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Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war

...free verse. [Hedd Wyn's headstone at Artillery Wood. ]After a petition was submitted to the Imperial War Graves Commission following the war, his headstone at Artillery Wood was given the additional words: Y Prifardd Hedd Wyn (The Chief Bard, Hedd Wyn). Chairing ceremonies are presided over by the archdruid, who reads the adjudicators’ comments before announcing the nom...
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How Do Batteries Work?
Science, Maths & Technology

How Do Batteries Work?

...free to move, would rush back towards the positively charged end of the wire, until their negative charges once again just balanced the positive charges. This flow of negatively charged electrons appears as an electric current in the wire. In this case, the electric current would peter out very quickly, as soon as the electrons had redistributed themselves to cancel out...
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Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser

...free to move around the stage as they did so. But whereas this format was perhaps intended to keep the debate more moderate, what actually ensued was a nasty and noxious spectacle from the start. The candidates even declined to shake hands when they took the stage. Keeping a grip Clinton was at her strongest on the opening questions about Trump’s attitude to women....
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Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
History & The Arts

Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press

...free labour were ‘surprised to announce that the negroes, after all, are very like white men and will work hard enough if you treat them well and pay them fairly’. This disproves a theory from an 1832 article that the ‘half savage population of blacks were utterly incapable of providing for itself even the means of subsistence’. Close examination of the...
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Can you manage a supply chain?
Money & Business

Can you manage a supply chain?

...free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. The bullwhip effect Watch the video below as the academic Dr Paul Walley explains how the bullwhip effect makes supply chains so difficult to manage. Transcript Question: Why are supply chains so difficult to control? DR PAUL WALLEY Most supply chains are naturally unstable because of a phenomenon known as the...
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Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...lending institutions or private donors and use them accountably and responsibly – free of corruption – for the benefit not of the few but of the many. Lastly, just as the African stool is made out of a single block of wood, each leg, or pillar is reinforced by the others and formed from the same grain, so the issues must be addressed together and simultaneously.” Maathai (2009, p56–57) Taking it further Wangari ......
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The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland

...course, small farms all over the world, and in many parts of Europe and Britain as well as all over Ireland. In that sense, what we see in the West of Ireland is part of a widespread distribution of this system of agriculture. It is the process of their establishment in the West of Ireland that is distinctive, representing a clash between the remnants of a particular...
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How we live is seen as a justification: Why the French way of life became a target
Society, Politics & Law

How we live is seen as a justification: Why the French way of life became a target

...course, we can disagree on choices about the economy, morals, education and strategy, but we should recognise that liberty unites us much more than these disagreements divide us. Positive thinking It remains for politicians to make speeches that can bring us together. But each of us must also have a positive attitude towards our society, which offers so much liberty and...
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