Why did traveling around the world seem like a more
achievable goal than it really was?

would realistically take to travel around the world, because it hadn't been done before. It seemed like a much more achievable goal than it actually was. ... As explorers attempted to touch the other side of the world, their failures were often as grandiose as their successes.

Explanation:

an informal structure in a bureaucracy would be something like so-called "office politics". where there's a formal structure set up for the organization, but then an informal subculture as well that has a way of organizing the bureaucracy further. this can be positive because it sets up an added degree of organization, albeit informal, within the bureaucracy.

the works of justice saves things/people

the works of service things/people

explanation:

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