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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...de Papantla erected a tall pole in a park near the Grenville Tower, London, and the performers enacted a 1500-year-old ceremony originally intended to end a long-lasting drought. While one person stood on a small platform at the top of the pole, four others, roped to the pole, “flew” to the ground in unfurling spirals. You can see part of this in an extract from an OU...
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Sherry is not just for Christmas
Science, Maths & Technology

Sherry is not just for Christmas

...de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain] All these sherries can be described as dry, with the more familiar cream sherry being made by mixing the oxidised Oloroso with a very sweet sherry made from a different grape, called Pedro Ximenez or PX. The fortified wine is aged in barrels made from American oak in a system known as a solera. Effectively the barrels are placed on top...
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Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices

...Des Wilson Dr Jack Weir Bishop Edward Daly Brendan Duddy John Hume David Trimble Ian Paisley Albert Reynolds Charles Haughey Robin Masefield Sir John Wilsey Sir Patrick Mayhew Margaret Thatcher Sir John Hermon Nelson Mandela Martti Ahtisaari Seamus Kelters Stephen Grimason Ken Reid [The funeral of Belfast republican Brendan McFarlane]The funeral of Belfast republican...
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The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport

...de la Concorde will create an impressive backdrop to showcase the talent and skills of the competing B-Boys and B-Girls, as breakers are known, but will it overcome the arguments of the critics that it is not really a sport? The following video introduces GB breaker Sam Phillips, a.k.a B-Boy Sheku. Sam talks about training as an athlete and dancing like an artist....
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Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing

...De Silva, M., McKenzie, K., Harpham, T., and Huttly, S. (2005) ‘Social capital and mental illness: a systematic review.’ Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 59, 8, 619-627. Leach, J. (2015) Improving Mental Health through Social Support: Building Positive and Empowering Relationships, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Mind (2004) Not Alone? Isolation and...
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...de Grey, established the charity which focuses on the potential of cellular repair to extend lifespans indefinitely. De Grey has claimed provocatively that the first human to live to the age of 1,000 years has probably already been born. Meanwhile, Russian billionaire, Dmitry Itskov founded the ‘2045 Initiative’ in 2011, with the goal of achieving a...
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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...De Montes et al, 2002). Moderators’ efforts to be even-handed in dealing with problematic posting in the teacher-student forum ended in them becoming complicit with the covert racism. We can all be influenced by the messages society constructs around us, which are negative towards groups other than white, unless we make sure we have critical overview of our actions....
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Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...de theatre and it is this aspect of these rooms that I'd like you to focus upon now. Exercise 9 Return to clip 3 of the video and look again at the Banqueting Room and the Music Room. You may also wish to look at the contemporary depictions of these two rooms in Plates 8 and 11 (see below), and to look at the contemporary guidebook descriptions of the rooms given in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs