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Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge
Languages

Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge

...des sorciers (Harry Potter at the Wizards’ School). The seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, proved difficult to translate, so J.K. Rowling provided translators with the alternative title Harry Potter and the Relics of Death, which was the basis for most of the international translations. Translators had to be creative with the title of the latest book in...
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Article 15 mins
Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...underestimate the importance of the ‘little things’. Small changes such as de-cluttering a room can make a significant difference and provide a calm, healing space. Engaging in Walking the Walk is a very empowering experience for staff – they value celebrating what they do well and also see it as an opportunity to continue improvement. If you would like to find out more, please contact: Claire Henry MBE, Honorary Fellow ......
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Article 5 mins
A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...de Grentmesnil held the lordship. Afterwards, the Mallories became its owners, and as there were other Kirbys and Kirkbys (both names being identical in origin) this Kirkby was known from the others as Kirkby Mallory. The family of this name was seated here from the reign of Henry the Third until that of Edward the Third, during five or six generations. The last of his...
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Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...maths behind this is quite simple – it comes down to a comparison between the mortgage rate and interest rate you could get if, instead of overpaying, you placed the money into a savings account. If the mortgage rate is higher than what you can get on a savings product the answer appears to be a ‘no brainer’: pay down the mortgage rather than save the money. There...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...de la Rue (c.1452–1518) (you will learn more about La Rue’s work later on). You can see the tenor and bass parts of the piece, as presented in the manuscript, in Figure 3. Activity 3 Now compare the images in Figures 3 and 4 of pages selected from each manuscript. How do these differ in their appearances? Are they decorated or do they just present the music? What...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
White dwarfs and neutron stars
Science, Maths & Technology

White dwarfs and neutron stars

...de Broglie wavelength, defined by lamda sub dB equals h divided by p Equation label: (1) where h is Planck’s constant ( equals 6.63 multiplication 10 super negative 34 cap j s or 4.14 multiplication 10 super negative 15 eV Hz super negative one ) and p is the particle’s momentum. Now, inside a star, a particle’s kinetic energy can be written as cap e sub k equals...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...maths, engineering, craft; he synthesised skills and talents from separate domains into integrated projects / ideas / objects’; ‘Salvador Dali – challenged conventional thinking about how the world is viewed; generated a style of imagery that is instantly characteristic’; ‘Tim Berners Lee (creator of the World Wide Web), Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvia Plath –...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Gofalu am oedolion
Health, Sports & Psychology

Gofalu am oedolion

...Des i nôl ddoe. ANN Ges di gwyliau neis? PAT O, do. Roedd hi'n lyfli. Roedd hi’n heulog pob diwrnod. ANN Gwych. PAT Ie, odd hi’n lyfli. ANN Ac yna rwyt ti'n dod yn ôl i wynebu hyn – TIM Esgusodwch fi, Ann? ANN Ie? TIM Allet ti ddal fy nghwpan ychydig yn agosach ataf, os gweli di'n dda? Mae'n rhy bell. ANN O. Dyna ti. TIM Mae'n ddrwg gen i. PAT Felly mae gen i...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs