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Herodotus 'The Histories'
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories'

...open enquiry [Herodotus] Marble bust of Herodotus Sometime in the middle of the 5th century BC, Herodotus, a Greek, living in a city called Halicarnassus (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) set out to explain the origins of the Great War from a generation before. This war was waged between his peoples, the Greeks, and the Persians. In the resulting work, ‘The Histories’,...
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Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality

...Open University. It was held at the RGS, London in June 2024. In her keynote Professor Sultana engages diverse perspectives on the climate crisis, emphasising the significance of incorporating insights from academic, policy, and indigenous advocacy groups in confronting ongoing climate coloniality. Watch her keynote in the series of seven videos below..._Find out more...
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The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail

...opened in 1887 when India was still part of the British Empire. The station was built right at the southern tip of the city to service Mumbai’s busy port. Passengers arrived off the boat and were transported into the Indian interior by rail. Being at the centre of the rail network, connecting the whole of India to the rest of the world, turned Mumbai into the economic...
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Antigone: List of Characters
History & The Arts

Antigone: List of Characters

...Open University's Classical Studies qualifications The heroine Antigone is one of the four children of Oedipus (her siblings are Ismene, Eteocles and Polyneices). A loyal daughter, she guided the blind Oedipus into exile before he died, and she’ll be equally faithful to her dead brother Polyneices. Oedipus was king of Thebes, a city in central Greece. He is famous in...
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The Great Fall: Berlin’s ‘Freedom’ concert
History & The Arts

The Great Fall: Berlin’s ‘Freedom’ concert

...opened before East Berliners had the opportunity to re-engage with one of the city’s most prestigious cultural institutions: the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. On Sunday 12 November 1989, Daniel Baremboim conducted a celebratory performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony in the orchestra’s home, the Philharmonie, to which all East Berliners were invited. But this...
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Portales: beginners' Spanish second edition
Languages

Portales: beginners' Spanish second edition

...Opening times Opening times in a shop Spare time activities Three people saying what they do in their spare time Preferences What do you enjoy doing? Invitations Short dialogues with 4 people accepting or declining an invitation Booking hotel rooms Three dialogues between a hotel receptionist and a guest A woman buying fruit at a market stall Buying fruit at a market...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...resource for nationalist writers. ‘A Legend of Tyrone’ (1887) O’Leary’s ‘A Legend of Tyrone’ was first published in 1887 in the Catholic literary journal The Irish Monthly and then often anthologised, for example in W.B. Yeats’s influential 1888 collection Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. The Story Below you'll find the poem ‘A Legend of...
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Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...Open University are exploring ways of handling NCD’s either through linking industrial and social innovation to increase access to cancer care in East Africa (Professor Maureen Mackintosh) or by increasing screening for depression for people with diabetes and depression in Sub-Saharan Africa to improve treatment outcomes (Professor Cathy Lloyd and myself). The...
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