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Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...archaeological remains. Pianosa can only be visited with an organised guided tour because it was the seat of a maximum-security prison for terrorists and mafia criminals between 1968 and 2011, when it was closed down for good. [Described image] Vista panoramica dell’ Isola d’Elba [Described image] Villa San Martino, casa di Napoleone. [Described image] Isola del...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...archaeological artefacts, museum objects, or sculptures). Each of these categories lends itself to a range of digital representations, which capture different aspects of the materials and allow some uses better than others. Manuscript and print Until recently, the most common means of digitising manuscripts and printed texts was the creation of digital transcriptions,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...archaeological importance. Land itself is an important resource, and drowning it under a reservoir may not be the best use of that resource, especially if the water can be supplied by alternative means...Surface water: 3.4.2 Ecological changes - Creation of a reservoir produces ecological changes not only to the area of the reservoir itself, by destroying the natural...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...Archaeological evidence from tomb excavations indicates the presence of narrow, strip-weaving in the 11th century. But the technique for making patterned strips seems to date from the 16th or 17th centuries. Around 1730, Danish traders record the unravelling of imported silk to use in weaving. What is the history of Kente?...Textiles in Ghana: 5.2 History of adinkra -...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...archaeological expeditions. He suggests too a ‘Chinese pagoda’. These recommendations, combined with the profusion of mythical and exotic animals and birds which he mentions as possible adornments (chimeras, griffins, cranes, sphinxes, phoenixes), make it clear that the Pavilion's fantasy world was more mainstream in temper than perhaps it looks nowadays – albeit...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...archaeological expeditions, Howard Carter and discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb Making information books about Egypt Writing diaries ‘in role’ as (pretending to be) Howard Carter Learning hieroglyphics meanings Rosetta Stone languages and deciphering Writing own hieroglyphics How bodies are mummified and preserved Making papyrus Pyramid forces Egyptian art and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...archaeological and linguistic evidence indicate that Inuit ancestors migrated westward from northern Japan and northeastern Siberia, crossing the Bering Strait to Alaska and Canada SAQ 32 What does this comparison suggest about the function of superficial adipose tissue in humans? Answer It is not adapted to a role as thermal insulation. Frost damage to exposed parts such...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...archaeology has even found feeding vessels with evidence of animals’ milk buried with bronze and iron age children...What do historians do?: 2.1 Reasons for bottle feeding - [A colour photograph of a dark grey metallic object on a pale-grey background. The object is slender at the top and rounded at the bottom. At the top of the object is small protrusion or teat. A...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs