Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California, to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr.

, and Isabelle [1] Moodie. His mother was of Scottish descent, and his father descended from Nicholas Frost of Tiverton, [citation needed] Devon, England, who had sailed to New Hampshire in 1634 on the Wolfrana. Frost's father was a teacher and later an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin (which later merged with the San Francisco Examiner), and an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector. After his death on May 5, 1885, the family moved across the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts, under the patronage of (Robert's grandfather) William Frost, Sr., who was an overseer at a New England mill. Frost graduated [2] from Lawrence High School in 1892. Frost's mother joined theSwedenborgian church and had him baptized in it, but he left it as an adult. Although known for his later association with rural life, Frost grew up in the city, and he published his first poem in his high school's magazine. He attended Dartmouth College for two months, long enough to be accepted into the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Frost returned home to teach and to work at various jobs including helping his mother teach her class of unruly boys, delivering newspapers, and working in a factory as an arclight carbon filament changer. He did not enjoy these jobs, feeling his true calling was poetry.

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (Alexandre Dumas pere). It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. He completed the work in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from [1] plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriterAuguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean, and in the Levant during the historical events of 18151838 (from just before the Hundred Days to the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book. An adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness, it focuses on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. However, his plans have devastating consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty. The book is considered a literary classic today. According to Luc Sante, "The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey [2] Mouse, Noah's flood, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood."

The Count of Monte Cristo

Disguised as the rich Count of Monte Cristo, Dants takes revenge on the three men responsible for his unjust imprisonment: Fernand, now Count de Morcerf and Mercds' husband; Danglars, now a baron and a wealthy banker; and Villefort, now procureur du roi all are now living in Paris. The Count appears first in Rome, where he becomes acquainted with the Baron Franz d'pinay, and Viscount Albert de Morcerf, the son of Mercds and Fernand. Dants arranges for the young Morcerf to be captured by the bandit Luigi Vampa before rescuing him from the same. Dants then moves to Paris, and with Albert de Morcerf's introduction, becomes the sensation of the city. Due to his knowledge and rhetorical power, even his enemies, who do not recognize him, find him charming and all desire his friendship. The Count

dazzles the crass Danglars with his seemingly endless wealth, eventually persuading him to extend him a credit of six million francs, and withdraws 900,000. Under the terms of the arrangement, the Count can demand access to the remainder at any time. The Count manipulates the bond market, through a false telegraph signal, and quickly destroys a large portion of Danglars' fortune. The rest of it begins to rapidly disappear through mysterious bankruptcies, suspensions of payment, and more bad luck on the Stock Exchange. Villefort had once conducted an affair with Madame Danglars. She became pregnant and delivered the child in the house in which he was living at that time. After suffocating the infant, Villefort had tried to secretly bury it in a box on the grounds of the house but while doing so, he was stabbed by Bertuccio, his sworn enemy, who rescued the infant and brought him back to life. Bertuccio's sister-in-law brought the child up, giving him the name "Benedetto". The Count learns of this story from Bertuccio, who later becomes his servant. He purchases the house and hosts a dinner party there, to which he invites, among others, Villefort and Madame Danglars. During the dinner, the Count announces that, while doing landscaping, he had unearthed a box containing the remains of an infant and had referred the matter to the authorities to investigate. This puzzles Villefort, who knew that the infant's box had been removed and so the Count's story could not be true, and also alarms him that perhaps he knows the secret of his past affair with Madame Danglars and may be taunting him. Meanwhile, Benedetto has grown up to become a criminal and is sentenced to the galleys with Caderousse. After the two are freed by "Lord Wilmore", Benedetto is sponsored by the Count to take the identity of "Viscount Andrea Cavalcanti" and is introduced by him into Parisian society at the same dinner party, with neither Villefort nor Madame Danglars suspecting that Andrea is their presumed dead son. Andrea then ingratiates himself to Danglars who betroths his daughter Eugnie to Andrea after cancelling her engagement to Albert, son of Fernand. Meanwhile, Caderousse blackmails Andrea, threatening to reveal his past. Cornered by "Abb Busoni" while attempting to rob the Count's house, Caderousse begs to be given another chance, but Dants grimly notes that the last two times he did so, Caderousse did not change. He forces Caderousse to write a letter to Danglars exposing Cavalcanti as an impostor and allows Caderousse to leave the house. The moment Caderousse leaves the estate, he is stabbed in the back by Andrea. Caderousse manages to dictate and sign a deathbed statement identifying his killer, and the Count reveals his true identity to Caderousse moments before Caderousse dies.

Geometry
Geometry is all about shapes and their properties.

If you like playing with objects, or like drawing, then geometry is for you!
Geometry can be divided into:

Plane Geometry is about flat shapes like lines, circles and triangles ... shapes that can be drawn on a piece of paper

Solid Geometry is about three dimensional objects like cubes, prisms and pyramids.

Hint: Try drawing some of the shapes and angles as you learn ... it helps.

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Plane Geometry is all about shapes on a flat surface (like on an endless piece of paper).

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The series of protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa has become known [29][30][31] [32] as the "Arab Spring", and sometimes as the "Arab Spring and Winter", "Arab [33][34][35] [36][37] Awakening" or "Arab Uprisings" even though not all the participants in the protests are Arab. It was sparked by the first protests that occurred in Tunisia on 18 December 2010 in Sidi Bouzid, [38][39] following Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in protest of police corruption and ill treatment. With the success of the protests in Tunisia, a wave of unrest sparked by the Tunisian "Burning Man" [40] struck Algeria,Jordan, Egypt, and Yemen, then spread to other countries. The largest, most organised [41][42][43] demonstrations have often occurred on a "day of rage", usually Friday afternoon prayers. The protests have also triggered similar unrest outside the region. As of February 2012, governments have been overthrown in four countries. Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on 14 January 2011 following the Tunisian revolution protests. In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak resigned on 11 February 2011 after 18 days of massive protests, ending his 30-year presidency. The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown on 23 August 2011, after the National Transitional Council (NTC) took control of Bab al-Azizia. He was killed on 20 October 2011, in his hometown of Sirte after the NTC took control of the city. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed the GCC power-transfer deal in which a presidential election was held, resulting in his successor Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadiformally replacing him as the president of Yemen on 27 February 2012, in exchange for immunity from prosecution. During this period of regional unrest, several leaders announced their intentions to step down at the end of their current terms. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announced that he would not seek re[44] [45] election in 2015, as did Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose term ends in 2014, although [46] there have been increasingly violent demonstrations demanding his immediate resignation. Protests [47][48] [49] in Jordan have also caused the sacking of two successive governments by King Abdullah. The geopolitical implications of the protests have drawn global attention, including the suggestion that [51] some protesters may be nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Tawakel Karman from Yemen was one of the three laureates of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize as a prominent leader in the Arab Spring. [52] In December 2011, Time magazine named "The Protester" its "Person of the Year". Another award was noted when the Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda, won the 2011 World Press Photo award for his image of a Yemeni woman holding an injured family member, taken during the civil uprising in [53] Yemen on 15 October 2011.
[50]

Summary of protests by country

Country Date started Status of protests Outcome Death toll Situation

Government overthrown on Tunisia 18 December 2010 14 January 2011 Ended in

Overthrow of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali; Ben Ali flees into exile in Saudi Arabia 338
[58]

Government overthrown

March 2011

Resignation of Prime MinisterGhannouchi

Dissolution of the political police

[54]

Dissolution of the RCD, the former ruling party of Tunisia and liquidation of its assets
[55]

Release of political prisoners

[56]

Elections to a Constituent Assembly on 23 October 2011

[57]

Algeria

28 December 2010

Subdued since April 2011

Lifting of the 19-year-old state of emergency

[59][60]

[61]

Major protests Major protests

Lebanon

27 February 2011

Limited

A 40% increase in wages

[62]

King Abdullah II dismisses Prime MinisterRifai and his cabinet

[63]

Jordan

14 January 2011

Ongoing.

Months later, Abdullah dismisses Prime Minister Bakhit and his cabinet after complaints of slow progress on promised reforms
[64]

Protests and 4
[65][66]

government al changes

Mauritania

17 January 2011

Ongoing

[67]

Minor protests

Sudan 17 January 2011 Subdued since April 2011

President Bashir announ ces he will not seek another term in 2015
[68]

[69]

Minor protests

Economic concessions by SultanQaboos

[70][71]

Oman 17 January 2011 Ended in May 2011

Dismissal of ministers
[72][73]

Protests and 26
[75][76][77]

government al changes

Granting of lawmaking powers to Oman's elected legislature

[74]

Economic concessions by KingAbdullah

[78][79]

Eastern Provinceprotests Saudi Arabia 21 January 2011 ongoing,women' s rights campaignsongoi ng

Male-only municipal elections held 29 September 2011

[80][81]

10 King Abdullah announces women's approval to vote and be elected in 2015 municipal elections and to be nominated to the Shura Council
[82] 7]

[83][84][85][86][8

Minor protests

Overthrow of Hosni Mubarak; Mubarak charged for killing protesters

Government overthrown on 11 February Egypt 25 January 2011 2011 Protests ongoing

Resignation of Prime Minister(s) Nazif andShaf ik

[88]

Assumption of power by the Armed Forces

[89]

846

[96][97]

Government overthrown

Suspension of the Constitution, dissolution of the Parliament

[90]

Disbanding of State Security Investigations Service

[91]

Dissolution of the NDP, the former ruling party of Egypt and transfer of its assets to the state
[92]

Prosecution of Mubarak, his family and his former ministers

[93][94][95]

Overthrow of Ali Abdullah Saleh; Saleh granted immunity from prosecution

Resignation of Prime Minister Mujawar

Government overthrown on 27 February Yemen 27 January 2011 2012 Protests ongoing

Resignation of MPs from the ruling party

[98]

Approval of President's immunity from prosecution by Yemeni legislators

[99]

2,000

[100]

Government overthrown

Al-Qaeda linked militants takes control of several cities in southern Yemen

Presidential election held to replace Saleh as the new president of Yemen; Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi elected and inaugurated

Prime Minister Maliki announce

Iraq

10 February 2011

Ended in December 2011

s that he will not run for a 3rd term;

[101]

35

[103]

Major protests

Resignation of provincial governors and local

authorities

[102]

Economic concessions by KingHamad

[104]

Release of political prisoners

[105]

Negotiations with Shiarepresentatives

106] [

Sustained

Bahrain 14 February 2011 Ongoing

GCC intervention at the request of theGovernment of Bahrain 86

[109]

civil disorder and government changes

Head of the National Security Apparatus removed from post

[107]

Formation of a committee to implementBICI report recommendations

[108]

Overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi; Gaddafi killed by rebel forces

Government overthrown on 23 August 2011 Libya 15 February 2011 War ended on 23 October 2011

UN-mandated military intervention ended with NATO withdrawal

[110] [112] [113]

Opposition forces takes

30,000

Government overthrown

control of all Libyan cities 35,000 Assumption of interim control by National Transitional Council

International recognition of NTC as the sole governing authority for Libya

Beginning of sporadic low-level fighting and clashes

[111]

Resignation of Prime Minister Nasser Protests and 0

[116]

Kuwait

18 February 2011

Ended in December 2011

Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah

[114]

government al changes

Dissolution of the Parliament

[115]

Political concessions by King Mohammed VI;

[117]

Morocco

20 February 2011

Ended in November 2011

Referendum on constitutional reforms;

Protests and 1
[119]

government al changes

Respect to civil rights and an end to corruption

[118]

Western Sahara

26 February 2011

Subdued since May 2011

Minor protests

Release of some political prisoners

[120][121]

End of Emergency Law Dismissal of Provincial Governors

[122][123]

Military action in Hama, Daraa, Idlib,Ho Sustained 9,113

[129]

Syria

15 March 2011 -

Ongoing

ms and other areas

[124]

civil disorder and government changes

Battles between the Syrian regime's army and the Free Syrian Army in many governorates such as Homs, Idlib, Daraaand others.

13,368

[130]

Bombings in Damascus and Aleppo

Resignations from Parliament

[125]

Resignation of the Government

[126]

Large defections from the Syrian army and clashes between soldiers and defectors
[127]

Formation of the Free Syrian Army

Formation of the Syrian National Council

[128]

Syria suspended from the Arab League

International support for a new Syriangovernment in exile

Israeli border areas

15 May 2011

Ended on 5 June 2011

3040

[131][132]

Major protests

Mali(Azawa 17 January 2012 d) 42,604 Total death 53,108+(Internation toll: al estimate, ongoing)

Ongoing

2251,500

Rebellion

By Bob Petz, January 10, 2012

A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the western coast of northern Sumatra at 12:37 local time, Wednesday, causing officials to issue tsunami warnings that were lifted two hours later. No major damage was reported, and citizens who had fled to high ground returned to their homes after the warning was cancelled.

Location of Wednesday's 7.3 magnitude earthquake. Source: USGS

The quake, estimated to be 29.1 km (18.1 miles) deep, occurred along a strike-slip fault about 100 miles from the subduction zone that marks the Indo-Australia and Sunda plate boundary. At the quakes epicenter, the Indo-Australia plate moves north-northeast at a rate of approximately at 52 mm/year relative to the Sunda plate. Wednesdays event occurred 423 km (262 miles) from the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, where the December 26, 2004 tsunami claimed 167,000 lives after a 9.3 magnitude earthquake occurred 155 miles offshore. Indonesia lies in a seismically active area of the Pacific known as the Ring of Fire, marked by fault lines, active volcanos and frequent earthquakes.