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Аноним25 октября 2022 г.Although Bunker Hill was hundreds of years away, the spirit of Bunker Hill survived, and the prohibition of walking on the roads only increased the desire to do so.
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Битва при Банкер-Хилле (англ. Battle of Bunker Hill) — первое крупное сражение между английскими и американскими войсками, которое произошло на высотах Банкер-Хилл и Бридс-Хилл к северу от города Бостон 17 июня 1775 года во время Войны за независимость США.
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Vernacular — the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
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No one was content to go slowly—all the world was crazed by a desire for speed. There was also a desire, no matter where an automobilist was, to go to some other city. Thus Sundays and holidays were distinguished by thousands and millions of automobilists going "somewhere," none being content to spend the hours of leisure quietly where they were. Rural landscapes consisted of long lines of machines passing between walls of advertisements at the rate of 60 miles an hour, pausing now and then at gasoline filling stations, at road houses or to strip an occasional tree of its blooms.
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Customs changed so laws changed. No longer were laws for everyone's good but only for the benefit of the automobilist. The roads, formerly for the benefit of all, were finally restricted to those in machines. At first it was merely dangerous to walk on the highways; later it became a crime. Like all changes, this came slowly. First came a law restricting certain roads to automobilists; then came a law prohibiting pedestrians from the use of roads; then a law giving them no legal recourse if injured while walking on a public highway; later it became a felony to do so.
Then came the final law providing for the legal murder of all pedestrians on the highway, wherever or whenever they could be hit by an auto.210 - Аноним25 октября 2022 г.
The automobile had developed as legs had atrophied. No longer content to use it constantly outdoors, the successors of Ford had perfected the smaller individual machine for use indoors, all steps being replaced by curving ascending passages.
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