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Park Hill Estate
History & The Arts

Park Hill Estate

...Le Corbusier, had, with his Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles, signalled a new approach to social housing: relatively low-rise blocks, packed with amenities. Park Hill is one of the most spectacular examples of new approaches to communal living in post-war Britain. Consisting of 995 dwellings, and housing over two thousand people, it occupies an entire hill overlooking...
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Axiforge process
Science, Maths & Technology

Axiforge process

...mode Split dies are mounted on the side rams of the press, and a contoured die segment or piercing punch (or punches in the four-die system) is attached to the main vertical ram. The heated billet is first deformed by the side rams, then the piercing punch is activated. Three-die system: [Diagram to demonstrate Axiforge process - see article] Four-die system: [Diagram to...
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Averages
Science, Maths & Technology

Averages

...mode...[The average man - Cleese, Barker and Corbett on Frost Over England] Did you hear the one about the statistician who had his head in an oven and his feet in a bucket of ice? When asked how he felt, he replied, “On average I feel just fine.” Well, it’s an old joke, it wasn’t the funniest in the world in the first place, and it never makes jokes funnier if...
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The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...Le Bon’s The Crowd: Study of the Popular Mind (1895). Le Bon problematised what we today would see as part of the popular democratic process; he views the crowd not so much as mindless but as of one collective mind acting towards theoretical inclinations. In his view, the psychological crowd is different from a physical crowd. He argues that the organised psychological...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages
Languages

May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages

...Le Millennium Condor). The French translators didn’t stop there: Han Solo became Yan Solo, Chewbacca was known as Chiktabba (and his “Chewie” diminutive “Chico”), and – most puzzlingly – Jabba the Hut’s name was translated as Jabba the forester (Jabba le Forestier), perhaps because translators assumed Jabba lived in a hut in a forest somewhere. Some of the...
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Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...et les Champs Elysées [A large monument built at the juncture of twelve avenues.] The Sacré Cœur / le Sacré Cœur [A church, built visibly higher than its surroundings.] Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 7 items in each list. The Eiffel tower / la tour Eiffel Book and art stalls...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...mode optical fibres draw up a power budget for an optical-fibre communication link and use it to estimate the maximum link distance...Digital communications: 1.1 Uses of optical fibre in communication - Using optical fibres, very high data rates (gigabits per second and higher) can be transmitted over long distances (tens of kilometres) without amplifiers or regenerators....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Recovery at the Rugby World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery at the Rugby World Cup

...modes of cryotherapy, but ice baths were traditionally the most common mode used by athletes, however increasingly whole body cryotherapy is being used. Whole body cryotherapy (WBC) is where athletes are exposed to very low temperature rooms or chambers. Cryotherapy is openly used by elite rugby players. The Wales team, for example, wereusing cryotherapy in preparation...
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