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My lord was pleased to represent me as a great admirer of projects, and a person of much curiosity and easy belief; which, indeed, was not without truth; for I had myself been a sort of projector in my younger days.
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I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to the academy. Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms.

--- Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. 1726.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm
Part 3, Chapters 4-5.

Note the meaning of "projector".
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Антилопы Гну пьют воду, залезая грязными передними копытами в источник, а страусы, аккуратно стоя на краю. Но это не потому, что антилопы некультурные, а потому, что у них шея короче.




Чуть раньше пришли люди и почистили скважину, чтобы у зверей в саванне была вода.



Гну и спрингбок меряются рогами. До драки не дошло, но Гну всех конкурентов на время разогнали.

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