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English monsters
History & The Arts

English monsters

...history plays...[An English mastiff with a full moon background] A modern-day English Mastiff References to dogs in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries are frequent and diverse in character; many are to be found in arresting contexts bound up with displays of power and informal, ruthless responses to the poor. From the early Tudor morality play Magnificence...
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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...histories. Connectivity Logical dependence between components or elements (including sub-systems) within a system. Difficulty A situation considered as a bounded and well defined problem where it is assumed that it is usually clear who is involved and what would constitute a solution within a given time frame. Emergent properties Properties which are revealed at a...
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Tennis Grand Slams – what are they and why are there only four of them?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Tennis Grand Slams – what are they and why are there only four of them?

...history of tennis Grand Slams and explains how they got their name...This content is associated with The Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. The first Wimbledon Championships were held in 1877 with play in one category only – the Gentlemen’s singles. Players had to pay a guinea to enter, and it was won by Spencer Gore, an Old
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How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?

...history of abuse, bullying, low self-esteem, loneliness, some mental health difficulties etc. There are also pull factors, that attract people to specific groups such as gaining a sense of belonging and acceptance, friendship, excitement, the potential for romantic relationships, a sense of purpose, a belief that they are fighting injustices and a strong sense of...
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‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library
History & The Arts

‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library

...History, and it provided the context for my approach to Endell Street Military Hospital. [Deeds not Words banner] 'Deeds not words' banner. The women lived by the WSPU's motto and hoped that their good deeds at the hospital would prove women's equality. Endell Street's library was run by two prominent members of the Women Writers’ Suffrage League, which had been founded...
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Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System

...history? Could you tell if it was a piece of a much larger geological structure, or whether instead, it was a rare type of rock in the area where it was collected? This is the challenge scientists face with meteorites. If we’re lucky, we can see meteorites arriving as bright fireballs in the sky and can use their speed and direction to calculate their original orbit...
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Why do we keep running?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do we keep running?

...history, we know that jogging as a “palliative to sedentariness” first took off in the 1960s. Since then it has become a huge business with the athletic shoe industry alone worth tens of billions of dollars. Before the jogging revolution, though, it was a distinctly niche activity. The few people that did it had probably been to one of the more affluent schools. A...
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Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events
Society, Politics & Law

Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events

...history is fraught with difficulties: where to begin, where to conclude, and then there are continuities as well as changes throughout the period in question. The ongoing debate around Red Clydeside is no exception to this. While many associate it with the start of the First World War, it is already apparent that its antecedents were laid down during the nineteenth...
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