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Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...attention - with not just Keenan but other significant IRA figures involved. I have another diary note from October 9th 2006, in which a source described the Belfast republican Bobby Storey as the “political voice of the Army” - meaning of the IRA - doing meetings in areas where there are problems. Twenty-four hours later, on the eve of significant political...
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Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...attention to cybersecurity. Indeed, we’ve already been told to expect “a comprehensive plan” for cybersecurity in the first few months of the new administration. But as a professional who has long been part of the global internet security community, I am pessimistic that the typical government and individual plans or responses to our ongoing cybersecurity concerns...
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Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...attention that, in the 2014 congressional elections, only 36.4% of Americans entitled to vote actually did so. 63% of Americans believe that US democracy is not for them, but for others. There is only one possible explanation for such a pattern of non-voting. Generations of Americans have lost all faith in the electoral process and know that, if they vote, nothing will...
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Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...attentive audience for the 1st 2016 Presidential Debate between candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump] The first debate being screened in the US embassy in Cambodia Trump stumped in first debate with Clinton – will it cost him? Adam Quinn writes: The big question going into the first debate of the presidential election was whether Donald Trump would decide to tone...
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Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...attentive scrutiny for their ingenuity in design while at the same time fulfilling a variety of functions. Purposefulness is also predicated on skills of looking and interpreting. No one in medieval times would have bothered with ‘purposeful’ works of art unless they could assume that their contemporaries were vulnerable to their communicative power. For example, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...Attention to the psychology of decision making and the social context in which decisions are made can improve your understanding of others and yourself...Do you hate making decisions? Does the ability of others to make snap decisions really frustrate you? This free course will help you understand some of the processes involved in decision making. Attention to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Designing the Spanish nation
Languages

Designing the Spanish nation

...attention of the Spanish royals. But how and when did Madrid become the capital of Spain? At a time when moving around was not that easy, Madrid is conveniently situated in the geographical centre of the Iberian Peninsula. It became politically important in 1561 when Philip II decided to move the royal court from Toledo, although when his son came to power, the court...
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Disraeli on Munich
History & The Arts

Disraeli on Munich

...attention of my countrymen to another great movement in the creative mind of Europe; one yet young and little recognised, but not inferior, in my opinion, either to that of Athens or of Florence. It was on a cloudless day of the autumn of last year, that I found myself in a city that seemed almost visibly rising beneath my eye. The street in which I stood was of noble...
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