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The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...open at the hour which the genteeler commerce of the place found so indiscreet. They were irregular spaces of a form in keeping with the general shambling and shapeless character of the town, which, once for all, I must own was not an impressive place. The best thing in it, and the thing you are always coming back to, is the beautiful church, to which we paid a second...
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Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...Open University course L120 Ouverture: intermediate French. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in French...Intermediate French: 14 July: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand and give descriptions of events in the past understand and ask questions about events in the past understand and express intentions...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...open on the economy, accused China and Mexico of stealing American jobs. It wasn’t coherent by any normal standard, but he did sound a clear anti-trade note consistent with a core campaign theme. This seemed to set the stage for exactly the debate many had predicted: Clinton vastly superior on range and detail, but failing to connect; Trump shallow and crass, but...
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The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...source of almost all the energy reaching the Earth’s surface is the Sun. (There is some heat energy flow from the interior of the Earth to the surface, but the amount is small compared with the solar contribution.) The incoming energy is transmitted across space by solar radiation (the Sun’s rays), and when it reaches the Earth it is transferred to its surface, or to...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...Open University course DD210 Living psychology: from the everyday to the extraordinary. A note on ‘human’ and ‘animal’ differentiation in this course While humans are, of course, animals, for the purposes of this course the term ‘animal’ will be used to refer to non-human species, in order to allow a clear distinction between human and non-human mental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...sources. One was the need to develop practical knowledge and to pass it from generation to generation. The other was a more spiritual concern with the nature and origin of the world. Common to both of these well-springs of science was an appreciation of the regularity of Nature. The way to build an arch that would not fall down today was to build it in much the same way...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...opened the valves of my hansom for me. My explanation to my soul was that I had no penny in my pocket, and that it would have been folly little short of crime to give so needy a wretch sixpence. But would it? Would it have corrupted him, since pauperize him further it could not? I advise the reader who finds himself in the like case to give the sixpence, and if he cares...
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The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it
Society, Politics & Law

The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it

...opening, the man who many Democrats reckoned would carry the party’s standard in the November showdown with Reagan was Senator Gary Hart. The Irish National Caucus had been busy again and the year was shiny and new when Hart responded to the INC with a statement. It was dated January 2. In it, Hart stated that the complex and centuries-old socioeconomic divisions in the...
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