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Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...world, – what of it?’ And I was absolutely unable to make any reply. The questions were not waiting, and I had to answer them at once; if I did not answer them, I could not live. I felt that what I was standing on had given way, that I had no foundation to stand on, that which I lived by not longer existed, and that I had nothing to live by. My life came to a...
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The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...World War, the company expanded substantially through acquisitions and mergers, including the British Ericsson Telephone Company, Automatic Telephone & Electric, the Instrument Manufacturing Corporation of South Africa. In 1965, they took over the TCC, which had operated in Bathgate since 1947. The factory produced capacitors for a range of electronic devices and, as was...
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PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...world, you're working in the City and you don't get that sort of money. That is absolute madness. The only answer I can think of is salary caps, that would go a long way towards helping the clubs." Players' wages account for about 80% of top clubs' turnover, and can be more than 100% of turnover for smaller clubs. Businesses outside football would be considered in trouble...
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The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981
Society, Politics & Law

The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981

...World War era. These issues led to Inverclyde being designated a Development District in 1960, being an area where high rates of unemployment would persist without government intervention. [The former sugar landing sheds at Greenock's James Watt Dock stand under the giant cantilever crane.] 'The town of sugar and ships'. The former sugar landing sheds at Greenock's James...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...world of the story is somehow remote from ours we hear dialogue between the characters, abruptly presented and often using repeated phrases there is often a supernatural theme Though contemporaries like W.B. Yeats praised O’Leary for having a simple, natural style it is clear she is artfully drawing on the literary conventions of the ballad tradition. Identify some...
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Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music

...world round. I’ve been to the river and I’ve been baptised, Now take me to my hanging ground. On the other hand, Stack O’Lee, in the Mississippi John Hurt version of the song, shows no repentance. Instead, he throws defiance in the face of society, which returns the mistrust. Standing on the gallows, Head held high, At twelve o’clock they killed him, We was all...
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OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...world map. Typical journeys to the different regions are provided in popups. If you fly to a particular destination less than once per year, use a decimal fraction, eg, if you fly to New York (Eastern North America) about every three years to visit relatives, enter = 0.33. Income Why is household income so important? In the calculator income is only used to estimate...
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The immune system
Science, Maths & Technology

The immune system

...world. In addition to the PAMPs (pathogen-associated molecular patterns) shared by many different pathogens, each type of pathogen also has its own unique distinctive antigens. Each individual T cell and B cell (the leukocytes responsible for adaptive immunity) is programmed to recognise just one specific antigen, so it follows that each T or B cell can usually recognise...
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