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The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...course, has its own traditions to do with Autumn, which have had an impact on Western culture; many people in North America now take trips to see Autumn foliage, as the Japanese have done for centuries. Images Limbourg brothers and Jean Colombe, September from the Les très riches heures du duc de Berry, c. 1416-18 and c. 1485. Musée Condé, Chantilly,
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...free of Manchester, began to climb the green, thickly wooded hills, and dip into the grassy and leafy valleys. In the very heart of the loveliness we found Sheffield most nobly posed against a lurid sunset, and clouding the sky, which can never be certain of being blue, with the smoke of a thousand towering chimneys. From whatever point you have it, the sight is most...
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...course, the rooks were helping, or at least bossing. II We expected to stay certainly a week, and perhaps two weeks, in York, and our luck with railway hotels had been so smiling elsewhere that we had no other mind than to spend the time at the house into which we all but stepped from our train. But we had reckoned without our host, as he was represented by one of a...
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...free world is off-putting to many Chinese. But there is another, more favorable view of Clinton in some Chinese circles. She has won an increasing number of admirers—mostly women, feminists, liberal intellectuals, and social libertarians—for her achievements as a woman. On the official Weibo account of the Sanlian Life Weekly magazine—which tends to have a more...
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...Free School District in Long Island, New York. The district is 79 percent Hispanic, one of the most Hispanic districts in the state. This is the first year New York is represented at the bee. “A program like this, you would think in its sixth year, it should be already be in every state,” he says. Moss is organizing New York’s first state Spanish spelling bee for...
Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...mean citizenship and passports that are highly ranked, meaning that they enable easy, visa-free travel, or come with other benefits such as favourable tax policies and so on. AC: What inspired you to address the issue of citizenship by investment? And why did you choose to address in this particular way? NV: I thought it was interesting, but also very telling, that even though citizenship, migration and asylum were hotly ......
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...ice-cliff instability​ [Online]. Available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0901-4 (Accessed 2019). The Cryosphere (2013) Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica [Online]. Available at https://www.the-cryosphere.net/7/375/2013/ (Accessed 2019). Like oceans? Take it further Free resources: Our modules: Our qualifications:...
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...free visits so that the schools can actually come out here and experience countryside life, they can visit a farm, look at the wildlife, look at the landscape and find out about the National Park and hopefully that way we’ll increase their understanding, show what’s possible, and show the link between town and country. Terry: That sounds a lot better than when I was a...