| 23 The journey used to take two complete days. It was long, and it could even be dangerous because roads were lonely places and there were criminals waiting to attack. These criminals were called highwaymen. They operated the same way as pirates did. |
| 24 In an emergency everything may depend on some small thing suddenly worth a fortune. Suddenly, somebody is willing to offer all his possessions for a piece of information or for a glass of water or for a pair of gloves. Of course, in Shakespeare�s time horses were very common |
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| 25 This probably refers to Greece and would have been about 2,500 years ago. Yet there were other beginnings, elsewhere, at other times, in Egypt, in Palestine, in Africa, in America, in China |
| 26 The difference is one hundred percent or one euro. However, tourist traps are often nice places where you can hear people speak every kind of language. That is what you pay for, and sometimes .....it pays. |
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| 27 The answer to this question is not known. In a case like that people in England and elsewhere quote Churchill: There is a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma. The little hut appears in some famous Russian fairy tales. It must be very hard for the little hut to walk on chicken feet. There ought to be some explanation. :-( |
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| 28 The ship is almost round. The waves and currents would make it go round and round itself instead of going forward. Technically this turning movement is called spinning. |
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| 29 There is an anachronism, but why is it funny? That would be very hard to define and is a question of philosophy or psychology. The names of all those animals developed much later, little by little, as the animals became known |