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Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...Latin) names have more than one English equivalent. For instance, you will find Achilles as well as Akhilleus, Thucydides as well as Thoukydides. The reason is that there are different conventions for transliterating words from Greek into the English alphabet. This course tends to use what is often called ‘Latinised’ spelling, for example, ‘c’ rather than ‘k’,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...Latin word for ‘carrier’, so in this context it means a carrier of an infectious disease. The pathogen must complete part of its life cycle in the vector, so transmission to humans may be prevented if the vectors can be killed. For example, Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria transmitted from birds or small mammals (such as deer) to humans by a type of tick. Can you...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...Latin America. “[At the least], screen international yellow fever vaccination certificates carefully for fakes. If facilities permit, vaccinate and quarantine arrivals with dubious documentation. Otherwise, send them home on the next flight,” Woodall says. “If you have to pay the return ticket, the airfare will cost less than … the economic disruption of [a global...
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Article 5 mins
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...Latin sacred songs (‘motets’), seven songs connecting French and Latin texts, and three secular Latin works, all set for three or more voices (Picker, 1999, pp. 69–70). The second manuscript (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Handschriftensammlung, Ms. 9814) is estimated to date from 1519–25 and was later owned by Raimund Fugger the Elder (1489–1535),...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...Latin writers as Scotti, whose language was Gaelic. In Scotland their country, which eventually stretched from the Mull of Kintyre to as far north as Loch Broom, was referred to as Airer Goídel (the coastline of the Gaels), Earra-Ghàidheal in modern Gaelic, Argyll in its anglicised form. Figure 1 The footprint carved in the rock on the top of Dunadd in Argyll was used...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...Latin, carbo (charcoal) C nitrogen from the Greek, nitron and genes (soda forming) N oxygen from the Greek, oxys and genes (acid forming) O sodium from the English, soda (natrium in Latin) Na magnesium from Magnesia, a district of Thessaly in Greece Mg aluminium from the Latin, alumen (alum) Al silicon from the Latin, silex (flint) Si sulfur from the Latin name ......
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The Life of Saint Andrew
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Andrew

...Latins had lost Constantinople, with a curious account of the siege and plunder of that city by the Turks, in which tragical scene he had a great share, being Protovestiarius, one of the chief officers in the emperor’s court and army. It is the common opinion that the cross of St. Andrew was in the form of the letter X, styled a cross decussate, composed of two pieces...
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Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...Latin headline - Not all languages depend on word order in the way that English does. Let’s see what our newspaper headline Man bites dog! would look like in a language that marks subjects and objects a little bit differently. Activity 4 Canis mordet hominem Timing: This activity should take around 10 minutes Watch the following video. NARRATOR It is usually quite easy...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs