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World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan
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World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan

...de Pizan became widowed in her mid-twenties, she supported her extended family by becoming one of the first female writers in Europe. Find out more about her life... Christine de Pizan c.1364 - c.1430 France Literature [Christine de Pizan image] Christine de Pizan lecturing to a group of men, 1413. During the late middle ages in Europe, few women had any control over the...
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Darwin explores the Sierra de la Ventana
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Darwin explores the Sierra de la Ventana

...de la Ventana...In 1832, Charles Darwin explored South America. He recorded his experiences in The Voyage of The Beagle, from which this is an extract. I hired a Gaucho to accompany me on my ride to Buenos Ayres, though with some difficulty, as the father of one man was afraid to let him go, and another, who seemed willing, was described to me as so fearful, that I was...
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Darwin crosses the Sierra de la Ventana
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Darwin crosses the Sierra de la Ventana

...de la Ventana - but finds the vista less than thrilling...In 1832, Charles Darwin explored South America. He recorded his experiences in The Voyage of The Beagle, from which this is an extract. The dew, which in the early part of the night wetted the saddle-cloths under which we slept, was in the morning frozen. The plain, though appearing horizontal, had insensibly...
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Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
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Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...De Quincey in his autobiography, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century. He tells of a shy, but smart, man...[Thomas DeQuincey] Thomas De Quincey When the fifth number of the Magazine was published in July, 1824, I had become acquainted with Mr. De Quincey; and he had contributed a paper translated, as he purported, from the German of Laun, called The Incognito....
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Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries
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Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries

...de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, in Cuba1960] As a historical figure, Fidel Castro presents some juicy conundrums: justice and injustice, revolution and state power, citizens’ rights and state authority, artistic freedom and restriction, high literacy rates and censorship, communist economics and private enterprise, socialism and tourism. The news of his death at the...
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OpenLearn supports Get Online Week
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OpenLearn supports Get Online Week

...FAQ page, under the heading 'What alternative formats are available?' We are pleased to offer these resources in conjunction with Get Online Week, and we do encourage new users to explore the rest of the site. This page is designed as a simple starting point with some recommended resources, but there are thousands of courses, interactives, video and articles to explore if...
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Intermediate French: Holiday plans
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Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...état (‘state’) or pays: les États-Unis, le pays de Galles (Wales), les Pays-Bas (the Netherlands), etc. Grammar Point 6 Using ‘à’ and ‘en’ with place names Towns Use à to translate ‘in’ or ‘to’ (remembering that à combines with the definite article le, which is part of some city names, to form au). Jean-Michel habite à Édimbourg mais il a aussi...
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Badges come to OpenLearn

...FAQ Why study free courses with OpenLearn? 'We have listened to the changing needs and requirements of our informal learners using our open platforms' says The OU’s Open Media Unit Director, Andrew Law. 'Badged open courses complement The OU’s extensive and growing portfolio of OER on OpenLearn and provide learners recognition for their achievements through assessment...
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