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Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...Family When Someone Dies They Are Cremated And Their Ashes Are Thrown Across The Sea, 1997, plaster, white paint, eleven seagulls, 450 × 555 × 413 cm (variable) installation. (© The artist. Courtesy Jay Jopling/ White Cube, London. Photo: Stephen White.) Plate 14 Paula Rego, The Dance, 1988, acrylic on paper laid on canvas support, 213 × 274 cm. (© The artist....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...Familie becomes sie (because die Familie is a feminine noun) but Herr König becomes er: The clue is in the title Herr (Mister). Here is an example: Question: Was isst die Familie Grünberg zum Frühstück? [Described image] Figure 7 Answer: Sie isst Jogurt. Now you have a go. Please note that case is important for each of the question parts below. Und Sie? Was essen Sie...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...families still do part of their weekly and daily shopping in smaller local shops. Bread, for example, is something that Spaniards buy daily in the many panaderías that can be found in every town and city. Cakes and pastries, which were traditionally sold in pastelerías, are now commonly sold in panaderías too. Many people still prefer to buy fresh produce such as fruit...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...family, but it helps a little to have some bills that aren't going up and it hel- DEPUTY SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Order! Order! Can I just say to the back row and a couple of people in particular, that the panto season isn't for another nine months and if auditions do take place can they take place outside the chamber. Chancellor of the Exchequer. GEORGE OSBORNE Mister Deputy...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...families. Young Offender Institutions can sometimes be remote from the places where the young people in them actually live. The language of court sentences and youth justice procedures can come to dominate young people’s lives, obscuring other features of their lives and circumstances. If you found it difficult to understand the operation of the system, consider what it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...family member pays regular sums of money to maintain another) disputes adoption tenant/landlord problems including evictions debt bankruptcy or liquidation claims for money. The sheriff will hear the case and make the final decision alone. Court of Session The Court of Session in Edinburgh is the highest civil court in Scotland. It has two parts: the Outer House, which...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...family at Althorp, and dedicated as the Rylands library to the memory of a citizen of Manchester. Books in a library, except you have time and free access to them, are as baffling as so many bottles in a wine-cellar, which are not opened for you, and which if they were would equally go to your head without final advantage. I find, therefore, that my sole note upon the...
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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...family, her father was a provincial governor and her male relatives held positions in the imperial government. Murasaki was educated at home and reputedly learned Chinese by listening outside the door while her father taught her brother. She married at about the age of twenty but her husband died soon after, leaving her with a daughter. She then lived quietly for some...
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