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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...system and more than 125 million copies had been published by the 1920s. [McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader (1920 edition). Public domain, New York Public Library.] McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader (1920 edition). The Scots-Irish also contributed to American musical traditions. According to Mick Moloney, a professor of music at New York University, the songs and...
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Article 5 mins
Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...system which taxed the rich and those who had profited from the war, and he also introduced an inheritance tax, all of which offended the bourgeois old elites. Conservative and right-wing politicians begun a vendetta against him. The assassination Erzberger was well aware that his life was in danger, and he survived several assassination attempts. In post-war Germany,...
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Article 15 mins
Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...system action was known and well-respected. In low doses, it was even prescribed as neuro-stimulant, a kind of chemical pick-me-up for people complaining of flagging energy. To further confuse the case, then, the story’s victim, Mrs. Inglethorp, has herself just finished taking a strychnine tonic. But she had been taking it for weeks at far too trace a dose to have...
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Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...system swyddogol ar gyfer achredu apiau llesiant yn y DU ar hyn o bryd, yn ddiweddar fe lansiodd y GIG lyfrgell brofi ar gyfer y rhai maen nhw’n eu hargymell. Mae ORCHA UK wedi ysgrifennu adolygiad o’r apiau iechyd meddwl a allai eich rhoi ar ben ffordd. Er mwyn cael ap Iechyd Meddwl Cymraeg, rhowch gynnig ar Ap Cwtsh. Ond os hoffech wybod a yw ap rydych yn dod ar ei...
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Article 10 mins
The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...system, the same themes recurred: children are encouraged to cultivate affectionate, caring relationships with representations of other animals, while simultaneously being encouraged to consume real, exploited animals. Keeping our distance This socialisation process has a clear trajectory: as children grow up, our research shows that they are encouraged to increasingly...
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Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored

...system drydan y DU, allyriadau o rai sectorau eraill ac allyriadau sydd wedi'u hymgorffori mewn mewnforion wedi lleihau wrth i'r DU a gwledydd eraill geisio symud tuag at sero net. Yn ôl ystadegau swyddogol, cyfanswm allyriadau seiliedig ar ddefnydd y DU erbyn 2019 oedd 774 miliwn tunnell CO2e (Ffigur 1) sy'n golygu bod yr ôl troed carbon cyfartalog tua 11.6 tunnell CO2...
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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...system in the first place? They clearly worry about their future rights to live and work in the UK. A worry which has not been addressed by the current political climate of ‘Hard Brexit’ as exemplified in recent statements by the Prime Minister which refuse to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK. While all EU citizens living in the UK have to face an...
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Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...think in terms of parties or confessions; today we are all German brothers and only German brothers. If our neighbors want it no other way, if our neighbors do not grant us peace, then I hope to God that our good German sword will emerge victorious from this hard battle.(German History in Documents and Images, GHDI - Document (ghi-dc.org)) The Allies’ decision at...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs