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Brass Instruments
History & The Arts

Brass Instruments

...Systems Instruments used in bands today like the sax, horn, tuba, trombone and euphonium, all have numerous valves. Survival of the fittest What caused some instruments to survive right through the 20th century and others to fall by the wayside? Development of the Trumpet How different sizes of trumpet are best suited to different styles of music. The Performer's...
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A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime

...thinking of the pantomime-fairies whom they have seen; whose gaudy gossamer wings are battered by this time; and whose pink cotton (or silk is it?) lower extremities are all dingy and dusty. Yet but a few days, Bob, and flakes of paint will have cracked off the fairy flower-bowers, and the revolving temples of adamantine lustre will be as shabby as the city of Pekin. When...
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Are you estranged from your family and considering university?
Education & Development

Are you estranged from your family and considering university?

...think. If you are already independent due to estrangement from your parents, or think that is likely to happen before or while you are at university, there is support for you. The charity Stand Alone has a range of resources to help you in their student support portal. Stand Alone Student Finance Wales have put together important information for estranged students and...
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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...think about how birth is a lottery...Week 1: What do we mean by a lottery of birth?: 1 The world’s 7 billionth baby - On the occasion of the birth of the world’s 7 billionth baby in 2011, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon encouraged the world to recognise the moral and pragmatic obligation to do the right thing for that baby. [Described image] Figure 2 The world’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...think well of a king if you are under him, just as it is not hard to think ill of him if you are not under him; but there is no use being bigotedly republican when there is nothing to be got by it, and I own the fact that his subjects like him willingly. Probably no man in his kingdom understands better than Edward VII. that he is largely a form, and that the more a form...
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Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...think about all the things you spend time doing across a week. Try to include everything you do to help you map out the time that you might have available for study. Inevitably, some of you will be incredibly busy and juggling lots of things, while some of you might realise that you already have time available for study. Answer For a full-time apprentice, the average of 6...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
DemFest 2016
Society, Politics & Law

DemFest 2016

...think, get-together and talk with others with similar interests or projects. You won't just hear a party line, DemFest is non-partisan and independent.” It was initiated by non-governmental organisation/charity and encourages people to participate through a special event. DemFest 2016 is local, national and global in orientation and concerned with democracy, politics...
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Why worldviews?
History & The Arts

Why worldviews?

...thinking about and being in the world. One of the themes at the heart of The Open University’s Religion, Belief and Worldviews Hub is the growing currency of the term ‘Worldviews’. Worldviews includes a whole spectrum of religious and non-religious ideologies and convictions, and can include concepts like spirituality and Philosophy. In this video we consider what...
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