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Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...la Paz. United Nations via Flickr: the original can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/3839892431 [Details correct as of 17 November 2011] Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Every effort has been made to...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...La Gioconda), who is believed to have been the wife of a wealthy Florentine, Francesco del Giocondo. It is a painting which is striking in its realism, as though she is a living being and we are absorbed by the mysterious nature of her expression. In the Mona Lisa Leonardo superbly demonstrated his understanding of the way the human eyes move and the way in which we see...
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Article 30 mins
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...la Paz. adapted from an image by Angela Sevin: the original can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/angela7/261618376 [Details correct as of 24 October 2011] Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. Every effort has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...La Ferme St. Laurent Ltée, CSM 500-05-005996-72, October 17, 1975, Meyer J (unreported), a decision of the Cour Supérieure du Québec, involving a mouse in butter, Mr Justice Meyer said: La Cour croit bon de mentionner la décision dans la fameuse cause anglaise de M’Allister (or Donoghue) v. Stevenson (1932), A.C. 562, où la Chambre des pairs a décidé que, selon...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...La ruine de la mosquee turque (ruin of a Turkish mosque) and L'hermitage chinois (Chinese hermitage), made in icing-sugar and set under that astonishing dome. Generally, much of the effect of this room results from the repetition of the same images but on multiple scales: notice, for example, how the lotus and the dragon are repeated. The Music Room. Again, the scheme for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...la Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France/Archives Charmet/Bridgeman Images. In the Enlightenment, beginning in the late seventeenth century, scholars expanded their field of study to cover biology, chemistry and the ‘science of man’, exploring how the mind worked and how people interacted in different societies. The overall goal of Enlightenment thinkers was the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...La Tène Culture, named for excavations made at La Tène in Switzerland. Figure 9 An example of La Tène art This was also Celtic and appears to have been more expansive in nature; decorated metalwork of La Tène style have been found in Britain and Ireland, for example. Figure 10 A Romano-Celtic mirror It is uncertain what languages were being spoken in the British Isles...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...LA-ICP-MS) and the ion microprobe (IMP). The electron microprobe technique involves directing a focused electron beam at a polished surface of a mineral grain. X-rays that are specific for each constituent element are emitted from the mineral. By measuring the intensity of the X-rays that characterise different elements, the major and minor element composition of 'spots'...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs