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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...Family. Baltimore: Black Classic Press. Birley, A. (1999) Septimius Severus: The African emperor (Roman imperial biographies). Oxford: Routledge. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia (2013) 'Canaanite languages'. Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 September 2013. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Canaanite-languages (Accessed: 19 October 2021). De Troyes, C....
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Bird ringing in Bog Meadows
OpenLearn Ireland

Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

...activism saved the area for wildlife. Volunteers plant trees and maintain the habitats. Flax, the mainstay of Ireland’s traditional linen industry, also grows up in the reserve. Many environmental organisations rely on volunteers to manage areas for biodiversity. (For example Ulster Wildlife and BTCV ). Why not get involved and learn more about your local environment?...
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Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world
Nature & Environment

Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world

...tree canopy of woodlands. Not to mention, they are beautiful. [A speckled wood butterfly on a leaf] The Speckled Wood butterfly (Parage aegeria) is a typical woodland species, common across the UK and Europe. Photo: Willow Neal. If some don’t pollinate much, if ever, why should we prioritise them for conservation? Aside from this important role and life being entitled...
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A Victorian Christmas: Charles Darwin in New Zealand
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Charles Darwin in New Zealand

...the rest of the servants. Some weeks afterwards, happening to pass late in the evening by an outhouse, he saw and heard one of his men reading the Bible with difficulty by the light of the fire, to the others. After this the party knelt and prayed: in their prayers they mentioned Mr. Bushby and his family, and the missionaries, each separately in his respective district....
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Computer technology: robotic milking and interactive mirrors
Science, Maths & Technology

Computer technology: robotic milking and interactive mirrors

...family. Mirrors as interactive art Daniel Rozin’s wooden mirror and how it works. Behind the mirror The technology that drives the mirror. Creating the prototype Creating the mirror's building blocks. From image to display How information from the camera is turned into a ‘reflection’ on the mirror. Why milking and mirrors? Open University lecturer Bernie Clark,...
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Darwin's world-wide web
Science, Maths & Technology

Darwin's world-wide web

...it has vastly expanded, hoping to draw in a wide range of audiences, both young and old. Darwin the collaborator The letters show that Darwin was a very generous correspondent, and in particular how positive he was to women scientists. Darwin the mentor and family man Darwin was very open minded and supportive, both of students whom he didn't know and of his own children....
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The Philosophy of Love
History & The Arts

The Philosophy of Love

...family member, or a pet – but these are all very different kinds of love. So how do we define love when it encompasses such a variety of emotions? Carolyn Price, senior lecturer in Philosophy, and Timothy Chappell, director of the Ethics Centre, at The Open University, discuss the nature of love, from love as a function, to ‘the Doppelganger problem’ – should we...
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Perilous past-time of poison
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perilous past-time of poison

...family. Most died from what was believed to be gastric fever, or typhoid as it is now known. They all suffered symptoms of abdominal pain, diarrhoea and fever, which are consistent with typhoid but also of arsenic poisoning. It wasn’t until she attempted to give her stepson away to the workhouse, and when they refused to have him and he subsequently died, that people...
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