Animal Eyes

The 13th century Franciscan friar Roger Bacon predicted the invention of the automobile, aircraft, and the submarine. He wrote, “cars can be made so that without animals they will move with unbelievable rapidity” and “flying machines can be constructed so that a man sits in the midst of the machine revolving some engine by which artificial wings are made to beat the air…like a flying bird.”

The word ‘labyrinth’ comes from the Ancient Greek and means something that is unsolvable or impossible to get out of. You can also use the word ‘labyrinthine’ in English to describe something that is incredibly complex.

Counterfeiting money had some serious repercussions in the past, such as in England where 313 people were hanged for passing phony bank notes in 1817! Things were even rougher in ancient China, where anyone caught faking the emperor’s paper currency would have their hearts cut out.