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• During which period did Japan increase its modernization, industrialization, and connection to other nations?
  
• What steps did the Meiji emperor take to modernize Japan?
  
• Question #1800d
  
• What was Abraham Lincoln's message in "The Gettysburg Address"? What point was he trying to make?
  
• How do you know when to use "hanged" or "hung" in a sentence? This applies to any other words similar to this.
  
• How much stronger is a magnitude 5 earthquake than a magnitude 3 earthquake?
  
• Who is called the "Father of the Constitution" because of his work at the Constitutional Convention?
  
• What does it mean for a species to be in stasis?
  
• What did Japan need to support its growing population and build an empire in the 1930s?
  
• If you have a continuous list of cities, followed by their corresponding states, such as Chicago, Illinois, Dallas, Texas, Appleton, Wisconsin, what would be the right way to separate them?
  
• The position of czar was abolished at the end of which war?
  
• What allowed the American Pacific Fleet to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
  
• Why do cats always land on their feet?
  
• Why did the United States side with Britain during World War l?
  
• What is charged language?
  
• I was born a slave in Georgia. I had only one year of formal education but I learned to be a barber. I was a very successful businessman who became the wealthiest black property owner in Atlanta. Who am I?
  
• Question #431a6
  
• What three powers met at the Potsdam Conference?
  
• A Haiku contest rule says that the lines that could be used are any of the following rhyme schemes: a-a-a, a-b-a, a-a-b, a-b-b, or a-b-c. What does this mean?
  
• How many people were killed and how many homes were destroyed in the Great Kanto earthquake?
  
• What are examples of words that start with the prefix "biblio"?
  
• In this citation: Neuman, William. “SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT TAX YOUR COKE?.” New York Times Upfront 23 Nov. 2009: 6-7. Print. The title of the article ends with the question mark, so do I still have to put the period?
  
• What were Chinese Oracle Bones used for?
  
• On what plate is most of the United States?
  
• Where did the Japanese attack the United States, bringing the U.S. into WWII?
  
• “When a nation is strong, it is not always just. And when justice becomes a trait, it loses some of its strength.” What is the exact quote and who said it?
  
• Can you have two apostrophes on one word? For example, is it OK to write y'all's?
  
• What was the Selective Service Act?
  
• On a certain day, $1 is worth 30.23 Russian rubles. Omar has $75. How many rubles will he get in exchange?
  
• Which Chilean poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971?
  
• What is the rhyme scheme for the poem, "The Naming of Cats"?
  
• What disease left FDR's legs paralyzed?
  
• Why do authors use antithesis? I know what antithesis means, but I just want to know, what's the point of using antithesis in a story?
  
• What is an adjective phrase?
  
• What is an example of paradox in literature?
  
• How do you say, "Can you cook Japanese food?" in Japanese?
  
• The Ohio National Guard shot and killed student anti-war protestors on the campus of what college in 1970?
  
• What event three weeks after the March on Washington showed Americans that change was needed?
  
• Question #7da8b
  
• Where was President Roosevelt's Georgia home?
  
• How did some Japanese Americans die in the Japanese Internment Camps?
  
• Mark Antony famously said, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." My teacher says that this is an example of a synecdoche but I don't understand. Isn't a synecdoche a part that represents a whole? someone please explain?
  
• In what country did the Poznan uprising take place?