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Rundblick: beginners' German
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Rundblick: beginners' German

...2 What do you have for breakfast? 2 Speaking practice: Your turn to answer Speaking practice: Your turn to answer What you really like and don't like What you really like and don't like More questions about your eating habits More questions about your eating habits Speaking practice: How often do you eat things? Speaking practice: How often do you eat things? Local...
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Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium

...le Clos of South Africa in the 100m butterfly event at Rio 2016. Aside from Schooling, three other athletes from Southeast Asia have won a gold medal in Rio as of this writing. They were Thai weightlifters Sukanya Srisurat and Sopita Tanasan, and Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh. Schooling’s victory was special because it gave Singapore its first ever Olympic gold...
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How do you become French President?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become French President?

...Le Pen National Front FN 6,421,426 17.90% Jean-Luc Mélenchon Left Front FG 3,984,822 11.10% François Bayrou Democratic Movement MoDem 3,275,122 9.13% Eva Joly Europe Ecology – The Greens EELV 828,345 2.31% Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Republic Arise DLR 643,907 1.79% Philippe Poutou New Anticapitalist Party NPA 411,160 1.15% Nathalie Arthaud Workers' Struggle LO 202,548...
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Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...2 201 995. Was the announcement correct? The issue is whether the figures represent a number greater than two million, or not. Write the two numbers in a number column table. Start with two million. Answer Millions Hundred Thousands Ten Thousands Thousands Hundreds Tens Units 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 9 9 5 Now look at the numbers from the left. Both numbers have a 2 ......
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...2+3 = 6 OK, not that hard for that example, but what if you want to know the sum of all the numbers up to (say) 5,473? 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12… OK I’m bored typing this out already! A clever chap called Gauss comes along and says the sum of all the numbers to n is equal to a half of n multiplied by n+1. He writes this down like this: 1 + 2 + …+ n = ½ x n x (n+1)...
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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...Le Parrocchie di Regalpetra (published in the English edition as Salt in the Wound) was based on his experience as a schoolteacher in his hometown. His descriptions of poverty, fascism, and corruption in the Church and town hall were based on real events and became dominant themes in his later writing. Education informed their respective interrogations of wider cultures....
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Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...2 multiplied by itself 2, 6, 10, 15 or even 20 times. Instead of writing 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2, we write 26. This is read (and said) as ‘2 to the power 6’; 6 is the index or the power. In general, this means that a super n equals a multiplication a multiplication a multiplication a full stop full stop ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is a transformation process? The one minute guide
Money & Business

What is a transformation process? The one minute guide

...2 do not use as general] Making a physical thing into another thing Taking a thing and physically turning it into something else - a piece of wood into a chair, or milk into cheese. This is manufacturing. [Transformation slate #2 do not use as general] Moving something from A to B Changing where something, or somebody is - delivering a letter, taking a taxi ride. This is...
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