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In his description of Kublai Khan's palace, Marco Polo said : "Kublai Khan's court is an unbelievable scene for European eyes. The huge central palace has a dining hall for 6,000 people; gold and silver jewels the inside of its walls. On New Year's Day, the Khan recieves presents from his subjects. Many water canals are present around the palace and in the capital city Beijing. A great many people make silk clothes."
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Answer:
They said nothing can fly in the vacuum
Explanation:
Very soon after people managed to make a machine for a flight (airplane) they have explored the Earth in total. Soon they started with ideas of exploring space. In the 1920s Robert H. Goddard made the first rocket that set ideas about exploring space. Goddard made the claim that rockets will reach the moon.
However, there was much doubt among people. T<u>he newspaper publication, The New York Times, dismissed this idea with the claim that nothing can fly in the vacuum – space lacking any matter. </u>
<u>Only after the first man have managed to reach space and the moon have they been convinced this was not true.</u>
B: Oxymoron is the answer.
The Answer is A. Connotation is the emotion or idea that comes to you when you are reading a specific word or phrase.