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The Life of Saint Andrew
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Andrew

...cast forth sparks through his mouth.” The saint goes on, showing that fervour and love will make penance and labour sweet, seeing it can sweeten death itself, and, by the unction of the Holy Ghost, make even its torments desirable. The body of St. Andrew was translated from Patræ to Constantinople in 357, together with those of SS. Luke and Timothy, and deposited in...
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Article 5 mins
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...sands and silts deposited in river deltas, with organic material, which eventually formed coal, deposited in coastal swamps (Figure 1b). Later still in the Vale of Eden (south of Carlisle), alluvial fans and sand dunes indicate a desert environment (Figure 1c). This was in turn superseded by a shallow sea, now represented by limestones and evaporite deposits (Figure 1d),...
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Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...casting a blanket “Like” or “Dislike” vote, community members were invited to provide a detailed assessment of consistency, metaphor coherence and so on. Some icon designers in the running even acknowledged the superiority of other contributions and voted against their own sets. The icon set that was ultimately chosen, though, was a collaborative effort, because...
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Article 10 mins
The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...cast. Senator Mitchell went on to an illustrious career in the Senate spanning 15 years. In 1988, he was reelected with 81 percent of the vote, the largest margin in Maine history. He left the Senate in 1995 as the Senate majority leader, a position he had held since January 1989. Senator Mitchell enjoyed bipartisan respect during his tenure. It has been said "there is...
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How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...cast doubts on their commitment to question the discriminatory effects of these tribunals on women’s rights. In the late 1990s, for a brief moment, black feminists agreed with national government when the then junior Home Office Minister, Mike O’Brien advocated a ‘mature multi-culturalism’ in the debate on forced marriage. This acknowledged how old style...
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“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...cast an eye to the language prior to 1998. Why did An Ghaeilge become such a totemic issue in northern politics? Why did Good Friday Agreement come with such high hopes? And what have we learned since then? The history of Ireland, the northern state, Britain, and their relationship with the language, both before and since 1921/2 is one rarely spoken about by current...
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Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...caste a moral stain on the British Empire. Whilst it was to take a number of decades for slavery to be fully denounced / abolished, the distancing from American slaveholders (rejecting their rejectors) as an ‘un-British’ state of affairs was of crucial importance. This was in part because it resulted in the promotion of a new moral basis for the empire through the...
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Article 20 mins
Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...sand, and the A. T. LACEY had followed in our wake and got stuck, and he was feeling good, I showed it to him. It amused him. I asked him to fire it off--READ it; read it, I diplomatically added, as only HE could read dramatic poetry. The compliment touched him where he lived. He did read it; read it with surpassing fire and spirit; read it as it will never be read again;...
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