I understand that the red, yellow and green lines give a general idea of how bad traffic is on a road, but do they have any specific meaning, like red equals a 40-minute wait at a toll bridge? a. According to the Google Maps site, the colored lines representing traffic conditions on major highways refer to the speed at which one can travel on that road.
The oldest form of writing known to man is Cuneiform used in Mesopatamia.
The early modern English language was less than 100 years old in 1590 when Shakespeare was writing. No dictionaries had yet been written and most documents were still written in Latin. He contributed over 3,000 words to the English language because he was the first author to write them down. Of this number more than one tenth or 1,700 were used for the first time.