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How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?
History & The Arts

How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?

...community celebrating the centenary of the poet’s time in Edinburgh. Looking at Owen through the lens of the city has led to a decade of research and thrown up some interesting questions. Not least about the meeting between Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, who would be recorded in history as three of the greatest World War I poets. Sassoon was also a...
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Heritage in war
History & The Arts

Heritage in war

...community more generally, has been moved to take an active interest in enforcing these laws. [Destruction in the Bab Dreeb area of Homs, Syria, 2012] Destruction in the Bab Dreeb area of Homs, Syria, 2012. In September 2016, judges at the International Criminal Court in the Hague sentenced Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi to nine years in gaol for war crimes. He had been found...
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If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors
Science, Maths & Technology

If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors

...communicate your work, beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. Reviewer #1 This ponderous script continues a never-ending storyline that has dragged on for many years now. Despite its girth, the script constitutes merely an incremental gain in terms of storytelling: you could say it goes “Knowhere.” While there are dazzling special effects, there is nothing...
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Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work

...community in the workplace. People who have to navigate complex, contradictory and sometimes hostile environments are vulnerable to burnout. If millennials are found to be suffering higher levels of burnout, this might indicate that they face more problematic environments. It is quite possibly the same stuff that stresses everyone, but it is occurring in new, unexpected...
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How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...
OpenLearn Ireland

How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...

...community platforms of realistic and authentic spokespeople, arguing to give peace a chance, through a victory to both ‘sides’ and lay the foundations for a better, more prosperous future, building on consent and strong expression of both North-South and East-West institutions. It worked. 676,966 voted YES, with a huge 82% turnout, delivering a 2:1 triumph and an...
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Rich pictures
Science, Maths & Technology

Rich pictures

...communal activity) in the picture. Make sure that your roles and relationships in the situation are clear. Remember that you are not an objective observer, but someone with a set of values, beliefs and norms that colour your perceptions. References Checkland, P. (1981) Systems thinking, systems practice, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons. Checkland, P. and Scholes, J....
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...Commune of Florence initiative 'La citt e la salute' which organised a major exhibition in the Palazzo Vecchio on the history of Florentine hospitals. He is now a member of two more committees in Florence, the first organising a long-term research project on the history of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova; the second is as one of the founding editors of an Italian...
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Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement

...communicated with ambassadors in Greece and London to encourage the restoration of the Olympics Games. One notable individual was John Gennadius, the Greek Chargés d'affaires, who later wrote to Brookes: “I cannot but feel indebted to you that you continue with this idea, the project of a revival of the Olympic Games." In 1880 Brookes took his boldest step towards his...
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