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Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change

...du Rhone? KN: So when you’re tasting wine, I have learned that actually what we think of as taste is almost entirely smell. We can only distinguish five tastes, sweet, sour, salty, bitter etc. Umami, which is savoury. But our noses are exquisitely sensitive so we can distinguish millions and millions of smells and most of what we’re experiencing when we drink a wine...
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Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...Du Bois in the USA during the early twentieth century; this term is no longer seen as a positive description of identity. [A photograph of W.E.B. Du Bois.] Figure 4 W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), sociologist, activist and author of The Souls of Black Folk. Activity 1 Timing: Allow around 30 minutes for this activity Read the extract below from W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...du nicht. One would not have expected a customer to be refused permission to try clothes on, but during the COVID-19 pandemic you may have heard: Leider darf man im Moment wegen COVID-19 die Kleider nicht anprobieren. Unfortunately, you are not allowed to try clothes on at the moment because of COVID-19. Notice that using man darf nicht here sounds politer than Das...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands

...Dus vroeg in de ochtend, met maar een of twee andere kinderen, en begeleiding. Als wij weggingen, waren ze net bezig het ontbijt voor iedereen klaar te maken en omdat het zondag was, kregen we suikerbrood. Dat hadden wij nog nooit gegeten, puur luxe en verwennerij. Dik besmeerd met roomboter. Wij kregen altijd twee of drie stukken mee en zaten onderweg en waarschijnlijk...
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What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
Education & Development

What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today

...du Bellay wrote a treatise explaining, amongst other things, that translations from other languages should be curtailed because France didn’t need imports. Instead, French writers should focus on imitating foreign literature and writing in French to stretch and develop the national language. Over the years, this ideology, backed by political and military power, went a...
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Milano Cortino Winter Olympics 2026 – let the slipping and sliding commence!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Milano Cortino Winter Olympics 2026 – let the slipping and sliding commence!

...by Bruce Mouat won silver. Now with Eve Muirhead retired, she is acting as Team GB Chef du Mission, it is up to her teammate Jennifer Dodds and the team nicknamed ‘Jen and the kids’ to match her success. This might be too much to ask for as the teams from Switzerland and Canada are particularly strong. However, Team GB’s men’s team will go into the event as favourites. The last figure skaters to win a medal were Jayne ......
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Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...is Race?: A Resource Book on Race, Culture and Biology. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. Sampson, R., Wilson, W.J. and Katz, H. (2018) Reassessing Toward a theory of race, crime, and urban inequality: Enduring and new challenges in 21st century America, Du Bois Review, 15(1), pp. 13-34. Read on to find out more about the differences and similarities in UK and US policing......
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Raymond Williams a Leonardo Sciascia: Cofio bywydau a gwaddolion
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams a Leonardo Sciascia: Cofio bywydau a gwaddolion

...DU, ei gyhoeddi yn 1958, a chyhoeddwyd ei draethawd ‘Culture is Ordinary’ yn yr un flwyddyn. Aeth Williams ymlaen i ddatblygu ei ddadl yn y gweithiau hyn, sef bod diwylliant yn ymwneud â phethau pob dydd, ei fod yn rhywbeth a gaiff ei fyw, a'i fod yn fwyfwy pwysig ym meysydd datblygol ffilm, teledu a hysbysebu, ychydig flynyddoedd yn ddiweddarach yn ei lyfr The Long...
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