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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...BB. * Half rhyme When the vowel shape of a word is similar to or reminiscent of another without being a full rhyme; as in ‘home’ and ‘bloom’. * Portico An architectural structure usually consisting of a row of columns along a walkway or at an entrance to a building, with a roof. * Quatrain A self-contained set of four lines related to each other by rhyme, usually...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...Le Mans 24-hour race to compete. Watch the video of Chris Hoy’s motor racing pit-stop but please be warned that there is some swearing in this clip so carefully choose where you watch it so as not to cause offence to others. In addition to Chris Hoy who is driving, there are two other main people interacting: the race engineer (coordinating radio communications) and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...circuit – or chemical – an element in an alloy system. * Computer-aided design: A computer-assisted method of producing 2D drawings and 3D models for design and manufacture. 3D CAD models are digital representations of forms or products. * Cost: Expenses, overheads or the price of a product or service. * Crystal: A solid material composed of a lattice of atoms...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...Le Fevre. She's wearing a Court dress of white satin embroidered in gold with classical cameos at her waist, and in her tiara. The portrait includes a bust of Napoleon towards which Pauline looks and gestures. She was apparently his favourite sister, even though her scandalous behaviour was completely at odds with his expectations of proper feminine conduct. In 1803 he...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...Le Pen in becoming one of the final two candidates in the run-off for the French presidency in 2002, and the rise in votes for the far right in Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Belgium and The Netherlands – do hint at or openly articulate such claims. More progressive forms of nationalism, which were more common throughout the process of decolonisation in the twentieth...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...Le Bardo, Tunisia. Photo: Musee National du Bardo/Bridgeman Images...Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid: 1.2 Virgil and his predecessors - Unlike Livy (a contemporary of Virgil, and author of a multi-volume history of Rome) or Ennius, who tell a series of stories that occur over a long period of time, Virgil chooses to focus on one individual, the Trojan hero Aeneas. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...circuit disorders, has a behavioural disorder. We wait until the behaviour becomes manifest. That’s not early detection. That’s not early intervention. Now, to be clear, we’re not quite ready to do this. We don’t have all the facts. We don’t actually even know what the tools will be, nor what to precisely look for, in every case, to be able to get there before...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: datblygu sefydliadol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: datblygu sefydliadol

...le gyda 2 radd o gynhesu, tua’r cyfnod 2050 i 2070 y bydd yn rhaid i allyriadau byd-eang fod wedi cyrraedd eu brig a lleihau yn sylweddol. Ac ar y pwynt hwnnw, byddant yn mynd trwy sero a byddant yn mynd yn negyddol wrth i ni sugno mwy o’r nwyon yma allan o’r atmosffer nag y byddwn yn eu rhoi ynddo. Cynhesu byd-eang Cynhesu byd-eang yw’r cynnydd tymor hir yn...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs