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The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...money being raised through a public lottery. Sloane, however, was not alone in assembling such collections. The famous surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793) amassed some 17,000 objects and specimens during his lifetime. These were bought by Parliament for £15,000 and eventually housed in the Royal College of Surgeons, where they are still on display. Another collector was...
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Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...money in national budgets is deployed to Defence (a definition that masks itself in the opposite semantic meaning of what it is… ). Defence and Entertainment are the industries with the highest funding, this is why it makes sense that gaming is one of the most profitable and funded industry. And since you mention that disruption of positions, in gaming roles are up for...
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Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...money from a loanshark and, unable to pay it back, fears for his life. ‘Continental Op’, on the other hand, pays direct homage to Dashiell Hammett and the no-nonsense, wise-cracking detective who featured in many of his stories, while ‘Seven Days’ tells the tale of a man who has committed an unnamed crime and is expecting to face the electric chair, yet wants to...
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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...businesses. In cities such as Beijing, households can be diverse: from older, traditional ‘hutongs’ (a term which refers to an old alley or street normally lined with courtyard houses) to penthouse suites in modern high-rise, high-tech buildings. However, many hutongs are being cleared to make way for those higher-density modern high-rise buildings (Figure 3). As...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...money, endless resources really to make that work, to roll it out, to engage it for decades to come. So yes, I suppose it’s almost like saying could you open up the Earth’s crust and take minerals out and use them, yes, you could , but the process of that would go on for centuries, but you’d have great benefits, pollute the planet, create civil wars,...
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Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...money, but needed a special machine during his last days. A private hospital, at which he had been a frequent paying patient for thirty years, agreed to receive him as a charity patient. He did not die immediately but started to linger indefinitely, even to the point where there was some hope he might live. The money problem, however, created much concern among both his...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...business. But it begged a question – ‘miles better for whom?’ Certainly, the city centre was better for shoppers and visitors and the new roads were literally ‘miles better’ for motorists, but the spiralling problems of the housing schemes provided stark counter-images. In other words, as with all images, the image of ‘miles better’ was partial and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...business ed executive). Tra Roma e Milano c’è un Frecciarossa ogni ora, dalle 6 di mattina alle 7 di sera. I Frecciargento viaggiano a 250 km orari, collegano principalmente Roma con le città del Sud (come Bari) e le città del Nord-Est (come Venezia), ma si fermano in alcune stazioni intermedie. Hanno due classi (prima e seconda) e una carrozza bar. Tra Roma e...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs