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Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods
History & The Arts

Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods

...change in order for flesh to be produced.” No blood, no chance of a baby. Today, we know that the placenta keeps an unborn baby’s blood supply separate and provides oxygen and nutrients to the baby via the umbilical cord. 3. Losing a pint of blood was ‘normal’ How much blood were women expected to lose? Today a “normal” period is expected to be around 80ml, or...
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student

...changing jobs, moving sectors, starting a new career, or want to develop in your existing role, OpenLearn can help with that too. Our skills for work content is there to support your development, and because it's created by The Open University (sometimes in partnership with other employers), you can include it on your CV with confidence. OpenLearn digital badges Digital...
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Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
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Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...change these attitudes and to raise the status of the Spanish language in the US. Efforts like his are making a difference. The benefits of bilingual learning gained recognition in 1968 with the Bilingual Education Act. The federal legislation encouraged school districts to incorporate native language instruction for children with limited English-speaking ability. A 2010...
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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...change or even a surname change. However, if the postcode, date of birth and surname are the same but the NI numbers are different, then you would look into this further. When performing a matching with such large data sets, you generate a number of categories that require further investigation due an incomplete matching. For each of these categories, you would take a...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...change from the Reformation till within the last forty years… But during the last forty years, a tremendous change has been going on; it has affected all classes, few for better, the lowest and most numerous much for the worse”. He continued: “one chief cause of this moral revolution, for such it may truly be called, is to be found in the improvement of machinery,...
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...Change and continuity as communities come and go The Boundary Estate housing development, which has Arnold Circus at its heart, was designed to remedy the desperate poverty of slums that were cleared to provide the space for it. But the rents of this first council housing estate were too high for the displaced residents. The slum dwellers of the Old Nichol were pushed...
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Volunteering in the education sector
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Volunteering in the education sector

...changed, and she noticed that they had not only grown in terms of their own skills and capacity, but also in terms of their confidence in their own abilities and systems. Separately, as a chair of school governors, she meets regularly with the leadership and teaching staff of her school, and sees her involvement as a way to be an active member of her community and to...
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Writing your research proposal
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Writing your research proposal

...change through the course of your study. At this early stage it sets a broad direction for what to do next: but you are not bound to it if your understanding of your subject develops, your question may need to change to reflect that deeper understanding. This is one of the few sections where there is a significant difference between what is asked from PhD candidates in...
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