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Aug 2021
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93. Why Do We Need Passports to Travel?:...

Thomas Wilkinson
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If you want to travel abroad, you need a passport. But why? Why do we need these little documents to leave our own country? When was the first passport used? When did modern passports develop? What is the future of passports? Let’s try to answer these questions on this episode of Thinking in English! TRANSCRIPT - https://thinkinginenglish.blog/2021/08/16/ ... Show More
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