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Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
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Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...courses and qualifications. A campaign, rather than a battle [The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916] The Somme was the first great action by a British Army on a continental scale. It was the longest, bloodiest battle of World War One, a campaign lasting four and a half months, and fought over a twenty-mile front near the Somme. In February 1916 Allied commanders had...
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Does Germany need a smooth Brexit just as much as the UK?
Society, Politics & Law

Does Germany need a smooth Brexit just as much as the UK?

...German” or “French” position, as if these were fixed and unlikely to change. I recently discovered first hand that this presumption is wrong and seriously misguides British public perception of post-EU relations with Europe. Even more serious, it serves as a barrier to establishing a rational negotiating strategy by Theresa May’s government. In the same way that...
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Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...German soldiers marching home after the Armistice only served to confirm this impression – after all, the war had not been fought on German soil, no news of major defeats had ever reached the German population, and victory had been promised by the Government on many occasions. Deeply frustrated soldiers returned to defeated Germany after the Armistice, unwilling to make...
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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...German, Italian and Japanese militaries never suspected how much of their traffic was read. The Bletchley workers followed orders to keep mum after the war, too. It was not until 1975 that the UK government relented, giving Group Captain Winterbotham, the RAF intelligence officer who had helped set up ULTRA, permission to tell the truth in his memoirs. The Bletchley...
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Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Languages

Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...German. By the way: in Vienna many more men have streets named after them than women. Take a look at the Gender atlas of street names, or this description of the project. It shows that women don’t just have fewer, they also have much smaller streets named in their honour. 1. Friedrich Zawrel (1929-2015) Friedrich Zawrel never completed formal education. He was picked...
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Start your career with OpenLearn
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Start your career with OpenLearn

...courses from The Open University is here to give you a helping hand…...OpenLearn is the FREE learning platform of The Open University and this collection of content is designed to help you as you embark on your new career, be that providing some ideas as to what that career might be, or helping you get started in your chosen field. Take a look at the FREE courses and...
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The history of Spanish in about six minutes
Languages

The history of Spanish in about six minutes

...course of history. ¡Adelante! Before the Romans Transcript Latin gets everywhere Transcript Germanic Visigoth and Arabic influences Transcript Spanish and other Romance languages Transcript Spanish and the languages of the empire Transcript Spanish and English Transcript The history of Spanish in full Transcript Acknowledgements and resources Acknowledgements Beatriz...
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Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof

...course, but also Polish, Belarusian, German, Russian, Tatar… Unfortunately, very much like in the biblical story, they were unable to understand each other, divided as they were, by their respective languages. I became a physician but I have always been interested in languages. As a boy, I managed to learn a few with the help of my father. He taught me French and...
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