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The Experience and Memory of 11 November 1918
History & The Arts

The Experience and Memory of 11 November 1918

...history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-Armistice [accessed 20 September 2018]. [7] Ibid. [8] Manchester Guardian, 12 November 1918, p. 7. [9] Cited in Samuel Hynes, A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture (London: Pimlico, 1992), p.255. [10] Robert Graves, Good-bye to All That (London: Jonathan Cape, 1929), p. 344. [11] Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth...
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What's in store for Angela Merkel's fourth term?
Society, Politics & Law

What's in store for Angela Merkel's fourth term?

...history. With a vote share of 12.5%, it will be the first overtly far-right nationalist party to enter the federal parliament. The Left Party (die Linke) and the Green Party (Bündnis ‘90/die Grünen) made marginal gains to score 9% and just over 9% respectively. Big gains went to one party that had been more or less written off after the last election and to another...
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Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...hundred of those being referenced notes. References are numbered to the chapter, ensuring the text flows smoothly but you are only a number away from checking any source, should you for example, want to explore further. It happens to be, in my humble opinion, a wonderful read as well. References Frankopan, P. (2016): The Silk Roads, A New History of the World, Bloomsbury...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage
Science, Maths & Technology

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage

...history is now widely accepted. The greatest revolution in 20th century understanding of how our planet works, known as plate tectonics, happened in the 1960s, and has been so profound that it can be likened to the huge advances in physics that followed Einstein's theory of relativity. According to the theory of plate tectonics, the Earth's surface is divided into rigid...
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Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age
Nature & Environment

Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age

...history is relatively well understood, but how Earth system processes responded to these climate changes deeper in time is still something of a mystery. A recent expedition to drill deep into the ocean floor of the Bay of Bengal gave an opportunity to reconstruct past Indian monsoon behaviour over hundreds of years before the last ice age. Our study used these deep sea...
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England v Scotland: A Celebration of Togetherness or Division?
Health, Sports & Psychology

England v Scotland: A Celebration of Togetherness or Division?

...the past. A sense that the game is being played not just during a global pandemic but at a significant time in the political history of the United Kingdom. There is also one other final point of interest to watch out for. In the 113 times England and Scotland have played each other only three games have been goal-less. Goals, for either team it might seem, are inevitable....
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Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list
History & The Arts

Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list

...history of Brutalist architects Carl Sagan [Carl Sagan] Carl Sagan Carl Sagan was an astronomer, cosmologist, author and - above all - a person able to explain his enthusiasm for exploring and understanding the universe in a way that was infectious. On Desert Island Discs, he told about the discs that he'd taken part in casting away - on the side of NASA spacecraft: We...
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Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...history of the tactile writing language...As with so much else in our cultural heritage, the origins of braille lie in Ancient Greece. The historian and scholar Polybius invented what became known to cryptographers (code makers) as the Polybius Square, a system for encoding letters using a 5x5 grid. Polybius square with the modern English alphabet 1 2 3 4 5 1 A B C D E 2...
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