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Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...class as ‘masculine’, such as: vir, man miles, soldier servus, (male) slave lupus, (he-)wolf But a number of inanimate objects or concepts are also masculine in Latin: campus, field murus, wall pons, bridge annus, year Similarly, some feminine nouns identify people or animals that you might intuitively class as ‘feminine’, such as: femina, woman regina, queen...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Get started with Session 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Ben Oakley. It was first published in July 2019. Except for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...class of polymeric materials of widely varying properties. The properties and common uses of a selection of both general-purpose and speciality rubbers are shown in Table 1. Table 1 General-purpose and speciality rubbers: properties and uses RUBBER GENERAL PROPERTIES TYPICAL USES BR butadiene (polybutadiene) Special-purpose rubbers of density 0.93 Mg m−3. Good...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you, and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Now get started with Session 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Kate Burgess of Middlesbrough College using materials...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it
Society, Politics & Law

The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it

...de Valera was born. The Good Friday Agreement was still two years away, so the forum retained an air of urgency and importance. Gore knew how to reassure. He would display his talents again in 2000 at forum number five, the first in the post-Good Friday Agreement era. Gore is the only politician to have attended three forum gatherings. "Irish American Presidential Forum,...
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Article 5 mins
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...back into the warmth of my house, I think about the fact that we soon may have three active rovers and an active lander on Mars – at the same time. And what they might find… This article was originally published on the AstrobiologyOU website. Banner image credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS; processings and mosaic: Olivier de Goursac (fr), 2014, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons...
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Article 15 mins
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...class men gathered was known as the vault: “Along the base of the bar counter, whose top is of well worn, well wiped mahogany, runs a line of scattered sawdust, about six inches wide, on to which people spit, throw fag ends, matches and empty cigarette packets.” The authors list the activities that took place there and elsewhere in the pub: talking, thinking, smoking,...
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Article 10 mins
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...classes, they’re having to use up even those areas where we managed to get natural playgrounds for children, which is tragic. So why does it matter? The trouble is if you don’t know what it’s like to be cold, if you don’t know what it’s like to be tired and weary, if you don’t know what it’s like to paddle in mud, these things tend to be just pretty...
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Video 40 mins