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Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof

...English and even got into some Lithuanian and Italian. Alongside modern languages, I also studied classical languages such as Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, while at school. I am, in fact, passionate about languages! Where I grew up, on the Polish-Russian border, racial and national conflicts were common place. It caused me much sadness and frustration to witness...
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Casgliad llesiant a iechyd meddwl
Health, Sports & Psychology

Casgliad llesiant a iechyd meddwl

...English. [Wales logos] Datblygwyd y casgliad hwn gyda chyllid gan Gyngor Cyllido Addysg Uwch Cymru. Fe’i cyflawnwyd gan Y Brifysgol Agored yng Nghymru mewn partneriaeth â Phrifysgol Glyndŵr Wrecsam, Addysg Oedolion Cymru | Adult Learning Wales a Chymdeithas Myfyrwyr y Brifysgol Agored. Myfyrwyr llawn a rhan amser, ar draws y tri darparwr addysg, fu’n gyfrifol am...
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Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...English nursery, who were asked to make images of special people, days out, toys, cooking, FaceTime calls to family in home countries, friends and more. I worked closely with the children’s teacher, practitioners and parents to listen to children’s photo conversations and the making of their personalised photo storybooks. Stories are conveyed through the layered...
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What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...English school system that have intensified since 2010 have produced a hybrid system of accountability in which numerous bodies compete and collaborate to provide educational governance. These reforms have also led to a serious planning deficit in terms of school places. This lack of strategic foresight is all the more concerning given that none of these issues have come...
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Why Glasgow’s ‘Bolshevist Uprising’ in 1919 wasn’t quite the red threat to UK many believed
History & The Arts

Why Glasgow’s ‘Bolshevist Uprising’ in 1919 wasn’t quite the red threat to UK many believed

...English regiments to Glasgow as it could not trust Scottish soldiers to intervene against fellow workers; yet both English and Scottish regiments were deployed. And while there were demands for a Scottish republic at that time, they were marginal compared to the present day. Legacy More importantly, the events were a major milestone for the worker movement. The strike was...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Spain
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Spain

...English Spain has many different breads, but the product that best reflects the geographic and cultural diversity is the empanada, because each region has adapted the fillings to the local produce. Religion has played a very important role in shaping Spanish baking traditions. During the Muslim invasion, Spaniards stated their Christianity by eating a lot of pork, hence...
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The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...English’ that they can be regarded as being as good as Bank of England gold. The detail of the image is also illuminating. The portrait of Austen shows her as a young woman – not, at any rate, in her forties – and rather prettified by comparison even to Victorian prettifications. [Painting of Jane Austen ] Strangely, the quotation from Pride and Prejudice that runs...
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From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...English phrase: "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” into Russian and then back into English to produce: "the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten”. One of highest profile failures of this first wave of AI lay the perceptron. First unveiled in 1958, the perceptron was a novel form of computer hardware emulating operations of a single brain cell. Lavishly...
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