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Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...writings about the penis show amusement and disdain for sexual practices. 1494 In 1494 King Charles VIII of France invaded the Italian peninsula, throwing the city states into the turmoil of war. The 66 tons of bronze which had been set aside to cast the statue was sent instead to Ferrara to make cannons for the war against France. The clay cast for the statue was known...
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Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: Filipe.Samora / Shutterstock Figure 2: © Copyright 2025 Greater...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Lord John Browne - Stories of Change

...creativity, its like I mean very rarely would you find a movie producer who believes, ab initio, that he’s going to produce any duds. I mean they actually believe in the future. So it’s very similar to lots of other pursuits, a great belief and a chase for success. But you know oil companies are run by boards of people who come from a variety of backgrounds who have...
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Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...creative, visionary side to Hitler, however repellent it is to us. That was what the first spin-doctor, Joseph Goebbels, exploited in building up the public image of the great Leader. In a society gripped by panaoia of national decline and decadence, Hitler offered a breathtaking vision of Germany’s future grandeur and glory, of regeneration, resurgence, and redemption....
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Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...Cover image: Nicolas Raymond in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...writing, and you should always check to see how it is being used. As I explained, our focus in this course will be on state consciousness of the ordinary non-introspective variety – phenomenal consciousness, in Block's terminology. I shall not keep spelling this out, however, and from now on, unless otherwise indicated, the words ‘conscious’ and ‘consciousness’...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...writing in an era of social and economic change. In the 1730s the population was growing fast, social mobility was on the increase, England's cities were beginning to bulge and the old ruling order began to get nervous about change; change that it could not direct or control. Defoe's comment is one example of a history of respectable fears. This notion was coined by the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...writing this technology is under development in Norway as a possible solution to the similar problem of fjord crossings needed for the coastal highway project. [Described image] Figure 21 An artist’s impression of a proposed floating tunnel for Norway A floating tunnel may be held up by its own buoyancy and anchored to the sea bed, or it may have negative buoyancy (i.e....
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs