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Вопрос id:1617831

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Years after his death, I saw in Buenos	on.
It made him angry, but he never felt	Aires many of his books in a shop window as I wandered through the streets.
It was a spur to go	sorry for himself.

Вопрос id:1617832

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It was a	stump and smoked a cigarette.
Nick sat down against the charred	shock.
His pack balanced on top of the stump, harness holding	ready, a hollow moulded in it from his back.

Вопрос id:1617833

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He did not need	over the country.
Nick sat smoking, looking out	position of the river.
He knew where be was from the	to get his map out.

Вопрос id:1617834

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As he had walked along the road, climbing,	a grasshopper walk along the ground and up on to his woollen sock.
The grasshopper	he had started many grasshoppers with yellow and black or red and black wings whirring out from their black wing sheathing as they fly up.
As he smoked, his legs stretched out in front of him, he noticed	was black.

Вопрос id:1617835

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These were just ordinary hoppers,	but all a sooty black in colour.
Now, as he watched the black hopper that was nibbling at the wool of his sock	he walked, without really thinking about them.
Nick had wondered about them as	with its fourway lip, he realized that they had all turned black from living in the burned-over land.

Вопрос id:1617836

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He wondered how long they would	took hold of the hopper by the wings.
He realized that the fire must have come	the year before, but the grasshoppers were all black now.
Carefully he reached his hand down and	stay that way.

Вопрос id:1617837

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Yes, it was black too, iridescent	where the back and head were dusty.
He turned him up, all his legs walking	protected by three outer wards, or courtyards, divided from one another by ditch and rampart as added obstacles to an attacker.
The original wooden tower and its motte were	in the air, and looked at his jointed belly.

Вопрос id:1617838

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Then, in 1154, Matilda's son ascended	the next 80 years, nor was the military history of the place particularly memorable.
The desultory, if vicious campaigns between King Stephen	the throne as King Henry.
There were to be no major changes at Windsor for	and Matilda produced anarchy in England but largely passed Windsor by.

Вопрос id:1617839

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Henry's most pressing probem was to restore royal authority	Windsor were replaced by a stone tower and stone walls.
During his reign (1154-1189), the wooden fortifications at	against powerful barons in scores of unauthorized or "adulterine" castles.
Henry ordered the destruction of	these strongholds and strengthened the royal seats of power.

Вопрос id:1617840

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The apartments built for Henry	in the Upper and Lower Wards have long since disappeared.
This we see in many differing spheres: in national and local government,	of the tower, providing the basis for the Round Tower, survive.
Of these, only the lower masonry courses	in business and journalism, in film and radio, in school and university.

Вопрос id:1617841

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It was at this time that Windsor withstood	when John's castellan was besieged - unsuccessfully - by the rebellious barons.
The first was in 1193 when John took and garrisoned the place during the absence of his brother Richard I on crusade, and the second in 1215	the only two sieges of its history.
Perhaps the greatest of all England's kings, Henry brought justice and peace to the troubled kingdom, but his firm rule provoked growing discontent among the barons,	which grew into full-scale rebellion when his younger son John (1199-1216) continued the rigorous regime of his father without the ability to retain the loyalty of the great men.

Вопрос id:1617842

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Like his father, Henry III was faced with civil war, and the next	stage of the fortifications at Windsor went up during his reign (1216-1272).
The Salisbury, Garter and Curfew Towers of the southwest wall	are the principal structures surviving from this period.
The conical roof on Curfew Tower was added in	the 1860s, though possibly all three were originally covered in this way.

Вопрос id:1617843

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Away to the south stretches Windsor Great Park, reached from the castle by the	stands on a low hill on the south bank of the Thames with the shops and houses of the town of Windsor coming up to the gates.
The chief residence of the English royal house and the largest inhabited castle in the world, Windsor Castle	Long Walk; to the east, Home Park runs down to the river.
Henry also built a Chapel to St Edward the Confessor, later demolished, and, with other work,	completed the transformation of Windsor into a palace - late in the 13th century a chronicler described it as the most magnificent in Europe.

Вопрос id:1617844

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The first castle on the site was built by William the Conqueror, probably about	stronghold of the first Norman kings of England.
And yet, apart from the Tower of London, this was the main	Windsor was built to defend the approach to the capital down the Thames Valley.
The castles of the invaders were soon springing up in every English shire;	1070, as part of his programme of consolidation of the victory at Hastings some four years before.

Вопрос id:1617845

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The site was protected to the north by the river and by	site being reinforced by the great earth mound or "motte" above which rose a wooden tower.
Most of the Normans' immediate postconquest castles were of this type, since it was quick	the sharp slope of its hill, and was little more than a good day's march from London.
King William's castle was of the motte and bailey type, the natural strength of the	and simple to erect and offered adequate security against the disorganized and demoralized local opposition which was all the conquerors anticipated.

Вопрос id:1617846

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Not noted for grace or beauty, the pelican looks like something Mother Nature	put together for the fun of it.
Today, despite centuries of development, the fortress-palace still centres on the original primitive mound,	million years ago.
Its ancestors appeared 30 to 40	though the Round Tower which now surmounts it is characterized by Georgian Gothic of the early 19th century.

Вопрос id:1617847

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One of the largest birds in the world, it	appears clumsy even at rest.
When it sits or floats, its neck is	bent in an awkward way.
Despite its clumsy appearance,	the pelican is an expert fisher.

Вопрос id:1617848

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The pelican uses it to catch fish	which it keeps in the strong sac that is the creature's trademark.
The sac conveniently folds	over a foot long.
Its beak can be	under the beak when not in use.

Вопрос id:1617849

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After surfacing with its catch, the bird	and water into the sac which can stretch enormously.
When it dives, the pelican gulps fish	closes its mouth and the water drains from the beak.
Many people believe the pelican fills its	sac with fish, then flies back to its nest with them.

Вопрос id:1617850

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This we see in many differing spheres: in national and local government,	for the weight in the sac would unbalance the bird and make the flight out of question.
The pelican uses it to catch fish	which it keeps in the strong sac that is the creature's trademark.
This is not only untrue but impossible,	in business and journalism, in film and radio, in school and university.

Вопрос id:1617851

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Pelicans are sexually mature when they	are two to four years old.
Unlike many birds, a male pelican makes	no fuss of mating.
He may do some head movements,	inscribing a figure eight in the air to attract a female's attention.

Вопрос id:1617852

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Next, the male brings sticks, reeds, straws, grasses,	the nest site that he has been protecting, and mating takes place.
Once he succeeds, he allows her onto	lays two or three eggs and, for one month, the two take turns incubating them.
When the nest is complete, the female	leaves to his waiting mate who builds up the site.

Вопрос id:1617853

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The young inside the eggs begin to	chip away, but birth is a slow, laborious process.
The birds step off the eggs when they	others follow within a few days.
Finally, one pelican succeeds, the	feel the movement of life under them.

Вопрос id:1617854

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Too weak even to hold their heads up, the babies make one	of the few sounds of their lifetime, a grunt that becomes a bark, then later a scream of hunger.
During the first weeks, the parents must be in or beside the nest	each baby needs a constant supply of fish every day to survive.
Fortunately, adult pelicans are good providers, for	to protect the newborn chicks without any feathers from the sun.

Вопрос id:1617855

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Young pelicans can leave the nest and	move about by their fifth week.
At first, the babies	are fed fish gruel.
Later, they learn to	get pieces of fish out of their parents sacs.

Вопрос id:1617856

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As the leader lifts its wings, each	the morning is a wonderful sight.
Following a leader, the birds move	with military precision in a long line.
A flock of pelicans flying early in	bird behind it also lifts, almost in unison.

Вопрос id:1617857