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Вопрос id:1617831

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

Вопрос id:1617832

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

Вопрос id:1617833

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

Вопрос id:1617834

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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 had walked along the road, climbing,	was black.
As he smoked, his legs stretched out in front of him, he noticed	a grasshopper walk along the ground and up on to his woollen sock.

Вопрос id:1617835

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

Вопрос id:1617836

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Carefully he reached his hand down and	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.
He wondered how long they would	stay that way.

Вопрос id:1617837

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

Вопрос id:1617838

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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.
Then, in 1154, Matilda's son ascended	the next 80 years, nor was the military history of the place particularly memorable.

Вопрос id:1617839

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

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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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.
It was at this time that Windsor withstood	when John's castellan was besieged - unsuccessfully - by the rebellious barons.

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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Henry also built a Chapel to St Edward the Confessor, later demolished, and, with other work,	Long Walk; to the east, Home Park runs down to the river.
The chief residence of the English royal house and the largest inhabited castle in the world, Windsor Castle	completed the transformation of Windsor into a palace - late in the 13th century a chronicler described it as the most magnificent in Europe.
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.

Вопрос id:1617844

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

Вопрос id:1617845

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

Вопрос id:1617846

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Not noted for grace or beauty, the pelican looks like something Mother Nature	million years ago.
Its ancestors appeared 30 to 40	put together for the fun of it.
Today, despite centuries of development, the fortress-palace still centres on the original primitive mound,	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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When it sits or floats, its neck is	the pelican is an expert fisher.
Despite its clumsy appearance,	appears clumsy even at rest.
One of the largest birds in the world, it	bent in an awkward way.

Вопрос id:1617848

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

Вопрос id:1617849

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

Вопрос id:1617850

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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,	for the weight in the sac would unbalance the bird and make the flight out of question.
This we see in many differing spheres: in national and local government,	in business and journalism, in film and radio, in school and university.

Вопрос id:1617851

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

Вопрос id:1617852

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

Вопрос id:1617853

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

Вопрос id:1617854

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

Вопрос id:1617855

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

Вопрос id:1617856

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

Вопрос id:1617857