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Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...history of Rome from its foundation to 229 CE. He was writing during the late second and early third century CE, and was a distinguished senator, whose family came from Bithynia in Asia Minor. Dio Cassius lived through some troubled times and tyrannical emperors. His history of Rome is now incomplete, and the book which covers Hadrian (Book 69) is a summary produced by a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...history, one way human beings have tried to make sense of the world around them and their own lives, is through religion. And religion is just as pervasive a force in the world today as at any other time in history. Music Timothy Chappell There are lots of burning questions about religion and about God of course. Perhaps you have some of your own. ‘Does God exist?’ is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...history, the library disappeared; but how? If you are seduced by the idea of the library as a storehouse of universal knowledge, then take a moment to imagine what it would mean for all the world’s books to be lost – or even destroyed. What could possibly lead to such a calamity, and what would its effects be? Even if you take the more moderate (and, to my mind,...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...Families’ Reading Histories – large collages of significant texts that each family member recalls. The children could even interview their grandparents to find out about a text they remember enjoying in order to add to the collage. These ideas and the list of shared reading spaces noted in Activity 4 below, all offer opportunities for parents, children and teachers to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The author at home
History & The Arts

The author at home

...history and the cultural work of the writer’s house museum for my latest book. The first writer’s house that admirers visited after he died in 1374 was Petrarch’s in Arqua, Italy. But what did these admirers hope to find? One of the earliest comments on the oddness of this impulse to visit dead authors at home is the elaborate practical joke known as ‘Petrarch’s...
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Remembering Ali: How do The Philippines remember The Thrilla In Manila?
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Ali: How do The Philippines remember The Thrilla In Manila?

...history, which featured the third and final encounter of two legendary heavyweight champions. Ali won, although he almost quit near the end of the fight. Ali’s team felt their player barely survived the fight and they blamed it on the referee. This was recalled by Carlos Padilla, the Filipino referee who officiated the game: When I went to Ali’s corner to raise his...
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Election days: 1910 - Asquith rejects foreign interference
History & The Arts

Election days: 1910 - Asquith rejects foreign interference

...history. (Loud cheers) "There is one feature which I notice for a moment, and I notice it to deprecate it, in some of the criticisms which are now being pressed upon our electoral struggle and which, I think, is new and I hope will not be repeated. I speak now not as a party man. I should like, if I could, to speak in the same sense of both parties, and, indeed, of all...
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Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?
Science, Maths & Technology

Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?

...not be born was it not for cloning? [The Conversation]People should be respected as people regardless of the biological derivation history of their embryos. We should repeal the UK legislation against human cloning and think very carefully about whether, how and why we should replace it. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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