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Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...alphabetical listing of all the toxic compounds – from strychnine to arsenic to thallium to taxine – and all the related chemistry in the Christie ouevre. I’ve been reading Christie and admiring her devious plotting since I was a teenager given to raiding my mother’s prized collection of murder mysteries. Her work and others from the 1920s and 1930s, a era...
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Article 5 mins
Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...alphabetical order. [EdD student, Year 3] I think I would have tried to find a good referencing tool early, but I think I would need to have it explained to me why it is good. [EdD student, Year 3] Points for you to consider: How well do you think you are managing your references? Does your system work for you, or do you need to amend it? Ethical considerations What...
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Article 2 mins
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...alphabetically before the current entry’s headword. In this case, the entry with headword W must appear in the first half of the dictionary. Look for the word W, following the same approach, in the first half of the dictionary. W appears alphabetically after the current entry’s headword. In this case, the entry with headword W must appear in the second half of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...alphabet has 26 letters, and the longest word in the dictionary is anticonstitutionnellement with 25 letters! The French language also makes use of accented characters, for example, these accents used on the letter e: é and è. These are not counted as separate letters of the alphabet. French is an official language in several countries in Africa, and it is a language...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...Hakka, Min, Wu and Xiang. Select the answer for Question 1d here 4. Chinese is a non-alphabetic script and is a tonal language. True False a. True b. False The correct answer is a. Discussion True. Chinese is often perceived in the West as a difficult language, mainly because of its different character script and the fact that it is a tonal language. Select the answer for Question 1e here 5. The word for ‘China’ in ......
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...alphabet by hand. This was done using ink from inkwells and was a messy business, for which she had to wear long-sleeved overalls. This took a lot of patience and dedication, but she soon excelled in this skill. On her own initiative, she also attended night classes at Clydebank Technical College to learn technical drawing, an opportunity she had been denied at school...
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Article 10 mins
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...alphabet of the surnames of the shareholders. A minimum of three letters per register were sampled, to avoid just looking at family clusters. So for example if we’d just taken a B and all the owners, the big directors and things had a name beginning with B it would have biased our sample. With each random letter of the alphabet chosen, a random number start page was...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...Alphabetical of Hard Usual English Words. It provides some early illustrations describing use of the English language. As this interest in describing (and prescribing) use of the English language developed, so did lexicography, the craft of making dictionaries. In Activity 9 you will look at an extract from Blackadder III which makes fun of the part of a lexicographer's...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs