The ancient Romans had a kind of bagpipe, and the Roman Emperor Nero was said to have been a good piper. Up to the year 1953, the people of the desert of Iraq had only the water from 180 shallow wells for themselves and their sheep. At that time, a British engineer, who had been sent to Iraq by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, introduced modern methods of well digging. Almost three hundred deep wells were drilled in the desert. The result has been a great increase in the productivity of the soil and in the security of the people.
Language evolves from the complex to the simple.
The refinement of the English language through centuries of use by diverse peoples has made it one of the least grammatically complex languages in use today. This simplicity makes English easily usable and understood even with a very limited knowledge of its grammar. Vividness in speech or in writing may be amusing, but in order to secure the interest of our listeners we often neglect to be as accurate as we should be. With the advent of mechanization, the workers who had previously performed the tasks by hand complained that the machines were taking their jobs away from them. Generated by QuizMaker 2.0.