Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Do you know that the first Russian word found in English literature was 'tapor æx'
The word is said to be found in some papers of Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle dated back to the year 1031. The word 'tapor' means an 'axe' in Russian. Perhaps the word was brought in by a Viking who sailed to Russia and then to England. (wikipedia)

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