Cortés said he knows it was a drastic move. But he felt like he had no choice and wanted only a few seconds to speak about Mexico's problems on a global stage. 

"My motivation was to show solidarity with all the things that have happened in my country, ultimately, well, the 43 missing students, who are suspected to be dead and burned, that was my main motivation," he said. "I am tired of so many injustices that we have lived in Mexico, for decades." 

The students' case has sparked national outrage in Mexico and drawn global attention to the country's continued struggles to deal with police corruption and drug-related violence. 
1. Who was receiving the Nobel Peace prize?
2. how old was he?
3. who slipped through security?
4. why was he there?
5. what country?
6. how old was he?
7. his occupation?
8. where did this happen?
9. Where is he now?
10. What was his main motivation?
11. Who in particular is he talking about?
12. Were they thought to be alive?
13. How long were these injustices thought to be going on?
14. What kind of corruption does the country struggle with?
15. Do they deal with violence also?
16. what kind?
17. Where in Oslo was the cermony?
18. WHy were the police under fire?
19. What does the ceremony honor?
20. Who spoke with Cortes in detention?

Numbered answers:
1. Malala Yousafzai
2. 17-year-old (she)
3. Adán Cortés
4. to show solidarity with all the things that have happened in my country
5. Mexico
6. 21-year-old
7. student
8. Oslo
9. an Oslo detention center
10. to show solidarity with all the things that have happened in his country
11. 43 missing students
12. no
13. for decades
14. police corruption
15. yes
16. drug-related
17. City Hall
18. A man not on the guest list was close to Malala
19. Peace
20. CNN


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Sparta (Doric Greek: ; Attic Greek: ) was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece. 

Given its military pre-eminence, Sparta was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars. Between 431 and 404 BC, Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, from which it emerged victorious, though at a great cost of lives lost. Sparta's defeat by Thebes in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC ended Sparta's prominent role in Greece. However, it maintained its political independence until the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC. It then underwent a long period of decline, especially in the Middle Ages, when many Spartans moved to live in Mystras. Modern Sparta is the capital of the Greek regional unit of Laconia and a center for the processing of goods such as citrus and olives. 

Sparta was unique in ancient Greece for its social system and constitution, which configured their entire society to maximize military proficiency at all costs, and completely focused on military training and excellence. Its inhabitants were classified as Spartiates (Spartan citizens, who enjoyed full rights), mothakes (non-Spartan free men raised as Spartans), perioikoi (free residents, literally "dwellers around"), and helots (state-owned serfs, enslaved non-Spartan local population). Spartiates underwent the rigorous "agoge" training and education regimen, and Spartan phalanges were widely considered to be among the best in battle. Spartan women enjoyed considerably more rights and equality to men than elsewhere in the classical antiquity.
1. What was Sparta called before?
2. what was it dominant for?
3. when?
4. where is it located?
5. What wars was it a leader in?
6. Who was one of their enemies?
7. when?
8. why was it unique?
9. which did what?
10. what did it focus on?
11. and?
12. who defeated Sparta?
13. in what battle?
14. when?
15. what did this end?
16. when did it lose its independence?
17. who took it?
18. did many Sparta stay there?
19. where did they go?
20. What does the Modern Sparta process?
21. anything else?

Numbered answers:
1. Lacedaemon
2. military land-power
3. 650 BC
4. Greece
5. Greco-Persian Wars.
6. Athens
7. Peloponnesian War,
8. for its social system and constitution
9. configured their entire society to maximize military proficiency
10. military training
11. excellence
12. Thebes
13. Battle of Leuctra
14. 371 BC
15. its prominent role in Greece
16. 146 BC
17. Roman
18. no
19. Mystras.
20. citrus
21. yes


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I have a friend who is a princess of the piggies. No, really! She lives in a piggy castle and has piggy gowns and piggy balls and a piggy carriage, though no piggy crown. She loves being a princess, but sometimes it gets boring. There's only so much fun to be had walking around a castle. She likes to cook too. So sometimes, she goes to the kitchen. She has a lot of fun in the kitchen making new foods. She likes to pretend she's a cook! Someday she wants to be a piggy princess cook! One of her favorite things to cook is pea soup. She loves soup, and pea soup most of all, even if tomato is pretty good too. She doesn't like vegetable or chicken soup at all. She grows her own peas, mushes them up in the soup, and then stirs it all up with a spoon. She also cooks it on the stove. She loves to cook, and I love to eat. We're best friends!
1. What is my friend?
2. Of whom?
3. And where does she live?
4. And what does she have?
5. And what else?
6. Anything else?
7. And what doesn't she have?
8. What does she enjoy?
9. Is it always fun though?
10. Where does she walk?
11. What else does she enjoy doing?
12. Where does she occasionally go?
13. What does she do there?
14. What does she pretend?
15. And what does she aspire to be?
16. What's her favorite dish to prepare?
17. What other type does she enjoy?
18. And what ones doesn't she?
19. What does she grow?
20. What does she use to stir?


Numbered answers:
1. a princess
2. the piggies
3. in a piggy castle
4. piggy gowns
5. piggy balls
6. a piggy carriage
7. a piggy crown
8. being a princess
9. No
10. around a castle
11. Cooking
12. the kitchen
13. make new foods
14. she's a cook
15. a piggy princess cook
16. pea soup
17. tomato
18. vegetable or chicken soup
19. her own peas
20. a spoon